In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours. 

The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.  

Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.

However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.

Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.

This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.

This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable. 

To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of December 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue. 

Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users. 

Reblog to signal boost! We must force change.

Dear followers, because of this protest, I’m not going to be online on December 17th.

I am also asking you to join the protest.

I will also be joining to protest and I ask that you do too. 

me, starting a new game: i’m gonna be evil this time

me, 5 minutes into said game: Being Mean Is Not Nice

me, after failing to be evil: i’m gonna look up the youtube videos of that playthrough instead

me, looking at the videos: i can’t watch this

Protip

I used to worry a lot about my binder showing, but most people don’t even know what a binder is and a lot of people wear multiple layers. 

I know it makes you feel uncomfortable having your binder show, I’ve been there, I know. I used to feel a lot of shame about my binder, although it saved my life. But honest to god, most people are so clueless about trans people that it’s… bordering to the comedic. 

That’s fair.

Parenting Advice

Before you do a thing to your child whom you love dearly, please consider this question:

Would it be a literal war crime if you did it to someone you had captured while they were literally trying to kill you?

If it would, please consider alternatives. Honoring the Geneva Conventions will not make you a great parent, but if you find that respecting them cramps your style, something is probably very wrong.

wow if someone could go back in time and tell this to my parents it would help a lot thanks

yeah i wrote it after realizing that i knew over a dozen people whose issues would have been measurably improved by this advice.

Parents, cops, politicians, teachers, healthcare providers.. a lot of people should really just have this in mind. 

i had forgotten this post

It’s been in my drafts for quite a while.. I had a thing I wanted to add on to it but couldn’t quite word it so I settled with.. well. That.

date a boy who falls asleep in your lap when you scratch his head

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Help two homeless black transmen out

Hey y’all I’m Stephen ((left in the bottom pic)18 he/him) and this is my husband Elijah(right)19 he/him they/them) and as of December 2nd we were kicked out of his abusive mother’s household. I had been living with him and his family since September after being kicked out of my transphobic grandmother’s home, and from that point me and him had both worked hard to find and maintain jobs and attend school whilewe saved enough for our own place. His mother was extremely mentally/emotionally and financially abusive. She withheld his money that she owed and constantly raised the rent that we were both paying. Despite her collectively getting 400$ a month from the both of us, free labor in the form of child care for his younger sibling, forcing Eli to do all of her schoolwork for HER own bachelors degree, and him and I being the only ones to buy groceries and toiletries for the house as well as cook the majority of meals for the family of 5 living the apartment, she still kicked us out. From weeks prior she had been threatening to kick us out if we didn’t obey her and bend to her will, she has untreated Bipolar Disorder and has refused all attempts of therapy Eli had begged her to take.

She was extremely manipulative, controlling and extremely paranoid that anyone who told her no or asserted any agency for them self was her “ enemy “. She is also violently trasphobic and would constantly misgender me behind my back to my husband under the guise of it being “ impossible for me to be homophobic[read: transphobic because her dumbass can’t differentiate the two] because I was there for Eli when he transitioned “ which is a boldface lie ( she tried to subject him to conversion therapy when he first came out ).

Even if she were to take us back in (which is HIGHLY unlikely) the environment in which we both lived in was too toxic and unstable to stay in much longer

Eli suffered major mental breakdowns, psychotic episodes and suicidal thoughts and ideations while living with her ( as did I but to a lesser extent )

As of December 3rd we’ve been living in a DHS adults families without children assessment shelter facility: here’s our room.

The accomandtions we were provided were minimal at best ( one roll of toilet paper between the two of us, two moth bitten ‘comforters’ and thin white sheets, two small bars of facial soap. ) We can’t comfortably use the shower faucalities on site seeing that we are both the youngest and only trans occupiants. Even if we did decide to take the risk of showering, the showers are broken and won’t be repaired for some time.

Safety is a major issue as our lock is currently BROKEN ( despite asking for it to be fixed for three days ) and we live next to an violent domestic abusive couple that the faculity’s security refuses to deal with. Fights are commonplace as most of the other occupants are hostile at best.

