Spooky Pants

Likes: Art, movies, animals, music, Halloween, 80's, horror movies, cats, folklore, Freddy Krueger, porn, surrealism, aliens, weird stuff... Hates: Right-wing anything. You just fuck right off. This blog sometimes posts and reblogs 18+ materials. Icon art by Michael Wm. Kaluta If you can provide information about anything uncredited on my blog, I would greatly appreciate it.

[pantstrovich]

Logging off.

Find me elsewhere under the same name.

[elvhxns]

The Official “Log Off” Protest F.A.Q! 

The “Log Off” protest is in response to the recent NSFW ban announced by Tumblr. The ban flags all content the filtering system detects as NSFW, reducing visibility to the community. The system has proven time and time again that is inefficient, oftentimes flagging SFW material as NSFW. 

This SFW material includes art, memes and so on. This ban directly hurts the community and will not solve the actual problems at hand due to the poor flagging system. Because of this, the entire community will suffer.  

So to respond, I propose that every user on Tumblr logs off of Tumblr for 24 hours on December 17th at 12 am EST. 

Times are listed above depending on timezone! 

This post responds to some very common questions about the protest. So make sure to read it over! 

How to Export Your Blog: 

https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005118894-Export-your-blog

Alternative Sites: 

Pillowfort

Mastodan 

Wordpress 

Twitter 

There is also an official Tumblr blog (ironic, huh?) and Twitter for the protest! It’s at: 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/logoffprotest

Tumblr - https://logoffprotest.tumblr.com/

There will be official updates on each account. Make sure to tag us in any posts, or use the hashtag #logoff2018 ! 

Thanks for your support guys. Let’s fight to make Tumblr better. Actually better. 

[logoffprotest]

Here’s the official blog! Make sure to follow for official updates.

[logoffprotest]

There was an error with the timezones listed! Here’s the correct timezones below: 

[logoffprotest]

Also if you don’t see your timezone listed, please use this website! There are so many time zones (darn Earth!) that I can’t account for them all. 

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20181217T050000&p1=tz_et

It starts with the date and time for the protest start in EST for you (December 17, 12 am EST). Simply click “Add another city or timezone” and add your city/timezone!

This will instantly convert for you. Sorry about any confusion! 

[tobermoriansass]

I’m begging you, if you’ve ever written or made anything original on here please back it up in some form or the other now. The fact tumblr is blocking the wayback machine is the clearest sign they’re nuking this website and everything else is just a smokescreen for their intentions.

[unspeakablehorror]

Ouch. I don’t know if they plan to delete everything really soon or just, like whatever unfortunate posts they randomly flagged, but whatever is up, this is very ominous.

Anyway, even if Tumblr ends up staying up for years after this I don’t trust this site anymore and I absolutely agree that if there’s anything on here someone would miss if it was gone, they should back it up!

[sl-walker]

They are blocking WayBack; I just tried to save my homepage and it denied me.

[vaspider]

First of all: https://twitter.com/__mothman/status/1070130550944526336

Download your stuff now, if you haven’t. I have found a LOT of my posts are missing as I go back over my blog. Randomly, I found that all of my posts with my picture of Teagan in it were missing. Thankfully I had that art gift already saved elsewhere. I have no idea what else from the last five, six years has gone missing. 

Second, and very concerning: https://mobile.twitter.com/textfiles/status/1073951013634113538

[watchre-deactivated20190129]

final update: first photo was taken tuesday afternoon ( 12/11 ) when trevor came home from the vet in his new cast! he has been progressing exactly as expected (though a little grumpy). cheyenne has asked me to thank you all DEEPLY and sincerely for making this medical trip possible. and an extra special shout out to MORGAN and MIRANDA for your incredibly generous donations. YOU ALL HELPED the sweetest little cat get the aid he needed!

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You’d be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside–walking through their days with no idea who they are.” - Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (via the-book-diaries)

[fruitgushers]

if you arent someone the church wanted dead 300 years ago are you really living

[xenosagaepisodeone]

sure he’s well versed in leftist theory but does he do the dishes

[communitygardens]

this is such a succinct critique of  male leftists who think of it as theory only & won’t even get off their ass to clear the table

[butchflirt]

[toastp1ercer]

@spock-and-uhuras-jam-band literally lmao

[elfwreck]

She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes by the Sink

I remember my wife often saying how exhausting it was for her to have to tell me what to do all the time. It’s why the sexiest thing a man can say to his partner is “I got this,” and then take care of whatever needs taken care of.

I always reasoned: “If you just tell me what you want me to do, I’ll gladly do it.”

But she didn’t want to be my mother. She wanted to be my partner, and she wanted me to apply all of my intelligence and learning capabilities to the logistics of managing our lives and household.

She wanted me to figure out all of the things that need done, and devise my own method of task management.

I wish I could remember what seemed so unreasonable to me about that at the time.

It’s not just about equal division of labor. It’s also about, “this thing is important to her. If he ignores it, he’s saying that what she wants is irrelevant to him.”

And that’s a guy saying, “I’m only spending time with you because it’s pleasant for me.” He’s already decided what’s “really” important, and her input is not welcome.

If he won’t do the dishes and laundry, he’s looking for fun, not a partnership. And his “leftist” ideals will be the same–something he studies because it’s interesting to him; a form of activism that he thinks will bring him a better life. If he can’t do household tasks that matter to a person he loves, he sure as hell can’t support policies that help people whose struggles he doesn’t even acknowledge are real.

[ailurinae]

[newcracksinthewall]

Jessica.

© PeterVR

Bye tumblr. Find me on twitter and instagram.

[ailurinae]

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1073951013634113538

[wehadfacesthen]

I won’t be posting Monday December 17 to protest the imposition of censorship on Tumblr

[thezomblr-blog1]

🚫 THIS BLOG IS TAKING PART IN THE ANTI-CENSORSHIP PROTEST ON DECEMBER 17th 🚫

The owner of this Blog will be making as much noise at Tumblr Staff about how horrible this ban in on other sites such as Twitter or Facebook. 

The owner of this blog will be logging out of all accounts for the entirety of the 17th. Will Not run a queue. Will not even check the dash. Or give the money hungry executives a single page view to squeeze ad revenue out of

The owner of this blog believes in an ACTUAL positive, better, safer Tumblr and well be doing their part to fight for it by logging out on the 17th of December. 

[pantstrovich]

I'll be protesting for two days, since I'll be starting in an Australian time zone and finishing on the 18th in US time zones.

Log off. Force the app to stop or delete it. Don't visit the site at all. Turn off automatic updates. Don't let it update. Don't share anything to Tumblr. Nothing.

Complain loudly on other sites. Join possible replacements for Tumblr.

[hussyofhorror]

Since pillowfort ain’t up anybody got any word about Explicitr? Seems like a good idea but I jsut want some opinions. Any other places to go?

[samstiels-deactivated20201212]

How to tell if your blog has been flagged as explicit

The easiest method

Go to a postlimit checker

Enter your blog url

If you’ve been flagged as explicit, under General Blog Info your url will be listed as [nsfw] and your avatar will be pixelated 

Without leaving you blog

Go to settings

Select your blog from the bar on the right

Go down to the On-Blog Advertising section

If the On-Blog Advertising button is normal and allows you click it on or off, then you’re fine

If the On-Blog Advertising is off, faded, and you can’t click it on or off, then you’ve been flagged as explicit

Not explicit

Explicit

[animatedamerican]

this strikes me as useful to know

[provillain-deactivated20181218]

So when this place dies, be reminded that there’s ALWAYS free trailers at the most recent updates on provillain.com if you need rapey ropey porno fix. I may start my own subreddit too but in case that doesn’t work out, you can always find me on my site.

–Tim

[random2908]

Saw this shared on FB. It covers counter-arguments for a lot of the most common pro-gun points you’ll see people raise. Long read, but very helpful.

[jazzybot4]

This is amazing. Thank you dude for doing all this work.

[neil-gaiman]

BBC Radio 4 - With Great Pleasure, With Great Pleasure at Christmas: Neil Gaiman

Writer Neil Gaiman shares the writing and songs he loves, with readings by Peter Capaldi.

Well, Peter Capaldi, Nina Sosanya and John Finnemore. Music from Mitch Benn and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. “Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. Neil’s favourites include James Thurber’s The 13 Clocks, Caryl Brahms & SJ Simons’ Shakespeare spoof, Christmas in Wind in the Willows, Lucy Clifford’s spooky Victorian story, Charles Dickens’ gruesome ‘Captain Murderer’ character, Mary Poppins, poems by Terry Pratchett, Wendy Cope and Henry Treece and two delightfully funny short plays by AA Milne and Saki, performed by the whole cast. A clip of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and two ukulele songs round off the show.” 

The 7 am show will be longer than the 10 pm show. They’ve cut a lot for time, even from the 7 am version, and I’m not sure you’ll hear the Terry Pratchett poem or the Henry Treece poem here.  Maybe they can put them up as adverts for the show…

And yes, it will be on BBC iPlayer Radio aka BBC Sounds – the longer version of the show I hope – and you will be able to listen to it for free anywhere in the world with an Internet.