Aech

The word ‘calmly’ can hold different meanings in different circumstances. If you were to pass someone a bucket of water calmly when their house was burning down, it could suggest that you were the sort of brave individual who was always prepared to combat the sources of arson when they occur. If you were to ask a nervous bank teller to fill a sack with money while calmly pointing a gun at their head, it might mean that you were the kind of villainous person who practiced such odious and criminal activities on a regular basis. Or if, like me, you were to sit calmly typing the next chapter of your chronicle in the lives of some unfortunate young children, while all around you the kitchen of the reputable restaurant that you were hiding in was slowly filling with sand, it would indicate that you have a life that is often filled with peril and misfortune, and that you were bound by duty to complete your task, no matter how miserable.

Of course, the word ‘calmly’ is never used to indicate a person flying into a rage and shouting your words angrily. ‘Angrily’ is in fact an antonym of ‘calmly’, an antonym being a word with entirely the opposite meaning of the original, such as ‘villain’ and ‘volunteer’, ‘birthday party’ and ‘tragic fire’, or ‘author’ and ‘happy person’.

Here’s where it gets very fucking sketchy for me:

so far, every single user I’ve seen affected by this bug is located in Europe, like myself;

when I tried to access several blogs (my own among them) through a US proxy, I was able to do so, without being redirected to the Dashboard

I repeat, this ‘bug’ affects European users and I was able to access blog-pages by using AN AMERICAN IP ADDRESS. What in the ever-loving hell, @staff​?

In light of GDPR (and Tumblr being singled out as one of the sites that made it as onerous as possible to opt-out of your data being shared with a ludicrous number of third-parties), I really wouldn’t be surprised if they’re trying to kick European users to the curb in this way / trying to force us to use the mobile app instead. Just the thought of having to pay for a VPN so I can keep this fucking site even remotely functional (remember – no Tumblr content link from the web is accessible anymore – if I click on a link that’s blogname.tumblr.com/post/postnumber, I’m always redirected to the first page of the dashboard) makes my blood boil.

Like, 10 min ago I could access my blog, and now I can’t .

The funniest part is when I opened the bloody mobile app to check a message, I had AGAIN the thing about “we changed our policy blabla” 

AND HAD TO UNTICK EVERYTHING ALL OVER AGAIN 

THE BEST PART 

IS THAT THESE THINGS DONT STAY UNTICKED 

I unticked everything, clicked on “done” (btw, yay for you to NOT make that page in French or other languages than English, fucking arseholes) and then thought that when I changed pages these thing were ticked AGAIN when I came back so maybe I should check, even if, I mean, I saved my changes by clicking “done”, right ?

THEY WERE INDEED TICKED 

So I ask to opt out but when I come back to the settings they are in still ? 

How am I not a cop Terry, cos I don’t have a badge? Being a cop is a state of mind

bonus:

it’s okay if you’re just on tumblr to have fun and reblog things you like or that make you happy.