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It's like how a bunch of celebs were big on body positivity and fat liberation...until Ozempic dropped and it turns out no, none of them ever believed any of that! They just pretended to bcs up until now healthy, long term weight loss was impossible so they had no choice but to cope by learning to love themselves no matter how they looked...but now that it's here we can go back to the truth! Being fat is ugly and gross and unhealthy and you should starve yourself and take experimental meds right now so you can be skinny which is what ALL humans are clearly supposed to be!! Yeah that body positivity stuff was fun, but come on. We know you actually just wanna be skinny and think being fat is a fate worse than death.

That's what it feels like to me. Every single time. Honestly in a lot of other areas too, one of the big issues with the left is that they really do seem to think that Republicans are right about how things work and should work but we just pretend otherwise because it's the right thing to do and it reduces suffering. Which seems fine, but you cannot be an effective leftist like this. You do actually have to deconstruct your beliefs and biases and world systems, you can't go around like "well yeah we aren't gonna kill disabled people that's eugenics and it's wrong" when you clearly don't actually think it's wrong. You think eugenics would work but implementing it would be uncivilized, and it shows. You have to actually understand that racism and ableism and all other forms of bigotry are not just cruel, but entirely incorrect.

They've spent so long avoiding being ableist or bigoted because they know it's rude, but with Trump, well he's evil so it's fine! They can say all of those horrible things and feel great about it. It doesn't make them an ableist because ableism is being mean or rude to disabled people who haven't done anything wrong, but Trump's done everything wrong so it's not ableism anymore. (Or, in the worst cases, they know it's ableist and don't care.) For a lot of them there really is this like...glee? with which they say this shit, really gives off 10 y/o who's mom said they can say fuck once. Like they've always wanted to say this and are SO jazzed they can now. Betrays a very immature understanding of sociao justice and politics.

A scammer will mention (@) you in a comment under a post that impersonates a tumblr announcement. This post will falsely claim that your tumblr account has been restricted, and you have 48 hours to follow the link in their post to rectify it.

These comments and posts are fake.

One of the active scammer blogs is @system-blog-help.*

*(If this blog changes their url, the new urls will be added below. Please see the original version of this post for the most current list. These blogs can be monitored despite url changes if you make a side blog, then block them on the side blog. If they change their url, you will see the new url in your block list.)

Other urls: @system--data @system--updater @confirmation--page @account-confirmation @system-profile @confirm--page @verification-support22 @assist-page @system--blog @verification-support9 @notification2346 @new--notification @verification-required @help--blog---system @system---update-blog @system----blog--help @helpers-----blog @system--blog--help @system---notify @systems-blog---help

Here are some of the red flags you may see on these blogs and their posts:

None of their links in the main post go to a tumblr page (do not click on them).

They say you only have 48 hours to take action. This creates a sense of urgency and make you turn off your critical thinking skills.

Tumblr staff never reaches out to people in public for account-related things. Anything related to your account is for your eyes only and meant to be confidential.

If there are problems with your account, especially if it is time-sensitive, tumblr staff will not @ you on a post you might not even be logged in to get the notification for. Notice how you didn't actually get an email from tumblr staff about this apparent account problem; you only got the "mention" email (if you are signed up to receive emails about mentions), which any user can make.

Tumblr staff will never mention a user in a group with other users for matters related to account access.

Staff does not offer premium as an apology if they make a mistake. This is not in the terms of service anywhere.

Here are two screenshots from the offending blogs (note, these may not be exactly the same on future blogs):

You can also see two archived versions of these scam posts here and here.

If you see a blog that looks like this, report the post as "spam/bot", and the blog itself as "spam/bot".

If you have time, you may also comment "scam", or anything else that points out their intentions, on as many of their comments as you can. This slows down the scammer, as they have to either clean up your comments or block you, which briefly stops them from making as many comments to @ more people.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

C'Mon, You Know You Wanna...

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely