Tweetthang96| Kyla A.

If uppercase letters are capital letters then what the FUCK are lowercase letters

Literally lower case, fortunately!

BUT WHAT WERE THEY CALLED TO DISTINGUISH THEM FROM CAPITALS PRIOR TO THE CASE

Prior to the case we had "majuscule" (for capitals) and "miniscule" (for lowercase.) Hence you get hands called "Insular Majuscule." Often people wrote in either all majuscule or all miniscule and reserved the big fancy capitals (Versals) for the first letter of the paragraph, or page.

I’m

The youth are lost

Not in a million years would I have ever thought of this

“The Pyramid Guy from the opening credits literally has no significance to the show and never will. He’s just a generic image made to look mythological or spooky like most things in the intro.”

same energy

No, I am not 'hoarding craft supplies.' I am sourcing materials for a very big project that will be revealed to me at a later date- perhaps in a dream.

My guy where are your meds

Some of my old trans pride projects for Transgender Day of Visibility.

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.

In your blog settings you have the ability to initiate a blog export, and this will generate a backup for your blog.

Fair warning though, if you've been on the platform for a long time this archive is likely to be quite hefty in file size. This blog I have had for 5 years with 22k posts, and the export from tumblr came to be 48GB. My previous blog I made in 2011 and has 95k posts, so needless to say I did not use tumblr's built in export to back that one up.

If you want more control over exactly what you back up from your blog, I recommend that you use tumblr-utils instead. It allows you to backup specific tags, post types, and to ignore posts that you did not create (reblogs where you've added a comment count as a post you created, to be clear).

To use it:

now in the window that opens it should show the current path, and you can type "py -2 .\tumblr_backup.py [your options] [your blog name]" and hit enter. Example:

Backing up just my original posts from this blog with this command came to 632MB rather than 48GB, and also gave me the option to save my posts in JSON format which will be useful for converting my posts to a new format for self hosting.

On that note I'm currently looking into figuring out a simple (and ideally free) way of self hosting a static site blog that utilises activitypub, and also converting my old posts to re-host on said blog.

This post series by maho.dev on implementing activitypub with any static site is my primary source of guidance atm if you also want to try figure that out yourself, as well as having an explanation for why you'd even want to do this if you don't already know

but if tumblr goes down before I get things sorted and write up a post about it then i'll be reporting back on it via my bsky, mastodon, and toyhouse accounts

if you dont have an account on any of these I'll also be sharing an update via my personal site's RSS feed, link of which includes an explanation of what RSS is and some feed readers you can use, I highly recommend checking it out as getting a feed reader is going to be the best way you can stay connected with people if they scatter across the internet!

tldr: download tumblr-utils to backup your blog more efficiently, introduce yourself to RSS and get a feed reader to stay connected with people, consider saving mine so you can find out how to self host your blog later if tumblr goes down

i have already personally backed up all of my tumblr posts but this is a good reminder for everyone else

I kind of think of this one as a companion to my 'Fuck the cistem' piece, and also belatedly pretty perfect for Transgender Day of Visibility.

I was not made to be invisible.

(Buck please, find another confidante, Maddie is not qualified for this)

how to find new job without wanting to stab fork in eye

how to find new job without wanting to set things on fire

how to find a new job without your soul being sucked out of you

how to find a new job without calcium starting to leech from your bones

how to find a new job and not descend to hell dimension

okay so I've been playing a bunch of No Man's Sky, a game whose main unique feature is its mind-bogglingly huge universe of procedurally generated planets, most of which have still never been encountered by human players. when you make first contact with an undiscovered planet, it starts out with a random name. just today I've discovered Snesfin, Inkiew, and Roranbu-Anuki. but a minute ago I landed on a planet with, and I must stress this again, the randomly-generated name of:

if anyone wants to visit Idaho, it's in the Eissentam galaxy at these portal coordinates:

this whole "job thing" is rlly starting to get in my way. i need to watch made up people falling in love on tv, and then i need to read more extensively about it online. why is that so hard to understand

thinking about how my old university's automatic email generation gave my friend Andy Ryan the email address ARYAN88

Way, way back in the day, because I am ancient, our university assigned us email addresses you couldn't have changed, which included your first initial, middle initial, part of your surname, and the last five digits of your social security number. They stopped doing that after people kicked up a huge fucking fuss, but...

... I think I'd still rather have that one than your friend's. Damn.

My old job assigned me "cajones" and I had to very, very gently tell them that I could not and would not send professional emails with it because my email would be balls@company.com

I just cackled so loud it scared the dogs.

My mom had a colleague whose name was something like Sara Tan and was given "satan@job.com"

When I was in college, Windows used to leave the username of the last user who logged in in the login form, and a bunch of my friends became obsessed with he username (not the person, just the username) of some poor young woman named (I believe) Sarah M Boomgartner.

The username was "BOOMGASM"

Talking to my parents feels like to talking to children sometimes. "Yeah legally I get time off sure but my boss has it so that nobody can replace me so functionally I don't REALLY get time off." "But then he should be paying you so much more!" YEAH PROBABLY IDK?

"What do you mean there are downsides to relying on the imagined paternal benevolence of your employers rather than a robust system of employee protections" I know! I am stunned about this too

A lot of people were asking for the pitbull version of this post, so here you go

dead dove do not eat in practice