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Alright I made a cohost, my @ there is chessie-peake

And if I make the demeaning crawl back to Twitter I'm sleepychessie

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the @photomatt situation upsets me as a trans woman but also I dabble in sex work. I know some of what it's like to be a sex worker on this platform.

I'll admit I play fast and loose with the community guidelines but I mark my posts and let them do their thing. I've earned the dreaded flag and now shit that has nothing to do with my sex work is marked as nsfw? why? Yeah I'm mad but I didn't feel it was specifically unjust.

Then I got porn ads.

Then @photomatt doubled down on banning an innocent sex worker. One that did less than I did in terms of pushing community guidelines. I'm mad.

Matt is a pig and I hope he falls off the wall and all the kings horses and all the kings men can't put him together again

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MATT FUCKING DELETED THE POST HE MADE ABT PREDSTROGEN. MY REPLY TO HIS ASK IS FUCKING GONE. THE COWARD IS TRYING TO HIDE ALL EVIDENCE OF HIS TRANSMISOGYNY. WHO HAS SCREENSHOTS OF THE ORIGINAL POSTS??

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my earliest callouts were retaliation for defending trans women who I didn’t know, but knew the accusations and harassment against them were wrong. Everything I’ve personally been harassed for on here has stemmed from that, because if you stick your neck out for trans women, that terrifies the transmisogynists wielding callouts as this effective weapon of ostracization and fear, and they do everything in their power to put you on the chopping block next, I’ve even seen it done for tme people who stand up for us.

But this, like most reactionary projections of force, is a paper tiger. It relies on you being afraid of being targeted for guilt by association next if you don’t fall in line, and when you stand up against it, when you speak out, it’s powerless, and their only other recourse is turning to moderators to try getting us banned outright.

Which they do, but for every one trans woman they get banned, there’s another 100 who have been just as effectively ostracized through callouts, and it’s the weapon you can personally disarm much more effectively. Denounce callouts when you see them, refuse to perpetuate their spread, and confront your friends who participate, especially if you’re tme. It’s a winnable fight, but you have to fight

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I wonder if this is gonna be when tumblr went scorched earth on (mostly black) bloggers during the 2016 election where outside of relatively small pockets of this website, most people here believe years later “omg isn’t it crazy that we had RUSSIAN BOTS trying to poison us against democrats?? Anyway vote for Biden this November or you might be falling for their propaganda too ^_^”

Is the main takeaway in a few years gonna be “do y’all remember when that shadowy group of AMAB transfems called Baeddels went around harassing innocent AFABs, and also they were secretly pedophile zoophile incestuous predators? I heard one of them even threatened to kill the CEO in his DMs! Make sure you look out for their dogwhistles like ‘transmisogyny’ and ‘tme’ and make a callout right away to warn your friends if you see one O_O”

Because that’s basically been the takeaway for huge swathes of tumblr after every other big callout wave against trans women over the past years, I don’t have much hope for this being any different.

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The ceo of tumblr dm'd me at 4 in the morning EST??????? This can't be professional. Are they responding to every single reply on that post????

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I’ve said this in the replies of his meltdown post but I’ll say it more clearly here:

If tumblr actually cared about transphobia they’d have a clear accessible option to report posts for transphobia! Even fucking Twitter had this prior to Musk! The bar is in fucking hell and you’re still not clearing it!

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How the fuck are you reblogging revenge porn *a second time* and calling for mass reporting *yet another* trans woman jfc

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WTF ARE THE CRIMES OF THESE PALESTINIAN MEN THEY CAPTURED, TORTURED, AND HUMILIATED FROM KHAN YOUNIS? BEING PALESTINIAN? IS THAT THEIR CRIME??

This was on a NATIONAL broadcast. A NATIONAL broadcast... these innocent men were trying to flee to find safety... there are just too many words to describe the inhumanity and morally depravity involved in being able to do something like this -the IOF are the real terrorists.

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A lot of you need to recognize that you are friends with people who would have happily and gleefully did what photomatt did if they were in his position. A lot of you need to realize you are friends with people who have begged staff to do exactly this to other trans women in the past. If you condemn this now, don't forget about how sick to your stomach you feel right now the next time your mutuals make a callout of a trans woman. And then maybe, perhaps, block them

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Very funny that the ceo said well if you dont like tumblr you could use wordpress and then almost immediately:

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please correct me if I'm speaking over anyone. but like, you remember when a bunch of Black leftist tumblr users told you about this shit years ago about how they were being targeted and banned for no reason and being discriminated against? and you all believed they were Russian bots and trolls who were trying to interfere with the election or some stupid made up shit just so you could ignore it?!?

you never learn. you never listen. this is not the first time staff has gone scortched earth on a tumblr blog for no reason. and it certainly won't be the last.

don't stop talking about this. don't let this continue. be vocal about staff's abuse and discrimination

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i hope the ceo slips on a banana peel and slides away down a hill so fast that he disintegrates into a cloud of atoms from going too fast so all that's left at the bottom of the hill is an empty pair of sneakers with smoke coming out standing on a banana peel. &i hope all the atoms also slip on banana peels

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Car hammer explosions are the number one cause of death for CEOs

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Remember when staff went all scorched earth on someone for pointing out a member of staff was a harry Potter fan

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Yeah babes the queerest place on earth was actually infested with termites. Yeah the foundations made of wood too so its all fucked. Yeah no if you complain about the termites we are gonna evict you, sorry. No yeah yeah we're TOTALLY getting rid of the termites *very obviously crosses their fingers in front of me