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#YEAH!!!! #f: jonas brothers #p: joe jonas #e: the tour #brasil tag

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#YEAH #f: jonas brothers #p: joe jonas #e: the tour #brasil tag

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#i don't even go here (sexual attraction) but. yeah. i get it. #HE'S UNREAL #can you imagine cheting on THIS man with some random married balding nobleman...... me either #but yeah he was all i had eyes for #sometimes i'd put down my phone and lean against the chair and just. shake my head. #he's absurd. #f: jonas brothers #p: joe jonas #e: the tour #t: crack #brasil tag #nsfk text #(in portuguese) #E EU SOUBE QUE TENTARAM PUXAR UM CORO DE 'LINDO TESÃO BONITO E GOSTOSÃO' NA PP #LOGO ANTES DE >LITTLE BIRD< #(ele realmente estava particularmente delicioso em little bird amamos um dilf!!)

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#GUESS WHERE I WAS EXACTLY ONE WEEK AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #WHAT A FUCKING AMAZING CONCERT #I SAW SO MANY OF MY FRIENDS!!!!!!!!! AND WE SAW OUR BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #AND WE PUT 45K PEOPLE ON ALLIANZ IN A GODDAMNED TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN 2024!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #f: jonas brothers #c: fans #e: the tour #brasil tag

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Hey so absolutely no one wants this AI partnership, but if it's going to happen despite that, what can users do other than use the "oh hopefully our partners honor this if you ask nicely so cross your fingers" toggle that's off by default to keep their stuff from being scraped? And if my blog is marked to prevent it, and someone who reblogs my art isn't, can my art then be scraped from that reblog? Because that defeats the entire purpose of marking my blog in the first place, and I'd just rather take my art elsewhere if sharing it means I'm feeding AI.

You're gonna want to send this to Support to get the official answer - I don't know exactly. But based on how it seems similar to the "don't index" setting, my read is that it will literally hide your content regardless of if it's a reblog or not.

#oh this makes me feel SO much better #like unironically #i'm still not happy about it obviously but it's a best case scenario tbh

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#genuinely feeling sick rn #idk

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Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

#i'm at the point in the grief of having to deal with the existence of genai that i'm just glad there's at least a fucking way to opt out #but the reblogging thing deeply concerns me #god i just want to back to the time before this crap existed #i just want it to be made fucking illegal #i just want to bash some skulls

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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. 

A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company) responded to a user’s ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr’s 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 reasons—including 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 team’s 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. 

Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren’t 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. Tumblr’s policies, and Automattic’s 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.

We’re sorry for how this all transpired, and we’re 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 we’re 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 Matt’s (and Automattic’s) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it.

We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all.

— This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic.

#hm #this seems great i guess #better than i'd ever expect from any other site tbh #but is the person who was the subject of the ask that started this all getting her blog back or

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can we replace the ceo with the person behind dashboard unfucker??

#i can't believe they're gone i'm gonna fucking murder someone #not saying who or how #(i haven't been here much lately bc despite my best efforts i'm following big brother brasil. again. but i just saw the note) #and this current owner was by far my favourite since david karp; this is so disappointing #i even checked cohost but it's BARREN #it can work for people who use tumblr primarily for the Vibes but i'm here for fandom stuff first and foremost #a social media with 1 (one) single post tagged as smallville simply Doesn't Work #tumblr already has barely enough comics content #mari talks

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Lula condemns Israel's killings in Gaza

During his stop in Egypt as part of his new African tour, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that the killings in Gaza were unjustifiable and denounced the United Nations' inability to solve armed conflicts as Israel's offensive against the terrorist group Hamas failed to comply with any of the global organization's decisions.

“The UN Security Council can do nothing about the situation in Israel and Gaza. The only thing that can be done is to ask for peace before the media, but it seems to me that Israel's premise is not to comply with any decision taken by the United Nations,” Lula said in Cairo, during a statement after meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdelfatah Al Sisi.

The Brazilian president paid a two-day visit to Egypt, after which he went to Ethiopia for the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa. Both Egypt and Ethiopia joined the BRICS group of emerging countries on Jan. 1.

Lula ratified Brazil's decision to support South Africa in the genocide complaint against Israel before the International Court of Justice. “Brazil was a country that strongly condemned Hamas in the attack on Israel and the kidnapping of hundreds of people. And we condemned them and qualified the act as a terrorist act. But there is no explanation for Israel's behavior, under the pretext of defeating Hamas, killing women and children, something that has never been seen in any war that I know of,” Lula argued while calling on his Egyptian colleague to support Brazil's initiative to reform multilateral institutions such as the UN Security Council.

Continue reading.

#i feel so fucking useless seeing this kind of thing #not the individual kind of useless most people on here seem to talk about irt the palestinian genocide #but like. us as a whole #my entire country. the entire global south. #it doesn't matter what we do even at the highest level #the usa (and those it protects bc it caters to their interests) is just gonna do whatever it wants and fuck everyone else in the process #as fucking always #tag later

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“Along the way we have even lost the right to call ourselves Americans, although the Haitians and the Cubans appeared in history as new people a century befire the Mayflower pilgrims settled on the Plymouth coast. For the world today, America is just the United States; the region we inhabit is a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity.”

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Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (via dasakuryo)

#THIS QUOTE SHAKES ME TO MY CORE EVERY TIME#Latin American ARE AMERICANS#America is a CONTINENT not a country#América#Latin Americans are mocked and laughed at for calling ourselves WHAT WE ARE BY MERELY LIVING IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT#You all USamericans don’t have exclusive ownership over the demonym of an entire CONTINENT

(via desiree-rodriguez)

#anyway

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i once saw a tv ad for captain america: the winter soldier where they digitally altered a bunch of scenes so that his shield would have the colours of the flags from several different american countries and talked about him repping the continent's name

so i promise you you're wrong

"usamerican" has to be one of the most stupid names you guys keep trying to make happen. "But there's other people in the americas" I promise you the average Peruvian or Canadian is not calling themselves American. Like I promise you that. There's only one country on earth with the word "america" in its official name

#can estadunidenses from the country of estados unidos PLEASE shut the fuck up #tag later

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#found this article while looking for something else and god.......... i love them.................. #mr dc comics pls............ pls gimme the batmarriage.................. #f: dc #g: dc comics #u: main dc earth #r: batcat #p: selina kyle #t: talk post

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#important #c: palestine #c: israel #t: comic #t: talk post #long post for ts

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Please reblog if you can, I'd like to get as many different results as possible!

#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #c: tumblr #t: polls

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This is so funny to me because imagine being the person in the 16th century who was using this and you chuck it out when it breaks because it’s rubbish now - and 500 years later, you’re just seeing a bunch of people in lab coats using strange machinery to determine that yep you definitely pissed in this thing. And everyone is SUPER excited about it for some reason.

#LUCY WORSLEY MY BEST FRIEND LUCY WORSLEY #p: lucy worsley #c: history #e: tudor era #e: early modern period

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Bucky Barnes and Natasha Romanoff in Thunderbolts #2

#do i trust these writers? not after their cap run #but she called him 'my love' so i'm cautiously optimistic #they just need to get the ball rolling #f: marvel #g: marvel comics #u: 616 #s: thunderbolts vol 5 #p: bucky barnes #p: natasha romanoff #r: buckynat