Hello, we at genderselectors.org.gov.com try to give our customers the best way to ask someone for their gender on their website.
In the past we just had a drop down menu with male or female but we quickly realized that this didn’t cover every option.
We tried many things like giving the user the option to upload a custom gender up to 10MB. However that only led to people uploading a zip file containing the first doom game.
Then we tried to give them the option to enter a custom text. However this again only led to people writing ‘ACAB’.
Now we have finally found the perfect solution
By letting the user select how male, female and gay they are we can cover every gender identity without letting the user break the form.
Thank you for your attention the role out will begin tomorrow.
image id: a tweet by nick @/nickybravoart on may third. it says, “i’m so fucking mad. this is my classmate Hunter’s portfolio who’s a trans man. his artwork and statement on gender transition was taken down from my private schools senior showcase for "unspecified reasons”. please share this, give him the attention my bigoted school denied.“ attached is a portfolio with four sequential images with similar lighting and background. the background is composed of two vertical stripes: the left is white and the right is sky blue. the skin tone of the person in all four images is a near-white pale. in image one, the person has long hair, red lipstick, and a sleeveless dress that is white with small red shapes that are either triangles or hearts. they are looking straight into the camera while holding scissors to a section of their hair. in image two, they are holding the cut off hair and looking at it in a way that makes their eyes hard to see. they look pensive. they are no longer wearing the dress. in image three, they are holding the back of their hair, looking out. there is bandage-like binding on their chest. in image four, they again have red lipstick, but this time it is smudged. the camera is zoomed out further so you can see that along with similar bandage binding, they are wearing black boxers. they are holding the top of their head and looking straight into the camera. end id.
note: while it is safe to assume hunter is portraying himself in this set, it is still possible it is a piece on transmasculinity as a whole, so i opted to use they/them. i searched for "hunter gender photography” but could not find this piece, so if anyone does have a link to any of his socials for credit let me know.
seeing reddit refugees repeatedly hit their post limits and comment their thoughts on every reblog is kind of refreshing. site migration be damned these guys know how to blog
oh awesome Tumblr ads are auto playing WITH SOUND now
I think social media is done for. All it is (or ever was for that matter) is just way to make pennies off of people. And they weren’t satisfied with just that. They need every penny.
So here it goes. Everything just eventually turns into the most efficient data mining rig, sacrificing the main point of why people used social media in the first place. Enshitification.
I remember I deleted my Facebook account over this exact same fucking thing.
Fuckbook was always a data mine. Twitter, well, is having a Moment. Discord is changing things just for the sake of changing things to appease venture capital. Reddit is going public and is burning all of its bridges in the progress. deviantArt used to be a functional art gallery. FurAffinity is ran by fucking morons. Tumblr used to be fun to use. But now it’s running down the same path demanded by capitalism. Infinite growth. (not the fun kind)
Keep adding features and hope it adds users. Keep changing things for the sake of changing them. Not listening to the main users of your platform, alienating them. All for a ruse that promises a few extra pennies.
And the thing that makes me angrier; it fucking works.
Netflix stopped people from sharing accounts. This caused the highest sign-up numbers for Netflix ever in the past 4 years. The children have forgotten how to yar har.*
People who use Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, or Discord are stuck there. Whether they’re just addicted or have friends who are only there and won’t move on to something better. It’s even hard for me.
Just. Fuck all of this. I just need to get a flip phone and an iPod and call it a day. I don’t need this anymore.
Please join a Fediverse project. It’s the only social media you can use without having to sell your soul first.
Being a sex-positive personally-sex-repulsed ace is weird cuz like reading about sex? Awesome. Writing about sex? Not much more intolerable than writing about anything else. Sex is good. Sex is normal. Sex is only as important as you let/want it to be. Kinks are natural expressions of sexuality. Sexual purity is a scam. Bodies are nothing to be ashamed of. Sex work is no more exploitative than any other kind of labor. If you touch me I will throw up on you.
it’s funny when my friends who aren’t on tumblr send me tumblr posts from other sites cause their either an extremely popular post that i’ve seen 20 times on my dash in the last day or like. the children’s hospital post. don’t get me wrong i still appreciate their gifts but it’s like. thank you for foraging these berries for me unfortunately i live in the bush
you have to crouch and then press a to do a backflip
use whirlwind sprint
climb on the desk and double jump from there
hookshot to the ceilight lamp then move the pad back and forth to swing
Hang onto the tiny ledge on either side and shimmy across.
Fuckin triangle jump
Wallrun and jump to it
There’s a secret vine on the outside of the building that connects to the window and you open from there
There’s defiantly a secret switch somewhere to allow you to cross. Go and break as many objects as possible until you find the button!!
you’re just not thinking with portals.
They intended to dummy it out, but you can still access it if you strafe into the corner at the right angle. Doing this will bypass 3 nights of your stay and glitch out your room service to read 244 pizzas (the pizzas are actually infinite-use, the counter will not decrease).
Just go outside and punch the ground a couple times. Go back inside and build a noob tower up to the sitting area, it can’t be higher than 3, 4 blocks.
jump and then hit control
paint the entire wall and then just swim in the ink
Get a rocket launcher and shoot your feet
Build a remote-controlled sentry gun, aim at your feet while crouched, then fire the SECOND button.
It’s for spiderman, when he visits on vacation.
Press the switch to activate the ring path, then light speed dash
Flash step to the area.
First you need to get the spider ball, then there’s a hidden morph ball power outlet behind the front desk that activates a spider ball track. You can reveal the outlet using the x-ray visor. Getting up there will earn you an extra energy tank.
Pull the lever, Kronk.
You jump, pop a grenade below your feet, the blast carries you over
if you press jump shift and crouch all at the same time it glitches you to be able to walk on the wall over to the area
drink a monster-redbull-energade drink concoction and yeet yourself up with pure willpower
y'all are absolutely free to use tumblr however you please but I want redditors to know that they could, hypothetically, start a sideblog about a particular topic, add moderators to it, turn on submissions (and asks), make an “about” page laying out rules and such, and create a good tagging system. If you want it to be a bit more familiar.
Controversial opinion, but I prefer Reddit refugees to Twitter refugees.
Reddit was never about clout. No one really follows anyone on reddit. Reddit is barely for posting, as most people are lurkers. Like Tumblr, it doesn’t really have a character limit, so users can just go nuts in the discourse. And sure. It can be just bad discourse.
But at least it’s not fucking truncated like Twitter and TikTok discourse. At least you can have actual discourse on reddit.
Reddit was also about having a very niche specific weird interest and sharing it with other weirdos and fans of that niche very specific interest.
[ID: two pictures of Rice the blue and brown amazon milk frog. In the first they’re on the edge of their white water bowl, in the second their hanging off a leaf above a bowl of mealworms]
the western gull is just one of many birds known to display same-sex pairing behavior. however, it had previously been unclear if one partner in female-female pairings took on a typically ‘masculine’ role and the other took on a ‘feminine’ role, regardless of sex. it had been hypothesized that these pairings were the result of one gull adopting a typically masculine role. researchers found that regardless of same-sex pairings, the gulls behaved identically to members of their sex in opposite-sex pairings. additionally, up to 14 percent of 1,200 seagulls in the survey were in same-sex pairings.
