Even better, the comments to this Twitter post were an absolute FIRESTORM of mostly dudes explaining to her that dials can’t only have 2 positions (not true) and that it wasn’t a very good piece (not true) that she was being disrespectful to her teacher (don’t care) and that it was a sign of her stupidity/rabid feminism/intellectual laziness/misandry/etc. that she couldn’t see any “middle ground.”
It became, in its way, a performance piece. I was absolutely mesmerised, even as I wished I could cock-punch people through the internet.
“Dials have more than one settimg” is the most hilarious response to this piece, because the implication of that statement is “just be a scootch more implicit in your own dehumanization. Not ALL the way. But like… a little more.”
Looks like RFID Blocking got purged. I share a discord with one of the mods, and she says they didn’t receive any kind of termination notice, and that they have submitted an appeal.
What the actual fuck….
I do think they’re the first blog I’ve seen purged that contained literally nothing but text. No images, videos, audio. Nothing that could be construed as pornographic by even the broadest strokes.
So, you know. Words are bad now, or whatever.
I’ve been updating my backups in light of this. I suggest everyone else do the same.
this appears to be a new chapter in the ongoing deletions.
consider this an expanded call: if you think you may have been reported to tumblr’s abuse team for anything on any of your blogs, consider backing up your tumblr.
I still think tumblr will continue to widen its target range in the ongoing quest to be re-admitted to Apple’s iOS store. until then: we’ll see.
Santa is on strike due to global warming. All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger. Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.
Dama Cherepaha 