Day: August 29, 2017

clatterbane:

Well, after reinstalling? It’s looking like the changes may indeed just have been from the 9.1.0.01 update, when auto update was turned off.

It’s showing the font and photo buttons at the bottom of the editor window, blocks of text are behaving strangely compared to before, and there is no obvious way to do formatting. Can’t find an option to switch to the HTML editor anymore, worst case.

No clue why I woke up to this garbage, but hey. May end up sideloading the previous version anyway, if I can’t figure out how to make it do very basic formatting pretty soon. Doing it manually in the HTML editor is a pain, but at least it kinda-sorta works.

It may keep looking like ridiculous level overreaction with this stuff. And I am well aware of this.

But, besides just not doing great with unexpected changes in general? This is one of my main opportunities for relatively low pressure social interaction these days. Sad as it is to admit. And they keep abruptly making things harder.

Well, after reinstalling? It’s looking like the changes may indeed just have been from the 9.1.0.01 update, when auto update was turned off.

It’s showing the font and photo buttons at the bottom of the editor window, blocks of text are behaving strangely compared to before, and there is no obvious way to do formatting. Can’t find an option to switch to the HTML editor anymore, worst case.

No clue why I woke up to this garbage, but hey. May end up sideloading the previous version anyway, if I can’t figure out how to make it do very basic formatting pretty soon. Doing it manually in the HTML editor is a pain, but at least it kinda-sorta works.

OK, time to regroup and get some nutrition and hydration in. Of course I got distracted messing with that instead for too long.

Also, sorry I wasn’t around to see your messages earlier @soilrockslove . And wouldn’t have been able to respond if I had seen them :/

It hasn’t been the best few days, but at least I think I figured out what the main trigger there was. Hopefully things will pick up some, and I can be less of a flake

I did find a workaround, and reinstalled from another Google account. (Like I said, not the best brain day so far.)

Shouldn’t have been necessary, but the app is at least as usable as ever on this phone again.

Wow, that really helped me! 😳

I followed Play Store instructions to turn beta off at the bottom of the app page, then uninstall it to reinstall the production version. 

So, come back to reinstall? Beta is still the only option visible, and it’s now saying that’s full. With no install button. So no way to reinstall the production version without sideloading from elsewhere. 

Honestly, if it were just Tumblr developers involved here? I wouldn’t be surprised at much of anything by now. But, this looks like it would pretty much have to be on Google’s end. And I am still not finding any way to turn off beta testing entirely, rather than by the app.

Posting this through Chrome. If I want to use the app, that means the tablet for now. Hopefully I can get the spoons together in a while to complain at the Play Store, but I really was not doing great today before this annoyance cropped up. 

Aha, I see what the problem likely is with the POS app I woke up to today, after very deliberately turning off auto-update again recently. (Which had somehow defaulted back on, after I turned it off before. Unexpected surprises I just do not need.)

That setting is indeed still showing as toggled off, but it looks to have switched me over to beta anyway 😱

No obvious way to opt out for specific apps in the Play Store, so I guess I won’t be beta testing anything through there for now.

ETA: OK, with some searching it seems that you can indeed opt out with individual apps. (As it should be.) It should be made more obvious how to do this from the actual app page. It’s way down at the bottom there, and I am not having the best brain day.

sassygaysatan:

thatdiabolicalfeminist:

sassygaysatan:

sure, when my grandfather fought nazis and fascism he was “a hero” and “on the right side of history” but when i do it im “way too sensitive” and “no better than they are”

That’s because when our white grandparents fought Nazis, it was for fear of them taking power away from other white people.

White Europeans and Americans were explicitly fine with genocide and the ideologies that led to it – a great many people, including Churchill, vocally supported most of what the Nazis were doing. Their only fight with Nazis was to maintain sovereignty from takeover.

Today’s Nazi-fighters usually have a problem with white supremacy and the antisemitism and racism etc behind it – which most of our white grandparents didn’t see a problem with and neither do many white people today.

This is why so many people don’t see any reason to stop the Nazis now, or why many others think it’s purely a struggle for Democrats or other neoliberal parties in other countries who might lose political power if they gain traction. Many people don’t see Nazis as a real problem unless they threaten the political power of other white people.

White supremacist organizations and movements have been a life-threatening scourge for people of colour and Jewish people this entire time. It’s really important that we focus on that as the real threat, or we risk having the same myopic perspective as generations past.

This was a great addition to my original post so I’m reblogging it.

(The latest mobile update has the editor screwed up to the point that I can’t figure out how to format this decently right now.)

Important to consider here: The American eugenics movement after World War II (part 1 of 3)

https://m.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-american-eugenics-movement-after-world-war-ii-part-1-of-3/

“As readers will learn throughout the series, people from all walks of life supported the eugenics movement. It was common public policy at the time, and its tacit or overt acceptance reflected the social mores of that era, as morally reprehensible as that seems now.”

As long as this stuff had a low likelihood of directly impacting them? “Respectable” White Americans were overwhelmingly fine with Those Others getting hurt and wiped out. And a lot of this thinking lingers on, with its socially acceptable public face changing over time.

Belarus court clears way for luxury apartments to be built on top of Jewish cemeteries

ssthenos:

A judge in Belarus cleared the way for the construction of apartments atop two former Jewish cemeteries on Monday, saying the court lacks the jurisdiction to take any action, Radio Svoboda reported.

The Tsentralny District Court allowed the planned construction of the apartments on the former Jewish cemetery in the eastern city of Gomel. The motion also pertained to earthworks already underway in the city of Mozyr at another former Jewish cemetery, as per permits issued in 2015, according to the World Association of Belarusian Jews.

The judge was ruling on a motion seeking an injunction against the construction filed by Yakov Goodman, a Jewish-American activist for the preservation of Jewish heritage sites in his native Belarus. Local authorities last year approved a project for the construction of two luxury apartment buildings on the grounds of a former cemetery on Sozhskaya Street.

Both projects mean that bones of Jews buried in the two cemeteries “will end up in city dumpsters,” Goodman told JTA earlier this week.

….Last year, Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makai and Lesley Weiss, chair of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, signed a joint declaration at the World Jewish Congress headquarters stating “Each party will take appropriate steps to protect and preserve properties that represent the cultural heritage of all national, religious, or ethnic groups that reside or resided in its territory.”

Goodman said the signing only encouraged authorities “to further attacks on Jewish heritage sites.”

Before the document was signed, Goodman’s association accused Belarusian authorities under the country’s authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, of destroying three synagogues – one in Luban and two others in the capital, Minsk – and at least two Jewish cemeteries in addition to Gomel and Mozyr.

This isn’t the entire article, but I’m asking everyone to read and research what’s happening in Belarus right now. The graves of Jews are being dug up, our bodies tossed in dumpsters, all for an apartment complex. 

I recognize that there might not be anything we can do, but the information needs to be out there. Jewish Cemeteries are desecrated every day across the globe, but this is a different kind of evil.

Belarus court clears way for luxury apartments to be built on top of Jewish cemeteries