And The Green Grass Grows All Around

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
beekirby
femboty2k

My take on the whole "doesn't staff know/care that 90% of their userbase is trans/autistic?" Is that the answer is: yes they know, no they don't care. They're trying to make Twitter 2 because they want to replace the current audience with users fleeing from other sites and have no interest in catering to the people who are already here. They only give a shit about new users and getting as many of them as possible, and if that means burying the ones that are already here then so be it. They do not care.

ninefoldrin

Tumblr is a commercial website based on growth like any other social media. If things were really just "we're struggling to keep the lights on" they'd do what community sites used to do and have donation goals. They could be informing the users of server and dev expenses and allowing the community to support the site as needed. But it's not a community website, even though the community is here.

They complain about how expensive the site is to keep up, but drawing in larger crowds doesn't fix that, it adds to the expense. The only reason to focus on drawing larger crowds like they're trying is to monetize them. We all laugh about how well they know their users by letting us pay for jokes, by letting us pay to force pics of our cats onto other people's dash, and that stuff is fun and frankly, in a more transparent, community-oriented website, that would be fantastic as a way to help pay the bills. But that stuff isn't going to sell to the average twitterer they're trying to recruit. Twitter people aren't gonna buy tumblr shoelaces (hell, how many tumblr users even buy the shoelaces?). To monetize the new users they want to draw in, they're going to have to make changes for the worse. They're gonna have to switch to algorithms, more sponsored content, and more algorithmic moderation.

"But the top people at tumblr are all veteran tumblr users. They understand us!" There are still nazis and terfs all around tumblr. My first experience talking to ancaps was on tumblr. Your next door neighbor might have lived there as long as you but that doesn't mean he can't have some wildly shitty oppinions. tumblr staff and administration can be just as disconnected from general tumblr culture as any of the shitty people who send death threats to trans people on here, hell, there's no way for us to know if the person sending anon hate is the same person forcing community labels on non-revealing transition pictures.

I love tumblr, but I love it for its community. You guys are tumblr, not this dumpster fire of a website being run by (at best) slightly woke corporate-minded profiteers. Don't be loyal to a website, be loyal to your friends, your mutuals, and the wonderful community we have here. If tumblr the website wants to be the gayest place on the web, then it needs to focus on being a part of the community, working with the community, and takimg care of the community.

Don't buy merch from a website that's flagging trans people for existing. Don't give money to a website that's sacrificing its user base to draw in different crowds because they're bigger. Demand transparency. Demand accountability. Demand community.

beekirby
unbossed

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tchaikovskaya

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im really not trying to be mean here but this one tag from a reblog just so colossally missed the point i cant let it go unacknowledged

the whole message of this post is that the clothes are being made regardless of whether anybody is going to be purchasing them. they’re made in sweatshops, shipped to the other side of the globe, put on racks in thousands of stores, and whatever doesn’t sell is dumped in the fucking desert to make room on those racks for the next shipment.

“buy secondhand only” in response to this is such an egregious misunderstanding and it’s doing the exact fucking thing that is implicitly being criticized by this tweet, which is that individual consumer choices are totally disconnected from the global production of consumer goods and therefore moralizing about making the Correct choices and imploring people to go to fucking goodwill instead of tj maxx is meaningless

bogleech

Slave labor and borderline slave labor allow cheap junk to be made for so little that some companies can make up for the loss several times over by claiming it on insurance, getting government subsidies, or even selling certain things as scrap or filler to other industries. Companies are so frequently part of some vast network of brands owned by the same entity that they can waste a billion dollars without batting an eye. Just saturating a market with *your* unsellable shit can be seen as advantageous if it helps push out a competitor. Someone buying one new pair of shoes for $20 can mean they just covered the manufacturing cost for 500 pairs. Passive boycotting isn’t going to work ever again at this point. The only ways any of this can change will unfortunately require vastly, vastly more work from more people than just telling Twitter to stop buying pants or switching a fast food chain to paper straws.

random-thought-depository

Funny how as economic inequality increases capitalist society starts to look more and more like the dysfunctions we associate with the Soviet Union. Like, “socialism is bad because it causes production to become decoupled from demand” is one of the biggest right-wing and libertarian anti-socialist talking points.

