Have a Slimey Day!

Despite the fancy survey, changes to the UI and TOS reveal we’re getting the service in the future whether we want it or not. Obviously, Post+ is a terrible idea that is trying to bank revenue on user content. Unlike patreon or onlyfans, tumblr’s primary focus is on FAN content. The legality of this is NOT in the users favor and as the new tumblr TOS states, said users will be entirely liable for whatever legal matters arise.

SO WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Besides filling out the survey, it’s time to show tumblr we mean business and show our displeasure by hitting them where it hurts.

Ad revenue.

We’re proposing a 24 hour log off as phase one of this protest.

WHEN IS THE PROTEST?

AUGUST 6th, 2021        12 am Eastern Time (US)          5 am Greenwich Mean Time          6 am Central European Time          8 am Moscow Standard Time          1 pm Australian Western Time          2 pm Japan Standard Time          3:30 pm Australian Central Time          4 pm Australian Eastern Time AUGUST 5th, 2021          11 pm Mountain Time (US)            9 pm Pacific Time (US)

THE END TIME IS 24 HOURS FROM START TIME!!!

So no posting, no queues, no likes, and no reblogs!

WHAT IF I CAN’T/WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Like this post and share it AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE. Use the hashtags #tumblrlogoff2021 or #postplusprotest on ANY and ALL social media.

WILL THIS WORK?

So I just want to say, for the record, the time of the corona virus pandemic was not a time when america came together.

This was a time when people hoarded toilet paper and sanitizing supplies either for themselves or to sell at absurd prices to the desperate people who didn’t get to the store soon enough during the shortages

This was a time when scared parents were sending their kids to finish school in the spring in plastic trash bags because they couldn’t think of any other way to possibly keep their families safe

This was a time when grocery store and retail and service workers were forced to keep working whether they wanted to risk their health or not because they couldn’t make rent otherwise and the people with enough privilege to have remote jobs tried to repay them with applause instead of fair wages

This was a time when nurses had the hold the hands of multiple dying people every day as their families watched their loved ones die over a video call because the hospital couldn’t risk having visitors

This was a time when city governments had to handle so many eviction hearings that they rented out convention centers and called in the national guard instead of doing a rent freeze to stop predatory landlords

This was a time when racism and police brutality were so unbearably horrible that people protested in the streets for months even though there was a god damn pandemic that our federal government wasn’t doing shit to stop and the cops were so mad that they were being asked to stop beating up black people that they were beating up everyone

This was a time when schools being forced to reopen in the fall or lose their federal funding had to draft templates for letters if a teacher or a staff person or a fucking child died from exposure to corona at school

This was a time when the president of the United states demanded that the cdc stop releasing data about all the people who were dying because of the warnings he ignored for months were making him look bad

This was a time when some state governments didn’t mandate masks and forced businesses to reopen because they didn’t want to pay unemployment to people trying to stay safe at home anymore

This was a time when Jeff Bezos was on track to be a fucking trillionare because everyone was ordering things on amazon instead of going to the store and the people he worked to death to get it didn’t see a single cent of it

This was a time when instead of providing homeless people with housing, we painted boxes on the ground to show homeless people how far away the had to be on the street to maintain social distancing

We did not come together to make cloth masks. Cloth masks represent nothing less than the absolute and utter failure of a nation’s government to inform and protect its citizens

This was not a time when we came together. This was a time when we survived, and not all of us made it.

This was a time when people casually talked about how many human lives the economy was worth without considering the evil that had just come out of their mouths.

This was a time when thousands of us died for profit and the ego of a cheating narcissists con man who scammed his way into the white house

This was a time that we survived. Most of us tried to do the right thing, stay home, limit trips to the store and socializing, wear a mask. And still, so many of us were lost. Thousands every day.

But that wasn’t a good enough reason for some people, for those among us who were too selfish to recognize the responsibilities we have toward one another as human beings.

This was not a time that we came together

This was a time that we survived

Not all of us made it

Conform to sex-based or gender-based stereotypes because it’s easier

Are gate-keeped from being “actually non-binary” because they don’t present “androgynous enough”

Present more femininely

Present more masculinly

Present as your birth sex because it’s easier

Don’t understand their gender either or lack the words to explain it

Have mental disabilities / disorders which cause a lot of struggles

Must have the energy to get up everyday and present the way they feel because otherwise they’ll feel shitty all day and have no energy for anything else

Don’t know if they can call themselves transgender because it always feels like they’re starting a fight or they’re not trans enough

Go by their birth name

Use an average name over their birth name

Choose not average names names like “Twig / Pebble / Stick / etc”

Use names of characters they kin as their name

Don’t know what the hell to call their sexuality

Use neopronouns because they don’t have gender-neutral pronouns in their language

Use neopronouns because they and its and he and she just don’t feel right

Gender isn’t well known

Don’t know if they experience dysphoria and say they know it’s written to be a disorder and they don’t want to self-diagnose

Know they experience dusphoria despite it being a disorder

Are scared to say they don’t know if they have dysphoria because they don’t want to get yelled at

Don’t exactly know what dysphoria feels like because they don’t feel it in suckish extremities that others do and describe

Don’t talk about their dysphoria because it’s not well understood about their gender and how dysphoria works with them and it’s different for everyone and it’s just exhausting

Feel gender is a private matter and will fill out their assigned gender on papers because they don’t feel everyone needs to know

Don’t remember note their gender as something that makes them oppressed because they face many types of oppression

Subtly do things that note their gender, whether it’s making bracelets with the flag, or wearing specific shoes for those who’s gender varies, etc etc

Don’t have the wardrobe to present how they want to

Don’t have the money to present how they want to (including money for haircuts!!)

Experience hair dysphoria but don’t say it out loud because it seems like such an “easy fix” but there’s reasons why you can’t get your hair styled the way you want

Are out to their parents

Aren’t out to their parents

Have marginalized genders

Use non-binary as an umbrella term

Use non-binary as a specific term

Are told “oh you’re probably x” when you describe your gender but you know you aren’t x because some part just doesn’t fit right and it’s hard to put it into words

Need someone to help them figure out the right term

Align mostly but not fully with their assigned gender at birth

Don’t know what they are

Do know what they are

Are confused

Are not confused

Actually read this whole thing / liked / reblogged it

seeing stuff like this is so upsetting because these terms were well known and widespread in the ace community but because of exclusionists many people stopped using terms like this because they felt uncomfortable and unsafe.

i loved these terms when i was in highschool, i loved the feeling of community, but i lost that because i didn’t feel comfortable openly and proudly calling myself asexual.