Not only is safety an issue but we are responsible for providing our own food ( all food is provided is frozen and inedible ) and our own transportation. We have currently been eating one meal a day as a result. My partner has lost weight as a result of our stay. We have trying our best but given that we have taken work and school to figure out housing and fulfill the requirements necessary for our housing and benefits application ( attending appointments that take an average of 6 hours a time ) we have been unable to work at our minimum wage and seasonal jobs and been dependent on our non existent savings

As of last night 12/14/18 we were found ineligible for a permentant shelter transfer due to the social service investigators failing to preform a proper investigation of our prior housing. Because of this, we have to start the process over again and stay in this unsafe, hostile environment for another 10 days. We will have to go through the same proceedings again and reaply and start the process over.

My partner was laid off from work from not being able to attend recently, and now I’m the sole provider for our family. I get paid on a bi-weekly basis and hardly make enough to keep us afloat. Even so, I won’t be paid for another two weeks. We’re asking for help and assistance getting through the week, covering food and transportation costs for our appointments, amenities and toiletries, and various fees that apply to the application process, (documentation requests, printing at the public library, doctors visit copays, etc.)

Here’s our cashapps and my venmo

Even if you can’t donate sharing this post will greatly help our chances of recieving help. Thank you for reading ❤️❤️❤️

Im really sorry i have to keep making these but all of my other posts are loosing traction and me and my partner need help now more than ever so please help if you can!

🎯 (at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrbCzZSlmdY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=eode75jwip0t

There is literally nothing in nature that blooms all year long, so do not expect yourself to do so.

If it would be inappropriate or rude to treat a stranger a certain way offline, it’s still inappropriate or rude to treat them that way online.

Online life is real life. The people you speak to online are real, the things you say to them are real, their feelings about those things are real, the rules of basic respect and common decency are the same. If you would never in a million years consider treating a person “in real life” a certain way because you know that that behavior is wrong and uncalled for, then it’s no more acceptable to treat someone that way online either.

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“ I’m a college philosophy professor. Jordan Peterson is making my job impossible.

Throw-away account, for obvious reasons.I’ve been teaching philosophy at the university and college level for a decade. I was trained in the ‘analytic’ school, the tradition of Frege and Russell, which prizes logical clarity, precision in argument, and respect of science. My survey courses are biased toward that tradition, but any history of philosophy course has to cover Marx, existentialism, post-modernism and feminist philosophy.This has never been a problem. The students are interested and engaged, critical but incisive. They don’t dismiss ideas they don’t like, but grapple with the underlying problems. My short section on, say, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sexelicited roughly the same kind of discussion that Hume on causation would.But in the past few months internet outrage merchants have made my job much harder. The very idea that someone could even propose the idea that there is a conceptual difference between sex and gender leads to angry denunciations entirely based on the irresponsible misrepresentations of these online anger-mongers. Some students in their examswrite that these ideas are “entitled liberal bullshit,” actual quote, rather than simply describe an idea they disagree with in neutral terms. And it’s not like I’m out there defending every dumb thing ever posted on Tumblr! It’s Simone de fucking Beauvoir!It’s not the disagreement. That I’m used to dealing with; it’s the bread and butter of philosophy. No, it’s the anger, hostility and complete fabrications.They come in with the most bizarre idea of what ‘post-modernism’ is, and to even get to a real discussion of actual texts it takes half the time to just deprogram some of them. It’s a minority of students, but it’s affected my teaching style, because now I feel defensive about presenting ideas that I’ve taught without controversy for years.Peterson is on the record saying Women’s Studies departments and the Neo-Marxists are out to literally destroy western civilization and I have to patiently explain to them that, no, these people are my friends and colleagues, their research is generally very boring and unobjectionable, and you need to stop feeding yourself on this virtual reality that systematically cherry-picks things that perpetuates this neurological addiction to anger and belief vindication–every new upvoted confirmation of the faith a fresh dopamine high if how bad they are.I just want to do my week on Foucault/Baudrillard/de Beauvoir without having to figure out how to get these kids out of what is basically a cult based on stupid youtube videos.Honestly, the hostility and derailment makes me miss my young-earth creationist students.edit: ‘impossible’ is hyperbole, I’m just frustrated and letting off steam.”]

