silver rush

i'm never going to sugarcoat this—black men are black women's biggest threats. mentally, physically, sexually, you name it. i'm always going to be happy that black men who abuse black women & children are being held accountable by the law. i sincerely hope that this man also dies for what he put halle & her very young son through. he has displayed major red flags in the past that showed people, especially fans of halle, that he's a huge piece of shit & more.

Fair warning though, if you've been on the platform for a long time this archive is likely to be quite hefty in file size. This blog I have had for 5 years with 22k posts, and the export from tumblr came to be 48GB. My previous blog I made in 2011 and has 95k posts, so needless to say I did not use tumblr's built in export to back that one up.

If you want more control over exactly what you back up from your blog, I recommend that you use tumblr-utils instead. It allows you to backup specific tags, post types, and to ignore posts that you did not create (reblogs where you've added a comment count as a post you created, to be clear).

To use it:

download and install python 2.7

download tumblr-utils

create an application on tumblr to get an api key

extract the tumblr-utils zip and open the tumblr_backup.py file in notepad

search for "API" and paste in your OAuth consumer key

then go back to the folder where you extracted tumblr-utils and choose open folder in terminal / command prompt, or type cmd.exe in the address bar while inside the folder

now in the window that opens it should show the current path, and you can type "py -2 .\tumblr_backup.py [your options] [your blog name]" and hit enter. Example:

Backing up just my original posts from this blog with this command came to 632MB rather than 48GB, and also gave me the option to save my posts in JSON format which will be useful for converting my posts to a new format for self hosting.

On that note I'm currently looking into figuring out a simple (and ideally free) way of self hosting a static site blog that utilises activitypub, and also converting my old posts to re-host on said blog.

This post series by maho.dev on implementing activitypub with any static site is my primary source of guidance atm if you also want to try figure that out yourself, as well as having an explanation for why you'd even want to do this if you don't already know

but if tumblr goes down before I get things sorted and write up a post about it then i'll be reporting back on it via my bsky, mastodon, and toyhouse accounts

if you dont have an account on any of these I'll also be sharing an update via my personal site's RSS feed, link of which includes an explanation of what RSS is and some feed readers you can use, I highly recommend checking it out as getting a feed reader is going to be the best way you can stay connected with people if they scatter across the internet!

My siblings and I are all racially ambiguous and look vaguely southern European and only other south Asian people can usually tell we're Asian. And he is the whitest looking one so he thinks he is our king. Turned to us over Christmas (we're not religious in any way, more of just a family gathering) and drunkenly told us that we all look too much like our dad and he takes after my mum and is therefore the only true heir to my mother's name...and we were like bitch what is this game of thrones? We are poor, what are you inheriting? A tin of soup and a vape?😂 Absolutely outrageous behaviour to spout this shit with your brown father in poking distance. I will add as a side note that my mother is not racist at all so he's not doing this shit in her name, she's deeply ashamed of his actions of late but he refuses to listen to her.

I don't know anything about that slug Andrew Tate's family dynamics but I do know my brother and my dad have always hated each other (my brother was a delinquent as a teenager and my dad's very strict and unrepentant) and I'm 100% sure that's why he's rejecting his heritage. That and he's fucking stupid (he's a clinical moron)

thanks for coming back and sending another message, i still think about your brother! i would be amused if i wasn’t so horrified because i know the UK produces perhaps the worst radicalized misogynists on the planet. i suppose that’s what happens when you have a society divided sharply into the working class and the ruling class. you have a thin crust of people who receive the lion’s share of education and access, and a huge majority who are left to fight over the remaining resources.

now, i love england. i would gladly live in london. it is much nicer than basically every american city; safer, cleaner, more convenient. but the class divide there is stark, everything is so expensive, and you have this huge melting pot of malcontented boys who all agree that women are the problem. while the concerned gentry kind of sneer at them, at their violence, and seek to control it.

i feel that system is what many of the reactionaries in america want to reproduce. a massive working class full of undereducated laborers, ruler by the capitalist royalty, the lords and ladies who benefit. and you’re left with all these violent, stupid young men who have convinced themselves that their real enemy is not the ruling class, but women, who they feel owe them the life they believe they were promised. a hot wife, a big house, a mess of children, two mistresses on the side. they don’t get it, so they ape out and blame women rather than their own jailers.

this is only intensified when the man is half-nonwhite. remember elliot rodger? he was half-asian and self-loathing. tate is the same. and your brother as well. they have all the resentment of white men, but they know they’re just imposters and that infuriates them further. they’re dangerous. particularly dangerous.

or maybe you’re only concerned about white women who are victims—in that case, you’ve forgotten that famous white men who attack white women also suffer no consequences and have the public on their side? you know, like in the johnny depp and blake lively cases radical feminists are currently obsessed with? and racist white men who beat the shit out of white women have also been coming back to hollywood in a big way with mel gibson’s also THR-facilitated image rehab, along with that which alec baldwin benefited from years ago. these guys get the benefit of the doubt because they’re powerful and famous men. not due to their race. at most, race is another angle for apologists to exploit, but there’s no evidence that black men get away with abuse because they’re black, rather than because they’re men.

genuinely, i am wondering why you’ve chosen to frame the issue this way (no one cares because the victim was a white woman)? again, are you suggesting that people would care if she was black? would you like me to tell you that the majority of femicide victims in the US are black? that approximately six black women are murdered every single day in my country, also primarily by black men like majors? but the majority of those cases go unsolved? i certainly hope you’re not suggesting that black women have some kind of systemic privilege over white women when it comes to this issue. i really hope that’s not what i’m seeing here today. i feel that is the implication you’re very strongly suggesting.

i am reblogging this version of the post so my followers can see both how op fails to support her claim with her cited evidence (which features majors making typical domestic abuser threats, but doesn’t appear to uh “capitalize on the toxicity of online racial discourse”) and also to tell the person who shared their abuse story this: i am sorry you were assaulted. “protect the black community” is something black women are also told when they’re abused by black men. quite famously, megan thee stallion was pressured to keep quiet by everyone around her. this isn’t a new issue; tina turner was almost beaten to death by her husband, but her doctor told her to shut up because speaking out “gives us a bad name”. when she died recently, people were still slandering her and calling her a race traitor.

so, again, this isn’t about protecting black people, it’s about protecting men. it’s about patriarchy. when you frame this as an issue of race rather than patriarchy, you are perpetuating racism. look: i’m not going around to posts about abusive white men and sharing my story of how white boys took turns raping me and then bragged about without consequence. frankly, the thought didn’t even cross my mind until just now, because i don’t associate all white people with my abusers.