#and also wonder why my social media

[spoiled-brat-vibes]

Every bit of me wants to do things that I know will just get me in trouble.

[beacon-lamp]

You've probably gotten this a lot already, but Bluesky is basically Twitter, but if you don't like how political the ads have been and want to see more "tweets" from people that follow the social politics of Tumblr + where all the "adult content" artists went + where the academics and institutional scientists are moving to; it's a good place to go for that. As you can tell tho, I have some mixed feelings about what's been happening to it, as it was initially built to have multiple instances spread across the net, but it's become fairly centralized now that Twitter is hemorrhaging users of generally a left leaning persuasion who have only ever used twitter and have no desire to integrate with the original vision of the site and instead use it as Twitter 2.0. I will say, an upside is an easier creation and cultivation of "feeds" which let you have multiple themed feeds for you to follow and potentially contribute to. Like feed of just cat pictures. Or a feed of just current scientific findings from scientists. That kinda thing. Of course there's also just who you're following feed, which doesn't use AI algorithms to supplement it, it's just who you're following like on Tumblr.

Anyways, hope this helps shed some light on things, and I hope this wasn't too forward of me lol. Have a great day!

wait this is a really good explanation and way more in-depth than i was expecting, thank you!!

i just checked it out and yeah. it looks Exactly like twitter, at least on desktop. just without the hundreds of bot replies and blue checkmark users with the most hate-filled takes i've ever read.

[yukipri]

So I saw the news about AI being introduced to Tumblr from you so first of THANK YOU so much. I have a lot of writing on Tumblr that I'll be moving.

I also wanted to ask if you'd heard of Cohost? Me and my friends are migrating there, it has the same features (in some ways) as Tumblr, but it's pretty new and empty, and is also run by a SMALL team of developers who listen to the users and fix things while keeping corporations out of the equation.

As soon as I heard of Cohost, I thought of you and other artists I know. Have a splendid rest of your day/night.

Glad I was able to help put the deeply unfortunate news on your dash!

(honestly, beyond general feeling furious they're doing the GenAI deal at all, I feel like if it's automatically opt-in, the very LEAST @staff could do is send out an email to every user + make it a pop up that everyone has to click out of at least once informing us all that our data has been opted in and how we can opt out. That it's just the one staff post, and everything else we have to spread by word of mouth is...deeply unfortunate)

I hadn't heard of Cohost, but thank you for telling me about it! I'll keep it in mind if moving looks to be necessary. But while I can discard my other socials if need be, Tumblr is where I found myself as a fan creator, and I've been here for over ten years. I really hope I don't have to move.

There's that, but I've also made a BlueSky and Threads, neither of which I've really had the spoons to be active on, as well as my primary socials of Twitter and Insta, and Patreon and AO3 if they count. I feel like I've just got a bit too many rn, and I want to see where communities will settle, and if GenAI can be regulated to save some of the ones currently existing.

Everything feels like it's in an unstable state of flux rn, which is super stressful! And I just hope it can be temporary, for all of our sakes ;_;

❀ ❀ Send YukiPri an Ask! ❀ ❀

[biblicalhorror]

The most frustrating part of engaging in any of this discourse with pro-Israel people is that they claim there's just something ineffable about "seeing and understanding" how supporting Palestinian liberation is directly calling for the eradication of Jewish people (as if that type of rhetoric isn't exactly how actual antisemitism often manifests in online spaces but that's a topic for another day)

They get through people debunking the "the land belongs to the people of Israel anyway" argument and the "LGBTQ Palestinians are safe in Israel" argument and the "Genocide isn't what's happening here so you should educate yourself" argument and when all of those points are meticulously disproven over and over they still stand with "Well, myself and your Jewish friends see the hate you have in your heart for us" and it truly doesn't matter what you say at that point because even if you yourself are Jewish they will claim that refusing to support the state, government and military of Israel is inherently hateful and bigoted, as if a religious ethnostate is some inherent human right that is being taken away from them. I know many of them are blinded by the relentless propaganda that's been around their whole lives and how hard it is to break free from a belief system that is so tied to your core identity as a human being but it is so frustrating watching people being led straight to the point over and over again and just turning around and refusing to see it.

It's also so frustrating to see people using the momentum of this movement to casually tack on actual antisemitism to these discussions, as if having Jewish people in positions of power is why the US bends over backwards to excuse the actions of Israel and not, yknow, the fact that our government directly benefits from having a military stronghold in the middle east. I've talked to some well-meaning pro-Palestine friends irl who casually use antisemetic talking points because they've ALSO bought into the narrative that Israeli = Jewish and so they blame the actions of Israel and the IDF on Jewish people's "religious values" and ignore the fact that this conflict really has almost nothing to do with religion itself and everything to do with capitalism, imperialism and maintaining the US's status as a so-called "global power".

