errlygirl:

fromacomrade:

More Americans than ever before have no safety net in terms of savings at all, and are less than a couple months of bills away from being homeless if something unexpected occurred that prevented an income. The myth that every homeless person is there because of being a bad or lazy person is so profoundly off base and functions more as a defensive coping mechanism of the aforementioned American who is just an few misteps themselves away from being that woman or man living in their car or sleeping under a bridge.

yayroos:

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

• Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
• Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
• Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
• Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

• Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
• Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
• Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
• Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
• Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

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i just went to a new browser and searched for my missharpersworld URL and it is no longer visible - it has been wiped.  it no longer exists as a url.  tumblr has wiped my blog from existence on the web.  i can see it in the browser that i’m logged into tumblr in - of course - it is visible to ME - but otherwise the blog doesn’t exist on the web. basically we can’t be found or followed.  i went on the SFW backup blog i made to see if i could find my blog to follow it and it is impossible.  basically this blog has cased to exist on tumblr to anyone other than those who already follow or see it.  who knows on the 17th it may case to exist to everyone in total.  

For people hearing about the Unconstitutional ACA Ruling from Texas - please take this statement to heart and use this last day 12/15/18 to sign up if you need to:   Here’s the important thing from @CMSgovPress: “The recent federal court decision is still moving through the courts, and the exchanges are still open for business and we will continue with open enrollment. There is no impact to current coverage or coverage in a 2019 plan.” 

.@ASlavitt, Fmr CMS administrator tells @CNBC tonight, “This feels like picking a scab the American public wants healed.” “The most important thing is nothing changes for consumers,” right now he said. “This (case) is to going to go on and likely drag on for a couple of years.”

lord-vae:

when the DM rolls their dice quietly, goes “hm,” and then continues like nothing happened:

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