The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

This platform has one of the most distinct user-content configurations compared to its competitors, but each action Automattic takes seems to be focused on imposing modes of engagement that undermine these unique strengths.

Studies have shown that Tumblr users are highly interconnected compared to other platforms. Despite no required reciprocity, users still have a higher rate of reciprocal follows and engagement than other platforms. And all of this occurs with the majority of user rarely or never making posts of their own. This is a highly decentralized network, so the areas where information is centralized is essential to navigate these interconnections.

I think it makes sense to have a reblog function available for each post within a chain, because the alternative was not great. But partitioning engagement to the user whose last engaged with neglects the fact that when people reblog a chain they are doing so because of all of the prior users contributions.

For my own purposes, liking each user's contribution on a reblog makes going through my likes highly redundant and cluttered because I see the same post over and over. This incentivises limited engagement to minimize redundancy in the likes tab OR eliminating the individual user functionality of the Likes tab.

Not sure why I bother to appeal to Automattic given that I've FOIA'd enough of your company's records and have seen how your team has shown in multiple venues an absolute disdain for your users, the platform, the values this platform purports to have, and the law regulating your company.

Friends, followers, and Fellow Workers, the Gainesville IWW's beloved union hall, the Civic Media Center, is in need. The Civic Media Center of Gainesville, Florida, provides countless vital community resources, such as:

The Stetson Kennedy Library, a reading room and leftist library that is home to 15,000 books, journals, newspapers, and magazines.

The Travis Fristoe Zine Library, largest independent zine collection in the southeastern United States.

A meeting space for countless local activism and social justice groups such as the IWW, Food Not Bombs, and Books to Prisoners.

The Gainesville Free Store, which was founded to help local transgender people access affirming clothing and toiletries as well as other important items. The Free Store has seen so much success that they've expanded to serve the entire Gainesville community.

The Gainesville Free Grocery Store, which offers no-questions-asked food to anyone who walks in.

A cool, dry place to rest, with an open bathroom frequently used by our unhoused neighbors.

A venue for local musicians and poets to perform, including during the renowned music festival FEST.

So, so much more. Losing this community hub would be an absolutely devastating blow to our town and our union. We cannot let it die.

Via the Civic Media Center's own social media:

Dear friends, please us survive the Summer Doldrums by renewing your membership or, if you can, making an extra donation in whatever amount you can spare to help us cover rent, bills, and some extra work on our facilities this summer. Here is the direct link to the membership & donation page on our website: https://www.civicmediacenter.org/get-involved If you have Venmo or PayPal you can also just make a contribution using the handle in the graphic below. Thank you for supporting the CMC!

NHS England is violating fundamental scientific principles in its support for stopping gender affirming treatment of young people. They have excluded 97% of all trans studies to say care doesn't work. Transphobes have taken over the system.

As part of a public consultation on making masculinizing and feminizing hormones (MAF) “non-routine” for those under 18, NHS England published an Equality and Health Inequalities Impact Assessment (EHIA) dated 9 March 2026, arguing there is “very limited evidence” on safety and outcomes for young people and proposing that new prescriptions should not be routinely available through youth services.

But here's the problem: The underpinning clinical evidence reviews were designed in a way that virtually guaranteed “no evidence” conclusions.

Erin in the Morning docments that the review criteria excluded most of the real-world treatment pathway used internationally, particularly studies where puberty blockers were initiated first and hormones added later (often with an overlap period), a pattern associated with the so-called Dutch protocol.

This exclusion removed much of the most relevant adolescent literature from consideration and then treated the resulting scarcity as proof the evidence base is weak.

Alejandra Caraballo summarized the tactic over at Bluesky:

The NHS reviews reportedly screened 547 full-text papers but included only 17 (about a 96.9% exclusion rate), and split “hormones for trans adolescents” into ten fragmented reviews by regimen and by binary vs non-binary categories, leading, she says, to zero included studies in the non-binary sub-reviews because the literature rarely disaggregates outcomes that way.

She also shows that large prospective studies were excluded because cohorts weren’t separated into the highly specific subgroupings demanded by the review design.

NHS England has created an “absence of evidence” created by overly narrow inclusion rules to justify restricting care. The fact is that most experts in the field, and trans youth and their families, know that such support does help.

Pink News reports that, within the same EHIA process, NHS England also confirmed it is separately reviewing evidence on HRT for trans adults. You can bet they will fix the numbers again in order to stop trans people from getting the help they need.

You’ve heard of employee unions using collective bargaining to force the bosses to provide better pay and better working condiditions. But did you know if you rent an apartment in an apartment complex, you can do something similar?

It’s called a Tenant Association, and it’s basically a union for renters.

Here’s an overview of the why and how of forming a tenant association

Here’s a more thorough organizing manual

Hey, that's my book, Failure to Comply!

Cavar's Failure to Comply is an abolitionist text concerned with trans, disabled, and Mad liberation as a speculative art.

Every story has its fugitives. “I,” a deviant self-hacker with three arms, two stomachs, and no name, is on the run from RSCH, a high-tech, authoritarian government that mandates wellness and carves the contours of truth itself. When I is kidnapped at axe-point to be mined for forbidden memories, they must struggle against RSCH’s medical abuse to recapture their history, reunite with their lover, and rewrite their future—or risk remaining Patient forever.

I crosses an epistolary, time-flipped dreamscape as they recollect their memories from RSCH’s hungry archive, and, in the process, write the story of their liberation.

Rivers Solomon said this about it:

Failure to Comply is a striking and fresh examination of life under boot of hegemonic corporate society lovingly and ecstatically told. With language that sings and stings, this novel disrupts the status quo with the form and poetry of its telling. This book made me feel. Each sentence excited and thrilled. I loved it.

It'll be out on August 6. A percentage of the proceeds from pre-orders of FAILURE TO COMPLY (check out the new ~official~ cover!) now-June 30 will go to Palestinian LGBTQ organization alQaws. In July, for disability pride month, a percentage will go to the anticarceral care collective/respite space Wildflower Alliance.

If you haven't pre-ordered your copy yet, now is the perfect time. Consider adding on goodreads –– where there's currently a giveaway going! –– and storygraph while you're at it, and tell your friends!

Hi everyone, it's that time of the month when I come here on my hands and knees to ask for your help again.

I'm a physically impaired south american trans woman who survives month to month thanks to all the help you give me. I have extended nerve damage and diabetes that only got worse through the years of underemployment and unrewarded effort.

I also take care of my mother, a cancer patient who recently got her medication upped and new meds added to her routine.

Work has been really scarse and each day the situation in my country becomes worse and more despair inducing. Just one of my prescriptions costs 500 us dollars and minimum wage is not even half of that. And that's not even getting into housing arrangements .

Please, if you could help me afford my medicine this month as well I would be incredibly grateful. Every little contribution helps a lot.

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