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“Lilac Bouquet”, so cute and kitsch! A delightful English tea with the vicar, perhaps?

I have also created a pre-order for “Great Tits!” for those who missed out yesterday and I’ll be dyeing it this afternoon for posting later in the week.

Climate change is real and happening faster than scientists thought.

“The average US president has been charged with 1.54 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 71, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted

Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees

Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:

Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.

Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.

Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.

Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:

Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.

Basic Features of the Site:

Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.

The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top

You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.

Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up

You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff

You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.

Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.

Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:

Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog

Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.

If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.

You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"

Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.

Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.

We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.

Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.

General Etiquette:

Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.

Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.

Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it

You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.

Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.

Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit

You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.

Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.

Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.

If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal

Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.

Tips:

Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension

In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.

You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!

Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs

Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.

Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!

The only nonconsensual gender-related surgeries performed on LGBTQIA+ children are the procedures forced on intersex children to make them fit a binary mold.

I was telling a Spanish-speaking friend today that the word “caballo” is very fitting as it does feel like a Spanish horse (andalusian), it’s just an elegant word to me, and then we decided to make a list of what kind of horse various words for “horse” feel like

1. Caballo (Spanish). A strong yet genteel hidalgo of a horse.

2. Pferd (German). Pferd is a forthright, earnest, down-to-earth kind of chap. (I think because it brings to mind the word Erde.) That’s a Pferd:

3. Zaldi (Basque): zaldi is a thin and pointy horse. No debate, this is a zaldi:

4. Chouval (Guianese / Martinican creole) — pronounced shoo-val and clearly that’s the opposite of a zaldi. An extremely round horse. Here’s a chouval :

5. говр / gowr (Chechen). This one feels imposing. Large noble beast, the kind with pompon legs. This is a gowr:

6. Zirgs (Latvian). We found that the letter Z immediately reduces horse size in our minds. A zirgs has got to be the opposite of a gowr both in size and in vibe. It also feels like a busy fellow.

7. Arklys (Lithuanian). That’s an intriguing word for horse—I thought it was a distant relative of equus but we found that it’s from the word for plough! Anyway arklys is a sleek and shiny horse, like those golden fantasy horses that actually exist:

8. Horse (English). It’s not English’s fault but we both agreed that this word feels somewhat wrong, like another animal pretending to be in the equid family. It’s definitely because we pronounce it badly, we both totally ignore the letter H when reading English words inside our own heads, now add a French or Spanish ‘r’ into the mix and well, this is un ‘orse:

Finished the last course in my AA program! I just have to wait until my instructor submits my final grade and I can apply for graduation. It feels so good and almost unreal that it’s finally done. This semester was a challenge with a full course load, but being on a combination of the right meds made a huge difference.

I’ve been struggling the past few weeks with increasing depression. Money is tight and we’re struggling to pay the few bills we have. I’m looking for a job to help but I know I won’t be able to keep it energy-wise when school starts back up in the fall.

Things are rough in my brain right now.

I don’t know where this is from, but I found it in a thread on Facebook and I am CRYING

Note taking day for my forensic science class. I have 2 chapters to read this week, plus a short answer assignment.

I’m also putting off making an outline for my research report for my business communications class. It’s stressing me out.

I’m done with my gender and society class and have 4 weeks left until I’m done with my associates. Almost 20 years in the making.

Yesterday I made the decision to go for my bachelors in data analytics and programming. It still feels crazy but I think it’s the right decision.

When you've been traumatized in ways that made you question your worth, going through hard or stressful times in the future can make it harder for you to believe in your worth in the present. This is especially true if your present hardships activate past traumas. I'd just like to remind you that your worth is immeasurable and does not diminish even when you cannot see it. You have immense worth. You always did, and you have it still.

This week is in the bag, or whatever that saying is. I finished my forensics paper this morning and already received my grade (100%), and just received my grade for my graphs (100%).

I’ve got 3 weeks left of business communications and 4 weeks left of forensics. Then I’m officially done with my AA! So close…

This week is a little crazy study-wise:

Forensic science - ✅ 1 chapter to read, 2-3 page paper on 1 hr video (✅ watched the video), ✅ midterm

Business communications - create 3 graphs from data sets found last week, read 1 chapter

Gender & society - ✅ read 1 chapter, two part final, posttest

Add to the fact that I’ve been driving my wife to her appts, plus getting an epidural in my neck this week. It’s a bit crazy. But I’m chugging along!

I’m so close to being done with my associates degree. I even registered for graduation two days ago!

Homophones or near homophones I see misused a lot, and a few non-homophones people seem to get muddled anyway.

There are so, so many of these that as an individual post, it would be ridiculously long and I am just too lazy to write them all out at once, so I’m just gonna keep adding to this.

Peak is the top of a hill.

Peek is to look at something.

Pique is annoyance (a fit of pique) or what happens if something piques your interest.

we passed a sign in boring that said their sister city is dull, scotland

I’ve always wanted to be on a jury but I never make it to the selection process. Closest I’ve been is in the waiting area and told they don’t need anyone else.

My brother got married. In December. I know we aren’t close but I still wish I would have known before now.

This week is a little crazy study-wise:

Forensic science - ✅ 1 chapter to read, 2-3 page paper on 1 hr video (✅ watched the video), ✅ midterm

Business communications - create 3 graphs from data sets found last week, read 1 chapter

Gender & society - ✅ read 1 chapter, two part final, posttest

Add to the fact that I’ve been driving my wife to her appts, plus getting an epidural in my neck this week. It’s a bit crazy. But I’m chugging along!

I’m so close to being done with my associates degree. I even registered for graduation two days ago!

autistic life hack if you need your food prepared a specific way and your needs aren't being listened to as an adult, pretend you have an autistic kid you are ordering for as people are more sympathetic to helping autistic caretakers than actual autistic people

Today’s studyblr is brought to you by DNA. I’m working on my forensic science class today and it’s fascinating. I really do love this class.

Now THIS is allyship.

I almost lost a kitty this way. So not worth it. No lilies at home with kitties.

Seriously just a bit of pollen could make your cat sick within a matter of minutes. Stay far away from Easter lilies if you have kitties!

“Good enough” is my motto this school term.

*through gritted teeth* it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be-

Horse got a new toy

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Also see: bisexual people

This guy is really going to regret sitting down with Jon