Merry Critmas to you!

It me! And my partner, @crowtoed! And friends volunteering their first show, probably never expecting to be interviewed, ha ha.

Anyway, this is Cospital Cosplay Repair, our little side project. Follow us over at https://m.facebook.com/cospitalcosplayrepair/

Holiday Matsuri was lovely, it was fun being able to actually relax and cosplay at a Florida convention!

Me as Percy de Rolo from Critical Role campaign 1.

Anonymous asked: hey! where can we keep in touch with you if tumblr goes down?

Yoooo! I will keep an account here, at least as an archive, as long as possible. I’m more active on Twitter as thekroog and run Cospital Cosplay Repair on the facebooks. :)

madamehearthwitch:

bnq:

janothar:

sorensfw:

What is almost certainly happening with Tumblr’s image classifier is that they’ve deployed the bot entirely untrained, and are relying on user complaints to train it what NSFW content on tumblr looks like.

Making people participate in their own censorship in this way and punishing them with the threat of being silenced even if in compliance with the rules should they not participate, is, IMHO, abuse of their userbase.

Source: I’ve worked for three different top-five social networks, and at all of them this type of work would have been done by making the userbase do it as much as possible.

Please signal boost. I don’t care if you reblog or repost, just get the word out so that people know what they’re doing as they interect with this thing.

My twitter is @soren_tycho (nsfw, sfw account coming soon) and my github username is sorentycho.

Just chiming in as a machine learning expert, this is almost certainly the case (and knowing tumblr, they weren’t even smart enough to throw in pre-trained weights)

I don’t remember agreeing to beta test 🤔

A well known AI blogger I follow also supports this theory.

(via feuervogel)

ladyshinga:

“lol the only people mad about the tumblr announcement just want porn lol”

Yeah, no.

Tumblr blocked the tag “chronic pain” in this mess for no reason

They’re flagging commonly used tags by queer people, sex educators, and artists who make their fucking LIVING on tumblr

They’re gonna take down genuine sex workers because they didn’t curb the problem with spamming porn bots YEARS ago when tumblr users REPORTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND *OVER* that it was a problem

Tumblr IGNORED the bots, IGNORED the problems, and honestly treated it like NOTHING until their app was taken off a store due to it.

They’re fucking over a shit-ton of REAL PEOPLE who rely on tumblr for community and/or income because they ignored users’ complaints about shitty porn bots for YEARS until it had financial consequences

I can no longer even talk about chronic pain without the post being blocked from searches

I have drawn one or two nude pieces on my art tumblr which is 99% safe for work but now I’m worried the blog will be taken down entirely because Tumblr won’t bother differentiating between spam and REAL PEOPLE just trying to live their goddamn lives

And god forbid I want to talk about bisexuality or sex or kink in just… MY LIFE. As a normal-ass human being who just wants to TALK ABOUT HUMAN THINGS

No, their solution to nuke a problem they’ve ignored for years is to take us all down at once

So maybe don’t laugh about “oh no not my pornz” because 1. plenty of that ~porn~ is made by actual humans making their living and 2. WAY MORE than “just porn” is being targeted

This along with Facebook continuously upholding white supremacy by letting nazi shit fly by while they ban people for speaking out against their oppressors and it’s basically like we’re running out of truly free places to just… BE

(via snowbunnystudios)

I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS SHATTERDOME

I joined tumblr 5 years ago for references of Hannibal Chau’s shoes and somehow ended up secure in my own skin as a trans man, I jettisoned the toxic people out of my life, got married, gave back to the cosplay community, and made a whole crap ton of amazing friends.

It’s a fact of online life that networks come and go, and it’s possible some of our paths may drift apart (I still plan to maintain my account, but I understand those who are leaving), but so many of you have left an indelible mark on my life and I wanted you to know you are loved. <3

wyomingsmustache:

The thing about Discworld, you see, is that it’s a very hopeful form of cynicism. It doesn’t just tell you that the world is crap, it says, well, yes, of course the world is crap, but that’s why you should be hopeful, and helpful, and kind, and why you have to be good, because maybe you can make it a little less crap.

(Source: grifalinas, via xandwyrms)

prettyoddasnineintheafternoon:

Stephen Deknight: Newt should get possessed and not speak to Hermann, the love of his life, for ten years.

Del Toro: