Super Sick of Spam Bots

She/Her

[when-you-fail-again]

[shamebats]

[mugwomps]

He is absolutely copying you, and cuddling, and doing the slow close of eyes that is a cat kiss! #this is one very happy cat #i hope the two of you have many years of harmony and happiness

[cricketcat9]

Perfect harmony

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

This is just a random observation but smth I noticed:

Most of the pro-Israel crowd on Tumblr are mainly Jews, and a few goys. But mainly Jews, and plenty of people residing or living in Israel

But those advocating for Palestine? We have a Russian pysop who ran a popular Tumblr blog and disappeared after Trump got reelected. A Shia living in Sweden, allegedly, and celebrating Hamas and Hezbollah. And then a racefaker from Turkey. And their posts get reblogged by tons of self-proclaimed leftists and marxists residing in the US, Canada, South America and Europe and them cheering for the "resistance"

But the main question is, where are the Palestinians on this site? There are def plenty few here, but none has reached that prominence

Basically, a Tumblr community of Palestinians is quite absent

I know one might say it's because of Internet censorship (tho that doesn't stop people doubting the Gaza scams and reblogging them), but even we have plenty of Iranians here who are outspoken against the Islamic regime

And it's not like a Palestinian diaspora is absent. We have plenty descended who were expelled/voluntarily left during the 1948 War and 67 War and having prominent profiles overseas, whether as lecturers or journalists (and also spewing hate against Israel). In fact, plenty of them are active on Twitter, while ofc there's plenty of Palestinians who also advocate for peace and deradicalisation

It's just odd, I find, of the general lack of actual Palestinian voices on this site. Ofc there are people who do repost stuff by Palestinians from other social media platforms like tiktok. But interestingly, the pro-Palestine side also tends to laud token Jews villanising Israel

Similarly, I also note seldom do posts really talk about Palestinian culture. Yes, they do whine about Israel destroying cultural sites in the Gaza War (like mosques and some churches). And I've seen a few posts on Palestinian dance and cuisine

But very overwhelmingly, the posts are more or less denunication of Jewish culture in Israel or claiming Israeli culture has been "appropriated" by Palestinians. And ofc there's the promotion of Palestinian Arabic, but more to supersede the use of Hebrew

Palestinian history and culture only seems to be wielded to villify and undermine Israeli and Jewish history and culture. It ends up giving off the impression that Palestinian culture doesn’t exist outside of hating Israel and Jews.

For real - all of this, and the so called "Pro Palestine" left also speak over, dismiss and accuse of being "traitors" those Palestinian voices who don't say what they want to hear, who criticise Hamas and want peace. These "activists" do far more harm than good to the cause they supposedly care so very much about, and that's because it's never actually been about Palestinian welfare, but as you point out, an excuse to hate Jews and feel righteous about it.

[prismatic-bell]

There have been two prominent Palestinian voices here, 90-ghost and....fuck. I forget the other guy's name.

Anyway they were both in cahoots with a scamming ring.

So that's your Palestinians "speaking for Palestine." They were funneling thousands of dollars to scammers instead of helping to organize real aid.

There also was another Palestinian blogger here named jujusjunk who was really cool. She got run off the site by people sexually harassing her and abusing her for saying she believed Israelis had the right to live. Not even that she supports Israel, mind you. She fuckin' hates Israel. But she was deradicalizing from Hamas support and so "pro-Palestinians" drove her away.

That's what's happening to your Palestinian voices on this site. Either they're scammers or Westerners scream at them for not being perfect leftist toys until they leave.

[the-library-alcove]

[gifsbysimplysonia]

[smokeydabear420422]

[the-sage-libriomancer]

[batgirlteeth]

[ageblue-aka-varnah-g]

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[sawed-on-shotgun]

the human body when you use it and exist in it

[beardedmrbean]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Martina McBride didn't win Country Music Association Song of the Year for a song about how burning your house down with your abusive husband still inside it is good, noble, and an allegory for the American Revolution for people to act like the genre belongs to bootlicking fucks

[dragon-in-a-fez]

other things people didn't do for you to act like country music belongs to bootlicking fucks:

Garth Brooks winning video of the year at the ACMs for a song about how none of us are free as long as there's racism and homophobia

Reba McEntire charting with a gothic horror song about an innocent man being executed by an incompetent judge and a corrupt sheriff

Willie Nelson being, well, his entire self tbh

Dolly Parton recording the hating capitalism banger of all time

Kacey Musgraves telling everyone to ignore the haters, smoke weed, and be a bisexual slut

[dragon-in-a-fez]

how the hell did I leave Morgan Wade off this list. wrote a song about being depressed, alcoholic, and suicidal and how mental illness stigma sucks, saw how much people connected with it, wrote a Part II of that song about how she's doing better now but you're never totally free of the risk of relapse. fucking icon.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I specifically curated this list so people couldn't be like "ah yes but you see here is my simple binary of good and bad country music which always works", I made sure to add different genders, eras, subgenres, etc and y'all are still pulling that shit in the tags!

listen. Alan Jackson, the archetypal mister big hat man sitting on a tractor singing about a pickup truck, wrote a shockingly normal song about 9/11 that was like "yeah I don't know jack shit about politics but my copy of the bible says we're supposed to love everyone" and then went on the radio and explained how he specifically wanted to write a song about that day that "wasn't vengeful". Miranda Lambert took the southern leftist slogan "y'all means all" and made it the title of a corny ass pop-country song for the Queer Eye soundtrack. Kenny Chesney stole a horse from a cop and Tim McGraw put the cop in a chokehold defending him, and I know that's not about their music but it is, and this is very important, fucking sick as hell

it's fine if you only listen to female country artists or pre-1990 country artists or whatever the fuck you want but stop acting like you've cracked the secret code to dividing a whole genre of art into good pure anti-establishment folk songs vs bad corrupted right-wing sellout pulp

[dragon-in-a-fez]

updating this post for 2025:

Luke Combs covering Fast Car and keeping the line "I work in the market as a checkout girl" and doing an interview about how he couldn't change a single word because it's not his story. king shit

Morgan Wallen doing I Had Some Help, literally the first song that spoke to me as a male survivor of domestic abuse. also shoutout to the guy for getting caught saying a racial slur and responding by specifically telling his fans not to defend him and raising a bunch of money for the Black Music Action Coalition. bro had an engraved invitation to the culture war and said "nah I'd rather be normal"

Shaboozey just absolutely obliterating the drunk roadhouse anthem glass ceiling

Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne with a song that okay, released in 2019 but I didn't hear until recently, about how good friends mind their own business and let you love whoever you want and also get high with you when you're broke

Kimberley Perry! If I Die Young Part 2!! "actually I'm glad I lived, bitch" ass song that I bet is gonna mean a LOT to kids fighting depression

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan with Cowboys Cry Too. okay it's shallow and corny but genuinely a shallow and corny song about how men shouldn't be afraid to have feelings is what a lot of men need

[dragon-in-a-fez]

bringing the full version of this post back around because people are pissing me off today

[prismatic-bell]

Don't forget The Chicks and Goodbye Earl!

[kereeachan]

Hell, The Chicks alone can have such wild range of topics on ONE ALBUM, as can many of the others listed.

And of course, Lil Nas X's debut of Old Town Road.

Shania Twain as well. "That Don't Impress Me Much" "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" "Honey I'm Home" and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" were some of my fav songs as kid. As was "Ka-Ching!" from a later album.

[not-freyja]

Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.

[prismatic-bell]

I am not Deaf, but I do have some Weird Hearing Stuff going on that requires subtitles, and something I really appreciate is when music is described. Not just "music" but "whimsical techno music" or "dramatic classical music" or "soft ambient music" (I have seen all of these and love them). If you're using the music to set a mood, someone who can't hear it can't get that cue. You have to tell them.

[aromantic-journal]

"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.

[skelotan]

Literacy crisis WHO? This was said in the most vocal fried Californian accent ever. I hope The Girls enjoy some Russian lit this summer.

PATREON

[hillsofspices]

an alarming number of people of all political affiliations are increasingly transparent about their belief that jews are little pieces in a board game that can simply be moved around the board as they see fit. completely central to the game and yet completely at the mercy of the players.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

A really petty form of this you see a lot is people going “why didn’t/don’t we put Israel (the jews) here” usually alongside a map and breakdown of the various supposed benefits of putting us there. The completely uncritically accepted assumptions underlying such an exercise being

1) jews live somewhere they “shouldn’t”

2), jews living somewhere they shouldn’t is a political problem in need of solution (the “jewish problem” you could say)

3) “we” (non jews) were, and apparently remain, the ones entitled to decide where the correct place to put the jews is

And there’s often a 4) jews living somewhere is seen as a punishment for that place, as demonstrated by the fact many of these exercises involve determining whether the proposed place “deserves” to have jews “imposed” on it for its past misbehavior (Germany, America, etc)

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[chromaticrainarts]

I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny

[omegaversereloaded]

i love this video so much one time i got high and watched it on a loop and it made me cry

[graffitinight]

When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)

[cadwallia]

My deepest apologies to her royal highness, but my friend showed me a photo of what their coworker's Persian looks like shaved into a lioncut and I immediately lost control of my hands.