December 17th – a rescue plan

honedperfection:

Some good news, I’ve been talking to two developers now and got them working together, we just had a meeting with the guys behind an existing large (millions of users) site similar to Tumblr, with a vibrant and open-minded community, and more importantly, it has open-minded owners who believe in free speech. They think we can get something done here to rescue the whole community.

I’m not allowed to reveal the site name yet. I can tell you it’s mainstream, open to everyone, open-minded and welcoming. (It’s not WordPress or any site owned by Facebook or Twitter. It’s not Pillowfort, that’s in closed beta. It’s not Ello, that’s mainly for artists. It’s not kinkspace or fetlife, those are too specialist. It’s not jux, that seems to be closed. It’s not Soup, that seems still in development and too small.)

One of the reasons for delaying the announcement for next few days is they don’t want a “land grab” where people take the names of current popular Tumblr users over there (cyber squatting). So they are looking at ways for existing Tumblr users to keep the same names on the new site.

More info over the days to come.

The plan is, broadly:

1. By December 9th, announcement of the new site and how to secure your username there

2. By December 10th, an online tool for bloggers to copy their existing content to the new site automatically, with the same tags and captions.

3. Bloggers will need to copy their content across between December 10th and December 17th if they want to use the automatic tool.

4. My understanding is that after December 17th there will be no public access to any “flagged” posts on Tumblr, but the original poster will still be able to see the flagged post (for a short time at least). Therefore, the original poster may still be able to manually download a post to their own PC or phone, after December 17th, and manually upload it to the other site. But if you have lots of posts that will take a long time, it will be better to use the automatic tool before December 17th.

Please understand that these dates are approximate and may change for technical or other reasons.

There may be a few rough edges or not so perfect looking site design on the transfer tool. Everyone is doing their best. The main goal here is to help as many people as possible preserve access to their content, in the short space of time Tumblr has allowed us, and preserve as much as possible of the Tumblr community spirit somewhere new.

The new site will cater for photo, GIF, text and html posts. It will not offer video and audio posts, due to cost reasons – maybe in future, but for now you will need to preserve video and audio content yourself in some other place.

If your Tumblr blog has a mixture of original content and reblogs, or all reblogs, all of that can be copied over to the new site. Reblogs will become “your” original content if nobody else posted them yet, otherwise they will be shown as reblogs. The devs are looking at ways to preserve attribution of reblogs back to the original Tumblr poster, if that person also moves to the new site.

Important: your Likes cannot be copied from Tumblr to the new site. You will have to go find the same posts again on the new site, and like them afresh.

(Similarly, existing reblog comments, asks, messages and other user interaction on Tumblr cannot be copied to the new site – that’s just too much to do, in the short time available.)

If you want to preserve any of your existing Liked posts on Tumblr, you will need to either: (1) download the post to your own PC, or: (2A) reblog it now to your own Tumblr blog, and then (2B) use the automatic tool, before December 17th, to move your whole Tumblr blog across to the new site.

If you have Liked a lot of posts here on Tumblr, the gridllr.com webapp should be able to help you do steps 1 and 2A quickly, I mean download or reblog.

(Someone complained to me today about the appearance of Gridllr on a phone. It’s best to use Gridllr on a PC, Mac or Tablet with a large screen.)

If you have liked a post here on Tumblr and the original poster decides to delete it, or even to delete their entire blog, some time before December 17th, then that post will be permanently lost. So if you want to be sure to preserve any of your Liked posts, you should best download or reblog as soon as possible. If it’s reblogged to your own blog it is safe from deletion, at least for next few days.

Obviously, you will lose access, after December 17th, to all past posts you have liked, if Tumblr has flagged them as NSFW. Again, the steps (1), or (2A) and (2B) covered above will be the only way to hold on to these posts.

I don’t know if this is legit (sounds a bit too good to be true, although all the “looking into a way to…"s are numerous), but reblogging anyway for info/future follow-up.

