This week’s current issue in mental health: the price of medication. With numerous people sharing stories about how medication was the first step when they were getting help, we wanted to point out how the cost of these treatments is prohibitive especially for people without insurance.

Real tired of seeing stuff about how ppl think the salvation army is bad bc theyre gay. Evangelism and missionary work are attempted cultural genocide. Full stop. Evangelism is violence. Full stop. “Charities” that tie their “help” to ATTEMPTED CULTURAL GENOCIDE are bad and HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BAD! FRIENDLY FUCKING REMINDER

Also if you’re ok with groups like this until they start having visibly bad politics re: lgbt issues and not before, you badly need to examine your priorities!

The Official “Log Off” Protest F.A.Q! 

The “Log Off” protest is in response to the recent NSFW ban announced by Tumblr. The ban flags all content the filtering system detects as NSFW, reducing visibility to the community. The system has proven time and time again that is inefficient, oftentimes flagging SFW material as NSFW. 

This SFW material includes art, memes and so on. This ban directly hurts the community and will not solve the actual problems at hand due to the poor flagging system. Because of this, the entire community will suffer.  

So to respond, I propose that every user on Tumblr logs off of Tumblr for 24 hours on December 17th at 12 am EST. 

Times are listed above depending on timezone! 

This post responds to some very common questions about the protest. So make sure to read it over! 

How to Export Your Blog: 

https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005118894-Export-your-blog

Alternative Sites: 

There is also an official Tumblr blog (ironic, huh?) and Twitter for the protest! It’s at: 

There will be official updates on each account. Make sure to tag us in any posts, or use the hashtag #logoff2018 ! 

Thanks for your support guys. Let’s fight to make Tumblr better. Actually better. 

Hey y'all! For those who’ve been asking, this is the info about what this blog is doing on the 17th. I hope y'all will join me.

demolished

Gottem!

i went to fact check this and he literally is

fuck them up philip

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

This user is pro tits and anti nazi

Bryan Barczyk on YouTube is a snake breeder and educator. I’ve been binging his videos for the past few days and, while I don’t know hardly anything about snakes, I believe this man to be an excellent provider for his animals. (You should check out the habitat he built for his 20 foot snake, Lucy.)

I was watching one of his videos today on Leopard Gecko morphs and he made a point of talking about a particular morph that tends to have a higher chance of developing neurological problems. He also said that he has very little intention of breeding for that particular morph.

All that being said, check out his channel (linked above). I’m sure he’s got a video talking about morphs in one species of snake or another.

The only morph in snakes that I know of that I find to be kinda sketchy is the scaleless in, I think, either corn or rat snakes. (I’ve watched A LOT of snake videos in the past 48 hours and it’s hard to keep track 😅) In captivity, they seem to be fine. They have belly scales, so their tummies don’t get rubbed raw or anything, but they might have a trickier time with shedding and stuff.

I’m sure if you Google “bad morphs in snakes,” you can come up with something.

Hey @bac0nluver69 and the person I’m reblogging this from! I wanted to let you both know that while Brian Barczyk might seem like a cool dude, there are actually a lot of problems with his systems and he is not even close to a reliable source of information. @wheremyscalesslither , like why-animals-do-the-thing said, is a seasoned, informed snake keeper who is more than likely happy to explain why and more to you in morphs, or at the very least lead you in the right direction.

Brian Barczyk is fully and completely a terrible person with horrible morals and HORRIFIC animal care. He is undoubtedly a person that should have been cast out of animal care decades ago, but instead hes set this ugly precedence of keeping all reptiles in shoe box sized enclosures. He also perpetuates dangerous myths, like ball pythons living in termite mounds. This kind of verbiage allows people to feel good about keeping animals in small spaces with just paper towels for substrate, and water. No enrichment to allow for natural behaviors, hell, not even enough toom to stretch out because “they live in termite mounds and dont need space.” This type of keeping has also spread to his larger snakes as well.

Reticulated pythons, some showed here, are semi arboreal, intelligent creatures. They should not be kept in drawers.

This style of keeping is also dangerous because it prevents healthy brain growth and promotes obesity which can have lasting health impacts.

