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My top 10 tweets were an interesting mix.

6 were replies to other people's tweets

6 were about sport

Of my tweets contained images.

( Large image of all 10 tweets below )

For anyone who wants to know, the noble scientists testing out the "anti-sex" beds were the Mexican football team.

Following on from last year, I want to tell you how Tumblr's porn detection bot has done this year.

I will start with praise - I have only had to block 5 porn bots in the past 12 months. That part of it, Tumblr is doing well.

On the other hand, none of 22 tumblr posts of mine that it has flagged are actually NSFW (by their definition of NSFW).

The one that annoys me was that they flagged a link to this article, which is all about a woman breastfeeding. They did not accept my appeal.

The other flagged posts were the usual mix of

( Wrestlers, )

( fully clothed actors )

and ( animals )

It's the animals that worry me ;)

There were also lemons (fruit, not fic), Brexit articles, Ochoa's save against Germany, you know the one, German football fans suffering and Valentina Tereshkova getting ready for space flight.

More sensibly, I am also angry that it flagged a post about an acid attack victim and airlines breaking wheelchairs

Archaeology:

Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges - https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html

Comics:

Legendary Comics Artist Bill Sienkiewicz Pens Scorching Rebuke of “Comicsgate”- https://www.themarysue.com/bill-sienkiewicz-comicsgate/ Article from 2018

Miscellaneous:

The Italian highlanders who may have Scottish roots - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40865981

Politics:

How America Lost Its Mind - The nation’s current post-truth moment is the ultimate expression of mind-sets that have made America exceptional throughout its history. - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231 Article from 2017

Social Media:

Russian trolls 'spreading discord' over vaccine safety online - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/23/russian-trolls-spread-vaccine-misinformation-on-twitter?CMP=twt_gu Article from 2018

Sport:

Athletics:

WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017: SHOTPUTTER TOM WALSH WON WORLD TITLE WITH GROIN TEAR - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/athletics/world-championships/2017/world-athletics-championships-2017shotputter-tom-walsh-won-world-title-with-groin-tear_sto6284135/story.shtml Admirable stupidity, but stupidity nontheless.

Cycling:

BLAZIN' SADDLES: ADIEU ALBERTO – CONTADOR'S BEST MOMENTS - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/blazin-saddles-adieu-alberto-contador-s-best-moments_sto6284915/story.shtml From 2017

Football:

PREMIER LEAGUE IS WORLD'S RICHEST LEAGUE, BUT POVERTY OF THE FOOTBALL CANNOT BE DISGUISED - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/premier-league/2017-2018/premier-league-is-world-s-richest-league-but-poverty-of-the-football-cannot-be-disguised_sto6284062/story.shtml From 2017, and yes, Desmond Kane enjoys being a grumpy old man, but there's a certain truth to this, not just in light of this season's commitment to terrible defending.

Premier League at 25: 1992-1997 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/premier_league_25_1992_1997

Gymnastics:

A Full Revolution - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/simone-biles-is-the-best-gymnast-in-the-world Article from 2016, and is unnecessarily mean about North Korean vaulters.

Tennis:

WIMBLEDON 2017: ROGER FEDERER'S AMAZING CAREER, AND YEAR, IN NUMBERS - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/tennis/wimbledon/2017/wimbledon-2017-roger-federer-s-amazing-career-and-year-in-numbers_sto6255558/story.shtml

Poor being used in both its meanings, because I do feel sorry for the poor bot because it has a lot of work to do, but it's also really badly written.

Some background for the non-tumblrites - in December 2018, Tumblr banned "all images and videos depicting sex acts, and real-life images and videos depicting human genitalia or "female-presenting" nipples", in one of those phrasings that smacks of a large corporation trying to sound "woke" and failing miserably.

To judge whether or not previously posted photos were illicit they used a robot.

19 of my posts were flagged by the poor little bot.

( A summary of the 19 posts )

Of the 19, one contains a female breast. Which is breast-feeding, an activity explicitly excluded from the ban.

Mostly the poor little bot has great difficulty telling male wrestlers apart from naked women, and has an active hatred for photos of Thomas Voeckler (allez Tommy!).

These were all flagged before you could appeal, but after it became obvious that the poor overworked bot couldn't tell its etcetera from its elbow (or a woman from mid-2000s Chris Jericho), they started allowing appeals and all were cleared on appeal.

In that time, I reported 8 porn accounts.

Since then, I've had to report another 6. I've also had a variety of other posts flagged. Tumblr seems to only flag posts as you either post them or edit them.

( Summary of flagged posts )

You'll note 2 of those aren't even human. And one of them is the Pope.

I was going to post this anyway, but they've just flagged a photo of a statue which, while it does feature breasts, is of a naked angel praying and is theoretically covered by the art exception. I appealed but got told my appeal failed. We all know the appeal is just another bot, I suspect a slightly better but more calculation-expensive bot, so I have emailed and am trying to get a human to actual see that she is made out of granite, but I am not holding my breath.

So far, the poor little bot has 19/19 false positives.