Dude, Where’s My Porn?

sparkafterdark:

gildabutts:

gildabutts:

gildabutts:

*PLEASE ADD LINKS*

I’m putting together a spreadhseet of all the NSFW blogs and where everyone is migrating to.
Please add your blog and others you know of, and share to spread the word.
I’ve only got 88 blogs so far, I know there’s more than that out there.

Signal boosting this. 100 blogs listed, this is a huge job to do on my own.
Please, please, please add blogs to the bottom of this list.

Reblogging again for the evening crowd, because it’s only got 10 notes.

You’re doing god’s work.

Another one, this time specifically for NSFW!

Dude, Where’s My Porn?

Comprehensive List Of Other Places To Find Gallus:

gallusrostromegalus:

Well, people are having a TON of difficulty with my blog so it’s likely my account will be terminated on December 17th.  If not, cool! I’ll be around.  If that DOES happen though-

I’m not going to rebuild here.  This site has become an addiction and a chore for me and frankly I’ve got other things to be doing- Making art, finishing the book, setting up my garden, frolicking in the mountains etc. I will absolutely still be Online and I still want to have good times with all of you, so here’s where to find me:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gallusrostromegalus  I’ll be posting the Edited and Illustrated Family Lore here, as well as taking art comissions and book pre-orders. This will also be my Primary source of Income until I’ve recovered enough to start minimum wage again, at which point this will still be vitally necessary income for me.  I will also be starting a Discord Server associated with Patreon.

Archive of Our Own:  https://archiveofourown.org/users/GallusRostromegalus

DeviantArt:  https://www.deviantart.com/gallusrostromegalus

Dreamwidth: https://gallusrostromegalus.dreamwidth.org/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gallusrostromegalus/

Mastodon:  

@ gallustrostromegalus@mastadon.social

Pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.io/Gallusrostromegalus

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptidChicken

You can also find me on Skype under “Gallusrostromegalus” or Discord at #0990 (if you want to add me)

Since tumblr’s nerfed my blog, could you please reblog and spread this around?  I’ll keep flogging it until I go becuase I love you all and want to stay in touch if this site goes down.

There are also two spreadsheets going around (that I’m aware of) to collect people’s info, https://1drv.ms/x/s!AtiG1bZTgp9RxpJ3smyiFe703LcJhA by @eightyonekilograms and https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScviKp4QrOP5V10AcnW09rA-i3QfXhnJ4qOwiSnBfPAoCm1yg/viewform by @copperbadge – I don’t know how far they’ll spread and how many people will check them, but if you could signal boost and enter your info, it would definitely help 🙂

Could you tell me where you’re going?

thefutureoneandall:

eightyonekilograms:

Hi folks-

A lot of people are making posts announcing where they’ll be setting up shop after The End, and it’s already getting hard to keep track of who is going where under what name. So I created a public spreadsheet to try and keep track of this: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AtiG1bZTgp9RxpJ3smyiFe703LcJhA

Would you mind sticking your information in there? I prefilled a couple columns with some of the most common alternate services, but of course you can and should add a column if a service you’re moving to isn’t listed.

Don’t be a jerk and mess with anyone else’s row but yours. I can see the edit history and revert bad changes anyway, so it won’t do you any good.

I normally hate begging for reblogs, but please reblog this.

@eightyonekilograms and basically everyone who’s ever followed me are people I want to keep track of. This corner of tumblr really has been a unique experience, and if it doesn’t continue, I want to preserve however much of that is possible. I’m still going to be here for the near future, and my info isn’t on here yet because I don’t know where else I’ll be, but I will add it when I know.

Please keep this going around the diaspora, or however many levels of -adjacent to that you think you are. I’m not above begging on this one, and if departure notices keep coming I may even pester specific people who don’t follow me. Communities falling apart really sucks.

@copperbadge created a similar spreadsheet, I’m on mobile right now but I reblogged it very recently. Maybe get in touch with them to combine forces?

tumblr mirrors on ‘photosugar’

jumpingjacktrash:

copperbadge:

winds-wanderer:

jadegreenworks:

whitejenna:

whitejenna:

lordhellebore:

So idk if others have noticed this before – but it’s the first time I’m seeing this, hence the post.

