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Are straight white people okay????
People like this exist. Interesting.
this story has a part 2
I...have so many comments I want to make
like how all the people this bitch obviously considers to be fat are the ones wearing the devil’s colors
or how she compares this ridiculous load of bullshit to a ten-thousand-year-old cultural tradition
but honestly
I hate that so many places will automatically convert :P into
like what is that. That’s not what I wanted to convey at all.
:P means
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LG is the only company that gets it at all
Thank you for your service, LG. You alone understand. My apologies to anyone using your service who tries to sent this to anyone using any of the other services.
The Outer Worlds – Official Announcement Trailer
Obsidian finally releases a new game, I might actually break my “no pre-ordering” pledge for this one. @thespectacularspider-girl you have any thoughts on it?
I try not to be hyped up about video game trailers any more but I’m going to break that streak because the BDE in this oh my god
The quirky old guy waking you up, asking if you’re feeling all right, feels like a callback to Doc Mitchell in a way, like, ‘remember the good Fallout? Yeah this is like the good Fallout’
They have a theme and it’s political and they’re telling us upfront - individuals vs faceless corporations, corporate branding taking a place over - is that not what Fallout is now? A load of branding pasted over something mediocre and that’s what they’re making the central conflict of their small-studio not-Bethesda game? The goddamn audacity. Plus, immediately indicating that people who think ‘games shouldn’t be political’ can fuck off
The absolute crunching on Bethesda after their Fallout 76 fiasco. Bethesda hobbled through their launch, stumbled tragically as bad reviews came in, tripped over a canvas bag, and thousands of customers’ private details spilled out of their pockets. And then Obsidian arrives and puts down a trailer. For a game that’s the same aesthetic - capitalistic branding juxtaposed against a crapsack world with funky creatures in it. Goggles and weapons and midcentury styles. But we know Obsidian can write. Obsidian can design satisfying narratives and memorable NPCs. Obsidian’s game looks way better than the Oblivion zoom-in conversation tech Bethesda is still using. Obsidian’s characters can emote to pull off jokes. Obsidian’s creature designs are fresh and interesting. They can make the Fallout we wanted, not a rehash, not an empty open world that throws franchise pieces at you and pretends to be an experience.
Bethesda just got done showing us they assume we’ll stay on their nuka-cola teats forever because they put a Vault Boy on it, fell on their own face, and Obsidian waited til they were done and stepped forward and put down a trailer for a well-animated vintage-style character-based anti-corporate shooter and I am so excited
If we’re all going down I'm going the way I lived, making shitty memes in the face of peril.
This is a MASTERPIECE
if you run a NSFW blog or post NSFW content, here’s how to export your blog
EXCUSE ME, but lemme break it down for you guys. The MCU has been going on for 10 YEARS. Within those 10 YEARS, no movie has EVER been nominated for a Golden Globe until now. Not one.
*googling* “it better be black panther”
“…well, alright”
Salt.
die mad about it
So, a few of us are wrapping up a service to auto-migrate Tumblr accounts to a new stable platform. Built with scalable cloud infrastructure to carry us forward with our “explicit” content.
Hey y’all— I know the folks behind this! They’re professional developers and dedicated to making a safe hosting space for blogs that tumblr wants to purge.
Update:
In a brief sentence several paragraphs into the essay, she revealed: “I didn’t have the ‘insider information’ I claimed but rather blind faith in a story that kept slipping and changing and revealed itself to mean nothing at all. I wanted to feel my workplace and my world were safe, untouched by the outside world.”
“There are few acts I could ever regret more in this life,” she said, adding: “To Aurora: You have been on my mind and in my heart every day this year. I love you. I will always love you. I will always work to right that wrong. In that way, you have made me a better woman and a better feminist.
“You shouldn’t have been given that job in addition to your other burdens but here we are, and here am I asking: How do we move forward? Not just you and I but all of us, living in the gray space between admission and vindication.”
It’s easy to say believe victims until it comes knocking at your door and Lena, when put in that difficult situation? She turned immediately to victim blaming.
I don’t know how she keeps getting a platform. Now to act like, through all this, there is a positive outcome of being a better feminist??
we ran out of tinsel toward the bottom of the tree and my husband described it as a pussy out kinda look and i’m gone
I always knew AfterEllen.com was cryptoTERF trash but looks like they’re really showing where they stand now.
I don’t know how long this has been in the works but the last week of their Twitter profile is enough:
As well as supporting meghan murphy they are really pushing the idea of trans women as male predators. Miranda Yardley is an English trans woman who repeats TERF talking points for them and was very well received for opposing updating the Gender Recognition Act in the UK. The reference to Stonewall UK also suggests that the new staff are completely in bed with English TERFs, who have links to US Evangelical funding.
Stop supporting After Ellen, the name has essentially been bought out to promote a fascist agenda which wants to remove all trans people from existence and then work on doing the same to the rest of the LGBT community (whether individual contributors admit it or not).
Yeah afterellen was bought out and no longer is an independant website. No surprise they’re terfs bc thats the kind of agenda straight men controlling lesbian websites love 2 push
Yah. Past AE peeps are NOT impressed with what’s happened, what with now being so openly transphobic, as well as literally erasing ALL work from authors who are trans-inclusive and all articles that spoke positively about trans people in any manner whatsoever.
Thank you @ritualofthehabit and @hrefnatheravenqueen for elaborating!
Miranda Yardley is one of the most viciously, maliciously unpleasant people I’ve ever had the misfortune to speak to.
I’ve only really heard of AE just sort of from the cultural zeitgeist but I’m grossed out to know this is who they are.
