only worms live here

born last century. time spent doing flying falls. became allergic to motogp due to overconsumption, but i persevere (pls be patient w/ me)

[vk20002]

I haven’t gone a day without thinking of you ever since our very first conversation

[changes]

An update for users in Brazil and the United Kingdom

To continue our commitment to user safety and to comply with local laws, we will start using age groups to determine access to certain experiences.

People in Brazil or in the UK, who are 18 or older, will soon need to verify their age to change content label settings and view mature-labeled content. Until then, the settings will be locked to hide.

As a reminder, verification is handled by our age-assurance partner, k-ID. Tumblr won't have access to the information you submit, just the final age-verification result. Documents are deleted after confirmation, and facial scan data never leaves your device. 

Questions? Contact Tumblr support or learn more about these changes here.

[markodragic]

tumblr perfec t size to put personal information in to verify! inside very safe and secure data remain private put data in tumblr. put data in tumblr. no breaches ever in tumblr privacy because good third party service and support for user data of facial scan. age verification system yes a place for personal data put data in tumblr can trust tumblr for giveing good privacy to user. friend tumblr.

[whatacartouchebag]

Yeah so in case anyone else isn't aware, k-ID are the dickheads who handled the ID storage leak for Discord way back when, and then Discord doubled down on telling everyone they were continuing to use them when the UK implemented verification.

[whatwepostintheshadows]

drawing f!jorge as a dick tracy movie poster for the peronist argentina detective au i have in my head will never happen but it's a beautiful thought

[whatwepostintheshadows]

"it's too dangerous to expect comfort from others", i say like a normal person

[whatwepostintheshadows]

[whatwepostintheshadows]

you love to see galacticos 2.0 fail so miserably

[theaceofwords]

Why Tumblr Has Rolled Out ID Verification

UK legislation: Online Safety Act 2023

Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents

Apple App Store Age Verification

These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.

Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.

If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.

Repealing ID verification and blocking chat control will help everyone, especially the most vulnerable. We can push this back, but we cannot get it done through the Feedback form. We have to get it done at the legislative level and lock it down so it cannot be forced upon us. I see lots of anger out there. Good. Put it to use.

[melyzard]

Hey, if you're in the USA, that Stop KOSA link helps you send a letter/email to your rep in like, 5 minutes. You can change the auto generated letter (I did, a little, to make it more personal) but you can just hit Send as is.

[whatwepostintheshadows]

maybe i find it so hard to imagine that anyone would still want to be friends with me bc *i* wouldn't want to be friends with me

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

[whatwepostintheshadows]

blind mouse pecco struck again today

[whatwepostintheshadows]

[spinosacha]

This is Doris Pollas, the cofounder of the organisation now known as lgbt+ Denmark which by being founded in 1948 is one of the oldest ongoing queer organisation in the world.

Doris lived in a farm in Jutland as a child. She was always butch and figured out she was a lesbian in her teens. When she heard about a club in copenhagen where boys kissed boys and girls kissed girls she went just some months after and it was through that club she started a paper connecting queer people all up to seventies and co founded lgbt+ Denmark.

She is now 97 years old and wishes for every queer person to have an as loving and accepting family as she did.

I don’t see a lot of older gays from my country, so learning about Doris, a masc lesbian, was really nice.

[greaseonmymouth]

Doris passed ways last summer, aged 101. Here’s the obituary LGBT+ Danmark wrote for her - in English

Doris Pollas 1924-2025: The Last Pioneer Has Passed Away - LGBT+ Danmark

Doris Pollas 1924-2025: The Last Pioneer Has Passed Away - LGBT+ Danmark

[whatwepostintheshadows]

i thought i could rip this sickness out of me but now i understand that there's going to be nothing left of me when i do

[whatwepostintheshadows]

therapist told me hitting myself with a hammer will not make me do better. sounds fake but okay

[whatwepostintheshadows]

i should stop posting emotional deranged bullshit on here

[whatwepostintheshadows]

1 joint (joan point) today

[whatwepostintheshadows]

it's ugly and falling apart but at least i can still make one