Not Currently On Fire

Alba, She/Her, over 21

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

The anti-corbyn smear campaign was so funny and insane

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

What were they even doing

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[angelsaxis]

i went to queer history and signaling and i didnt see taylor swift

[mote-of-ash]

Transitioning as someone with no particular internal sense of gender feels a little strange. Im going to be very different yet the same, likely more the same than even I suspect. Plus the hormones havnt had a very strong affect on my mood or state of mind so its like, im very normal rn just changing my body schematics as a hobby. (Wich i am pretty excited about)

[mote-of-ash]

lol, lmao even

[mote-of-ash]

sorry taro i cant leave this one in the replies because like,

YEA

I wonder why i never formed a gender identity over nearly 30 years. "surely its just because im just a little genderless blob :3 just a little guy who doesn't get any of that, anyway" draws all my characters with progressively fatter tits and asses and hips and wearing cute clothes that I am not so subtly gazing longingly at. is the void where a sense of gender would be in the room with us right now. its really why i cannot take egg prime directive or people pissing the pot about suggesting someone is transfem seriously because like, i deffo got prodded a little by online friends, and i cannot blame anyone else for why it took me so long to transition. but goddamnnnnnnnnnnnnn if even one person in my physical life had been even a little bit supportive of my weak little GNC heart maybe we'd have ended up in a different place at a different time. dreams of the rain or whatever

[stonesense]

i just think marethari has a lot of nerve reacting so strongly to merrill bargaining with a demon when she herself has some kind of mysterious debt to flemeth we never hear more about that she was willing to move the whole clan to sundermount to fulfil in the first place. like let’s talk about YOUR pacts with strange and dangerous entities

[catgirlforeskin]

It has come to my attention that a lot of maid-themed blogs don't work in or understand housekeeping, leading to ill-informed, low-quality posts.

To rectify this, I propose a newsletter that educates on this profession. A Maiding Press.

[couchnapping]

It has come to my attention that a lot of pup-themed blogs don't work in or understand dog training, leading to ill-informed, low-quality posts.

To rectify this, I propose a set of standards for the writing, formatting and design of these posts. A Doggy Style Guide.

[tearsofrefugees]

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

[hagiomoto]

I wanted to point out that both Google and Apple have already erased the names of those villages from Lebanon’s maps, and they should be held in contempt for it.

[fem-nejlikor]

so many wikipedia articles on ethnic groups are like "many among the [pejorative exonym] people find [pejorative exonym] to be pejorative, and instead prefer terms like [endonym]" it's actually so heinous

[fem-nejlikor]

like what do you even say. death to wikkkipedia

[molsno]

every spellcheck algorithm when you type a non-english name: uh oh! that's a typo! let me go ahead and fix that for you

[molsno]

does anyone else remember when google's facial recognition algorithm tagged a photo of black people as gorillas? racism is so often built into the technology we use every day and it's absolutely disgusting. and it doesn't have to be this way! it would be so easily avoidable! but the tech industry doesn't care. the tools built by the tech industry reflect all of the biases of the people who develop them, and they are most often built by people who don't consider non-white people with non-english names important enough to spend any additional development time to account for them

[molsno]

and y'know on top of that, these decisions reflect US cultural hegemony! just earlier, I tried implementing spellchecking in my program, and no matter what I tried, I could not get it to stop flagging the vast majority of non-english names as "errors". here's the readme for the library I tried to use:

it makes such a big deal about how inclusive they want this list to be. so, where did they get the majority of these names?

US census data

the tech industry by and large does not consider anyone living outside of the united states to be people. I even checked, and the difference between the final list and the file us-census.txt is only a few hundred names. and sure, this is just one spelling library, but it's one with over a million weekly downloads on npm and over 27,000 dependents on github. I guarantee that several of the websites and programs you use every day depend on this library for spellchecking, and whoever wrote this library decided that a list of names of people living in the united states is "good enough". it's maddening!

[mousidy]

do your TME friends know you have this blog? Do they see what you post here? How do you feel about them reading through it?

yeah. they've told me they've learned a lot from my blog and they appreciate what I'm doing lol

[mousidy]

[netherator]

shocked to know you have "tme" friends with how you talk about them

[mousidy]

every day I put my TME friends in my industrial paste mixer

[mothersoatmilk]

sorry @techne-makre , i just really liked this interaction

[engineering]

Where's that comment?

Hello Tumblr! 

@jubs here, today, to tell you about a feature we're building: Comments by author!

Comments (or replies) have been around for a while, but they have always been tucked away from your regular feed, and so we're working on a few ways to integrate them into the rest of our experience.

Soon, blogs will have a Comments tab alongside Posts, Likes, and Following. There, you will be able to see posts other people have been commenting on, and, more importantly, find your own comments! This was not possible before, except through notifications if someone engaged with your comment.

We're also working on a way to surface posts commented on by people you follow in your feeds. You will be able to find those in the For You tab, and later, alongside chronological posts in the Following tab.

So, how do you identify those posts in the feeds? 

Replied posts will show a small preview right there in your dashboard, before you click anything. 

This is not out yet, but soon! In the meantime, tell us what you think and expect from this! ☺︎

[whatdoyoumeanitsnotawesome]

please tell us that we can toggle the visibility on/off like we can do with likes and following.

[andriibuilds]

A big benefit of having comments enabled for all blogs is this will increase accountability and quality of comments because each blog would now think twice before writing a toxic comment, knowing it will be visible to everyone. If we make this opt-in, then we will lose this benefit and both spammers and trolls will continue their current behavior and limited accountability

[sreegs]

hey man, people on every social network or comment thread are not deterred from posting toxic content even if their full legal name is on it. this statement is simply not true.

[3liza]

yeah this is nonsense. this is not a needed, wanted, or useful change to the site. sorry

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

[puppetstuffing]

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

[puppetedlove]

:)

[puppetvictim]

:)

[tamamowand]

QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

[victusinveritas]

[femboy-c-cups]

[femboy-c-cups]

Worthy

[tpwrtrmnky]

The part that's missing from a lot of tumblr-centric discourse on transmisogyny is really that stuff like "medical transition is conformist" didn't come from here, it's all runoffs from weird cis people in academia imagining a version of transness to get mad at.

[tpwrtrmnky]

The archetypal "transandrobro" is literally just saying shit transmisogynists in queer theory have been saying for decades but dressing it up in more fandom-digestible language. It's not new. They're not innovating.

[tpwrtrmnky]

It happens occasionally that some major trans public figure will hear about the Tumblr manifestation of this issue and say something like "this seems unimportant," causing a lot of controversy.

A lot of people will rightly argue that these attitudes don't just show up online, that transmisogyny in queer spaces is a real issue.

The public figure has accurately pointed out that the random transmisogynists on tumblr are not a priority target, because they are not the source of these ideas, and not the ones empowered to make an impact with these ideas. They are downstream of bigger, more important targets.

Transfeminism defined in opposition to a specific, niche manifestation of transmisogyny will inevitably end up ineffective, because it expends a lot of effort fighting a symptom rather than the disease itself.

[coreythegremlin]

oh neat, the UK government's revoking visas of people who speak out against the Israeli genocide of Palestine. but dw, I'm sure they'll sanction a few more individual settlers at some point

Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support

Two prominent US commentators say they have been banned from entering the UK this week because of their outspoken stances against Israel’s g

[victusinveritas]

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month