Latest Posts by starfleet-xenobotanist - Page 9

Do NOT move to deep space nine they WILL ask you to join their fucked up polycule !!!

You seem to have forgotten that some of us are older than all of these.

formative part of your childhood and/or early internet usage?

or pick whichever one is your main one today. i'm not a cop, i won't know.

thoughts?

Beyond and Back - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Roundtable [x]

Menace!!

Commission for @funnywormz

I'm painting all of DS9's main characters (+ some others) in my sketchbook ( because I want to look at them whenever possible) and so far all of them look sort of not good, but I really like how Garak turned out :) Also, I've started listening to ASIT, but I get really embarrassed listening to it for some reason, so let's hope I can push through that.

It's still me: Xeno/Teddy

Tumblr punished the other account for posting a picture with a peek of alien genitalia. They deleted other pics as well (the mica I found in Colorado???) and won't even allow a pfp or banner anymore.

I can't help but wonder why that happened when there are so many other blogs out there that are nothing but sex videos? Full-on naked bodies, very graphic.

Now, I'm not saying those should be blocked or punished either, don't get me wrong.

But are those allowed to remain because they're cis women and targeted at cis men, while this one account reblogged a dozen trans-positive posts daily?

Drawsome Jadiza

Drawsome is a public canvas site, that regularly freezes, kicks you out or straight up deletes all your progress. It limits you to a round brush, where pressure pen just makes it worse. There is no transform tool, layers or bucket tool and people vandalize each other's art frequently. It is also very fun!!!

+some sneak peaks blender is hell

I want to believe the Tumblr staff is overall LGBTQIA+ supportive.

Except xenobotanist got punished JUST YESTERDAY for posting 2 drawings of aliens with just a hint of genitalia, while there are still blogs operating that are completely full of sex videos. I'm not saying those should be blocked or punished either, but why would those stay active, while xeno got several pictures removed, including a picture of mica and a drawing of a plant? They are no longer allowed to even upload a pfp or banner! And we all know that once that happens, people start blocking you because they think you're a bot.

Is it because those are naked cis women for cis men to admire? While xeno reblogs a dozen trans-positive posts every day?

A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:

We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally. 

A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company) responded to a user’s ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr’s LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt's response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as a matter of policy for a variety of reasons—including the privacy of those involved, and the practicalities of moderating thousands of reports a day. The downside of this policy is that it is very easy for rumors and incorrect information about actions taken by our Trust & Safety team to spread unchecked. Given this, we want to clarify a few different pieces of this situation:

The reality of predstrogen's suspension was not accurately conveyed, and made it seem like we were reaching for opportunities to ban trans feminine people on the platform. This is not the case. The example comment shared in the post linked above does not meet our definition of a realistic threat of violence, and was not the deciding factor in the account suspension.

Matt thereafter failed to recognize the harm to the community as a result of this suspension. Matt does not speak on behalf of the LGBTQ+ people who help run Tumblr or Automattic, and we were not consulted in the construction of a response to these events.

Last year, the "mature" and "sexual themes" community labels were erroneously applied to some users' posts. An outside team of contractors tasked with applying community labels to posts were responsible for this larger trend of mislabeling trans-related content. When our Trust & Safety team discovered this issue (thanks largely to reports from the community), we removed the contracted team’s ability to apply community labels and added more oversight to ensure it does not happen again. In the Staff post about this, LGBTQ+ staff pushed to be more transparent but were overruled by leadership. The termination of a contractor mentioned in the original ask response was for an unrelated incident which was incorrectly attributed to this case. We regret that the mislabeling ever happened, and the negative impact it has had on the trans community on Tumblr. 

Transition timelines are not against our community guidelines, and weren’t a factor considered by the moderation team when discussing suspensions and subsequent appeals. We do not take action against content that is related to transitioning or trans bodies unless it includes violations of the Community Guidelines.

When it comes to the experience of trans folks on Tumblr encountering transphobic content, and interacting with bigoted users, we understand and share your frustrations. Tumblr’s policies, and Automattic’s policies, are written to ensure freedom of speech and expression. We prohibit harassment as defined in our Community Guidelines, but we know that this policy falls short of protecting users from the wider scope of harmful speech often used against LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people.

Going forward, Tumblr is taking the following actions:

Prioritizing anti-harassment features that will empower users to more effectively protect themselves from harassment.

Building more internal tooling for us as Staff to proactively identify and mitigate instances of harassment.

Reviewing which of the tags frequently used by the trans community are blocked, and working to make them available next week.

We’re sorry for how this all transpired, and we’re actively fighting to make our voices heard more and prevent something like this from happening again in the future. We know firsthand that having to deal with situations like this as a Tumblr user is difficult, particularly as a member of an already frequently targeted and harassed community. We know it will take time to regain your trust, and we’re going to put in the work to rebuild it.

We appreciate the space we have been given to express our concerns and dissent, and we are thankful that Matt’s (and Automattic’s) strong commitment to freedom of expression has facilitated it.

We will continue to fight to make Tumblr safe for us all.

— This statement was authored by multiple trans employees of Tumblr and Automattic.

some guys and their lizards :3