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I've survived my first day on Tumblr

Achievements:

Don't shoot! I'm friendly!: Prove you're not a bot

AI dismemberment: Disable algorithm settings

Friends?: Gained a mutual

I recognize you: Follow someone you know from r/Tumblr

MY EYES!: Change the site palette

Great Idea: Reblog a post

They love me: Have a post reblogged

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It's not to this extent that we are shot at when we want to sleep. I swear to you that I am not lying. The room we are living in was shot at. Why is it like this, my friends?

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Get. Onto. Your. Representatives.

(And romance fans / writers? THIS MEANS YOU.)

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Idk I just have no patience for trans men/masculine people who refuse to acknowledge transmisogyny. Like. The worst experience I ever had with transphobia was when I was mistaken for a trans women. In a culinary program, I was cutting bell peppers, and one of the other students, a really big dude in a student leadership position, walks in and accusatory goes "so are you trying to be a woman, or something?" And I'm like. Well I'm trying to small dice these peppers. And I tell him I'm not a she and he says something to the effect of "Yeah I know that much." He makes some comment abt how whatever I'm doing doesn't make sense and he doesn't get it and when I tell him he doesn't have to, that he just has to respect it, he says "I don't have to do shit!" And gets real mad! Like actual threats mad! Tells me he could bash my skull in and to meet him outside for a fight and yeah it was fucking scary! The entire interaction I'm reminding myself that I'm the one currently holding a knife, if he tries anything.

Fast forward a few days later and my period is kicking my ass. Just absolutely destroying me. I'm in the dish pit, and I am visibly struggling, I'm nauseous, I'm in pain and bracing myself against walls. I'm not walking straight. And the same student leadership guy who was so aggressive with me when he thought I was transfem?

He tells me I look like I'm going to pass out. He says it's obvious I'm in pain, I shouldn't be in class, I can go sit down and if nobody can replace me he'll do the dishes himself.

Like. Do you get it yet. It's not just that he felt comfortable openly threatening me in a room full of other people when he thought I was a trans woman. It's that he did a complete 180 and was not only willing to support me, but actually pick up my slack once he knew I wasn't "that kind" of transgender. As soon as one of our classmates confirmed to him that I wasn't the wrong type of trans person I suddenly became someone who actually deserved care and compassion in his eyes. The "bigots think we're all the same and hate all of is equally" rhetoric isn't fucking true. It's just peddled to deny the privilege we have over other members of our community so it's easier to ignore how inhospitable supposedly trans-centric spaces are for TMA people.

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its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being

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Any plan for combating CSA is going to have to reckon with the fact that teenagers are often horny and feel a desire to explore and express their sexuality and if they don't have a safe avenue for that which doesn't involve interacting with adult predators they will find an unsafe one which does

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anyway in the hopes that i can save just one person from living the horror of my 20s: if you have a friend that seems a little too invested in callouts i hope you can get out of there safely

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Everyone loves to bring up The Baby is You until out of nowhere it becomes relevant again and it's suddenly like this has never happened before. Fake Fans

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I know people think that with the YouTube age verification thing, there's nowhere else to go and we're just...fucked forever now.

(which makes sense honestly, I'm having a bit of a panic attack at the moment)

Here's the thing though, it's not over. WE'RE NOT DOOMED.

I remember a couple years ago when Twitter got taken over and everyone was scrambling to find a replacement. There was a real fear that none of them were big enough to compete.

Fast forward to now, we have Bluesky. And at the time, I heard people saying "oh it's too small, it's too niche", but it's grown so much since then! Why? Because people didn't just resign themselves to Twitter when it went to shit, TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE packed up and went somewhere better.

I don't have a crystal ball, I can't predict the future, but if the enshittification of YouTube keeps up, I have a feeling that an alternative is going to pop up sometime in the future.

Obviously we need to keep the pressure on YouTube. Use the tactics that we've been using on Mastercard and Visa. Let our opposition to the Age ID Requirement be known by submitting feedback, calling, emailing, etc. We have to SWAMP THEM with complaints, make their lives that much more difficult until they let up.

And I also want people to know that we're not screwed yet.

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poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the "reblog things forever" website

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i know it's hard. but i so firmly believe the strongest antidote to loneliness is reaching out first. and continuing to reach out. again and again and again. excise any scrap of shame you hold about being the person who texts first or pitches the plan or asks to get lunch. everyone is tired and busy and struggling. and afraid of feeling unwanted and unimportant. don't let the people you love feel that way. reach out first. don't be a ghost in your own life.

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there are people with genders you will never comprehend and people fucking in ways you will never understand and people making art you just don't get and that shit RULES