Was it a dream?

Kay ~ they/them ~ Agender nerd bucket

[librarycard]

the ship of theseus wikipedia article in 2003. 20 years later, after 1792 total edits, 0% of its original phrasing remains. (x)

[systemic-dreams]

[headspace-hotel]

But I really do dislike how much veganism-the-ideology has taken over the discussion on climate change and how to fix our foodways, for reasons that include but are certainly not limited to:

people who believe that farming animals is innately bad and unethical attributing climate change to "animal agriculture" when most of the negative impacts come from beef specifically, which makes the problem seem MUCH less solvable than it actually is.

animal rights activists and organizations have been given a seat at the table discussing how to solve climate change and biodiversity loss, when they include people that believe things like "zoos are inherently bad" "domestication is equivalent to slavery" "it's never necessary to cull overpopulated species" and "hunting is always bad"

The way we grow plant crops is SO fucked as well—nitrogen fertilizer causes so much pollution, use of pesticides and herbicides is probably the main cause of the decline of insects, we are losing topsoil way way too fast— but we have people naively proclaiming that switching to "plant based diets" is the answer

the way "veganism as Solver Of Human Problems" puts the focus and responsibility entirely on individual choice instead of changing the way food systems work. I'm sorry but people cannot personal-choice their way out of a system that is fucked by design and that they need in order to not starve

the stereotyping of farmers as evil and sadistic people who love to watch animals suffer for a profit. Who benefits

rejecting outright the idea that farming or hunting animals could ever be sustainable or acceptable on any scale when indigenous people worldwide have done it for millennia, animals have been domesticated for 12,000+ years, and not everyone can even survive on a strictly plant based diet

anti-indigenous racism

anti-indigenous racism

entangling so much energy and effort to removing all nuance and advocating a personal lifestyle change that is not possible to accomplish and/or sustain long term for most people instead of literally anything specific and effective

^who benefits

[ysolt]

"this too is yuri" "[show about mostly men] is so yuri" "guy yuri" "yuri is when [thing that isnt yuri]" i think we should bring back yuri being about girls love so you cunts have to talk about women instead of just focusing on male characters

[where-is-tom-scott-today]

[easel-eisel]

userbase: can you stop fucking with the ui and employing terfs?

staff:

[fernwah-funzone]

oopsie our administrative staff (smol beans) just happened to enforce the bigoted status quo and selectively upheld rules against minorities while ignoring the actual hate speech and harassment that goes on under their watch! oh well, human error! "mistakes" happen, you know! 🤗🥰

[mechamothgirl]

[staff]

Thanks for all of the recent feedback around Community Labels being incorrectly applied to content. In particular, we appreciate the input we’ve received from the LGBTQIA+ community and understand the frustrations from folks who felt that their content was unfairly labeled. When we realized this was happening, we immediately investigated and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.

The LGBTQIA+ community makes up about a quarter of the Tumblr community. It is important for us to support all Tumblr users, especially those whose safe spaces are under threat in certain parts of the world.

As you know, alongside of the rollout of Community Labels we also expanded the types of content allowed on Tumblr as a way to welcome more creativity, art, and self-expression. Our goals remain the same today. Human error happens and we apologize to anyone who has been impacted by these mistakes.

We are working to better understand what happened and will follow up with more information soon.

[streetlightsontheriver]

I do not believe that this statement adequately addresses the concerns of users. The way in which this unfair labeling happened mirrored the policies of homophobes and transphobes: assumption that LGBT identities, and in particular trans women, are inherently hypersexual and inappropriate for children. Intentionally or not, this communicated that Tumblr is prejudiced against LGBT users and content, and materially impaired the ability of LGBT minors to access age-appropriate content about their own community.

In particular, when trans women are disproportionately being told their fully-clothed bodies are inappropriate, even in error, this is transmisogynist body shaming, at scale, by the platform.

What I want to see is:

Acknowledgement of the exact impact that the bug had on users

What "investigated" entails, including results

Steps taken to address the technical error

Steps taken to address human bias that caused or exacerbated the technical error

On the human bias point, I have concerns that incorrectly flagged posts were not necessarily corrected when brought to the attention of human staff. LGBT posts are certainly capable of being sexual; if they truly are explicit content, then they should be filtered the same way and at the same rate as cishet explicit content.

However, a user test of the system indicated that merely replacing the term "transfeminine sexuality" with "masculine sexuality" would result in the transfeminine post being flagged while the masculine post was not—EVEN when the masculine post was reported by users as requiring a label and the transfeminine post was appealed. That is not merely a glitch, but an indication of inequitable moderation policies.

Perhaps this involves curating a diverse collection of moderation examples, so that moderators can be better informed on how to equitably handle LGBT content. Perhaps it involves comprehensive bias training. (It DEFINITELY involves comprehensive bias training.)

This incident has made me less willing to discuss LGBT topics on the platform and it has made me feel less safe as a queer and trans user.

Also, lmfao, if any community label should be automatically added it should be a strobe warning.

[theirisianprincess]

Everything out of this girl's mouth is gold

[where-is-tom-scott-today]

[regalvoid]

[bananonbinary]

Crab Day

okay, so here's a new info post from the top.

the problem: tumblr is extremely extremely in debt. the current model is not profitable. this is why they are trying to turn the site into a shit clone of every other social media site, so they can attract new users and their money.

solution: not a ton of people can afford a long-term subscriptions like ad-free. however, many of us CAN afford $3 to inflict crabs on another unsuspecting user. (and those that can't, can still enjoy crabs everywhere)

the idea: in the grand traditions of mishapocalypses and goncharovs and tumblr users' obsession with [random inconsequential thing] Days, we create a fund drive/holiday on July 29th, dubbed Crab Day. buy your friends crabs. buy your enemies crabs. blaze posts. post memes. change ur icon. whatever. actually put your money where your mouth is and show @staff that there actually IS profit motive to listen to the current users about what we want this site to look like. (and yes, that means accessibility features too. we currently have zero leverage to demand these features. let's change that.)

i don't know if this will actually go anywhere. worst case scenario, a few of us have fun, tumblr gets a small amount of money, and nothing changes. best case though, we actually provide incentive to keep our stupid hellsite unique.

[xxlovelynovaxx-deactivated20241]

Hey don't do this

All this will do is fellate the CEO's wallet while proving to them that 'look we're making more money we must be doing stuff right'.

And the stuff they will think they're doing right is announcing reblog collapses and terming minorities and assault survivors while letting nazis and t/erfs and racists stay.

"Let's throw money at a company shortly after they announced an upcoming change we don't want" will literally not convince them that it's to AVOID that upcoming change, that's the most counterintuitive thing I've ever heard

[evilwriter37]

This is a reminder that, even with all the accommodations in the world, disability would still exist. I see so many posts saying accommodations would remove disability, and that's just not true. All the accommodations in the world would not fix my chronic fatigue or my chronic pain. All the accommodations in the world would not "cure" my autism. Disabled people exist regardless of level of accommodation. Don't try to erase us and our struggles.

[delicatesquashblossom]

Ask not for whom the gurdy hurds. It hurds for thee.

[multiplekittens]

Please, Hurdy Gurdy was my daughter. Call me Hertrude Gertrude

[striders]

[fishing-lesbian-princess]

I believe in equality, which is why we need a mainstream yuri anime about a girl named Yaoi in order to also make the yaoi tag unusable