The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.
Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.
Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.
Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.
Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.
good luck with your plan to sell ads targeting a user base that doesn’t exist any more, @staff.
Then they’re def gonna let Tumblr die on the vine when it doesn’t pan out. It’ll take a few years but mark my words, this is going to work out about as well as when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and everybody left. Also, fuck Verizon forever.
Plz lemme know if you reblog this and it disappears. I have Suspicions.
I mean, there are already mutuals of mine reporting that they can’t see this post, only a “post was deleted"notice on my blog, and I’m the OP.
So, whatever your suspicions are, I suppose mark them as confirmed.
i’ve seen it disappear about 5 times off my dash.
I’m doubting the “post disappearing” stuff, if that is happening at all, I’d suspect bugs before malice. They don’t care enough to remove it, plus, if they wanted it gone, it would be *gone*, not gone for some people
Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract. And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.
So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.
I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio. Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.
The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons. We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”
interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them.
…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit
A take people could have but choose not to: The prevalence of what is classified as “sociopathic behavior” actually seems to function as a description of a large part of the population with the only real difference between the average person and a “crazy” person is discursive and usually the product of material conditions.
The take people instead choose to have: It’s so scary that we’ve allowed actual crazy people into positions of power and authority. We must extend the reach of the medical industrial complex so that no one, not even our elected officials and business leaders, can escape its disciplinary power!
teaching children that they are allowed to walk away and cool off if they are feeling overwhelmed might literally save their life as teens/adults
There’s so many cases of people killing someone over roadrage, it’s not even funny. So many times an angry motorist will get out of a car to yell at someone who cut them off and get shot or stabbed. It’s not worth it to get mad at people. Take a breath and walk away. You don’t want to needlessly provoke anyone.
Parents: LET your children walk away and cool off. Mine never did, if I tried, they’d get in my face and escalate. To this day I have a hard time with conflict without devolving into a blubbering, lashing out mess. Admittedly, my folks were emotionally abusive, but still. Cooling off is good for everyone.
Every actual Pacific Islanders activism group I’ve been able to find has advocated for the use of “pacific islands” as an umbrella, and using the actual names of the peoples in question (eg: maori, samoan, hawai’ian maoli, etc) whenever possible. Specifically because “polynesian” is colonialism in action. It’s an attempt to smash dozens of unique cultures into a single uniform label, erasing their histories in the process.
At least “pacific islanders” while potentially doing the same thing, has the decency to be plural.
But, hey, why take that into consideration when you can just listen to one singular tumblr post I guess /sarcasm
I get why ppl are leaving tumblr but ive never deleted an account for anything in my life and if tumblr wants me to leave theyre going to have to kill me themselves
I actually do have misgivings about dividing the world into sanitised services free from the horror of the insufficiently artistic nude figure and services based on 100% hardcore pornography, which is what you tend to get once you start enforcing the porn/not-porn divide; I mean there are obvious incentives at play but it does seem worth noting that a Tumblr user potentially could curate a personal experience that includes erotic elements without subjecting themselves to the seventeen varieties of digital chlamydia they would immediately contract on visiting PornHub, and that banning this will eliminate various forms of mildly playful or experimental sexuality, forcing everything and everyone into an strict all-or-nothing paradigm.
Except if they tried it’d be by just programming a bot to send a hitman to the house of anyone who posts the words “pride” or “power” and it would catch rainbow flags but not swastikas.
“Oh, you have to be patient with older people, they’re from a different time, things were different when they were growing up.”
In the middle of the Civil War, Newton Knight deserted the Confederate army and went back home to Ellisville, Mississippi where he teamed up with other deserters and escaped slaves to fight a guerrilla war against the Confederacy, eventually making it impossible for the Confederates to move troops or supplies through south Mississippi between the Pascagoula river and Alabama. After the war, Newt married a Black woman and bullied other white dudes into joining the Union League. What the FUCK is your excuse, Meemaw?
Fun fact, I’m related to this guy (as is a lot of people whose family are from so-so Mississippi (where he went to after the war with his first AND second wife that both were pretty damn cool) back to the civil war like my gradmother’s side is) and everytime a family member from said side of our family makes racist remarks I have the intense urge to bring this up.
Another fun fact, a lot of people who live there now apparently consider him a traitor still, so he’s still making people pissed off from the grave. If he was able to do something that was so radical back then to still even piss off people CURRENTLY by fucking off to a swamp and becoming southern Robin Hood, grandpa and grandma has no excuse.
This is completely valid, but let’s also point out… the civil rights movement was like…. not last week. I’m middle-aged, and it all took place before I was born. “From a different time” means that they managed to pass through half a goddamn century of social progress untouched. That’s something that should get them derided, not a reason to give them slack.
Tear Gassing children is a bad thing. Full Stop. Their counter-argument is only that it’s necessary to tear-gas them.
Which is all sorts of pathetic.
This is why I have so much trouble with “moral rules alone are enough.”
Once you’ve stopped reacting to children in pain… I don’t necessarily doubt your general intelligence, but I no longer even KNOW HOW reasoning with you would even work.
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