#tumblr bullshittery

[glenthemes]

🔗 ；⸺ at.tumblr.com links remover

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📢 As of 2023/03/24, Tumblr are no longer enforcing at.tumblr.com links when you copy a link from the mobile/app. [Read More]

When a post link is copied via mobile, it can appear as the following variants:

𝟙 〜 at.tumblr.com / {𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎} / {𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗_𝚝𝚎𝚡𝚝} / {𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐_𝚒𝚍} 𝟚 〜 at.tumblr.com / {𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎} / {𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝_𝚒𝚍} / {𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐_𝚒𝚍} 𝟛 〜 tumblr.com / {𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎} / post / {𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝_𝚒𝚍}

I made a tool that converts them back to their original permalinks so when they’re shared on social media, the previews should show again.

👉🏼 at-tumblr-links.glitch.me

You can bookmark this on your phone or your desktop browser so you can quickly access it when you need it!

Currently, it’s not known which at.tumblr.com link format will proc under what circumstances. If it has a 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝_𝚒𝚍 in it, that’s good news. If it doesn’t, we need to ask a URL un-shortener service to follow the redirects for us. But this tool should accommodate any format regardless. It’s not perfect, but I hope it helps.

Read more about at.tumblr.com tracking links [here].

If you run into any issues, you can report them to me via Discord or Tumblr ask.

#tumblr #at.tumblr.com #tracking links #tumblr links #tumblr bullshittery #utility #resources #please don't crash please don't crash please don't cr-

[hisuianhellion]

Really Tumblr? Really?

Fucking really, Tumblr?

Manual opt-out? Manual goddamn opt-out for AI learning?

On every single blog, side-blogs included? Meaning you have to go into blog settings for all of them individually to turn this off? Manually? Because it's opt-out? Not opt-in?

Great. Cool. Super.

#tumblr bullshittery #outofroses #I'm not putting this in ooc quotes 'cause honestly if this breaks containment that's good #roommate told me about this and I'm just #... tired

[dracoangel]

It's weird. My pics from the Halsin romance aren't coming up on my dash. They come up on my personal dash (the one that shows only my stuff). I went and looked to see if it was flagged (but I wouldn't think it would be, I made sure to leave out all the explicit pics I took 🤣). Wasn't flagged. I don't get it

#tumblr bullshittery

[umarthiels]

what the fuck why are posts blank now

#not fandom #uh #tumblr bullshittery

[senkoblogs]

I've blocked this whole shitlist of bots just this week alone, wtf is going on @staff

#Tumblr bullshittery #Staff #Pronbots #The great bot deluge of december 2022

[astraltrickster]

Since the wave of mass site migrations there is one REALLY worrisome trend I've been noticing: the number of radfem posts I've been seeing ending up on my dash, reblogged unknowingly by people who think they're just base-level feminist statements, has all but gone back to c.2014 levels. Everything seems good on a surface level, but I spot one dogwhistle, or something strikes me as being a little too absolutist, and I check into that...and sure enough, the road leads back to terf city.

So here's a quick PSA:

Please be careful with your Feminism 101 sources.

See, terfs and their close relatives KNOW we don't like them here, so they don't tend to lead with their well-known hatred of trans women. On top of that, there is a problem with a subset of radfems on this site who purport to be trans-inclusive - i.e., they openly support trans women...but DESPISE trans men (often more than they hate cis men, because of the whole "joining the enemy"/"gender traitor" myth pushed by terfs) or any nonbinary person who aligns partially with manhood or masculinity, especially if they're AMAB (they often think they can "save" - i.e., conversion-therapy - the AFAB ones).

Therefore, on a single-post level, it is very, VERY hard to tell the difference between a basic feminist statement that, yeah, patriarchy exists and that means there are lots of awful double-standards around gender where women broadly get the shorter end of the stick and these standards AFFECT every individual in a society and that's something we should work to change, and a statement that these things are absolute and inevitable, either because Biology or because those double-standards are too deeply ingrained to EVER overcome without giving up and starting over from scratch (whichever is convenient), and the only solution is hardline female wombyn-born-wombyn separatism or at LEAST excluding trans people from public life for, at best, making it too hard to tell who's ~safe~. In fact, sometimes on that single-post basis, they could potentially even be identical - though less frequently than many people thought in the heyday of "OP was a terf so I stole this post but anyway all men are walking rape threats and need to accept that any reasonable person will always hate and fear them on sight".

So what can you, random newbie, do to avoid unwittingly passing one of these messages on without turning into some kind of horrible "feminism is cancer" chud?

Well, one of the easiest ways is the Shinigami Eyes browser extension, but I personally don't like to rely on it because 1) you can't use it on every platform (sorry mobile app likers), 2) in my experience it's somewhat common for "trans-inclusive" radfems to be flagged as safe because someone saw their positivity for trans women but not their hatred for trans men, and 3) I just don't like to promote the use of browser extensions as a substitute for learning what radfem rhetoric is and why it is, in fact, anything but feminist; it is very beneficial to terfs if the ONLY thing you know of their rhetoric is "they hate trans women".

The hard but better way is to actually familiarize yourself with what to look out for. Here is an inexhaustive list:

Category 0: Tags to add to your blacklist

Your blacklist filters out posts with the blacklisted tags in the reblog you're seeing, OR in the root post. Therefore, if a radfem post that looks like it's just base-level feminism does breach containment somehow and end up on your dash through someone else, it will still get caught if it's tagged with any of these:

Terfsafe

Radblr

Radfem

Terfs/radfems do interact/do touch/please interact/please touch, etc

Category 1: Terf-ese and dogwhistles

Some of these, especially those near the top of the list, are immediate telltale signs. Others are less certain, but they should at least raise some eyebrows.

"Gender critical" - literally a synonym for terf just used to make the ideology sound more legitimate; they often claim that terf is a slur

"TIM/TIF" - "Trans-identified male/female", a way to delegitimize trans identities

"Febfem" - female-exclusive bisexual woman; a bisexual woman who rejects her attraction to men; essentially a modern term for "political lesbian" (a group which claimed that lesbianism is not a sexual orientation that some people just Have, but a political choice to reject men)

"Butch flight" - the claim that trans men are butch lesbians transitioning to escape lesbophobia and gain male privilege

"Adult human female" - this very simplified dictionary definition of "woman" is something of a rallying cry

"Let girls be tomboys/butch" - some people say this in response to old repressive gender roles in things like dress codes, or even people holding trans women to a higher standard of femininity than cis women, but if that is not explicitly the context it's very likely that this means "stop the evil plastic surgery racket from force-transing every little girl who even looks at a truck, which they're TOTALLY doing"

The inverse, while less common (terfs tend to be very open about not wanting men to be feminine in any way because of "deception" and "false security"), is also one to look out for - sometimes it's a statement against binarism and gender essentialism, sometimes it's basically an assertion of the Blanchard "feminine homosexual man vs. autogynephilic man" model of what a trans woman is

"Compulsory heterosexuality/comphet" - an aspect of heteronormativity whereby it's common, especially for younger people, to try to force themselves to experience heterosexual attraction when they don't. Useful as it may seem, the term was coined by radfems. Most people who are not terfs or other radfems who want to discuss it will discuss it under the umbrellas of heteronormativity and amatonormativity

Hogwarts houses - this is a sneaky one; far from everyone who read those books or even enjoyed them is a terf, but since JKR's full-tilt descent into fascism via the gateway of transphobia, terfs HAVE been using this as a way to seek out their own and mark themselves as safe; let this also serve as a reminder that if you are NOT a terf PLEASE REMOVE THIS FROM YOUR BIO; it WILL both draw them to you AND cause you to be immediately distrusted by anyone else, saying "I DO NOT CONDONE THE VIEWS OF JKR" will not help because terfs can and do lie about that too in communities where they have to stay crypto, at best you're granting them plausible deniability

Referring to men and women as "males" and "females"

