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i love you ocean i love you waves crashing on the shore i love you seafoam i love you kelp i love you starfish i love you sunrays in the water i love you barnacles i love you currents i love you jellyfish i love you sand i love you tides i love you crabs
My sticker sheet for Wastelands 2023, a collaborative eco art zine set in a post-apocalyptic future. These will be available through the Kickstarter campaign only!
New Mature Content Warning Overlay (And How to Get Rid of It)
More fun community label “features”! Unlike the new mandatory label for #NSFW, this one is a bigger deal to me because it affects my entire blog and it can’t be avoided by just using a different tag.
Apparently on custom blog layouts, if you happen to post or reblog even a SINGLE post that’s been flagged with the mature content community label, a full-page warning overlay will appear blurring out your entire blog that must be manually clicked through every single time the page is refreshed. At first I thought this was just a bug due to my older layout but I’ve come to realize it’s not. It’s a feature (as confirmed by this recent changes post) that affects all custom themes. The formatting will vary based on your own theme but here’s what it looks like on my blog:
I don’t know about you but I find this is stupid and annoying. If it could be dismissed once and never seen again that might be one thing, but that’s not the case. The vast majority of my blog is not “mature” enough to warrant such an aggressive and invasive warning. I also think pop-ups are obnoxious in general and I’ll be damned if tumblr’s going to force me to have one on MY blog.
After some desperate googling for a known workaround and being unable to find even a single mention of it, I decided to take on the challenge myself. I’m not a theme coder, so apologies if there’s a better way to do this, but luckily it only took me like 10 minutes to figure out a simple fix, which I’m now sharing with anyone else who may want it:
.community-label-cover__wrapper {display: none}
Just copypaste that somewhere in your CSS and goodbye pop-up!
If you’re not sure how to access your theme code, check out this help article. You can also add the code via the Advanced Options menu, which is actually even better (if you can get it to work, it depends on how your theme was coded), because it will then automatically be reapplied to a lot of themes without having to remember to manually add it every time if you change your theme in the future.
Obviously this will only remove it from your own blog for anyone who may visit it. If you never want to see this warning again on other people’s blogs you can also add this custom filter to your ad block:
tumblr.com##.community-label-cover__wrapper
Unfortunately I do not have an easy tutorial on hand for this one as the method will depend on your specific ad block app or extension.
Some additional notes:
After adding the theme code and saving the changes, give it a minute to update as it sometimes takes a little while for the page to refresh.
The warning overlay only seems to appear if a “mature” post is on the FIRST page of your blog, which is still annoying and makes the whole thing even more pointless and stupid because what if someone visits any other page of your blog, and oh no, happens to see “mature” content they weren’t warned about?!
The warning also appears on direct links to “mature” posts.
This hack has NOTHING to do with entire blogs that have been flagged as NSFW. It only works for non-flagged blogs with custom themes that happen to have individual “mature” posts.
What are your thoughts on recent AI models such as *unnamed*, a 'service' that is basically ChatGPT 4.0 and is hurling up 90k novels complete with plot twists and a 10% detectability rate that have been trained off of every book every existed through website crawling that can't discern if material is copyrighted? If this AI becomes able to detect the new or can gauge upcoming zeitgeists or cultural moments and adapt its zombified frankenbooks rather than boilerplating, what happens to artists?
We retire to the South Downs and take up beekeeping.
Respectfully, sir, on what fuckin’ money??
Respectfully, “If this AI becomes able to detect the new or can gauge upcoming zeitgeists or cultural moments and adapt its zombified frankenbooks rather than boilerplating, what happens to artists?” is one hell of an if.
it’s amazing how ordinary objects can become so significant to only the owner
when my aunt’s best friend passed away, my younger brother was four years old. at his funeral, my brother went up to her and gave her a nickel. he told her very solemnly that it would make her feel better. she smiled for the first time in days, and tucked it in her wallet.
when my brother was 22, his best friend passed away unexpectedly. my aunt drove three hours to be there for him at the funeral. she went up to my brother, gave him a big hug, and then gave him a nickel. it was the same nickel; she had kept it in her wallet for 18 years, and now it’s on a necklace that he never takes off.
what i’m trying to say is that the love you put into the world will always find its way back to you.
