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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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LET’S JUMP SHIP!🏳️‍🌈

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Staying on a site that enforces shitty rules because they can’t clean up their own act is like chilling on a sinking ship.

“Huh? What now?”

For those who don’t know: Tumblr just banned Not Safe For Work content site-wide. Why is this bad you might ask?

  • It’s a censorship of fanworks and people on a diverse media platform
  • It could be detrimental to those who make their living through nsfw art and cam work and use tumblr as their social media of choice
  • It’s literally being enacted on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, so feminists, be angry
  • It’s implying that trans masc folks have to be post-op to be shirtless in pictures, hey, @ staff, you want to pay for top surgery for all the trans people you’re oppressing and forcing to pass? lmao) so trans folk and allies, be angry
  • It’s not going to crush mainstream media, it’s going to crush indie creators, so indies and indie supporters, be angry
  • It’s repeating a terrible history of sites losing their works and ruining fannish communities, such as ff.net and live journal… in 2018
  • P.S. remember when they told us to fight for net neutrality? they do that only to censor us right after, lol

Remember this: I’m a sfw blog. I wouldn’t even be directly affected by this aside from a couple reblogs on my side account, I just don’t want to keep this kind of company.

Yes, I know my following is here. Yes, I know if i leave i’d be leaving thousands of followers and half a million notes behind, but I am just… floored that staff is pulling this in 2018. They say “there are other sites” when they know they are the most diversity friendly social media platform. So yeah, staff, I see you.

Tumblr strikethrough. Add it to the list of companies who have fucked over fandom, PoC, women and the LGBTQ+ communities over.

LINK TO MY TWITTER (if the link didn’t work, find it in my desc @juskla)

I know I haven’t used it much in the past, but if everyone would follow my twitter account, I would appreciate it, as I will be active there going forward. Even if you don’t follow me here, feel free to follow me there and join in the conversation about what’s going on in terms of censorship. @ me in tweets about the strikethrough and I will retweet them. DMs are open too if you just need someone to talk to.

I’m going to try to really talk about the importance of queer expression and fandom over there, as well as post fun fandom things like The Dragon Prince, Voltron and Venom. I plan to start a pillowfort soon as well, so we will see where that goes.

To anyone who read this far: Can I get a signal boost?

Let’s jump ship and make something new together.

Ready to set sail?🏳️‍🌈✨

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I can’t really jump ship if I wasn’t really on the ship (I was an active user for only a few months) but yeah, signal boost.

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A better, more positive Tumblr

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Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio
CEO

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This is like setting your house on fire to deal with termites. Y'all are dumb.

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Since I’m 18 now and I can do whatever the fuck I want™, I decided to get a Tinder acount. I’m now being told that Tinder isn’t for actual dating but that’s beside the point.

So I got matched with this one girl, and we start messaging eachother, and then she tells me that she’s a telemarketer. That’s weird enough on its own, since I’m the type to prank any telemarketer who calls me, but what weirder is that we actually legitamately start hitting it off.

Anyways, Halloween comes and goes, and naturally, I ask her what she dressed up as. She says she dressed up as a dinosaur and offers to send a picture to me through Snapchat. I didn’t have a Snapchat account at that point, but I had been meaning to get one for a while, so I agree and proceed to try to make an account.

It takes me about a half our after downloading Snapchat to realize that the app doesn’t run on my phone because I rooted it. There is a way to make it run on a rooted phone, but it involves unrooting and rerooting my phone with a different program. It’s an involved process, but I’m not one to give up easily, so I’ve spent the past few days working on it.

My dad says that, after all this trouble I’m going through for her, if I don’t go out with her on a date at least once, then I am a fool.

Tl;dr I’m possibly violating Snapchat’s terms of service so I can see a picture of a telemarketer in a dinosaur onesie.

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This vegan baking show is unreal…

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what on earth omG 

hiyama

is this a cult

hotwing

IM GONNA FUCKING PISS MY PANTS

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I was watching this thing with the sound off wondering what on Earth the audio could be to cause this kind of reaction and nothing could have prepared me for this

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That last comment made me watch it with the sound on and I regret it

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cursed post

celticpyro

“How bad could it really be?”

*turns on the sound*

“What the HECK?”

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@comicsbookwyrm

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Noice

I’m back.

So, it’s been a while since I posted here. I’ll just quickly summarise some major things that have happened to me over the past few months.

You may recall how, over a year ago, I made a post about the death of my longtime therapist. Back at the beginning of last December, some 3 months after he passed away, I started seeing a new therapist. It… didn’t work out. She wouldn’t listen to my problems, gave me unhelpful advice, and on top of that she was an antivaxxer. I was her patient for all of a month before I stopped seeing her.

I graduated high school this past spring, which was a proud moment but also somewhat of a frightening one.

This summer was pretty lousy. Throughout June and July my mood was gradually getting lower and lower, and in August I lapsed back into a full depressive episode. I couldn’t fully shake it for another month.

I started classes at community college and started seeing another new therapist at the end of August. Both of those have greatly helped me out. Having the structure of classes and having a reason to go out and talk to people was something I sorely needed, and this new therapist actually seems like a good fit for me.

The past few months have been a lot of ups and downs, but I’m doing pretty well right now. Things are looking up for me for the first time sinc August 2016.

I’m not sure how often I’ll be posting here, but I will be more active from now on. To anyone who’s been following me, I appreciate it, and to everyone reading this, I hope you’re holding on. Stay safe all you crazy people.

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