"SOMETIMES I CAN STILL HEAR THEIR VOICE"

terminated because staff can't tell the difference between toes on a sparkly pink carpet and pussy, this truly is the celibacy website

[necrosonatica]

So like, does anyone know what happened to maimonideznuts ?

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

I have a dispute lodged with Tumblr rn.

Gather round and I will tell you my tale...

I posted a screenshot of a YouTube short from a podiatrist talking about toe hair... But the foot was on a sparkly pink shag carpet, which managed to make the toe gap look like a pussy, which to be fair is why I posted it, I thought it was really funny. Tumblr didn't share my sense of humour, it was flagged as explicit content and I appealed it because it was very much not a pussy and they nuked my whole account on appeal.

[elierlick]

Thirty-year-old Tamara Rees shows us what trans empowerment looked like in 1954. She fought Nazis, taught parachuting, and traveled the world... but her biggest challenge came when the press learned of her identity.

1950s news coverage of Tamera Rees' transition shows a time before the trans moral panic. Most stories regarded her as brave or heroic for her openness. National newspapers even celebrated her wedding in 1955.

The New York Daily News, which now hosts daily anti-trans editorials, ran a shockingly respectful series on trans people in the 1950s. Tamara Rees's narrative was among the longest and most detailed. She thoughtfully implored the public to respect not only her identity, but also other trans people like her.

Tamara wasn't the first famous trans woman of the 1950s, nor was she the best known. However, she had a unique opportunity to share her own story. You can read Tamara's 1955 autobiography, Reborn: A Factual Life Story of a Transition from Male to Female, at transreads.org/reborn 

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

Antisemites really are disturbed...

[bedupolker]

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

I like when someone invents a new and disturbing way to Decorate Wrong

[yourfaveisintersex]

what if I just made my profile picture a male calico cat or something. hurm

[icewingassasin]

Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.

[yourfaveisintersex]

Oh my god?????

Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????

[yourfaveisintersex]

:)

[mornington-the-crescent]

June 1st

[breelandwalker]

Listen, marketing-as-exploitation discussions aside, Rainbow Capitalism is, has been, and continues to be the canary in the coal mine of social acceptance for the queer community.

If you’ll all pardon my Americentrism for a moment, the amount, visibility, and flamboyance of Pride merch available in clothing, home goods, and comestibles stores is a DIRECT reflection of how safe it is to be queer in public in the United States.

How? Simple. Out groups aren’t profitable. If you’re not “acceptable” in the current social climate, big franchise businesses will not market to you. (Prime example - Look how quickly Target dropped all their Pride merch after having been wall-to-wall rainbows every June for almost a decade prior.)

Sure, capitalism sucks and being viewed as an exploitable marketing demographic isn’t a fun concept.

HOWEVER.

The grim truth is that being normalized enough to be considered profitable by corporations IS A GOOD THING in terms of the barometer of social acceptance.

Same thing goes for smaller businesses that throw kitschy Pride events or even just put a token rainbow flag in the window or somewhere inside the shop. That’s a level of acceptance that DID NOT EXIST thirty years ago, and I can tell you because I was there.

The fact that we can scoff and bitch about being an exploitable marketing demographic nowadays means we have made GIGANTIC strides since the 1990s. It also speaks to the fact that the drive and the conversation surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance are continuing. And getting louder.

You can be cynical about it if you want. But I will take a store that puts out lip-service rainbow merch over a world that pretends we don’t exist any day of the week. Because that will always mean something.

Sincerely, An Elder Queer

[impostoradult]

Agreed, and also, it has always struck me as a little bit of a double-standard in queer politics when people used to point out the exclusion of queerness from mainstream capitalist products as evidence of their marginalization (e.g., there are no m/m or f/f wedding cards)

Yet, when they start being included, they are like “well, that’s just capitalism taking advantage of us, so it doesn’t count.” Like, you can’t use your EXCLUSION from something as evidence of general societal marginalization and then claim that once you’ve started to be included, it is politically meaningless. You don’t really get to have it both ways. That’s moving the political goal posts.

I get that we shouldn’t consider Target pride merchandise as like the pinnacle of queer politics or even the pinnacle of queer inclusion. I get that inclusion in capitalist intuitions is a very ambivalent form of social progress. But the truth is, capitalism is a big part of what creates our social reality right now (unfortunately).

