Loser conservatives hate their tax dollars being spent on things like health care and education but love paying for this mother’s imprisonment for completely rational behavior. Embarrassing country.
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror will be published on October 3 via Random House. It’s curated by filmmaker Jordan Peele, who also provides an introduction and serves as editor with John Joseph Adams.
It features short stories by Erin E. Adams, Violet Allen, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Maurice Broaddus, Chesya Burke, P. Djèlí Clark, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, N.K. Jemisin, Justin C. Key, L.D. Lewis, Nnedi Okorafor, Tochi Onyebuchi, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nicole D. Sconiers, Rion Amilcar Scott, Terence Taylor, and Cadwell Turnbull.
So @photomatt (aka the guy who runs the company that owns Tumblr) is doing a livestream right now, taking questions from users.
A user with epilepsy asked if something could be done to make sure that ads aren’t vibrant or strobing, because that’s a seizure risk.
Matt made some vague noises about looking into it, kind of mumbling and then full voice immediately said “you should maybe buy the no ads upgrade, or get someone to gift it to you.”
He suggested the user pay for basic accessibility, to make sure the site doesn’t give them seizures.
I shouldn’t need to explain why this is very very bad, especially in conjunction with that last post from @staff.
Tumblr is apparently running a $30,000,000 deficit, and reversing that is the clear priority of the ownership right now. The interests of users aren’t going to be important until or unless they find a way to monetize us.
I don’t really know how to get this out there, but ideally I want as many answers as possible so if you could rb this I’d be grateful! if you want to explain your answer please feel free
Being on this website is fun because you can absolutely tell when a blorbo clicks in someone’s brain. You’re scrolling, and suddenly out of nowhere there’s like 12 posts about the same character back to back reposted by the same person, and you just know “oh. They’re a permanent part of their psyche now.” and honestly it’s a vibe go off king
some people who definitely think “the curtains are just blue”: yeah gwen used to play with action figures, toys usually associated with boys, and she wears the same size shoes as this other dude, and she has a “protect trans kids” trans flag hanging above her window, and her dad has a trans pin in his coat, and her world literally turns pink-blue-white when she talks about her secret identity and never being able to be honest about a part of herself to people she loves, but that doesn’t MEAN she is canonically trans, because she never looked directly at the screen and said “i’m a transgender woman”! what are you even talking about?
