is your child talking about bunnies on the internet?
know the signs:
brb=bunny rabbit bunny
ttyl=treasure the young lagomorph
asl=always seeking leporids
ily=im lagomorph yeah
lol=love of lagomorphs
imho=invoking my hare orb
i’ve found that i’m a lot happier off tumblr than on it. i don’t think i’m coming back. definitely not to the level of activity i used to have.
Anonymous asked:
jsyk there's been an update on nex's pronouns and it's been said they actually preferred he/him pronouns, although people did use they/them for him. (https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/vigil-friends-remember-nex-benedict-fiery-kid-rcna140440)
genderkoolaid:
Thank you for telling me! I’m also glad to see an interview with friends of Nex. Its good to see people remembering his life.
how you can help palestine
*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*
Donations
donations currently reaching gaza:
‼️ help buy e-sims for people in gaza
donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza
donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)
palestine children's relief fund
aid to gaza - taawon/bank of palestine
female hygiene kits for gaza - pious project
urgent humanitarian aid to palestinians - anera
urgent support for medical professionals in gaza
donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)
- he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.
help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer
help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter
support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi
secondary donations:
click to donate - arab.org
emergency relief for gaza - pious projects
palestine red crescent society
save palestine - islamic relief canada
send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association
help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction
donate for the recovery of hisham awartani
- one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.
Petitions
‼️ urge icj to invite gazan journalists to testify
international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany
petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military
demand ceasefire - amnesty international
open call for immediate ceasefire
american government call for immediate ceasefire
american government to stop funding israeli military
ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au
petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance
invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war
suspend israel from international sports - diem25
UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org
gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org
teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine
president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network
demand the immediate release of mansour shouman
location specific petitions
gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)
end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)
email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)
protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)
stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)
@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)
ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)
call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)
- note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.
no forced displacement! - action network
australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)
immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)
email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)
‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)
‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)
sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)
ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)
call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)
cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)
écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (FRANCE)
write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)
skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)
singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)
contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)
write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)
- template of letters you can send (EU)
- guide on how to contact your MPs in EU
- p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something
multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)
- includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations
den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)
māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)
deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)
basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)
globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)
manifesto ao governo brasileiro - petição pública (BRAZIL)
Campaigns
‼️ justice for palestine
‼️ international criminal court
friends of al-aqsa
❥ UK-specific
- urge your MP to speak up for palestine
- hands off al-aqsa
- stop administrative detention
- petition for UK to stop arming israel
❥ International
islamic relief canada
decolonise palestine
text/call campaign for people living in USA
- text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel
- download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)
fax campaign for people in the USA
- go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day
- here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)
- here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)
‼️ BDS movement
palestine diaspora network
- global strike guide - join the global strike!
please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!
The Sudanese American Physician’s (SAPA) is appealing for donations, especially in the lead up to Ramadan.
genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a thieving seagull? do they get buried in the sand or do they do the burying?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back
A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:
We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally.
A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company) responded to a user’s ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr’s LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt's response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as a matter of policy for a variety of reasons—including the privacy of those involved, and the practicalities of moderating thousands of reports a day. The downside of this policy is that it is very easy for rumors and incorrect information about actions taken by our Trust & Safety team to spread unchecked. Given this, we want to clarify a few different pieces of this situation:
- The reality of predstrogen's suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension.
- Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events.
- Last year, the "mature" and "sexual themes" community labels were erroneously applied to some users' posts. An outside team of contractors tasked with applying community labels to posts were responsible for this larger trend of mislabeling trans-related content. When our Trust & Safety team discovered this issue (thanks largely to reports from the community), we removed the contracted team’s ability to apply community labels and added more oversight to ensure it does not happen again. In the Staff post about this, LGBTQ+ staff pushed to be more transparent but were overruled by leadership. The termination of a contractor mentioned in the original ask response was for an unrelated incident which was incorrectly attributed to this case. We regret that the mislabeling ever happened, and the negative impact it has had on the trans community on Tumblr.
- Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren’t a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines.
- When it comes to the experience of trans folks on Tumblr encountering transphobic content, and interacting with bigoted users, we understand and share your frustrations. Tumblr’s policies, and Automattic’s policies, are written to ensure freedom of speech and expression. We prohibit harassment as defined in our Community Guidelines, but we know that this policy falls short of protecting users from the wider scope of harmful speech often used against LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people.
Going forward, Tumblr is taking the following actions:
- Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment.
- Building more internal tooling for us as Staff to proactively identify and mitigate instances of harassment.
- Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week.
We’re sorry for how this all transpired, and we’re actively fighting to make our voices heard more and prevent something like this from happening again in the future. We know firsthand that having to deal with situations like this as a Tumblr user is difficult, particularly as a member of an already frequently targeted and harassed community. We know it will take time to regain your trust, and we’re going to put in the work to rebuild it.
We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Matt’s (and Automattic’s) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it.
We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all.
— This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic.
Alright, let's apply some critical analysis to this:
A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company) responded to a user’s ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr’s LGBTQ+ community.
It did negatively affect Tumblr's LGBTQ+ community, but the particular group most affected were trans women, and to simply use the umbrella term LGBTQ+ and not mention trans women specifcally detracts from the reality of the situation.
The reality of predstrogen's suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension.
So, what was the actual reason then? After being incorrectly marked as an adult blog several weeks ago and having her profile picture removed, Avery contacted staff, was told the flagging had been done in error, and had her blog status returned to normal. So evidently, her blog was reviewed by staff and determined not to have broken TOS for having NSFW content. And if the post mentioned was also not the deciding factor, then that was?
Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension.
Again, not the correct language to use here; the community in particular should be specified to be trans women, and this description is again erasing the reality of the situation at hand.
Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren’t a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines.
It's obvious that transition timelines are not against community guidelines, it's the fact that trans women's selfies have been repeatedly wrongly assigned Mature community labels that is being brought to light here.
Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment.
Here's the thing.
Obviously, we all know reporting blogs for anything other than sexual content just doesn't do anything. This is a fault of the system (myself and others have experienced numerous just even trying to submit reports in the first place), a fault of the site's content policies (transphobic, racist, antisemitic, and other inflammatory bloggers are protected so soundly by the site's freedom of speech policies that anything they say short of doxxing people is immediately brushed off by moderation staff), and a fault of the people behind the desks (as seen from inequitable moderation and extremely long response times experienced by people trying to clear improperly flagged posts or blogs).
However, reporting blogs en masse for sexual content seems to work very well, so much so that any time a trans woman speaks up on Tumblr a wave of transmisogynists can just spam a deluge of false reports for sexual content and have her disappear overnight.
So, the real question here, is even if a new amazing anti-harassment feature is rolled out, will anything be done to fix the ways in which the existing reporting system is used to target trans bloggers?
Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week.
First of all, the tag in question that is at the forefront of this discussion is #tgirl. #tboy isn't blocked, #trans isn't blocked, #tgirl is. This is specifically about trans women.
While this response is marginally better than silence,
It isn't a proper apology, and it isn't any amount of transparency for how trans people and trans women in particular are treated on Tumblr. If anything, this stands to only showcase how trans rights are put on a podium at the forefront of a display of progressive imagery while the actual people on the site are swept under the rug.
This post is absolutely worth criticizing, but I am not sure how much the people who wrote it (that is, the specific queer staff member or members who typed this up) can change about the site and systematic moderation issues, or what they can say without risking retaliation from Matt. That doesn’t excuse them from clearly dancing around the issue (conspicuously avoiding saying “transmisogyny” or stating that specifically trans women were targeted). I think the lack of clear direction for the future (promising generic “anti-harrassment features”) is more understandable given that they might have no idea what’s coming, if anything.
9th doctor you have to stop. your doc martens too classic. your leather jacket too cunt. your buzzcut too perfect. your swag is too lesbian...9th doctor they'll kill you.