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cherry valley forever
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The OTW is Recruiting for Fanlore Policy & Admin Volunteers
Do you have an interest in preserving fannish history, wiki editing, or writing help documentation? The OTW is recruiting for Fanlore Policy & Admin volunteers! Read more at https://otw.news/otw-recruiting-a801d1
Ok I’m sorry xDDD
Heads up, everyone who relies on AO3 email notifications to know when your favorite works have updated. Their IP is going to be changing, resulting in your email carrier possibly not recognizing the IP number and deciding it’s spam (or deleting it entirely, since there will be thousands of emails with this new IP # hitting the servers at once and the usual reaction at the recipient end is to block the IP entirely).
It will take a few days for this to straighten itself out, so in the meantime YOU MAY NOT RECEIVE YOUR NOTICES. They might go into your spam/junkmail folder or they may not arrive at all.
So during this time it’s important that you check on the fics you follow manually.
If you follow writers who post updates here at tumblr when their AO3 works update, this would be a good time to turn on notifications for their blogs so you don’t miss anything. And since tumblr tags are fritzing at the moment, another good thing to do would be to reblog those update posts when they go up so that others don’t miss them either.
The notice with full details is posted on the AO3 main page. There is no ETA for how long it’ll be.
FUCK YOU DISNEY
Anyways, y’all better start saving your fave fanfics and fanart under the Disney labels cause it looks like they’re trying to curb fair use/fanworks and I’m sure there’s going to be mass panicked deletions even though it’s probably unnecessary cause AO3′s legal team will fight for us.
You know that 400K yall were so fucking mad about OTW raising? Yeah, its gonna pay for the travel expenses and court costs that the legal team at AO3/OTW when they protect your shit from getting C&Ded. DO NOT DELETE YOUR STUFF! IF YOU GET CONTACTED BY DISNEY - GO TO THE ORGANIZATION OF TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS , CONTACT THEIR LEGAL ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT! ASK FOR HELP!! THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE IS *WHY* *THEY* *EXIST*
Note that Disney would have one Hell of a time serving C&Ds to authors at AO3 - because there is no “contact author” option other than leaving a comment.
They’d have to contact the SITE, which is to say, the Organization for Transformative Works, to deliver a C&D order or a DMCA takedown order.
And the OTW is not going to remove fics because someone sent a letter that says “actually those characters belong to me and you can’t use them that way.” The OTW was created to FIGHT that kind of claim. They are ready.
Don’t delete your fics out of fear. WE OWN THE SERVERS. They can’t threaten the hosts into deleting anything.
And if Disney thought they had a strong legal case against fanfic, they’d’ve shut down the archive a decade ago, when it was penniless and unknown, instead of waiting until it had won several battles in Congress and got worldwide acclaim for a Hugo Award.
does this include joe jonas/reader fanfictions. genuinely asking
As long as you don’t make any money with your fanfiction, it’s permitted by the Fair Use Act.
Additionally, it’d be EXTREMELY bad PR for Disney to go against fanfiction because since they own so insanely much (Star Wars, Marvel the “actual” Disney franchise and a bunch of other stuff) , there’s much fanfiction they’d have to go against.
That wouldn’t go unnoticed and Disney would be the asshole, especially when it goes to court.
RAISE HELL OVER IT! DON’T LET THE MOUSE HOUSE GET AWAY WITH IT!
Taiwan to donate 10m masks to Europe and US
Taiwan has pledged to donate 10m face masks to countries hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic including EU member states and the US, in a move that will probably anger China and highlights the geopolitical dimension of the pandemic.
Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s president, said that while Taiwan had the spread of the virus under control, the pandemic would never end unless the global spread could be stopped.
“At the previous stage, we formed a national team, now we need to play an international match and fight the pandemic together with other countries,” Ms Tsai said. “At this stage, we will donate 10m masks.”
Credit to the source
This month it was suddenly announced that the nonprofit that owns the .ORG domain registry was planning to sell it to a private equity firm, Ethos Capital. This could impact the millions of individuals and organizations that have a .ORG website, subjecting them to potential censorship and leaving the door open for price increases on domain registration and renewals. Will you take action today and add your name to the twenty-thousand individuals (https://savedotorg.org) who have opposed the sale?
Please take a look at this - the nonprofit that owns the .ORG domain registry is planning to sell it to a private equity firm, we all know what that means…
Y’ALL!
archiveofourown uses the .org domain! As does archive.org, as does wikipedia.org, as does a number of other independend websites!
WE CANNOT LET THE .ORG DOMAIN GO TO A PRIVATE FOR-PROFIT ENTITY!
!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!
