"if tumblr dies you can find me on bluesky" "if tumblr dies you can find me on Instagram" if tumblr dies you cannot find me. It's over. I'm free.

Claudeline in different decades!

My friends teenage pitbutt pitbulled directly into the couch at 90mph

tumblr i have been here for almost a decade

Took you long enough to figure it out idiot

[comes out of my mutuals blog breathless and blood stained] didnt even fidn the . fucking post

y'all know that whole left-brained/right-brained thing is fake right? and the "brain fully develops at age 25" thing? and the "we only use 10% of our brains" thing? yeah they're all complete horseshit please yell at anyone who says them

okay people are doing nuance in the notes about the kernels of truth in neuroscience myths but I really really need you to understand that that is not important here. people don't believe there are "right-brained" and "left-brained" people because they've misunderstood lateralisation of the central nervous system, they believe it because that binary framework was deliberately pushed by people who wanted to define who was logical enough to lead, and surprise surprise, white adult heterosexual men are left-brained. people don't believe the brain "finishes developing at 25" because they've misunderstood life stage differences in neuroplasticity, they believe it because the idea that children, teens, and young adults have inferior brains is a convenient rationalisation for a society that marginalises them. people don't believe you "only use 10% of your brain" because they misread an fMRI study, they believe it because it's useful bullshit for everyone from hyperindividualist historical revisionists pushing the great genius concept of scientific progress to hucksters recruiting for cults that will teach you to unlock your latent telekinesis for just $5000 a month. that's why it's fucking important to know that many popular science ideas are false and to push back on them loudly and frequently, because they're not just mildly incorrect, they are often active components of systems of violence.

trans activists aren't anti-women trans is hope and trans is liberation.

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F2U with credit :}

everything. cost money

stop this

happy birthday gerard way thank you for inventing transgenderism

The Trans Agenda is to Keep My F*cking Friends Alive — sol rios

published as part of the Citizen Trans* {Project} by New Words Press

Today, I survived death once again…

I had only gone out to bring some food for my family, when a missile struck near a charity kitchen. In just a second, I could have been another name on the list of martyrs.We live in tents. No safety, no enough food, no clean water. We die on the way to find a meal… and we die if we go without it.

Speak about us. Don’t forget us.

Every post, every word, every donation—might be the reason one of us stays alive a little longer.

unfortunately this comment a TERF made on one of my posts is genuinely hysterical

Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

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.

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

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.

ok, yes, I am, but let me clear things a bit, because some people may read too much in what I'm saying just because I used to be staff.

No one has told me "tumblr is going to close n X days" or anything like that. For what I know, current staff doesn't even have any idea of what's next (or at least they didn't last week).

But. Anyone who has followed me here for a while may tell you that I've been chanting "the end is neeeear! Repeeent!" for at least three years. But in every single post, every single time, I always tried to be super clear about how I didn't think tumblr was in immediate danger, that I thought Tumblr wasn't sustainable in the long run, but that there always were several steps that need to be taken before tumblr was at real risk of closing.

Well. Now all those steps all have been taken. Last week's automattic layoffs have left tumblr absolutely guttered. Not only the number of people working on this site is ridiculously low, but also... who. Every single engineer who was specialized on tumblr (people who have been here from the Yahoo/Verizon times or folks who joined more recently but Tumblr is the only division of automattic they have worked at) has been laid off. Every. Single. Person.

The engineers still on staff are awesome, they are very good. They are also the ones that have previous experience in other automattic products, so they could be re-assigned tomorrow and hit the floor running in any other division.

Also the number. You couldn't field an entire football (real foot-ball, not hand-egg) team with the engineers left on staff. It's hard to explain how absurdly low that number is if you don't work in the industry, but imagine a university where there used to be 90-100 professors than suddenly got downsized to 1/10th of that.

This is not sustainable, tumblr can't be run with so little people in the long term. It's not "they can't improve the site", it's "things are going to fail and there won't be anyone there to fix them". Hell, if want to keep a micro-team of people keeping this site running, you don't layoff someone like Cyle, who literally knows more about how this thing work than anyone alive or death.

So what's going to happen in the future is either: close tumblr ( either entirely or force-integrating it on WordPress.com) or sell tumblr. The later may look good, but I doubt any of the realistic options for potential buyers would let the site in a good state.

So no, I don't think there's a sustainable future for a site with barely any staff to keep it running. There may not even be a sustainable mid-term.