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1. If you are trying to figure out what happened on Tumblr (or what the heck it is):
Tumblr Ban On All Adult Content to make the Internet Safer Just Made Things More Dangerous
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The Onion of course chimes in and makes fun of it
Tumblrs decision to ban adult content users -- results in them looking elsewhere
( Read more... )
Eh, I agree with the Onion. There's other more legitimate places to find it -- such as Amazon.
Also, reminds me a little bit of the Battle Over James Joyce's Ulysess -- which is actually the whole reason I got obsessed with reading Ulysess. By the way, Slaughter House Five was also banned for similar reasons. I read both -- people over-reacted.
We live in a sex-obsessed society, that has odd views about the human body and bodily functions.
[ETA - an even better link via wendelah1.]
Tumblr Porn Bloggers Flock to Dreamwidth and Pillowfort
Eh, I take exception to the word "porn" in the title, it's really just NC-17 or NSFW content.
The bit in bold is why I'm here and not elsewhere. I don't like my content being regulated or used by evil marketing people. Also I like privacy and control over it. Once a platform takes that away from me...I disappear from it and don't use it that much. LJ took control of my content away from me completely -- I got pissed off, came here and deleted that journal. Ash Holes.
PillowFort...I'm sort of taking a wait and see attitude with. I learned to do that after trying Tumblr, Blogger, and Imzy.
Also they didn't mention Fanfic.net which sort of did it first, and the loss of GeoCities along with various voy and yahoo platforms -- resulting in Ao3. People were hunting places to put up their fanfic and art that was safe and private to share with people in the community.
2. Dirty John
Hmmm...it got more interesting. Deborah and her kids have just figured out the charming man she married is...well, not what she thought. Actually the kids have been on to him since the beginning.
My difficulty with it? None of these people are likable or remotely sympathetic. I think they deserve each other.
3. Heard a sermon this morning about not falling into the trap of thinking the internet provides you with a real connection with others. Because this can lead to isolation and loniliness.
Here's the thing -- I felt just as lonely before the internet arrived. It hasn't changed that any.
Do miss letters though -- although technically, I am still writing them -- just to a far broader and ever-changing audience.
( Read more... )
What hit me about my church, and the society I live in -- is the times aren't quite as dark as people think.
3. Which brings me too...the things that have changed in the past ten years.
* I was talking to my Dad about this the other day...
( Read more... )
* At church...when I first joined in 2009...we had a White Heterosexual Male Sr. Minister and a gay, Junior Minister Religious Life Instructor...with a female intern. Most of the congregation was heterosexual, although there were a few gays and lesbians around. And a handful of African-Americans, but not many.
Now in 2018, most of the congregation is LGBTQA, or a high percentage. There are lay-leaders who are.
A higher percentage of POC, and the Sr. Minister is female, the Religious Life is female, the Interim is a Lesbian, and the intern is female.
An African-American Broadway Singer, who is starring in Waitress on Broadway, sang Bob Dylan's The Times They Are Changing...and I thought, they definitely are. I see it everywhere.
* Films -- there have been more POC high quality films dealing directly with race than ever before.
On Television -- the same. The casts of almost all the television shows are racially and sexually diversified. Just look at the Connors. Murphy Brown is weirdly behind the times.
I was listening to Jay and Miles Review the X-men, and was struck by a couple of things. First of all, Jay (formerly Rachel) has recently come out as trans-male. Transgender for folks who don't get it -- and I keep trying to explain to co-workers, until I decided to give up, is when your spirit doesn't fit your body. Or somewhere along the line the hormones/etc got it wrong. Imagine if you will what it would be like to be feminine but in a masculine form? OR vice versa? Add to this that gender in of itself is a spectrum and the traditional views no longer apply. What a lot of people don't get -- is we all have male and female chromosomes...but some have more of one than another, and some don't...and it varies. We tend to judge people who aren't like us, don't think like us, don't have the same makeup we do and this can lead to a lot of pain and suffering for everyone involved.
It's hard to understand -- for a lot of folks. Because you sort of have to knock your ego and brain into new territory. What I'm finding reassuring is our media is putting out so much positive content that is attempting to explain it. Content that used to only be relegated to fandom or fanfiction, is now out there in the mainstream. That's amazing.
Commercials and mainstream shows, such as the Connors, have transgender characters. Heck, General Hospital introduced a transgender doctor for the first time ever.
This gives me hope. As do the lyrics of Dylan's timeless song "The Times They Are A-Changing".
Tumblr Ban On All Adult Content to make the Internet Safer Just Made Things More Dangerous
( Read more... )
The Onion of course chimes in and makes fun of it
Tumblrs decision to ban adult content users -- results in them looking elsewhere
( Read more... )
Eh, I agree with the Onion. There's other more legitimate places to find it -- such as Amazon.
Also, reminds me a little bit of the Battle Over James Joyce's Ulysess -- which is actually the whole reason I got obsessed with reading Ulysess. By the way, Slaughter House Five was also banned for similar reasons. I read both -- people over-reacted.
We live in a sex-obsessed society, that has odd views about the human body and bodily functions.
