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   tomb (burgerdrome@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:35:33 JST tomb

   Tumblr's moderators falsely flagged a trans woman's completely clothed and non-sexual pre- and post-transition photos as 'explicit content' and refused to rescind the ban, so she posted that she hopes the CEO "dies a painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes multiple times and the hammers go everywhere". The CEO of Tumblr is currently having a very public and extended meltdown about this, and is claiming that the Wile E. Coyote ass scenario of CEO Car Hammer Explosion was a "credible death threat" which required the intervention of the FBI and has banned the woman in question. He has spent the last few hours being Definitely Not Mad Online in all of the comments and replies. Truly incredible next levels of Silicon Valley Bro brain

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:35:32 JST Børge

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     • Tone 🚴‍♀️

     @burgerdrome @zicon Ouf, that's very sad to hear! I would think Automattic had better values than that. I hope Matt does the right thing!

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 07:49:01 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • RodneyPetersonTalentAgency
     @RodneyPetersonTalent @burgerdrome this takes some knowhow but if you remove the modal with the "classified" pop-up via your browser's Inspector tool then you can keep scrolling uninterrupted.
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     RodneyPetersonTalentAgency (rodneypetersontalent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 07:49:02 JST RodneyPetersonTalentAgency

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     @burgerdrome

     Well after two seconds the asshole says it’s classified information (sure it is) and wants me to create an account. Fuck him and fuck Elon Musk who did the same thing with Twitter. Seems like they’re both complete scumbags.

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     RodneyPetersonTalentAgency (rodneypetersontalent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 07:49:03 JST RodneyPetersonTalentAgency

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     @burgerdrome

     Real time Streisand effect. Where is all this happening? Google directs to Twitter which I will never use again since it requires an actual account to read their shitty ad infested bot algorithim largely moronic content.

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     tomb (burgerdrome@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 07:49:03 JST tomb

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     • RodneyPetersonTalentAgency

     @RodneyPetersonTalent the CEO's meltdown is happening on his blog https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt as of about 8 hours ago but the now-deleted "offensive content" exists only as screenshots

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     tomb (burgerdrome@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 20:16:34 JST tomb

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     I just read something from a former employee that apparently he's meant to be on sabbatical right now as well which means a bunch of poor saps are going to wake up tomorrow morning to the world's biggest dumpster fire in their inboxes as they trudge out to clean up the CEO's mess

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     tomb (burgerdrome@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 20:16:45 JST tomb

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     I haven't seen a public meltdown from a Silicon Valley Bro like this in honestly such a long time. He must have fired his PR handlers or is just letting their frantic calls go to voicemail

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     tomb (burgerdrome@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 20:16:55 JST tomb

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     Just catching up this morning that he spent a bunch of time DMing trans women who left comments on his various meltdown posts to continue arguments with them. Silicon Valley CEOs simply cannot stand to be thought of as incompetent or bad in any way, it destroys them as people

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     ZeroEcks (zeroecks@cuties.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 20:17:10 JST ZeroEcks

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     @burgerdrome wait are you saying i can directly message the ceo of tumblr hatemail and he responds on his blog??? fuck why did nobody tell me thats sick

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     Morgan ⚧️ (raphaelmorgan@disabled.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 20:17:45 JST Morgan ⚧️

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     @burgerdrome you'd think that they would try simply becoming someone who gets less of these criticisms, but apparently that's not an attractive option

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 20:18:30 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • nev

     @nev @burgerdrome yup. that matt. from wordpress. really disappointing.

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     nev (nev@bananachips.club)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 20:18:31 JST nev

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     @burgerdrome wait. not matt mullenweg?

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 20:20:54 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @blogdiva @nev @burgerdrome

     Wait....Matt Mullinweg from WordPress finding his inner MusKKKrat and censoring trans women? That figures for WordPress, doesn't it?

     Makes me want to consider moving all my blogs to other venues.

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     AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 21:13:32 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @nev @blogdiva @burgerdrome

     Point acknowledged and well taken.

     I actualliy hosted my blogs through WordPress.org (their service for hosting blogs from your own domain rather than through WPdotcom). So, easy for me to confuse things.

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     nev (nev@bananachips.club)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 21:13:33 JST nev

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @AnthonyJK @blogdiva @burgerdrome easy there, Automattic does wordpress *dot com*, but WordPress as a project is much more than Automattic.