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BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

this feels like the kind of change tumblr should give a heads up about rather than silently make. if you have a blog, google is indexing it now. there is no way to stop google from indexing your blog now. regardless of previous settings, your blog is now being indexed by search engines. you can't turn this off.

Does it suck? Yes. Is it tumblr's fault? No. What can you do about it? Far as i can tell the best thing you can do is just know what the deal is and push for laws to make privacy flags legally binding.

"We’ve updated the text for the blog setting that said it would “hide your blog from search results”. Unfortunately, we’ve never been able to guarantee hiding content from search crawlers, unless they play nice with the standard prevention measures of robots.txt and noindex. With this in mind, we’ve changed the text of that setting to be more accurate, insofar as we discourage them, but cannot prevent search indexing. If you want to completely isolate your blog from the outside internet and require only logged in folks to see your blog, then that’s the separate “Hide [blog] from people without an account” setting, which does prevent search engines from indexing your blog."

Anyiel Majok by Hordur Ingason for Vogue Turkey June 2023

Don't fall for 'divide and conquer' rhetoric from the Establishment. They fear the power and influence of worker solidarity.

Very much so.

Hey yeah in the midst of all the hype and the strikes, can we PLEASE fucking talk about this

貴船/夏の夕 Kibune/Summer Evening