Use Logic Please

Cishets better not try calling me "queer", cis better not try calling me "enby" 

[krxs100]

Repeated Rapist and Former Baylor frat president Jacob Anderson indicted for sexual assault will serve no jail time, not be registered as sex offender and only has to pay $400 fine

Anderson was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman at a 2016 off-campus party his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, threw under his leadership as frat president. During the party, 

Anderson took the woman, who was intoxicated after receiving a drugged drink from him, outside to a “secluded part of the grounds” where he then sexually assaulted as while she was gagged and choked. The victim lost consciousness during the attack, at which point Anderson left the scene, leaving her nearly choking to death on her own vomit.

Anderson was initially brought up on for these alleged crimes, and charged him with “unlawful restraint” instead, for which the office recommended three years of probation, a $400 fine, and counseling.

This is the 3rd case in which this same judge has been lenient towards sexual offenders.

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[animeshaming]

The judge’s name is Ralph Strother.

[dumb-bad-bitch-deactivated20200]

Click here to support Men's Resource Centre organized by Amaranthine Marie

This is the only Men's Resource Centre in Winnipeg. It is important that it stays open so that men have a place to go with their children if they need to escape from domestic abuse or if they need help with other things like addiction. The MRC also helps men who have been victims of sexual abuse....

Please donate and share if you can!

[nunyabizni]

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[nunyabizni]

@klubbhead @tooiconic @lastsonlost @cisnowflake @takashi0

[lastsonlost]

You know it.

[memeseverdie]

Is this the most accurate compass of all time???

[thebibliosphere]

I actually feel sorry for the likely unpaid intern sitting at tumblr HQ dealing with all our bullshit and snark while those actually in charge watch the world burn from a safe distance and blame it on us damn kids not buying more products. Because ultimately this is what this about. Verizon needs to make money from Tumblr, and Verizon can’t make money cause Apple says “no adult content” and Apple has a stranglehold on the app market.

The fact that a lot of us use tumblr to host our own services and products as independent creators, often as our only source of income, is irrelevant to them. The fact that to many of us this is our community is meaningless to them. We’re acceptable collateral damage to furthering corporate greed and that’s the fucking tea on that.

Also to the hypothetical unpaid intern: leave, sweety. You can do better, and you’re worth so much more.

[m-in-a-moonrock]

I thought Apple removed the app because of the CP though ? 

Not that I don’t think Apple is evil or don’t have a stranglehold on the market, but if the removal was specifically because of the pedophilia then that was a more than fair decision. Come to think of it, if it was because of all the porn bots it was also pretty fair. Tumblr should have gotten its shit together way earlier about that and if the whole “no adult content” thing is wholly their decisions then this mess is on them for not being able to manage their own website, panicking when there’s finally some consequences and deciding that trying to ban all “adult content” instead of dealing with the actual problem is the way to go

 (so yeah hypothetical intern might want to find a better, not completely incompetent place of work)

[thebibliosphere]

The CP is what forced them to roll out changes quicker, but otherwise this NSFW ban has been in the planning for quite some time. They were always planning to do this.

That whole “oh we rolled back the filtering system” that happened a while ago cause the algorithm was bullshit? Was them testing it to see a) how well it worked but also b) how we’d react.

But because, and this is all through the grapevine stuff and “anon sources” who were willing to talk to Vox (source), Verizon haven’t been putting any money into Tumblr since they bought it, the engineers that run the site have been jumping ship left right and center for better gigs (without being offered any reason to stay), so there’s been increasingly fewer staff to maintain or make changes, so the filter is still bullshit, still broken, and the site is only going to break further as time goes on cause no money is going into maintaining the basic infrastructure. So it doesn’t just seem like things are broken and no one is fixing it, things actually are breaking down, and there’s not enough people with the know how to fix it.

Tumblr is like the house built on sinking sand at this point. It just so also happens to be built on top of a tire fire as well, and the “discovery” of a CP circuit was just the thing that made them go “oh shit oh god oh shit” when Apple finally got sick of their shit and pulled the app. (And Apple is notorious for not allowing apps “that contain user generated content that is frequently pornographic” or for trying to muscle them out of site out of mind (source)(source)(source) so to the people in the notes going “uuuh they allow snapchat???”, yeah, for now. It also likely has different age restrictions and details in their ToS compared to the android one, where the rules about apps are a lot more lax, something which Steve Jobs himself was snarky about (source).)