Capitalism makes TV shows, and movies, and books, and ads, and greeting cards, and toys, and clothing, and, and…

When every single aspect of commercial social reality excludes queerness, that DOES create a real sense of social alienation. I don’t love that capitalism is responsible for creating so much of our collective social reality. But granting that it does, I think we’re forced to accept that our inclusion in it IS politically and socially important.

And yes we should still be trying to resist capitalism as the primary means of meeting human needs. But we can resist treating capitalism as an inevitability or an inherent good, AND ALSO acknowledge that our inclusion within it remains politically important while it still holds so much power and responsibility for creating our shared reality.

[quantummindclassicalheart]

See also a recent article from NPR (published May 30, 2026) discussing how pride celebrations have struggled financially with the loss of corporate sponsorships. Organizing big visible events (and fairly compensating the labor of those who make them possible) is expensive.

Pride celebrations struggle as corporate sponsorships dry up

Public support for the LGBTQ+ community by corporations has become politically risky, public relations expert says.

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

When my Tumblr was terminated, the first thing I did was look up "is Tumblr down" and when the first down tracker said Tumblr was still up, I looked at two more before I was convinced it wasn't a mistake.

@staff please restore my account (maimonideznuts), terminating my account because you can't tell the difference between a foot and genitalia is embarrassing for you.

I miss my blog, I put so much time into it 😔

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Tagging jumblr because y'all are the folks that know who I am and this is a good way for my old followers to find me,

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

Did anyone get the Grandma Yetta reference before I was terminated?

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

The Nanny makes up about 30% of my Jewishness. Of course I got it!

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

I'm so glad

[midnightssea]

I know this is one of those arbitrary cultural differences that doesn’t actually matter but I have to confess the concept of someone considering a clear, highly processed lemon flavored soda like Sprite to be a more authentic version of lemonade than a simple mixture of lemons, sugar, and water…well, it pisses me off.

[midnightssea]

when op hears the phrase “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” in American media does the meaning partially go over their head because they think of lemonade as a factory produced soda pop rather than something anybody can make in a home kitchen in 10 minutes or less? Did they listen to Beyoncé’s Lemonade and picture a bottled soda? Much to think about….

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

I've had both kinds and called both of them Lemonade. But if you're in Australia and ask for lemonade you're 100% getting Sprite.

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

Is there any way to word a drink order in a way that will result in being served the American (ie, correct) version? Do places outside the US and Canada even routinely keep American lemonade in stock?

If I order a shandy in London am I getting a beer cut with Sprite or with actual lemonade?

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

You could order a "Pub Squash" which will give you something like Solo or Lift, but you're unlikely to get an actual American Lemonade unless you're being served "homestyle lemonade", which if it's available is definitely on the drinks menu, if it isn't then sorry 😔.

For your Shandy, ask your bartender for the details.

[necrosonatica]

So like, does anyone know what happened to maimonideznuts ?

[mr-alex-unofficially]

Let's see if I can show y'all the image that got maimonideznuts taken down

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

To be fair, it's a really funny picture, it's just a foot on a sparkly pink shag carpet. But it really does look like a vulva.

If Mr Alex gets terminated, it's not my fault.

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

Mr Alex confirmed that for him the image was also flagged as explicit content, but he had no issues getting the label overturned. Because it's obviously a foot on some pink carpet.

Which leaves me to believe that my termination was entirely Antisemitic in nature, because the main difference between us is the my blog (profile image, content, bio, etc) showed me as Jewish and his doesn't. Because my review and termination literally happened in the same minute.

So @staff I would very much like my blog "Maimonideznuts" back, because this is clearly biased and bigoted.

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

Watching a video about Mohamed Semra, who is actually now the Mayor of the City of Maribyrnong which is where I used to live in Melbourne. He seems like a nice guy.

But this is actually about his mum, who just said "my Mohamed is the best Mohamed", which is possibly the funniest way any mother has ever said her son is the best boy.

[laterkiss]

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[bungerc0re]

it's called a ball python because it is a python(🐍) that ball(🟠)

[contemptible-scoundrel]

nothing in the rules says a python can't play basketball

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

There it is, the infamous Hoop Snake

[injuries-in-dust]

[anthropicscholar]

more evidence for the 'they didnt dissappear, they just married into our communities' theory

[nitpickspot]

Neaderthals were too thick and sexy to survive. Sad.

