Hello there, friend. Call me Teal. Genderfluid, any pronouns. 29. I'd rather be reading. Major dork, I post about things I like and/or find interesting. I draw a lil bit, search the "my art" tag on my blog to peruse. I queue a majority of my posts ✌️Some content is NSFW, minors DNI. PFP is from fairydropart, header art by me✨️
Ok I wasn’t planning to share anything about this because I was waiting for any official comms, but I’m seeing people from outside of Automattic sharing this screenshot in a WordPress-related public discord server, so I guess the cat is out of the bag:
TLDR: most of the current staff is being moved to other automattic divisions and Tumblr will be run by an skeleton crew
hi everyone!
if you’ve never paid attention to one of my posts, start now.
or you can look at the reblog before from @dualumina
i work in technology, specifically surrounding supporting enterprise software.
this is bad.
this is death knell bad.
this is “end of life” for a product bad.
tumblr has basically said: this website is not a revenue vehicle, and thus, it may perish naturally. we won’t pull support from it. we won’t force people to move off of projects surrounding it. but we will do the bare minimum moving forward to maintain it’s existence and one day, when no one else wants to take responsibility for the decaying infrastructure and literally endless backlog of defects and code rewrites, the website will sunset.
you should start building a different online community today if you want one. there are options. or, hell, if you’re savvy enough, you could start your own and open source it.
but you should start building a different, queer, inclusive online community yesterday if you want one.
There are people getting angry about Eddie Izzard and like…. what year is it
People saying Eddie Izzard is using she pronouns to further her career. She’s Eddie Izzard. And is sixty. And has been a titan of comedy for thirty years. What are you talking about. How much further is there to go.
Surely the best way to improve your career is to be openly trans during a time of massive transphobia on an executive scale
Hope people use this time to check themselves on their internalized Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism— especially if you’re American or European. It is not “normal” for the Middle East to be “constantly at war”. Muslims are not more inclined to violence and “barbarism”.
The state of the region is the product of decades of colonialism, exploitation, and racism in play. The word “Middle East” itself stems from those very same things.