Please check your Verizon YahooGroups! data downloads for virus, trojan and spyware. Verizon offers “Get My Data” downloads of Yahoo Group email messages, links and files. They may contain security risks for desktop users (Windows and Mac Users)
Those who downloaded their Groups using third party tools like PGOffline and Python - you may also be impacted if you downloaded attachments, files, links or photos. PGOffline automatically includes attachments along with messages. And some of the messages themselves might have buried malicious HTML code so even if so you only downloaded messages, please scan your PGOffline database and download folders.
***Please follow these suggestions at your own risk. When in doubt, contact your virus software manufacturer.***** (link to more info)
!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!
Tumblr Mass Terminations
Hi guys, long post here, but I want to explain in detail what I have learnt about Tumblr terminating blogs on this site in the last few days. This includes my blog @justbadpuns, as well as @one-time-i-dreamt and @officialunitedstates.
There are many others that I am trying to contact and will add what happened to them as reblogs if they let me know.
I would like to say that this isn’t an attack on staff, I think that they try their best considering the constant change of ownership the last few years. I would rather this post raise awareness with issues that have arisen and hopefully show what could be improved moving forward.
justbadpuns
On the 27th November justbadpuns was terminated. It had almost 550K and there was no email explaining why. I contacted through support and made a post on my main blog and got a response quickly saying this:
I only posted quizzes and occasionally promoted some t-shirts which I made sure were from reputable sources and I made sure I tagged it #ad to make sure that it was clear. However, I am aware I forgot a few times and rectified that when I could.
After my blog being restored I made sure to purge anything that could be classed as an ad and emailed back asking for clarification on what is classed as deceptive and what could be posted so I followed all guidelines. That email was never responded to and as of today (2nd December where I am) still hasn’t been.
48 hours pass I log back into Tumblr, I had been terminated again. Even though there was nothing on my blog against policy as I made sure there wasn’t. I contacted support and have had no response since. Granted, it is Thanksgiving weekend in America and support may only be based in America.
one-time-i-dreamt
29th December one-time-i-dreamt was terminated. Again no email explaining why to Tea (owner). She has put in support tickets and tried to get a response back and absolutely nothing yet.
Unlike me, Tea never reblogged any ads. Just reblogged the occasional followers GoFundMe and promoting small businesses and never got paid for any of it.
There isn’t much more to add on this as there has been no response from support as of yet.
officialunitedstates
On the 27th November officialunitedstates was terminated. He reached out to support and got this response:
Unlike me their blog was not reinstated. They only promoted their Patreon which they were unaware was against guidelines. After this response they have also reached out for further clarification on why they were terminated and have yet to receive a response.
Common Themes
Between the 3 of us and a few other people that have posted on Twitter:
It seems that of everyone that was terminated, no one was given an email explaining why. As a suggestion, moving forward I think it would be best if there was a reason given so it is easier to appeal if it is potentially wrongful.
It seems that these terminations have started since around when Tumblr made this post on November 27th:
As seen from the emails sent to me for justbadpuns and also to officialunitedstates. This seems to suggest that people may be abusing this feature and it leads to these terminations. Although, this is just a theory.
Personally, I think this feature is great as it could help get rid of pornbots and other extreme content that is posted on this site. I just hope there is protections in place to make sure that people aren’t wrongfully terminated.
Moving Forward
I have been on Tumblr since I was 13, so almost 10 years! I have loved being part of this community and the audience I have been able to build in this time. I even got to visit Tumblr HQ in 2016 and have a tour which was amazing.
I really hope that this post is not seen as an attack but just helps raise awareness of what is going on in the last week. Hopefully, it causes some changes to be implemented that benefit the whole community as a whole now and in the future.
It has been mentioned in the post above but I think the following would be worthwhile changes:
When a blog is terminated, an email also being sent explaining why and a link to where you can appeal this if wrongful.
More clear instructions on what is seen as spam and not allowed in terms of revenue based posts. So people can follow guidelines better and not risk termination. i.e Is Patreon allowed to be promoted? Are all revenue based posts classed as deceptive even if made clear you will make money from it? (tagged #ad, mentioned in post text/image)
A more clear understanding of the new user-based reporting system, to make sure that it can’t be used negatively.
Tumblr has been a place that has helped me grow as a person and been there when I needed it the most during my teenage years. Due to the niche communities, the support that you can find on this website and not knowing you are alone. I am sure that is the same for thousands more. So I hope that I and others can get some clarification and move forward in a positive way for this site.
There are over 5.5 million Yahoo Groups. At one point over 115 million Yahoo Groups users. Verizon is deleting over 18 years of the shared contributions and history of millions of people. They are only allowing 6 weeks for the download and rescue of our files, photos, and memories. Verizon’s automated data download tool has been broken since Nov 3 and users are getting blank data or incomplete data.