[maimonideznuts-temporary]

Denisovans too

[whitepeopletwitter]

[blanketfortarchitect]

[rebloggingistheenemy]

[inviernodel95]

Thank you. I hope everybody thinks this

[cerillosvillage]

What to do if your account gets wrongfully terminated

So by now most of you have probably heard that my account was suddenly terminated (aka banned) on Saturday afternoon. I’m back now, and since I had to do some digging into this on my own, I figured I’d make a post for others to reference. 

How to tell if you’ve been wrongfully terminated

You will find yourself suddenly locked out of your account. For me, I had just made a post when I got kicked to the login screen. My password wouldn’t work, so I tried to reset it, at which point I got this screen:

Now, if Tumblr legitimately terminated your account - meaning, you broke a rule and they banned you for it - they should send you an email telling you why. So, immediately check your email. If you don’t get anything, it was probably a glitch. These happen shockingly often, so there’s a whole process to it. 

How to get your account back

First, submit a support ticket. Tumblr’s support email does NOT work, you MUST go through their site. Select ‘Terminated account’. Write a POLITE message explaining the situation. Describe what you were doing when you suddenly got kicked off, and state that to the best of your knowledge, you haven’t broken any rules, or that if you did, you would be willing to delete the offending posts. Include your url and email.

Check your email. You should immediately get an automatic message saying they’re looking into the problem. If you don’t that means that Tumblr marked your email as spam (because they banned you). If you need to, resend the ticket using a different email address at the bottom. Explain that your account email doesn’t seem to be going through and that’s why you’re using a different one. 

Wait. Tumblr Support’s hours of operation are 9-5 EST, Monday through Friday. If, like me, you submitted your ticket on a weekend, you may be in for a wait. If you don’t get a response within 24 hours, DO NOT SEND ANOTHER TICKET, but instead reply to the email they sent you. I’ve seen it advised that you should send another ticket only if the problem isn’t fixed within the week. 

Check you url often. Tumblr will likely never respond to your email letting you know what happened or that you’ve been reinstated. Check your url every so often, and if it finally loads as your blog (instead of the ‘There’s nothing here’ screen) you are free to log back in. 

And that’s it! If it was a glitch, they SHOULD reinstate your account, but you MUST submit a support ticket letting them know what’s going on. 

[spotlvr420]

5 YEAR OLD POST SORTA KINDA SAVES ME FROM ETERNAL CONFUSION YAAAAAHHHH

[cerillosvillage]

Okay, so, in the years since writing this guide, I’ve both seen some discussion as well as made my own observations that lead me to believe this is not just a glitch with Tumblr’s code.

More likely, if you’re reading this because you got termed, your blog was caught up in a bot dragnet.

Tumblr, like all social media, has bots. And Tumblr also does regular bot purges. It’s strikingly clear to me when these purges happen, because this post will gain a ton of notes in the span of a day. Occasionally, but not always, this will happen shortly after I notice an influx of bot followers.

That means that, for most people experiencing this problem, you are doing something that triggers Tumblr’s automated bot removal process. I cannot say what it is. Social media tends to keep their bot removal criteria vague, so that people scripting bots can’t evade capture.

Which sucks for the innocent human bloggers caught up in the purges, but it also means that if you can get someone to double check your blog, you should be reinstated pretty swiftly.

My blog has not been termed again, but if you check the notes of this post, you will see plenty of people who got their blog back using this process, many of them in the last few months. So these steps should still work.

[prismatic-bell]

Relevant to me right now!

I would like to add a note, make sure Tumblr itself is in a good working order before you send your support request. I tried to email twice during the last remains of the outage the other day, only to go “….shouldn’t they have emailed me by now?” several hours later. Resubmitted my ticket and got the insta-email. I can’t say for sure how quickly my blog was reinstated because I was on a plane for much of it, but I can tell you it was within six hours.

[marisatomay]

Happy Pride

[auxphono]

Needed a clean graphic for a project, and figured while I was vectoring I would put sex and magic back in.

Happy Pride Month

[auxphono]

Reblogging this yearly for anyone who needs a very clean version <3 Happy Pride.

[drosophilamania]

Reblog to put the sex and magic back into pride