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how did you become a cultured slutty queer within a year? asking for a friend
I don't know about cultured but; go to events, meet people at events, ask what events they and their friends go to, repeat consistently multiple times a week for a year.
If the events in question happen to be poly and kink events then the sex will pretty naturally follow from this.
That chronic mental illness feel where you're afraid that one day something will push you to o far and you'll go fully off of the deep end, but you're also afraid of the world weary part of your brain that actually kind of wants you to.
If I ever go crazy does anyone want to hang out in a nest of clothes on top of a floor mattress, existing in a fugue state while we self-destruct and have lots of sex? I'm taking applications.
Tumblr has been doing that thing where it keeps putting a liked post from someone I follow on my dash over and over again, which I usually hate, but this time the post I keep getting is a very tasteful black and white nude of a hot trans man so it's like. Actually I'm okay with this. Soothes my brain a little. Thank u tumblr algorithm for showing me this twink in these trying times
Twitter is bad but I'm realizing that if it dies then there will be zero mainstream social media platforms where NSFW content can be posted without restrictions (reddit doesn't really count, it's a combination forum host/link aggregator), and that really, really scares me with regards to where we are at as a society.
I am reminded of the famous burrito test, which states that "if you cannot get up at 3am and microwave a burrito, you live in an institution". I propose an analogous maxim for community and social spaces, both online and offline; if you cannot post hole for your friends to see, despite your mutual consent, you aren't in an "open social platform", you are being farmed as somebody's product.
I'm glad people agree weird this post, broadly. I have got negative comments, but so far the groups that they've come from have been swerfs, Catholic evangelists, and teenagers who have strong opinions about discourse they should not be involved in, the three of which together are very funny, but I think are also fairly telling to observe working in conjunction. (With no shame on kids who don't know better, but they're being emboldened in this by the reactionary sentiment in current culture).
Twitter is bad but I'm realizing that if it dies then there will be zero mainstream social media platforms where NSFW content can be posted without restrictions (reddit doesn't really count, it's a combination forum host/link aggregator), and that really, really scares me with regards to where we are at as a society.
I am reminded of the famous burrito test, which states that "if you cannot get up at 3am and microwave a burrito, you live in an institution". I propose an analogous maxim for community and social spaces, both online and offline; if you cannot post hole for your friends to see, despite your mutual consent, you aren't in an "open social platform", you are being farmed as somebody's product.
Twitter is bad but I'm realizing that if it dies then there will be zero mainstream social media platforms where NSFW content can be posted without restrictions (reddit doesn't really count, it's a combination forum host/link aggregator), and that really, really scares me with regards to where we are at as a society.
How's the creation of horny internet coming along?
Unfortunately I do not actually have the time, experience, money or connections to take much action to make the internet hornier except for just being horny myself in a personal capacity. You will be pleased to hear though that that department is continuing to make great strides.
11k note post on twitter calling out a TV show for having a male character do dirty talk during sex. The degree to which our current culture has otherised and stigmatized sex and trained themselves to have a psychological fear response to anything that wouldn't show up in pastel "cozycore" cartoon erotica is absolutely insane.
Have you ever seen a twitter thread (or, in this case, two!) that so perfectly expressed everything you’d felt over months and months of harassment persistent? With all credit to @blackblobyellowcone, who is clearly amazing and completely gets it– not just why us women write and read the erotica that we do, but the history behind the censorship we, as a gender, have experienced. Bravo.
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Every time an American person says the words “fanny pack” they owe me 20 of their Yuuessed Dollars
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.
You know what’s really telling? How when this change was first announced there were a whole slew of people, usually the same sorta blogs who engage in antishipping discourse, who were Super All For this change! Like, their initial reaction was “hah, fuck those perverts who want to look at nsfw content, my blog is safe”. But then in the hours and days since the announcement was made, they’ve seen the tide of the discussion across the site, and they’ve heard more directly about the harm this does to sex workers, and they’ve very quickly as much as possible outwardly changed their tune.
The point being that a lot of people on this site hold attitudes that are deeply sex-negative and which stigmatize sexuality and its expression, especially amid queer communities. When the news first broke, maybe some of them tacked on some paragraph about sex workers, but then they’d dismiss them in the next breath, and group everyone who might engage with their sexuality on this platform in any other context as being “horny freaks”. (The implication I think rather patronizingly being that sex workers are always “forced” into catering to the other “dirty pervs”). They would pay sex workers lip service but then gloat over the demise of their trade with their next breath.
