SilverSparrow92

Hello, I am SilverSparrow92, fan of many things. I usually reblog stuff from my fandoms and funny stuff, but once in awhile I put up some political stuff as well. I consider myself a liberal, yet I also have some beliefs that many would say isn't liberal so make that as you will. Follow if you want or not.

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An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more. 

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again. 

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue. 

 Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole.  There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough. 

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind. 

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

 If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to. 

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise. 

Sincerely, 

The users of your website. 

@staff @support

[aninactivebloggfgfgf]

They flagged this post immediately and I’ve submitted it for review… this is… quite a week.

[aninactivebloggfgfgf]

If you believe these words, reblog it, please. I want this to be right in their face because I couldn’t email them directly. 

[takashi0]

[space-coyote-judal]

You can be positive towards women without putting down men.

[rainbowloliofjustice]

It’s amazing how there is a generation of people who hate Stan Lee for ???

The man, even in his early years denounced racism as a special type of evil that can’t be defeated with a bullet. 

Marvel was the first mainstream comic to show a gay marriage. 

And the accusations of him sexually harassing a nurse were false. and proven to be false. 

The man has denounced racism and promoted tolerance and diversity for years, much more than what most people who age would have ever dared consider. Hell, he created Black Panther, the first black comic hero. 

But all because the man didn’t want to make Peter Parker black and bisexual he obviously is a racist and homophobe… Despite…

Luke Cage

Falcon 

Storm 

Spider Girl (Corazon) 

Miles Morales

Moonstar

Karma

Black Panther

Shuri

Kimura

Lady Deathstrike

Echo

Jubilee

Monet St. Croix

Hulkling

America Chavez 

Northstar and hosting the first gay marriage depicted in mainstream comics IN 1992 WAY BEFORE GAY MARRIAGE WAS EVEN LEGALIZED

Valkyrie  

Wiccian and many others…

But y’all asses over here fucking ignoring the shit out of them like the only thing Stan Lee and Marvel ever made was Spiderman and Peter Parker all because the man doesn’t think that you should redefine established or preexisting characters. Why?

Because he believed in creating NEW characters, new characters who had their OWN personalities, who had their OWN stories, who had their OWN fans

He wanted to make new things, not redefine what already exists. He wanted to make NEW characters and stories that people could connect to. NEW characters who could stand on their own as opposed to just being “This character but now xyz.” 

He wanted characters who had their own life and vibrancy to them. 

Yet y’all asses fucking mad he didn’t make Peter Parker black while you ignoring the fuck out of Miles Morales. Yet y’all asses are mad he didn’t make Peter Parker bi or gay while ignoring the fact that the Marvel comic version of Deadpool and Loki are both bisexual. 

Y’all fucking ignoring the POC and LGBT+ characters that exist in the Marvel universe all because you wanna be like ~~uwu 20gayteen~~

Until y’all asses start recognizing POC and LGBT+ characters THAT ALREADY EXIST you don’t get to say shit about anything else being gay. 

DON’T SIT THERE AND IGNORE CANON LGBT AND POC CHARACTERS AND THEN ACT LIKE STAN LEE WAS A RACIST OR HOMOPHOBIC BIGOT

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[mister-christmas]

[soniciscool1999]

[viostormcaller]

Fucking exactly. Fucks who hate just to hate and purposely ignore facts piss me the fuck off. If you do that shit fuck you.

[chronically-illustrated]

Thank you for this. I’ve been really distressed about the discourse saying he was racist/homophobic/sexually harassed people, and I haven’t had the energy to do more of my own research, so I appreciate someone with a broader knowledge sharing this information.

[patrickat]

[sci-fantasy]

“…nice house. Of ideas.”

[superheroladies]

I’m gonna be real here for a sec, and I’m sorry for being the one to say it. Every single one of you who is advocating for shows that tried to be inclusive and had hiccups to be voted down and be punished by attempting to lower the ratings and sending messages to the higher ups are playing themselves. You all turned on SU, Korra, Voltron, and will turn on the Dragon Prince and She-Ra as well when those also turn out to be flawed shows and not peak respectability politics as well. There is no such thing as a perfect show, let alone the prefect rep. 

