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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
pangur-and-grim
desolationlesbian

Really fun watching the real-time website culture shift from “Tumblr staff sucks and is incompetent and we hate them” -> Staff starts doing good things but everyone still reflexively hates and bullies them for everything they attempt because we’re all suspicious and hesitant to trust like wounded animals or divorcees who have been hurt before -> “Staff truly understands us finally someone who knows what we want bless thank you so much staff”

the-real-numbers

From what I’ve heard about the yahoo days, staff are unsung heroes and have fought multiple very terrible initiatives that would have probably killed the site. I can’t remember the details, but I think yahoo wanted to make tumblr require a yahoo account and staff basically dragged their feet on it as hard as they could until they were able to talk some sense into someone? Might have read a @sreegs post about it or something

sreegs

Yeah it was about OneID.

I really can’t stress how much Tumblr/Staff’s appearance during the Yahoo/Verizon days has been misguided attempts at increasing DAUs (daily active users) at the behest of Tumblr’s owners while The Actual Staff, the fucking people actually doing the work, were screaming “PLEASE LET US JUST MAKE THE SITE BETTER”. I was on the iOS team. It took us years of negotiating and advocating to just set aside some time to literally bring down the crash rate and improve the app’s performance.

We had to twist the message of “the app takes more than 10 seconds to launch because it’s broken” into “more users will use the app if it launches faster 🙂” in order to achieve that. That was one of our greatest successes because it spread to Android and Web too (latency from the server). And it WORKED. We ended up with numbers to back it up. Crash rates plummeted as slowly but surely, the apps became faster and more performant. Plus the work we did specifically for that goal led to less crashes and better performance in other areas because it shed a light on spaghetti code that had needed fixing for years.

Sure it wasn’t something users noticed easily, because it was more easy to notice “the app is crashing all the time” vs “the app is not crashing”, but it was honest work that actually helped users. But that doesn’t lead to hockey stick revenue graphs so it wasn’t prioritized.

Automattic is finally on track with allowing the real Staff to implement the ideas they’ve had for years that Yahoo wouldn’t green-light (ad-free, tipping, blaze, Just Communicate More, etc). I hope they keep it up.

pangur-and-grim

Anonymous asked:

Was scrolling through your blog and noticed you tagged a post "Vegetables don't actually exist"

May I ask what you mean by that? I'm really curious!

ordinaryredtail answered:

Basically all of the plants we call “vegetables” are actually… not that? The word vegetable basically lumps non-sweet (for the most part) plants together. A cucumber is actually a fruit, so is a tomato and eggplant. Squash and similar “vegetables” are also fruits. Broccoli is a very specialized leaf, and is the exact same species as kale, brussel sprouts, and cabbage to name a few.

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Potatoes, carrots, and other thick roots that store carbs are tubers.

Basically vegetables don’t exist, they’re just a way to lump a large amount of plants with similar tastes together.

hollowtones

oooh, etymology is fun! 

in a completely botanical context, “vegetable” is largely (but technically not entirely) meaningless. 

in a culinary context, it can vary! sometimes it gets used to mean “any edible plant”, which can include fruits and nuts, among other things. other times (more commonly in my experience but I’m just one gal) its definition is more narrow, specifically to mean “non-fruit, non-nut, non-grain, generally more savoury in taste & substantial in mass”. 

the classification’s a bit arbitrary, can vary depending on region (i.e. some people & places do not consider seaweed a vegetable), and is largely used for the sake of discussing how an edible plant should be prepared. another context in which this matters: finances!! vegetables are taxed and tariffed differently, as all other food products are, as everything is, for a multitude of reasons ranging from “different costs for different labour” to “money is arbitrary and it scares me a lot”! 

in a historical context, it can also mean different things! around the 16th or 17th century is when the word at large is accepted as “any plant cultivated, in part or in whole, for the purpose of food”. prior to this, in he 15th century, the word sees use to describe “any non-animal life” or specifically “any plant life”. (of note, “vegetable” in this sense still sees some use as a botanical term, apparently! though its scope is so broad that it isn’t really as useful as things like “leaf” or “fruit” or “root”, which are specific functional parts of a plant.) even earlier before this, the roots of the word largely just mean “growing” or “flourishing” or “being strong and lively”. which is a bit funny, considering how in the mid 1800′s the word started being used to convey “monotonous and uneventful”. language changes, like people do & culture does, which is kind of beside the point, but it’s still a fun anecdote IMO. 

i guess my answer to “do vegetables exist? what is a vegetable?” is “who are you talking to, and when?”

pangur-and-grim
marten-blackwood

"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."

Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always

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teaboot

Some of y'all genuinely hate dudes and honestly, that's super cringe

teaboot

Do I hate a shitty man? Yes. But a shitty man is not a shitty man because he is a man, but because he is shitty

magdaelen

i hope he texts u!

teaboot

please do continue to assume that my opinions are constructed by a desperation for male approval, my delicate girl brain makes me weak like that

maloosh-baloosh64

reminder that man hating is part of the pipeline to terfdom.

editoress

#gender- and bioessentialism are stupid and incorrect no matter how you try to package them

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