The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.

THIS

"Why is pirating going back up?!"

This. This is why. People don't mind paying a high price for software if it's only the once, or every 4-5 years.

But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don't?

That's why people are pirating software.

It’s possible to buy a non-subscription version of Word; Microsoft just intentionally makes it very difficult to find (and also expensive).

However, I know a guy who knows a guy website: MS Office Pro for $50. If the link starts going to a Page Not Found, just search the site; they usually have some form of this sale available. 

Worth noting: while $50 is still more money than $yo-ho-ho, that money is a great way to make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions.

My laptop just died. If it can't be fixed and I need to replace it, this post is gonna be a real life saver, because my family has been sharing an old version of Word that came with a limited number of lifetime licenses, and we're fresh out.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

Get LibreOffice. It's fully compatible with MS Office, but it's free and open source. You're welcome. :-)

de una forma una mini pimer es como una cinturonga …

for all the artists out there, here are my favorite resources i use to learn!

Files

The Complete Famous Artist Course

Art Books and Resources

Art, Anatomy, and Color Books

PDF Files of Art Books

YouTube

My YouTube Playlist of Tutorials

How to Draw Facial Features

Drawing and Art Advice

Drawing Lessons

Art Fundamentals

Anatomy of the Human Body

2D Animation

Perspective Drawing

Websites

Pinterest Board for Poses

Another Pinterest Board for Poses

Reference Angle

Figurosity

Sketch Daily

Human Anatomy

Animal Photo References

Humanae - Angélica Dass

Fine Art - Jimmy Nelson

Character Design References

CDR's Twitter Account

iamagco's Twitter Account

taco1704's Twitter Account

takuya_kakikata's Twitter Account

EtheringtonBro's Twitter Account

Drawabox

Color Wheel

Color Palette Cinema

Free Images and Pictures

Free Stock Photos

FILMGRAB

Screen Musings

William Nguyen Light Reference Tool

Animation References - sakugabooru

Animation References - Bodies in Motion

gonna download the extremely bad 3rd party dnd sex book so I can laugh at it

this book's handling of gay characters is surprisingly progressive in an extremely late 90s sort of way

oh this is going to be good

there's an std chart

vampirism is on the std chart

The Dark Game Awards. We have categories

~ Most obvious DLC that shouldn't have been DLC

~ Most layoffs after game succeeded

~ Most crunchtimed game development

~ Shortest Game to Remaster of Game cycle

best tumblr glitch of all time 

This is actually something I was thinking about is that rent can not exceed 1/3 of monthly minimum wage income.

So let's say state is on federal Minimum wage which is about 1100 a month so in that state no matter what rent on any place could not exceed 370 dollars.

Even if minimum wage was 15 dollars (about 2400 a month) max rent could be 800

So if landlord want more money they would have to fight bosses and state legislature to get it.

Like average Pennsylvania rent is 1400 and in this world if landlord wanted to charge that the would have to get minimum wage raised to 26 dollars an hour.

To bosses and landlords:

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

Oh... oh I like this :)

Evidence against the argument that Superman's disguise wouldn't fool anyone:

Tony Hawk

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:

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

@makkon what are your thoughts on this

this deal shouldn't be happening at all, and it's utterly revolting that it is. when it goes through, I will likely be leaving tumblr forever.

but since it is happening, opt-out should be on BY DEFAULT. there are accounts that will miss this information (the majority of users), regardless of how available tumblr thinks they're making it. there are accounts of deceased artists and writers who cannot consent. there are accounts of inactive users who may return and could have been completely unaware of these changes. there's a myriad of reasons users could and will miss this information. hell, @thatspacepirate had to tag me to be aware that this post even existed.

but we know why companies always make these an opt-out system: they are DEPENDING on the majority of people being unaware, so that there's a surplus of data immediately available for scraping. they want vast swaths of their regular not-terminally-online users to miss this critical information.

and then of course, because there's zero regulations for data-scraping and generative AI models, companies like Midjourney and Open AI do not give two shits about opt-out systems, there's no reason that they are bound or required to respect it. they will do what they have always done: take everything, with no respect or remorse. they won't even ask for forgiveness.

fuck tumblr. sorry to the staff who have undoubtedly fought against this. in the end, money always fucking wins, and generative AI is all about money, always has been. it's never been about utility, usefulness, or solving problems. if it were, it wouldn't have happened this way.

Btw much as I love to make fun of twitter and reddit's business decisions, I have 0% trust in tumblr's management to not go a similar route so this is your gentle reminder that you should regularly go to your blog settings to export your blog. That's a fancy way of saying you can download a backup of your blog so if everything goes down you'll still have a backup of your posts & convos.

It's gonna come as a surprise to most of you, but if you don't want to do that for whatever reason you're allowed to not reblog this post. I'm not holding a gun to your head here I'm just trying to spread the word for people who do want a backup of their stuff.

Also, made this guide for backup Tumblr blogs (ft. export blog method, and python 3 script method):

Lets all suck on glass together and make the aquarium clean for everyone

Please stop he is drowning.....

Gone forever