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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBODY*

here's the lgbtq tag trending as it does regularly due to multiple porn bots catfishing using the same stolen pictures of the same trans woman on the same page

remember the year in review? this was one of the featured tags. note that despite neither the image nor video in the posts in this screenshot being marked as mature content, this screenshot of them is going to mark this post as mature content as soon as I post it

here's some of the lovely messages of positivity you can expect to get if you're a transfem on this platform! I cropped the real-life gore images out of the first one, the person in the second one has made multiple posts like this + pedojacketed me and still has that same account and does that same shit, and the the person in the third took weeks for tumblr to do anything about, because:

here's tumblr staff stating that making explicit death threats towards transfems is not a violation of the ToS or user guidelines!

and here they are stating it again! and while we're on the subject of who the user guidelines apply to:

here's SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY MY CONTENTLESS REBLOG of a year-old post with 15,000 notes being flagged as sexually explicit (over 100 times in case you thought it was maybe a fluke) despite the image in the post not actually showing anything, SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY MY CONTENTLESS REBLOG of a heated rivalry gifset showing two fully nude dudes fucking center frame getting flagged as sexually explicit, which it is according to tumblr's definition, but despite that it has tens of thousands of notes and in fact is so popular and shared that if you look over to the third image you can see that same gif as one of the trending tag thumbnails! and on that note:

here's an episode of an anime available on youtube with a TV-14 age rating that I posted a screenshot of that got flagged as sexually explicit, had the appeal denied twice, got fully nuked off the site, and then got my entire blog marked as mature for posting!

and here's that same already-marked-as-mature blog curiously being marked as mature a second time out of the blue 15 minutes before they dropped the age verification update that would hide mature content!

and here's my first blog of 13 years getting a SPECIAL type of mature flag that marks all of my posts as mature content individually and separately from the actual mature content label!

you don't get to appeal these terminations btw! they automatically and instantly deny your appeal and send you the rejection before you even get the email telling you they got the appeal and will carefully review it

not that appealing will do anything anyways! here's tumblr staff terminating me for explicit content when I appealed the explicit flag on a post that they accepted the appeal on after terminating me for it,

and here's tumblr staff denying my appeal on that termination, lying about why i was terminated, terminating my already-and-still-terminated blog a second time to change the termination reason to one i can't appeal, which they then upgraded from an account deactivation into a postmortem full account nuke! isn't that wild?

here's them doing it to me a second time

and here's tumblr staff terminating me FIVE TIMES in multiple weeks it took them to do anything about a burner blog and a post pedojacketing me and encouraging people to harass me forever over completely fabricated claims that everyone spreading it around admitted were false on the post itself by the way! note also how only the burner blog got deleted - but the main account? just a post removal. after weeks of it being reported and spread around. the fastest of my terminations during this period was three hours after making the account by the way!

which isn't an isolated occurrence, either! they'll pass over multiple open, avowed nazis posting swastikas and slur-filled nazi race science shit about how they think black people are biologically inferior subhumans for months on end to nuke some random transfem off the site in as little as 10 minutes after account creation, then take MULTIPLE MONTHS to respond to your report of someone sending you harassment messages to tell you that the content you reported has already been removed (because it's an ask in the inbox of an account they already terminated along with four others in the time it took them to respond)!

And to really send a clear message about where they stand, they've REALLY ramped up the termination of transfems since the start of pride! And everybody will act like you deserve it and are a subhuman unworthy of life if you don't openly support the multiple ongoing harassment campaigns against transfems, all enabled and quietly endorsed by tumblr staff and moderation!

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

It didn’t register for me until recently that my experiences of being forced to strip naked multiple times at the mental hospital to be ‘checked’ when I was 14 was sexual assault, because the people who did it were nurses/doctors who clearly didn’t find me sexually attractive but instead used it as a form of humiliation and control towards children they deemed as ‘unruly’ and ‘uncooperative’ (ie. children who asked to be treated like people). I thought only people who fit into this idea of a child attracted pedo could be child sexual abusers, so I thought my experience didn’t count.

my stepfather would openly sexually harass me and my siblings at dinner while also loving the fantasy of killing pedophiles. whether he personally found our abuse sexually gratifying was frankly irrelevant to whether it traumatized us. whether he would be considered a pedophile or not doesn't change that he committed sexual abuse of children

This is the world capitalists want to return to.

