Well, wow. Who knew one thing moving in front of the other could elicit in us such childlike wonder? Turns out, pretty much everyone, actually. The untimely darkness! The crescent dapples! That bright corona! You’ve all enjoyed them immensely. Here’s an eclipse collection for the annals.

@endcant

Originally posted by endcant

@quanajean:

Originally posted by quanajean

@geopsych:

Originally posted by geopsych

@ryucreates:

Originally posted by ryucreates

@xtahse:

Originally posted by xtahse

@marlowe-art:

Originally posted by marlowe-art

@camping-with-monsters:

Originally posted by camping-with-monsters

@floweroflaurelin:

Originally posted by floweroflaurelin

@thestrangeforest:

Originally posted by thestrangeforest

@animusrox:

Originally posted by animusrox

@rosechata:

Originally posted by rosechata

@bearlyfunctioning:

Originally posted by bearlyfunctioning

@rootlessly:

Originally posted by rootlessly

@flippantsmeagol:

Originally posted by flippantsmeagol

@shagaf:

Originally posted by shagaf

@marissasketch:

Originally posted by marissasketch

@aubstacle-of-course:

Originally posted by aubstacle-of-course

@brokenmusicboxwolfe:

Originally posted by brokenmusicboxwolfe

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

• We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 
• We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.
• To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 
• For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 
• Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:

We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally. 

A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company) responded to a user’s ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr’s LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt’s response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as a matter of policy for a variety of reasons—including the privacy of those involved, and the practicalities of moderating thousands of reports a day. The downside of this policy is that it is very easy for rumors and incorrect information about actions taken by our Trust & Safety team to spread unchecked. Given this, we want to clarify a few different pieces of this situation:

• The reality of predstrogen’s suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension.
• Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events.
• Last year, the “mature” and “sexual themes” community labels were erroneously applied to some users’ posts. An outside team of contractors tasked with applying community labels to posts were responsible for this larger trend of mislabeling trans-related content. When our Trust & Safety team discovered this issue (thanks largely to reports from the community), we removed the contracted team’s ability to apply community labels and added more oversight to ensure it does not happen again. In the Staff post about this, LGBTQ+ staff pushed to be more transparent but were overruled by leadership. The termination of a contractor mentioned in the original ask response was for an unrelated incident which was incorrectly attributed to this case. We regret that the mislabeling ever happened, and the negative impact it has had on the trans community on Tumblr. 
• Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren’t a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines.
• When it comes to the experience of trans folks on Tumblr encountering transphobic content, and interacting with bigoted users, we understand and share your frustrations. Tumblr’s policies, and Automattic’s policies, are written to ensure freedom of speech and expression. We prohibit harassment as defined in our Community Guidelines, but we know that this policy falls short of protecting users from the wider scope of harmful speech often used against LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people.

Going forward, Tumblr is taking the following actions:

• Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment.
• Building more internal tooling for us as Staff to proactively identify and mitigate instances of harassment.
• Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week.

We’re sorry for how this all transpired, and we’re actively fighting to make our voices heard more and prevent something like this from happening again in the future. We know firsthand that having to deal with situations like this as a Tumblr user is difficult, particularly as a member of an already frequently targeted and harassed community. We know it will take time to regain your trust, and we’re going to put in the work to rebuild it.

We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Matt’s (and Automattic’s) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it.

We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all.

— This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic.

Well, you did it. You booped. You booped all over your dashboard with reckless abandon, your finger gnashing away at the boop button, much like a lovely raccoon discovering a glorious half-eaten baked potato. A treasure was presented, and you knew you deserved it. You deserved to boop. Collectively, you booped 142,566,897 times. To repeat: one hundred forty-two million five hundred sixty-six thousand eight hundred ninety-seven boops were had on tumblr dot com the website and the app.

Specifically: 

• Normal boops: 119,204,929
• Self boops: 12,645,652
• Cat boops: 7,925,241
• Super boops: 2,095,231
• Mischievous, aka evil boops: 695,844

One particularly boopable Tumblr was booped a total of 874,212 times. To be so rich in boops is a blessing. The Tumblr that gave the most boops found it in their heart to bestow 127,073 boops upon those they found worthy. 

Over 500,000 Tumblrs were booped and booped back in return. And for what? What would drive so many to boop? Does Tumblr yearn for the boop mines? Well, yes. And also the guts, the glory, the prestige, and, of course, the badges. Oh, how you worked for those badges:

• Booper participants: 229,881
• Booper enthusiasts:  85,548
• Booper supers:  67,571

Hold your heads high, Tumblr. You booped until you couldn’t boop anymore. You created incredible fanart, invented a whole new genre of -sonas, and even created your own premium, high-end awards. It was noble, it was boop. We hope you boop yourself, and boop for boop. Boop, boop boop? Boop, boop. Boop boop boop, boop boop; Boop! Boop! 

