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The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.

Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.

Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.

Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.

And the colors are inspired by a Sappho poem, y’all, i can’t even.  

[Image is of a flag with four equally sized horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: purple, gold, green, and pink]

I have not had one word from her

Frankly I wish I were dead When she left, she wept a great deal; she said to me, “This parting must be endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly.”

I said, “Go, and be happy but remember (you know well) whom you leave shackled by love

“If you forget me, think of our gifts to Aphrodite and all the loveliness that we shared

“all the violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, dill and crocus twined around your young neck

“myrrh poured on your head and on soft mats girls with all that they most wished for beside them

“while no voices chanted choruses without ours, no woodlot bloomed in spring without song…”