Happy Pride Month everyone! Remember 4 months ago when the CEO of this platform harassed and chased a trans woman off this website just for posting her transition timeline, then chased her to other social media platforms to continue harassing her, and threatened to call the FBI if she continued disputing the multiple dubious terminations of her blogs that did not violate tumblr's terms of service in any way? And despite tumblr staff insisting that the CEO was acting against their interests, the broad transmisogyny evident in the site's culture and moderation policy has still not been adequately addressed?
Remember that staff is continuing to nuke the blogs of trans women even after all of this. Remember this post when they call this site the queerest place on the internet again this month
hi beloved tumblr. im still in need here. im a disabled trans girl who's often unwillingly mostly housebound and working from home and i use my pc and programming as a way to self-regulate and Not Having That has done a huge number on my mental health. luckily, the DDR5 ram escaped unscathed (i was able to test), but the system needs a new Everything Else. if you can help me, i will love you for ever and ever. while i do work fulltime, i live in South Africa and my salary translates to less than 600 usd :/
hi friends. its looking like i'll have to RMA every part of it individually, and im also struggling with Various Other Life Shit rn (i need new estrogen and gotta pay for groceries). waa
Hello, I'm a South American transfem currently job hunting, the only working person in my household is bedridden, and i am really afraid of her losing her job. Maintaining the house has always been difficult, there never is more money than just enough for the cheapest food and paying the bills, so if we lose even this, I'm afraid of what will happen.
Maybe you could afford to help me a bit while i look for a job?
Due to the way dollar conversion works with my currency, even just 5 bucks would be a crazy amount for me
I got a gig for now but I need to use my computer for work and my ssd got stolen by the tech company that fixed my motherboard. I need money to buy a new one and I just spent all I had to fix my motherboard so I have no money now and the cat food is running out. Please help if you can afford to
This is what happens when there is little to no media coverage for a country going through a genocide over the past 3 years! Not only people are surviving displacement, famine and violence, but they are at high risk of infection by diseases!
It is devastating since hospitals are overflowing with patients and have been losing access to electricity, depending on solar energy for power! One hospital has to use light from cell phones to conduct surgery but the patient has died! So I ask you to please talk about Sudan! We need to boycott the UAE, donate to fundraisers and grassroots organizations and protest in the streets!
Consider helping Eman (@emiiii980). She is raising funds for her family, but we have not achieved the goal, so she has returned with a new fundraiser! She is also supporting other families, as well! So kindly give her what you can and share with everyone you know! You can also match me! I have given $10 CAD ($7 USD), but you are more than welcome to give any amount! [A friendly reminder to keep in mind with the currency exchange! $10 USD = $13 CAD!].
Her fundraiser has been shared by @/el-shab-hussein here.
Please donate here.
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hi everynyan, i'm so sorry i have to return to ask for your help again but we haven't been able to hit our previous goals and things just keep going from worse to worst.
i'm a trans woman from south america with extremely debilitating nerve damage that ikeeps me most of the time in excruciating, mind-breaking pain, my economic situation is in shambles due to the shock doctrine implemented in my country and the social violence it carries with it. i have lost count of how many times i have been harassed on the street at best, and they have attempted to hate crime me at worst.
i live with a cancer patient mother and between the both of us we can't make up even 1/4 of the amount we need to pay for our medication, let alone groceries or utilities. our electric service keeps getting cut by people straight up taking the cables away and we have to constantly scramble to reconnect to the grid, which costs an absurd amount of money since we have to replace the cable every time.
i know we're all struggling a lot, but please, please, if you can spare anything, even a reblog, it would go a long way
Satellite imagery confirms that the regime demolished the church in Artsakh’s former capital city of Stepanakert.
The sustained threats to Armenian religious and cultural heritage across Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh) have reached a new level following reports that the Azerbaijani regime has razed another prominent church in the region.
Satellite imagery obtained by Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) confirmed that the Holy Mother of God Church, which stood in the former capital city of Stepanakert, was demolished within the last eight weeks.
The Artsakh Tourism and Cultural Development Agency shared the news of the church’s destruction on social media on Tuesday, April 21, only three days before the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Though the agency did not share photos of the demolition in its notice, CHW’s researchers were able to pinpoint supporting photographic evidence within a day by pulling images from the Sentinel-2 satellite from March 3 and April 2.
