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[aflo]

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[edupunkbitch]

This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.

It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.

[miamaimania]

“The Impossible III” by Maria Martins, 1946

[moonsparkles]

this is the only website that has ever made sense to me

[gremlininho]

[hollowedskin]

Thought this was one of those artifacts they use to try and prove that aliens exist and built Machu Picchu but it's very clearly concrete and not sedementary stone.

[genderkoolaid]

it is crazy how people will be like well we just can never know why joan of arc crossdressed, we just can't be sure it wasn't entirely about protecting herself from rape or just the practical necessity of being at war. as if that is not an argument that was literally invented at her rehabilitation trial decades after her death to justify her sainthood. as if we don't have the original french minutes of her trial, where she was very active and aware in the note-taking and what was being written down and, when given opportunities to explain her crossdressing, never once mentioned sexual violence or practical concerns about wearing women's clothing while at war, and instead directly stated several times that she wore men's clothing because it was God's will and she would only stop if God commanded her to.

like actually i don't think its that big of mystery. there's mysterious elements, because we don't have all the details, but its not like we have no clue what she said on the subject.. i think it has just historically made a lot of cishet people extremely uncomfortable that jeanne la pucelle went to her death refusing to ever admit fault for saying God told her to wear men's clothing for the sake of being a virgin waging war in men's clothing. i think it historically made a lot of people uncomfortable that at her trial they told her "Deuteronomy says crossdressing is a sin" and jeanne's response was "I know what God told me and I do not believe I have done anything wrong." but that is a problem for people because you can't have her sainthood and her admirable (to a Catholic) devotion to God without her devotion to her genderqueerness in God's name.

jeanne la pucelle did not try to imitate other historical or mythological warrior-women or holy heterosexual virgins. she carved out an identity that was truly unique to her and deeply grounded in her Catholic faith. she looked the men who killed her in the eye and answered their questions and knew what she was doing. this was not a woman who seemed unsure of herself much at all. she said she'd die before she went against God's will and wore women's clothing, and then she did. i think we can all maybe show her the respect of acknowledging that she wore men's clothing because it was personally spiritually meaningful to her that she did, and not for the secretly entirely practical cisgender reasons people came up with later to make her story easier to swallow.

[wadewilsoncoreposts]

[orcboxer]

autism tests are so funny. I'm extremely literal most of the time, but people don't tell me that generally, so I'm inclined to answer disagree. because I'm taking the statement too literally

[peopleingishard]

^not my post but same sentiment

[rehabghost]

fanart of x the everything app

[bonivers]

revisiting an album u didn’t like on first listen and seeing the error of ur ways

[crankygay]

[ottermatopoeia]

[389]

Canards Roses, Risographie Marie Larrivé

[depsidase]

[calicotisane]

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[maxknightley]

in the contemporary world, the most fundamental human right - and, it often seems, the least protected one - is "being both Allowed and Able to go Somewhere Else." the rest is commentary.

[maxknightley]

the torments of prison are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. the most terrifying and degrading aspects of childhood are predicated on Not Letting You Leave. misogynists wail and moan and fearmonger about divorce and equal opportunity employment because they Allow Wife To Leave. borders and immigration restrictions exist, in no small part, to Prevent People From Leaving countries where they will be exploited and/or oppressed. fuck you for trying to leave. fuck you for exerting any control over your life whatsoever. that makes you the one at fault, actually.

[str-ngeloop]

david graeber described three fundamental freedoms: freedom to move, freedom to disobey orders, and freedom to reorganize social relations

[prudencepaccard]

fundamental human right

[nflstreet-deactivated20180710]

[fuckheadwitha]

this best thing about this is the meme format conditions you to expect a follow up statement and it’s absence contributes to a sense of stillness, simulating the experience of just sitting in your truck