The (Not So) Great and Powerful Anon E. Mise

oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?

and we're still building them?

while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?

uh. okay then

Moreover, if you want to see more information about your own country's LGBT+ history, you could look it up and/or follow more of your countrymen instead of American bloggers, and you could make posts to share that information with others. It's true that other cultures don't get as much attention as America due to its cultural hegemony, and the stories from those cultures are worth telling. But that doesn't mean information about your own culture is stifled and hidden from you by those dastardly gay Americans posting about Pride lol, your dashboard is chosen by you. I know people get mad every time someone points this out, but learned helplessness isn't exclusive to America. Rotting in bed while passively scrolling is global. It's not imperialism that you won't use the same phone you scroll on 24/7 to look up anything useful about your own country and instead passively absorb information from the American bloggers you choose to follow. Honestly it's one thing for someone really informed about their country's history of LGBT+ rights to say "I wish more people outside of this country knew about this" (fair, valid!) and another to act like your own lack of knowledge is some evil plot. No one is responsible for your education but you (especially because the OP was from fucking New Zealand like...you're not in an authoritarian regime that suppresses this information lol).

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.