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Satellite imagery depicts the changes to the landscape where the Holy Mother of God Church stood in Stepanakert. (image courtesy Caucasus Heritage Watch)
Opinions are divided in the agrarian town of Chinchero, where the airport is slated to open in 2025
It’s basically as bad as it sounds
They started breaking ground in 2019 but the government has been trying to build this airport since 2011. More and more of the locals don’t want it because of how it’ll destroy the area even though they’ve been offered a lot of money for their land and promised jobs. None of the scientists who work in the area want it. South America like Chile/Bolivia/Peru/Ecuador/etc etc etc are such unique and old places. The ecology in South America is so special and has species that are nowhere else in the world. The landscape is unusual and special. The people there have been able to maintain traditions despite colonization in a lot of cases. The artifacts there are priceless, we’ve lost so so so much to colonization, knowledge, architecture, culture, artifacts. These areas are delicate and need protection. A lot of the governments in South America have corruption, like anywhere else. The people and land are constantly sacrificed. The Atacama desert in Chile has so so much to protect and they’re mining nonstop for copper, polluting water, evicting eighty year olds and disabled people to make way for construction, piping away their water and plowing through a delicate desert ecosystem. There’s a clothes dump so big there you can see it from space
There’s so so much to lose in South America. If you visit the altiplano in Bolivia, there are native farmers living out there essentially off grid. Chile has many indigenous groups still despite being so industrialized. We still have Quechua, Aymara and Mapuche being spoken every day. The landscape MATTERS to us. It breaks my heart to see the land so disrespected and ruined. The people are connected to the land. You can talk to almost any indigenous group and they’ll tell you the same thing. It’s a cultural thing that was passed down for thousands of years. The shapes the mountains make against the sky, the way a lake sits between the hills, flocks of guanaco and vicuña grazing. The landscape is sacred and old
I know there are ecological battles everywhere right now with the rich and powerful crushing anyone in their way. I just had to say something because this hits so close to home and I ache thinking about my homelands being destroyed beyond recognition. I’m haunted by the sculpture in the middle of Inca ruins that’s an exact tiny replica of the mountains on the opposite side of the valley. The very shape of the rocks is special to us
that's an old article, so here is one with updates. the project keeps getting pushed back, so I imagine there's still time to fight- I just don't know what international people can do to aid that battle
Machu Picchu has always been hard to reach, but a new airport will soon change that and bring 200% more visitors to the area – and some area
A few weeks ago, a small but higher-than-normal number of accounts were mistakenly suspended. The suspensions were quickly reversed, but our response wasn't good enough, and we want to say more.
We're sorry it took us this long to address this. Trust and safety issues are difficult to discuss publicly, and we can’t share details about specific individuals or how our systems work without exposing Tumblr to bad actors. But caution led us to say too little, too late.
We’ve heard from members of the trans community on Tumblr that they were disproportionately impacted, and that deserves a direct response. According to 3rd party researchers, Tumblr’s userbase has the highest proportion of LGBTQIA+ folks on social media, so it makes sense that when something goes wrong, those communities might feel that disproportionate impact.
One thing we want to emphasize is that we do not moderate people's identities. We moderate behavior. We know that identity shows up across a Tumblr profile in many ways, from followed topics to the flags people put in their bios, and more. However, these signals play no role in how our moderation systems make decisions. We monitor those systems for evidence of bias and take corrective action when we find it.
We understand that the communications sent to affected users, and our broader silence to the community, didn't meet the standard people expect from us. That feedback is fair, and we apologize. We've updated the messaging sent to people impacted by these incidents. We are also overhauling our process with a goal of responding to mistaken suspension appeals within 24 hours, and have instituted an ongoing internal review of how suspensions and appeals are handled.
Going forward, we're committed to finding a better balance: being more transparent with our community about issues that matter, even when we can't share everything.
Tumblr belongs to everyone. We take that seriously, and we intend to earn back your trust. We are not afraid to have tough discussions with you or make updates based on your feedback, though on occasion, it might take some time.
To the people whose accounts were affected, and to the members of our trans community who felt targeted: we are truly sorry.
Providing my own data on this issue, since i have had the pleasure of gathering a great amount of evidence on this event:
a small but higher-than-normal number of accounts were mistakenly suspended
Two hundred within five minutes.
The suspensions were quickly reversed
Some suspensions were reversed.
We’ve heard from members of the trans community on Tumblr that they were disproportionately impacted
Correction. All members harmed but one were trans women, specifically, not just "members of the trans community".
We moderate behavior.
All members terminated were terminated after following one specific blog, created a few hours before. The "behavior" you moderated was following a trans woman's new blog.
However, these signals play no role in how our moderation systems make decisions.
Then explain why trans women are disproportionately banned on false grounds. What happens if someone gets mass reported by transphobic userrs? Why have you chosen to restore the account of a kiwifarmer, known hate group, and ban yet more trans women? Explain your decisions.
We are also overhauling our process with a goal of responding to mistaken suspension appeals within 24 hours, and have instituted an ongoing internal review of how suspensions and appeals are handled.
Going forward, we're committed to finding a better balance: being more transparent with our community about issues that matter, even when we can't share everything.
Since this event, trans women have been terminated at greatly accelerated rates, on more and more openly false grounds. Their appeals have been denied often without any human oversight, recieving a denial within seconds, or not recieving any answer.
To the people whose accounts were affected, and to the members of our trans community who felt targeted: we are truly sorry.
Bisan says that among all the aid organisations working in North Gaza right now, Ele Elna Elak is one of the most effective, geared towards resolving the water scarcity and making clean water and vegetables available to Gazans.
PLEASE DON'T SCROLL WITHOUT SHARING YOUR BLACK GIRL NEEDS HELP TO STAY HOUSED.
I don't want to be homeless or have my lights turned off. Rent/electric due April 6th talked to landlord about the rent. $900 rent /$2,000 total needed for electric and car payment. Running out of time,anything helps.
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