I didn't create much anyway, plus the hypocrisy of its recent decisions just doesn't jam with me. If you've come here from my Youtube in the future, apologies, but this is it. If you follow me here and are looking for me elsewhere I have a Twitter and the also mentioned Youtube page. Links below.
Twitter @MichelozzoUTube
Youtube https://m.youtube.com/user/TheRealMichelozzo/featured
Hey Tumblr, if you decide to leave I don’t blame you. I’ll still be here, but also on Twitter and Facebook if you want to follow the sweet googly eyed content!
I don’t upload too frequently here anymore but since a lot of people might be leaving tumblr soon, you can find my work at these places:
Thanks so much everyone for following me for so long!!
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.
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.
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.
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
Ever notice how appeal to a wider audience type dealies always end up booting people out of whatever is trying to be diverse and inclusive. Almost makes you think its complete hooey and they’re just trying to make censorship and thought control sound pleasant :thinking:
Tumblr is apparently doing some crazy nonsense again, so it seems like a good time to remind everyone that Pillowfort.io is a new social media platform that aims to give users control of their content and how it’s seen and shared, as well as provide better communication tools to promote conversation and creativity. If this sounds good to you, you can donate $5 to our PayPal and you will receive a registration link the Friday after your donation. And if you decide the site isn’t for you, you can request a refund for up to three weeks after you sign up. (All money we receive through this process is going towards paying our hosting expenses and compensating our programmers.)
Reblogging this in light of the recent news, since we’ve been getting a lot of questions from people looking to join. If you’ve sent us a payment since the 16th of November you will receive your invitation email shortly after the site returns, which will likely be tomorrow! If you want to purchase more than one registration link ($5 per link, so $15 for example would get you 3 registration links) you can give them to anyone you want– the ones you purchase are not tied to your account in any way.
Now, Pillowfort will not always require a payment to sign up; we are doing this because we are still in the process of implementing our subscription plan, which will be our source of long-term revenue, and these payments through PayPal give us funding to make sure we can pay all our server expenses, employee compensation, etc. while we are still working on implementing our business plan. Once we exit beta you will be able to join the site and use all of its essential features for free, with the option to pay for some extra goodies similar to what LiveJournal and DreamWidth offer in their subscription plans.
There’s been a major development over the past 24 hours: another member of Congress just came out in support of the House Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s net neutrality repeal.
This is a big deal and could help push other lawmakers do the same, but we have to act fast because the deadline is just over a week away.
We’ve been fighting for months without seeing any movement in Congress, watching the clock ticking down to the deadline. But Rep Joe Morelle (NY-25) his support for the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution could change that.
If we act fast, we can leverage this new momentum to unleash a small landslide of other representatives coming out for net neutrality before the December 10th deadline, which will make a huge difference in the battles ahead.
Your voice matters. As part of today’s Internet-wide day of action, thousands of others are speaking out, along with celebrities, musicians, and websites like Tumblr, Postmates and Etsy.
You can join them and show your support for net neutrality by submitting an ‘I support net neutrality’ photo. We will be flooding lawmakers’ social media feeds with pictures, so if they decide to vote against the open Internet we will make them look us in the eye as they do it.
We can’t let this deadline come and go without making Congress remember that the whole Internet is watching. We’re still fighting for net neutrality. And we won’t forget if they betray us.
Tell everyone you know to take action at DeadlineForNetNeutrality.com and spread the word any way you can. Click here to find ideas on how you can use your slice of the Internet – whether that’s your Tumblr blog, a website you run, or any of your social media accounts – to help get the word out. We’re counting on you!
You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression.
We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Today we take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report.
The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment. Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now.
If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu.
If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content.
You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.
You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.
You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.
We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.
And if we’re getting all our content blocked?
You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.
You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read - simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.
So do whatever you can to help us stop this.
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@jellyismade STOP I LOST THAT GAME ONCE JUST TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AND I’M P SURE I CRIED THAT DAY OVER IT
“Hey, it’s up to us to take down Umbrella”
Mailman delivers sweeping change to a desert region of the united states. They may or may not now rule said region.
man this whole "boobplate" discourse from the Sisters' armor design is crazy
Okay, now that I know what you’re talking about after doing a little reading, yeah it is crazy. Because people act like they have a say in what GW wants to design the characters to be. Not to be nihilistic or cynical about it, but if SoBs are gonna have titty armor, they’re going to have titty armor. Until it stops selling, then they might not. Just because women in titty armor exists, and someone doesn’t like it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve to exist. Plenty of people like their titty armor, for perverse or otherwise reasons. What right do people have to take that away from them? How I see it anyway
Yeah, expect quite a lot of it on this tumblr in the near future, go experience it for yourself, but in the meantime to avoid spoilers probably avoid undertale and deltarune tags on this blog for a while, because I got head canons/theories aplenty to drop.
reblog if you want a doodle based off of ur url every person who reblogs this before november 10th will get one!!
nyeheh
heck yee
this aught to be interesting
rb this and tag your couriers best and worst skill! i wanna see yalls goodgood characters
...but it is basically canon that Darvo and Clem have found the fourth wall, and Clem tried to assault pod his way into our reality. Didnt work but bless his cloned heart for going in grakatas blazing in an enthusiastic attempt.
I’m curious about who everyone sided with. Reply to or reblog this post and tell me whether you went with House, the Legion, the NCR, or independence. Or if you’ve never gotten far enough in the main quest to make that choice.
Yes Man
I did them all, but Yes Man is my favourite, just because it feels like something I’d do. I’ve been handed the keys to New Vegas on a silver platter, what makes you think I’m just going to HAND them over to one of three sides I just met? While I know the Legion would never go peaceably, if this situation came up and I had the full range options I would have in ‘reality’, I would try to come to some kind of peaceable truce with the NCR at least. Obvs Mr House isn’t big on sharing, but you can at least keep your future customers happy :)
While touching on adult topics will likely keep the show off of television even in Japan, I have to applaud CaWB for its depiction of cholesterol clogged arteries. Using an illegal toxic waste dumping metaphor was spot on.
Not going to spoil anything, not that the story has a narrative beyond ‘this is the day to day running of a body on the cellular level’, but damn the last episode...
People like to state ‘oh what’s to worry about we know they’re going to be fine, they’re the main characters!’ logic, which is a thing and can deter one’s enjoyment of something. But as a counter point? Enjoy the ride. Even when you know exactly where you’re going to end up, the road getting there is an adventure and a joy in and of itself. So much tension and drama, and all scientifically accurate too! Some artistic license of course, but you can tell the whole series was researched very thoroughly and made as accurate as possible.