There’s a website, https://www.photosugar.com, which apparently mirrors all pictures, gifsets etc. people post on their tumblrs (and also other social media sites like twitter and instagram, if I understand it correctly).

An eample for a tumblr user, with my name:

https://www.photosugar.com/tu/lordhellebore

Now it won‘t turn up anything but a 404 error in my case, because I sent an e-mail to the contact address, which is darius@photosugar.com with the title “My content on your website”:

Hello,

it’s come to my attention that you are mirroring all of the posts containing
pictures/gifs that I post on my tumblr. I am asking you to stop pulling the content from my tumblr and to
delete me from your website.

tumblr username is „lordhellebore“

Thank you.

I got a reply consisting of the single word “removed” after just one day, and as you can see, it worked perfectly fine with the informal mail I sent. So if you want them to stop mirroring your tumblr, it seems all you really need to to is this.  

I can’t test the site for all of my mutuals, but I’m tagging a few whom I found on there by random trial & error, and I suggest you look yourself up if you see this post and dislike tumblr mirrors (even if this one is only for pictures, not text).

@janiedean, @ladytp, @vaysh11, @lunavagantt, @einemelodieimwind, @robb-greyjoy, @youbuggingme, @ysilme, @rex-luscus, @bai-xue, @viendiletto, @electricalice, @contessa-de-leusse, @memetic-mutism, @bluecichlid, @mrs-storm-andrews, @ladymothwing, @prismatic-bell, @kittykatknits, @tinkili

….basically, whomever I’m trying at random, it seems that you’re on there.

 Please reblog so others can know and ask for removal if they want to.

…not just my posts, but my likes as well. Email sent. Please, check and see if you’re on here.

I got a response within about 12 hours. I was given this site: https://www.photosugar.com/remove which worked immediately. @jadegreenworks

Wonderful, thank you!

@copperbadge you are definitely on there

Aw, internet.  

Thanks for linking me, everyone who did, I’ve used the /remove site and it seems to have worked. 

i don’t really care if they mirror my reblogs and minecraft screenshots but i’m signal boosting this for folks who post art and selfies and stuff they maybe don’t want mirrored

I just tried sending an email and got a very quick response linking me to https://www.photosugar.com/remove where I could enter my own username to remove my content. Reblogging to spread the word.

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gehayi:

gehayi:

The problem, basically, comes down to health and home repairs. I’m still trying to rid my credit cards of debts incurred twelve years ago when I was disabled by staph. And after that…well, I live in an old house that needs constant repair, and I literally don’t have the money to fix it. This is what I’ve been hit with this year:

• A termite infestation.
• A leaking oil tank. This ended up costing me a fortune in repair calls, replacement, and installation, and the repairmen had a devil of a time getting it down the cellar stairs. I gather that the original tank was placed first and the house was built around it. And I have been saddled with a five-year installment loan because that was literally the only way that the oil company would sell me a new tank.  I currently owe 3,782.16. I don’t know how I’m going to pay it off.
• Mouse infestation. This led to yet another contract and more debt–as the exterminator wouldn’t come if I didn’t agree to it. And mice and rats terrify me. I couldn’t sleep.  I couldn’t eat.

Last year I had water coming in through the kitchen ceiling. That required the entire upstairs bathroom to be renovated and repaired. Water still leaks into the boards in the front hall when it rains. And I have two dying trees in my yard that would take out my house or my neighbors’ houses if they ever fell.

This has also been a year for equipment wearing out. My computer wore out and needed to be replaced. After that, my phone died. I’m disabled, and the winter tends to exacerbate my health problems. If I need to call 911, I have to have a functioning phone.

The odds are that my refrigerator will be the next expensive piece of equipment to die. I can’t afford to replace it. I also can’t live without it.

