Its absolutely no coincidence that the people being sent baseless sexual assault accusations against predstrogen have, from what I’ve seen, been young transmascs.
The terfs behind the harassment campaign are so brazenly trying to prey on anybody they reckon might have any transmisogynist tendencies and are trying to use that to sow discord in the trans community. They see transmasculine people as potential avenues for recruitment (and eventual detransition) and it’s extremely fucking important that the people being sent these anons do not fall headfirst for the bait. They want you to go ‘uh oh, guess trans women are sex pests after all’ and that to stick with you and fester, and turn that seed of prejudice into the continued harm of transfem people.
If you want to be a meaningful ally to transfem people right now you have to be vigilant for this shit, and correct it where you see it. If you think being used as an angle ofrecruitment by bigoted harassment is gross, imagine how it would feel to be the damn focus of the harassment.
hey, transmascs, especially transmasc lesbians, transfems need your solidarity and support, we need to be protectors of the transfems in our spaces ans have absolutely no tolerence for baseless accusations or the way transfems get treated by terfs
transmisogynists are not your friends, they do not accept or sympathize with you, ice them out
we’re stronger together, anyone who says otherwise isnt on our side
its dope how the CEO of this website can casually drop the fact that he had at least one content moderator on payroll who was accepting bribes to take down blogs on request, without revealing who was affected by this or what actions were taken to reverse the damage, and were all just supposed to be like oh ok thanks for taking care of that :D
easy to joke but that bits actually gonna be driving me insane like how many people were affected by that? how long did that go on? was that moderator being paid off specifically to take down transgender people? chances are we’ll never know because @photomatt is a fucking pussy
Hey so if “I hope you get exploded with hammers” or whatever is enough to get not only get just one account permanently deleted but to get every new account you make permanently deleted, wiping an entire person past present and future off of the site, does that mean that all harrassment meeting and surpassing the same comically low level is now retroactively a permabanable offense, and therefore every fucking terf on this god damn site that’s ever left even a single hate message should have their entire existence past present and future wiped from tumblr? Just checking if there’s a transphobic (and transmisogynistic) double standard or not @photomatt, since you’re so convinced that tumblrs transphobia is just misinformation
On July 10th of 2023 I got an email on tumblr regarding a neo-nazi I randomly spotted and reported was not violating community guidelines with his comments towards another user and therefore no action would be taken.
This led to me asking this in reply, including a direct quote of what the neo-nazi said.
[Image reads: “How is saying you want your job to be "liquidating faggots like you two” not against hate speech rules or community guidelines? Like, can you explain that to me please?“]
like. cards on the table: at first, i thought, hey, maybe the framing and recounting of the predstrogen situation is (understandably) biased because this seems really fucking weird, even for tumblr.
but, for real, it does just look like a series of repeated mass-reports drew staff attention to her and inevitably got her accounts flattened for entirely normal edge-case posting.
like, repeatedly, mass-reports happened, she’d appeal and get it reversed, and then it’d happen again, until finally it stuck. oh boy, did it stick! permanent lifetime ban.
the “death threats” that got her banned were cartoon-violence grumblings (responding to getting stung by bad-faith mass reporting) and the “harassment” seems to have just been pointing out specific user accounts that were needling her or outright harassing her. neither are against rules unless you’re taking a bizarrely bad-faith reading of things.
and of course, all of this was her direct response to repeatedly being falsely reported and having to wade through the drawn-out, unresponsive appeals process while far worse content and accounts remained untouched, despite being reported.
also there was the whole “incredibly obvious and malicious rape/pedo-jacketing mass-anon disinfo campaign” run against her.
deeply uncomfortable that the CEO of tumblr took to posting about the mean anon threats he was getting about the situation, but didn’t say a peep about the *genuinely malicious* threats and harassment predstrogen was getting. like. that’s not worth a quick callout, lil buddy? you can’t see why people are pissed?
anyhow. car hammers, or whatever.
Wow, an actual explanation of what happened
If you’ve already rebloged stuff about this situation, then I recommend you reblog this as well
a giant, glass shattering noise comes from the sky that is unmistakably the smash bros announcer saying “KING DEDEDE”. it makes headlines worldwide and people are scared. scientists find that the source of the noise was a dead star 2.7 billion light years away
I had to pee really bad and o forgot that I had just sliced jalapeño peppers and the chef is looking nice at me weird because I’m pouring milk on a rag and running to the bathroom
My dick has been on fire for over an hour
I told my chef what happened and he was like “you only make that mistake about fourteen times”
He tells me this story about this time he had gotten out of a chili class in which he had been cutting habenjero peppers all class and he goes back to his dorm and starts finger blasting his girlfriend and she stars SCREECHING.
She he fukin SPRINTS to the dorm prep kitchen and gets a gallon of heavy cream and runs back to the room. He starts pouring this shit all over her Cooze right, and she’s like shoveling cream into her hole. And he’s freaking out. Like he’s so sure that this chick is don’t with him forever.
So they deal with this thing and the cream works and he’s like massaging it into her pussy for like a half an hour because you have to constantly soak it to nullify the habenjero oils or whatever. And she gets INTO IT.
She fucking CUMS
And my chef tells me this stupid ass story and looks me in the eye and says to me
“Nothing says I love you like a gallon of heavy cream in her pussy”
And I think that’s the best sentence I’ve ever heard in my entire life.
Yes good story but WHY IS IT IN LIKE 8 DIFFERENT PARTS DO YOU KNOW WHAT PARAGRAPHS ARE.
ITS THIS. YOU COULD HAVE DONE THIS.
SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE AT WORK AND CANT POST EVERYTHING AT ONE TIME FUCK OFF
put spikes on your wheelchair’s handles. wrap barbed wire around your cane or crutch so it’ll hurt like a motherfucker if someone kicks or grabs it from under your hand. wear a personal alarm and pull the pin every time someone moves you without your consent, leans on your chair, takes a seat on your rollator, taps your hearing aid, steals your AAC device. scream for help when you’re abducted. wail like you’re in agony when people trip you up or knock into you. take pepper spray to the grocery store. take a knife to the club. leave cards that say “fuck you” under the wipers of inconsiderately parked cars and scratch access codes for bathrooms on the outside of the door. we are not begging for mercy, we’re fighting dirty. we have to.
And what, pray tell, is so wrong with that? Must a king lower himself to the vocabulary of insects? Must an academiac explain his reasoning to kindergartners? There is no shame in knowledge nor is there in verbosity. Quite the opposite, they are to be celebrated. But I guess this is the world we are forced to inhabit. This world… This planet, teeming with life and all its infinite possibilities. And you would dare dilute it, so that a simpleton’s mind could comprehend it? I will not stand for this. No more shall a man be judged for his might, his ambition, his intellect. No more shall we look down on those who propose a mere thought experiment about owning a human pec9sdjv0 c9i2ewokhndvoi adsjvci uwqeowdsxujvnli ufdsiuljfcniu ofeidcvjpc9nUIODSuljvniuwqopisafjvp985erioewaudJHB9jrg8frjuv8ar9jvuw08rd9vujq35g89spdujigk[0e9ravjik0rvu9jq54w8yvh r8og;af9ukjgmoiaelgurj9g8zboifyhvlo8fivujawp89 OC:Ivjare0sd9oizl
Please leave the mall, you’re making a scene.
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An asexual and pansexual become room-mates and have wacky adventures
The show is called ‘All or Nothing’
Well, well, well…
10 years of All or Nothing.
I made this post when I was 20 years old and there was basically no asexual/pansexual rep in media.
I’m 30 years old now and…well, there still isn’t a lot, but at least we have Todd on Bojack Horseman and that guy from Schitt’s Creek?
A lot has changed in the past 10 years, both in the world and within myself. Looking back on the anxious, self-criticising barely-adult that I was back then really helps to put things into perspective.
Despite the Everything that’s happened with this post, I’m still glad it’s around and that it’s circulating - a little slice of classic 2014 tumblr nostalgia.
To everyone who has gotten something positive out of this post - I’m glad I was able to brighten even a small part of your lives, even for a moment.
To everyone who’s amazed I’m still here - Same, honestly. Please keep adding such comments though, each other gives me more power so that I may one day ascend from this mortal shell.
To everyone who’s left unnecessary negativity on the post - Okay 👍
And to everyone who may be wondering ‘how does one celebrate the anniversary of such a momentous part of history?’
and then you can bring up any personal instances where you have recieved transphobia from staff, and/or mention one of the many instances of staff unfairly targeting trans people
to help you fill it out for company you wanna put : Automattic and/or Tumblr for address you wanna put : 12 E 49th St Fl 11, New York City, New York, 10017, United States for phone number you wanna put : (646) 513-4321 and for category of discrimination you can put : Discriminatory harassment and basis of discrimination you can put : Gender; Gender identity
it doesnt take very long and the more examples and people that speak up the more likely there will be some kind of legal action, witch is the only thing likely to actually make tumblr try to be less transmysogenistic
Some computer related jobs will periodically send you emails posing as phishing scams and if you open it you automatically have to take a web safety training seminar and I just think they should do that for tumblr except with reading comprehension
Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there.
Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this car screeches up, stops next to us, and the car was covered in hammers and it exploded and the hammers went flying everywhere. I was punched and kicked a bit too (by the hammers. from the exploding car), but I managed to avoid brutalization by not protesting this case. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back (the hammers), getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called the FBI and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.
CEO of a less popular website. Treats trans women so poorly that he’s direct messaging them and is threatening violent actions and calling law enforcement when all a friend of mine wants is… To have her transition timeline online in a spot she felt she could be seen and connect to people. Utter rancid dogshit of a human being. Petty. Pathetic. Spineless. All this when there has been fire under his ass for this behavior before. Erasing years of pictures and art and a whole person from her online life is sickening.
Fuck anyone saying “just go somewhere where its friendly to trans people” girl that’s what this was promised to be. I’ve migrated like 4 times now.
Mass erasure of data is always something that messes me up, ever since I overthought about the library of Alexandria. Like, all that information and all that human work is just completely gone.
I literally did an entire class presentation one time where I ranted for several minutes about the Spanish conquistadors and how they burned down a ton of mesoamerican libraries in their quest to violently convert everyone to Catholicism. Like, there’s a massive hole in our knowledge of history, and it’s not even because nothing was recorded. Things actually were recorded. And now they’re just gone.
This kinda gives me similar feelings. Like, all that data and information, everything she posted, so many thoughts and ideas and images, and they’re just gone now. Like they never mattered.
Idk maybe I’m being too overzealous about this, but this stuff just makes me really sad.
shout out to my fave under-appreciated unbreakable transgender hero
The thing that gets me is he didn’t ASK for the impenetrable skin. Poseidon was just like “cool cool but you know what you need? skin of IRON. don’t worry bud it’s on the house”
/x/. voiceless velar fricative. velar is how you have your tongue in with /k/ and /g/.
a fricative is /k/ to /x/ as /t/ is to /s/.
think of how your tongue and mouth is shaped making a /t/ sound, then see how it is when you make an /s/ sound. they’re nearly the exact same. now do that same thing with a /k/ and thats how you get /x/
if you can feel the uvula in the back of ur mouth flap around thats too far back and is a /χ/, not an /x/
After seeing the situation it always just reminds how the burden of “bring nice and perfect and polite” (which really means quiet) always falls on the victims of harassment and bigotry. It never falls on the people doing the harassment or the bigotry ofc because the response to harassment and bigotry is what’s viewed as “the violence” instead of you know the actual violence
“banned for sexual content and threats of violence”. if you saw even half the sexual content your advertisers push on us, or a fraction of the harassment on this website from people who want us dead, you’d fucking wish a car made of exploding hammers would come your way.
And gauges and dials should be gauges and dials, not screens
Door releases should have a direct mechanical link to a latch, not send an electronic signal to a servo
You should not have to have your phone alive to unlock your car
Most touchscreens have a temperature resistance of less than 40°C (104°F). They do not belong on cars, toasters, ovens and stoves, any kind of safety equipment, or any equipment that requires precision of operation to maintain safety. They do not belong anywhere near a working engine.
it’s also worth noting that installing touch screens instead of things like buttons and dials makes them less accessible.
blind/visually impaired people often rely on being able to feel those buttons and dials. most prosthetics aren’t designed to activate capacitive touchscreens. folks with any variety of conditions may find it much easier to interact with physical input like buttons and dials than a touchscreen.
disabled people are constantly left out when it comes to product design, and the trend of implementing touchscreens where buttons would work just as well (if not better) is a prime example.
to any scared queer kids reading this: you are resilient. you can be soft at heart and still be strong when you need to be. you will survive this, and you don’t have to do it alone.
Also like this can’t be explained away by “it’s hard to moderate so many blogs”
Versus
Like it’s pretty obvious who’s welcome here and who’s not. An actual hate group is more welcome than the victims of their harassment.
Wait, if staff wants to ban a group, terfs for example, can’t they just identify all the tags that group uses (like “#terf safe”) and then just go through every blog that posted to that tag, taking action on any that are a part of that group?
Like, why are reports the only way they can find out about a rule breaker??
ftr I am forever going to be bitter that the post I wanted to be “let’s talk about extinct ecosystems and how cool they are!” got derailed into yet another post just talking about a single taxon like the millions of other posts on palaeoblr
Please tell me more about these extinct ecosystems. Why did they go extinct? Could an ecosystem like that return?