Yesterday Verizon blocked the Archive Team* that has undertaken a heroic effort to save as many public Yahoo Groups they can find. That block is now cascading down to individual moderators and uses…we’re unable to login, downloads are failing and we’re seeing more and more “The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error”
The solution to this is simple - offer more time to allow 100+ million people time and space to access Yahoo’s servers in a controlled manner.
Want to help? Respectfully contact Verizon’s leadership and ask them for more time - through March 14, 2020. You can email them or in some cases tweet the executives via https://www.verizon.com/about/our-company/executive-bios And don’t forget to copy the media: @cnet, @boingboing, @techradar-blog and The Telegraph UK, all of whom are covering the impending Yahoo-Gedden.
*Archive Team has found a workaround, but their efforts have been slowed by Verizon.
Please email Verizon. The world may be burning, but we can try to stave off the flames in our backyard a bit longer.
Tumblr blogs are being mass hacked
I don't see anyone talking about this yet so I'll start!
I already have 3 blogs on my dash who's account is being used to spam my feed with "adult game advertisements"
DON'T CLICK THE LINK UNDERNEATH IT, OBVIOUSLY
This is what it looks like:
I spoke with the artist and she said she can't get on her account again
Stay safe out there bros!
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Yahoo Groups Will Be Shutting Down - What Each of You Can Do
This post will be frequently updated - check the Google Doc linked here for the latest version. Follow this Tumblr for more information in the days ahead.
Yahoo Groups will be shutting down key features and restricting access to Groups, with user-uploaded content being deleted on December 14, 2019. With this shutdown, decades of fandom history will vanish. But there is something that every member of the fandom community can do now - whether they’ve ever used Yahoo Groups before or not.
I am a member of a Yahoo group - what can I do?
Immediately contact the admins to find out what their plans are.
Download PGOffline, a Windows tool to save the files and messages. Any member of the Yahoo Group can use this tool - you do not have to be an admin to save the mailing list.
Since many admins are busy or inactive, install the free Windows software program yourself and start downloading - focus on Files, Photos, Links, and Messages. A step-by-step walk through is available here and a video tutorial here.
Submit your plan to download here.
Export the messages and backup up the files and photos by copying them to another folder on your computer. Then contact Open Doors, the OTW preservation program. The OTW is open to providing storage of Yahoo Groups backups that are assembled by moderators and non-moderators alike. Details are here.
If you are a member of a Yahoo Group and have downloaded the files and messages, and the admins do not respond, please contact your fellow mailing list members. Remember, anyone can save a mailing list messages, files and photos and submit them to Open Doors.
Click here for instructions on how to use the Chrome plugin
If you need help from fellow fans, try asking on the “Save Yahoo Groups” Discord Channel
Mac Users: try this Chrome based plugin
Instructions on how to use the Chrome plugin
Alternatively, if you are familiar with Python, please experiment with the tools found at https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups
I am Admin - what can I do?
Communicate with your Group members - let them know your plans
Download your Group messages, files, photos, and links using the tools above. Don’t forget to download your members list.
Decide if you want to simply archive the old posts and disband the mailing list or start up somewhere else.
Please take a look at setting up a Dreamwidth community - it allows explicit material, threaded conversations, privacy locks and is free. Image uploading is limited to 500MB for free accounts and 1.5GB paid accounts. Also, if you are considering Groups.io as an option, please note that it does not allow any material that depicts sexual activity, even implied sexual activity or anything that could be considered a fetish.
I am not certain I have time to help download? Is there something else I can do?
If you are a member of a mailing list, submit the mailing list for consideration. It will help volunteers focus their efforts. Don’t forget check here to see if your group is already being downloaded.
Even if you are not a mailing list member, consider creating a page for the mailing list on Fanlore, so that there will be a place for people to talk about the mailing list, its history. Details here.
Login Problems?
Has your “inactive” email been purged? Is your email email address not linked to a Yahoo Group ID?
An “inactive” account is one where you haven’t sent an email or logged in for the past year. Receiving emails does not count as activity. The email address is then released, and can be used by someone else.
If you used your Yahoo email to subscribe to a mailing list, your access to the Yahoo Group is gone (along with all your emails). If your account was deactivated within the past 90 days, you may be able to reactivate it. (more here). Alternatively, you can try contacting Yahoo Mail support.
Outside the 90 day window: you can try creating a new Yahoo email account using the same screen name as long as no one else has snapped it up. Simply sign up as you would for a ‘new’ email account. Reclaim an inactive mailbox. Then log into your Yahoo Group.
Updated invite to the Discord Channel for fans working to save Yahoo Groups
https://discord.gg/ek2xFyJ
How to Backup your Tumblr
I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search.
Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog*
*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted. Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat.
