solidarity is not something you build only with the people whose experiences you personally share or relate to
Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.
me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish
people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk
result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish
conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.
Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.
"You can't be a lurker on tumblr." Yes, you absolutely can. I've been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven't interacted with anyone in years.
idk what traumatized or mentally ill person needs to hear this but dreams (especially the really disturbing ones you dont want to talk about to anybody) arent some deep peek into your psyche or a sign of your True Desires or whatever theyre quite literally your brain making fruit salad with whatever it can find on the shelf. just putting all that shit in a blender and hitting obliterate. its fine, youre fine, youre not a weirdo for it
Actually forget what I said. This dream is more important than anything
friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:
- change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you're going to get blocked bcs people think you're a bot
- this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)
- you can set your likes and follows to private
- checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing
- follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric
- drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally
- DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won't be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won't get in trouble!!
- tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7
- be nice to the reddit refugees, they're our friends <3
keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware
EDIT TO ADD: here’s a snopes article some lovely people have been reblogging with. imo it essentially confirms the claims made above but always do your own research and decide for yourself - i’m just a person in the internet. ALSO just to clarify i absolutely do not support or participate in sinophobia - the app could be from the moon for all i care i shared to make people aware of its aggressive data mining (something which apps from all countries can and have been guilty of)
Climate change is real and happening faster than scientists thought.
inverse of the Australian experience of "using the particulate respirator you got for the bushfires during the pandemic"
I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
I wish people were more trauma-literate. Maybe they'd learn to use trigger warnings correctly then.
Obviously I don't speak for every traumatized person, but for me seeing people use trigger warnings wrong is kind of harder to deal with than if people don't use them at all.
What do I mean by using it wrong? Well there are a bunch of things people do:
Saying "trigger warning" by itself without specifying what trigger they're warning for This one's understandable but also kind of insulting cause it's just like "if you have any kind of trauma you might have a bad time byeeeee". You should instead be naming the trigger that you're warning for. "Tw parental abuse", "tw police violence" etc.
Any form of "if you've been sexually assaulted you shouldn't read this" This is gross and patronizing. The purpose of trigger warnings should be to help traumatized people make decisions about what they read, not to make those decisions for them.
Censorship instead of trigger warnings Oh I fucking hate this one. It's infuriating when people act like it's gonna soften the blow if they spell it "r*pe" instead of "rape". All it does is make us trauma survivors feel like our experiences are dirty and tainted and not to be spoken of in mixed company. (Note that people will sometimes star out words in order to evade online censorship algorithms or protect themselves from the search function. This is all fine and valid. But also like, we can tell when you're doing the first thing versus when you're doing the second.)
Seems like a lot of people are engaging in sensitivity theater that is the analog of security theater