Usernames referencing "female" reproductive anatomy - may be a good sign if they're attached to trans-positive modifiers like "boy" or "they", but a username like "divine-vagina" or "ovariesofpower" (note these are theoretical usernames, not ones I've encountered in the wild; if someone does have one of those usernames and isn't a radfem I'm deeply sorry) is probably a terf

Hatred of makeup and plastic surgery - look, no one likes the beauty industry, no one is going to dispute that beauty standards are a nightmare, but this is frequently a smokescreen for hating gender confirmation or anything that helps with the "deception" inherent to transness; be ESPECIALLY wary of anyone talking about "TikTok plastic surgeons trying to sell their services to impressionable teenage girls", this usually translates to "gender confirmation surgeons telling young transmascs that there are options for them", and remember that you either believe in bodily autonomy or you don't, there is no third option

Category 2: Ideological concepts to look out for

This is some of the beginnings of crossing the line from feminism to radfem bullshit - if the rest of the post seems cool but starts heading in these directions, don't assume it's hyperbole; get it as far away from you as possible.

Patriarchy, men-oppressing-women, is THE root system of injustice from which all others spawn. Some will acknowledge that other factors may intersect, but will still claim that they are lesser. Bringing up the long history of white women getting men of color, especially Black men, killed via weaponized fragility and false claims of sexual violence, is just a series of flukes and pointing it out to refute this notion that men vs. women outranks all other inequalities is just whataboutism.

Because patriarchy is so far-reaching, it affects every individual, and because it trumps all other axes of oppression, this means that in every interaction between any man and any woman, the man will be the one with more power.

Men, due to socialization, biology, or both, are categorically incapable of recognizing women as full people. This is not only a broad pattern, but an inevitable fact, true of every individual man, no matter how hard anyone tries to change it.

There is a singular Universal Female Experience. According to terfs, this is an external force; trans women don't have this socialization experience, therefore they can never truly know what it's like to be a woman. According to tirfs, it is internal; trans men process their experiences internally as men from birth to death and therefore have no claim to truly understand any experience of misogyny directed at them.

The experience of being a woman is, first and foremost, suffering. It is therefore to be expected that a certain subset of people would transition to try to escape it - but it's the wrong answer, and this practice of either self-destruction or betrayal must be stopped at all costs. Anyone who wants in on the miserable experience that is womanhood, on the other hand, is at best insensitively looking at a burning building and going "wow, that looks so warm!", blissfully but cruelly unaware of the misery of the situation, and at worst is lying to satisfy a fetish.

Women are categorically incapable of abusing men, because patriarchy outranks all, down to the individual level. Some may also say that this is true because of biological differences in physical strength. (Very feminist, isn't it, to say "the strongest woman is still weaker than the weakest man and nothing can ever change that"?)

There is, fundamentally, no difference between a person with some subconscious misogyny problems and an incel mass shooter; both will abuse women, and therefore both must be treated as threats.

Because the power differential between men and women is so great, a woman cannot TRULY meaningfully consent to sex with a man; all sex between a man and a woman is rape.

Because rape is such a common trauma among women, the very existence of men - or penises, for that matter, even fully clothed ones - in a space where a woman doesn't expect them is traumatic and itself tantamount to rape.

Lesbians don't just have their own unique flavor of oppression experience like any other queer subgroup; they are in fact THE most uniquely oppressed and vulnerable of all, because being a lesbian is first and foremost not about attraction to women, but rejection of men (recall the ties to political lesbianism). Some radfems will embrace contradictory labels or slightly varied personal definitions for other queer subgroups - but if you're anything but a Kinsey 6 who would never even consider making an exception, and 100% a binary woman, you CAN'T identify as a lesbian. You cannot identify as a lesbian if you wouldn't dump your partner or try to conversion-therapy "her" if "she" came out as transmasc. To a tirf, you cannot identify as a lesbian if you're on the butch-transmasc cusp, if they're willing to admit such a cusp exists in the first place. To terfs, you cannot identify as a lesbian if you would ever date a trans woman, let alone if you ever have.

