Another reason to turn on replies: Starting today, you can delete any unwanted ones from your post notes. Just tap the note you don’t want to see, select the relevant option, and away it’ll go. (If it’s not on your own original post, tapping the note lets you report it to our support team.)
You can also hide inappropriate reblog comments using the same technique.
Just a little tweak to give you more control over your notescape. Enjoy.
Have you heard the good news? Now you can delete and report replies.
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#PSA #the more you know #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse
Breaking News: Age of Mythology (including the Titans expansion) is 80% off on Steam ($5.99), and the version with China as a playable civilization is 70% off ($10.49). They’ll be on sale until July 4th.
This is the best Dicking-Around RTS I’ve ever played and a cornerstone of my gaming history, check it out.
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#I own a functional CD-ROM of this #so while I’m not going to take part in the sale I can personally recommend this game #Age of Mythology #games #PSA
Endometriosis—the struggle is real. Killer cramps are NOT normal. Periods that last longer than 7 days are NOT normal. Heavy bleeding that soaks through a tampon every 2 hours is NOT normal; pain during sex is NOT normal. Bouts of diarrhea and vomiting that accompany every menstrual cycle are NOT normal. No, no, and no! For many people, this reality is just endometriosis at work.
Sad truth: Many of us are taught to downplay these symptoms. Our pain is diminished by parents, siblings, friends and even health care professionals who convince us that everyone goes through this.
Maybe that is why, according to the Endometriosis Foundation of America, it takes 10 years on average to receive an accurate endometriosis diagnosis. That’s a decade, people! That’s 130 periods of agony, 912 days of someone asking you to take Advil and suck it up. That…is not okay.
Endometriosis is pervasive. It affects 1 in 20 Americans of reproductive age and an estimated 176 million people worldwide. It occurs when tissue similar to the endometrium (the lining of the uterus) is found outside the uterus on other parts of the body.
There are lots of symptoms that can vary among patients. Pelvic pain is most common, as well as pain that coincides with menstruation. Other symptoms include heavy cramps, long-lasting bleeding, nausea or vomiting, pain during sex and, unfortunately, infertility. Some people may even experience symptoms throughout their entire cycle—a real drag.
In addition to these physical symptoms, endometriosis takes a toll on someone’s personal and professional life. Chronic pain can severely affect quality of life day-to-day; medical care can be extremely costly. Furthermore, absenteeism can alter relationships in the workplace and at home.
Despite the intense discomfort, many people do not realize they have endometriosis until they try to get pregnant. And because the disease tends to get progressively worse over time, approximately 30-40% of people who have endometriosis experience fertility challenges.
There is no simple diagnostic test for endometriosis—no blood, urine, or saliva testing can confirm the condition. The only way to verify endometriosis is to undergo a diagnostic laparoscopy with pathology confirmation of biopsy specimens.
On the bright side, many endometriosis symptoms— including infertility—can be addressed after diagnosis. The gold standard for endometriosis treatment is laparoscopic excision surgery. This involves a careful removal of the entire endometrial lesion from wherever it grows.
The first step to getting there is recognizing that your pain is not normal and seeking timely intervention. The earlier endometriosis is detected and treated, the better the results. Tracking your symptoms will make you better informed for your next doctor’s visit, and set you on a path to better (and less painful!) menstrual health.
Can’t stress enough the early diagnosis part. My mum recently had to have a hysterectomy due to endometriosis and the doctors were like “well, if we’d known about this sooner, a much smaller operation would have been fine and we could have kept the uterus”. Get this shit checked early, guys
beeps, idk who you are on tumblr but if you’re following me, THIS THIS THIS
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#endometriosis #menstruation #PSA #(sometimes I wonder if I should talk about menstruation more) #(because as it stands you only ever hear period talk from people with miserable periods because they’re the ones complaining) #(and so if you don’t have any contradicting personal experience it’s easy to think that all periods are miserable) #(and if you *do* have contradicting personal experience) #(since you have nothing to complain about you don’t speak up and you don’t get included in the cultural osmosis) #(not to mention the…not sure what the term is) #(the thing where if something that’s a big deal for other people isn’t a big deal for you) #(you’re discouraged from talking about your experiences because it’s seen as delegitimising the problems of those for whom it is a big deal) #(my brain’s coming up with ‘respectability politics’ but I’m not sure that’s quite it) #anyway point being #if you have horrible periods you might be able to fix that #maybe you too can know the -joys- absence of negative emotion of not-a-big-deal periods #tag rambles
THIS IS THE BEST DOCUMENT IN ALL OF HISTORY. Basically, it has a script in it that has a “Post to AO3″ option and it will go in and fill in ALL the HTML you need – italics, bold, paragraph breaks, you name it!
