ik parents can and should try and avoid making their kid/s overly stressed about finances etc but honestly my brother couldve used a bit of that financial pressure growing up instead of being such an entitled ass who has no concept of money management
ughfjdkhg i miss my cats So Much but i havent been able to go visit mum bc she keeps letting my brother and his freeloader friends live with her even tho they take zero covid precautions and put her at risk as she’s immunocompromised and yeah renting is hard rn but my brother can literally get his rent subsidised by the fucking army in addition to the fact that he has a full time job whereas im managing rent + other living expenses using only student payments and what little left i have of my savings. his privileged entitled ass can and should move out no problem and stop constantly putting her at risk of covid bc he refuses to take even the most simple of precautions even tho a) she’s his fucking mother and b) is letting him live rent free under her roof
people love to compliment tiktok’s algorithm on how good it is at showing them updates to videos they’d seen in the past but tumblr, man. tumblr doesn’t even need an algorithm. it’s just a bunch of nosy ass people spreading around the information and it is almost always a reliable system. if i see a post on tuesday the update will come around on my dash by friday without fail
algorithm vs small town gossip
The algorithm wishes it could be as powerful as a small town with a secret.
Black cats are sweeties. They are unfairly touted as superstitious and are consequently the least adopted and most abandoned color of cat. Give them some love!!!
black cats usually get a bad rap as unlucky and get abused due to superstition but they’re adorable.
I have black cat. See? Him face. And I not dead today! Good luck!
TLDR; don’t give tumblr money until they start making visible improvements towards accessibility
I’ve seen a few posts around about something people are calling crab day where you’re supposed to gift the crab button to your mutuals to support Tumblr financially. Please don’t participate in this unless Tumblr starts making noticeable improvements towards accessibility between now and then. It’s been 5 months of me trying to get the bare minimum of accessibility for photosensitive users or even just find out who I can talk to to get anywhere, and Tumblr is refusing to make any changes.
@photomatt has doubled down on the suggestion that you should just pay for ad-free or install an ad-blocker instead of listening to any of the suggestions photosensitive users have repeatedly made. Please do not give money to Tumblr until they show a commitment to accessibility because they will continue to ignore our requests if it doesn’t impact them financially.
Some of the requests we’ve made are:
1. Allow us to disable autoplay on browser as well as the app. This is an accessibility feature, not a data-saving feature, and should be treated as such.
2. Include ads in disabling of autoplay, along with other formats that currently get around the autoplay feature. Currently even if you have autoplay disabled you can still end up with flashing lights in your face every few posts from ads.
3. Improve the reporting process for strobing ads. The quick reporting process doesn’t provide good options to ensure the person reviewing the report realizes that it’s being reported for flashing lights so you have to hope they agree it’s either malicious or offensive and don’t just brush you off as abusing the report function. The more complicated reporting process involves getting a screenshot and the link that the ad brings you to, which requires lingering on the ad, which if you’re trying to report the ad for your safety, is dangerous. You can also still get the same ad 10 times a row after reporting it until it’s been reviewed. Which again, presents a danger to users.
4. Add a community label for flashing lights. Flashing lights are commonly untagged or mistagged, even sometimes maliciously. It would be extremely helpful to the photosensitive community to be able to add a warning to a post that doesn’t have one.
I’ve talked a lot about the photosensitive community in this post because that’s what I have personal experience with and what @photomatt has explicitly come out and just said to buy ad-free about, but there are definitely other accessibility issues that need to be addressed as well (like the alt text function needing improvements to make it accessible to users who need it and don’t use screenreaders, or the fact that a lot of tumblr official stuff still doesn’t seem to use the alt text feature themselves). Please feel free to add on accessibility issues I’ve missed in the reblogs.
How does disabling auto-play help with accessibility? I’ve never heard of that before.
If you’re photosensitive and something isn’t tagged or is tagged incorrectly, disabling autoplay means that instead of flashing lights going off in your face, or super fast gifs or videos that are going so fast it essentially creates the same effect, you’re able to scroll through Tumblr safely and make your own assessment on whether a video or gif is likely to be safe, if it’s worth the risk to figure it out, if you should ask someone if it’s safe, etc.
Without it, Tumblr can be dangerous for photosensitive people, as most content here that can potentially be triggering for photosensitive users is either not tagged or improperly tagged, and there’s a lot more of it than most people probably notice.
The difference between a strike and a boycott is the focus of what is being withheald
In a strike the supply is being withheald because the workers aren’t producing whatever it is. It works by having the masses demand what the companies cannot produce and therefore, if the company wants to continue providing whatever it is in order to continue making money, they have to listen to worker demands
In a boycott the demand is being withheald because the masses aren’t buying or engaging with whatever it is. It works because companies, obviously, need to actually sell things in order to function. The point is to make the company change something about a product in order to appeal to the masses again
That’s why you shouldn’t boycott when a strike is on (unless the union says so) because it kind of cancels out the strike. If there is no demand then witholding supply is meaningless - again, unless the union says so, since that means they factored it into their industrial action plan and believe it would be beneficial
I know people want to help but the reaction to call for a boycott whenever there’s a strike just kind of…… doesn’t
