medranochav:

smitethepatriarchy:

tranarchist:

A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure out how to better monetize.

On that note-

Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge, “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.”

Capitalism is disgusting and ruins everything.

LETS LEAVE

latkesbian:

straightpeoplereceipts:

straightpeoplereceipts:

is anyone else sick of having to eat all the candles on hanukkah?

hello goyim. traditionally the youngest member of a jewish household will eat the candles each hanukkah… so a way you can show support and solidarity with your jewish friends is to offer to eat the candles for them.

also we’re not actually allowed to ask goyim to eat the candles so if you want to support your jewish friends and respect their traditions what you should do is just eat the candles without waiting to be asked!

 Via

taavot:

shoutout to people who celebrate chanukkah and:

  • don’t have presents as a part of their tradition
  • can’t afford to have presents be a part of their tradition
  • have to deal with goyim saying “Jews basically get xmas for 8 so lucky!!”

don’t feel bad. do whatever you normally do. light your candles, make your latkes and sufganiyot, play dreidel, sing songs, pray, remember, have fun with your family or friends or yourself, whoever you’re with. remember that the concept of nightly presents on chanukkah were heavily popularized in America and other xtian centric countries due to xtians associating chanukkah with xmas and commercializing it that way, you are not obligated to be able to give presents to everyone every night.

also a note to non Jewish folks (by the way this is ok for you to reblog): chanukkah presents, if they are part of a family’s tradition at all, are in many families small things like new pencils or a piece of candy or a book, not large xmas type presents. and there are also lots of Jewish homes in which presents are not a tradition, & many homes in which they cannot be due to lack of money. chanukkah is not ‘the 8 days of Jewish xmas’ , it has been unfortunately marketed that way. it is a minor religious festival & major cultural one celebrated by many religious and secular Jews. and it is not about 8 days of presents. 

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turnipfritters:

foleo:

ataricore:

ok so.. apparently there’s a bug going around that it makes you block (or makes it appear that you blocked) your mutuals and that they blocked you in turn. i’m just letting you guys know that if it appears that i blocked you, that is 100% not the case and is just tumblr being funky again.

reblogs are ok and appreciated because holy shit this website is a hellhole

a kinnie made up this lie after having a breakdown cause they found out bpdluka kins hatsune miku even tho they have her listed as their top id (not kin cause they’re HATSUNE MIKU IRL) and softblocked half of their mutuals

You just can’t get farm fresh organic nonsense like this on any other platform, I tell you what

pizzaback:

something that really bothers me when people discuss natural selection is when people ask questions along the lines of, “why aren’t all turtles extinct if they’re so slow and dumb” and “if neanderthals are superior to gorillas, then why are neanderthals extinct?”.

Like these are such misled questions that you’d have to answer completely different, unasked questions to actually help the person understand, but it also belies a really unfortunate fact about the history of evolutionary science and how natural selection was once, and for a really long time, studied as if evolution is a battle between superiors and inferiors. and this framework was developed for the purpose of economic and sociopolitical gain, and to justify bigotry toward marginalized peoples, and this framework still permeates how people teach and learn about natural selection. it worries me a lot!

HEBREWBBY THEME