But when the discourse about this coalesced, and quite rightly focused on the harm this does to communities, to queer communities, and to creative expression, and this became the dominant narrative - when the impact on sex workers became more than a bullet point to throw into the ring as an afterthought - they all instantly twisted their words to fit that narrative. Because there’s a large number of people on here who are fundamentally unwilling to address their internal attitudes and biases when it comes to marginalized expression, and when it comes to “icky” subjects like sexuality. What they do care about is appearing to be “woke”, in a manner that is more of a social-pressure function than something necessarily stemming from an actual desire for social progress. I think this is why so many people on this site will create banner lists on their blog of all the causes they support and are opposed to; why they will vehemently proclaim their support for sex workers and then demonize expressions of sexuality with the very same breath, and why ideas about certain shipping materials or fandom expressions being “problematic” morph into the idea that people who engage in them are sex criminals on par with real world criminal offenders, despite the train of reason simply not being there. It’s because the climate on this site conditions people, especially kids, to approach discourse as per a learned rote of “this is pure and this is evil”, as opposed to actually understanding with and engaging with these issues. And the dichotomy of what is allowed and what is barred stems solely from the prevailing social climate - what other people in their community are saying.
And that sucks, because it results in a sort of black-and-white classification that results in people being sent suicide threats because a bogus callout post claimed that they were an abuser. Because the climate has ramped up so that if people don’t immediately ostracize those identified as targets, they get classified as apologists and potentially attacked themselves. Moreover, and more importantly to this discussion, it means that that ideas never get critically examined, so ingrained biases and bigotry in the end ultimately do win out. Because at the end of the day, you’re going with what feels “pure” or “bad” in your gut, and by what other people are saying is one or the other. Which is why the people so frequently targeted by witchhunt campaigns on this site are, you guessed it, queer women expressing their sexuality.
See, with that sort of prescriptive, knee-jerk morality, there’s way to evaluate new but adjacent ideas. People know the right answer to give if asked about sex positivity, or sexual expression in the context of queerphobia - but give them a real world example and they’ll default to their preconceived disgust. They’ll say a thousand times that they support sex workers, but will still be celebrating when they’re effectively outlawed. It’s a sort of purely memetic conception of moral politics and ideology that just isn’t sustainable, and allows truly toxic ideas to gain traction without check, enforced by equally toxic black and white social pressure. And deep down, for all that it claims to be otherwise, the core ideas are the same ideas about “purity” and “degeneracy” that society instills in us from childhood, and although its not as outrightly stated, it is just as harmful.
Which is what people really mean when they talk about toxic tumblr culture, really. This whole situation is just another example that exposes it.
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
ARE YOU INSANE? your bots are so bad at indentifying nudity that i have never seen a nude picture censored, but i’ve seen dozens of landscapes, historical portraits, textiles, puppies, and food items declared ‘sensitive’ since you rolled them out. and now you’re, what, going to start deleting the posts instead of just blanking the pictures? or are you going to be deleting the blogs that posted that oh-so-adult sepia photo of a tree?
i mean, you will eventually stop the pornbots, simply because you won’t have a userbase left for them to sell porn to. but you’ll be unemployed.
tl;dr: their investment has gone so bad this is the last desperate move they can think of to save any of it like a failing restaurant suddenly changing its entire menu and hours
aud’s birthday photoset consisting of such lewd things as a birthday cake with icing and a dog wearing multiple silly party hats on its head just got flagged as porn, so RIP yahoo’s money i guess
lmao
Turns out that that blog I was blocked from is the type of blog that handwrings about people being corrupted by reading fanfiction about a “bad ship” and then conflates that with actual crimes so like, yep, that’s the kind of reaction I’d expect then lol
Minors being exposed to pornographic material on this website is pretty horrid but tumblr could’ve either been explicitly a no-pornography zone from the start OR, in the current version of reality, it can implement a legitimate filtering system ADMINISTERED BY HUMANS RATHER THAN RUNNING A SINGLE POORLY CODED BOT WRITTEN IN PHP, the current solution directly affects the survival income of a very large amount of people and is the laziest and cheapest one they could implement.
Silicon Valley style “all our moderation is done by bots who occasionally get updated by one person” moderation is a fucking blight upon the internet and is not going to become any better or going to stop giving random false positives and fucking over people who haven’t done anything harmful because its a fundamentally capitalist solution based on minimizing the costs of operating a massive social media platform. This entire mess could’ve been averted if this website wasn’t operated on the basis of “spend as little money as possible on keeping it clean”, except now they’re swerving from “don’t do anything” to “just have our bots delete immense amounts of the website basically arbitrarily, while we continue to not actually do anything”.
