the other problem with Apple’s porn ban is that it eliminates any app that is too flexible or useful for users, because if the users use it for porn then it becomes a porn app by definition and gets banned.
or to put it another way: Unix was not designed to stop you doing stupidly horny things, as that would also stop you from doing clever things.
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by “good” i mean “i follow you or you regularly interact with me (likes count as interaction) and you’re on there”
i would like to try to use this thing
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i consent to people archiving any of my blogs here
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You ever write up a post you decide will be too controversial or embarrassing but leave it in your drafts to sleep on and then forget about it? How about real personal stuff you weren’t sure you wanted to share at the time? Heavy-ass receipts on bad shit you’re leaving there only just in case you’re forced to use them?
Well if any of your drafts get flagged by the new system, a mod can apparently see them in with all your other flagged posts, and if they un-flag them, it publishes them automatically as a brand new post. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
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My posts about other platforms are now tagged with the name of the platform(s).
Current platform tags are:
This change applies retroactively.
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@somnilogical, I wanted to thank you for your efforts in being a Tumblr Purge News Network. I’ve found it very helpful.
i like to do lots of meta when thinking of changes. im kind of using my tumblr to pinboard possibility-space of where humans could go
im also downloading every app and signing up for every website someone mentions and poking around in them to see what theyre like
Yeah, it’s bedtime for me now but tomorrow I’ll be doing some poking around too.
And researching backup methods for all the potential sites, because fuck having a mere single copy of anything.
(If I parsed the jargon correctly, this Mastodon backup program [link] is compatible with Pleroma? *If*. I’ll test it soon, probably tomorrow.)
If you self host Mastodon you could just back up straight from the database on your server.
Even if I get a handle on how to do that on a technical level, I’d need to rent a URL for it, right?
If I decide to settle down in the Fediverse I will seriously consider self-hosting, but I’m not ready to drop money on it yet.
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I’ve been working on this for months and the truth is I could continue to add to it forever but I want you all to enjoy it with me
transcript:
Griffin: [as Jenkins] A witch kissed me and cursed me so that anytime anybody yells a secret word, I have to attend to their every need, and that word is my fucking name, Jenkins.
Justin: [snickering]G: Are you naming your goddamn wizard Taako?
G: Oh- shit. Oh, god, oh, god, where’d it go, oh no, no, no!
G: If possible, I would love to- to avoid a shitting-based solution? Uh, A, because I don’t want to know what exists beyond the explicit tag in iTunes? [Justin laughs] I don’t- like, is there a fucking NC-17 rating? I don’t wanna- I don’t think I wanna be a part of that. But also-
Justin: [crosstalk] Hey!
G: I would also not like this scene to drag on out as long as- as a human being’s digestive cycle.G: [background laughter] Fun show, fun show games!
G: And I think I just described a plant orgasm. And this has been Fifty Shades of Green [Clint laughs], starring four idiots.
G: So the end of that sentence that you cut off was- and I- so I won’t be able to put up with any shit today, but the problem is I already have? Now people will stop tweeting about me that I said one of Barry’s favorite things is swimming in a cold lake on a hot day, and then in two episodes later say he didn’t know how to swim.
G: ‘Kay, you and the box both drink POISON! And you survive, but the box has died.
Clint: That means it’s open, right?
G: Yes, with that the box pops open and it has 900 gold pieces inside.
Everyone: Yeah! [cheering]Travis: I get it.
Justin: Damn, that’s a good door!
G: No, it’s- [yelling] let me finish describing what happened to the door! I’ve been trying to tell you what happened to the door for like ten minutes!Travis: I tap it with the Glutton’s Fork and I swallow it.
Justin: [muffled wheezing]
Griffin: What the fuck!Griffin: [laugh-crying] You’re gonna turn him into a man tube? [wheezing] You- you’re gonna turn him into a bag or a shelf with the rock sitting on it-
Griffin, loudly: What the fuck?! [audience laughter]
Travis: Double damage is- 4 and 3 plus 4 and 1.
Griffin: I didn’t give Marvey HP!Griffin: Is the stapler in here? Anyone want the fucking stapler?
Griffin: Oh, Jesus, you love this shit! [Travis, crosstalk: I’m sorry-] It’s your- You’re a fucking pervert! Fetish- you’re exposing everybody to your fetishes!
Travis: I’m so sorry!Griffin: Uh- it is an uneventful climb to the twentieth floor. And, uh- as-
Travis: Floor twenty!
Griffin: as- as- What?
Justin and Travis: [snickering] Floor twenty!
Griffin: [pause] We’re not gonna say anything better than that-
Travis: Griffin, we have to fight some weeds at floor twenty.
Griffin: We have thirty minutes to go, and we’re not gonna say anything better than that. Did you even think about that?Justin: I grow bored with this fight. [laughter]
Griffin: Okay. [crosstalk]
Justin: I’m- I’m casting polymorph on myself-
Griffin: Oh, fucking- wow.
Justin: Griffin, I’m texting you- [Griffin: oh]because you’re going to need this information.
Griffin: Oh my god, Justin.
Justin: Yes.
[Wonderland music starts]
Griffin: Taako’s arms sink into his chest, so that he’s just got, sort of, little arms, and his head gets really big, and really long, [Clint laughs] and his teeth get very sharp, and he grows a tail, and he turns into a tyrannosaurus rex.Griffin: [yelling] Oh, NO! Are you keeping track of how many times you rolled as well?
