consume

ashe | ♒ | enfj

[winds-and-roses]

i miss friends from here still

[winds-and-roses]

i rly miss all my friends on here

[plaguerightsactivist]

if pornhub buys tumblr while the deals pending ill take all my art off this godforsaken site and yall should too bc their company has a policy that legally owns whatever work you upload to it

[djsherriff]

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2019/05/03/pornhub-tumblr-buying-risks Found a source.

[blogsneaks]

WOW i didn’t expect my personal post as a heads up if i start removing my art in the future to blow up  but YEAH thank u! mindgeek is super fucking shady and notorious for stealing and exploiting content and dmcas are a nightmare that end up doxxing everyone that tries to take down their content and it’s overall definitely not a company i’d like my (entirely sfw!) art to be associated with, let alone possibly have the rights to. i’ve had a lot of art theft already, and i don’t need it to be more difficult.

obviously a deal hasn’t been made yet, but the company is very openly wanting to buy tumblr and if that happens i’m removing all my art from this website, and depending on any changes they make i’ll likely just leave the site completely. i for one was enjoying the nsfw ban and less bots…….

after the nsfw ban awhile back pornhub was encouraging artists to post their digital art to their site because it was ~welcomed~ and everyone then found out their tos/agreement is a nightmare and they basically own everything on their sites owned by mindgeek and could do what they wanted with your art/potentially profit off of it. also, again, i do not want my art associated with a porn company. at all.

https://twitter.com/JoshConstine/status/1124067515167059968

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/porns-secret-monopoly/

[8eung]

https://www.instagram.com/younggwangeee/p/BtncjmzArDl/

[apexsexual-deactivated20200227]

“Nobody should be required to use beauty products to look professional!” Ok, Susan. Next time you go to a restaurant you tell me you don’t mind that the waitress who has the flu serves you food while looking into her sweaty face and at her red, swollen nose. Next time you go in for surgery have a talk with the surgeon who has bags under their eyes and looks like they’re on hardcore drugs due to their dry, split lips and irritated skin and tell me it’s not bothering you. Let’s be honest - none of us wants these illusions destroyed.

[radbian-deactivated20230423]

TIL not wearing make up is the same as serving food while being sick with a contagious illness

[butchnymph-blog]

I’d rather sick waitresses get the opportunity to take time off than cover up the signs of contagious illness with cosmetics. Its kind of sociopathic if you think the problem in this example is how she *looks*.

I would also prefer a surgeon with a clean face over one with powders and etc. on her face that could unneccessarily contaminate the inside of my body. Makeup is considered “clean” by how it looks, but a face with cosmetics on it isnt a scrubbed, clean face: it has stuff applied to it. Mascara and powders are debris that can fall off.

Women’s actual faces arent somehow so filthy that we need to encase them in something else (sometimes toxic) to keep them from infecting others with our skin cooties. Its perfectly safe and professional for women to just wash their faces.

[gayerluke]

imagine thinking “i don’t want these ugly people to serve me” before “hey uh is she ok”

[catgirlcaliphate]

Yeah uh…if someone has the flu and is still at work, I’m a lot more concerned about the fact that—for everyone’s sake! theirs and their customers’!—they should not have to be at work. Like unpopular opinion but people should be able to take sick days.

Also if my surgeon is showing signs of fatigue and severe dehydration? Again, how pretty they look is the least of my worries.

Makeup shouldn’t actually be used to disguise the fact that someone is in no condition to be at work.

[lvl-5-kobold]

i just had the funniest experience in vr chat, i joined a random server and the one i joined had Japanese people so i waddled around in my goofy club penguin avatar that i have saved, after a while a guy walks up to me and clones my avatar so were both penguins then another guy shows up and clone my avatar

now keep in mind there only speaking Japanese i don’t know what they are saying, then another guy joins in, so i got a group of three penguin friends

we just waddle around and goof about, the one of them tries to talk to me, but not only do i not have a mic i also don’t speak Japanese, they figure out i don’t speak Japanese and start listing various places, they get the part of being European right, and after listing a lot of places they ask if im from the UK and when i nod they all just start cheering. after hanging out for a while one of them gets real close to me and whispers…

“penguin brothers forever”

[killowave]

[captain-raptor]

there are so many fucking layers of obscurity to this joke i feel like i’ve learned another language just by looking at it

[likeitaughtyou]

[666ter-deactivated20171116]

WHAT!!!!!

[nocanonhere]

This sounds like one of those late night bumps that would come on adult swim back in the day

[menalaus]

love

[aninactivebloggfgfgf]

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. 

[normalwizard]

bears have absolutely no right to be as cute as they are. i want to hug them and pet them. big fluffy dogs, supersized

[normalwizard]

this thing is one of the most dangerous predators in north america, is bulletproof, and could kill me in milliseconds without breaking a sweat and just. look at his big ole paws and his big ole nose. his wittle ears. i wuv him

[normalwizard]

human brain: bear will kill you

monkey brain: hehe fluffie

[thechekhov]

I’m pretty sure that it’s the human brain that’s programmed to take anything remotely familiarly-shaped and ask “friend???” so in this case

superior monkey brain: bear will kill you

human brain: but maybe also is soft???

[cryptdoor]

Hey ya’ll I’m sure you’ve seen the cute little bongo cat meme going around yeah?

The original creator of the cute little cat is now selling official merch and using the money to assist cats affected by hurricane Florance.

If you want some cute bongo cat merch and to help out some real kitties check ‘em out!

