Risa! @lordquinton - Tumblr Blog

Hey, before 171218, wanted to thank you for #butts and generally being sex positive. I kind of got it into my head that seeking out and admiring attractive people doing sexy things was, well, not something you should do. But Tumblr helped change that. You introduced me to April O’Neil and Dita vonTease, and modeled a happy marriage that includes looking at sexy people doing sexy things. I’m going to miss that casual positivity on Monday.

You are describing what will be the worst thing to lose tomorrow: the community of kind and positive people who gathered here because it was, largely, safe for us. It’s interesting to know that, in the service of Vulture Capitalists and other 1%ers, Tumblr will drive away a substantial number of good people who happen to be sex-positive, who may be something other than CIS hetrosexuals, and their friends and loved ones who are here to be with them. It’s further interesting to note that, while Tumblr does this – by design – it is leaving every single hateful, racist, Nazi, white supremacist, incel, misogynist, cruel and destructive blog and their followers untouched.

There’s a strong and dangerous Libertarian ideology that runs deep in Silicon Valley that directly and indirectly supports actions that quite tellingly never affect CIS white hetero men, but have profoundly dangerous and harmful consequences for literally every other group of people.

Through actions like Tumblr’s upcoming ban that will (through post flagging) disproportionately affect LGBTQ people, like Jack Dorsey’s refusal to address the hate and white supremacy on Twitter, like Facebook’s decision to use right-wing anti-Semitic dogwhistles to deflect attention from its systemic privacy violations, like Reddit’s embrace of right-wing and white nationalist users, it is impossible to deny that the decision makers in the board rooms at the biggest social media platforms are at the very least sympathetic to the voices and ideas of white supremacists and misogynists, and at worst in total agreement with their positions. Every choice these people make moves what should be fringe voices and ideas further and further into the mainstream, while they marginalize and punish nonviolent voices that call for justice and equality.

Social media is broken and it’s the fault of the failed leaders at the main social media platforms, who will be remembered with disdain and contempt by history.

Wow ….. uh …. this answer sort of spun off into a rant, so let me bring it back to what you initially said: I don’t know Dita (though it would make my LIFE to meet her) but April is a very good friend of mine, and I love that you found her work, her nerdiness, and her awesomeness through this Tumblr thingy I run. I’m so sorry that you’re going to be losing a platform and a place where you felt at home and safe. I hope that those of us who stay can use our privilege to move Tumblr back to the place it was yesterday.

I’ll do my best to carry on casual positivity and as many #BUTTS as I can get away with.

wilwheaton

So the day is upon us. How do you feel about Tumblr's removal of "adult content"?

Here’s a copypaste from another thing I wrote earlier today:

There’s a strong and dangerous Libertarian ideology that runs deep in Silicon Valley that directly and indirectly supports actions that quite tellingly never affect CIS white hetero men, but have profoundly dangerous and harmful consequences for literally every other group of people.

Through actions like Tumblr’s upcoming ban that will (through post flagging) disproportionately affect LGBTQ people, like Jack Dorsey’s refusal to address the hate and white supremacy on Twitter, like Facebook’s decision to use right-wing anti-Semitic dogwhistles to deflect attention from its systemic privacy violations, like Reddit’s embrace of right-wing and white nationalist users, it is impossible to deny that the decision makers in the board rooms at the biggest social media platforms are at the very least sympathetic to the voices and ideas of white supremacists and misogynists, and at worst in total agreement with their positions. Every choice these people make moves what should be fringe voices and ideas further and further into the mainstream, while they marginalize and punish nonviolent voices that call for justice and equality.

Social media is broken and it’s the fault of the failed leaders at the main social media platforms, who will be remembered with disdain and contempt by history.

tl;dr: I hate it.

s-leary

An astonishingly useful thread on progressive vs. conservative thought by Jennifer Dziura (text version via ThreadReader):

lectorel

Wow, that is legitimately horrifying.

I intended to help someone, but it turns out the thing I did kills people. The only moral option is … Doubling down and killing more people.

thornshrike

It all boils down to the different moral foundations people use. For progressives, care, equality and “freedom to” are the main building blocks for deciding whether something is just and moral.

- Does it harm people? - Does it result in inequality? - Does it prevent people from engaging in society?

