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Tumblr seems to have stopped randomly blocking posts as porn so no "poor tumblr pornbot" updates (I am less annoyed by the wave of spambots than I was by blockbot ...)

For the second year in a row, my most reblogged post was a music video, this time, it was Eurythmics "Who's That Girl"

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.

Day 17 - A Song You Hear Often On The Radio

I don't listen to the radio that often, mostly because I'm allergic to a lot of DJs. When I hear them I go all red, puffy and violent, so I turned the radio on, and this was on. I like.




( The other days )

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Technology attacked me, so I now have a tumblr - http://brightnshinythings.tumblr.com/