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Father uses sons’ drawings as inspiration for anime transformations

By: Thomas Romain (twitter | instagram | youtube | patreon)

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Oh wow

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/4/18126112/tumblr-porn-ban-verizon-ad-goals-sex-work-fandom

In November came the Tumblr app’s removal from the Apple Store. Speculation both inside and outside the platform’s community assumed this was the cause of the explicit content ban — a fear of being locked out of Apple’s precious walled garden, and an unwillingness to dedicate engineering resources to the task of creating a product that could adequately distinguish child pornography from other types of explicit content.

But a former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

(Reached for comment on this timeline, an Oath representative pointed me to the phrase, “Over the past several months and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be our community moving forward,” from D’Onofrio’s blog post.)

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THEY’VE BEEN PLANNING THIS FOR SIX MONTHS GUYS

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE APP STORE

IT’S NOT ABOUT CHILD PORN OR PORN BOTS

THIS WAS ALWAYS GOING TO HAPPEN

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In case Tumblr’s NSFW policy deletes this, I’ve posted it on my Twitter account “Raph16”.

When you find some good lewds

When you find some REALLY good lewds

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I’ve also posted this on my Twitter account labeled Raph16, in case Tumblr’ bs policy deletes it.

I’m seriously going to hell for this.

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ALERT TO ALL ANTHRO ARTISTS

the tag “fur-ry” (minus the dash) is among those in the site-side blacklist, and is why so much artwork and so many blogs are suddenly invisible from the search.

provided this isn’t a temporary measure, i strongly advise to remove the “fur-ry” tag and use stand-in tags such as “anthro” and “kemono”, since neither are affected. 

the New Xkit extension “Tag Replacer” is an easy way to swap your tags over, and you can change it back if this issue gets resolved!

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MYTH BUSTED!!!

ATTENTION

Thank you.

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I’m seriously going to hell for this.

#komi san wa komyushou desu #miss komi is bad at comminucation #komi san can't communicate #komi san has a communication disorder #miss komi #komi san #manga #meme

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Keeping our promise to be transparent about state-sponsored disinformation campaigns

Hey Tumblr,

This past March, we made you aware of steps we took to take down an Internet Research Agency (IRA) disinformation campaign operating on Tumblr in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. elections. The IRA is a Russian state-sponsored group that attempts to influence global political sentiment using Tumblr and other platforms. Our efforts helped indict 13 people who worked for the IRA.

We said at the time that we would be on the lookout for additional evidence of fake Tumblr accounts affiliated with state-sponsored disinformation campaigns.

In the days leading up to November 6, 2018, we were provided information by law enforcement authorities, including a list of Tumblr accounts allegedly tied to the IRA. We immediately initiated our own independent investigation and we have now identified a total of 112 accounts that we believe to be IRA-affiliated. These accounts appear to be relics of past IRA activity. None of the blogs contained any content related to the 2018 midterm elections, and all of the blogs were dormant since the 2016 election cycle.

Although these blogs posed no threat to the 2018 elections, consistent with our promise in March, we:

Immediately terminated these accounts and removed the original posts;

Left reblogs of posts from these accounts in place for transparency purposes;

Are notifying you if you liked, reblogged, replied to, or followed one of the accounts; and

Have added the accounts to our public record of usernames linked to state-sponsored disinformation campaigns.

U.S. intelligence officials and law enforcement continue to warn that we will see attempts at foreign influence in the future. We remain committed to closely monitoring for signs of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns and will continue to review any information made available to us.

There are also things you can do to help stop the spread of disinformation and propaganda.

Be aware that people want to manipulate the conversation. Knowing that disinformation and propaganda accounts are out there makes it harder for them to operate. The News Literacy Project has this handy checklist for spotting their tricks.

Be skeptical of things you read. Disinformation campaigns work because they know people don’t fact check. Look for reliable sources, and double-check that the source really says the same thing as the post. You can also check Snopes and Politifact. Both are award-winning resources and usually have the latest viral claim fact-checked on the front page. 

Correct the record. When you see people spreading misinformation—even unintentionally—politely say something in a reblog or reply. If it’s your friend, send them a message to let them know.

Most importantly, we’ll continue to keep our promise to be transparent with you.

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Blu-Ray Box Art from the Japanese Blu-Ray releases of Eureka seveN

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Dewey: “And here is the leader of the Ageha Squad, our beautiful goddess of war: Anemone!”

[Episode 37: Raise Your Hand]

More Anemone, as per request! I’ll be posting one more gif of her before I move on the the next request.

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Just thought you'd like to know. Tumblr staff is trying to get rid of porn bots and they are not handling it well. If you contact tumblr support they can help you get your blog back if it is gone. Just thought I'd be a helpful anon and spread the word. :p

Thanks for the info!

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So my tumblr account mysteriously got deleted last night and of course I filed a report to see what was up, given that I did nothing wrong that I could discern

This was Staff’s answer:

Why are random accounts just getting deleted? Why doesn’t tumblr, a website that RELIES on its userbase to function, not have better protection to prevent these things from happening to their userbase?

C’mon, Staff. Really??

Anyway, I’m glad to be back but please reblog this post if possible so people can be made aware of random blog deletions which aren’t their fault- and to contact Staff if this happens to themselves

Post made on the 16th of November, 2018

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I doubt many will see this but...

Looking around and finding out a bit more information, I have gotten a bit more insight into this Tumblr nuking issue.

The problem seems to be that Apple removed the Tumblr App from the Apple Store ( I asked my friend to verify this and it is in fact not on the Apple store but is still on the Android store ). Seems Apple did not like the amount of porn bots just spamming all over the place.

Tumblr tried to fix the problem which is probably the source of what happened on November 16th hence all the screen shots posted from people then. Both NSFW and SFW blogs have been getting terminated. This is not solely an attack on NSFW artists. This is Tumblr fucking up pretty bad ( pretty sure that is equally as bad but at least it isn’t an attack ).

From what it seems, if you marked your blog as NSFW, you were mostly ignored in this situation because you were already flagged as such so Tumblr didn’t need to do anything. Some NSFW artists may be caught in the crossfire because they didn’t mark their blogs as NSFW or have a NSFW blog linked to them. It seems you can message Tumblr support and get your blog back.

How accurate this is can be completely debatable as I don’t work with Apple or Tumblr staff but I don’t like to just jump on bandwagons without figuring things out first. I am also only saying this as someone who has never been caught in these crossfires despite the multiple times it has happened.

Again, this isn’t 100% true but it may help some people.

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*Fades to Black*

I call your Name~ [PATREON]

[RTENZO.NET - MY WEBSITE]

[MY PIXIV]   [MY TWITTER]

[MY HENTAI-FOUNDRY]

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https://twitter.com/SINccubi  - Fairy Used https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=23766544 - Used mostly for complete works https://www.patreon.com/SINccubi - Help pls (lol) https://picarto.tv/SINccubi - Frequently used https://ko-fi.com/sinccubi - still don’t know what to do with it-

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Angel on a pegasus/unicorn! A lot of people are warning NSFW Tumblr pages are being removed, so below are some other sites to follow me on! ( Twitter being the most active! )  Twitter: https://twitter.com/CyanCapsuleNSFW DA: https://www.deviantart.com/cyancapsule Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=8937865 FA: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/cyancapsule/ HF: http://www.hentai-foundry.com/user/CyanCapsule/profile Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CyanCapsule I’ve got the largest following here out of all my sites, so a big thank you to everyone for following me if I go down! <3 ;u;