ladyshinga:

“lol the only people mad about the tumblr announcement just want porn lol”

Yeah, no.

Tumblr blocked the tag “chronic pain” in this mess for no reason

They’re flagging commonly used tags by queer people, sex educators, and artists who make their fucking LIVING on tumblr

They’re gonna take down genuine sex workers because they didn’t curb
the problem with spamming porn bots YEARS ago when tumblr users REPORTED
OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND *OVER* that it was a problem

Tumblr
IGNORED the bots, IGNORED the problems, and honestly treated it like
NOTHING until their app was taken off a store due to it.

They’re
fucking over a shit-ton of REAL PEOPLE who rely on tumblr for community
and/or income because they ignored users’ complaints about shitty porn
bots for YEARS until it had financial consequences

I can no longer even talk about chronic pain without the post being blocked from searches

I have drawn one or two nude pieces on my art tumblr which is 99% safe
for work but now I’m worried the blog will be taken down entirely
because Tumblr won’t bother differentiating between spam and REAL PEOPLE
just trying to live their goddamn lives

And god forbid I want to
talk about bisexuality or sex or kink in just… MY LIFE. As a
normal-ass human being who just wants to TALK ABOUT HUMAN THINGS

No, their solution to nuke a problem they’ve ignored for years is to take us all down at once

So maybe don’t laugh about “oh no not my pornz” because 1. plenty of
that ~porn~ is made by actual humans making their living and 2. WAY MORE
than “just porn” is being targeted

This along with Facebook
continuously upholding white supremacy by letting nazi shit fly by while
they ban people for speaking out against their oppressors and it’s
basically like we’re running out of truly free places to just… BE

bogleech:

You ever write up a post you decide will be too controversial or embarrassing but leave it in your drafts to sleep on and then forget about it? How about real personal stuff you weren’t sure you wanted to share at the time? Heavy-ass receipts on bad people you’re leaving there for safekeeping?

Well if any of your drafts get flagged by the new system, a mod can apparently see them in with all your other flagged posts, and if they un-flag them, it publishes them automatically as a brand new post, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

vastderp:

I have a good deal of salt about Tumblr’s precious moral turn. Remember how i found out the hard way a couple weeks ago that tumblr’s scourge of pornbots are also permitted to upload real photographs of human children being abused as their header images?

like, tumblr didn’t even HAVE a report button on reblog chains until like two months ago and now that they do, its placement is not consistent between mobile and desktop. 

if you click the reblogger’s avatar on iOS, it brings up the report and block buttons.

If you click the reblogger’s avatar on a Mac, you open the pornbot’s blog and the header image might be a big dingdong or some titties, or it might be a small child being abused. Thanks, Tumblr!

none of this should have been possible in the first place. Yahoo failed completely to compile or maintain their database of known abuse material to filter it out. they didn’t do anything when users complained that the site was being overrun. they have ignored years of user complaints about their moderation, they’ve even threatened people with permabans for pointing out flaws in their basic fucking security. their negligence was bound to hit the news and get them kicked out of app stores, and now it has, and Yahoo can’t ignore the problem anymore. now they have to do something. (pshhhyeah right.)

so now Yahoo is going after what its broken system CAN catch: people drawing porny cartoons, and adult voluntary sex workers trying to pay down their student loans. Random people blogging about disabilities in posts that your Great Grandma could read in church and not burst into flames. DOGGO VIDEOS. 

Yahoo is making a huge production of kicking out lots and lots of users because all the activity makes them appear at a glance to be on top of this absolute clusterfuck, instead of suffocating underneath it.

this puts me in mind of a popular real-world city activity: rounding up all the visibly homeless people from the streets before a Superbowl or the Olympics or whatever and just dumping them in the next town over. 

This isn’t a cleanup. This is Yahoo’s $1.1 billion investment burning to ash before our very eyes. And, like, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer company, you know? such fond memories!

if something online (say, a blogging platform) is free, it means you’re the product. your personal info, your attention for hideous unblockable sponsor ads, your browsing and shopping habits. even your memes can be turned into money, or frankensteinned into fake viral marketing that might make us buy a goddamn product. we are what Yahoo paid all that money for. we are inventory.

so join me, fellow inventory, in a dry but hearty fuck-you chuckle at our leaky corporate overlords as they run around trying to piss out this enormous, magnificent cash fire. the finest song to hear is the wailing of a willfully blind asshole as he tells the world he never saw it coming.

thebibliosphere:

I was at our local bakery recently and came across a loaf of bread quaintly branded as a “Peasant Loaf”. It was selling for over $6—the irony of this was not lost on me. 

In retaliation I have decided to post what I actually think of as a peasant loaf, but with the luxury of finely ground modern flour which is less likely to break your teeth because actual peasant loaf bread is like chewing rocks unless you’re soaking it in soup or stew. 

This is a very simple loaf, it requires no special tools and is a fairly forgiving dough for beginners to work with. Also it has the added bonus of looking like an expensive artisan loaf, but costs literal pennies to make once you invest in the basic ingredients.

So what do you need?

Ingredients:

  1. Plain flour (or wholewheat if you prefer)
  2. One sachet of active dry yeast.
  3. Salt.
  4. Water.

Tools:

  1. Bowl
  2. Mug

Prep and bake time total: 2 hours 45 minutes.

Yep, that’s it. You’ll notice that there’s no quantities listed up there, and that’s because you’ll be using the mug to measure everything. This helps to make sure your quantities are consistent, and means that so long as you have a mug and your ingredients, you can make bread. Heck you don’t even need a bowl, it just makes clean up easier.

Again I had Elusive Tumblr Dad help me take the photos so be warned this is going to be fairly image heavy under the cut 😀

Step One: Gather your stuff.

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catfasteve:

it’s so difficult not being able to use milennial humor in a corporate setting. like i made a mistake today and i wanted to tell my supervisor it’s because i suffer from Dumb Bitch Disease, but do you think that would fly?? fuck no. i gotta say shit like, “sorry for the misunderstanding!” i can’t wait till the workforce is made up entirely of millennials and i can say “sorry i drank idiot juice for breakfast this morning” and my coworkers will be like “oh worm.”