I know it's a decently well-known fact nowadays that pretty much every foundational aspect of metal aesthetics was introduced by Rob Halford, whose outfits were explicitly inspired by the leather scene of the gay bars he used to frequent, but still. Sometimes I have to stop and think about how funny it is. Like. This one gay guy got entire generations of straight metalheads to start dressing up like gay sex perverts.
Can Tumblr stop sending notifications to us saying "your crush" posted something, trying to inappropriately romanticize friendships or follows? It's incredibly inaccurate and uncomfortable when I'm sitting next to my husband and get a notification popping up on my screen saying that my "crush" posted something. I don't know if you guys are meaning to treat this like some juvenile dating app but if you're going to do that, there should be a way to opt out of it without having to turn off notifications just so that our online relationships are not being misrepresented.
Answer: Hi there, @theshadowpoet!
So, as luck would have it, we were just having a conversation about this internally. We agree that this phrasing could be problematic and will be changing it via an update this week or soon after.
But that's not all. To turn off this type of notification, you can toggle the "Recent updates" notification settings in the app to banish updates such as these.
i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.
while pete buttigieg states the extremely obvious about how “bridges arent built to withstand container ships hitting them” and would like you to believe that these things just randomly tragically happen, the actual takeaway is that horrible accidents are more likely when companies ignore safety regulations and have little regard for their workers lives or labor laws and value profit more