Do you really believe execs care about what you’re saying? All that they will see is that people hate shows with reps, and that shows with reps get the most hate and more so than shows that don’t even try, so the message to them is that we shouldn’t try since people will eventually turn on them. All you’re doing is making creators see what these shows go through and go you know what, it’s not worth it. Because the level of outright malice is vicious and horrifying. 

Execs don’t care what you’re saying all they see is that you hated the rep so to them it’s better to not have rep. If you think big corporations care about your plight then you are heavily misguided. Creators have to fight and fight to get scraps and there are many internal politics on what goes down and how. They aren’t kidding when they say they fight for it. Shows that try will always be held on a higher standard and when that isn’t met it’s punished for trying and those above the shows will go welp, better never include those nasty queers if they’re gonna hate it. Thats’ the bitter reality of it and it will never change so choose your words and actions carefully. 

[stelamaris]

in two years people will turn on dragon prince and she-ra it’s a given wank they will never ever care about you only creators will and future creators will see what their peers go through and back down on what they want as well because dreading backlash is now more on the rise than ever heck i’m just a fan and even i fear backlash imagine being a creator that everyone feels entitled to look i’m really sorry to put it out like this but it’s the bitter truth all of these shows are deeply flawed but they are trying

[moonshadow-memes]

netflix is literally losing money over regions that prohibit queer representation, you KNOW they will JUMP on the chance to cancel shows with rep to replace them with more hetero (mainstream) shows they can show in all regions! so please don’t be the reason they cancel these shows, and please remember that in the end, it is a cartoon aimed at children, there are a lot of restrictions on them already.

[takashi0]

Even more than just creators having to deal with execs roadblocking them, if you do this shit to small companies and indie creators with no one hanging over their heads then eventually they’re just gonna say “fuck it, why bother trying if we’re just gonna be the bad guy no matter what?”

[greenofallshades]

A radical take on Thanksgiving

Well, at least for Tumblr. I was just in the Thanksgiving tag, and it’s filled with self-righteous lectures, tirades, and demands that everyone approach Thanksgiving with the appropriate woke perspective. The angrier you are, the more points you get, and the better you feel about yourself (you know it’s the truth). And if someone in your family doesn’t agree with you politically, it’s your sacred duty to make that piece of filth miserable tomorrow.

Listen. Your relatives are more than political positions. Take it from someone who has lost both parents—the people you’re screaming at for the way they voted won’t be around forever. One day you’ll miss them and you’ll understand what’s really important. If some public servant (from either side) tells you to ruin your family gathering and make it a stressful event by starting an argument, tell them to know their place and STFU.

Instead of approaching Thanksgiving as a traumatizing ordeal, here’s the really radical concept—how about actually being thankful for what you have?

I know we all have problems, some worse than others, and I’m not minimizing them. But when you make an effort to leave the miserably negative mindset, and take a rest from the rage, you can look around at what you do have and realize you’re blessed. Gratitude is healing.

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁

[stopmakingliberalslookbad]

A lot of you seem to be missing the point of this post. OP isn’t telling you all to forgive abusive family members. They’re telling you to stop with the petty bullshit.

[big-scrungus]

I don’t understand why some women are upset at international men’s day

Having a day for men as well as women is equality. That’s egalitarian as you can be. Stop trying to shit on men for wanting a day to address the issues we face as well. I’m really getting sick of this “KILL ALL MEN REEEEE” Sexist bullshit. NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE ABOUT WOMEN. I try to advocate for equality as much as I can. To the ladies with common sense and basic human decency,I shouldn’t even have to thank you but i am. Just because I have a dick and balls doesn’t automatically make me a rapist, It doesn’t mean I automatically hate women. It doesn’t mean I am going to be abusive. Do you realize how long it took for me to learn that it’s ok to cry? That its ok to express my emotions? To unlearn all that Toxic ass bullshit? Because growing up I was always taught that crying is for sissies and girls. I was in my LATE 20s when I figured this shit out.

