since i made a post about all the shitty people who signed the shitty letter basically advocating for the genocide to continue in gaza, i’ll also make a post to at least acknowledge the good things happening thanks to people of influence.
so there’s another list of celebrities, demanding a ceasefire. it’s also important to remember these names. the names of the privileged people who, despite everything, are still able to act as humans. the good news, on top of that, is that the list keeps growing and growing every day.
remind me when im not busy with everything to post my favorite custom 3ds themes because i saved a million of them the other day & some of them are so insane.i will share one right now just as a taste
meir gal, nine out of four hundred: the west and the rest (1997)
the artist holds up the official textbook of jewish history used in israeli schools, by the only 9 pages which refer to jewish history from asia and africa. “these books helped establish a consciousness that the history of the jewish people took place in eastern europe and that mizrahim have no history worthy of remembering.” read his statement here.
To be clear, unless staff trips over the trail of extension cords keeping the servers running, Tumblr likely isn’t going anywhere any time soon.
What the info we’ve seen suggests is that updates are going to slow down, maintenance is maybe going to get a little shaky, and we’re going to see more glitches as time goes on and the remaining staff gets further behind their workload.
Is this a good thing? No, absolutely not.
Should you be panicking, jumping overboard, running for the hills, etc? Also no.
So what does it mean?
Well, for myself and several other creatives you all saw tagged in that post, it means we’re looking around trying to figure out what to do in the long run. We’re not running for the lifeboats. We’re just eyeing the iceberg in the distance and getting our shit together in the event that the worst comes to pass.
Speaking for myself, I intend to crawl through the walls of Tumblr until they pry me out of the air vents armed with a broom and oven mitts. I’m not going anywhere until the lights go out, and even then, I’ll be chewing on the wires.
But that doesn’t mean I’m not looking around for somewhere to land when the time comes.
Myself and several others are not panicking about this, but we are trying to be organized about it.
I’m just old enough to remember when fandom websites being nuked overnight was a very real thing. You’d go to bed one night and wake up the next day to find friends you’d known for years were just gone with no means of contacting them because the site you’d been using got wiped. Entire collections of fandom history were just destroyed in the blink of an eye.
We don’t want that again. And the good news is, we have time. We have time to back up our shit, time to swap contact info with our friends, and time to find a new place to exist within our communities while also staying here because Tumblr ain’t dead yet.
She’s just slowly going to wind down over time.
Unless, of course, they trip over the cables. Then we’re fucked.