When I say “extinct ecosystem”, I mean those ecosystems that have existed in the past, with extinct animals and plants etc. inhabiting them
by their very definition, they are gone forever
there are ones that were truly unique, like Polar Tropical Forests and Fern Prairies, that we just could not have today
but there were ones that have equivalents to today, as well, like the first savannahs and steppes of the Miocene - they just have earlier versions of the plants and animals
there were so many because there are so many today, and each one had its own flora and fauna and was glorious
There’s the wetlands and forests of Hell Creek in the Latest Cretaceous
the bizarre Volcanic Lake Forests of the Jehol Biota
whatever the hell the Ediacaran Reefs were
the Scale Tree Swamp Forests of the Carboniferous
“Mesozoic 2” aka pre-human Aotearoa
the Western Interior Seaway dominated by Mosasaurs
and so many other things, I couldn’t possibly list them all. Every time period had its own biosphere and biomes, and they were all unique.
ie, the ecosystems present during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
we have fossils of plants that showcase how different tropical plant lifestyles had to be up at the poles because of the light weirdness
the important part is “tropical”, not “wet/rainforest”. those are two different things
Temperate and Boreal Rainforests are wonderful and some of my favorite living biomes, but they aren’t what I was talking about
May I ask about the fern prairies? That sounds really cool!
Grass is a relatively recent thing
it first evolved in the latest Cretaceous, but it didn’t actually take over everywhere until the Miocene, when grasses that process light differently (look up C3 vs C4 photosynthesis) evolved and just took the fuck over the planet
before then, other plants formed the low ground cover over the earth, and in many places those plants were ferns - spread all over the ground and covering it, much like grass, but significantly less dense. Dirt would have been much more common everywhere.
This is why I am begging every single game developer to remember that grass is not a neutral ground cover
My favorite extinct ecosystem, if it counts while being as physically tiny as it was, is the floating logs that existed in the ocean between the first appearance of woody trees and the first appearance of organisms that could break down wood - floating reefs of a sort, trailing enormous filter-feeding crinoids below them. The baleen whales of their time
yeah that counts! And how bizarre those must have been!!!
Speaking of reefs, we’re so used to rocky or coral reefs in the moderns world but there have been so many different reefs throughout prehistory that were made of things that straight up don’t exist any more!
Like the reefs of the late Devonian, which were made of stromatoporoids, which may have resembled corals but were actually a highly diverse extinct group of sponges!
This is one of my own reconstructions of a stromatoporoid reef off the coast of Devonian Australia (plus anachronistic underwater baited camera):
The Cretaceous also had some wild extinct reefs which are known as carbonate reefs and were dominated by a group of bivalve molluscs called rudists!
Scale tree swamps are the only one of these I know anything about and they were SO WEIRD. There’s definitely some controversy about how they functioned cause these things are hard to work out from fossils, but the current thinking is that these trees shot up to around 100 feet tall in 10-15 years, grew more tightly packed together than basically any modern forest, produced spores one time and then promptly keeled over and died. Forests just do not work like this anymore! It’s not just different types of trees, it’s a whole *different type of forest* that has gone extinct! Different nutrient cycling, different natural rhythms, different everything!
Even today there are all kinds of niche hyperlocal ecosystems that function in their own distinct ways - shale barrens, waxcap grasslands, cataract bogs. What else have we just never seen??
Anxiety over all the prehistoric organisms we’ll never know, meet your big sibling: anxiety over all the prehistoric ECOSYSTEMS we’ll never know
Literally never seen a blog get deleted as hard as they deleted predstrogen. Every image on every post regardless of content just gone. Swear to God staff invents new moderation tools for the people they hire to target trans women with. No reasons, No TOS violations, just fucking voiding a random trans woman instead of any of the thousands of hateful TERF or Nazi blogs. Tumblr REALLY hates transwomen despite the fact that transwomen carry this fucking site.
actually its worse than being banned for no reason, they made up reasons on the spot when i asked about it. when my account got terminated, they said it was for sexually explicit content. when i corrected them saying i was actually cleared by staff and support for this a month ago, they told me:
and as if “as you know” isnt an insulting enough way to talk to someone when youre being corrected, they threw this in at the end
there was no mention of harrassment, theyre simply making shit up as they go along. even worse that theyve ignored my emails from last year about the harrassment ive faced all of 2023. they can make up a reason to hurt a trans woman, but wont help the trans woman from the same thing shes accused of
This post is less than 48h old and they nabbed her new blog too, fuck staff for real.
its dope how the CEO of this website can casually drop the fact that he had at least one content moderator on payroll who was accepting bribes to take down blogs on request, without revealing who was affected by this or what actions were taken to reverse the damage, and were all just supposed to be like oh ok thanks for taking care of that :D
easy to joke but that bits actually gonna be driving me insane like how many people were affected by that? how long did that go on? was that moderator being paid off specifically to take down transgender people? chances are we’ll never know because @photomatt is a fucking pussy
