trenchant.tumblr

so. tumblr. this is still a thing, right?

tumblr was way ahead of the curve in decontextualizing humans into brands defined by curated media and i think maybe the problem is that i’m just not a very good brand and also i really am not interested in image blogging or photos anymore.

i mean, i am, but it turns out having your photo taken doesn’t steal your soul, but posting to social media will erode your soul until it turns into brandable ad-targetable context modules, so i’ve mostly left everything on my computer for the bits to rot.

i had some reason for posting this.

oh, right!

i miss all of you, at least the ones i know, or kind of know, and especially the ones i don’t know since i have stopped social media-ing but i am taking all that misplaced nonsense and putting it into emails that go out on a weekly basis in some nonsensical attempt to subvert the dominant social media paradigm with wholly owned slow indie media ASCII SMTP.

https://list.trenchant.org

i can guarantee you it is the only mailing list that includes links that immediately sends messages that vibrate my phone.

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hotlinebocaraton:

ｗｉｓｈ ｙｏｕ ｗｅｒｅ ｈｅｒｅ

coryschmitz:

Cartridge for My Famicase Exhibition, at METEOR in Tokyo.
Client: METEOR

Things I forgot (or re-remembered) about Tumblr now that I’m using it more-ish, again

• unlike twtr/fb/ig/whatev follower counts / popularity numbers aren’t as obvious. i have no idea how “popular” someone is and don’t care
• renders gifs properly on web and ios
• tumblr (more than probably any other surviving social network media thing) represents the aspects of what i liked most about early blog culture in the 90’s - blogs by people that are passionate about super specific weird things, and people representing/discovering/sharing their identity through curating/collecting/linking/creating little bits of culture

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