As long as the proposed idea (behaviour, policy) clears those two hurdles, it’s good to go for progressives.This type of thinking is super compatible with consequentialism. For conservatives, there are more foundations to consider - authority, loyalty, fairness, purity and “liberty from”.

- Does it violate established social hierarchy? (in this approach, hierarchy is good and beneficial). - Does it damage in-group bonds? (again, strong in-group loyalties are considered to be good). - Does it fail to reward contributors and punish wrong-doers? (this is a big one - fairness is about just desserts and consequences for actions, not equality). - Does it breach the sanctity of the body? (this is a complex one, rooted in cultural notions of disgust and body as a temple). - Does it force people to engage in actions they disagree with? (this is the freedom from taxation, PC, and so on).

Libertarians pretty much care only about Liberty from things, usually the government.

This complex set of values means that the same idea or policy will get different moral evaluations. Let’s take a few examples:

Legalising weed: all fine in terms of the progressive foundations. But it breaches purity (the body is a temple) and to an extent interacts with conservative version of fairness by removing a punishment on what they consider to be morally wrong behaviour.

Universal healthcare: again, all clear in progressive values. This policy will help. But in the conservative value set, the policy fails at fairness by ‘rewarding’ non-contributing behaviour (poverty and illness). Let’s not get into a debate over how this is even classified as behaviour rather than a condition. It also breaches freedom from for people who are mostly focused on being free from government, rather than private insurers. The interesting caveat is that purity should favour healthcare - if the body is sacred, we should as a society value accessible ways to keep it healthy and clean. However, because many health conditions have contributing behavioural factors, it can be considered unjust to help people out of the consequences of their actions - even at a net loss to society.

If anyone is interested, Jonathan Haidt writes a lot about the moral foundations, and while he’s often annoyingly centrist in how he presents the ideas, the research is pretty solid.

theinturnetexplorer

Hide and Seek

mankillercalledbunny

Cat Camouflage

sprinkled-with-sass

catouflage

kasueli

why would someone reblog a photoset of everyday household things? so boring

30-minute-memes

me_irl

basic-banshee

I keep using my girlfriend with unusual work hours to get out of coworker interactions and happy hours and hanging out.

But now the company holiday party is upon us.

And I’ve been lying about the girlfriend.

I suddenly really empathise with the characters in Hallmark Christmas movies.

basic-banshee

I like that people have two reactions to this post.

Reasonable: “just say she couldn’t make it!”

Chaotic: FAKE DATING AU

victorxaxvale

Well, which one is it going to be?

basic-banshee

And so it begins

contentcrisis

having the DMV area Craigslist bookmarked has never come in handy before but now

basic-banshee

Update, Craigslist has flagged my post as inappropriate.

basic-banshee

Apparently you can’t solicit a date as a “gig”

I now see my mistake

basic-banshee

Update: a date has been acquired. This is true lesbian solidarity in action.

tramtheram

I’m going to be real pissed after tomorrow as I get porn bots still following me but all my friends adult blogs get wiped out and non sensitive posts get flagged.

nudityandnerdery

I’ve been getting *more* porn bots following me the past week or so than before, so… Great job with that, Tumblr.

writingdirty-deactivated2024051

argumate

but really porn is just the canary in the coal mine that our supposed general purpose computing devices are tightly controlled by a duopoly that makes Microsoft in the ‘90s look relaxed and open minded: Apple doesn’t want porn apps on its phones, so there are no porn apps on its phones; other apps can stay if they tithe 30%, but they’re on thin fucking ice.

you can leave Tumblr and go to another social network, but if that gets sufficiently popular it will face the same threat, there is no escape.

the last bastion of freedom is the open web, and I anticipate the day when mobile Safari blocks access to sites that aren’t signed by Apple, for security reasons.

the right to install whatever software you want on your own computer is a vital one, and we should be fighting for it.

yffresbeard

natgeofound

An amateur orchid grower works in the window of his greenhouse in Silver Spring, Maryland, April 1971.Photograph by Gordon Gahan, National Geographic

striders

saddest breakfast: didn’t have time to eat before work so i made an instant oatmeal cup with hot water from the office keurig except the water that comes out of the keurig isn’t QUITE boiling so there’s still like. some bite. to the oats.

striders

SCREAM my fucking coworker just came into my office and told me there’s donuts in the workshop i’m going to lose my mind!!! i already ate the oats!!!!!!!!