beekirby
atrialcapacity

aha i'm seeing it around again so let's please remember that the "there are two wolves inside you, one is evil, one is good" (and every single variation thereupon created for funny internet meme fandom reference purposes, thank you) is a textbook example of native fetishism and half-assed appropriation - it is a false "inuit legend" created by billy graham. yes, that billy graham. originally he said the story was inuit, then upon being called out in the canadian press, he changed it to a "cherokee legend" because he knew the cherokee wouldn't be able to do anything about it due to censorship of native americans in american media.
"so what?? i'm not even using it in a way that references the original! it's just a funny phrase / a tiktok audio / etc!" - the reason i personally hate this fake legend so much is because it was invented to support christian beliefs - the idea of inner darkness and original sin versus inner goodness and morality is a christian one entirely, and not a part of inuit or cherokee beliefs. if you know any damn thing about native history both on and off turtle island you should be able to figure out why exactly it's fucking shitty to compare christian ideals to native legend in any way shape or form, or imply that the two are related somehow, or that natives have always believed in christian ideals pre-colonization, even. and by repeating it as a funny phrase it doesn't really actually take any power away from it like so many well meaning non natives seem to think it does. all it does is keep circulating a myth that further pushes real native cultures (cultures!!! never a monolith) out of society's view!!!

beekirby
toskarin

I'll always talk up internet radio stations because I don't think the average person is aware that they're free, can run in your browser (or in any program that can connect to them), work on your phone, run better than a youtube tab, and give you a much better selection of music than you could get from a general algorithmic playlist

(also lots of them have live shows which you can tune into for free)

toskarin

"oughh I follow this blog for weeb stuff not internet radio promo" here. gensokyo radio.

toskarin

oh and also I have to plug yggdrasil. it's cute.

windcalling

if u like folk and/or roots music: wumb.org !!! it is AD-FREE it has ZERO MORNING TALK SHOWS it is on air at 91.9 FM in the BOSTON AREA but streams WORLDWIDE on the WEB it is perfect.

jewishbookwyrm
cannabiscomrade

Able-bodied people (and sometimes disabled/chronically ill people with mild/in remission disease progression) operate under the assumption that medical devices are life(style) limiting and that by using one, you are giving up an able part of yourself.

Medical devices are not life limiting, they are life saving.

Feeding tubes + pumps, piccs, ports, catheters, ostomy bags, cardiac and gastric pacemakers, drains, mobility devices, nebulizers, CGMs, insulin pumps, pain pumps, nerve stimulators, implants, internal defibrillators, etc etc all extend the freedom and life of the user by allowing us to live comfortably with our condition(s).

The assertion that we are limiting ourselves by using medical technology is so prevalent, even in disease-specific communities. There are people in my gastroparesis support groups that are actively starving because they are refusing intervention at this moment, and it's all a byproduct of this mindset that I've touched on before that mental willpower is greater than the progress of chronic illness/disability. And in this case- it's perpetuated by many medical professionals as well. No amount of "eating smaller, more frequent meals" will flip a switch and un-paralyze my stomach, Dr. ER. Hospitalist.

cannabiscomrade

Happy Disability Pride Month

jewishbookwyrm
robotsandfrippary

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fresh, clean no-terf version for reblogs!

Your mom and aunts aren’t on tumblr.  Please warn them about this as well. 

arcan6yo

[Image description: Two smartphone screenshots of a Facebook post by a person named Sheila Toll posted 2 Sep. It is black text on a white background and the post is public. The post reads:

I am a Family Doctor and I want to keep a promise made to a patient. 

Julie was a healthy, post-menopausal woman in my care who came in for a periodic health examination. One of my routine questions, in what is called the “Review of Systems”, was to ask if she had experienced any vaginal bleeding. 

She said “No” but then laughed and added, “Other than when my period came back for a few months last year”. 

All health care professional are taught early on that ‘vaginal bleeding in a post-menopausal woman is Cancer of the Uterus until proven otherwise’. This comment by Julie was, therefore, a red flag (no pun intended) prompting further questions, an examination and an ultrasound of her pelvis. 

Julie was surprised to see me so concerned, especially since the symptoms had not recurred over many months. 

Sure enough, a pelvic ultrasound and tissue sampling confirmed Cancer of the Uterus. 

Julie underwent a hysterectomy and radiation therapy. She is now healthy, cancer-free and is expected to stay that way. 

After all this was done, Julie sat ME down for a talk. She told me she’d had no idea a ‘short return’ of her period after menopause was a danger signal. Furthermore, she addressed the topic with friends over coffee and discovered that, out of 20 women, NONE of them knew this symptom was abnormal! She admonished me to “Tell women this! Don’t assume we know it!”

From that day on, I have kept Julie’s advice in mind when talking with post-menopausal patients. But recently my wife suggested that I should take this to a wider audience. 

So, Julie, this is for you: 

If you are a post-menopausal woman and your period ‘comes back’ or you have even one episode of vaginal bleeding, TELL A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL and insist on having it investigated! 

Wishing you all good health and long lives. End image description.]