i like pretty things

[durendoll]

I don’t agree w/ the vatican on core theological issues but I do agree w/ their stance on how great candles are

[bibliophile-06]

THE ONLY WALL THAT DESERVES ATTENTION GOING INTO 2019

[arrghigiveup]

Chinese Kids Are Getting Their Parents, Their Parents’ Parents, And Their Parents’ Parents’ Parents Involved In A Meme

There’s a new meme in China, and it’s very wholesome. The challenge, called “four generations,” includes four generations of family members making an appearance, from youngest to oldest. A son would call his dad, who then calls his dad, who then calls his dad. And a daughter would call her mom, who calls her mom, who calls her mom. The results are super cute.

The videos are being shared on video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, under the challenge name, “Four generations under one roof.”

[source] [vid source]

This is legit the cutest and most wholesome meme omg

[dantecito-deactivated20220510]

They all look so happy and so on board with the meme, I love it <3

[bunjywunjy]

I love how many absolutely delighted old people are in this video

[a-similar-triangle]

this is the cutest thing and I love it

[kingcheddarxvii]

“Not all men” I say, “there is but one who is purely good.” But which man am I referring to? In Iceland, deep in the woods and the snow, there lives a lad raised by wolves who feasts upon sunbeams and loves all of nature, unburdened by man’s sins. Tenderly, he strokes a hungry squirrel, sharing with her the last acorns of the autumn harvest. A tear rolls down his cheek. Who is he

[a-similar-triangle]

hozier

[sleepystellarsister]

Hozier and Florence Welch are just pseudonyms Hades and Persephone have taken on after haven taken music lessons from Orpheus for a couple thousand years and deciding going into the music industry and gaining “fans” would be a modern equivalent form of the worship that previously sustained them thanks for coming to my ted talk

[coffeecaine]

Killing Eve season 2 first look

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

I think there are way more Jews on tumblr than I would expect, y'know, us being such a small group and all.

What’s with that?

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

“no you cannot refer to goyim as muggles”

[saigontimemd]

THEY KNOW

Switch your blogs while you can, folks.

[veraxplus]

NO AVATAR HAVING KINGS:

You can’t turn your self-imposed ‘explicit’ tag off, right?

Well, go into your settings, right-click on the greyed-out deactivated “this blog is explicit” switch, and hit ‘inspect element.’ 

There should be a little chunk of code that says 

disabled=“disabled” 

Delete that specific piece of code, then hit the switch. It will function perfectly, and reactivate your account.

What the fuck is wrong with the people who run this place?

[thivus]

this is what happens when you hire webdevs who wear neck ties as belts

[thefloatingstone]

[beachdeath]

so what’s up with alice walker openly espousing holocaust denial in the new york times am i right

[beachdeath]

this poem she wrote last year is uhhhhhhhhhh full-on unadulterated neo-nazism

[kenderfriend]

Who the fuck is this sicko?😤

[beachdeath]

alice walker the beloved pulitzer prize-winning author of the color purple whom i just learned has a years-long history of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories and holocaust denialism

[muslim-daily]

China is putting Uyghur Muslims into Concentration Camps

This is one of the greatest attrocities and oppression taking place in the world today yet still it is one of the least talked about issues. It’s estimated possibly over 2 million Uyghur Muslims have been put into these concentration camps which China calls “re-edcuation camps” and the goals is to wipe out and clean them from their cultural and religious identity. They have built dozens of these camps with fortified walls and barbed wire fences which they hide from the world media.

China sees Islam as an ‘ideological disease’. Many of the people put in these camps don’t make it out alive due to to the harsh living conditions inside. Many leave behind children who are then sent to government run orphanages and are brainwashed from a young age removing their cultural and religious identity.

Uyghur Muslims can be arrested and put in these camps for the smallest of reasons and every step they take is monitored by the authorities. Facial recognition cameras and high tech equipment has been deployed in East Turkestan turning it into a complete surveillance state. This isn’t fantasy or ‘fake news’. This is happening now in East Turkestan. Don’t let history repeat itself. Share and let the world know the truth.

[quite-likely-valentine]

I know there’s a lot of tension after Tumblr’s new policy annouced for December 17th, but reblog this if you aren’t leaving Tumblr so that other blogs can know they aren’t going to be completely alone!

[aninactivebloggfgfgf]

An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more. 

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again. 

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue. 

 Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole.  There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough. 

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind. 

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

 If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to. 

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise. 

Sincerely, 

The users of your website. 

@staff @support

[aninactivebloggfgfgf]

They flagged this post immediately and I’ve submitted it for review… this is… quite a week.

[aninactivebloggfgfgf]

If you believe these words, reblog it, please. I want this to be right in their face because I couldn’t email them directly. 

[insomniac-arrest]

reasons I’ve seen people staying on tumblr:

don’t understand twitter

don’t understand twitter

posts are in chronological order

spite

no other website has the same ambiance of gothic confusion and unrelatable obtuse content

they are a hapless pornbot who knows not of the end coming for their quivering female presenting nipples

mega spite

 like normal spite but you’re posting dick pics before The End

Direct Contact with the Memes

god, wht the fuk even is twitter

they tried to leave but woke up again on tumblr like it’s the Groundhog’s Day movie

[its-the-fluffy-lupin]

I made this and showed it to a friend. She said I should post it, so here we are.

[bipolarized]

This is it.

This is officially the best thing I’ve ever seen.

[yekkes]

I understand and respect Jews who are adamant about not making a big deal out of Hanukkah because it’s actually a pretty minor holiday and not doing activities for it that are even vaguely Christmas like but at least for me I like to be as obnoxiously Jewish about Hanukkah as I can because it’s fun

[yekkes]

Its like every year I see some grandstanding piece about how it’s harmful and assimilationist to make a big deal out of Hanukkah and I just think that’s presumptuous and annoying. So what if people do—and I mean a lot of young Jews feel left out during the holidays because of lack of inclusion/being bombarded by Christmas stuff—I hardly find it problematic to make a bigger deal out of Hanukkah in response or simply because you want to have fun! Just have a latke and relax lol

[boypigeon]

[ciceronian]

Also, like, I feel like making a huge deal about Hanukkah is a way of asserting my Jewishness — and therefore Otherness — in a Christian-normative world at a moment where the goyim will be made most aware of it.