Just gonna pop in here for a moment before I scamper off to bed for an early morning tomorrow: You thought 2018 was wild? You ain’t seen nothing yet. But! Have no fear.
Since cloning and running tumblr-utils (https://github.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils) to backup your Tumblr yourself is something people report as being a touch aversive, I’ve thrown together a very simple, stupid service that just wraps their backup script to download and serve you a zip file containing a HTML backup of a public, not-NSFW (see provisos) Tumblr.
It’s currently running on my desktop and I’ll probably turn this off after a few days of it not being used (I only spent an hour on it and then half an hour posting about it and shifting DNS around), but if people keep using it I’ll migrate it to a server and leave it going for as long as they are.
Provisos:
As mentioned, doesn’t work for logged-in-only or NSFW-flagged blogs. This is because the API requires you to be authenticated with OAuth to access those and tumblr-utils doesn’t support that.
Doesn’t include the contents of other people’s readmores you’ve reblogged. It backs up yours, but other people’s posts you reblog, the reblog only contains the short version of their post. It isn’t smart enough to follow links to download their full text.
Doesn’t backup drafts; only full posts.
Backs up images, but not audio or videos. The script can do those with the right configuration, but I’ve not done the configuration to make the service do them because they’re big. If your blog has been active and old enough to accumulate >=1GB or so of images, you might have to wait for a fair while (<10 minutes) “waiting for tumblrbackup.beshir.org” for it to start going, during which there is no progress feedback.
If a load of people start using this at once it will probably just melt until I fix it.
Let me know if this works or doesn’t for you and I’ll try to fix any issues; if people want to try to fix any of those provisos, most of them would be a matter of trying to improve tumblr-utils which looks to be active enough to review submissions and stuff, and then letting me know so I update the version I’m using.
(I’ve no personal plans to move away from Tumblr in the immediate future, but I might follow other people who migrate eventually.)
Reblogging so I’ll remember to try this when I’m home tonight, since tumblr’s own backup service is not working for me
Actually, this is my last post of the night. It’s kind of last minute, but if you haven’t backed up your blog yet, this is by far the easiest way to do it that I’ve seen. You just have to go to the url above with your blog name after the =.
If trivial inconveniences have been holding you back, now is the time.
Today I: - Missed my bus to visit family by 5 minutes - Popped a “gummy” - Cleaned and organized my room to the point where it’s the best it’s been since I moved in here - Passed out at my desk
Now I have to be up in six hours. Good thing I’m already packed!
police have raided the home and offices of the (very expensive) lawyers of adélio bispo de oliveira, the man who tried to kill bolsonaro, in an effort to find out who is paying them.
This is my naughty blog right now. Notice how the icon is that snazzy default thing?
That’s because it’s set to explicit, a setting that was locked after the great purge:
BUT
If you right-click on that toggle and click “inspect element”, you can change that.
Notice how the input tag has a disabled attribute? Just remove that whole thing:
The toggle is now active
And toggleable
And now, after a quick refresh, my old (crap, but real) icon and header image are back, and the blog is no longer treated as hidden or explicit.
The goggle also disappears after the refresh, but it’s worth noting that you can also edit the toggle back into the settings panel and change your blog back to explicit if you so desire.
This is a perfect example of the laziness of tumblr’s devs. They haven’t removed the functionality, they’ve just kinda-sorta hidden it a bit; the end-point that the explicit toggle hits is still there.
Please reblog this and post this is discords where people are having trouble with their blogs
THIS IS HOW YOU CAN SAVE YOUR BLOG
Did that work?
It fucking worked.
Jesus.
Yay! Thank you for sharing!
Am back from the blackout protest. While this isn’t a NSFW blog, if you have one that was recently made nonfunctional by Tumblr, this may be a way to fix it. (But you should probably hurry - who knows how long it’ll be before Staff get their act together.)
basically i think the ‘culture war’ comes from the apparatus of the cold war being unable to accept its own obsolescence and missing a lot of its own jokes
Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?
Then about a week into their journey like
Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying
Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst
Legolas:
~*~earlier~*~
Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits
Merry: Frodo what’d he say
Frodo: I’m not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think he’s insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish
i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.
english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.
they’ve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max.
frodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born.
so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.
plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.
so Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron he’s probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but he’s not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale.
to over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolas’ grandfather
was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a
somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects.
so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his
upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his
Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice
from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really
obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. or both!
considering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.
…it’s
also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though
with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid.
which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.
this is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. there’s a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages!
Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit.
Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*
Frodo: *frantically scribbling* Hang on which language are you even speaking right now
Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?
Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?
Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbits’ weird dialect this whole time: That’s what it sounds like to me.
Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.
Sam, a mere working-class country boy: Honestly y'all could be talkin Dwarvish half the time for all I know.
Pippin, entering Gondor and speaking to the castle steward: hey yo my man
…You know, dwarves (obviously) don’t have any problem learning other people’s languages. They kinda have to, since they don’t share their own. And they presumably deliberately teach and pass on other people’s languages.
…And historically speaking, they get along better with Noldor than they do with Sindar.
Now, Gimli grew up in exile/as a refugee, so I’m sure lessons in very rare languages you’ll probably never need weren’t heavily featured in his studies. But especially later on in Erebor, it’s not impossible that the library might have an old copy of “Conversational Quenya for Merchants” lying around, and it’s not impossible Gimli might have picked it up – or even have deliberately picked it up later, after the war, so
It’s not completely implausible that upon arriving in Valinor, Gimli would have to try to translate.
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Thought: being economically locked out of many of the milestones of adulthood, such as home ownership, marriage, and parenthood, are a contributing factor to the state of Perpetual Adolescence in our culture.
“Uplifting animals is fine and dandy, an admirable goal. But first, I propose we uplift a people who are not quite human, yet not completely animal: the mentally retarded.”
*audience starts muttering to each other uncomfortably, somebody loudly coughs*
I have a complicated relationship with Christmas. I am the product of a pagan/jungian gnostic and an existentialist demi-jew, and between Mom’s mysticism/impeccable design sense and Dad’s love of deception-based holiday traditions I had some pretty intense xmasses growing up, particularly after they got divorced. I don’t do much in the way of holiday celebrating now that I am an adult, in part because I feel kind of like a yuletide version of Julian Lennon, but my upbringing did leave me with very particular opinions about Christmas music. This was Mom’s doing, and so she gets the credit/blame for what follows:
BLURDS’ DEFINITIVE TOP TEN CHRISTMAS CAROLS LIST
Before we begin, here’s what I look for in a carol:
1. It old
2. It complicated
3. It’s not so much about the baby jesus (although I will definitely brook some exceptions if the baby jesus gets up to some wacky hijinx)
The best Christmas carols are only tangentially about Christmas, and "Jolly old hawk and his wings were grey - now let us sing, who’s gonna win the girl but me?“ is a pretty promising opening gambit
This is basically the Twelve Days of Christmas, but better, because all the animals who are inexplicably getting sent to the lady in question are really grumpy about it, and also there’s something called a “three-thistle cock” involved