And now it’s getting close to December, which means two things–oil bills (which have to be charged to an already burdened card) and taxes on the house in January.  $4,000 worth of taxes.  And another $4,000 next July.

I DON’T HAVE THE MONEY. I’ve got about $350.00 in my checking account right now, and another $2200 or so in my Money Market (which is my account for taxes). And with the current tax bill in Congress, I may not have even Social Security or Medicare much longer. I don’t know what I’m going to live on in 2018–or how I’m going to survive without medical care.

I haven’t worked this year, so I don’t have any income beyond Social Security.

And I’m strapped. Worse, I’ve got about $27,000 in debt to pay off.  That’s on top of the $8,000 I need for taxes.

A friend of mine who goes by the screen name of ZeldaQueen suggested that I offer to write, to edit, and to review in exchange for donations.  I think I could do that. So this is what I’m offering in exchange:

When I reach $8,000, I’ll have enough set aside for taxes–at least for next year, though I desperately need some kind of steady income so that I can pay bills for the foreseeable future–and I’ll post at my Dreamwidth journal a snarky in-depth summary and analysis of “The Castle of Otranto,” which is the first Gothic novel. It is over the top, melodramatic, and gloriously absurd.

If I reach $10,000, I’ll post at my Dreamwidth a snarky in-depth summary and analysis of a play that I genuinely love, “Macbeth.” The analysis will include facts, details and trivia not usually covered. (For example, did you know that Lady Macbeth was based on a real woman? One with a backstory that will make you see Lady Macbeth and her husband through new eyes?)

If I get enough to pay the taxes AND pay off all the credit card debt (because why not  shoot for the moon at this point, am I right?), I will do something that I swore I would never do. I’ll review The Brick. That’s right. Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables.”  I’ve read the unabridged version (which this will NOT be) and…let’s just say that I think the musical is far better. So if you want to see me being miserable over Les Miz, that’s the goal to aim for.

As you can see, I’m trying to offer something for everyone: thorough analysis for the bibliophiles, help and research for students, and appreciative humor aimed at three stories that I genuinely like. (I’m not fond of The Brick, but I do enjoy the stories of Jean Valjean and of Les Amis.)

If you can’t donate, please at least spread the word and forward the fundraiser around Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. The more people who hear about this, the better the chance that I’ll still have a place to live this winter.

Thank you very much. I hope to God this helps.

P.S. If you can’t donate, please at least spread the word and forward the fundraiser around Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. The more people who hear about this, the better the chance that I’ll still have a place to live this winter.

P.P.S. Depending on the success of the fundraiser and reception the proffered reviews get, I’m considering starting a Patreon project. 

Here’s the tentative list of what I’m offering:

Essays on writing.  What to do. What not to do. Common problems. Qualities that I wish I saw more in published fiction and/or manuscripts.

Proofreading. Line editing. Substantive editing.

A new review series on Dreamwidth and Tumblr. I’m thinking of calling it Gehayi’s Required Reading List.

 And again–please reblog. I need all the help that I can get.

Thank you.

Addendum: If you’re outside of the U.S., want to donate and can’t because WePay (YouCaring’s payment system) isn’t available in your country, you can go here. It’s my PayPal address.

And thank you again.

I don’t often signal boost fundraisers of any kind, but.

Please help by donating, reblogging, or both.

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welp, I guess I’ll have to bleg soon

multiheaded1793:

multiheaded1793:

multiheaded1793:

I’m in a moderately precarious life situation and currently out of a job after 10 months on a very modest wage, while simultaneously trying to
1. unfuck my welfare/bureaucracy situation so that I at long last get anything at all from the system, for instance a housing subsidy and 500/mo in benefits (not even going to approach gender marker change until all that shit is squared away),
2. help a family member who’s themselves going through precarious times + some inadvertent administrative & living complications due to my presence near them (something neither of us foresaw due to inexperience with life here and no-one to walk either of us through it),
3. get on with actually systemically learning programming and studying for some kind of developer work (currently doing a CS101 online course to refresh and systematize knowledge first, then I want to decide on a quality paid one).