[nocturne-of-illusions]

man. having to delete all of my twitter posts across all of my accounts is so sad.... :[ i'm currently watching the deletion script eat its way through the 33k posts on my main.... that's over a decade of conversations with people who have since disappeared but i still think of fondly. i have a backup of MY posts, and i went through and screenshotted as many reply threads as i could, but i have no idea how many i missed... man.

[mejomonster]

Oh also when I start dropping the Red White and Royal Blue book quotes expect a FLOOD I'm highlighting the fuck out of this book

[elenadoeslife]

your first love hits different

[pepprs]

misery despair suffering etc etc

[shinayashipper]

When friends or old classmates got married or stuff, and then you did not get invited- sometimes I wonder if I'm ever worth as a Friend 😂 like wow im so Forgetable huh- but then again, it must be because I'm not actively sharing on social media- it's kinda Sad that everything must revolve around social media and what you share there... I've been told I have "no friends" because I don't share private lifes on social media 😂😂

[sisterdivinium]

It's interesting to stroll around Fanlore reading discussions that took place in 2007 talking about the fractured nature of fandom on LJ and people interacting without having enough context (as in commenting on a post they did not read by a user they do not know) when you're living in 2023 and people distribute likes without reading anything or commenting; when there's supposedly "drama" of unknown origins happening in more than one website at the same time because there's no real "home base" for fandom activity anymore; and we're all carrying on with our lives reblogging things without even looking at previous notes and reactions to that same post even if out of simple curiosity...

[sangrialuvr]

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[schoolgirl739]

OMFG i’m such an annoying MY but the new le sserafim concept photos are def a Hybe response to supernova and brat summer 💀

[chiyana]

Tim tells the Batclan he's going on a space mission with Young Justice for a few weeks, he's got everything sorted civilian side and his cases and patrol routes covered, and also if any of his usual Rogue's Gallery suddenly comes looking for him don't worry about it.

And all of that is fine and normal - except that last part hey Tim what the fuck does that mean?

and Tim just goes it's fine don't worry about it anyway gotta go bye! and then he just bounces

and everything is fine until not even a day later when Babs forwards them a video Red Robin uploaded to his social medias that is a music video of him (Red Robin) seductively lip-syncing along to Chappell Roan's "My Kink is Karma" against a backdrop of fail compilation clips of several of the villains Tim has a particular grudge against, including Azrael, Lex Luthor, and most prominently Ra's al Ghul.

so there's Tim, in a form-fitting catsuit styled like his Red Robin costume, in heels, feeling himself up with a video clip in the background showing Ra's tripping on his own robes and face planting into the brickwork, evidence he dyes out some of the gray in his hair, his sash coming undone and pants falling off in the middle of a fight, trying to swipe the effects of a glitterbomb off of himself, etc.

It all ends with the Mean Girls clip of "why are you so obsessed with me?"

The video is immediately viral.

(There's some clips of Red Hood in there fucking up but Jason can't even be mad because he's laughing so hard he's gonna throw up)

Tim's Rogues absolutely DO show up to Gotham looking for him, and while they all want revenge, Red Robin is THEIR arch enemy like HELL are they going to work with these other embarrassments, so they all start fighting each other and it is absolutely CHAOS (Lex decides discretion is the better part of valor and makes a statement that no of course he has nothing against Red Robin he has no idea why he was included in that video haha yes of course it was Very Funny when a bird accidentally pooped on his head he is Very Capable of laughing at himself Thank You, and then he quietly goes to one of his vacation houses and moodily drinks for several days waiting for things to blow over)

Tim, meanwhile, is having a wonderful vacation with Young Justice, catching up with Lobo and Slobo, chasing down some space pirates, and just getting out of Gotham and away from his Rogues trying to challenge him/seduce him/kill him/whatever.

Bruce is taking the constant psychic damage of having the image of softcore Red Robin erotica burned into his brain along with the realization that way, way, WAY too many of Tim's Rogues want to sleep with him like an absolute champ. (Dick is not taking it like a champ, Dick is taking it like an unhinged vengeful wraith and has had to be benched for trying to tear out Ra's throat with his teeth.)

