milo

tysm for the tag @balladofareader!! 🤍

wait so um...

npt: @mysummerchild @haeerizm @cowboylikemily @sarastellasari @dxstoeskyvjbess @whoo0sh + whoever wants to join!

tysm for the tags, @sadiesinkobsessedsstuff and @bylerlipglances <333

... yeah lol accurate

npt: @mistyjessart @mace-waz-here @reed-reed @lorax-devito @thebitterbeanjuice @bylerfiles @asneakyobserver @onebillionblorbos @iwanderbecauseimlost @stormy-days-27 @numenoria @thegreatmousebafoon @scumbaganarchy @20riley25 @jawnn-watson @sarkylittlemonster @spocks-got-a-glock @that--elf + anyone else who wants to join! <333

ok.yeah

@jameslongforjimshortforgabriel @but-aint-this-texas @apurplesloth @ketchup-is-green +open tag!!!

uhh this was supposed to be a secret so don't tell anyone guys🫣🫣

@watchers-tea @dumb-chrissy-hoffmann @stupidlanie @therealaxlrose and anyone else

IT CLOCKED ME NOOO

@ifuckedurmomwithmy12inchschlong @saturnplaza @d3l-t4co @itzanotheremo @rip-my-heart-out-and-eat-it @joey-regrets-nothing + anyone else

that's so real tho

NO ITS TRUE

LITERALLY NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY BOARDGAMES WITH ME WHENEVER I ASK

ITS DEVASTATING

@saturnplaza @thankyouforthev3n0m @randomslinky @evilrobertsmith @simp4diobrando @jadest0ne @kcobainfr

no same 😭😭

also clocked me i fear my friend called me out for psycho analyzing garfield the other day so…

@princejustwinced @mycycleangelo @eroswmorals @riverx0x0x @thecharliechip @digiblueslush @mikeywayimdykeygay + open tags

oh!!

@magicalnursekomugi @wannabescemo (hey it’s me doctorbrightside this is my side blog lmao) @crushed-up-syringes @scarecrowwannabe @raythepsychic @kindglitteringeyes and open tags!!

to my family yeah

man who knows he’s done wrong (whimsical)

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 absolutely hate this but I've been trying to actually make art recently and I've been loving collages, a tcfsr inspired one🦇

My Headfirst for Halos cd is one of my prized possessions. I gotta get my friends permission to use her pc to burn an mp3 of it so there’s a good quality version online.

just encountered a corner of pinterest with some of the craziest cocktail recipes ive ever seen. i dont drink so idk how these would taste but the names and graphics alone are really getting to me

Winter has arrived on Poob.

Start your 7 day free trial of Poob today, and watch smash hit Martin Scorcese's Goncharov.

Just saw an interview where Michael Sheen says John Taylor from Duran Duran was his first ever crush

So, I googled John Taylor

and this came out:

Apparently this was his style in the 1993s???

And now that's a very familiar look....

Love some miserable Elon in the morning

and you can always think about some band dude instead of your life!!!!

Crowley and his plants🐍🧡🌿🪴