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By Brendan McFaddenFreelance reporter and late editorA man who shot to fame after a picture of a dress worn at his wedding ”broke the internet” has been arrested for trying to kill his wife.Keir Johnston, 38, shot to fame in 2015 after a picture of the frock his mother-in-law donned at the nuptials went viral over a debate about whether it was “black and blue” or “white and gold”.The dress was nicknamed “the dress that broke the internet” after it was shared on Tumblr by wedding guest Caitlin McNeill in a bid to determine its colours.Mr Johnson, Isle of Colonsay, appeared at the High Court in Glasgow on Monday (10 July) after being charged with the attempted murder of Grace Johnston at a holiday home in March last year, The Times reports. Prosecutors claim Mr Johnston pinned his wife to the ground while straddling her, before placing his hands around her neck, which restricted her breathing while making threats of violence. It is also claimed he threatened to kill her while brandishing a knife at her.The dress was nicknamed ‘the dress that broke the internet’ after it was shared on Tumblr (Photo: PA/ Cecilia Bleasdale)He is also accused of conducting

The internet's debate about whether #TheDress was black and blue or white and gold sparked one of the most viral moments in history Updated on July 14, 2023 05:30PM EDT Keir Johnston. Photo: TheEllenShow/YouTube, swiked/tumblr Eight years ago, a wedding dress with a contested color pattern kicked off one of the most memorable debates in internet history.But now the husband connected to the Tumblr post featuring the “dress that broke the internet” has been accused of attempting to murder his wife. Keir Johnston, 38, was indicted in the High Court in Glasgow on a charge for attempted murder of his wife Grace, according to records from the Scottish Courts. Johnston is accused of a spree of domestic violence and coercive behavior against his wife over an 11-year span, authorities say, according to the United Kingdom news outlet The Times, The National Desk and Metro UK. The news outlet, citing authorities, reports Johnston attempted to strangle his wife Grace, pushed her against a wall, engaged in verbally abusive behavior, threatened to kill her and threatened her with a knife. The charges are from multiple alleged incidents that occurred between April 2019 and March 2022, authorities say, according to The Times. The

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Robert Harris drinks water while taking a break from digging fence post holes, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Houston, Texas. Meteorologists say scorching temperatures brought on by a heat dome have taxed the Texas power grid and threaten to bring record highs to the state. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Amid a record-breaking heat wave throughout Texas that has led to several heat-related deaths, Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill eliminating mandatory water breaks for construction workers. Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Daniela Hernandez, state legislative coordinator for the Workers Defense Project, to discuss the cruel and punitive nature of the law and how they plan to fight back.

Image: rafapress (Shutterstock)Once the go-to spot for teens wearing Doc Martens and suffering from a taste in alternative music, Tumblr is apparently seriously in the red: The platform’s CEO claims that the company is losing $30 million annually.How To Remove Followers From TwitterTechCrunch reported that CEO Matt Mullenweg spilled the beans during the Q&A, which was cohosted by COO Zandy Ring and attended by a meager 800 users, despite being plastered across every Tumblr account’s dashboard. According to Mullenweg, the platform is spending $30 million more than it’s making as it tries to desperately cling to relevance in its fight against Instagram and TikTok. Moreover, COO Ring explained that the platform is not seeing much of an increase in its userbase.“People have this impression that we have massive growth right now, and we really don’t,” Ring said during the Q&A. Earlier this week, Tumblr Staff, an account run by employees, posted a lengthy message describing the ways the social network, once worth $1 billion, hopes to fix core issues in order to appeal to new users. Tumblr Staff says point-blank in the message that “the underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use” (emphasis theirs) due to the

The body of a 71 year-old Walker fisherman was found near Sucker Bay, located in Leech Lake. According to a press release from the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, on Monday, July 10th, an angler had reportedly been fishing on Leech Lake and hadn’t returned to his residence in Walker. Deputies began their search from land, air, and water in order to locate the missing fisherman, which resulted in his boat being located on the eastern shore of Sucker Bay at approximately 8:18 p.m. The shore was subsequently searched, but the fisherman was not located. The search then continued on the morning of July 11th, and at approximately 6:32 p.m. the man’s body was located in Leech Lake near Sucker Bay. At this time, an autopsy is scheduled for the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office. According to the release, the search was aided by Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office, the Lakes Area Diving Team, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Lakeland News is member supported content. Please consider supporting Lakeland News today.