[whatsnew-lgbtq]

Not to get controversial or anything but can we stop with making fun of women being abused by their husbands and playing it off as ‘straight culture’

[whatsnew-lgbtq]

I lost 10 followers for saying we shouldnt make fun of domestic abuse victims.

[fallingstars5683-deactivated201]

can we also please stop making fun of men being abused by their wives thanks

[whatsnew-lgbtq]

Good addition

[pervocracy]

Note to vacationing non-Americans: while it’s true that America doesn’t always have the best food culture, the food in our restaurants is really not representative of what most of us eat at home.  The portions at Cheesecake Factory or IHOP are meant to be indulgent, not just “what Americans are used to.”

If you eat at a regular American household, during a regular meal where they’re not going out of their way to impress guests, you probably will not be served twelve pounds of chocolate-covered cream cheese.  Please bear this in mind before writing yet another “omg I can’t believe American food” post.

[briarpatchfinn]

Also, most American restaurant portions are 100% intended as two meals’ worth of food. Some of my older Irish relatives still struggle with the idea that it’s not just not rude to eat half your meal and take the rest home, it’s expected. (Apparently this is somewhat of an American custom.)

[xenoqueer]

Until you’re hitting the “fancy restaurant” tier (the kind of place you go for a celebration or an anniversary date), a dinner out should generally also be lunch for the next day. Leftovers are very much the norm.

From the little time I’ve spent in Canada, this seems to be the case up there as well.

[jumpingjacktrash]

the portions in family restaurants (as opposed to haute cuisine types) are designed so that no one goes away hungry.

volume IS very much a part of the american hospitality tradition, and Nobody Leaves Hungry is important. but you have to recognize that it’s not how we cook for ourselves, it’s how we welcome guests and strengthen community ties.

so in order to give you a celebratory experience and make you feel welcomed, family restaurants make the portions big enough that even if you’re a teenage boy celebrating a hard win on the basketball court, you’re still going to be comfortably full when you leave.

of course, that means that for your average person with a sit-down job, who ate a decent lunch that day, it’s twice as much as they want or more. that’s ok. as mentioned above, taking home leftovers is absolutely encouraged. that, too, is part of american hospitality tradition; it’s meant to invoke fond memories of grandma loading you down with covered dishes so you can have hearty celebration food all week. pot luck church basement get-togethers where the whole town makes sure everybody has enough. that sort of thing. it’s about sharing. it’s about celebrating Plenty.

it’s not about pigging out until you get huge. treating it that way is pretty disrespectful of our culture. and you know, contrary to what the world thinks, we do have one.

[theunnamedstranger]

[enthusiasm-is-overrated]

I like this. This is nice

[emeraldmercury]

Faith in America restored

[stopmakingliberalslookbad]

I bet that all of the non-Native people who are trashing Thanksgiving will have no problem shoving turkey and pumpkin pie down their self-righteous throats on Thursday.

[stopmakingliberalslookbad]

I feel like in general people just need to get better at recognizing that other people -with differing beliefs- are still people and deserve basic rights and respect It's not a conservative or liberal thing it's an everyone thing Some people are bad people some people do horrible things and we all should be held accountable for our actions But everyone is also a living breathing person who is just as complex as you or I and no one should be imagined as "just a __." when we're all multifaceted.

^^

[dr-bebber-deactivated20190505]

Hey CNN are you okay??

[nicojiru-deactivated20220825]

What’s happening now??

[dr-bebber-deactivated20190505]

[valorousowl]

They’re not wrong you guys are just mean/the loudest minority of Furry culture is the worst and is not representative of furries as a whole

I’m adding, yall remember when people tried to GAS a hotel of furries.

Yall remember how most of them are harmless doofs that just wanna have fun and raise money for charity.

