just saw a popular tumblr post where someone posted a picture of their husband saying he was missing and asked people to reblog to help find him. a later addition confirmed that the op was abusive and their husband wasn’t missing; he had simply left the op
it’s scary how easily some people on here can take advantage of others’ kindness and empathy and use it to enact harm on others. please be careful with ‘missing person’ posts
This. I always google and make my best effort to ensure myself that a) the missing person report is real and b) it isn’t solved. Social media is a great tool to magnify missing person reports, but not if fake ones are flooding it, drowning out the real ones.
If your main blog gets terminated, then all your sideblogs go, no matter if you are a member or an admin.
If you get warnings for your sideblog then only the sideblog gets terminated. EDIT: I have been told that if you get warnings for your side blog then your main gets terminated too.
Notes or no notes, if you have posted anything from the above category, it will be flagged.
It’s not limited only to the United States, it’s happening internationally.
If your edit is a part of a larger graphic and different form the original offending photo you’re probably safe.
It’s not limited to one fandom, everyone is being effected from Marvel, to Musicians, to WWE, EVERYONE.
Gifs are fine, only copyrighted images are under scrutiny.
Protective Measures:
The best option so far is to delete any photos you posted (POSTED, not reblogged).
Like I mentioned above it was limited to only paparazzi photos but now it’s rumoured to be extended to everything that was not posted by the celebrity themselves.
If you’re very attached to your edit, changing the post to “private” may help (but probably not for very long.)
You can also take a backup of your blog by going to tumblr.com/settings/blog/your url and clicking on Export at the bottom of the page.
@captainevanss has answered many asks on this, please go through her blog before sending another ask, she has answered every possible question there is.
Future Blogging:
If you post photos in future remember to save it as a new post and remove existing EXIF details before posting through third party apps (via @tessathompsson and @steven-rogers)
Feinstein: You’re a big, powerful man. Why didn’t you [gestures pushing motion]?
Crews: Senator, as a black man in America [sigh]…
Feinstein: Say it as it is. I think it’s important.
Crews: …you only have a few shots at success. You only have a few chances to make yourself a viable member of the community. I’m from Flint, Michigan. I have seen many many young black men who were provoked into violence, and they were imprisoned, or they were killed, and they’re not here. My wife for years prepared me. She said, “If you ever get goaded, if you ever get prodded, if you ever have anyone try to push you into any kind of situation, don’t do it. Don’t be violent.” And she trained me. I’ll be honest with you it was the strength of my wife who trained me and told me, “If this situation happens, let’s leave.” And the training worked because I did not go into my first reaction, I grabbed her hand, we left, but the next day I went right to the agency. I have texts, I have phone conversations, and I said, “This is unacceptable!” And I told them how -you know- I almost got violent, but I didn’t. And I said, “What are you going to do about this predator that you have roaming your hallways?” And -you know- I was told, “We are going to do everything in our power. We are going to handle this Terry. You’re right. It is unacceptable.” And then they disappeared. Nothing happened.
Look at the faces of the black men behind him it says it all.
This is real fucking infuriating. This shit isn’t funny. Fuck them and anyone who makes fun of Terry Crews speaking out and taking a stand.
for those who don’t know the context, this is Terry Crews testifying about being sexually assaulted by Adam Venit during a Senate hearing about a proposed bill called the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights. While I don’t like that Senator Feinstein said what she said, I think it opened the door for a great statement from Terry about WHY he didn’t fight back – since so many people respond to male victims with “oh well you’re bigger than your rapist, why didn’t you push him or her off of you? why didn’t you punch him or her? did you want it or something?” And they don’t listen. Maybe finally people will listen.
This shows that anyone can be a victim of sexual assault, even a tall, strong, hulking guy like Terry Crews. And I hope him coming forward with his accusations convinces other victims to realize that it being a victim isn’t something to be ashamed of and to take down their attackers, and push the justice system to FINALLY take male rape and assault seriously.