Again, this is far from being an exhaustive list, but it covers most of the most common things that set off my own alarm bells. Additions are more than welcome.

Remember, the danger of letting radfem posts slide because they seem okay on the surface is twofold: one, you're directing more people to their blogs and exposing them to more people they may then target, and two, when those concepts that cross the line bleed out into your gender theory, the result is bad for you and everyone around you.

#internet culture #internet safety #serious tag #internet bullshittery warning #tumblr culture

[venfaaniik]

kraa

#my art #bird #corvid #raven #artists on tumblr #this one actually made it into a mug #the last batch of birds l made for a while #nOW if there was a site for artists to sell their designs that would be great (a site that didn't implement bullshittery)

[lilcatastrophe]

i don’t usually post this kinda stuff here but i made this silly lil guy [feat. cat with beans] today and i just think everyone should look at him, cuz well,

#the guy ever #silly lil guy [feat. cat with beans] #yes that is his full legal name #artists on tumblr #traditional art #clay #modeling clay #clay model #sculpture #i promise i’ll post an actual drawing soon #it’s been so long #i’m just committing bullshittery at this point #doodles #? #him

[excessivepyromania]

Did you ask for more of my writing? No. But it’s on your page now so here’s some quotes from my for-fun writing about the tf2 mercs

Kind of wholesome quote bonus :)

#some of them don’t have names after but I’m sure you can fill in the blanks #A lot of my writing includes personal headcanons #I never planned on sharing it but I like some of the quotes #things that I haven’t shared are just what Pyro is like in my au #that’s why they’re not in as many of the quotes #I’m not ready to share my whole ass deep pyro lore with the world and I don’t think the world is ready either #whole world what am I talking about this is fucking tumblr and like 5 ppl gon see this #oh right I should probably stop talking in the tags and actually tag this #tf2 found family my beloved #tf2 #tf2 fanfiction #writing #tf2 mercs #tf2 bullshittery #not to mention the fact that I wrote a whole ass backstory for Pyro

[glenthemes]

🎧 NPF audio player ⋆

On Tumblr's process of changing everything to NPF, staff has added metadata (details) to NPF audio inserts to reflect what was originally entered when it was posted. Unfortunately, they're unstyled for now, so I wrote a plugin that mimics the appearance of Tumblr's legacy audio player.

☆ Features:

functional play/pause buttons with customizable sizes and colors

[optional] preceding labels, e.g. "Track:" / "Artist:" / "Album"

[optional] placeholder text for empty fields, e.g. "Untitled Track"

shows album cover image if its comes with one, with customizable dimensions

customizable player padding and background color

☆ How to install:

https://gitlab.com/tmblr-npf-audio/s#preview

#tumblr bullshittery #npf #tumblr update #audio #resources #utility #my addons #also I have gotten the forced NPF editor now. this post was unfortunately made with NPF

[laurzzz]

Waddles into the scene

Hey........ °v-

I've read through every comment and reblog (and DMs!) just now with regards to my recent art post from last night (on my end). I know I promised that the next post will be much lighter but I'm gonna have to break that with this text post to say that I'm grateful. I'm grateful enough to have cried within seconds of reading the first reblog.

Even though the post not reaching as many people kinda proves the point I had in the long written vent (more time/effort, less traction) I am still very grateful to those who pitched in and gave their 2 cents. I appreciate all of you.

I'm sending huge hugs out there to the ones who are also going through the same things and thoughts. Shit sucks. But hey, when more right times come along, we'll enjoy each moment. Alright?

