what’s funny about odysseus being portrayed as a pacifist in any trojan war retelling is that yes i hold the draft dodger myth very close to my heart but once he went to war he made himself an expert at it. the war haunts him, the war follows him home, songs of war are said to make him weep like a woman whose husband is killed and who is about to be taken captive [which is, btw, the most loaded imagery i could imagine homer using], and all of that matters because he was very, very good at it

#there are also just so many reasons to dodge the draft beyond ideological objection to violence#odysseus’ devotion to his family is DEEPLY selfish#(positive. to me)#he’s not the moral centre of anything#he’s the fruit flavoured centre of a gusher also the fruit thing was a lie it’s blood via @gladiolus—amicitia

William Etty's Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched (1828) revamped by Astra Zero

Starbucks cares more about Fair trade coffee than it's workers.

So to be 100% clear:

tumblr just added an update that requires you to verify your age in order to view "mature content". I'm not sure how they do the verification (haven't yet checked), but given recent similar updates from things like Discord, it most likely involves sending them a photo of either your face or your ID.

In addition, over the past few months, and also years in the long-term, tumblr has been incorrectly marking things as mature content. These include:

In essence, this update has mandated that a majority of users must either a) submit their personal information to tumblr, a website whose moderation has been EXTREMELY biased against marginalised people and who I would not trust with my ID, or b) be excluded from absolutely all conversations tumblr decides are "mature content", whether they are actually sexual in nature or not. Furthermore, anyone not over 18 will also not be allowed to take part in these conversations, or even see them, or interact with many trans women or people of colour on this site, as tumblr decides.

This update is complete bullshit designed to censor and exclude marginalised people, poorly hidden under a guise of "protecting teenagers from sexual content", and they know it.

They do the verification using k-ID

And yes, this is censorship. Adults are now unable to interact with some other adults on this site until they provide sensitive personal data like bank account details or a copy of government ID.

If an account is marked as "mature" you are now unable to see that entire blog, regardless of why it's marked as mature.

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

i get this now and it won't let me click through to any 'mature' blogs :(

Where's the fucking. The form. The fucking form. Hang on, lemme find it.

This! Please fill out this! Select "Feedback" and fill out the form! They won't necessarily be paying attention to us complaining in posts, but they will read these forms!

Hey Tumblr, fuck you

I've been here since 2010, this is demeaning and I'm not giving my personal shit to some data harvesting company owned by Epstein guys.

the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you

@staff

Submit a complaint, like we did with the reblogs update. probably won’t be as effective since they’re trying to comply in advance with legal bullshit that they take more seriously than the privacy of their users, but still.

Scroll the reblogs on the announcement for good points to raise. If nothing else, according to Tumblr’s own policy you have to be 13 years old to make an account, so any account that was made more than 5 years ago must be at least 18 years of age or is already breaking policy, thereby making it not Tumblr’s problem.

and please for the love of fuck don’t give them your ID.

For now, it looks like if you don’t hand over your identity, you’ll just be locked out of “mature” posts (which include paintings of fruit, but not sexually explicit ads, even though actual human-made porn isn’t allowed at all regardless of content tag). Worst case, you will be okay without tumblr. Believe me, I don’t want to leave either, but I will if the alternative requires me to doxx myself

The fact that RFK JR was a long term cocaine and heroin user and eats road kill and has mercury poisoning and is suppressing/falsifying information about FUCKING TYLENOL, VACCINES AND SSRIS being toxic/destroying your brain is salt in the wound. No offense to other current and former cocaine, heroin and roadkill consumers (love you guys, I support decriminalization) but the hypocrisy of being that guy and not a doctor and trying to tell me my lifesaving medication is unsafe and attempting to ban it makes me have to white-knuckle my phone every time I read the bullshit he is saying.

C A N E N D A R

Yeah I’m free the 22nd and the 22nd and the 20th and the 22nd and the 21st as well as the 20th and the 22nd and the 22nd after that and the three 20ths after that

Okay but how’s your MVNCY to ULJ next week?

Just some info in case it can help anyone

These are small pet nail clippers. I got them when I got guinea pigs and rabbits. Tried using them on rats but rats' nails are way too small and usually they take care of their own nails (with rare exceptions) but that's neither here nor there.

What matters is that I discovered they have another great use. They effectively cut zip ties/cable ties.

I use zip ties for all sorts of things, from holding pieces of my pets' cages together to assembling my reborn dolls. Zip ties are versatile and amazing. But sometimes hard to cut.

These nail clippers are perfect for cutting them.

So uh. Yeah. I highly suggest keeping a pair at hand if you find yourself having encounters with zip ties. They're pretty cheap and available at most pet stores, and maybe any store that carries pet supplies. You don't need the fancy ones, just the cheap simple ones.

One of the good things about the small animal nail clippers is you're not gonna cut yourself or anything else with them. The sharp part is contained by the rounded edge.

That's nice when working close to flesh or the delicate material of doll parts. Dolls are often held together by zip ties, so I have to disassemble them and the clippers are good for being sharp enough to cut the ties without cutting the cloth or vinyl of the doll.

I looked up what other people use for cutting zip ties and they're all really sharp and not great options if you're working with anything that could be easily damaged.

So yeah, I highly suggest keeping a pair of these in your house or on your person if you find yourself around zip ties.

Last time we had a tornado threat, I zip tied mine to the side of a bird cage so I wouldn't lose them. I did it loose enough that I could cut the zip tie with the clippers lol. But I figured in an emergency, those were important to have. Especially since I zip tie all my bird cages closed for tornado threats. I wanted to be sure I could open the cages quickly if I needed to.

So yeah. Zip Ties. Small Animal Nail Clippers. Life savers.

I just really like zip ties.

I use them to hold together my homemade guinea pig and rabbit cages. I used to use them to hold together some of my rat cages because the metal clips the cages came with never held tightly enough. I use them to put together my reborn dolls. I use them to secure the doors of my bird cages for emergencies.

But zip ties can be dangerous. So I make sure I have a way to cut them in every room. I discovered these clippers were the best way by accident. I don’t even remember when I started using them lol. But the one time I didn’t, I sliced open my thumb with the sharp thing I was trying to cut a zip tie with lol. Never again.

wearing sky-colored shoes to hide from the devil. earth colored hat to hide from god

Iron breastplate to ward off fairies, Fishnet leggings to ward off cod.

You're evil and you know it

good thing they're hidden from god and the devil

"being a human is so boring why can't I be one of the COOL animals" okay hey. I hear you. but I actually really super love being an omnivorous persistence hunting primate with a stomach capable of dissolving many literal poisons and the ability to smell geosmin (released in the soil after it rains) at five parts per trillion. I super enjoy being a bipedal terrifyingly agile mammal with some of the most efficient sweat glands in the animal kingdom. I find a lot of joy in being an endotherm with mimicry abilities that rival most other animals with vocal chords. it's sick as hell I'm having a lot of fun

Sounds like what a shape-shifting non-human would say.

I'm a normal human person I literally cut my fingernails and laugh at jokes like a regular human. I'm a member of the species Homo sapiens and I have been since the day I was spawned

*born

Just started new meds today. Providing context for the last decade of my life through the fine art of handcrafted memes.

i'd truly be fucked in her situation because rumpelstiltskin is not a name that would come to mind for me

to be honest i forgot he did that

I feel like a pizza chef and a glass blower would have fantastic cultural exchanges.

I wish to purchase goods and services without entering a blood covenant that entitles the provider to email and text me forever and also store a bunch of my personal data that they’re going to apologize for exposing in a breach in the next five to ten years