I have some paltry savings, am still waiting on collecting severance pay for my work, as an absolute last resort my parents would bail me out, but I want to beg them as little as possible because that will come at the cost of their increased contact with me and sticking their noses into a life that they don’t really understand or accept. Yes, I know I’m a rather pathetic stereotype of a millennial.
Whew, point is: once I stave off some immediate bureaucracy crap next week, I’ll verify and unlock my paypal account, and then beg y’all to maybe donate a little for my survival expenses such as housing while I’m trying to claw my way further up.
Making this post now to give y’all a bit of a heads up + to get this off my chest. It’s viscerally draining to pretend that I’m OK while I’m kind of suspended over this uncertain future and not knowing when I might next be on solid ground.
(I will reblog this with a link once I’m able to actually receive money + get a better evaluation of near-term financial outlook.) 

Bonus 1: in the unlikely event that someone reading this has reasonable experience with the Finnish welfare system and can advise on maneuvering within it.

Bonus 2: I am reasonably fluent in English and can write, idk, anything except fiction; the last time I was hired, it was in large part due to my good command of writing, even though I ended up doing mostly one-on-one communication rather than creating content. In the unlikely event that someone wanted to pay me for some shit like that in the near future – I don’t know, summarize and annotate a book, whatever – I’d be happy to consider it.

(if you don’t know me; I’m a transgender refugee from Russia, moderately screwed in the head. I have this blog, full of shitposts and low effort. A year ago I took a step into the unknown so that I could safely come out irl + transition, and since have been living in a foreign country where I don’t even speak the language. Luck, desperation and the charity of friends & strangers have somehow carried me this far. Really really trying to stand on my own two feet for a change here.)

UPDATE:

– housing and groceries situation mostly stabilized, me and my life partner will be able to finally pick a long-term rental very soon.

– that’s literally it; can barely survive (assuming nothing goes wrong with housing subsidies and unemployment allowance for now) but as things stand I’m unemployed and in poverty, facing a language barrier and a huge welfare cliff to Just Getting A Job. I’d be exceptionally grateful for donations to help with basic living needs. Every cent helps.

– if you enjoy my blogging, well… having things to eat other than rice and beans, and a can of beer, and not fretting about unpredictable costly incidents really help me make effortposts and/or shitposts, you know?

– mine and my partner’s long-term plans seem to point towards running a business of some kind together. They can draw and craft and speak the language, I can do writing and coding… and potentially modelling, which I’d love to look into. Stay tuned! (Speaking of coding, my immediate plans are to go ahead studying programming and web dev specifically; that’ll be helpful either way.)

– here’s my PayPal, any assistance is thoroughly appreciated and will be put to sensible use: https://www.paypal.me/EstherFiddler

Update 2:

Everything, everything, literally everything has been going wrong with welfare. All because I’ve been trying to fend for myself by working remotely! The system is apparently unaware that it’s even a thing, so they were counting it the same as physically being in another EU country, and thus not eligible for literally anything in Finland. I updated their office re: my employment being over as of early September – registering as a job seeker and all – but the bureaucracy here will need to update my info all over again, it seems. And that’ll take an UNKNOWN FUCKING LENGTH OF TIME to process yet.

My social worker has advised me and my partner to apply for (urgent) basic assistance money – to at least cover rent – which *might* work, but there’s zero certainty.

I’m exhausted, dispirited, on my last legs, and my partner has been unintentionally dragged into this whole fucking mess too, being registered as cohabiting with me – which they’re kind and understanding about, but also near breaking point just generally. I have about enough money to survive October, and that’s it. At this rate I’m uncertain if even my November housing subsidy will happen, I need some more breathing room to unfuck this mess.

Right now I’m filing for basic social assistance, as it’s ostensibly done more swiftly – and separately from the general unemployment/subsidy mess, and foreigners are eligible if they’re a citizen’s family. Then again, the welfare office might decline it on a whim – seeing that I had paid for some obscene luxury… like plane tickets to visit my parents, a room to temporarily stay over in (my partner is disabled, they’ve been stuck in a tiny apartment, they needed more space of their own but couldn’t get any for months), etc. Who the hell knows. I’ll take a shot at this, but I’m still afraid.

If that’s doable for you, please help me get some breathing room. I really don’t want to go back to Russia and stay closeted and have my transphobic parents pretend that everything is perfectly OK; I can only get any assistance from them if I’m ~independent~, and that’s difficult.

Y’all had already helped me; I paid some of it forward when things were looking up for me. Now I need to stabilize this whole mess – moving houses, getting something out of the fucking welfare system, having enough peace to study and then get more skilled work. I can make it happen – but assistance would be really, really good. Thank you! ❤

https://www.paypal.me/EstherFiddler

‘Post-Transition’ Experiences

transtalk:

szeletelttegla:

Hi Everyone,

I’m Dominik, I’m a psychology student (and a pre-everything trans person myself) and I’m writing my final thesis about the ‘post-transition’ experiences of transsexual people. I find it extremely important to pay attention to this subject because my experiences show that academic studies and academic life in general tend to look at transition (especially medical transition) as the ‘ending point’ of transsexual people’s journey and so very few explore the experiences following the actual transition (however it might be defined – medical, social, etc.).
In my thesis I’m trying to shed some light on this field.

I live in Hungary and I’m interviewing people here in person but I can’t seem to find enough volunteers. That’s why I created the online version of my interview. It might take some time to fill it out (an hour maybe) because I’m gonna ask you to write as detailed and exhaustive answers as possible but if you find the time and energy to share your experiences with me, please do so! You would help me out in a major way and I’ll be immensely grateful!

There are two more things:
First: I’m trying to cover a lot of aspects with my questions but of course you don’t have to answer anything you find too personal or triggering in any way, etc.
Second: the whole questionnaire is totally anonymous. I won’t ask about your name, your country, your blog or anything similarly personal.

You can find the interview here: https://goo.gl/forms/y61N9DWo6xSVB6412

Please help me out if you can! I’ll be eternally grateful!!

Reblogs help a lot, too, and if you happen to have any questions, just message me!:)

I was a psychology student once and I know how difficult it can be to find enough study participants.  

Please please help

ursaeinsilviscacant:

I haven’t posted much about this because I didn’t know if Alison wanted people to know her exact plans, but Alison @sinesalvatorem arrived in England this morning and after some other plans fell through she made last minute plans to stay with me

RIGHT NOW ALISON IS BEING DETAINED BY IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS. I NEED TO KNOW HER BIRTH NAME. THEY DON’T BELIEVE SHE IS JUST COMING FOR A FEW MONTHS THEY THINK SHE IS TRYING TO PERMANENTLY LIVE HERE ILLEGALLY. THEY CALLED ME THEY ARE ASKING SCARY QUESTIONS. AND I TOLD THEM TO CALL ME BACK BECAUSE I AM AT WORK BECAUSE IT IS TRUE, BUT I DON’T KNOW HER BIRTH NAME AND I NEED TO AND ALSO NEED A WAY TO CONTACT HER PARENTS

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL PLEASE HELP. PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO SOMEONE WILL SEE IT. PLEASE. I AM AT WORK AND I NEED TO BE DEALING WITH A PERSON I AM SUPPORTING AND HE NEEDS ME AND I SHOULDN’T BE NEGLECTING HIM TO MAKE THIS POST ON MY PHONE BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO Please please help

My GoFundMe campaign is here now

multiheaded1793:

Some lovely kind and trusted people, including @socialjusticemunchkin, are in the process of rescuing me! There is every hope that they’ll get me to safety within several months!

Now I will need money for various expenses! (see link for details)

I appreciate all your support and kindly assistance enormously. I know many of you feel for me, and I promise I’ll do my best to survive and thrive. Thank you!

(please feel free to share)

My GoFundMe campaign is here now