I’ll be sure to avoid their content.
Remember: Since they don’t like “TERF,” the new term is FART: Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe~
For as long as I remain on Tumblr, I’m just gonna tag anything TERFs say as “fart noises.”
Did y'all see the rules Facebook rolled out? If y'all thought Tumblr was going Puritanical….wheeeew
Wait no what’s the tea
Holy shit, facebook too??????
You asked for Kravitz
heck
Hell darling, hell
Dear people planning to move to pillowfort:
As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.
Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.
Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.
If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.
If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.
We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.
Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.
Be good to the bab, so one day the bab can be good to you.
raise your babs well and you won’t get put in a old folks home that smells like pee.
What is almost certainly happening with Tumblr’s image classifier is that they’ve deployed the bot entirely untrained, and are relying on user complaints to train it what NSFW content on tumblr looks like.
Making people participate in their own censorship in this way and punishing them with the threat of being silenced even if in compliance with the rules should they not participate, is, IMHO, abuse of their userbase.
Source: I’ve worked for three different top-five social networks, and at all of them this type of work would have been done by making the userbase do it as much as possible.
Please signal boost. I don’t care if you reblog or repost, just get the word out so that people know what they’re doing as they interect with this thing.
My twitter is @soren_tycho (nsfw, sfw account coming soon) and my github username is sorentycho.
Just chiming in as a machine learning expert, this is almost certainly the case (and knowing tumblr, they weren’t even smart enough to throw in pre-trained weights)
I don’t remember agreeing to beta test 🤔
A well known AI blogger I follow also supports this theory.
I actually feel sorry for the likely unpaid intern sitting at tumblr HQ dealing with all our bullshit and snark while those actually in charge watch the world burn from a safe distance and blame it on us damn kids not buying more products. Because ultimately this is what this about. Verizon needs to make money from Tumblr, and Verizon can’t make money cause Apple says “no adult content” and Apple has a stranglehold on the app market.
The fact that a lot of us use tumblr to host our own services and products as independent creators, often as our only source of income, is irrelevant to them. The fact that to many of us this is our community is meaningless to them. We’re acceptable collateral damage to furthering corporate greed and that’s the fucking tea on that.
Also to the hypothetical unpaid intern: leave, sweety. You can do better, and you’re worth so much more.
I thought Apple removed the app because of the CP though ?
Not that I don’t think Apple is evil or don’t have a stranglehold on the market, but if the removal was specifically because of the pedophilia then that was a more than fair decision. Come to think of it, if it was because of all the porn bots it was also pretty fair. Tumblr should have gotten its shit together way earlier about that and if the whole “no adult content” thing is wholly their decisions then this mess is on them for not being able to manage their own website, panicking when there’s finally some consequences and deciding that trying to ban all “adult content” instead of dealing with the actual problem is the way to go
(so yeah hypothetical intern might want to find a better, not completely incompetent place of work)
The CP is what forced them to roll out changes quicker, but otherwise this NSFW ban has been in the planning for quite some time. They were always planning to do this.
That whole “oh we rolled back the filtering system” that happened a while ago cause the algorithm was bullshit? Was them testing it to see a) how well it worked but also b) how we’d react.
But because, and this is all through the grapevine stuff and “anon sources” who were willing to talk to Vox (source), Verizon haven’t been putting any money into Tumblr since they bought it, the engineers that run the site have been jumping ship left right and center for better gigs (without being offered any reason to stay), so there’s been increasingly fewer staff to maintain or make changes, so the filter is still bullshit, still broken, and the site is only going to break further as time goes on cause no money is going into maintaining the basic infrastructure. So it doesn’t just seem like things are broken and no one is fixing it, things actually are breaking down, and there’s not enough people with the know how to fix it.
Tumblr is like the house built on sinking sand at this point. It just so also happens to be built on top of a tire fire as well, and the “discovery” of a CP circuit was just the thing that made them go “oh shit oh god oh shit” when Apple finally got sick of their shit and pulled the app. (And Apple is notorious for not allowing apps “that contain user generated content that is frequently pornographic” or for trying to muscle them out of site out of mind (source)(source)(source) so to the people in the notes going “uuuh they allow snapchat???”, yeah, for now. It also likely has different age restrictions and details in their ToS compared to the android one, where the rules about apps are a lot more lax, something which Steve Jobs himself was snarky about (source).)
Jesus Christ I’m so mad at myself for not knowing about any of this until now
Don’t be! The facts are only just now starting to emerge as people are becoming willing to speak out and talk, but also, some of these things are well hidden!!
Big companies pay big money for you to never know these things about them, they scrub their google returns clean so that most of the time all you will ever find are positive results. Most people didn’t even know that Yahoo had been acquired by Verizon until recently. Some people still don’t.
Misinformation is how chaos thrives, and chaos can often be capitalized on provided it’s a carefully curated kind. All of this?—laughable as it is to say, was planned. Poorly planned, and even more poorly executed, but premeditated all the same. As is anything that is done by a corporate company.
This is why things like Net Neutrality did and do matter. This is why telecommunication companies developing a monopoly over the Internet was a bad idea. This is why so many of us have been freaking out while others call us tin foil hatters go “ugh come on guys, it’s not a big deal” because it does matter! The small things matter! Because the small things eventually make up the whole and sometimes the whole turns out to be a big steaming pile of mass censorship in favor of profit. And that’s a Problem.
So don’t be mad at yourself. Not when it’s time to get mad at them.
what if there was an awards ceremony just for anime called the Narutonies