Ps. I just realized that the timing of my vent post being followed by my commission post makes it seem like I'm upset about not getting commissioned LMFAO THAT'S NOT THE CASE. The queue hath simply betrayed thy self. Don't commission me if you can't afford it 👍

#talks talks talks #long post #cw vent #just in case #i had 2 rbau comic ideas yesterday and im working on the 2nd one atm #i decided to not delete that long vent #it makes my online persona seem more human at the very least #am not used to being vulnerable in public online but im relieved that there are people who assured me #that its okay #its all okay #alr now im going to end this post with self-mocking bullshittery by going #'bro levi has like near 40k YT subscribers with near 4k followers on Tumblr and cant even get no. of interactions past that lmaooo L' #'L bozo git gud' #/silly #thats enough srs talk for me i want to brainrot on fictional characters again lol #kiths u all /p

[dracoangel]

Videos on Tumblr

Is anyone else having a problem uploading videos on Tumblr? I used to use a .webm formatted video for promoting my streaming, but a few weeks back Tumblr stopped letting upload them. Did something change that I’m just unaware of?

#tumblr #tumblr bullshittery

[caninecrypt]

hey! fun fact! i have a neocities page now! you should check it out. all my comm and personal info stuff will be kept up to date there ;3c

#little update bc i am trying to move away from using carrd #i love the site but i much prefer neocities for the bullshittery it lets me do #artists on tumblr

[lovedaysims]

♥ gage golightly | golightly legacy founder ♥

All of Gage's hairstyles are by @simstrouble!

1.) corset top by @clumsyalienn | skirt by hagsims 2.) dress by @anessasims 3.) sweater & jeans by @clumsyalienn 4.) turtleneck by @belaloallure3 | skirt by @huiernxoxo 5.) skirt by @huiernxoxo 6.) off-shoulder top by @clumsyalienn | trousers by @solistair

**any tips to not make images look like ass on tumblr mobile would be appreciated!

#l:golightly #s:gagegolightly #ts4 cas #ts4 lookbook #dipping my toes into lookbooks because i love them! #the cropping is not great because i was testing both tumblr's bullshittery and a new art program's bullshittery #i miss my photoshop SO MUCH

[astraltrickster]

Oh boy. Wanna guess what tumblr crowdfunding scammers are up to now?

I just got an ask from a user who claimed to be from Palestine, trying to pay for insulin for her diabetic mother while sheltering from the bombs.

Of course, when I went to the blog to vet it (remember, you should be suspicious ANY time a stranger messages you to share their crowdfunding post), every single red flag for a crowdfunding scam was there - most tellingly, as usual, the blog was nothing but a few high note count reblogs, presumably from the trending page, reblogged over the past day. As a subtler detail, the user's alleged worldview based on those reblogs was also...surprisingly US-centric for someone in Palestine, much like what should have tipped people off about hivliving sooner, though that may have been a coincidence from carelessly reblogging randomly from the trending page, as some of the other scam blogs I've seen and reported have reblogged hardcore leftist posts AND pro-Tr*mp posts back-to-back...

So, after seeing that, in knowing that a lot of people on tumblr are very inclined to try to help in disasters on an individual level, I felt the need to use it as a safety reminder.

Remember: there are assholes in the world who are NOT above using real-world disasters to try to grift you. Please remember to be skeptical of ANYONE who "cold-calls" you for help with a crowdfunding campaign. Check how old their blog is. Look deeper than just "does it have posts and a bio?" to figure out if this is a real person. If they have no other original posts, not even an "about me" or anything, and all their reblogs are a day or two old, IT IS A SCAM. Do not do anything they ask. Just report them.

#internet bullshittery warning #internet safety #i am very very tempted to try making a tumblr scam checker bot #a webpage and/or browser extension that looks at the contents of a blog and tells you if the behavior on the blog #is more likely to be a legit user vs. a scammer #because some scammers are more convincing than others! #i don't know how I could come up with a way to flag the REALLY elaborate grifters like hivliving #but i know that i could at least make a bot that goes to the end of someone's archive #and if it sees no other original posts #and a ton of reblogs that all likely came from the trending page #while the blog is less than a week or so old #it could certainly throw out a little “PROBABLE SCAM” warning

[doomed-jester]

Give it a week until Tumblr staff announces that they're rebranding to Q Social

#twitter apocalypse #Twitter #elon musk #tumblr staff #staff #text post #shitpost #meme #memes #bullshittery