Bongo Cat's emporium

Bongo Cat merch for this little percussive kitty! 25% of all proceeds go to helping Bongo's fellow kitties at the Meow House Cat Rescue.

[lebritanyamor-deactivated202601]

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

[sauvamente]

This is so fucking wack

[hundondestiny]

You guys really just hate any woman using her sexuality to make money. You’ll consume all her media for free but the moment she wants something in return y’all get spiteful and way outta pocket about it. The whole “but Snapchat doesn’t allow adult content!” is fucking weak because I’m sure y’all still posting ass and thirst traps constantly.

I don’t even know how this alone would be an act of tax fraud, you have no idea what income she reports, but the fact that y’all feel SO strongly about this shit that you try to fuck up people’s livelihoods for the laughs is garbage. I hope the next time y’all need any assistance everyone spits in your face.

[twinkle-pistol-blog]

It’s been awful on Facebook. Men would go and harass women who do sex work. And start posting edgy memes and saying really disgusting shit. And these are the same ones that are like “I respect all women! Why don’t they like me!?” 🙄

[lebritanyamor-deactivated202601]

the sites that we use to sell our content TAX US . i’ve sent in the tax forms on more than one occasion .

[kahtiihma]

and of course they aren’t out there reporting their weed guy to the irs. it’s pure hatred of women

[holy-shit-look]

The incel army CAN’T report you to the IRS even if they wanted to.

[witches-ofcolor]

i truly hope that the anxiety and fear those women felt due to these monsters comes back to get them (the men) 10 fold.

[somewhatstacey]

Tumblr's new NSFW restrictions and why turning off safe mode won't work

So I’ve been doing some reading and wow. Just fucking WOW.

Tumblr, you’ve actually outdone yourself here. All the bullshit cookies for you!

Lowdown:

Tumblr’s new approach to NSFW content (other than blocking certain tags on apps) includes splitting the NSFW blog flagging options in two.

You can now flag your blog* as NSFW or Adult.

What’s the difference? This:

Taken from Tumblr’s new NSFW policy page.

Now me? I’m a NSFW blog. I occasionally reblog raunchy fanart and pretty pictures of scantily clad hot people. This means that:

If people are browsing in Safe Mode (which is the default, CHEERS TUMBLR) and are not following me they will see nothing of mine in the search or tags.

Let me be clear: NOTHING OF MINE.

My whole blog is flagged as NSFW even though I mostly reblog stupid comics of tv characters failing to use stairs. So for every one NSFW post I have that these Safe Mode users don’t want to see, they’ll miss the nine other posts I make about werewolves in pink knitted sweaters.

Pretty shit huh? Oh wait, bro, it gets better.

That’s blogs flagged NSFW. Blogs flagged Adult have it INFINITELY shittier.

Porn-intensive blogs have ZERO visibility beyond the dash. Unless a user is following them, they are invisible. Even reblogs are tetchy because with the new restrictions, anyone reblogging NSFW content runs the risk of being flagged as NSFW themselves and thus might not take the risk.

So porn blogs: crippled, basically. No dicks and o-faces for you, tumblr users. But how’s this for another, infinitely more terrifying, approach: all those sex-ed blogs? All those beautiful how-to-masturbation, body-positive and sex-positive blogs? Under the current definitions:

You guessed it: they’re Adult. If they’re not flagged as such by the blog owners themselves, tumblr can do it for you:

“If you’re not sure how you should flag your blog you can leave it unflagged, but keep in mind that it may be flagged automatically.” (x)

So there you have it.

Fuck. Basically. Everything.

PS: Anyone wanting to turn Safe Mode off (because hey, if you haven’t checked yours yet, it’s totally on! YAY!):

Hit your settings icon

In the left hand menu hit Dashboard

And uncheck the “browse tag pages in safe mode”

It’s nowhere near a complete solution, but it’s as much as we’ve got right now.

* Or I’m assuming you’ll be able to? This feature is greyed out for me atm. A+ rollout of functionality there, tumblr.

[fandomisreality]

i checked, and it does NOT have me automatically in safe mode. and i don’t remember ever unchecking it?

[staff]

The internet could change next week, and not in a good way

You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression. 

We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Today we take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report. 

The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment. Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now. 

If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu. 

[arawynn]

Please reblog this as much as you reblogged the posts about Net Neutrality. 

If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content. 

You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.

You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.

You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.

Because they’ll be automatically filtered and blocked!

We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.

And if we’re getting all our content blocked? 

You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.

You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read - simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.

So do whatever you can to help us stop this.

Reblog this.

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO TELL THEM YOU DON’T WANT ARTICLE 13 TO BE APPROVED IF YOU’RE EUROPEAN! DO IT VIA THE HOMEPAGE

[galpalmemes]

♡ women with deep voices are a blessing sent by aphrodite herself ♡

[galpalmemes]

this post ISN’T for transmisogynists and aphrodite would NOT approve of you being hateful towards other women, thanks

this post 1000% includes trans women and does not include terfs whose voices i’m not going to engage or listen to as long as you’re attacking my sisters

trans women reblogging this and saying “hey that’s me!” i love you and every happy comment on this makes my day, your voices deserve to be heard and appreciated for not only your beauty but what you have to say, keep being wonderful ♡

[everydaylouie]

breakfast time

[pure-posts]

[lesbiamdionysus-deactivated2019]

MY FUCKIN HEART

[pizzaotter]

I WISH YALL WOULD STOP POSTING THIS SAD POKÉMON SHIT I CANT TAKE ANYMORE