Well..that was special

meeedeee:

So for a full 17 minutes, my Tumblr was terminated without any notice.  As in…I hit post and my blog was terminated immediately.   I had posted asking for feedback on web-hosts that would host adult blogs and had asked about one specific site (Name Redacted)* which I have now learned is a  web-host that is not allowed on Tumblr. So I have my feedback about Name Redacted…just not quite the way I expected.

The good news is that Tumblr restored my blog quickly (thank you Staff for the swift response). But  I stand by my previous comment: 

“Even if you do not have any NSFW images/content, import or backup now now. Tumblr is flagging everything from rocks to carrots and once Dec 17 hits, you may not be able to download a backup or import the full blog into WordPress if items are flagged/made private. Or Tumblr may roll over on the morning of Dec 17  like a drunken sailor and crush your blog into pieces even if you’ve only posted a few Sesame Street photos (yes they flagged Big Bird too).

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*I had also included a partial link to the site in the following format because I had been warned that Tumblr is cracking down on external links. I can tell you that this will not offer you protection folks.: ex:  fakelinkfakelink(.)com will not save you.

Support wrote: “In the future please refrain from posting links or content from sites that violate our policies on Spam & Deceptive links (like Name Redacted) or your account will be automatically terminated again.”

Another important note: I partially listed the URL of an adult web-host in my post for the sole purpose of asking for input about the web-host. The web-host appears on many “Top 10 Adult Web-hosts”. Bottom line: there are no “safe” ways of communicating on corporate owned platforms. Look at what is happening on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram. Even your private communications on these platforms can be censored (and yes this time I am using the word censor).

iihateurls:

portablemiah:

this is the only thing i care about. after the sun has collapsed and the universe has retracted into a singularity i hope this video continues to exist somewhere in paradox space.

i do not think this guy needs that coffee

madmaudlingoes:

Headcanon: much like Sherlock Holmes, Jonathan Sims has some large and unexpected blind spots in his world knowledge. Like, anything supernatural or paranormal or magical, if he doesn’t already know about it he probably knows where to start looking it up. Also all kinds of historical stuff that goes along with hauntings, medieval alchemy, both Jewish kabbalah and Christian appropriations thereof, etc.

But he didn’t even know about the Brexit referendum until like a week beforehand, when one of the assistants said something about it.

And Jon said, “I don’t even know who that is.”

Dead silence. Sasha and Martin are staring at him like he’s lost his mind. Tim has valiantly avoided a spit-take but he’s now choking on all the coffee he inhaled. Dimly, Jon realizes that he may have misspoken.

(For the general election in 2017 Martin made Jon a one-page briefing sheet and applied on his behalf for a postal ballot, just in case.)

truly, my biggest tumblr regret is making my reference tag ‘reference’ fully typed out instead of ‘ref’

…it’s a small thing but remembering to ONLY do the longer format is a PAIN once you’ve been forced to do it literally hundreds of times

Quick tip for those who post art in Twitter:

penguin-official:

penguin-official:

penguin-official:

You can force Twitter to post the “raw” quality of your pics by adding one (1) pixel of transparency in the image.

Twitter uses some algorithm to compress images into .jpg, but it cannot do that if there’s transparency involved in the image, forcing it to be .png in its full quality.
Literally one singular pixel ANYWHERE counts for this, it can be on a corner if you don’t want it to be bothersome.

Figured some folks might be interested in this, considering Tumblr no longer supports the _raw trick.

For the sake of example instead of hearsay, I’ve posted a comparison in my Twitter here, but will also explain here. All images are 2000x2000px versions of my logo you can see on the top left of this post:

Here’s the original image without a background, in its original form.
Notice the .png on the filename title.

Here’s the image with a white background.
You can see Twitter turned it into a .jpg and youcan see compression artifacts surrounding it.

Here’s the image with a white background, but one pixel edged off.
Notice the .png back on the filename and the retaining of quality from the first picture compared to the compression from the second.

All it took was a simple thing:

Nothing else, nothing more. It retains the original quality as you posted it, isn’t very bothersome and can be easily filled up if someone finds it.

Since Tumblr removed the _raw image trick from availability, this is a good way to share high quality, high resolution pictures again with the world.

Cheers!

Once more but with feeling of exodus