misscherrylikesthediscourse:

Giving homeless people MONEY instead of FOOD can save their lives this winter, shelters cost money, being able to sit in McDonald’s and nurse a coke for a couple hours to warm up costs money, often accessing public toilets (whether it’s to use them, wash up or just to be out of the wind) costs money. 

Just give homeless people cash, just do it, no excuses, no whining about “enabling their drug habits”, if you have money to spare, give it and possibly save someone from literally freezing to death. 

Also, going cold turkey off a lot of drugs WILL kill you, or at least bring you very close to it. I’m not saying that everyone who’s homeless is on drugs, but I am saying that if someone is on drugs, they kinda need to stay that way if they don’t have the medical support and circumstances necessary to not die of withdrawal. 

theorangedeath:

-When I told the army doctor that sometimes my period pains make me unable to function for days, he didn’t even write that down.
-When I told my dad “don’t touch me, I’m in pain” he backed down for a moment until my mom told him “she’s on her period”. Then he just laughed.
-When I told my teacher before a big test that I was unable to do it because I was in extreme pain and could barely move at all, she said I was making up excuses and that it wasn’t a real reason not to do the test. 
-Wenever I tell someone about how different I feel during my period emotionally they say I’m just “making up drama”. 

We need to start treating people on their periods like actual human beings in pain. 

-The fact that it occurs monthly doesn’t make the pain less real. It should be treated seriously and with respect.
-The fact that the hormones effect the emotions doesn’t make your sadness less painful or the anger less valid or that terrible feeling of being lost less terrifying. Guess what? Hormones affect everyone. Feelings aren’t always rational. It should be also treated seriously and with respect.

Please stop mocking people with periods. Please stop dismissing us. Please stop violating our boundries. Please respect people with periods. 

Also, hey, 

IF YOUR PERIOD IS SIGNIFICANTLY PAINFUL, SOMETHING IS MEDICALLY WRONG. It isn’t supposed to hurt that much. Find a doctor who takes you seriously about it.

copperbadge:

Do we know how many people have actually had this happen to them? I’ve seen one firsthand account, and I’m sure there are more, but is this really a Thanos-snap situation? Granted I only follow 100 blogs but I haven’t had this happen to anyone I know, or presumably anyone they know. Of course, it’s still horrible for the people it has happened to or is happening to, but I think also the deletions are perhaps drawing attention away from several other aspects of this situation.

I thought this was funny because Tumblr got grounded by Dad when he caught him with all the porn. I couldn’t stop laughing at the mental image of Tumblr with a backwards cap and a popped collar walking into his bedroom to find Steve Jobs sitting on his bed with his box of Playboys. “Son, we need to talk.” 

But here’s the thing: it’s not the porn bots. It’s child porn. And not what angry young tumblrs call child porn. Actual facts explicit photographic sexual images of exploited young children. Which isn’t funny at all. And while I genuinely am sorry for people who got their tumblrs deleted on accident, like….it appears nothing is permanent, and there’s a point at which I’m willing to accept the collateral damage that I might get temporarily deleted in return for no child porn on my social media network. 

I think, whether it’s child porn or unwanted adult images, this is a net positive. We’ve been asking Tumblr for years to address the issues with its attitude towards porn bots, and now that Apple has taken the drastic measure of kicking a fucking massive social media network off its app store, Tumblr might realize oh, yes, this really is a problem overall. 

Though I am still going to laugh a little bit at the fact that Tumblr’s response to “this really is a problem” is to program something that makes an EVEN BIGGER PROBLEM FOR ITS USERS. It’s…just so very Tumblr.

iopele:

I didn’t pay anything to get my account? and I wasn’t part of the kickstarter either and I just made a test post on there that seemed to go fine so I don’t know what to tell you… I did have to sign up to get an invitation to make my account a few months ago, but that was it. anyone else who knows more about the inner workings of @pillowfort-io have anything helpful to add?

I think you need to either donate or get an invitation code. Unclear on how to get an invitation code. They’re definitely trying to get people joining at a relatively slow pace while still in beta stage, which seems sensible to me.