I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing:
1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)
**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted.
So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes.
P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything.
this is actually really useful if you have an art blog full of years of work that you otherwise no longer have access to the original files. A lot of the art I have in the early days of my art blog are in that boat. I did this process JUST for that reason and I was pretty astonished at just how many pieces of media it backs up! (literally all of it) Drawings I didn’t even realize were sitting in my archive due to having been posted to text posts or undercuts, or untagged for years! It’s worth it if just for that, even if tumblr isn’t shutting down or deleting your blog.
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.
Tweet via Steve Marmel reads:
Ignore all polls. Register. Get a friend to register. Get a non voter to promise to vote. Stay in touch. Get all your IDs in order. Re-check all your registrations close to Election Day. Plan your day around this vote. Vote in packs. We have ONE SHOT. 311 days. #FlipTheHouse
Whatever state you live in, DO NOT wait till the last minute! Get registered, or make sure your information is up to date NOW. Do some google searching. Maybe you can even complete the process online.
SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!!!!!!!!
Friendly reminder that 1200 calories is the recommended amount for a 5 year old
this hit me.
another fact is that 500 calories isn’t even enough for a new born.
why did I go so long convinced that going over 500 in a day was the end of the world?
Another friendly reminder that the United States used 1,000 calorie diets as torture for political prisoners and justified it using the diet industry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-commer_n_188190.html
In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.
“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”
Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment
These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).
And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.
Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call. It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder. The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.
Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.
Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.
Wow. This really hit me hard.
EAT
Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.
Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.
SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST! More people need to know that!
ALRIGHT. LISTEN UP.
So recently, I got calls from the phone number, (937) 353-8319. They claim to be a job service, and one of their “employees”, Carrigan, is friends with whoever the call recipient is, and that Carrigan has recommended you for this $15.00/h “job”. I also got a text message from (937) 607-1493, claiming to be Carrigan, and that they need stuff to “win a scholarship”. I do not know anyone by the name of Carrigan and I know very well that this is a very dangerous scam. If you receive a call from a number, and they ask you if you would like a job for $15.00/h, HANG UP IMMEDIATELY. If you accept the “job” offer, and you go in for an interview, they will give you a drugged bottle of water and you will wake up somewhere you don’t want to be. These phone calls & texts are from a human trafficking service, and if you oblige to them, you will be sold to people and you will be raped, no doubt about it. So PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER THESE CALLS OR TEXTS. I have listened to the voicemails, and allowed my dad to do the same, and he learned that anyone offering a $15.00/h “job” is a human trafficker. PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS ALL OVER TUMBLR
Okay, I am reblogging this because it is relevant again. I got another call from a 353 number. Not the exact same number, but I know that it is a trafficker because it’s 353 just like the last one. I also want this to signal boost so PLEASE REBLOG THIS.
Why are people deleting the captions though I had to search for what the pictures meant don’t do that
a side note, because theyre very popular around the DMV, If you ever see a sign with something akin to ‘free debt erasure’ ‘15/h job’ etc and ONLY A PHONE NUMBER, ignore it. tear it down if you can, because those are well known scams and sex-trafficking baits.do not, by any means, call or respond to these messages. do not let your friends do it. do not.
THIS IS IMPORTANT AF THANK Y’ALL HOLY SHIT
Oklahoma is one of the worst states as far as human trafficking, so thank y’all so fucking much. That’s literally my life and the lives of everyone I know that y’all just saved. Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you
*FUCKING SPAMS REBLOG*
guys pls this needs more reblogs
This blog did not and will not send requests for bitcoin donations.
There seems to be a virus or some sort of malware going around causing blogs to “send out” chat messages to blogs that they follow asking for help with the purchase of certain items through donations of seemingly small amounts using bitcoin and adds a link to the message.
The message goes as following (at least the first message I got went like this): “Hi there buddy. I need help, I’m trying to buy a laptop and I can’t afford it. I’m about 0.36$ short, and I’d really appreciate if you could help me and transfer some money to me via bitcoin using this *link*.”
The small details in the message seems to have a few variations with the greeting, amount and purchased item showing up in different variations from formal to friendly, from 0.016 to 2$ and from a phone case to a laptop among others.
The blogs that are affected send out the messages to blogs that they follow for a long time mostly, so you are most likely to receive the message from a long time, active follower whose name you might recognize or a mutual etc. The blogs that are affected are not spam bots but actual active followers who follow the recipient for months or years and most likely the blogger who “sent” the message is unaware of the message being sent.
DO NOT OPEN THE LINK.
Opening up the link will cause the virus to spread even more and infect your computer/mobile with any sort of malware.
If you have received a message of that sort from this blog please know that it was not sent by me or within my control and ignore/delete the message without clicking the link.