Clint: [crosstalk] To be honest the educational system in Huntington, West Virginia sucks-
Travis: Twenty-five! Twenty-five! Four, four! Twenty-five! Twenty-seven! [overlapped with Justin]
Griffin: it’s dead- STOP! Stop! You’re killing him!
Travis and Justin: Thirty! Thirty-six!
Griffin: Stop! He’s already dead!
Travis: One more, one more, one more- [Clint: C’MON!]
Travis and Justin: Thirty-seven! [A pause as the audience laughs]
Travis: His parents feel it!
Griffin: You fucking- you fucking- this turtle’s- this turtle’s parents-
Travis: [crosstalk] Is that where the turtle’s brother dies?
Griffin: -forget about him. This turtle was a successful turtle author, and the words on his books fucking vanish. [audience laughter] You have erased this turtle from existence.Travis: But my butt-
Griffin: [yelling] Come on, I’m in hell! [crosstalk] I’m dead and in hell now! You opened the door! You built the fucking door! Out of wood! Shitwood! Shame on you and shame on us!Justin, as Taako: Garfield?
Griffin, as Garfield: Yes?
Justin: I have something I think is really going to interest you.
Griffin: [yelling out of character] OH MY GOD!
Justin: This is the Slicer of T’pire Weir Isles [background laughter] and I notice that you have a really cool sword. It’s a Flaming, Poisoning, Raging Sword of Doom, I believe it’s called.
Griffin: Oh my god…
Justin: And- I’m looking at your entire stock and it does seem to me that’s your most valuable posession, would you say that’s accurate?
Griffin: [laughter, as Garfield] Yes, it’s absolutely the most valuable thing in the store!Griffin: [very tired] I didn’t expect it to go like that. [audience laughter] Um- and-
Travis: What did you expect to happen?
Griffin: [yelling] For you to catch a fucking fish in my fish mini game! [audiene cheers] Is that so- Am I out of my mind? Is that an unreasonable expectation? To give them a fucking fish mini game- Taako makes the lake float, Travis jumps in with a rapier, like, “let’s get it done!” and Dad makes, the- the fucking shit teleport away! [audience laughter]
Clint: Welcome- welcome to The Adventure Zone, Griffin.
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@somnilogical, I wanted to thank you for your efforts in being a Tumblr Purge News Network. I’ve found it very helpful.
i like to do lots of meta when thinking of changes. im kind of using my tumblr to pinboard possibility-space of where humans could go
im also downloading every app and signing up for every website someone mentions and poking around in them to see what theyre like
Yeah, it’s bedtime for me now but tomorrow I’ll be doing some poking around too.
And researching backup methods for all the potential sites, because fuck having a mere single copy of anything.
(If I parsed the jargon correctly, this Mastodon backup program [link] is compatible with Pleroma? *If*. I’ll test it soon, probably tomorrow.)
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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #reply via reblog #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #Fediverse
@somnilogical, I wanted to thank you for your efforts in being a Tumblr Purge News Network. I’ve found it very helpful.
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We believe it is of utmost importance for users to have control of their content and how it is accessed. Tumblr’s structure encourages users to think of other people’s content that they reblog as partially their own, but we think that that mentality leads to a lot of the harassment and plain rudeness that has grown on Tumblr over the years. The fact that a post can be reblogged by others, ridiculed, and passed around endlessly after the original user has already decided they don’t want that content to exist and represent them anymore has always struck us as a massive design flaw. On Pillowfort a user’s post is always their post first and foremost, and all reblogs and comments to that post are still under the control of the original user. So yes, while it may be unfortunate to have a post you like disappear from your blog or lose a comment you left, we think it is still more important for a user to be able to delete their own content when they choose. I can’t think of any benefits to non-destructible reblogs that is worth having a user’s control over access to their own content taken away.
It’s worth noting that users can also delete any individual comments left on their post, because we want to encourage the notion that when you comment on someone’s post you are in THEIR space. It’s a bit of a shift from the way that Tumblr and Twitter have forced users to deal with anyone and everyone putting their own thoughts on your content, but we don’t think users should have to deal with the responses of people who may only be trying to spread harassment or otherwise exploit users’ lack of control over responses to act in bad faith, as we have all seen happen quite often.
I just want to make sure people thinking about migrating to pillowfort see this one, because this is an incredible example of a policy that was clearly not thought through by people who have ever tried to keep abusers from doing their thing.
This is a great policy, if your primary goal is to ensure that abusers cannot be challenged or disputed, ever. It is a great policy if you want to actively punish people for putting in any effort at all in conversations.
Yes, we think of things that we write in response to other people as “partially our own”, because we wrote some of the content in the post. When people put effort into responding to me, that effort is theirs. If I make a silly shitpost and someone responds with a 2,000 word essay, their post was more effort than mine.
Fuck’s sake. Look at the writing prompts blog. Think about how this plays out in Pillowfort’s world: You post writing prompts which are a sentence long, other people write multi-page responses, and you get to delete any of those responses any time you want leaving them with no record of the work or effort they put in, no way to retrieve the data, nothing.
Conclusion: If you go there, do not attempt to interact with other people. If you want to comment on something someone said, do it by starting a brand new post with no trace of direct connection to theirs, so it will probably be safe.
But really, just… Don’t. This is not sane.
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Brinens and Things 