[ETA - an even better link via wendelah1.]
Tumblr Porn Bloggers Flock to Dreamwidth and Pillowfort
Eh, I take exception to the word "porn" in the title, it's really just NC-17 or NSFW content.
Sexual content has always been a part of fandom communities online, from LiveJournal to Tumblr. These communities have a history of abandoning platforms that don’t support the free expression of adult material. It was LiveJournal’s crackdown on NSFW material back in 2007 that broke many users' trust in the site and initiated the mass migration to Tumblr, along with the creation of fandom sites like An Archive of Our Own. Now Tumblr’s facing its own porn-related exodus, because NSFW content appears to be at odds with its business goals.
For Baritz, the experience has been head-spinning. Pillowfort is still in beta, and this situation has become a huge test for the site.
If anyone understands what Baritz has been going through, it’s Denise Paolucci. As the co-founder of Dreamwidth, a web 1.0-style blogging platform that shares Pillowfort's user-first philosophy, she has seen a similar spike on her site this week. Dreamwidth is more established—it has existed since 2008 and has 53,595 active users (and 3,453,932 total accounts)—but traffic to the site also has surged by a factor of 10, she says. Many Tumblr users are tweeting about their plans to migrate to both Dreamwidth and Pillowfort.
Both sites adhere to an anti-advertising, anti-VC funding, anti-corporate model that is focused on user privacy, control, and freedom. That's what makes them such appealing options to many disaffected Tumblr bloggers, but the challenges they face underscore why the dream of an independent web is so hard to achieve, even when there's demand.
The bit in bold is why I'm here and not elsewhere. I don't like my content being regulated or used by evil marketing people. Also I like privacy and control over it. Once a platform takes that away from me...I disappear from it and don't use it that much. LJ took control of my content away from me completely -- I got pissed off, came here and deleted that journal. Ash Holes.
PillowFort...I'm sort of taking a wait and see attitude with. I learned to do that after trying Tumblr, Blogger, and Imzy.
Also they didn't mention Fanfic.net which sort of did it first, and the loss of GeoCities along with various voy and yahoo platforms -- resulting in Ao3. People were hunting places to put up their fanfic and art that was safe and private to share with people in the community.
2. Dirty John
Hmmm...it got more interesting. Deborah and her kids have just figured out the charming man she married is...well, not what she thought. Actually the kids have been on to him since the beginning.
My difficulty with it? None of these people are likable or remotely sympathetic. I think they deserve each other.
3. Heard a sermon this morning about not falling into the trap of thinking the internet provides you with a real connection with others. Because this can lead to isolation and loniliness.
Here's the thing -- I felt just as lonely before the internet arrived. It hasn't changed that any.
Do miss letters though -- although technically, I am still writing them -- just to a far broader and ever-changing audience.
( Read more... )
What hit me about my church, and the society I live in -- is the times aren't quite as dark as people think.
3. Which brings me too...the things that have changed in the past ten years.
* I was talking to my Dad about this the other day...
( Read more... )
* At church...when I first joined in 2009...we had a White Heterosexual Male Sr. Minister and a gay, Junior Minister Religious Life Instructor...with a female intern. Most of the congregation was heterosexual, although there were a few gays and lesbians around. And a handful of African-Americans, but not many.
Now in 2018, most of the congregation is LGBTQA, or a high percentage. There are lay-leaders who are.
A higher percentage of POC, and the Sr. Minister is female, the Religious Life is female, the Interim is a Lesbian, and the intern is female.
An African-American Broadway Singer, who is starring in Waitress on Broadway, sang Bob Dylan's The Times They Are Changing...and I thought, they definitely are. I see it everywhere.
* Films -- there have been more POC high quality films dealing directly with race than ever before.
On Television -- the same. The casts of almost all the television shows are racially and sexually diversified. Just look at the Connors. Murphy Brown is weirdly behind the times.
I was listening to Jay and Miles Review the X-men, and was struck by a couple of things. First of all, Jay (formerly Rachel) has recently come out as trans-male. Transgender for folks who don't get it -- and I keep trying to explain to co-workers, until I decided to give up, is when your spirit doesn't fit your body. Or somewhere along the line the hormones/etc got it wrong. Imagine if you will what it would be like to be feminine but in a masculine form? OR vice versa? Add to this that gender in of itself is a spectrum and the traditional views no longer apply. What a lot of people don't get -- is we all have male and female chromosomes...but some have more of one than another, and some don't...and it varies. We tend to judge people who aren't like us, don't think like us, don't have the same makeup we do and this can lead to a lot of pain and suffering for everyone involved.
It's hard to understand -- for a lot of folks. Because you sort of have to knock your ego and brain into new territory. What I'm finding reassuring is our media is putting out so much positive content that is attempting to explain it. Content that used to only be relegated to fandom or fanfiction, is now out there in the mainstream. That's amazing.
Commercials and mainstream shows, such as the Connors, have transgender characters. Heck, General Hospital introduced a transgender doctor for the first time ever.
This gives me hope. As do the lyrics of Dylan's timeless song "The Times They Are A-Changing".