[datmusictho]

Jesus Christ I’m so mad at myself for not knowing about any of this until now

[thebibliosphere]

Don’t be! The facts are only just now starting to emerge as people are becoming willing to speak out and talk, but also, some of these things are well hidden!!

Big companies pay big money for you to never know these things about them, they scrub their google returns clean so that most of the time all you will ever find are positive results. Most people didn’t even know that Yahoo had been acquired by Verizon until recently. Some people still don’t.

Misinformation is how chaos thrives, and chaos can often be capitalized on provided it’s a carefully curated kind. All of this?—laughable as it is to say, was planned. Poorly planned, and even more poorly executed, but premeditated all the same. As is anything that is done by a corporate company.

This is why things like Net Neutrality did and do matter. This is why telecommunication companies developing a monopoly over the Internet was a bad idea. This is why so many of us have been freaking out while others call us tin foil hatters go “ugh come on guys, it’s not a big deal” because it does matter! The small things matter! Because the small things eventually make up the whole and sometimes the whole turns out to be a big steaming pile of mass censorship in favor of profit. And that’s a Problem.

So don’t be mad at yourself. Not when it’s time to get mad at them.

[geek-scientist]

jane the virgin: portraying a bisexual man in a healthy relationship and slaying biphobes since 2017

[terflies]

Transphobes on Twitter have started the tag #TransMenAreNotWomen.

No, that’s not a typo.

[radiqueer]

when you’re so transphobic you support trans people by accident but you don’t know enough about transness to course correct and it’s too late anyway

[lines-and-edges]

[queerfarmgremlin]

this reminds me of that one conservative Christian page that tried to be transphobic to a trans woman and ended up affirming her womanhood 😂

[thegreenpea]

This had so many turning points I had to take 3 minutes to understand

[thinfatfit]

[followthebluebell]

Millennials are treating pets like 'their firstborn child,' and it's reportedly causing problems for some of the best-known pet food brands

Many millennials are becoming pet owners instead of having kids, and they're buying premium products.

good job, guys, we’re killing the shitty pet food industry this time.  it can’t POSSIBLY be that we just recognized Gravy Train or Kibbles and Bits for being piss poor food choices; no, we’re just treating our pets too nicely. 

[solsticexolos-deactivated202407]

Best news I’ve heard yet

[screwyouandrew]

God damn millenials and their-

*shuffles deck*

feeding their animals high quality food

[placeholder-inactive]

Damn straight! Hopefully the next industry we kill will be fish bowls

[couriers-mile]

Elf androgyny and dwarf androgyny and orc androgyny are like three very different forms of androgyny and defiance of the binary and they’re all so good

[theyoungestwhateleydaughter-dea]

Elf: everyone’s pretty, but has no ass.

Dwarf: everyone’s hairy, but has no ass.

Orc: everyone’s SHREDDED and can crack walnuts between their cheeks.

[bnq]

Dwarves have more cake than a bakery how DARE you

[siobhanblank-deactivated2019011]

Which pride flag is this?

[dualityofcat]

snitch flag

[celebrepublic]

[oswald-the-squirrel]

this photo reminds me of what could be a young Jackie Kennedy…I think because of the way her hair is done

[loismacgiver-deactivated2018061]

if i were in a gay space and some idiot from this website was like “uh excuse me can you and your girlfriend not hold hands?? i’m romance repulsed and it makes me uncomfortable” i literally would knock their teeth out

[hyumjim]

you know damn well these people dont leave their houses

[sapphire-crimson-claw-archive-d]

*pro-curse arospec laughs maniacally at you two fools* oh, my word *wipes tear away*

[amaralesbian]

pro-curse arospec laughs maniacally

[madchen]

it means theyre a witch who practices cursing asdsfdsas theyre literally threatening to curse yall 

[onceiwashere]

yeah this is the same person who cursed @bobavader‘s womb on twitter because she said that drawing cute fanart of ted bundy was creepy. so i’d be careful if i were you 

[meshugenist]

this is the same person who claimed to be oppressed for being attracted to serial killers i’m gonna die

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

WHAT

[nilvoid]

holy moley that person is 28 years old

[karnalesbian]

yo this website is the fucking best you can’t make this shit up

[hearthome-deactivated20210601]

put yr orientation and favorite frozen drink in the tags

(i’m a milkshake lesbian)

[theolduvaigorge]

Dancing Goddesses

These are AWESOME.