Boop,

Tumblr

Tumblr Tuesday: Stardew Valley update, your beloved

Look at you, farming, wooing your loves, and being so, so normal about the little patch you have, the simple life, the love you found in that small settlement by the sea. Sure, it has mines, and in those mines, some monsters, it’s true. But look into that sunset with the one you love and tell Yoba you wouldn’t trade every blue chicken in the world for a few monsters and another night in Stardew Valley. This is your Stardew Valley 1.6 fanart roundup.

@surelyanne:

Originally posted by surelyanne

@skidotto:

Originally posted by skidotto

@designs-by-sloan:

Originally posted by designs-by-sloan

@vilochkaaa:

Originally posted by vilochkaaa

@kodi-art:

Originally posted by kodi-art

@bellaaciao:

Originally posted by bellaaciao

@seharuuchan:

Originally posted by seharuuchan

@i-eat-kittens:

Originally posted by i-eat-kittens

@czarojay:

Originally posted by czarojay

@minteehell:

Originally posted by minteehell

@tinyymaiden:

Originally posted by tinyymaiden

@bagelb0nes:

Originally posted by bagelb0nes

@puppypopcornpizza:

Originally posted by puppypopcornpizza

@ddlonlyzz:

Originally posted by ddlonlyzz

@rimeah:

Originally posted by rimeah

@teeth–king:

Originally posted by teeth--king

@doctor-aceus-art:

Originally posted by doctor-aceus-art

@chloelemay:

Originally posted by chloelemay

@surteic:

Originally posted by surteic

@ophi-chus:

Originally posted by ophi-chus

@inchplant:

Originally posted by inchplant

Hello, Tuesday, hello Tumblr. Have some beautiful photographic images for your dash, courtesy of some of the supreme #photographers on tumblr.

@dantemarshall:

Originally posted by dantemarshall

@cleocartwrightphotography:

Originally posted by cleocartwrightphotography

@takenonfilmnyc:

Originally posted by takenonfilmnyc

@freakishnerd:

Originally posted by freakishnerd

@danascruggsphoto:

Originally posted by danascruggsphoto

@abearshapedcountry:

Originally posted by abearshapedcountry

@robertcooper1127:

Originally posted by robertcooper1127

@epilogueofhare:

Originally posted by epilogueofhare

@eyeofscottie:

Originally posted by eyeofscottie

@js-visuals:

Originally posted by js-visuals

@bookergoshoot:

Originally posted by bookergoshoot

Happy belated Lunar New Year, Tumblr! It’s the year of the dragon, and your local Artists on Tumblr have been churning out the most incredible dragon art you could possibly imagine. Please enjoy these dragons!

@midnightmart:

Originally posted by midnightmart

@mochipong:

Originally posted by mochipong

@asunnydisposish:

Originally posted by asunnydisposish

@blossompigeon:

Originally posted by blossompigeon

@poqu:

Originally posted by poqu

@nonagalleryart:

Originally posted by nonagalleryart

@kitschchris:

Originally posted by kitschchris

@nekomori-art:

Originally posted by nekomori-art

@repecca:

Originally posted by repecca

@ink-dot-kay:

Originally posted by ink-dot-kay

@nohtora:

Originally posted by nohtora

@souperluminal:

Originally posted by souperluminal

@snow-priestess:

Originally posted by snow-priestess

@kynimdraws:

Originally posted by kynimdraws

@kairisk:

Originally posted by kairisk

@mamath:

Originally posted by mamath

@artilite:

Originally posted by artilite

@r4venex:

Originally posted by r4venex

@poorly-drawn-mdzs:

Originally posted by poorly-drawn-mdzs

@capydoodle:

Originally posted by capydoodle

@zeldacw:

Originally posted by zeldacw

Hello, please enjoy these extremely exquisite artistic renderings by your local Black artists on Tumblr. For more heady brilliance, click through to #Black artists on Tumblr, and marvel at the sheer abundance of talent.

Are you a Black artist or creative on Tumblr? Join in by tagging your work #Black artists on Tumblr for a chance to be featured in the Radar, on @blackexcellence, and in our global promotional unit. 

@zolwia:

Originally posted by zolwia

@prinnay:

Originally posted by prinnay

@lostbluejayart:

Originally posted by lostbluejayart

@kenmaiii:

Originally posted by kenmaiii

@lucidly-melanated-art:

Originally posted by lucidly-melanated-art

@okubunny:

Originally posted by okubunny

@cupoyo:

Originally posted by cupoyo

@n3oncyan:

Originally posted by n3oncyan

@alleannaharris:

Originally posted by alleannaharris

@thecitybee:

Originally posted by thecitybee

@terrichienyiart:

Originally posted by terrichienyiart

@frogwhomp:

Originally posted by frogwhomp