flannelmoth
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Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you
No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.
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also there really should be a way to block someone who has been repeatedly false-flagging your posts (if it was a person and not a flawed algorithm in a particular scenario) w/o violating their privacy/revealing who they are to you. protect their privacy/protect them from harassment but ALSO allow the person they were harassing via false flagging... protect themself/not have that person in their internet experience.
there really should be a way to do this.
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Literally why is shadow-banning even a thing that websites have built in, with no appeal process or notification to the user? Why is it even a thing? It's kinda. suspicious and definitely not a very transparent moderation tactic.
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I answered staff's email that I must use the email on my account to explain that the email on my account will not go through to send a help message, that it seems to also be blocked from interacting with tumblr support. I gave them further information, screenshots, etc. I've received no reply at all.
It seems a bit futile to tag @staff like this even, because I've found out that when I tag blogs it doesn't even show up in their notes.
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@thetimetravellercat Here's more details on it - apparently I can't send replies on my own posts either or I would've replied to you there. :(
@staff Hey, why am I shadow banned after a ton of my not-explicit posts (a ton of which were sfw lgbtq posts) were wrongly flagged?
No one can send me DMs or posts, and I can't send them either. My blog no longer is searchable. The wrongly flagged posts have no option to appeal.
Messages I send to tumblr support using the email on my account won't go through either. Ones I send using my other email will go through... only to recieve a response that I have to use the email on my account to send support, due to account security. That'd be fine and well... if it would go through.
What's going on, and can someone look into it?
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@staff Hey, why am I shadow banned after a ton of my not-explicit posts (a ton of which were sfw lgbtq posts) were wrongly flagged?
No one can send me DMs or posts, and I can't send them either. My blog no longer is searchable. The wrongly flagged posts have no option to appeal.
Messages I send to tumblr support using the email on my account won't go through either. Ones I send using my other email will go through... only to recieve a response that I have to use the email on my account to send support, due to account security. That'd be fine and well... if it would go through.
What's going on, and can someone look into it?
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aaaaand im shadow banned somehow. not sure why or how, and havent ever experienced this one before. but apparently i cant use the message function, for sending or recieving messages or posts. :p
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One of the things that struck me about Robin Wall Kimmerer's perspective when I was reading Braiding Sweetgrass was the way the ethical obligation to life she discussed contrasted with the colonizer's culture.
It is increasingly popular to find it inherently unethical and exploitative to kill animals for food or to farm them for animal products, and instead eat and wear "plant-based" things. This is an impulse toward ethical treatment of non-human living things.
But this way of seeing animals as "lives" and behaving accordingly, depends on seeing plants as non-lives. Asking whether we have ethical obligations toward plants is so absurd, it's dismissed as trolling.
I've known many people who farmed or hunted animals who had a great reverence for their lives. Some people would think that this is not genuine and that it is never morally acceptable to take a life for your own use.
Kimmerer discusses Indigenous use of animals. But when a tree needs to be cut down or a plant uprooted, there is the same vivid awareness that a life is being taken, that the plant's life is A Life.
Now I'm troubled by the dismissal of plants as providing total freedom from guilt and moral responsibility among many people and organizations who see animal life as deeply sacred. Plant based products are cruelty-free alternatives to animal products and plant-based diets mean nothing had to die for your meal.
I understand not wanting to support cruel industries or being uncomfortable with eating animals, but the more I learn about plants, the less I believe that all animals have something all plants lack, that means we have moral obligations toward animals and not toward plants.
Plants are incredibly unlike us, but they respond to their environments, they communicate with other plants, and they engage in behaviors. Objection to potential plant intelligence and sentience (ability to feel) is more cultural than scientific; we are just only beginning to scratch the surface of the inner world of plants. What if we have to respect plants as life? What does respect mean then, if we have to explore the idea that it doesn't necessarily contradict taking life?
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I'm not making a universal general statement here but maybe this will help some people who are afraid of bugs.
I'm terribly arachnophobic. horribly. I get it, the irrational fear you can't fully erase. Yes I'm an entomologist and yes everyone at work thinks it's very funny.
But the more you pick away bit by bit at that general massive ball of fear, the more you can understand it and turn fear to wonder. I started small, just learning some facts about spiders but still unable to stomache looking at pictures.
And then I realized I could look at jumping spiders fine and made an effort to try to appreciate what I could about them. From there I could realized I could look at and Touch harvestmen and that there was a whole world to them to learn and love too. And by turning that Ambiguous Ball of Fear into curiosity and respect I've gotten to a place I can live side by side with my arachnophobia and approach spiders with appreciation, even if I will cry if forced to touch one.
And I guess it makes me sad when people's response to their fear is hatred and to kill. I understand the phobia and bugs and wasps especially is real and I'll never try to convince someone they're wrong for it - but treating insects with intentional ignorance will only make it worse and keep you from a whole world of wonder.
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Two more books to finish by the end of the year to meet this years reading goal!
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@bookcub Oh I hope you do.. it's one of my all-time favorite books, in my top 3. If you do and want to, feel free to tell me your thoughts! I've been considering rereading it.
what's house of leaves?
the short version is, it's a book about a book about a book about a book about a movie that never existed about a house that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. it is probably the single most famous/notorious existing work of "ergodic fiction", meaning basically fiction which exists in such a complex relationship with its medium that it takes nontrivial effort just to consume, meaning uhhhh a lot of it looks like this,
or worse!
it's like, fifty percent an extremely high-effort mockery of modern academia, it's often doing its active best to be completely incomprehensible to you, its and i cannot emphasize this enough A Space With A Beast In It. its awfully dear to my heart also. or as mark z danielewsky who wrote it puts it:
"I had one woman come up to me in a bookstore and say, 'You know, everyone told me it was a horror book, but when I finished it, I realized that it was a love story.' And she's absolutely right.
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