all jokes aside, it makes me very sad how literally the entire internet, especially social media, has just become more and more unapologetic in trying to wring as much money out of you as possible. can’t go on youtube without being bombarded by youtube red ads promising that if you just give them money, they’ll block the pesky ads who are also begging for your money. can’t stream a movie without searching for it on each of the dozens and dozens of streaming platforms. all demanding individual subscriptions for their tiny share of the world’s movies that used to just all be on netflix. every news site counting down your free three articles, all the while begging you to turn your adblock off. click off instagram’s stupid shopping tab, and the first post on your timeline is with #ad. and of course, now, tumblr’s adding post plus. i hate it!! hate getting advertised at everywhere i go. hate that social media’s not even supposed to be social anymore, just another thing to monetize. i’m so sick of it!!! can’t escape it ever!!! give us 9.99 per month for exclusive fucking content!! fuck!!

I saw some post about how a woman's love for another woman is "more sacred" than any other love, and I'm sorry, but as a lesbian, I don't buy that. My love for other women is very human and physical and probably nearly identical to "a male's love for a woman," and that doesn't make it any less good.

I frankly don't feel in any way sacred when I love a woman. I adore her, I want to dance with her, I think she's beautiful, etc., but the fact of the matter is that I also think she's sexy, and I'm sexually interested in her in a way that isn't "divine" in the least.

Stop spreading weird evangelical rhetoric about women being more "pure" than men; it can harm young lesbians, especially as they struggle with issues like society viewing lesbian attraction as inherently predatory.

I've seen a couple posts like that circulating a couple times and i found one of them pretty funny because it included something like "women don't have the male gaze, YOU don't have the male gaze" and like... i didn't comment on it bc I didn't want to be an asshole but it found it rlly funny because like... "male gaze" is a feminist film criticism term, but the post was treating it like it was some sort of magic beam that comes out of straight men's eyes and objectifies any woman they look at.

No, you're completely right about this. "Male gaze" is 100% a film criticism term related to choices made cinematography and direction that highlight a woman's sexuality in a highly objectifying way. I honest-to-god worried that I had "the male gaze" in my early days of accepting myself as a lesbian, purely for finding women attractive in a normal, healthy way.

Someone owes me a SSI payment every time a person tells me to "just" go on disability.

Loved that tag

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#OFF WITH HER HEAD

when the highs and lows of high school football got you down so you blow up your own prison to dunk on the local rrotc teacher

The scary thing about The Farm is that it’s actually pretty accurate to how cults are right now. For example, the social aspects of it are extremely similar to a real, live, creepy cult in Ohio called Xenos Christian Fellowship. 

“A home church will love-bomb the hell out of you until one day you wake up and realize you haven’t spoken to any of your actual family or old friends in a couple weeks.”

stfu stfu literally nobody has an ugly smile or an ugly laugh its just not a thing. your smiles and laughter are the literal manifestations of your joy theyre gorgeous no matter what they look like or how they sound

I've seen some people talk about the dangers of attempting to monetize fanworks, and that's extremely relevant-- especially considering that the early talk of post+ explicitly encourages fanfiction as paid content-- but this isn't one of those things where you can just be smart to avoid major pitfalls.

I'm not even taking about the dangers of giving sensitive information to this website's Swiss cheese servers. Or the horrifying potential of not being able to block harassment from paying "supporters".

I'm taking about Disney.

I'm taking about how they've recently gone on a tare hunting down all things Loki, including Norse pagans and any merchandise using the extremely common phrase "low key".

I'm talking about their slightly less recent attempt to copyright (and therefore obligate them to hunt down and prosecute all references to) Dia de los Muertos.

I'm talking about a very powerful, very aggressive, ever expanding media empire that regularly has laws rewritten to suit it's monetary interests.

If you create something for money and Disney decides to come after you, you better pray that there's a team of specialized lawyers on your side. I have faith in AO3 on that front, because that was a substantial reason behind its creation. Rather less, but still some faith in Etsy and Patreon.

I have absolutely no such confidence in Tumblr. Even less than I have in YouTube, which should tell you something.