Aside from the myths, he cohabitates animals that are solitary. He keeps them in unclean conditions:

He home treats his animals with caustic veterinary disinfectant when they become ill, and has taught others to do this. You really should be receiving a culture and antibiotics from your vet, not blasting every breath of air they take with an antiseptic.

He recently discovered scaleless ball pythons along with another breeder. Here is how BHB took care of their scaleless ball python:

Not how dehydrated the skin is, and how thin the animal is as well. Other keepers scaleless animals are flawless. To add to the shadiness, BHB started selling scaleless head animals, which make fully scaleless animals, without making sure the animals would survive. This animal hasnt been spoken of since 2015. The single female he had died, and BHB has become strangely silent about the first scaleless suriving ball python. He is assumed dead.

There are a number of other really awfuk thibgs he does- provoking animals to bite as pranks to scare people, stressing geckos out to run accross a fake field for foot ball season- complete with people telling at them and poking at them to move faster: https://youtu.be/1mQXviNWFK4

But most of all, lets not forget his entirely fake apology that tried to gain pity votes from telling people he was going to kill himself. As someone who suffers with depression and specifically suicide, i was entriely in disbelief when he used that to manipulate people into coming back to his stable. Its disgusting behavior. https://youtu.be/o1p7NdtFOrk

I could continue to go on, but quite frankly have more important work to do UNDOING ALL THE BULLSHIT HE STARTED.

Boosting this because it’s really important people know not to share his media or emulate his animal keeping.

What about Snake Discovery? I’ve been watching their videos mostly as a way to scratch a herp keeping itch that will never be fulfilled.

They have an alligator, but they go indepth about their care and are against keeping them too. They also have a rack system, but the racks are far larger than the ones in the pictures above. Idk. Thoughts? @wheremyscalesslither

Theyre just a flashier and cleaner version ofBHB from what little ive watched. They still keep their animals in small empty tubs without enrichment. (one plant and a hide does not enrichment make)

I found nothing outstanding about their information or care. Just another typical rack breeder not providing for their animals correctly.

The worst part is they are more colubrid heavy in their animal collection. Colubrids are notably more active and require more room to perform natural behaviors than what they are being provided with.

You can see here theyve actually split tub space in half for the hognoses, so while the length is the same as the snake, the floorspace of the tub has been woefully decreased.

To emphasize- here are screens of them keeping large, active snakes without appropriate enrichment in tubs that are obviously too small for such active species

The sizes and designs of these tubs also do nothing to promote natural behaviors. Remember- the aim of enrichment is to provide for a variety of behaviors for the animal to perform. So take a look at these tubs- what behaviors can they access? Burrowing and hiding. There is no space for climbing which is essential with colubrid species, especially to stace off excess fat and build musculature. No room for exploring or hunting.

Furthermore, a theme of their vlog is “smaller spaces get snakes to eat” this is a MYTH. It is never about the size of the enclosure. It is all about husbandry. Specifically the video about getting a ball python to eat- do ball pythons crawl out of their burrow into the whole continent of Africa and die from stress because its “too big”? Heavens no. But its comedic to think about. Using smaller enclosures to get a snake to eat is a cop out. Instead what you are doing by placing them in a small container is decreasing the heat gradient so they are forced into warmer conditions which forces their metabolism to speed upn thusly making them hungry. It does not actually address the issue at hand of caring for the snake properly, youre just making it so they require more energy.

I do have to give huge props to the woman though. She is very easy to understand and her voice doesnt grate my nerves like brian barczyk.

If BHB is a 0/10 Snake discovery is a 5/10.

Not impressed, very disappointed.

@pancakepornography did one a while ago so it made me want to do it. i made this a week ago and its already missing some new dicks. i have a slime boy and three furries i made since then but ill add them later. The biggest one is a god. hes 10″ tall so dont worry. and the rest, arent human except for like 2 of them so fuck da size rules

This is in inches. 1in is 2.54cm

Lmao

IT GOT FUCKING FLAGGED I’M SCREAMING

YO NSFW ARTIST AND SOON TO BE TUMBLR REFUGEES!!!

I’m going to just leave this here. This is where I’ll be at, I kinda missed it. Check them out.

Tumblr HQ, apparently.

I’ll be gone soon.. I think I’ll make a Twitter but whatever.

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.