Would you look at that, it's another Neopets blog. How original (Although from most of my posts, you wouldn't be able to tell. But trust me, I am a Neopets blog. Sort of.)...................................
*Non-Neopets things tagged as Not Neopets
The WFP is actually reaching Ghazzawis for food distribution and has even helped Ghazzan bakeries in Deir Al Balah and Rafah reopen by providing flour, yeast, water, etc... according to Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary (this was on her story the other day so I can't link it).
The PCRF is also active in Ghazzah, providing medicine and even food to Ghazzawis in shelters.
Today, I ask each one of you to donate at least one dollar to both of these organisations, and more if you can spare it.
It’s like we have feel that our comment needs to add some sort of worth or value to the post or else it’s just stupid.
something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we've trained ourselves out of it somehow.
Tbh it’s kind of sad. I’ve learned so much & can honestly say I’m a better person because of it. I’ve gained confidence in myself, I’m more sure of my autism & who I am. I’m able to handle stress better & know how to let things go.
For some, TikTok is the only way to get news out safely. It’s where people feel safe to be themselves. And to judge the website off of one side is not a vibe I want to dance to.
the ability to say "i dont have a tiktok" in social situations makes me feel so powerful. like the general reaction is "shock, confusion, then this weird 'thats probably a good thing' response" its so fun
I’m sorry you had to have those teachers. It was wrong of them to treat you like they did.
As a teacher myself, I hope to be someone that my kids can trust. It sucks at the teacher you liked was let go and the others were not.
Why the fuck wasn’t Severus Snape fired?
I realise that I may anger a lot of Snape-Lovers, but this is an honest question. How did he keep his job as a Professor?! He routinely bullied and aggravated students, blatantly favoured one house above the others to the extent that he ignored that house deliberately sabotaging others’ work, and that’s not even going into how he used to be a member of a terrorist group that slaughtered muggles for fun.
Yeah, yeah, he’s “in love with Lily” and “a spy” - but that doesn’t change the fact that in real life, a publicly former member of a TERRORIST GROUP would never be allowed to work with children. Especially one of his disposition. He didn’t even try to pleas the Imperius Curse, he was just let free on the word of Dumbledore.
Severus Snape (A Grown Man) reduced children as young as eleven to tears. He mercilessly degraded and bullied Harry Potter, just because of who one of his sperm donors was and the fact that he was placed in Gryffindor. He terrified Neville Longbottom so much that his boggart - his greatest fear, was Snape.
Severus Snape should never been given power over children. Dumbledore was a manipulative bastard, I have covered that already, but he was enabling abuse of a wide population of students by allowed Snape to stay on, just as he allowed the abuse of Harry Potter through his family.
Long story short - Snape should have been sacked a long time ago, and a Dumbledore along with him.
But it is. Part of activism is spreading the word, which fanfiction can do. Being a “small pond” doesn’t mean that it can’t be used to spread information. After all, if that was the mentality, why would people post about activism on Tumblr? Tumblr could also be considered a “small pond”, and yet there’s plenty of activism. Small steps lead to big steps. It does as much change as you allow it to.
There’s a song in the Matilda musics called “Naughty”, and I think the lyrics really apply here:
“Cause if you're little, you can do a lot, you
Mustn't let a little thing like 'little' stop you
If you sit around and let them get on top, you
Won't change a thing
Just because you find that life's not fair, it
Doesn't mean that you just have to grin and bear it
If you always take it on the chin and wear it
You might as well be saying you think that it's OK”
It’s their way of making things right.
fanfic is not activism
like a fanfic can talk about important issues or be a really good representation of a real social issue, but fanfic is a small, small pond, and being the shiniest fish in it doesn’t mean much in terms of actual real life social change
Strike is on. Actors will be joining the writers on the picket lines. This is the first strike in 60 years for SAG, and essentially shuts down the entire US film and television industry.
Why TF should they change to "meet the expectations " of people coming from other social media places? Isn’t it expected that a new platform won’t be the same as the one they came from??? They should get used to how Tumblr works & looks like, not expect the site to change for them
I watched the live with the CEO, here is the tl;dr
The good news:
Chronological dash is here to stay! Whether you have to toggle it weekly or new users default to “For you” was not elaborated on but at least that’s confirmed.
Custom themes are here to stay! Once again, may be buried for all I know but, for sure will remain an option.
Search updates are in the works!!!!
The neutral news:
Tumblr is seriously in the red financially and needs more support, Ad-free for example is not widely used
They would not comment on the suggestion to bring back NSFW behind a paywall (which we all know would get them a boatload of money)
They’re possibly going to add a donation system like Ao3 and Wikipedia.
They would “rather not” sell data to make up the costs
Most of staff are pre-2010 tumblr users including the CEO who joined in 2007, so they do actually use the site and have for a long time
The bad news:
Condensed reblogs/removing reblog chains is going forward. The reason cited was to meet “certain expectations” of users coming from other social media, which isn’t good.
Disability features (specifically turning off flashing ads for epileptics) was met with a request to purchase Ad-free
Overall it was more chill than I expected, @photomatt and @zingring seem to be far more in tune with the userbase than u/spez.
shit man. i found out though tumblr. i thought the “i hope princess dianne is waiting for him with a gun” was a weird joke.
going straight to tumblr after learning that prince philip finally died is like hearing the latest gossip in your victorian parlor room and then leaving the house to find your nearest paper boy screaming “hot off the press! prince is finally dead!” just to confirm