I think she asked him the question precisely for that
Yeah, Dianne Feinstein is someone who has never backed down on this issue. She wanted to give Terry Crews the space to answer the question in a way that I think he’s tried to answer in other forums but has been unable to do. She wasn’t trying to minimize his experience as a male victim of sexual assault; she was trying to give him the opening to explain that, no, it’s just not possible to fight back when someone in a position of power threatens you. That’s a reality that is frightening for every woman, but as man conditioned to believe that passivity is weakness? I can’t even imagine the emotional and psychological trauma Terry suffered on top of the actual fact of the assault and all that went with it.
But this isn’t Dianne Feinstein’s story, which is why she said the second part of her statement (”Say it as it is.”). Terry Crews needed the opportunity to tell Congress and the world that sexual assault is not a problem confined to one gender, one race, one body type. It’s something that can happen to anyone, and fighting back is not always the option. He was forced to endure and to remain silent because otherwise, every door in Hollywood would have been shut to him.
Now he can speak out. Now he can be an agent of change. And I am so proud that he did make the decision to speak out, because he’s not the stereotypical victim. He’s living proof that this social ill affects all of us.
Seeing Terry Crews open up and press against this issue within the film industry is historic. Its obvious that the world is more than ready to back him and support him. I hope the scum is locked up for sexually assaulting Terry, and may this show that issues arent exclusive to one group, but can affect all
This whole “trust Tumblr blindly” thing is eventually going to kill someone, as I became pointedly aware of on one occasion I was making fun of how poorly a particular bleach-based drain declogger was working on my sink and got a chorus of really dangerously misinformed people telling me to pour vinegar in after it because all cute little cool kid diy home care blogs they’re following talk about vinegar like it it’s the big secret the cleaning companies don’t want you to know.
And I cringed knowing that someday, some Well Actually expert who read a blog article once is going to give that advice to someone who unfortunately didn’t take high school chemistry and isn’t aware that MIXING VINEGAR AND BLEACH MAKES CHLORINE GAS.
holy fucking jesus tits reblog to save a life
OK I actually got a full on A* for GCSE Chemistry and if I ever knew this I’ve forgotten it. Seriously reblog this.
Also don’t use bleach to clean up if your cat pees outside the littlerbox (or urine in general for that matter, species doesn’t really matter here I think). I did that in a small space and it took me a bit of coughing and wheezing and wanting to tear my eyes out before I went, “wait, fuck, I just gassed myself”.
Be aware of the chemicals you are using even if they are natural cleaners.
This post is great for multiple reasons but there’s this one bit that bothers the hell out of me. It mentions that Nazism is socialism. This is false. The author of this post equates social welfare with socialism. This is not the case. Socialism is worker control of the means of production. That is not a policy Nazis support. Nazis are not socialists.
National socialism refers to the actual name of the style of government the Nazi’s used. Nazis had a habit of pretending to be socialists or used some socialist economic policies in order to gain support and disguise what they were actually working towards.
It really was “socialism for who we decide deserves it”, and was closely tied to nationalism. That isn’t actual socialism at all. The confusion about this was deliberate and leads people into thinking nazis were socialists, and that “national socialism” means socialism. Yonatan should have made that clear.
the term Nazi is actually a slang term for National Socialist. in Germany they weren’t the Nazi party, they were the National Socialist Party. Born out of shortening National to Nati- and imitating a German accent, it sounded like Nazi, which went from soldier shorthand to the popular term. Nazis did not call themselves Nazis, they called themselves Nationalists.
Bayard Rustin was an openly gay Black man who was Martin Luther King’s right hand man. He planned the Million Man March and was subject to scrutiny for his sexuality and deemed a “deviant” and “pervert”.
Bayard Rustin can be found in nearly every picture of MLK yet he has undoubtedly been erased from history. We have to fix that.
Well then, let’s bring that name back.
Bayard Rustin, openly gay, human rights activist, proud black man.
(the guy on the left in case you wondered)
Yeah he was literally the guy who was the head of planning the March on Washington.
If you want to learn more about him, there’s a great documentary on him called Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
I did a research project on him, Ella Baker, Claudette Colvin and Stokely Carmichael comparing their contributions to the Civil Rights Movement to the lack of recognition and misrepresentation they received in commonly used high school American History textbooks. All of these people played major roles in the Civil Rights Movement—almost on par with MLK—yet they go largely unnoticed or unfairly pushed aside not only during their time, but even now in classes on American History.
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