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Santa is on strike due to global warming.  All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger.  Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.

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An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more. 

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again. 

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue. 

 Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole.  There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough. 

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind. 

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

 If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to. 

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise. 

Sincerely, 

The users of your website. 

@staff @support

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When James joined the program it was more because Albus asked him to than anything else. Sure what Scorpius was doing seemed like a great idea, but James was busy all the time and didn’t really wanna spare any for some shy first year, and he didn’t. James was paired with Alice Longbottom, infamous daddy’s girl and loud mouthed rebel. She didn’t really have a need for this mentor program thing. She just Joined because Neville had asked her to, which he came to deeply regret. 

They’d already met a few times  through their parents, but had never really connected over those short lived moments, but at Hogwarts they took a liking to eachother quickly. He didn’t at first understand campaigns such as #Freethenipple, because he grew up around women that no one dared disrespect, but she had no issue educating him. Alice got on well with Fred, Louis, Izzy and GG, a priority in James’s book and she wasn’t afraid of getting her hands a little dirty, aka she was a prank master. She also didn’t mind taking the heat, cause hey if she got caught doing a prank all of them were apart of then she obviously should’ve been sneakier.

James only mentored Alice for her first year, but they stayed friends long after that and became something more in her third year, friends with benefits. They’d been friends for so long and tended to break others hearts because of their lax with love, they figured sleeping with each other wouldn’t be a problem and wouldn’t hurt other people. It was actually a great arrangement until James started to expect things Alice wasn’t ready to give, things that bordered actually  being in a relationship. Eventually James started getting frustrated that these things were such a big deal for Alice. Was it such a bad thing he wanted more than sex?

Alice broke off their relationship and started to keep her distance, which meant keeping her distance from Fred and the gang as well and that upset their whole group. Louis was the one who helped James realize he’d fallen in love with Alice and at first he rejected the idea, but he came to realize it was true. Alice didn’t know what to do about that because she wasn’t in love with him, but she didn’t want to lose him as a friend. James just wanted her in his life however he could have her. Near the very end of that year all wounds were healed, but there was a very obvious scar on all of them. James didn’t completely get over Alice until well after his Hogwarts years and Alice did learn to love, but with another Wotter. Talk about awkward family dinners.

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Everyone who reblogs this will get the title of a book to read based on their bio/posts.

Everyone. I mean it.

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My Grand Plan -Kristin Stokes

Anabeth Chase {Talking}

You know the only gift my mom ever gave me, a hat that makes you invisible.You put it on and no one can see you. Seemed appropriate.

{Singing}

I’ve always been a smart girl Always made the grade, always got the gold star I’ve always been a smart girl But smart girl only gets a girl so far You win at every single game. You want a quest, they tell you tough. If you don’t go you’ll never know if you’ll ever be good enough.

{Chorus} My grand plan is that I will be remembered. My grand plan, just you wait and see. You better wise cause I’ll rise up. Bring on any challenge, And someday soon someone will notice me.

I’ve always been a tough girl. Always been the one not to run from a fight. Always been a tough girl,  ‘Cause most girls never win if they’re polite. So me I tend to stand my ground. I found I never can give in. It may not be my quest, but maybe it’s mine to win.

{Chorus}

When your stepmom treats you like some freak And your dad won’t give you the time of day And your mom won’t trust you with a quest So the best thing you can do is run awaaaaaaaay Run away ay aaay

But I have a plan and I will be remembered I will be great, just wait and see You better wise up cause I’ll rise up Bring on any challenge And one day soon I swear I don’t know how or when But I promise you I’ll never be invisible again SOMEONE WILL NOTICE... Meeeee

I’ve always been a smart girl.

#Percy Jackson #Lightning Thief Musicals #Percy Jackson Musicals #Anabeth #My Grand Plan #Lyrics

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