HEY GUYS

Alright I think I’m gonna make a discord server for lgbt Jews. If y'all are lgbt and Jewish and would like in lmk and if not I would appreciate it if y'all could spread this around Bc I know a v small amount of lgbt Jews

@jewishvirtuallibrary @jewish-education How about a signal boost? 

don’t use yellow for skin, please and thank you.

I’d rather people use this then fucking yellow. Especially for Asian characters, why are we making them so fucking yellow.

reblog this to give every trans kid strength for the holidays

to all trans kids: i love you and the world would be much worse without you

its not your fault that your abuser treats you like shit. normal fucking people dont respond to you not doing something the way they want with emotional or physical abuse. the normal response to someone not doing the dishes isn’t fucking abuse. abuse can make you feel like it’s your fault you’re abused, but remember, and its hard to keep this in mind, but it’s not normal. abuse is not the way nonabusers react with. abuse is not your fault, and it’s not normal. 

all cats love aspecs. all of them. that cute little kitten you just picked up? loves aspecs. the old tabby that hisses at anyone who tries to come near her? defender of aspecs.

they love and support aspecs. all. of. them.

the rapid and consistent individualization of environmentalism stops progress entirely and makes it a performative action only the rich can accomplish.

the commercialization of environmentalism is detrimental to the very environment itself. it turns environmentalism into a thing that is to be consumed. it makes the environment a product one can only afford if they are rich. 

and it makes performative environmentalism a safety valve against perceiving injustice. “Well, I use reusable bags for shopping and reusable coffee mugs for my coffee, I only buy fair trade organic quinoa, and I recycle all my packaging. I’ve done MY part.”

Meanwhile massive corporations pollute more in one day than an individual can recycle in 20 years, but public outrage is minimized because individuals are doing THEIR part.

As a fairly non-religious jew I don’t think I ever appreciated how badass the story of passover was until I considered how it would look to your average egyptian dude living through it

Imagine growing up all your life being waited on by a race of slaves who despite living in squalor cling to the belief that they were the chosen of this omnipotent elder god. You laugh this up, pray to Horus and then go about your day

Then one day, a slave with a robe and staff barges into the palace claiming to be the hand of an elder god and demands liberation. You grab the popcorn and try to get a front row seat while the two highest level clerics in the entire kingdom demolish the guy, then watch in shock as he summons a giant cobra and kills them both in one go.

Then, Over the next 10 days you watch this warlock proceed to flood your rivers with blood, summon hordes of wild vermin, drop a pestilence on your people and livestock.

All the while your king goes off and says “we don’t negotiate with terrorists”

Its at this point that the hand of a dark and ancient god has had enough, and with a wave of his scepter like a conductors baton, he calls down the fucking reckoning. As meteors stream from the sky, the warlock yells out his incantation. It’s not an ancient tongue, or poem of dread. Just four simple words: “let my people go”. With one more breath he raises his staff, and with the screaming of a million angels he puts out the sun

At this point I should point out that with each plague this sorcerer has turned the domain of one of your gods against you, starting with Sobek: god of the Nile and working his way up until it appears he has struck down Horus: the god of gods.

Your gods are dead, and the only one still alive is your pharaoh: the representative of the gods on earth

Now, with extreme prejudice, this sorcerer summons a fucking angel of death, and one by one it slaughters the heir of every family until your own king, a firstborn himself pleads for mercy and gives in.

As the freed slaves retreat, your king grins and unleashes a sneak attack, pinning the sorcerer and his people between an army and the sea. Finally this sorcerer, who the whispers say was a fallen prince, raises his staff in mock surrender, and when he brings it down the fucking ocean shatters. Leaving a jagged crack for his people to escape

God fucking damn that’s hardcore

holy crap

I have no use for religion in my life, but I fucking **LOVE** stories like this. We humans are exceptionally good at creating and telling our myths, and whoever developed this particular myth deserves the biggest fucking trophy in the known universe.