In the early years of space flight, both Russians and Americans used pencils in space. Unfortunately, pencil lead is made of graphite, a highly conductive material. Snapped graphite leads and particles in zero gravity are hugely problematic, as they will get sucked into the air ventilation or electronic equipment, easily causing shorts or fires in the pure oxygen environment of a capsule.
After the fire in Apollo 1 which killed all the astronauts on board, NASA required a writing instrument that wasn’t a fire hazard. Fisher spent over a million dollars (of his own money) creating a pressurized ball point pen, which NASA bought at $2.95 each. The Russian space program also switched over from pencils shortly after.
40 years later snide morons on the internet still snigger about it, because snide morons on the internet never know what they are talking about.
– “people are muted” no nobody is muted. it’s just a glitch that affected some posts, mostly text posts. don’t send staff any messages, just edit and save those posts and they’ll fix themselves
– “tumblr is banning custom themes” no it’s not
– “tumblr is banning kin stuff” no, it bans impersonation. as in you cant pretend to be someone such as a celebrity. Same with mastadon.
– “they banned nsfw to get back into the app store” they banned nsfw cuz verizon cant sell ads next to porn, the app store debacle just made them speed up the process. this all stems back to capitalism sucks.
– “a hatsune miku kinnie made up the blocking glitch as an excuse to block all their mutuals” this is a real glitch happening right now and it either appears you cant message/send asks to your mutuals or if you go to their blog an error that looks like theyve deleted pops up (im on mobile, opening and closing the app seems to fix it).
u can tell who the ancients of tumblr are bc they’re the ones not posting anything abt where to find them if this site collapses…we know this site isnt going anywhere….the apocalypse couldnt stop this garbage…..it has the cybernetic code of a cockroach
PSA: the tumblr adult content purge probably affects your posts even if you’ve never posted anything remotely nsfw. Check your posts because lots of safe content has been flagged and they don’t notify you about it.
The tumblr support page linked in today’s announcement says that they always notify you if your content has been flagged, which I’ll call “misleading language” at my most generous:
As far as I see, that “notification” consists of you manually scrolling through your own post history and noticing the red stripe they’ve put on the individual posts which their algorithms deemed problematic. I received zero emails, chats, real time notifications, carrier pigeons, or anything in regards to the dozens of posts I just found erroneously flagged on my blog.
It also implies there’s some way to review all of your flagged posts at once, but I see no such option on my blog:
(”Dismiss” is not one of the options I’m given and clicking “okay” doesn’t result in a list of flagged content)
Final note, I notice that photosets and especially gifsets seem particularly prone to getting flagged, so if you’ve posted a lot of tv/movie gifsets and stuff like that, take a look.
So anyway, everybody should check their wholesome, wholesome post history to catch tumblr’s mistakes. And if anybody sees some option I missed about a list of flagged content please share!
This reblog is post #26,910 on my blog, which I’ve had for five years. It’s not practical for me to scroll through the entire freaking thing to see what Tumblr’s AI thinks is inappropriate. /cry
I don’t even get a request review option??? What the fuck?
C-3PO, but with bad image recognition, just walking around Tatooine with his hands over his eyes being constantly scandalized by the sand dunes because his AI tells him he’s surrounded by an endless expanse of nude flesh.
R2, beeping furiously while C-3PO trips and falls down a sand dune: “IT’S NOT FUCKING NUDE FLESH YOU PIECE OF SHIT DROID!!!”
C-3PO meets a naked Twi’lek and doesn’t react at all. R2D2 asks him why he isn’t scandalized by blue tiddy. C-3PO looks around, confused. What tiddy? He sees no tiddy.
PTA archive 