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[belladeum]

Waiting 2 months and no response from tumblr support

@tumblr @support @staff

I have been waiting ~TWO MONTHS since raising a support ticket and still not received any response. You are preventing me from using communication features on tumblr including asks, chat, and replies and have not told me why.

I sent a support request on 12 February. I provided the blog name and it was sent from the associated email address, explained the problem, provided screenshots, and I've heard NOTHING back. I replied to the automated email at the start of March for a follow-up, again providing information, and nothing.

I submitted a second request on 15 March just in case the first got lost somewhere and there's still NOTHING.

I am incapable of sending/receiving messages, replying to posts (including on my own blog!), or accessing my inbox. Other users are also incapable of contacting me. This doesn't seem to be a result of being blocked, because it is applying to everyone, including those I definitely know have NOT blocked me. This affects my primary blog AND several secondary blogs linked to it -- yet not all of them. If I try to open a chat with another user it simply displays an error message. Same if I try to comment on a post, or reply to a comment on a post, INCLUDING MY OWN POSTS.

I have tried logging in and out, clearing my browser cookies/cache, etc. I do not have this problem on my other primary blog. There is NO evidence that my blog has been marked as mature, and as far as I can tell NO evidence of violation of TOS etc. There aren't even any flagged posts! If I somehow did go against TOS I NEVER RECEIVED INFORMATION about it

WHY have you not even answered my support requests? Are you even looking at them? Also, for some reason, you are describing my support request as an "appeal". Appeal for what? I mean, I guess it's an appeal for you, tumblr, to fix a bug(?), but what do you mean? This implies that YOU made a decision to prevent me from using messaging features. I'd like to know WHY. You've not given any reason for it. You are constantly changing (breaking) features of the site and have now made it more unusable for me. You want me to stick around and view ads/pay for premium? Why would I do that if I CANNOT INTERACT WITH POSTS?

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Can folks please like/rb this so I know at least folks can see my posts?

[belladeum]

oh okay so I guess at some point someone on staff saw this post and now I have access to my private messages again. no idea if replies work but will go try that in a second.

and yet I still have not received an email about this. No-one ever replied to my support requests. Not even asking explicitly for an apology, just a RESPONSE to say they fixed whatever the fuck was wrong. And they won't even give that

[belladeum]

teehee guess what. they did it again because I dared make a post with a link to the UK public consultation on online safety <3

wanna give me a reason why you've immediately blocked all the social functions of this site and have hidden the post in the tags?

@tumblr @support @staff

[belladeum]

@staff @tumblr @support

SO. Looks like Tumblr shadow banned me IMMEDIATELY after I made a post sharing a link to the UK public consultation. A completely neutral post. Just letting folks know that it's still there to fill in and what it's about. And now IMMEDIATELY, ONCE AGAIN, I can't send PMs, access asks, ANYTHING.

Why?

Have I breached Terms of Service in any way shape or form? Please do let me know.

[belladeum]

Public consultation re child safety online/OSA

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation

We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential ag

A few hours left for folks in the UK to fill this in. Please let the government know your feelings on the Online Safety Act as it stands, plans to blanket-ban social media, VPNs, the rise of AI, and how this all relates to data privacy (and how the government want you to give them and socmed sites all the data without guarantee of its security)

[daftpatience]

this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐

go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!

[daftpatience]

woah this got big!! and after another try i have another untested tweak for yall. this should help the weird pinchy side seams out. yey

[calltainn]

My first attempt! I made the pattern a bit smaller as I wanted it to be able to fit in a pocket, but then (accidentally but perhaps unavoidably) sewed it with a wider seam allowance than the resized pattern indicated, so the face is proportionally a bit too big and I lost some detail in the ear shape. I'm pleased with it though! It was fun to make something and to do some handsewing.

[daftpatience]

SOO CUTE AND TINIE 😭

[chthonink]

I tried this pattern a while back to try out some minky and I get no points for making the pattern well but looook at my boyyy

His name is Tofu. Thank you for sharing the pattern I will love him forever

[irradiatedsnakes]

you cant just say that man

[courtesycalling]

[brickylittle]

oh my god I just realized this is the year people will stop being born and stop aging and stop dying

[trippin-on-apple]

What football will look like in the future

Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

[zedogica]

can you believe it guys? 17776! just a week away!

[an-ruraiocht]

also i was trying to work out if my wet beast was a cormorant or a shag so i tried googling "shag uk" and. well. that didn't go well

so then i tried "shag birds uk"

this was not an improvement

[belladeum]

Waiting 2 months and no response from tumblr support

@tumblr @support @staff

I have been waiting ~TWO MONTHS since raising a support ticket and still not received any response. You are preventing me from using communication features on tumblr including asks, chat, and replies and have not told me why.

I sent a support request on 12 February. I provided the blog name and it was sent from the associated email address, explained the problem, provided screenshots, and I've heard NOTHING back. I replied to the automated email at the start of March for a follow-up, again providing information, and nothing.

I submitted a second request on 15 March just in case the first got lost somewhere and there's still NOTHING.

I am incapable of sending/receiving messages, replying to posts (including on my own blog!), or accessing my inbox. Other users are also incapable of contacting me. This doesn't seem to be a result of being blocked, because it is applying to everyone, including those I definitely know have NOT blocked me. This affects my primary blog AND several secondary blogs linked to it -- yet not all of them. If I try to open a chat with another user it simply displays an error message. Same if I try to comment on a post, or reply to a comment on a post, INCLUDING MY OWN POSTS.

I have tried logging in and out, clearing my browser cookies/cache, etc. I do not have this problem on my other primary blog. There is NO evidence that my blog has been marked as mature, and as far as I can tell NO evidence of violation of TOS etc. There aren't even any flagged posts! If I somehow did go against TOS I NEVER RECEIVED INFORMATION about it

WHY have you not even answered my support requests? Are you even looking at them? Also, for some reason, you are describing my support request as an "appeal". Appeal for what? I mean, I guess it's an appeal for you, tumblr, to fix a bug(?), but what do you mean? This implies that YOU made a decision to prevent me from using messaging features. I'd like to know WHY. You've not given any reason for it. You are constantly changing (breaking) features of the site and have now made it more unusable for me. You want me to stick around and view ads/pay for premium? Why would I do that if I CANNOT INTERACT WITH POSTS?

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Can folks please like/rb this so I know at least folks can see my posts?

[belladeum]

oh okay so I guess at some point someone on staff saw this post and now I have access to my private messages again. no idea if replies work but will go try that in a second.

and yet I still have not received an email about this. No-one ever replied to my support requests. Not even asking explicitly for an apology, just a RESPONSE to say they fixed whatever the fuck was wrong. And they won't even give that

[belladeum]

Waiting 2 months and no response from tumblr support

@tumblr @support @staff

I have been waiting ~TWO MONTHS since raising a support ticket and still not received any response. You are preventing me from using communication features on tumblr including asks, chat, and replies and have not told me why.

I sent a support request on 12 February. I provided the blog name and it was sent from the associated email address, explained the problem, provided screenshots, and I've heard NOTHING back. I replied to the automated email at the start of March for a follow-up, again providing information, and nothing.

I submitted a second request on 15 March just in case the first got lost somewhere and there's still NOTHING.

I am incapable of sending/receiving messages, replying to posts (including on my own blog!), or accessing my inbox. Other users are also incapable of contacting me. This doesn't seem to be a result of being blocked, because it is applying to everyone, including those I definitely know have NOT blocked me. This affects my primary blog AND several secondary blogs linked to it -- yet not all of them. If I try to open a chat with another user it simply displays an error message. Same if I try to comment on a post, or reply to a comment on a post, INCLUDING MY OWN POSTS.

I have tried logging in and out, clearing my browser cookies/cache, etc. I do not have this problem on my other primary blog. There is NO evidence that my blog has been marked as mature, and as far as I can tell NO evidence of violation of TOS etc. There aren't even any flagged posts! If I somehow did go against TOS I NEVER RECEIVED INFORMATION about it

WHY have you not even answered my support requests? Are you even looking at them? Also, for some reason, you are describing my support request as an "appeal". Appeal for what? I mean, I guess it's an appeal for you, tumblr, to fix a bug(?), but what do you mean? This implies that YOU made a decision to prevent me from using messaging features. I'd like to know WHY. You've not given any reason for it. You are constantly changing (breaking) features of the site and have now made it more unusable for me. You want me to stick around and view ads/pay for premium? Why would I do that if I CANNOT INTERACT WITH POSTS?

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Can folks please like/rb this so I know at least folks can see my posts?

[armadillorollup]

special edition of The Terror (2018) where the horrible histories rat pops up to fact check the historical accuracy of certain scenes like this

[garcavisconde]

Losing my mind over this article

[reefshrk]

pigeon friends :)

[technofeudalism]

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

[technofeudalism]

since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.

anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.

corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.

Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.

Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.

Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.

sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.

Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.

Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.

The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.

Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.

The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.

Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.

Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.

The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)

Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.

Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.

EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.

You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.

The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)

Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.

Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.

ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.

PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.

Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.

FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.

Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.

PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike

Tools

Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)

Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.

Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)

Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.

Non-Games

Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.

Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.

17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.

Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.

The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)

Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)

Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)

If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.

r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.

r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.

thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.

[monchursouls]

Reblogging the update too

[run-of-the-milf]

I highly recommend watching this testimony from Aliya Rahman, the disabled woman who was dragged out of her car and kidnapped by ICE on her way to a doctor appointment in Minneapolis a few weeks ago.

Truly my worst nightmare.

[liitohauki]

Transcript of Aliya Rahman's speech:

Thank you members, for taking the time to be here today, and thank you staff for making this happen.

My name is Aliya Rahman, and I am a resident of South Minneapolis. I am a Bangladeshi American born in Northern Wisconsin. And I’m a disabled person with autism and a traumatic brain injury.

Not all autistic brains do this, but mine fixates on sounds, numbers, and patterns. And while what the world saw happen to me exactly three weeks ago today on video was a terrible violation it is still nothing compared to the horrific practices I saw inside the Whipple center.

So I am here today with a duty to the people who have not had the privilege of coming home, and I offer this data because these practices must end now.

On January 13th on the way to my 39th appointment at Hennepin County’s traumatic brain injury center, I encountered a traffic jam caused by ICE vehicles and no signs indicating how to get around it. I had not wanted to pull in to a blocked, chaotic intersection, but verbally agreed to do so and rolled down my window after an agent yelled, “Move! I will break your f-ing window!”

His first instruction.

Agents on all sides of my vehicle yelled conflicting threats and instructions that I could not process while watching for pedestrians.

Then, the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face.

I yelled, “I’m disabled!” at the hands grabbing at me and an agent said, “Too late.”

I felt immersed in a pattern, and I thought of Jenoah Donald, an autistic black man killed by the police during a traffic stop in 2021.

I remembered mister Silverio Villegas González, who was killed by ICE in his vehicle last year.

An agent pulled a large combat knife in front of my face, which I thought was for cutting me, and later learned was used to cut off my seat belt. Shooting pain went through my head, neck, and wrists when I hit the ground face first and people leaned on my back.

I felt the pattern, and I thought of mister George Floyd, who was killed four blocks away.

I was carried face down through the street by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled. I now cannot lift my arms normally.

I was never asked for ID.

Never told I was under arrest.

Never read my rights.

And never charged with a crime.

Approaching the Whipple center, I saw black and brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents outdoors. I continued to hear the word “bodies”, because that is how agents referred to us:

“We’re bringing in a body.”

“They’re bringing in bodies 7, 8 at a time, where do I put ‘em?”

“We can’t use that room, there’s already a body in there.”

You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you’re already being called a body.

Agents repeatedly had to stop and ask how to do tasks. I received no medical screening, phone call, or access to a lawyer. I was denied a communication navigator when my speech began to slur. Agents laughed as I tried to immobilize my own neck. I asked for my cane and was told no, pulled up by my arms and prodded forward in leg irons by agents laughing and saying, “Walk! You can do it, walk.”

Agents did not know if the facility had a wheelchair.

When I was finally placed in one to be taken to interrogation an agent taunted, “You were driving, right? So your legs do work.”

I pleaded for emergency medical care for over an hour after my vision had become blurry, my heart rate went through the roof, and the pain in my neck and head became unbearable.

It was denied.

When I became unable to speak my cellmate pleaded for me.

The last sounds I remember before I blacked out on the cell floor were my cellmate banging on the door, pleading for a medic, and a voice outside saying, “We don’t wanna step on ICE’s toes.”

When I opened my eyes at Hennepin County’s emergency room, I learned I was brought there to be treated for assault.

The impacts of DHS detention on my physical, mental and financial well-being and safety have been very severe, but I do not deserve more humane treatment than anyone else, US citizen or not. And I am here today with a strong spirit and a duty to the many people who haven’t had the privilege to tell their stories or see their loved ones come home. I am extremely distressed by the pattern that violence from law enforcement has been happening to black and indigenous communities for centuries, and to DHS survivors for over 20 years.

We call ourselves a civilized nation, but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being.

I am not afraid, and I’m not afraid to keep working on this problem even after ICE is gone. Thank you for your time.

[sutexii]

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[sparkytheandroid]

Kingdom Hearts is the Homestuck of videogames. It’s too long, too complicated, and anytime anybody tries to explain it to me I black out.

[banavalope]

Extended zodiac as organization 13 members

[sparkytheandroid]

I will kill you in the real fucking world.

[kh-heritage-posts]

Heritage Post

02/21/2018