me messaging a casual acquaintance: hello, how are you?

me messaging a best friend w/zero lead-in:

Eliza Dushku as Jessie in Wrong Turn (2003)

Reblog to give prev a magical amulet that protects them from headache

turn up that fucking hurdy gurdy

publicity stills from True Detective: Season One (2014). starring Matthew McConaughey (Rust Cohle) and Woody Harrelson (Marty Hart).

being a fan of a friend's ocs is actually so humiliating....... like yes my favourite character rn is tragically doomed and a pillar of humanity who i think is relevant to the current world. you can find information about them on discord dot com and sometimes in late-night conversations with this guy i know. what the fuck

up late at night thinking about a guy who exists to three people. such a desire to talk about him until my lungs give out and read every scrap of fanfiction on the internet and yet there is NOTHING!!!! and i have to pretend to be NORMAL about this. "oh yes your character is cool. have you considered writing more" meanwhile the wolves in my brain are tearing and biting

what’s your ‘thing’ as a friend. i don’t mean like ‘oh im the mom friend’ i mean like what’s the Thing where if one of your friends was looking for a specific interaction they’d message you first. personally i can always be relied upon to get hyped about bugs, literature, and cursed internet images.

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) dir. Gil Junger

If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

I am wondering how many of you who responded that they can ride a horse have actually ridden a horse. Or if it’s like an “all men think they can land a plane” kind of thing.

oh.

Remember when tumblr announced the sale of your posts to openAi?

In the staff post that avoided talking about it by mentioned the new ‘no-ai’ setting they mentioned that if you had your tumblr blog already hidden from search engines, they automatically had turned that setting on for you by default. I remember thinking “well, in this sea of shit, turning it on by default for those who already cared about privacy is at least a decent gesture”.

But. But!

I had just been sniffing around a bit (of course I didn’t want to copy tumblr’s robots.txt to use it in goblin, what are you saying, that’s outrageous!) and I just realized about something. This is tumblr’s robots.txt (the file that tell crawlers what they can access and what not) when you have the ‘discourage external search" on.

Basically, any bot is discouraged from searching any page on your blog. Any bot. Including the AI ones. So if you have the “don’t show up in search engines” box, you already were as protected as tumblr can protect your posts from being read by AI trainers. So yeah, that good gesture was basically smoke and mirrors to distract people from the fact they were already selling their data.

But what happens if you want to allow google & bing & the rest to index your blog, but turn on the ‘no-ai’ setting? Then the robot.txt file of your blog changes:

Yeah, that’s a list of known AI services crawlers you gently request to not read your blog. Can you see something missing?

Oh yeah, it seems they have forgotten to disallow GPTBot, the crawler from OpenAi. You know, the company Automattic signed a deal with to sell Tumblr’s data. So well, even if you turn the infamous “no-ai” setting on tumblr, tumblr won’t block openAi bots from reading your site. They will block all its competitors, but not openAi.

[pic-of-Automattic’s CEO smiling at the camera next to OpenAi’s Sam Altman a few months ago]

Nice, uh? nice.

if you told vin diesel fast and the furious you were gay he'd be like "Some people like driving stick…some people like driving automatic…what matters is you cross the finish line.." and then he'd rev up a dodge challenger and drive through a building and kill 16 people

he literally did in the fourth one when he's asked if he likes cars more than women

If you asked if he was cool with trans people, he'd probably say "sometimes, aftermarket parts are the only way to get the vehicle you really want. Everyone should have the right to hot rod."

please do not engage i am better as a concept

And then Vlad III, Voivode of Wallachia, said, “Impaler? I hardly know her!”

it’s been three whole entire years

Wow everyone is going through it. Hold my hand

reblog to hold the hand of the person you reblogged from

Reblog if you want anon messages of what you would be the patron saint of