Bondage sex!!!
Intense.
Can you post more bondage pictures on your tumblr please?
Can you post more bondage pictures on your tumblr please?
I only post what personally turns me on. If it happens to be bondage I will do it. If you would like a Tumblr with lots of bondage pics try: http://somefetishes.tumblr.com/tagged/bondage/
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X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
Fun fact: The singer’s name is Poly Styrene.
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Some time ago, Tumblr started an official tag for political writing and picked some editors who would identify content from amongst the various politically-oriented blogs. These editors would “tag” the posts as “Politics” so that interested individuals could look through these…
Some time ago, Tumblr started an official tag for political writing and picked some editors who would identify content from amongst the various politically-oriented blogs. These editors would “tag” the posts as “Politics” so that interested individuals could…
Some time ago, Tumblr started an official tag for political writing and picked some editors who would identify content from amongst the various politically-oriented blogs. These editors would “tag” the posts as “Politics” so that interested individuals could look through these featured posts, find new blogs to read, and generally keep an eye on the political writing of Tumblr users. And, to an extent, it works: when I was featured as a “top contributor” this week, 10-20 new Tumblr users began following my blog.
But, unsurprisingly, given the nature of the content, the “Politics” tag has also become something of a battleground. Except, of course, that there are gatekeepers — the hand-picked editors — and so the battle tends to tilt one way. Indeed, the identification of content has become so contentious that many of the Tumblr users whose blogs I follow have stopped even looking at the “Politics” tag because some of the editors’ ideological biases have gotten out of hand.
This morning, I saw that there were ten new posts that had been tagged by the editors.
Of the ten, three were from laliberty, three were from evilteabagger, one was from 12onpaul, and one was from libertarians. That’s four libertarian blogs, with eight of the ten new posts to be featured in the Tumblr “Politics” tag. From this sort of representation, one would have to conclude that libertarianism was positively sweeping the nation!
But that’s not the weirdest part, actually. Far stranger is the fact that not a single one of those posts contained any content that was actually written by the authors of those blogs; two of them, in fact, seemed to be entire chapters of books that the authors found online and simply quoted verbatim.
So, I’m done perusing the “Politics” tag, even for the minute or two each day that I used to spend there. If I’m looking for new blogs to read, I want original content, reasoned argumentation, and a genuine mix of material from across the ideological spectrum.
Interesting complaint, considering the top posts typically reflect your side of the political spectrum (not at all what you allege). I was going to make a post commenting on the lack of quality posts being promoted to the politics tag by the left (four separate promoted posts on the Newt glitter bomb?).
So out of curiosity, I ran down the politics tag (starting with your post) labeling them three ways: (1) posts by leftists or promoting/sharing leftist opinion, (2) posts by libertarians or promoting/sharing libertarian opinion (I also included small government republicans out of sheer generosity), (3) posts that were neutral or fit neither the first two. If there was any debate, I clocked it as #3.
The tally?
218 posts for the left/liberals/socialists/democrats,
90 posts for libertarians/anarcho-capitalists/agorists/small government republicans,
32 posts for neutral/neither.
(Oh, and a vast, vast majority of them were shared links, quotes, charts, and pictures.)
And this ratio makes sense, considering there are 9 generally left-leaning editors to the three libertarians - and each of us is limited to 10 “promotions” a day*. So libertarians can promote a maximum of 30 posts a day - while left-leaners can promote up to 90. That’s a 3-to-1 advantage.
Which is ok, since there’s probably more bloggers on the left than libertarians on Tumblr (for now?).
So while occasionally there may be a bunch of libertarian posts at the top, there seems to be, judging by the reblogs, a convenient narrative being fed here. With only 25% of the promotable posts, libertarian editors are hardly the dominating force some make us out to be.
*For the record, I probably average about two to three promotions a day.
LA Liberty making sense.
but but but PRIVILEGE!
It seems that a post I wrote ten days ago — complaining about the lack of original content and the overwhelming libertarian direction of Tumblr’s Politics tag — was picked up yesterday by some of the editors of Tumblr’s Politics tag.
Now that it’s been tagged, due I think to the fact that at least one libertarian editor reblogged and commented on it (and I’ve since learned that reblogs can’t be featured in the tag, only the original post), a whole bunch of new people have started to weigh in. Or, I should say, over the first nine days of the post’s life nearly 100 Tumblr users commented, liked, or reblogged it. In the past twelve hours, an additional 40 users have done so.