(Source: Nina Paley)

[dee-the-red-witch]

I.. the sheela…. I….

*falls over laughing*

Those are all AWESOME.

[naamahdarling]

oh my god, the lions just boppin’ along holy ffff

[beautytruthandstrangeness]

THIS IS MY 2018.

[aestate-oscula]

My life is now complete

[wtfzeus]

Let’s all enjoy this one while we can. I can’t fucking believe this. 

[mindblowingfactz]

In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them. -Source

[wildwomanofthewoods-archive-blog]

One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.

How have I never heard of this?

[fieldbears]

People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.

[maudnewton]

“When Burks was a girl, she said, her mother got in a final, epic row with Burks’ uncle. To make sure he and his branch of the family tree would never lie in the same dirt as the rest of them, Burks said, her mother quietly bought every available grave space in the cemetery: 262 plots. They visited the cemetery most Sundays after church when she was young, Burks said, and her mother would often sarcastically remark on her holdings, looking out over the cemetery and telling her daughter: ‘Someday, all of this is going to be yours.’

‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’" 

Wonderful woman. Wonderful story.

[shrineart]

This is an ally. This is a hell of an ally.

[tomorroejones-deactivated202209]

Epic Grudge-holding Mom has Epically Empathetic Daughter.

She did good work.

[xxamorxexmortexx]

Just to add to this, there is currently a GoFundMe page dedicated to raising money for a memorial to be placed in Files Cemetery dedicated to those whom she cared for, and those who lost their lives to the epidemic.

“Someday,” she said, “I’d love to get a monument that says: This is what happened. In 1984, it started. They just kept coming and coming. And they knew they would be remembered, loved and taken care of, and that someone would say a kind word over them when they died.“ 

–http://m.arktimes.com/arkansas/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel/Content?oid=3602959

If anyone is interested in reading her story or donating towards the memorial, here is the link

https://www.gofundme.com/RuthCokerBurks

[imsogayduuude-deactivated201812]

[thespectacularspider-girl]

Considering my sexuality and my life circumstances, this tweet can fuck off.  This generation is absurdly soft and overcoddled, to the point where many within it can’t handle a simple disagreement. 

[nutsacktorturer]

boomers are more coddled than any of us will ever be

[insertoriginalblogurlhere-deact]

Baby boomers didn’t demand ‘safe spaces’ at university though

[nutsacktorturer]

no they just freak out when their food is 20 seconds late and cry when a sports ball man doesn’t stand for the anthem

[dea-certe]

They fucking demanded that women not be allowed in college with them. They demanded women not wear pants! Even young school girls couldn’t wear pants in 20 degree weather! But yeah, sure, they didn’t demand safe spaces. Just demanded everyone follow their ideals.

[hymnsofheresy]

ok the shittiest part about christmastime is the fact people keep skipping over the forth verse of “we three kings” like… we get it. y’all are white protestants who can’t even think about mortality for one single second. 

[hymnsofheresy]

also people who skip the third verse of “o holy night” are reactionary cowards

[hymnsofheresy]

ok but these lyrics are so powerful and amazing. im so pissed.

We Three Kings (4):

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume Breathes a life of gathering gloom; Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, Sealed in the stone cold tomb.

O Holy Night (3):

Truly He taught us to love one another, His law is love and His gospel is peace. Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother. And in his name all oppression shall cease. Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we, With all our hearts we praise His holy name. Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we, His power and glory ever more proclaim! His power and glory ever more proclaim!

[shorthistorian]

Important context on O Holy Night: The English lyrics by John Sullivan Dwight are from 1855, a full decade before the abolition of slavery in the United States. In fact, abolition was still a VERY fringe position. Pro-slavery advocates, meanwhile, were arguing that slavery was God’s gift to white civilization. In that year, six years before the Civil War began, Americans were already shooting each other over whether slavery should expand out in Kansas.

Dwight–unsurprisingly, a Unitarian minister–put the most inflammatory possible political statement of the day into his Christmas carol.