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10 years on tumblr

Today april 3rd 2024 I’ve been on tumblr for 10 years. 

Celebrate with me by looking at my archive and telling me which month’s your favourite and why

#kefalion #tumblr #tumblr anniversary #10 years

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🐱+🌵

#cuteness overload #other people’s amazing art

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This part of the Soldier edit has been stuck in my head lately

#Star Wars #cal kestis #now I remember how much I love him and his games #I love them very much #he shows so well the tragedy of the Jedi

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Ch🧐

#Star Wars #I love it #it fucks with your head #but you can understand it #and therefore appreciate it even more

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#funny cats #this is precious

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Why does everyone always look at you that way?

Twi | ins

#Anakin #Darth Vader #wow #oh wow #other people's art

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"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

#this is a valuable lesson

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*Basically anything that isn't a typical farm animal: cow, pig or sheep.

(Obligatory Note: I'm American and this is based on what's overall unconventional to eat in the USA.)

#rabit #elk #wild boar #reindeer

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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

#fiction #this is too real #I’d been thinking about this

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I want y'all to notice something else about tumblr’s opt-out AI setting. Look at how it was officially announced:

And now I ask you to consider something else: When we introduced “blaze other people posts”, Staff also got a lot of flak for making it an opt-out setting. But really it wasn’t (at first): When it was launched, every tumblr user got a pop-up the next time they logged in telling them about the change and warning them to go to settings and disable the new checkbox if they weren’t ok with it. And you didn’t really get opted-in until you had seen that pop-up: It could have been better, but at least there wasn’t anyone being opted-in without their knowledge.

But with AI? no pop-up, just a (very hidden) new checkbox in the blog settings, and a @staff announcement. An Staff post that makes an strong use of passive voice to not making it too clear that tumblr ACTUALLY has partnered with AI companies to sell your data: It looks like they are being nice and giving you the chance to add an extra layer of security against data scraping, right? nothing too urgent, don’t worry about it!

But then the 404 media post went out a day before they intended to (quietly) launch this and they had to rush it out. With the verbiage that was intended for a purposely low-key announcement. Sure, without that 404 post there would be some low-key pitchforks and torches, focused on why the hell don’t make this protection the default… but they weren’t planning to let us know that AUTOMATTIC ALREADY HAS A DEAL WITH OPENAI TO SELL YOUR DATA BY DEFAULT, just that “hey we are giving you this new setting to discourage any AI company to use your data for training… wouldn’t that be crazy if it happened, uh? hehe”.

#tumblr #ai

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Listened to a recorded work meeting and drew some plants in my living room window

#kefalion’s art #digital art #still life #potted plants

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You know who absolutely would have seen Obi-Wan’s wanted poster from Daiyu?

Hondo Ohnaka

#hondo ohnaka #obi wan kenobi #star wars #stat Wars meta #this amused me a whole lot

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#kefalion’s art #watercolour #bohuslän #Swedish west coast #sea

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#kefalion’s art #watercolour #flowers #abstract

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Bro was burned to a crisp.

#Star Wars #funny Star Wars #yeah #anakin skywalker

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#kefalion’s art #watercolour #cat #cat portrait #still life

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#kefalion’s art #watercolour #waterscape #Klädesholmen #Swedish west coast #bohuslän