the “your top songs of 2018″ spotify playlists are out so u know what that means! send me a number between 1 and 100 and i’ll tell u what that song is on my playlist
but really porn is just the canary in the coal mine that our supposed general purpose computing devices are tightly controlled by a duopoly that makes Microsoft in the ‘90s look relaxed and open minded: Apple doesn’t want porn apps on its phones, so there are no porn apps on its phones; other apps can stay if they tithe 30%, but they’re on thin fucking ice.
you can leave Tumblr and go to another social network, but if that gets sufficiently popular it will face the same threat, there is no escape.
the last bastion of freedom is the open web, and I anticipate the day when mobile Safari blocks access to sites that aren’t signed by Apple, for security reasons.
the right to install whatever software you want on your own computer is a vital one, and we should be fighting for it.
Everyone reblog this as much as possible over the next two weeks for good luck
In case anyone was wondering where this (still unflagged) work came from, it’s simply known as “Portrait of Gabrielle d’Estrées and Her Sister, the Duchess of Villars” painted by an unknown artist c. 1594. Gabrielle The Pinchable was the mistress of King Henry IV of France (to be fair, the guy had been forced into an arranged marriage and was separated from his wife. He wanted to marry Gabrielle legally but she died before he could get an annulment). It is currently on view at the Louvre, and you can learn more about it here.
tumblr sucked yet its the only thing people like us could ever have posted on. tumblr was a deep sea geothermal vent and we are all pallid, desperate crabs snapping at the dark toxcic nutrients spweing from its hole, and bringing us into the harsh light of the instagram influencersphere would kill us instantly.
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