Stephanie is having the Time of Her Life. Damian cannot look anyone in the eye and absolutely cannot look Ra's (or his mother who ALSO showed up prominently in the video) in the face and is Not Having the Time of His Life.

(Jason is with Steph on this one, he is having SUCH a blast, this is so fucking hysterical)

[youremyfriend-youremymission]

This is also what makes forming friendships so hard for me.

How much do I share? I have to share something to find people I can talk to but with every bit I share I am deeply afraid that people will assume the worst and use it against me, so I refuse to share and remain lonely.

I see all those people on tumblr have mutuals and be friends and all I think is „I wish that was me“ but I‘m too afraid to try again and get hurt again. So many of my friendships are onesided. On my last blog I had writer friends, or I assumed us to be friends who would thank me for hyping them up whenever they posted a new story or chapter.

But then when it came that I needed support or just any acknowledgment of my writing, there was silence. First I assumed maybe they were offline, but I saw them interacting with others around the same time I reblogged my writing. And then it became clear to me that things I’ve assumed to be mutual were one sided and I mentally scolded myself for sharing a part of me with the wrong people. It broke the part of me that loved writing. I have so many WIPs and I still want to write, but with every sentence it gets more difficult and I reach a point of „why do I even bother? No one is going to like it…“ so I closer that document and never open it again. The cycle repeats itself every few weeks or months with me starting a new WIP, reaching that point again and never opening that WIP again.

So what if I share a different aspect of me to find friends and I end up breaking that too? Is it worth it to stay lonely in a meek effort to stay whole? But isn’t the loneliness tearing me apart bit by bit too?

I guess the hurt from being lonely is more calculated, I know it will be there. But being hurt by others you wanted to be seen as an equal hurts deeper and breaks you more. And if the majority of friendships have been one sided and the only common factor is you, how can you not end up believing that maybe you’re not worth of being a friend to others?

one thing we forget about people on the internet is that we know almost nothing about them. Would i know if somebody's kid has congestive heart failure? Only if they tell me! Would I know if somebody is experiencing severe mental health problems? Only if they tell me! Would I know if someone has cancer? Only if they tell me!

This is a weird thing about being online. We can know a lot about someone--this person is a Christian, and a father of three children, and married to that person, and likes Cheerios--but we only know what they told us, which is--of course--almost nothing.

And yet, human pattern-makers that we are, we inevitably fill in the gaps in information with assumptions that are based on whether we kinda assume the best of someone or kinda assume the worst of them. Like, I do not imagine that Elon Musk came home from his hard work making everyone's life worse yesterday and held a sick friend's hand as that friend died--but of course that's possible! I don't know!

This happened to me a lot when I was on tumblr the first time. People often filled in gaps by assuming the worst in me, and that's fair enough, I guess. These days, people tend to (although not exclusively) fill in the gaps by assuming the best of me. But both are assumptions informed by extremely limited information, which is almost impossible to remember in the daily grind of Internet Life.

[viro-lil-goat]

I really hope this reaches more people, I'm only reposting this information from Instagram, the least that I can do. (Update: I changed their upbringing as it appears to have been listed wrong) Wiki page

When I just saw this information I couldn't stop crying thinking about it, and now my heart aches. They were the same age as me, I know for a fact like any other teen they dreamt of their future, who they would want to become, what to achieve, create, wondering if they meet those in the future they can call friends, wondeting if it'll get better when they grow up, maybe wished to leave that terrible place or maybe wanted to stay. How could anyone let this happen, why were they discharged from hospital so easily? And the school, we all know why. I hate to think about how, even with all the progress made, these things still happen.

"murdered schoolgirl Brianna Ghey on February 16, 2023. Candlelit vigils are being held across the UK this week for Brianna Ghey, 16, who was stabbed at Linear Park in Culcheth, Cheshire last Saturday. Brianna was a transgender girl and police are now investigating her killing as a hate crime. A boy and girl, both 15, have been charged with her murder"

An article that explains trans hate crime murders as on 2023

I hate everyone who have ever committed such vile hate crimes, I wish them in prison and hell. But i would never go down to their level. But I also blame the government, the school, and even those bigoted online accounts that teach their followers hate. In this case LibsOfTikTok, who targeted the teacher of this school, who supports lgbtq+, so they had to leave their position. It must have been the push for this to happen. I think their tiktok account has been thankfully deleten. But i have no idea about Twitter or any other. Please check and mass report them if it still exists. (Link to Instagram reel that this information is from)

ADDITION, PLEASE MASS REPORT THESE ACCOUNTS

[knifeslidez]

im so exhausted and bored of everything rn