It has directions in it for how to use it, but it’s real simple. You just always chose “Make a Copy” when you start writing to make a new document that you can then re-name. Change the language to American English (or whatever language you use) and type away. Then right before you post, click the button, get all the code in there, copy, paste, AND POST.
It is literally so, so glorious and I want to tell everyone.
(Also, the AO3 Cool FAQ page has some other cool stuff too!)
THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE FOUND SO FAR THIS CENTURY.
Oh wow, I spent forever writing a Word macro to do this. This would have been SO MUCH SIMPLER.
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#PSA #AO3 #I don’t post anything there myself but some of you might find this useful #epilepsy warning
Just wanted to let you know that we’re putting the finishing touches on replies, and making sure they play nicely with everything else on this platform.
“Why did they go away? Why, staff, whyyyy?” Fair question. We had a gaggle of overlapping message-like systems—namely, asks, fan mail, reblogging with commentary, question posts (rare!), and, yes, replies. When we finally introduced actual instant messaging a couple months ago, we had a lot of untangling to do.
In order to make all these systems work together, we had to do some back-end retooling, which meant taking down replies for a bit. For longer than we expected. Sorry about that.
And we get it—replies fill a very particular need (and you were very clear about expressing that need). They’re a kind of super like. A way to fully express your feelings about a thing without expecting anything in response. A gift.
When they come back, they’ll be even better. People will be able to reply to your posts multiple times, and you’ll even be able to reply to your own posts. Simple changes, yes, but ones that open up lots of possibilities.
Best of all, we’ve laid the down the engineering and design groundwork for even more substantial improvements down the road. Replies will be able to develop side-by-side with messaging.
More to come, soon enough. We know you all miss replies. We hope you enjoy their imminent return.
There’s an issue affecting rendering images in the dashboard for a small number of users. Should be resolved shortly.
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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #that might explain those absences that were supposed to be pictures of moths #but the moths have loaded now #(I recommend following @support if you haven’t already) #(it helps shorten those moments like ‘wtf what is this new airplane button for’)
Ok so staff just released info about this new update, and while it seems like an effective way to cut off any lurking, hateful anons, or the possibility of anyone seeing your blog that you don’t want to, it also cuts off a lot of other useful features as well.
I conducted a little to test to see how it works by turning off the “show this blog on the web” feature on this blog, and using a dummy blog to see how it works.
First things first, using this feature eliminates your URL completely. You as the blog owner are not even able to view your blog at the URL address. I tried WHILE I was signed in to my blog and it still would not allow me.
Obviously if you as the blog owner can’t see it also means no one, including mutuals, can see your blog either. There are only two ways you can still view a users content: The mobile side view and posts that come across your dash.
This feature also eliminates the use of read more’s. When you click the read more link it takes you to the permalink, which is part of your URL, which no longer exists.
You are still able to search within tumblr for blogs and follow people and people can search for you, but as I said above, even if you are following a person or they are a mutual, they will never be able to view your actual blog page again.
If you are not comfortable losing your blog page completely, even from your own personal view, then I would not suggest using this feature.
Signal boosting this, because of a lot of blogs I follow have done this, and now I can’t read half the shit they post as a result. I don’t think they realise the issue with the read more thing.
#lunar eclipse #I was having trouble phrasing a reminder so I just looked in that tag until I found one #so excited that I’m actually awake for a celestial event for once #I really hope the sky’s clear #PSA
Caution: Watch out for this. You’ll enter a blog, and a pop-up looking like the one above will appear asking you to log into Tumblr to verify your age. DO.NOT.DO.IT. Basically, you’ll give the hacker your login information and they will use your blog as they have done the one above. Seriously, take my word for it. It’s NOT Tumblr. Please pass the message along. For some, our blogs are our lives. And it could all be gone in an instant.
Looks like they’re at it again, guys
((well crap))
signal boost
(( Re-blogging for obvious reasons! ))
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#signal boost #PSA #viruses #that looks like a nasty one
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