Monkeygirl125418 - Le Pirate Queen

Adult Transgender Legislative Risk Map, November 2024

This post is so true. Tumblr was once an everyday routine for me, but now I'm too disgusted by what it has now become to rarely think of logging back on.

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

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My latest comic for The Nib was written by my friend Mike Thompson- it’s his first published comics work! 

The Nib has been a steady source of income and a huge support to me and many other indie cartoonists for years. They publish amazing work, but will be cut loose by their financial backer in July. You can read the official post about it from editor Matt Bors here.  They are still running their kickstarter-funded print magazine, but have to put digital publishing on hiatus until they figure out their next steps. If you’ve been thinking about supporting their membership program, now would be a good time. They have levels from $2 to $40 per month. I really don’t want this to be my last Nib piece! 

instagram / patreon / portfolio / the nib / etsy

Please Read!!!!

❗AVOID THESE PEDOPHILES AT ALL COSTS! ❗

I was scrolling through Tumblr and came across a post of KNOWN PEDOPHILES ON TUMBLR (many of which have or want to rape actual children/minors)

THERE ARE ACTUAL PEDOPHILES ON TUMBLR TRYING TO GET IN TOUCH WITH MINORS ON TUMBLR

PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS LIST AND KEEP OUR MINORS SAFE

*LOUD THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE*

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis

Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust? 

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a ‘temporary’ detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps. She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn’t realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn’t handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn’t care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded. 

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration. 

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State’s detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A. Single. Difference. 

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y’all can shut the fuck up with that “stop making concentration camp comparisons, you’re diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust” bullshit. 

My friend and I respectively as I finished reading this.

ML Ficlet: Seafoam

Just something I threw together. Felt compelled to write it. A dedication to Luka Couffaine.

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“The Little Mermaid” a fairy tale that many have read and loved. It was the favorite story of a certain musician with teal tipped. The tale of a mermaid with a beautiful voice who fell in love and gave her voice up for a chance to win over their true love.

Luka loved that story, it was a tale he would have his mother read to him many times in his younger days. His passion for music and life living on a boat had him develop a relation to this mythical character. He dreamed of finding a love so strong that he would give up everything to win her over.

In walked in Marinette Dupain Cheng, a talented designer with a soul that sang with a melody that would make angels weep for joy. Luka could see her caring heart, he could say that he had found his prince or in this case, princess.

As he got closer to her, he realized that her heart belonged to another, a blond model by the name of Adrien Agreste. He was a good guy, he was caring and courteous, it was obvious to see why Marinette fell for him. This did not deter him, for Adrien was not in love with Marinette, his heart belonged to another, he still felt he had a chance.

He felt something strange that day after the chaos at the ice rink. He had his chance to sweep her off her feet, have her give up on the boy she loved. But he didn’t, his heart was yelling at him. He decided to encourage her to go after him. The baker girl smiled and kissed his cheek, thanking him as she left to go after another guy.

It was a strange feeling, he felt good. He watched as the girl he loved ran after another guy and he felt happy about it. He decided that it must be that he wanted her to have no regrets, he wanted to win her over fairly. That was what he told himself.

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He did his best to win her over, showering her with praise, supporting her at every turn, he even lost his voice in order to defend her. Each step he was getting closer to her.

Another chance came, he wrote her a song. He thought he had finally encapsulated the feelings he had for her, but she wasn’t ready to hear it, not yet. He saved her again, after that, she was ready to hear his song.

For a time, she seemed happy with him, she would listen to him play, she would support him and the band. For her, he would listen to her vent, try her designs, and tasted her baked goods. No one could ask for better, at least if they only saw the surface.

Luka could see that Marinette was still out of reach, something he couldn’t understand, something was keeping her from completely being with him. Soon enough he realized it, her heart still belonged to another.

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She was crying when she revealed it to him. She didn’t want to hurt him, but she couldn’t deny these feelings anymore.

He thought he would be angry, he thought he would go and fight for her, he thought he would feel betrayal, but he didn’t. He gave her a warm smile, and told her that he understood.

“Go to him.” His words reverberated in his head as he spoke them aloud.

Marinette smiled through her tears, thanking him for his understanding. She kissed his cheek and ran off. He watched as she ran off, determined to get the heart of another. He felt like he was standing on knives as he walked away.

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He saw her again weeks later. She was smiling again, her warmth radiating like the sun. She was holding hands with him, the boy she loved, the one she chose over him.

He felt his heart beat loudly as he saw them together, happy, enjoying the other’s presence. It was clear to him that he could never have that with her, and that was okay. It was actually perfect how it turned out.

He felt himself smile at the two, his heart light as Seafoam. He understood how she felt, that mermaid in the tragic story.

They had loved, they had given all they could for love, only to have it end with them losing their love to another. A doomed love, forever pining from afar, but happy that they got to experience the warmth of such a beautiful feeling. Happy for the one they love to find a person to love. This was the melody he was searching for, and he was loving every note.

I dearly wish that people would view their bodies as they view flowers…

Veins everywhere?

gorgeous~

Skin patches? Birthmarks?

hella rad~

Scars? Stretch marks?

beautiful~

Freckles? Moles? Acne scars?

heckie yeah~

Large? Curvy?

lovely~

Small? Thin?

charming~

Missing a few pieces?

handsome as ever~

Feel like you just look weird?

you’re fantastic looking~