• Archive
  • RSS
  • Ask me anything
guardian:

guardiancomment:

Today, we want to defend Tumblr, after it was cowardly hacked yesterday.

Bim Adewunmi: You can hack it, you can bash it, but Tumblr’s still got it
Like any internet community, it is not without its flaws. Here, the hackers’ comments came uncomfortably close to a lot of Tumblr users’ excesses. It is sometimes a deeply silly place, keen on self-congratulation. It is also largely decadent, and because it is made of millions of fallible human beings, it’s not always terribly original or profound. But that does not mean it does not have the capacity to be those things, and it often is.
Tumblr is where I go to laugh, but it also a fantastic place to learn: this is where I first read about Trayvon Martin, for example. It often hosts some of the most eloquent and nuanced conversations about society, from gender to race to equality and social justice. It is a community that gives and shares and supports its own – only last night, I witnessed people organise a whip-round for a fellow Tumblr user who needed to get out of an abusive situation fast.
It can be a brilliant place, because it is a lot more than the sum of is parts: you get out of it what you put in. Not many sites can give you all of that and a gif of Chris Evans punching a bag in slo-mo. And for that reason, I’ll remain onboard. No contest.
Read the rest here


Great piece on Cif right now…
View Separately

guardian:

guardiancomment:

Today, we want to defend Tumblr, after it was cowardly hacked yesterday.

Bim Adewunmi: You can hack it, you can bash it, but Tumblr’s still got it

Like any internet community, it is not without its flaws. Here, the hackers’ comments came uncomfortably close to a lot of Tumblr users’ excesses. It is sometimes a deeply silly place, keen on self-congratulation. It is also largely decadent, and because it is made of millions of fallible human beings, it’s not always terribly original or profound. But that does not mean it does not have the capacity to be those things, and it often is.

Tumblr is where I go to laugh, but it also a fantastic place to learn: this is where I first read about Trayvon Martin, for example. It often hosts some of the most eloquent and nuanced conversations about society, from gender to race to equality and social justice. It is a community that gives and shares and supports its own – only last night, I witnessed people organise a whip-round for a fellow Tumblr user who needed to get out of an abusive situation fast.

It can be a brilliant place, because it is a lot more than the sum of is parts: you get out of it what you put in. Not many sites can give you all of that and a gif of Chris Evans punching a bag in slo-mo. And for that reason, I’ll remain onboard. No contest.

Read the rest here

Great piece on Cif right now…

(via alittlespace)

Source: Guardian

  • 5 months ago > guardiancomment
  • 315
  • Permalink
Share

Short URL

TwitterFacebookPinterestGoogle+

315 Notes/ Hide

  1. eheretohavefun likes this
  2. leaf--blower likes this
  3. cristontalonsca likes this
  4. albertosesn reblogged this from guardiancomment
  5. tomandrew44 likes this
  6. istreefashions likes this
  7. sammybailey23 likes this
  8. marcelino69 likes this
  9. sarahthompson23 likes this
  10. headforthebeach likes this
  11. katy-lee23 likes this
  12. aetelier likes this
  13. lightkanna reblogged this from guardiancomment
  14. pod313 reblogged this from guardiancomment
  15. freakmagnets reblogged this from guardiancomment
  16. mistywinds32 reblogged this from guardiancomment
  17. georgeforester23 likes this
  18. malerinnen likes this
  19. rocmvv reblogged this from guardiancomment
  20. bookwormbreakfast reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    Less timely, now that it’s been a few days, but still lovely.
  21. onehappymiddlexoneveryhappystart reblogged this from kateoplis
  22. notsoshychey likes this
  23. st reblogged this from guardiancomment
  24. a-very-wantering-christmas likes this
  25. 6stronghands reblogged this from newsweek
  26. melgomez23 likes this
  27. myflashgamebase likes this
  28. flyingeggbrigade reblogged this from guardiancomment
  29. jocicausa likes this
  30. shaylynnlee likes this
  31. questionerr-thang likes this
  32. bencourts likes this
  33. drownedineuphoria likes this
  34. saturdaypaper likes this
  35. barbarastuartson34 likes this
  36. sjo499 likes this
  37. saso6666 likes this
  38. intervistato reblogged this from guardiancomment
  39. jomul7 likes this
  40. themarcoharder likes this
  41. vilapupu reblogged this from krantastic
  42. flufflogic likes this
  43. dashbuddy likes this
  44. mademoisellealiyah reblogged this from guardiancomment
  45. mademoisellealiyah likes this
  46. josephhenrystaten likes this
  47. moardepravity likes this
  48. rgerdes likes this
  49. emptymtie likes this
  50. superkally likes this
  51. Show more notesLoading...
← Previous • Next →

About

I do Community Outreach at Tumblr. I like jokes, hanging hard (and soft) and not giving a fuck.

This blog is co-published by Katherine Barna

Pages

  • My favorite art of aliens smoking weed

Twitter

loading tweets…

  • RSS
  • Random
  • Archive
  • Ask me anything
  • Mobile
Effector Theme by Pixel Union