One of my favourites. T'pau- China in your hand
First of all
Thanks everyone for writing, I’ve just had too many emails and messages to repond to all of them.
Also thanks for letting me know where you will be, always helpful.
I have not made plans to go anywhere, many places just don’t interest me, others look broken, but it’s possible I will migrate to somewhere like pillowfort.
After tomorrow, they may censor us, but as far as I know will not be deleting blogs that don’t continue to post against the rules. We can all be here to stay in touch while we decide or post elsewhere.
I’m grateful to everyone for following and showing me interesting stuff over the years. I’m shocked that more than 80k of you were willing to tolerate my unruly blogging manner.
Like many people here, I’m sure, over the years I’ve attempted to talk some people down from hurting themselves when they posted scary thoughts on tumblr. I hope anyone who feels desperate will continue to contact me here or at my gmail, but also let me leave these here for anyone who might see them:
US hotlines
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: 1-888-333-2377
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
Anxiety and Depression Associate of America: 240-485-1001
UK hotlines
National Self Harm Network: 0800-622-6000
Depression Alliance: 0845-123-23-20
Domestic Violence: 0808-2000-247
Australian hotlines
Lifeline: 13-11-14
BeyondBlue: 1300-224-636
Suicide Call Back Service: 1300-659-288
gmail is ernestbushmiller@gmail.com
And last, here’s a favorite quote:
“The world is itself the last judgement on it.”- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.
Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.
Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.
Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.
Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.
good luck with your plan to sell ads targeting a user base that doesn’t exist any more, @staff.
Then they’re def gonna let Tumblr die on the vine when it doesn’t pan out. It’ll take a few years but mark my words, this is going to work out about as well as when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and everybody left. Also, fuck Verizon forever.
Plz lemme know if you reblog this and it disappears. I have Suspicions.
I mean, there are already mutuals of mine reporting that they can’t see this post, only a “post was deleted"notice on my blog, and I’m the OP.
So, whatever your suspicions are, I suppose mark them as confirmed.i’ve seen it disappear about 5 times off my dash.
“I am thinking—talking—in images. I don’t know how to write them down. Every feeling is physical.”— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
