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Another update:

Welp. I’m preparing to leave this sad platform. Asking for all my data, first.

It was fun trying to convince myself Tumblr are different than Mark Zuckerberg, Spez, or Musk. All of those billionaires, and wannabe billionaires (Spez lmfao), who turned social media into a weaponized sewer against the people. One giant network of what used to be called yellow journalism.

And I think about earlier 2024 when Tumblr stole all of our data and gave it to AI without notice or consent. That was the second to the last straw, really. They regularly attack and misgender queer and trans people. They support Israel and allow money scams pretending to be Gazans. They let absolute toxic shit (covid denial, vaccine lies, insurrection bullshit) pass as an ok blog. They even redesigned the site to attract more of that, gaslighting us the whole way. It’s like, the porn bots are one thing. Being autocratic, gaslighting, nazi zionist supporting cunts is a whole other.

Recently, my account was yet again attacked and targeted by @staff. The first time was because I said Yelp as a business was extortionist scum. I think that’s what it was. They didn’t have the spine to admit it. The recent time was because I did their job for them in wiping the platform of a couple money scammers impersonating Palestinians.

And to think this happened on the heels of asshole @photomatt trying to claim Tumblr is “different.” That they have trans people on staff. Lol. Ok. You have working class traitors on staff who run a platform that is only an ally to white supremacist ideals. Not to actual society. Anyway.

This is a sort of a sign off rant. I’m heading off to the fediverse, to neocities, to spacehey, to non silicone bro parts of the Internet. Idk… May even go back to making my own handcrafted small web server. I’ll figure a way out to network but I definitely don’t need Tumblr to do it.

I may not know where but what I do know of I’ll live to see the day Automattica fails and at least on that day I’ll have a giggle.

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Further developing thoughts will go here for now.

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Oh post from like 2015:

I lost my domain for this site because the people who control the dns weren’t awesome at making it accessible to me. =(

I̶d̶i̶o̶t̶ T̶u̶m̶b̶l̶r̶ a̶l̶s̶o̶ m̶a̶r̶k̶e̶d̶ a̶ b̶l̶o̶g̶ a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ c̶a̶t̶s̶ a̶n̶d̶ c̶a̶t̶ r̶e̶s̶c̶u̶e̶ a̶s̶ “m̶a̶t̶u̶r̶e̶” b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶y̶'r̶e̶ i̶d̶i̶o̶t̶s̶. E̶v̶e̶r̶y̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ I̶ e̶m̶a̶i̶l̶ t̶h̶e̶m̶ t̶o̶ a̶s̶k̶ f̶o̶r̶ j̶u̶s̶t̶i̶f̶i̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶y̶ i̶g̶n̶o̶r̶e̶ m̶e̶.

UPDATE! After like … uhhhh four years??? My tumblr cat blog has been free’d from the “mature content” shadow ban. That’s nice. Maybe I can get back to posting about more babies in need of help as well as the constant flow of good ol’ cat (and dog/birb/hamster/kawaii animal) mems.

Anyway - I created a few sub-blogs that are me as well.

@kawaiiinlaLA = my cute culture blog

@fahk = my chronic illness blog

@letslookatart = Just art I like

@prettygenuine = Old ass blog where I admire things that are beautiful to me

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Aww. :(

Rest in peace, Iris. You were a living, breathing, walking piece of art.

https://fashionista.com/2024/03/iris-apfel-dies

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I really don't like Tombow dual markers

The brush end is ok but frays easily and the pigment starts to dry up fast. The other end is supposed to be a "fine tip" but it's just a blunt fat felt tip that leaves patchy color spots and is pretty useless in controlling the lines it makes. Why are Tombows the standard? Is there really nothing better?

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not to be a nerd but it’s so crazy how he (Bernini) really did that from cold hard stone……. truly a spectacle, truly breathtaking, an honor to behold

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Beautiful

Laura Lekysha at Fashion East FW 23

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"Trans murders are political"

Seen in Istanbul

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This... this is better than watching a magician. This magic is real.

A skilled artisan is a joy to witness

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Adore this!

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finally finished this painting i sketched out months ago… please click for better quality i know tumblr is gonna kill it (reference used)

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ART BASEL , MIAMI 2023 📸 @wiseknave

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Perfectly matching and replicating colors just by seeing them is an art, and, while it's also a very useful task, people who can do this are primarily artists.

Massimo / X

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Jodie Kidd backstage @ Alexander McQueen Fall/Wint 1998

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Anna Engelhardt for Alexander McQueen, Resort 2023

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alexander mcqueen autumn/winter 1996-7 in fashion at the edge - caroline evans (2003)

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Alexander McQueen backstage @ Givenchy Spring/Summer 1997

Ph. Ann Ray

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i love graffiti. "comics and jazz are the only american art forms" you forgot graffiti. did you remember graffiti? That art form birthed in Philly and NYC in the early 70s by poor Black kids. that art form that spread all over the world and influenced so many. that's used without irony in commercials when they're trying to appeal to a "young urban" customer.

did you forget graffiti? that racism broken windows theory victim? that reach the establishment takes claiming that it's exclusively violent gang members throwing up those full-color pieces and wildstyle tags in the middle of the night outsmarting fifty security cameras because the billboard was ugly anyway. as if, even if it was, it wouldn't be impressive as all hell. risking brutality and fall damage so your art can occupy the space a gentrified condo named something like "Coluumna" took away from you. proving that despite only assholes affording to live here anymore there's still a soul beneath it. an animal with dripping stripes and teeth that go clack-clack tsssss