Because in the subject of YouTube? That should tell you what you need to know regarding all of this. Because I've watched countless content creators get the rug snatched out from under them thanks to a bad faith actor, a flaw in an algorithm, or a copyright holder who decided to ignore fair use laws and file a complaint anyway. Look up the horror stories sometime. They're ugly, and they're not old.

Today on 'tumblr is Perfectly Functional With No Flaws Whatsoever'

so i know we're all going wild over TumblrPremiumPlus or whatever the fuck but ive made a new discovery about the r//a///yba//n/s scam (or new to me) and since i spent the time i should have been writing up my thesis proposal doing Tumblr Science instead, i have to at least write it down

so my datemate got an IM from someone asking what 'the sunglasses scam' was. That's in quotes bc the specific phrasing will be significant later.

my datemate replies with a message more or less along these lines:

"The sunglasses thing was about a bot that would hack accounts. Once it had access to an account it would make a post about Ray-Ban sunglasses and if you clicked the link in the post it'd hack you too."

Ey hits enter, but the message won't send. Not unusual, we all know that tumblr IM wil just randomly glitch out when it feels like it. So ey hits refresh, and abruptly finds emself on the log-in page.

"Hi! It's time to change your password!" the log-in page says.

My datemate is naturally suspicious about unexpectedly being asked to alter eir password, but, since ey practises basic cybersecurity and actually uses different passwords for every site, ey figures there won't be too much risk. Ey resets eir password, logs back in, and types out the message to eir friend again.

Same thing happens. Message won't send, ey's booted back out to the log-in page, and told to change eir password again. So ey do.

The third time this happens, ey figures something has to be wrong with the message. I've been watching over eir shoulder for a couple of minutes at this point, so we do a bit of Sciencing to work out what the fuck is going on.

Hypothesis: Tumblr IM is, for some reason, flagging mentions of ray-ban.

Experiment: I send various ray-ban related words and phrases to my datemate via IM. If any of them refuse to send and I get kicked out on refreshing, we've found the culprit

Results: "ray-ban" is fine. "sunglasses" goes through no problem. the precise phrase "ray-ban sunglasses" gets me drop-kicked to the log-in page like i was trying to start a fight in a nightclub (or so i assume. ive never actually been out clubbing)

I do a bit of fucking around on text posts with that phrase to see if that achieves the same effect.

I even tried recreating the original scam post as close as i can get without linking to a malicious website.

not a peep. i stay happily logged in.

so.

tumblrs solution to the ray-ban bots issue

was to blacklist the exact phrase "ray-ban sunglasses"

in the IM feature only

making it impossible

to TELL anyone

who uses the goddamn IM feature

about the goddamn scam

W E B B E D S I T E

OSHA safe stimboard for anon!

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The masonry saw depicted in the bottom-center gif does not appear to be properly guarded, a violation of OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1928.702(i)(1):

By claiming that this stimboard is “OSHA Safe” you have provided false information about the safety of your workplace and may be subject to a fine of up to $10,000

actually, if you look at the full gifset linked, it is indeed OSHA safe as a semicircular enclosure over the blade is fully visible there. you can also check out the Instagram video here, where you can see the saw being used. i apologize for any misunderstanding, i take my workplace safety very seriously.

Thank you for your cooperation! You are no longer required to keep the above citation posted for the usual 3 Day period and you will not be charged a penalty fee.

I want cis lesbians to work on making a stronger support system for trans lesbians. Saying “no terfs” just ain’t enough, y’all.

Like, help a trans lesbian get a job. Invite her out to shit. Talk to her. Bring her around other lesbians and don’t make a big show of correcting someone who misgenders her. Offer a ride home at the end of the night so she doesn’t have to walk or bus alone. If you see a trans girl on the bus, sit next to her so some random, terrible dude doesn’t. Don’t invite people to a gathering that’d make her feel unsafe. Know your friends & girlfriend better. Talk to’em about the how and why of supporting trans lesbians. If they’re not on board, get them on board, and if that doesn’t work, it’s time to question the company you keep.

Make it so she feels that OF COURSE she belongs. That OF COURSE she’s supported.

Like idk, everything I just listed is stuff that… you just do for a friend. Y’all it ain’t that hard to treat a trans woman like, ya know, a friend.

Think they might be onto something here

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