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TUMBLR I LOVE YOU

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RFK Jr on on Tucker's X stream talking about how fluoridated water calcifies the pineal gland -

If Trump doesn't win I'm going to absolutely lose it.

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one week out from the US election and the Vatican is posting neochibi aesthetics and you're blackpilling?

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it's only a little insulting that there isn't a tumblr badge for blocking and flagging spam bots given how many there have been here, historically. @photomatt this would be a cool morale boost for legacies here.

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cohost.org shutting down is unfortunate.

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I just completed achievement 23/23 in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. I have now 100%'ed the entire Half Life 2 series.

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Acting absolutely irrational and bought a Leica S2 for what both seems like a 'deal' and way too much.

Keeping the dream of 2009 alive.

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I just completed achievement 13/13 in Half-Life 2: Episode One. This took significantly less time than one-hundred-percenting HL2 itself, however still feels significant.

Happy Easter.

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today we log on to acknowledge the shutdown of Tumblr Live which occurred two days ago, January 24, 2024.

bless, @photomatt

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I just completed achievement 33/33 in Half Life 2. I purchased the game in December 2008, 15 years ago. I was a senior in high school. Time is strange.

Happy New Year. I have a good feeling about 2024.

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every time i feel loathsome about this website i remember that @apodicticdotnet is one of my longest, continually maintained and not fucked with web presences and it is pure and beautiful and a true expression of my self and i can never leave this website because of it (or realistically, when the time comes to nuke everything for impending opsec reasons i will have to recreate the blog locally so i can stare into the mirror and see who i really am).

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just unfollowed more than half of the blogs i was following. if i'm still following you it's either because we are a mutual, or your account is a curious memory (hi @hipsterrunoff).

i don't know why i check this account anymore, i guess for the aforementioned memory. this is one of the online accounts i've had the longest, and it means something to me in a weird way because of that (and not to mention all of the autobiographical blogging baggage the current username carries with it from the late 2010s, iykyk).

i do think that, related to that last thought, i misused and misunderstood tumblr for the last decade. it was an easy place to post photos and longform traumadump (sorry, journal, or err, write autofiction). near 15 years ago i liked the photographers that posted here before instagram stole that (and eviscerated the medium in the process). but we all know tumblr of the 2010s wasn't an art space, it was a fandom space (i will leave it at that). i should have been building my own thing. i should have been making photo zines, writing a massive tome (100,000 word .txt file), hosting my own website, etc. i posted about this sentiment at the time extensively, but nothing ever stuck because the network effects of being here (the friendships i have here) were (and are!) too valuable to let go.

so i don't know what to make of all of this. this blog still exists. i still look at it from time to time. i wish i could curate a killer following. i know none of this will happen. i am resentful about automattic buying tumblr - they have actively done nothing to make it better (it needed to be more are.na or vienna hypertext than whatever they have tried to do). verizon/oath/yahoo should have killed it. obviously this site brings in no money and the userbase actively hates the staff. parting thought: this site existing is a net negative for culture.

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should have been obvious in retrospect that automattic buying tumblr was a horrible idea? wordpress is a terrible product and, consequently, the tumblr product on the whole has only gotten worse under automattic ownership!

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Reassessing my entire relationship with this website. The history, the lore, etc.

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I will be at VCF-Midwest in Elmhurst, IL the evening of Saturday, September 9 and morning of Sunday September 10.

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i will be at the premier of angelicism01′s ‘film01′ in manhattan on monday, june 5.

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Look, I was there in Prospect Park on May 23, 2022 when Justin Murphy read Nick Land’s “Meltdown” to a bunch of young men in a field, under a scorching sun, with Turing Cops in black helicopters circling, at the conclusion of Urbit Week. It was as a transcendent experience as you think it could be. A Last Supper level event, or at least one worth mythologizing - at the very least a “Sex Pistols play Manchester Free Trade Hall” sort of thing.