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Hey y'all. Bad news. Google is getting worse in a very short amount of time. If you haven't already heard, starting July of this year, 2026, Samsung messages will officially close. And they are all pushing android users to download a google messaging app... that isn't great because Google and Israel are in bed together. They have a 1.2 billion dollar contract with google to monitor messaging.

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And in September of this year google is rolling out an update that will nonconsensually block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID. Y'all shit's getting worse and worse. If you need to get a new phone avoid these big names. Make sure it ain't in bed with these giants like Google or Apple of you can. More info on this here:

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

theaceofwords

Why Tumblr Has Rolled Out ID Verification

UK legislation: Online Safety Act 2023

Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents

Apple App Store Age Verification

These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.

Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.

If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.

Repealing ID verification and blocking chat control will help everyone, especially the most vulnerable. We can push this back, but we cannot get it done through the Feedback form. We have to get it done at the legislative level and lock it down so it cannot be forced upon us. I see lots of anger out there. Good. Put it to use.

wumblr

Reports of missing children and 'evaporated' bodies reveal a widening pattern of erasure in Gaza, where entire families are killed, lost und

The author cites an estimate from the Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared that 2,900 children "disappeared during the war", with 2,700 bodies thought to be trapped under the rubble and the remaining 200 simply missing. Such statistics are in keeping with the modus operandi of the Israeli military, which, according to the official fatality count, has killed more than 72,500 Palestinians in Gaza since the launch of the genocide in 2023, with thousands more still missing and presumed dead under the rubble. United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese warned back in September that the true death toll might already have been more in the vicinity of 680,000.

so, somewhere between 3 and 30% of the population

Speaking of disappearances, an Al Jazeera Arabic investigation revealed in February that at least 2,842 Palestinians had "evaporated" in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war - a phenomenon Gaza's civil defence teams attribute to Israel's use of US-manufactured thermal and thermobaric weapons, which effectively "vaporise" human bodies. The gruesome tally was quickly eclipsed by the deranged US-Israeli war on Iran and wider regional catastrophe, which has monopolised the news for the past two months. But the topic remains as sinisterly relevant as ever. In remarks to Al Jazeera at the time, civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal outlined the process for determining the number of vaporised victims at homes targeted by Israeli strikes: "If a family tells us there were five people inside, and we only recover three intact bodies, we treat the remaining two as 'evaporated' only after an exhaustive search yields nothing but biological traces - blood spray on walls or small fragments like scalps." ... Israel is guilty of the traditional variety of enforced disappearance, as well. Last August, UN experts denounced reports that starving Palestinian civilians - including a child - were being forcibly disappeared from aid distribution sites run by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

... In the case of Israel's "evaporation" of Palestinians in Gaza, it's hard to say whether the knowledge that your loved one has been vaporised is concrete enough to enable eventual closure. After all, there's nothing very concrete about being forcibly vanished without a trace. Indeed, Al Jazeera quotes Palestinian father Rafiq Badran on the almost inconceivable psychological torment that attends Israel's sinister new spin on the theme of enforced disappearance: "Four of my children just evaporated," Badran said, holding back tears. "I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?" Now, with regional war raging as the arms industry rakes in big bucks, it has become even easier for global audiences to tune out the unique plight of the Palestinians - which means that the genocide is effectively being disappeared from the spotlight, as well. In the end, of course, the Israeli goal is nothing less than to forcibly disappear the very idea of a Palestinian people. But unfortunately for Israel, its blood-drenched legacy will not be so easily concealed.

ms-demeanor

Hey by the way if you're an American and you're against the war, it's your duty to call out the shit that is insane and monstrous and wrong.

If someone says something that you know to be wrong, say something. Push back on it. Iran didn't start this war. They haven't been at war with the US for forty seven years. The US didn't have to support Israel's strikes with this kind of escalation (we haven't in the past, in fact Trump hasn't in the past). The Iranian people are not looking to the US as liberators. The Strait of Hormuz was always going to be used tactically in this way, it is absurd to suggest that the Iran would open it because it is the single best method of leverage they have to resist annihilation from a superpower. Bombing civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Saying that an entire culture will be destroyed is genocidal.

There is no moral reason for the US to do this, the reasons that the US is doing this are oil and to destabilize the region. Hubris, cruelty, and a vile old man who wants to give himself a hero's legacy play a part as well.

You should be saying out loud to the people around you "This war is unjust, unnecessary, and cruel, and every reason our leaders are giving us to tell us why we're doing it is a lie."

People should know you feel this way. Some people will feel the same way, and it will be good for you and for them to know that you're not alone. Some people will NOT feel this way and it will be good for them to know that there are people all around them who haven't bought into the violent propaganda of empire.

ms-demeanor

Simple things to say to push back:

There is no justification for bombing water and power infrastructure for ninety million people; that will kill thousands of civilians and is a war crime.

Iran was bombed while they were negotiating with the countries that bombed them; they were willing to make the agreements requested by the US and Israel before they were bombed.

The Strait was open in February. If the US and Israel hadn't attacked Iran there would have been no reason for Iran to close it.

You can't be an "imminent threat" for forty seven years, so either Trump is lying about the immanency or is lying about Iran being at war with us for half a century.

isuggestlandback

Canada too. Lean on your local politicians, show up to a protest, it'll take you 2 minutes to send an email! These are human lives on the line.

curseofmeatthawsmoth

Nine defendants were on trial on charges related to the July 4 attack on the Prairieland ICE detention center in North Texas.

fucking kangaroo court

curseofmeatthawsmoth

I'll admit I haven't been following the Prairieland proceedings as closely as I could have, but I'm actually a bit shocked by the verdict.

kropotkindersurprise

The judge is a far-right Trump appointee so this is a horrible but unsurprising miscarriage of justice. This is a case meant to criminalize all antifascist and left-wing protest in the USA as terrorism, and should be a huge wake-up call for any person in the USA. Support the defendants to help with their legal fees for appeals here:

Please visit our website at https://prairielanddefendants.com/ for more updates, articles, and letter writing information.Español abajo Supp

kropotkindersurprise

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hesperocyon-lesbian

Unrelated btw

hesperocyon-lesbian

FYI there is a non-zero chance that tumblr will nuke me over this so please spread it as much and as fast as possible, and please understand that if tumblr does so, it constitutes an explicit endorsement of all ICE actions by Matt Mullenweg

tinyuglyworld

the iof tortured a palestinian baby infront of his father. a fucking toddler.

tinyuglyworld

Reports of 1-year-old Karim Abu Nassar being burned with a cigarette and pierced with a nail followed the publication of a United Nations an

they tortured a baby trying to get false confessions from his father. they burnt cigarettes on the babies legs and put a nail through his foot. wheres the outrage? everyone was in an uproar about 40 fake beheaded babies, why arent you speaking up now?

neechees

For all the praise Night At The Museum recieves on this site (some of it warranted), I feel like i gotta point out how weird it is that the movie made a Native woman (one who was raped & sold into slavery by a White man) the love interest of Theodore "9 out of every 10 Indians are only good being dead" & "the most vicious cowboy has more principle than the average Indian" Roosevelt (the guy who also invented National Parks specifically to disenfranchise & displace Native Americans under the guise of "nature preservation")

sexhaver

staff platforming one of this site's most rabid zionists isn't exactly unexpected given how photography matthew is one too but it's still rough to watch

sexhaver

a former staff member has pointed out that the @staff blog is only accessed by a very limited number of people, and this post was reblogged by them on Friday after 5pm in the US. and allegedly tunblr doesn't contract out to anywhere with working hours that would make that timing make sense. Photography Matthew 100% logged on to the official staff account outside of work hours to endorse/platform arguably the single most notorious zionist (and racist and islamophobe and ableist and) on this website

mortalityplays

it was hard to imagine a more noxious and off-putting all time L from tumblr staff than rolling out a broken update designed to remove the site's most basic functionality and facilitate mass harassment, but platforming prismatic-bell as some kind of userbase ambassador is it. jesus christ the stank of this place

mortalityplays

throwing a dart at the top ten most hateful and widely detested users and giving a hall monitor badge to whoever it hits. you could not possibly be more out of touch with your own community

onewetual-archive-deactivated20

@/prismatic-bell is a zionist among other things so please stop reblogging posts that’s got xir unneeded commentary on it.

yubels-deactivated20210922

xe has done a lot of similarly heinous shit, including recently threatening to doxx an indigenous person and get them fired from their job for the crime of disagreeing with xir in a slightly rude way.

Your opinions on drug users are disgusting and ableist as fuck. I'm a harm reduction volunteer and you literally don't know what you're fuck

it should be noted that prismatic-bell has been criticized and called out a lot for various things but many of these callouts are eventually deleted due to the op facing intense harassment from xir and xir followers. I highly recommend just blocking instead of engaging in any way.

libertineangel

This is the person @/staff are deliberately choosing to platform as spokesperson for all Tumblr users, and I think people need to know that. I know xe’s said a lot of other awful shit, transmisogyny and Islamophobia and whatever else, so if you’ve got more screenshots or other posts compiling it maybe reblog with ‘em, obviously I wouldn’t normally advocate callout-like tactics or whatever but with active endorsement from the site admins we’re not exactly on a level playing field here and people should be aware of exactly what sort of voices are being directly consulted on the future of the site.

tamamita

fucking lol

tamamita

Hey all, would you love to have your ideas represented by the "fuck ramadan", "the working class is an unwashed mass" and "are aboriginal australians even homo sapiens" person? Well, don't fret anymore!

tumblr

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

headspace-hotel

This is horrible I can't see the number of notes on my posts at all without adding up everything in the chain

Cursed cursed cursed evil evil evil

This is a terrible idea. Horrible.

EXTREMELY BAD HOLY FUCK.

This would kill the entire point of the reblog chain. Staff, please, don't do this. It will transform the reblog chain in just plain twitter quotes.

Seriously, this is a tumblr-killer feature. This breaks the most fundamental way tumblr is different from any other social network. This makes tumblr just another blueskytwitterthreads. Or worse: An unfederated mastodon clone.

Please, stop this. Please, don't roll this out.

Please, mutuals, post about this, comment and reblog the original post (while you still can without making it your own quote-post). I don't know if staff is looking or if the feedback would matter, but seriously, this is a terrible change that would kill tumblr as we know it. Please, don't roll it out.

look, I can endure any kind of UI changes that are supposed to help tumblr-rookies to understand how this works. They may be a nuisance, but that's ok, we have x-kit or we can get used to buttons being here or there.

But this. This changes the data architecture. This changes the SINGLE THING that makes tumblr the "... yes and" website. This KILLS THE COLLABORATIVE POSTING THAT MAKES THIS SITE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER MEDIA PLATFORMS.

Please, don't do this. Please, don't ship this.

dakt37

Tumblr has explicitly said in the past that they do not look at comments on their updates posts. You have to PUT IN A SUPPORT TICKET AND SELECT FEEDBACK FROM THE DROPDOWN

Find support resources and documentation for Tumblr

sheisraging

If you send feedback via Tumblr's feedback form (which you SHOULD do), you will get an autoreply telling you to leave a comment on the changes.tumblr.com blog (which you should also do!). Just make sure you're actually doing it on the reblog of this post from changes since, due to their own shitty update, they cannot/will not see the SIXTY THOUSAND NOTES that this update has generated, 99% of which are negative.

sheisraging

the-gayest-dovah

The staff post has restricted replies. Contact them directly here:

oediex

This whole reblog chain thing is taking away so much from fundraiser and donations posts. Adding support for OP in the post, encouraging people to donate and share, adding verification information - all of that takes away notes from the original poster. They won't know how many people care, how far their post is reaching.

I'm glad I've set up a system to add verification information in the tags and it can still go in the comments, though you have to remember to add it *to the comments of the original post* or it won't be available to everyone who engages with subsequent reblog links.

Even adding a link to the fundraiser bc op forgot to add it will take away the notes. This is truly evil.

thatlittleegyptologist

Since some of you don't seem to understand how this 'new notes' thing works, I'll break it down:

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr's support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback' and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?', try that way of wording it). They're more likely to listen to you if you're not an asshole about it. I've already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.

blessdunrest-deactivated2026042

Hey OP, thank you explaining this for us. I'd like to also add to please submit all feedback by commenting on tumblr's CHANGES sideblog (link below). based on the tumblr support email i just received and many others have already received, tumblr engineers are monitoring their feedback more closely there.

You can access it here.

Please.

We need all the feedback we can. Support tickets, reblogs, but most importantly THE CHANGES SIDE BLOG.

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