andy’s mom doing his soldiers dirty after he leaves for college
This is so fucking funny like you see this cool, tacky golden weave bowl & look closer to see that it’s a mass of writhing bodies of fallen soilders twisted into another in agony like something out of full metal alchemist
Item: fruit bowl made of the writhing bodies of fallen soldiers twisted into one another in agony and spray-painted gold
Tumblr is banning NSFW content, and as we’re already seeing, the automated filtering is terrible – extremely quick to mark false positives as containing ‘sensitive content’. (Because, you know, if you just delete everything, you’ll definitely get the porn!)
It’s likely that a lot of posts, nsfw and not, are going to be deleted in a couple of weeks, and it’s not at all clear how easy it will be to appeal these deletions. So if you want to preserve your Tumblr, back it up like, right now…
I’ve been working on my own script to do the specific things I want, but it’s too fiddly to really offer it for most people to use. Instead, here are a few options I’ve found:
This gives you a zip file with all of your Tumblr posts and IMs in it. Takes some time to process though – mine is still processing. Processing that zip file is all on you. I believe there’s a way to import it to a WordPress blog though.
Seems to have a GUI and a lot of good features re: download throttling, filtering, how it handles the downloaded posts, parallelisation etc. Unfortunately, Windows only.
Decently featured Python script with a bunch of command line flags. Seems to be designed to save them as static HTML with default CSS that you can edit, so I guess it’s relatively easy to republish if you don’t need them in a specific format.
Feel free to add more if you know of them. (But check the notes first in case someone’s already mentioned it.)
FYI for the middle one listed:
For downloading liked photos and videos, you’ll have to do some steps:
Go to Settings, click on the Connection tab and fill in your tumblr
email address (login) and password, then click the Authenticate button.
If the login was successfully, the label will change and display your
email address. The email address and password are not stored locally on
disk but cookies are generated and saved in %LOCALAPPDATA%TumblThree in json format.
For downloading photos and videos from the tumblr tag search, you’ll have to do some steps:
Go to Settings, click on the Connection tab and fill in your tumblr
email address (login) and password, then click the Authenticate button.
If the login was successfully, the label will change and display your
email address. The email address and password are not stored locally on
disk but cookies are generated and saved in %LOCALAPPDATA%TumblThree in json format.
Everyone loves to shit on this site but the truth is no major social media platform fosters a sense of community quite like tumblr nor does it generate such valuable conversations (amidst a lot of bullshit granted but there’s no escaping that anywhere on the internet)…….like the kinds of genuine love n connection that are created via tumblr are absolutely unique to the platform and I don’t know why or what it is and I sure as hell don’t attribute the quality to anything the staff has ever done but it doesn’t matter, there is something special about it here, an accident maybe but over its 11 years of existence it’s consistently bridged a gap between traditional text-based blogging and more recently popular photo-centric social networking that allows for more humanity & innovation than I’ve found anywhere else, and I’ll be the first to say I’m only leaving when they drag me out by my ankles and u bet your bottom dollar I’ll be kicking and screaming.
Real talk, though, because it needs to be said: as much as we all joke that porn was the only good thing this place had left, the reality is that it being the only place where one could regularly engage with and promote sexual content being gone is really not understanding at all what makes this place special. I mean we all joke about “horny on main” and all that, but the reality is that for a lot of the LGTBQ+ community, particularly younger members still discovering themselves and members in extremely homophobic environments where most media sites were banned (but Tumblr wasn’t even considered important enough to be), this was a bastion of information and self-expression. For a lot of artists too, this was a great place to come and post NSFW work and get traction that became Patreon pages that became honest jobs.
The problem with “family friendly” social media is that more often than not, the ones hit the most by the whole family friendly nonsense are marginalized groups that have no vehicles to express themselves. Stuff like YouTube consistently bans or flags simple content featuring something as innocuous as two men kissing as “adult” content and makes it hard for LGBTQ+ content creators to compete with their non-queer peers for a lot of those reasons.
The ultimate problem isn’t even that banning of NSFW content, it’s the general mess surrounding it and unintended consequences to these groups. For MONTHS Tumblr has had a huge problem with porn spam bots and outright child pornography, and for MONTHS the majority of the userbase has been in general consensus that both of these things needed to stop. Tumblr did NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. When Apple finally removed their app from the store, SPECIFICALLY because of the child pornography, Tumblr decided to do what any rich corporation owning a social media site with zero understanding of what makes it popular would do, and decided that the best course of action was to eat itself like an Ouroboros. Rather than admit that they have done an absolutely shit job at keeping pedophiles off this website and rather than hiring the necessary staff to carefully moderate content, they decided to loose a poorly programmed bot that literally deleted perfectly SFW blogs with thousands of followers, and rather than properly handling moderation, they decided that it was best to simply go the lazy route and block anything even remotely NSFW.
They run this site in the worst way possible, and I don’t understand how @support or @staff or their completely oblivious “CEO” plans to keep this sinking ship alive.
Y’know Lamb’s Quarter? A common weed throughout the continental US, tolerant of a wide variety of soil conditions including the nutrient-poor and compacted soils common in cities, to the point where it thrives in empty lots?
These plants are close relatives, and produce extremely similar seeds. Lamb’s quarter could easily be grown across the US, in people’s backyard and community gardens, as a low-cost and local alternative to quinoa with no sketchy geopolitical impacts. You literally don’t have to nurture it at all, it’s a goddamn weed, it’ll be fine. Put it where your lawn was, it’ll probably grow better than the grass did. AND you can eat the leaves – they taste almost exactly like spinach.
This just… drives home, again, that a huge part of the appeal of “superfoods” is the sense of the exotic. For whatever nutritional benefits quinoa does have, the marketing strategy is still driven by an undercurrent of orientalism. You too could eat this food, grown laboriously by farmers in the remote Andes mountains! You too could grow strong on the staple crop that has sustained them for centuries! And, y’know, destroy that stable food system in the process. Or you could eat this near-identical plant you found in your backyard.
What makes this even weirder and more frustrating, to quote my commentary on an older post about growing your own quinoa and amaranth? Growing native North American species instead is really not a new idea. Native people have already domesticated and grown these crops extensively, for thousands of years.
Another good option there, if you’re in North America: a native species very similar to quinoa, which will grow well in a much wider variety of climates, from Mexico to Northern Canada. People still grow it in Mexico, and it has been cultivated from the Eastern Agricultural Complex to the Rockies, and beyond. You grow it like the closely related quinoa, but it will literally grow like a weed in such a wide variety of climates. And doesn’t have the potential to turn into an invasive weed like quinoa could. Because it’s probably already growing in the vicinity. In fact, if you are living in an area where it used to be grown extensively, most of the wild plants of it now are probably actually an old larger-seeded domesticated variety. It was that common a crop in many places.
You can easily do a search for seed sources. There are also a number of native North American amaranth species which have a long history of cultivation and domestication in a lot of regions, so you might also want to check those out instead for similar reasons. There is likely at least one native species that will grow better in your area, without the risk of becoming invasive. While being every bit as good to eat as the types imported from South America.
The low value placed on and resulting poor common knowledge about many, many indigenous North American crops has helped drive the destructive demand for nearly identical “exotic” foods from South America. We don’t have to continue these patterns.
Although lamb’s quarter leaves should be cooked or eaten sparingly raw because they are toxic if consumed in large quantities raw.
Good addition, thanks. A little more info. The concern there is oxalic acid, like with spinach and a number of other greens. Cooking will break it down.
(That link is specifically referring to Chenopodium album and not C. berlandieri, but other species are similar. Including quinoa.)
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