Yall remember how at Genericon IN MY STATE a bunch of furries at the rave stopped COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM THE CAMPUS FROM KIDNAPPING MINORS FROM SAID CONVENTION

Look there’s a lot of bad parts, that’s unavoidable with a Fandom that massive, but there’s a lot of good too and we need to stop judging fandoms by their worst.

[glowies-cave-deactivated2018122]

Preach

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

They also pay fairly for commission work, support art and artists, and have taken concrete measures, far more than many other subcultures, to aggressively eject neo-nazis from their community.

I mean, I don’t have to like or understand the sexual component, but it’s also none of my business.  So I’m cool with them on the basis of that other stuff.

[stitch-n-time]

I actually personally know a fair number of furries. I work with at least a few. One is a good friend and we hang out regularly. The sex thing is a little creepy to me, NGL, but some of my sex stuff is creepy to the few that have had those discussions with me. (Not in any sort of flirting or “wanna bang” type of way, but more of a “hey, I was curious about…” type of way.) But honestly? They’re some of the most awesome people I’ve ever met. Most of them are big into charities, they firmly believe in paying well for the work they have done - whether its an art-type commission or regular job-type work, and have incredibly diverse interests.

[lionesshathor]

Rule #34 exists in every fandom

It does not represent the fandom as a whole

WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU THIS FOR YEARS

Here’s a little story from the inside: The CSI episode “Fur and Loathing” is a major part of the furries=fetish myth. The production team sent a copy of the script to a major convention for feedback and accuracy checks by furries themselves.

When they received the edited version, they scrapped all the changes because THERE WAS NO LONGER ANY SCANDALOUS OR SHOCKING CONTENT.

We were too mild and pleasant to entertain a TV audience, so they threw us under the bus.

[stopmakingliberalslookbad]

Brooklyn Nine Nine is a textbook on how to handle diversity. The representation is never shoved on your face, the characters are people first and demographics later, their gender, race and/or sexuality is a part of their indenttity, not their whole indentity. When they tackle social issues, it's never on a hamfisted or preachy way.

^^

[stopmakingliberalslookbad]

My dad has a plan to avoid political discussion at Thanksgiving: if anyone brings any of it up, he will start just belting out a song from a random musical

Your dad is awesome.

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

[catchymemes]

[amarretto-cowboy]

I’ll never forget the last in person conversation I had with with a woman I was on and off with for years because whenever there was an issue, she would just stop talking to me for months at a clip.

At one point she straight up blocked me and bragged to mutual friends about it. Friends went to me and told me to move on and that it’s her loss. Her and I didn’t talk for 2 years. In that time, I moved on to the point of getting married. Soon after I got married, she popped in to see if I was single still and lost her shit when she found out I had gotten hitched.

She tried to convince me to get a divorce and called me and idiot for getting married in the first place.

The best part… When she asked why I didn’t wait for her to “come around”. I told her she gave me no choice but to move on when she blocked me.

This was her answer: well a block is only temporary. You should have just waited for it to end then hit me up!

Yeah…. I’m so glad I didn’t.

[samael-d-h]

fuck those people who play these games

[rainbowloliofjustice]

People who play these games should be kneecapped

[gray-firearms-deactivated201905]

I had a few girls try this shit with me. They get real surprised when I just up and walk away. Dont play this shit cause I wont play it. No one got time for this bullshit. Time is to expensive to be wasting it on this dumb shit.

[unclebeanbag]

That’s why y'all should date women instead of girls.

[emeraldmercury]

^^^^

Girls play mind games and probably perpetuated the #wastehistime tag when it was at its height. Women know better. 

[thank-you-based-bear]

I don’t understand why people do this. Tell people it’s over and you’re done instead of blocking them like cowards. Once I want someone out of my life it’s forever there’s no temporary block bullshit.

[emeraldmercury]

Romcoms are to blame. A lot of older romcoms made this idea that you should temporarily give your partner the silent treatment or pretend to reject them as a “true love test.” If your partner truly loves you, they’ll apparently come after you in spite of the rejection. 

Too bad in real life, most people are straightforward in nature and that NEVER WORKS. 

[straightboyfriend]

[emeraldmercury]

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