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Things That Happened In 2021 That Dont Feel Like They Did

Prince Phillip kickin’ it

That shit in the Capitol that just like never got mentioned again?

Wandavision finale

The big-ass blizzard that hit Texas

Kardashian-West divorce

Grimes-Musk breakup

Trump got his dumb ass banned from every imaginable social media out there

Apparently there was a Super Bowl this year???

Rush Limbaugh kicked the bucket and the world collectively celebrated with dancing crabs

Harry and Meghan dishing the shit on the royal family

The Boat In The Suez Canal

Republicans refusing to take the vaccine but eating horse meds for some fucking reason

The Bernie Sanders In A Chair meme

Sea shanties took over TikTok

The Redditors and the GameStop stock, god bless

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someday we'll find it

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what is the most insanely boring interest you have. for me it's like. the periodic table. just conceptually. and topographic maps

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Sure, detransition is real. The vast majority of people who detransition do so because of trans antagonism, not because they were pressured into transitioning in the first place. Most of the detransitioners I know are fully supportive of the trans community. Many of them even plan on transitioning again later in life.

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Our favorite photo from when I was trying to get a Christmas-card worthy photo.

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Babby Jesus- World’s first metal-head?

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PSA regarding tumblr’s latest Censorship Nightmare

For those of you who haven’t seen this announcement, tumblr recently made some changes to the iOS version of the app, purportedly to comply with Apple’s content guidelines. These changes took effect on Dec 21, starting in version 22.5.1 of the iOS app. As some of you may recall, Apple’s strict guidelines were the driving force for the infamous Great Purge of 2018, which coincidentally also happened around this time of year, but it seems banning all of the female-presenting nipples wasn’t good enough for Apple.

Below is a summary of the important changes. Note that these changes technically ONLY affect those using the iOS app. If you’re accessing tumblr through a different app or operating system (Google Chrome, Android app, etc) it won’t affect you directly but it will affect your followers who use iOS so you should definitely be aware of it.

The list of banned tags has been expanded. As before, there’s no way to know which words or phrases have been banned until you try searching for them, in which case you’ll either get no search results or the following message: “This content has been hidden because of potentially suggestive or explicit content.” You may think this doesn’t concern you if you don’t post explicit material, but do not make the mistake of expecting the banned tags to be logical or reasonable. I’ve already encountered multiple completely innocuous posts (random fandom gifsets) that seem to be hidden on iOS for no discernible reason.

Blogs that have been flagged as explicit can no longer be viewed. Previously, flagged blogs just had their posts hidden from searches, but if you knew the username you could still visit it after clicking through a warning about sensitive content. Now you can’t access it at all.

Likes and reblogs from blogs that have been flagged will no longer show up in your notes. This one won’t affect most people’s user experience as much as the others, but it does mean you may be missing notes. It’s unclear if likes and reblogs from flagged blogs will still count towards the overall note total (and only be missing from the activity feed and note viewer) but I suspect that’s the case.

THE BIG ONE: ANY POST TAGGED WITH A BANNED TAG WILL NO LONGER SHOW UP ON YOUR DASHBOARD. Previously, if you tagged a post with a banned word or phrase (even if the words were used inside another tag), that post would not show up in searches, but your followers would still be able to see it on their dashboard. Now those posts are hidden from your own followers as well. This includes both original posts and reblogs. And if that wasn’t bad enough, here’s the real kicker: even if you don’t tag something with one of the banned words, if the OP used a banned tag, any reblogs of that post will not show up on anyone’s dashboard (on the iOS app). The only saving grace here, and I hate to even call it that, is that the blocked posts are still visible if you visit a blog directly or if you have post notifications turned on.

As usual, tumblr was extremely unclear and evasive about all of this in their official announcement. Not surprising, of course, since if more people were aware of these new draconian tactics I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be more of an uproar about it. Tumblr claims that these changes are somewhat temporary and that they are currently working on something that will allow for a less restricted iOS experience, but they refuse to say what that something is and when it will be implemented. And let’s just say, considering their track record, I’m not hopeful.

All of this is horrible and infuriating for many reasons, but the worst part is how insanely counterproductive it is to creating the “safe” environment tumblr (or more specifically Apple) supposedly wants.

Tags have always been used for both blog organization and filtering purposes. Tagging posts with triggers and content warnings is a common practice that gives users the ability to filter out content they may find upsetting or just don’t don’t want to see for whatever reason. By choosing to ban a bunch of unlisted “sensitive content” tags, all they’re doing is encouraging people who want to share that kind of content to come up with alternative less well-known tags or simply not tag that content at all anymore if they want it to show up on their follower’s dashboards, thereby making it more likely for someone to encounter it when they didn’t want to.

So really, with all of the alleged concern for safety and “protecting the children,” all they’ve done is make tumblr less safe for everyone. Typical.

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. . . Alice was entirely different to [Thomas More's] younger, self-effacing, amiable, accommodating [first wife] Joanna, and yet her worldly wisdom, forthright speech and practical efficiency were exactly what Thomas needed, for once his appointment to civic office had given him sufficient income, he'd begun to settle down all too comfortably. Alice gave him new challenges. Spirited, courageous, and unsentimental, she had the will for him to succeed. A woman with [More's stepmother] Joan Marshall's head for business without the mean streak, she could be sensible and frugal, while still being generous and warm-hearted. According to one of his great-grandchildren, Thomas had once said of her, "she was often penny-wise and pound-foolish, saving a candle's end and spoiling a velvet gown." And he candidly confesses how she berated him early on in their marriage for failing to focus sufficiently on his career. "What will you do," she would ask him, "that you list not to put forth yourself as other folk do? Will you sit still by the fire and make goslings in the ashes with a stick as children do? Would God I were a man, and look what I would do." "Why wife," said Thomas, "what would you do?" '"By god," she said, "go forward with the best of them, for, as my mother was wont to say . . . it is ever more better to rule than to be ruled." To which he couldn't resist replying, "By my troth, wife, in this I dare you say truth, for I never found you willing to be ruled yet."

— John Guy, A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg (The merriest of Christmases to my eminent colleague @elizabethan-memes!)

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There goes Mr. Heartless, there goes Mr. Cruel He never gives, he only takes, he lets his hunger rule

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) | Portrait of King Henry VII by unknown artist (1575-1600) | History of the Reign of King Henry VII by Francis Bancon (1621)

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richard iii in the requiem of the rose king anime trailer: i am shadow, the darkness behind the light. i'll show you that i'll even kill god!

me:

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Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

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clipping from the lesbian tide vol. 9 no. 5, illustrated by roberta gregory, march 1980

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reblog if you’re a lesbian who supports bi girls, a bi girl who supports lesbians, or if you want all wlw to have a nice day