Overview The 2023 Tumblr Changes refers to a set of policy and platform changes proposed by the management of the microblogging social network site Tumblr in the summer of 2023. The stated goal of these changes was to make the site more usable and attractive for new users. Upon the announcement, a large amount of the existing user base protested against the changes, especially the idea that the traditional Tumblr chronological feed could be replaced by an algorithmic one. Background The summer of 2023 was a moment of considerable change in the social media sector. New platforms like Threads and Bluesky sought to disrupt the balance of power while existing platforms and services underwent significant change and transformation. Some identified long-term trends like enshittification or argued that the long-term trends of Web3 and artificial intelligence posed a threat to internet culture in general. Tumblr user numbers peaked in the mid-2010s, and by 2023, after changing hands a number of times and undergoing several controversial policy changes (notably around NSFW content in 2018) the platform had developed a specific niche in online culture but had been largely surpassed by competitors in terms of market share. On July 10th, 2023, the official

After an outage caused by distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Archive of Our Own (AO3) is back online. AO3 is a leading repository of fanfiction, with categories for both the type of fiction and the fandom the work belongs in. The site went down on Monday, and the staff of AO3 has been working since to restore the site. AO3 continued to keep fans and readers updated using the site’s official Tumblr and Twitter accounts. While the site is back, and readers can get back to enjoying juicy fanfic, there still the staff said users may encounter some stability problems in the coming days while the remaining issues are ironed out. “We may need to do some work to optimize our shiny new Cloudflare setup — we’ll keep you updated on any issues or downtime,” the update post on both Twitter and Tumblr reads. AO3 is an open-source website that hosts millions of fan works across more than 57,000 fandoms. The site has earned literary acclaim, including the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Related Work. The outage — and the work of AO3 staff to restore the site as soon as possible — has incentivized some readers to donate to the site

BigTunaOnline/Shutterstock As the social media landscape dramatically shifts in the wake of Meta's recent launch of Threads, a familiar network is looking to become a major player again: Tumblr. The microblogging platform has been around since 2007 but has waxed and waned in popularity over the years, including during a five-year period when it was owned by Yahoo! Inc. Verizon bought Yahoo during that time and eventually sold Tumblr to WordPress operator Automattic, which currently owns the platform. Automattic is hoping to bring in more users to Tumblr, both old and new, by making sweeping core changes to the social network, and outlined its new mission statement in a lengthy post on the Tumblr staff blog. At the heart of the proposed changes is a retooling of the user interface to make Tumblr simpler and more inviting to users who are accustomed to streamlined platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and now, Threads. In the blog post titled "Tumblr's Core Product Strategy," the company identifies its main concern: "Tumblr is not easy to use." The company follows that admission with its proposed solution: "attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform." Aware that

Tumblr could be the latest platform to borrow from TikTok’s playbook. The company is planning a major revamp of its platform that will bring algorithmic recommendations to users’ feeds, according to a memo published on the Tumblr Staff blog. The memo is notably frank about the reasons for the upcoming changes and what it describes as Tumblr’s current shortcomings. “The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use,” the company writes. “Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr.” While Tumblr doesn’t provide exact details about new features, it offers some pretty big hints about what’s to come. The company says that one of its primary goals will be to “deliver great content each time the app is opened” and refers to its current “following” feed as “outdated.” To address this, the Automattic-owned platform says it’s working to “improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds” and “make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are.” The company also notes that building more creator-friendly features, including improvements to the way replies and reblogs work, will also be key to attracting new users.