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[dirtgemini]

take it in your heart now, lover

[lovebritney]

[airprime7]

So to be 100% clear:

tumblr just added an update that requires you to verify your age in order to view "mature content". I'm not sure how they do the verification (haven't yet checked), but given recent similar updates from things like Discord, it most likely involves sending them a photo of either your face or your ID.

In addition, over the past few months, and also years in the long-term, tumblr has been incorrectly marking things as mature content. These include:

Notifications about missing persons and requests for help

Posts about youth liberation

Posts about sex education

Posts about how the mature content is poorly implemented

Posts about being trans, more specifically about trans women and transmisogyny by both tumblr and users on tumblr

Non-sexual selfies by trans women/transfems

Trans womens'/transefems' ENTIRE BLOGS even if the blog contains no sexual content

Reblogs made by various blogs, mostly trans women, which add no additional content but somehow are marked as containing mature content, when the original post is not

Posts talking about racism and antiblackness both on and off tumblr

Posts by black people, especially black trans people, that are non-sexual

And likely many more I haven't seen

In essence, this update has mandated that a majority of users must either a) submit their personal information to tumblr, a website whose moderation has been EXTREMELY biased against marginalised people and who I would not trust with my ID, or b) be excluded from absolutely all conversations tumblr decides are "mature content", whether they are actually sexual in nature or not. Furthermore, anyone not over 18 will also not be allowed to take part in these conversations, or even see them, or interact with many trans women or people of colour on this site, as tumblr decides.

This update is complete bullshit designed to censor and exclude marginalised people, poorly hidden under a guise of "protecting teenagers from sexual content", and they know it.

[pinketine]

When the topic becomes about racism between children you very quickly realise children of colour aren't seen as children but as some other thing that should just take the abuse and then forgive the Real White Children because they didn't know better. They don't understand it but children of colour can and will very early in their youth.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[jenroses]

pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome. This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.

[sniperct]

tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus

[donniehaspronouns]

this might piss some people off but I don’t think some of you actually ever tried to unlearn your hatefulness. you just came out as queer and decided your new targets really truly deserve it this time.

[donniehaspronouns]

you. you get it.

[sketchy-julia]

noodles

[tothemooncave]

"We'll just have to see how good we are seven albums down the line. Most great bands and crews tear themselves apart too soon. But the real trick is tear yourselves apart... and then put it back together differently... better."

- Russel Hobbs, Rise of the Ogre

[chronopharm]

hi. ive asked everyone in my life who can help me and i'm still $300 short for rent, which will be late on thursday, i think the fee might be $75 per day or something. i really need help, and unfortunately my instagram campaign has gone nowhere

if a few financially comfortable people could kick me $50, i would stay housed for the month and feel a lot better

i have long covid and havent been able to work in two years, i have neurological damage that makes life hard enough as it is

anything helps, thank you 💖

v: twinrivers

paypal.me/8donnie8

dm for zelle

[uphillfarmers]

The Killing of Trans Man Lucas RedBeard Knapp in Rural New Mexico Teaches Us About Visibility – Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents

The Killing of Trans Man Lucas RedBeard Knapp in Rural New Mexico Teaches Us About Visibility – Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents

please consider supporting Luca’s loved ones in raising funds for his funeral. trans rural people exist and their lives matter.

Donate to Remembering RedBeard: Justice and Peace for Luca's Memory, organized by Jonah Hollis

Lucas "Luca" Ameh Avery Knapp was a cherished frien… Jonah Hollis needs your support for Remembering RedBeard: Justice and Peace

[themboots]

[antifainternational]

FAR RIGHT THREATS

A Reference Guide For Recognizing Far Right Groups, Symbols, and Dog Whistles

[genderkoolaid]

Can you share a little about your experience of being a mixed race trans non-binary sex worker? What's it like for you at those intersections? Well, it's Christmas Eve and I'm broke and the power is out. I missed at least one client today due to the complications that stem from not having a space with power and Wi-Fi at the same time and place. Most of these are low-income problems, but I can’t help but wonder if my race has something to do with why I keep getting lowball offers from clients. Someone actually texted me asking for free services tonight, I don’t know if that was supposed to be a joke or what. If I do get an unruly client, I can’t really depend on the police because they are a wildcard anyway but especially because my partner has an arrest warrant (the county baited them into a prostitution charge, and the jail and prosecutor there is just so horrendous we couldn't risk showing up for court). Being trans is more than just being a category of pornography. I spend a lot of time putting together my appearance before I go out… I can't just wake up and go to the store. The person I feel comfortable presenting to the world takes a while to put together. I have trauma to cope with as well. Big traumas like violence and sexual assault as well as the almost daily transphobic microaggressions I experience no matter how much time I put into my appearance before going out. I didn’t always see myself as pretty. They called me a nerd in school. They called me Erkel. Now look at him. Jahlil White. Fine as fuck.

— Blush (they/them), an escort from Tampa, Florida, in this interview with Misty Wren for Tryst.

[dirtgemini]

take it in your heart now, lover

[eggclown121]

[deliriumeye]

Russel and Del version The Mountain ⛰️

[alenseress]

[chemxz]

Russel 🧡