This.  The “think of the children” nonsense has even been called out publicly by tumblr as specifically NOT being the reason for this move (though I think it made for a great excuse to get the ball rolling on this with the urgency we’re seeing here)

Purely crunching numbers may make tumblr’s user base seem pretty balanced, like only a fraction of the users post or reblog or otherwise engage with “adult” content, but in reality, the adult content is the section of tumblr that was actually lively, thriving and growing. You can’t make a business out of cat memes and…

To my point though, take Bill Cosby for instance...he was brilliant, his stuff was so funny and beloved by so many, but now I would go out of my way to make sure that man never makes another cent off of my support...and he was actually TALENTED. So who is supporting this Takeshi crap, when there was barely anything…

1) Somehow it’s never the time.

What is a meaningless term to avoid making a moral panic look like a moral panic?

It’s wild how many artists/creators actually make adult type of content and there is a pretty consistent and healthy community around it.

And then it would also put a HUGE damper on any artists creating anything that breaks the guidelines in general. Even if it’s tame.

It’s like Yahoo wants to kill Tumblr, haha.

I find this abject terror of the female (but only the female) nipple in media much more offensive and embarrassing than the material it involves.

I only ever used Tumblr for adult content so I guess I’m never going back.

Did #45 sign those with a magic marker?  Did it also look like he was trying extra hard not to mess up signing his own name?

At what point is an artist just so brilliant that you’d overlook the fact they’re a convicted pedophile rapist and go on giving them money by buying their music and tickets to their shows and whatnot? I mean, this guy is trash, his work is meh, and yet he’s still selling music and merch and tickets for his tour dates…

Can we stop using words like “controversial” to describe racist pedophiles?

Waiting for the day when I never see an image of this rainbow snow cone tattooed rapist clown face again, the filthy piece of shit. All the punches forever.

Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season where they'll recycle your old incandescent strings of lights and swap them for new LED strands.  I think the restriction is 5 strands per person, but that's still a pretty good start to a more…

Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season…

Depends on the plastic. Earthbound Farm buys plastic water and soda bottles that have been pelletized and then molds them into clear plastic clamshells for their salads and greens. They figure that buying the recycled pellets instead of buying pre-made clamshells also saves a ton of fuel because the pellets are more…

WEAR NATURAL FIBERS.

Because there is a delay between when you ingest and when you hurl. People love to blame the air or the seatmate on the plane for making them sick. It could be the ice or the attendant’s dirty hands or all the surfaces the flyer touched.

Oh stewardess, I speak jive.

“Our in-flight dinner was either steak or fish.”

also: reusable chopsticks! my dad used to bring a pair of chopsticks everywhere he went. he started doing it as a way to make himself slow down while eating, and then it just became habit.