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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

If you message me to reblog a fundraiser and I have no connection to you at all I’m just going to straight up block and report you, I don’t know or care about what cause you are supposedly representing, I cannot spend time vetting all the accounts that do this to see if you are legit, I’m just done

So if you ARE a legit person looking for help DON’T DO THIS unless the person you are messaging is okay with it (Which I’m NOT)

Edit:

Also to be clear I have no money and very few followers, so I’m NOT the person to send these to

I really appreciate how the “cool kids” of Beach City genuinely like and look out for Steven

Like generally older teens don’t want to deal with younger kids and if they are it’s in a fairly separated way where they feel “in-charge” or whatever

But Jenny, Sour Cream, and Buck all seem to really like Steven and make a point to include him on things and not in a “We’re in charge and you’ll do what we want” way but in a “Come along and have fun with us” way that is really nice

steven universe jenny pizza buck dewey sour cream Why is sour cream the only one whose family surname we don't know?
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clockwayswrites

So I thought this was commonly known internet navigation (but apparently it might just be those of us who have been using the internet since the 90’s who still know it). Or so it seems based on… a grumpy comment I got.

When you see an arrow like this:

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It means you click it to expand out a hidden section.

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It’s an accordion section/menu! It’s useful in web design to hide information that may be overwhelming under specific headers so people can only see what they need.

Here I’m using it for people who need the content warnings to be able to check, but for those who don’t need them and don’t want to be spoiled to just move right past without accidentally reading anything.

It’s still the user’s responsibility to click the arrow and read things as they need! But it is all warned. (And, yes, the all encompassing issues are already a tag on the fic, I’m just providing additonal warnings per chapter.)

clockwayswrites

Ah, sorry yes! For those who want the html, it’s the details and summary tags!

<details>: The Details disclosure element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The <details> HTML element creates a disclosure widget in which information is visible only when the widget is toggled into an "open" state.
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tsukithewolf

Holy shit?? I didn’t know AO3 could do this. This is so useful!

jammerific

Support for <details> was added about a year ago, and more people should definitely know about it!

emeraldinerosefaedragon
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kelpeigh

You know what, fuck it. Figure skating is now my favorite sport. Unless there's another one that will let a competitor dress up in a silly costume and do all these silly jumps and wiggles and fall on purpose, IN THE OLYMPICS, there's no contest

oakmonger-deactivated20240326

As a former figure skater I feel obliged to point out how technically difficult that little Chaplin patter would be. See the kind of speed he's getting up to and then immediately moving into that "walk" - sometimes without even a brake manoeuvre. The momentum you build up when moving at speed has to get released somewhere so stopping like that is usually an easy way to topple over (not on purpose). In the true spirit of Chaplin he is making very hard and potentially dangerous things look easy.

jonairadreaming

For anyone who might've been searching for who the skater is, @jay42 found out ! The athlete is Petr Barna, from the 1992 Winter Olympics

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dnpanimationstudioclone

@vintage-selfshipper @a-sterling-rose @p0rk-guts

ospreyonthemoon
jv

Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

jv

To be clear, I don't have any news about any impending doom. But I've heard a bit more about what's going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.

I don't think even the current staff know what's going to happen, but honestly, I don't see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.

jv

And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @javi@goblin.band from any fediverse platform 🤷

plaidos

for reference, OP is a former employee of Tumblr who tries to keep up to date with tumblr’s inner workings. please back your blogs up.

butchlinkle

In your blog settings you have the ability to initiate a blog export, and this will generate a backup for your blog.

Fair warning though, if you've been on the platform for a long time this archive is likely to be quite hefty in file size. This blog I have had for 5 years with 22k posts, and the export from tumblr came to be 48GB. My previous blog I made in 2011 and has 95k posts, so needless to say I did not use tumblr's built in export to back that one up.

If you want more control over exactly what you back up from your blog, I recommend that you use tumblr-utils instead. It allows you to backup specific tags, post types, and to ignore posts that you did not create (reblogs where you've added a comment count as a post you created, to be clear).

To use it:

  1. download and install python 2.7
  2. download tumblr-utils
  3. create an application on tumblr to get an api key
  4. extract the tumblr-utils zip and open the tumblr_backup.py file in notepad
  5. search for "API" and paste in your OAuth consumer key
  6. then go back to the folder where you extracted tumblr-utils and choose open folder in terminal / command prompt, or type cmd.exe in the address bar while inside the folder
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now in the window that opens it should show the current path, and you can type "py -2 .\tumblr_backup.py [your options] [your blog name]" and hit enter. Example:

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Backing up just my original posts from this blog with this command came to 632MB rather than 48GB, and also gave me the option to save my posts in JSON format which will be useful for converting my posts to a new format for self hosting.

On that note I'm currently looking into figuring out a simple (and ideally free) way of self hosting a static site blog that utilises activitypub, and also converting my old posts to re-host on said blog.

This post series by maho.dev on implementing activitypub with any static site is my primary source of guidance atm if you also want to try figure that out yourself, as well as having an explanation for why you'd even want to do this if you don't already know

but if tumblr goes down before I get things sorted and write up a post about it then i'll be reporting back on it via my bsky, mastodon, and toyhouse accounts

if you dont have an account on any of these I'll also be sharing an update via my personal site's RSS feed, link of which includes an explanation of what RSS is and some feed readers you can use, I highly recommend checking it out as getting a feed reader is going to be the best way you can stay connected with people if they scatter across the internet!

tldr: download tumblr-utils to backup your blog more efficiently, introduce yourself to RSS and get a feed reader to stay connected with people, consider saving mine so you can find out how to self host your blog later if tumblr goes down

coffeeworldsasaki
postcardsfromheapside

Very elder Millennial complaint of me but:

If this site does go under, I'm really going to be frustrated - not just because of all the fun things tumblr is, and all the mutuals I'm getting to know being back here.

It's that it's "slow”. It's mostly static pictures and text. It's not a bunch of videos vying for my attention (it helps that it's not based on influence or algorithm).

My brain and my anxiety aren't great right now but they would be immeasurably worse if I were actively on the other apps.

I don't know that Bluesky is going to be even a “just okay” alternative.

I'd say this is just me getting old but I'm pretty fucking sure that the way the youths' brains are reacting to tiktok and the like isn't great either so.

Idk. Capitalism is so exhausting.