Weird that individualism-worshipping USA doesn't teach stories like this in school, it's usually just "aaaaaand then they made child labor illegal" really taking the, not just personal achievements of determined individuals, but also drama, excitement, out of it.

Not to put on my tinhat (I'm absolutely putting on my tinhat for a moment whee!), but leaving out juicy bits of history like these almost feels as if children aren't actually supposed to enjoy history class, as if they're actively discouraged from it by the shape and content of the curriculums.

We talk a lot on tumblr about how US education sweeps a lot of the country's embarrassing moments under the rug, or turns a blind eye to the contributions of marginalized people in history, but it also just... is a total fucking kill-joy that seems to believe the only way to make education more fun and engaging is hands-on crafts and crafty projects, resulting in high schoolers sitting in classrooms cutting out shapes, pasting them into notebooks, and coloring them in during time that could be used for learning or discussing.

Yes, true story! We had elementary-school-type craft time at least once for every chapter in the textbook! For those of you who never ended up experiencing the shock of finally giving up on AP classes for a particular subject and rejoining all the people who don't have parents breathing down their neck about living up to being "gifted," there is nothing serious about those base-level classes.

And these activities are not actually fun or memorable, let alone helpful for learning how to engage with history later in life! For the vast majority of my classmates, craft time was only redeemed by being able to just chat the whole class, not about history. The actual activity itself, however, was less interesting than simply... doing the whole "education" thing and interacting with the teacher about the actual history she was reciting. It was literally more fun and educational when the known "trouble-makers" asked "stupid" or inappropriate questions, and she riffed off of those questions to give additional context about the lesson. These same guys also, genuinely, ended up asking a lot of great questions, just bc they couldn't shut up, which benefited all of us. Kids that have a reputation for not getting good grades or caring about school were learning in their own way, when the format of the education was stimulating enough and on their level (in this case, this meant while in a verbal sparring match with a teacher who could hold her own).

Picking up the thread of my overall point here, what made all of this entertaining was the people involved, not the information that had been curated for the lesson. The information that had been curated, whether by the teacher, or the county school board, or state testing, idk, was boring. Like it wasn't meant to meet anyone on their level. Like the people who supposedly know, care about, and enjoy history (or else why would they be tasked with curation?) considered disinterest a perfectly acceptable, and even preferable, outcome. The material was impersonal, unexciting, and without any single unifying idea of why this particular time and place was worth knowing about.

Reality has always been stranger than fiction, and all of history has interesting stories, vignettes, coincidences, and unexpected twists if you prioritize looking for them. If you don't, you're signaling that the past is not interesting and generally not worth knowing about.

Which, we then see the results of this compelled disinterest manifest in upsetting numbers of US adults who possess an alarming ignorance of the past. Current events unfold and echo what has already been, but those who were successfully detoured away from their chance to become familiar with those echoes represent, who weren't taught that this could be interesting to pay attention to, can't recognize any of it.

Okay, tinhat off.

US educators must make history classes juicier!

First time I fell in love with a history class was at university, when the professor said at the very beginning, "We'll be reading only primary sources in this class, which you might assume are dry based on past experiences, BUT! It will only be the bloody, juicy, gory, sexy bits. Enjoy!" And I did! I did enjoy! He wasn't gamifying history, he wasn't curating readings to create some false narrative, he simply curated it to meet us on our level — History 101 students who already didn't necessarily want to be there but had been coerced into occupying the lecture hall by their gen ed requirements.

(He also didn't require memorizing precise dates for exams — knowing the century sufficed, and any essays he assigned had to be 500 words maximum so we wouldn't stuff them with bullshit and instead focus purely on trying to communicate our stances with evidence not rambling. Brilliant educator, in my opinion.)

The inclusion of Lewis Hine in the high school curriculum would absolutely have made the labor reform day lesson back in high school a more compelling educational experience. A personal and intimate look into the effort involved, check, exciting bc of all the disguises and sneaking, check, and a chance to root for a "hero" that has setbacks but ultimately prevails, check!