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A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.
"Alaska is a place known to the public, so setting a novel in a Alaska is not copyrightable."
"hot, sexy, dangerous boys... cannot be copyrighted"
Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.Ā
Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, youāll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post ā we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out ā stay tuned!
Let's talk about reblog notes.
We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise.Ā
First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.
We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.
In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that,Ā including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.
Keep an eye on @staff for updates to come soon.Ā
thank god staff still listen to the occasional user revolt. I cannot understand what drove this decision in first place, short of some kind of "well everything is going to be WordPress-based now" insanity.
Biggest mistake of my life was making a "random" link on my custom blog page, I might as well has titled it the "50% change of awful high school ennui" button.
Any time I make the Slow, Measured Return To Tumblr⢠I remember both why I miss using this site, and why I basically don't use it anymore in favor of short, pithy tweets that I will assumedly forget within the next like half-hour. Both social media dads suck anyway, I'm kind of damned if I do on here or Twitter at this point.
I hit the bathroom in the middle of writing this post, pull out my phone, open TikTok. The first post is a girl dancing the entire routine for the opening of Lucky Star (Motteke! Sailor Fuku). The comments are full of people cooing "so retro!" "Oh my god! I remember watching this as a little kid!" "I still remember the dance!" "so 2008!" I can probably still do this choreo if I get in shape at some point this year.
I feel my bones creaking. I'm two years from 30. I'm contemplating doing the Bo Burnham thing where I stand shirtless and sweaty while I flash an LED panel on the wall behind me at midnight on March 6th, 2027, if we even make it that far.
I think a few of my high school friends have blocked me on Tumblr for some reason. I hope I didn't piss them off or hurt them or anything. Not even sure what I did, to be honest. I was probably just annoying. I check Instagram. I'm still connected with them and I guess I can still message them. Last message for one is March of two years ago. My ex hasn't blocked me on Tumblr, but they have blocked me on Instagram. They also haven't posted on Tumblr in 5 years at this point. I'm also still not sure why they blocked me on everything.
just a kind of opaque fact, a thing which exists to be not known

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ONE WEEK AWAY!!!
MEET US AT THE BALLPIT
Weāre so sorry that Night Vale cancelled their live reading, but we promise weāll make it up to you with⦠two extra hours in the ballpit!
Boston based drag king The Vampire LeSlut and cosplayer The Lonely Tapir put on a night of Tumblr memes at
Meet Me at the Ballpit: A Tumblr-themed Drag Show
Featuring the talent of Mike Hawk and Mako Bell, Vin U Endo, Delilah N Chain, Jean Sequins, Heather Rose, Ana Tomaton, Vaji Gante, Mx. Frankie Fine, Suspira Sanguine, Starri Knights and Cringelord!
so crazy story but I'm helping run this insane show and I also made all the posters lol
tiktok is down now, i guess you guys have to be my new dopamine source. dance you fools. jingle your heinous and sad bells for my amusement.
show me your sad balls
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A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:
We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally.Ā
A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblrās parent company) responded to a userās ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblrās LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt's response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as a matter of policy for a variety of reasonsāincluding the privacy of those involved, and the practicalities of moderating thousands of reports a day. The downside of this policy is that it is very easy for rumors and incorrect information about actions taken by our Trust & Safety team to spread unchecked. Given this, we want to clarify a few different pieces of this situation:
The reality of predstrogen's suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension.
Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events.
Last year, the "mature" and "sexual themes" community labels were erroneously applied to some users' posts. An outside team of contractors tasked with applying community labels to posts were responsible for this larger trend of mislabeling trans-related content. When our Trust & Safety team discovered this issue (thanks largely to reports from the community), we removed the contracted teamās ability to apply community labels and added more oversight to ensure it does not happen again. In the Staff post about this, LGBTQ+ staff pushed to be more transparent but were overruled by leadership. The termination of a contractor mentioned in the original ask response was for an unrelated incident which was incorrectly attributed to this case. We regret that the mislabeling ever happened, and the negative impact it has had on the trans community on Tumblr.Ā
Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and werenāt a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines.
When it comes to the experience of trans folks on Tumblr encountering transphobic content, and interacting with bigoted users, we understand and share your frustrations. Tumblrās policies, and Automatticās policies, are written to ensure freedom of speech and expression. We prohibit harassment as defined in our Community Guidelines, but we know that this policy falls short of protecting users from the wider scope of harmful speech often used against LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people.
Going forward, Tumblr is taking the following actions:
Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment.
Building more internal tooling for us as Staff to proactively identify and mitigate instances of harassment.
Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week.
Weāre sorry for how this all transpired, and weāre actively fighting to make our voices heard more and prevent something like this from happening again in the future. We know firsthand that having to deal with situations like this as a Tumblr user is difficult, particularly as a member of an already frequently targeted and harassed community. We know it will take time to regain your trust, and weāre going to put in the work to rebuild it.
We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Mattās (and Automatticās) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it.
We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all.
ā This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic.
when something cool happens but you cant say anything to anyone so youre just
What happened?
Im glad that this has reached many people who have signed NDAs

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First meta post back, fifty notes in just a few hours: how's everybody holding up today?
Anyway if you need a reminder it's super chill and easy to back up your blog and transfer it elsewhere š
I want to be very real for a moment (completely unheard of on this site but bear with me) - the fact that there was a transphobic contract moderator who was selling their moderation actions and none of us were told about this until a year later in an unrelated post about this week's CEO drama is absolutely chilling, and speaks volumes about the rot central to this platform that Automattic have refused to deal with appropriately.
The fact that there was no disclosure about something like this, nay, that this wasn't a major news story, is wild.
@david wouldn't do this to us (said with only the barest hint of irony)
I want to be very real for a moment (completely unheard of on this site but bear with me) - the fact that there was a transphobic contract moderator who was selling their moderation actions and none of us were told about this until a year later in an unrelated post about this week's CEO drama is absolutely chilling, and speaks volumes about the rot central to this platform that Automattic have refused to deal with appropriately.
The fact that there was no disclosure about something like this, nay, that this wasn't a major news story, is wild.
Mr. CEO turned off reblogs for this but I still want this post on my blog and I think more people should see it. Behold:
I think @pointless-achievements really said it all. I can't imagine how he'll come down unscathed from this fiasco.
Having to reblog from other folks because of the reblog blocks and deletions that have occurred: things are not looking great!

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Peoples' desire to burn the GƤvle goat isn't about them hating it. It's a "my son loved your drawing so much that he ate it" sort of a deal.
also the endless allure of arson
Oh yeah we definitely also love arson.