molabuddy:

inkycorvid:

molabuddy:

baby autusm so small . the hawk take him away

NO

goodbye………

alliered:

transmascanine:

transmascanine:

48hr tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it “working”), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the ‘for you’ page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

• reverse the recent image viewer update
• scrap the new users ’for you’ page default setting
• let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely
• increase efforts against spam / porn bots
• make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam
• let us go nuts show nuts again… for real this time
• commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!
• (suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don’t use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.

this marks the end of pride month (for the “queerest place on the internet”) and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can’t afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let’s make this an indefinite blackout - it’s the best way to get results.

(so the blackout would be from June 30th onwards)

staff statements, politician answers, disconnect

i do have to premise, many staff-involved posts are going to be from cyle’s blog or written by him. some have other staff contributing to the answer! but he appears to be a sort of main front-end developer, so he’s quite literally the most visible staff member, to me at least.

thanks for your feedback! no.

make it accessible? nah, no thank you.

empty words and a cash grab

I have seniority, tough luck! 🤷‍♂️

your gif quality sucks now? here’s a solution to a completely different problem :)

getting their disconnect called out

disappointment w disconnect and attitude w older users.

discussion on transparency

asking for forever? list plz :)

further disconnect

issues w reblog chains

thought it was a bug. it is not.

deep dive

feedback on functionality

layout issues:

unintuitive

changes are needed, not this one

insight on ui changes

inconsistencies and broken ui

issues w video/picture viewer

hurts the curating of feeds+

lack of functionality

doubles w accessibility issues

issues w other long standing features

custom domains

legacy editor (expands on gif link above)

fun this is long standing now

user frustrations and rage

one two three four five six

and personally my favorite post

we didn’t forget :)

theworsethingsgettheharderifight:

beemovieerotica:

i literally cannot stop thinking about this post so

dabwax:

eldritchhbagel:

Any stance or argument that essentially boils down to “only this group of trans folks is affected by transphobia and only they are allowed to talk about their oppression” is just categorically wrong. Every single time.

I have seen people literally claiming that laws against trans folks using public restrooms don’t affect transmascs, and uhhhhhhhhhh. I mean this isn’t even a take I’m wasting energy mounting a debate for because I don’t need to.

But our oppressors love the infighting.

Laws against trans folks using the bathroom have resulted in me constantly pissing outside or in a cup in my car and I’m a cis woman. I am not safe going into the women’s room and I don’t feel safe going into the men’s room. Pissing outside can get you put on the sex offenders registry, but going into a bathroom with a confusing gender can get you assaulted or worse.

Transphobia and intersexism are rooted in the same fascism and fascists don’t actually care if you’re trans, they care that you’re not abiding by their rules for a perfect fascist society.

jv:

This image is the perfect representation of the current zeitgeist

fishing-lesbian-catgirl:

tropicalscream:

girlballs:

fishfag:

gayshitanddadjokes:

despite staff’s recent changes, we’re… winning??????

we are not fucking winning.

tumblr staff still thinks any image of a human person with a penis is Mature Sexually Explicit Content For Sex Freaks that should be hidden and/or nuked out of existence so yeah we’re not winning yet

also the rampant terf and nazi problem

-removal of previous tags for no reason

-ads auto playing audio

-flagging innocuous images of trans women

-seemingly unmoderated blazes putting posts any trans women would’ve absolutely been flagged/nuked/banned for onto my fucking dash. (It hasn’t happened in a few weeks but I was getting fetish posts blazed to my dash daily for a while there)

-annoying merch that doesn’t credit the people who made the campus’s posts it’s based on

-remember a little while ago when staff used unprecedented post and blog removal tools to remove anyone pointing out that a staff member is a Harry Potter fan?

This website also sucks and continues to make itself worse, we just don’t have anywhere else to go anymore

catchymemes:

wizardgoblin:

whaile:

ALT

late summer / early fall thoughts

So fucking real rn

cheesegod69:

animentality: