deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)
This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects.
The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.
ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers.
Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)
This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.
I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.
Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.
Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.
And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.
So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.
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I feel obligated to correct the fire one.
Hello, tumblr. friendly neighborhood firefighter here. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES GET WET OR PUT WET THINGS ON YOU IN A FIRE. NEVER. And I’ll tell you why. It’s kind of counterintuitive because you’re like hey water == fire, right? True. Sort of.
ExcEPT.
What does a pot of water do when you put it on the stove?
Boil.
What does it do when it boils?
Steams!!
Take the Carr fire in California, for example. We all know about the tragic deaths of the woman and two young children. They had no possibility of escape so they hid underneath a wet blanket.
That is probably the worst thing you can do. It’s not their fault, it is logical! And something I definitely thought was a good idea before I became a firefighter! However, not only will the fire still burn you because a wet blanket won’t stop a raging wildfire that can melt entire buildings, but the steam burns you sustain will be even worse.
STEAM DOES MORE DAMAGE TO THE BODY AND LUNGS THAN DRY HEAT. It is the worst way to go in a fire. Steam burns are brutal.
So. DONT jump in your pool. Don’t hide under a wet blanket. Don’t cover your face with a wet towel. Always run. If you jump in a small body of water, you will basically be lobsters in a pot of boiling water.
Don’t get anything wet and put it on your face!!!!!! As this article suggests!!!!!! Which is terrible advice!!!! The rest of it is good. But the put a wet towel over your face is definitely not. DONT DO IT. Not only will it do nothing against the smoke, it will heat up and steam and as you’re breathing it in, like I said earlier, it will damage your lungs WORSE than if it was dry.
The only time water is a good thing in a fire is if you can DRINK IT. (Or ya know if you’re a firefighter with an engine and high pressure capacity hose)
This goes for garden hoses too! Against a raging house fire or wildfire they will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. And often in house fires regular ol water can make it worse because of the different chemicals that can be involved.
The best advice for surviving a house or wildfire is to GET SOME PLACE THAT ISNT ON FIRE OR THAT WOULD CATCH ON FIRE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
Examples: golf courses, large areas of pavement ie EMPTY parking lots (cars are flammable and tend to be bomb-like when they catch fire) rock outcroppings, places that have ALREADY been burned and are cool (no fuel to burn= no fire) highways!!!!
And most of all let the firefighters do the work. Save yourself from breathing in carcinogenic smoke that will kill you before you can do any good and leave it to the men and women in heavy heat resistant gear and breathing apparatuses that train every day to handle these worst case scenarios.
Stay safe out there folks.
One more bit: GO TO YOUR LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS COMMUNITY INFORMATION SESSIONS THAT TEACH YOU ABOUT FIRE SAFETY! There’s a lot of misinformation circulating the internet so trust they peeps that do it for a living.
Tl;dr: don’t ever put water on or around yourself in the event of a fire. It’s always bad. Except if the only option is jump into the ocean cuz a forest fire isn’t going to boil the sea water. Other than that, always run. Always put yourself somewhere else than burning materials.
Like. I’m a firm believer that porn online shouldn’t be within kids reach (those “are you 18” checkboxes for life) but. Like. Ok first of all, just ban cp? It’s not hard? Cp is what got you into this mess just ban it. Second of all, you could increase the age of sign-up from 13 to 18. Third of all, you could do what deviantart does and just. Require birthdays at sign-up. If your blog is flagged as nsfw, you can’t interact with minors. You want to follow an nsfw blog? Prove you’re an adult. You’re an adult but don’t want to see nsfw content? Safe search (that actually works).
It’s not hard to make a functioning website, but staff doesn’t seem to want to do that.
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