L.A. Liberty, the editor I assume featured my post, had the following to say in a reblog soon after my post was featured:
Interesting complaint, considering the top posts typically reflect your side of the political spectrum (not at all what you allege). I was going to make a post commenting on the lack of quality posts being promoted to the politics tag by the left (four separate promoted posts on the Newt glitter bomb?).
So out of curiosity, I ran down the politics tag (starting with your post) labeling them three ways: (1) posts by leftists or promoting/sharing leftist opinion, (2) posts by libertarians or promoting/sharing libertarian opinion (I also included small government republicans out of sheer generosity), (3) posts that were neutral or fit neither the first two. If there was any debate, I clocked it as #3.
The tally?
218 posts for the left/liberals/socialists/democrats,
90 posts for libertarians/anarcho-capitalists/agorists/small government republicans,
32 posts for neutral/neither.
(Oh, and a vast, vast majority of them were shared links, quotes, charts, and pictures.)
And this ratio makes sense, considering there are 9 generally left-leaning editors to the three libertarians - and each of us is limited to 10 “promotions” a day*. So libertarians can promote a maximum of 30 posts a day - while left-leaners can promote up to 90. That’s a 3-to-1 advantage.
Which is ok, since there’s probably more bloggers on the left than libertarians on Tumblr (for now?).
So while occasionally there may be a bunch of libertarian posts at the top, there seems to be, judging by the reblogs, a convenient narrative being fed here. With only 25% of the promotable posts, libertarian editors are hardly the dominating force some make us out to be.
*For the record, I probably average about two to three promotions a day.
There are, of course, several problems with this argument.
- L.A. Liberty assumes that what I want is better representation within the Politics tag of those blogs that are ideologically aligned with my blog. But I don’t say this anywhere in my post. Indeed, what I actually say is this: “If I’m looking for new blogs to read, I want original content, reasoned argumentation, and a genuine mix of material from across the ideological spectrum.” The editor has no response to this critique. What’s more, another Politics editor — who reblogged my post much earlier in order to defend the way (s)he edits — actually wrote that (s)he goes out of the way to avoid featuring posts that have original content (for reasons that are never explained).
- Rather than dealing with the above criticism, the editor focuses on counting the posts that align one way or another and concludes that there are many more featured posts from the perspective of the Left. The reason, (s)he assumes, is that there are many more editors whose ideological position and so, if anything, it’s the libertarians who have a complaint. After all, as (s)he points out, the libertarian editors — if they were all working their hardest — could max out at only 25% of the featured content in a given day. Indeed, this was precisely my complaint in the original post, namely that some of the libertarian editors were featuring nothing but the content of their ideological friends (and perhaps even their own, given the frequency with which featured posts are actually the editors’ posts). Given that something like 2% of voters self-identify as libertarian without being prompted and that .24% of American voters are registered as libertarian, I’m pretty surprised that this editor thinks it’s unusual for libertarians to command only 25% of the editorial spots for the Politics tag. Does anyone have a sense that 25% of the populace identifies as libertarian? Well, libertarians do! Indeed, if you look at some websites you’ll find that libertarians actually believe themselves to be in the majority in the United States. That is, they believe that answering one poll question about fiscal conservatism and social liberalism makes one a libertarian. As for me, I’d say that 25% is really quite high … which was, in no small part, what I was addressing in my original post.
- The most helpful piece of information offered in the reblog by L.A. Liberty is the insight into the tagging/editing process. I had no idea how the promotion aspect worked or that each editor could promote only a certain number each day, and I assume that most other Tumblr users also did not. This leads me to my single most important recommendation regarding the curation of the Politics tag, which I wrote about earlier in a reply to a comment on my post by Jeff Miller (another libertarian editor of the tag, but one who routinely searches for material beyond his own ideological interests). It is this: Readers of the Politics tag should be able to see which editor recommended each featured post. That way, we’d actually know if the libertarian editors are simply featuring libertarian blogs or if, like Miller, they’re actually looking for material that would be of interest to those who might follow the Politics tag. The same goes for the progressives and the conservatives … and, of course, the magazines. This change might single-handedly change my opinion of things — after all, it might prove me wrong — but it also might totally change the tag because it might a) encourage editors to feature original content rather than repetitive news items or long quotes and b) prove to be too costly suddently for some editors to do what I suspect they’ve been doing …
Update: I’ve learned that, actually, L.A. Liberty was not the editor who featured my original post; indeed, it wasn’t even a libertarian editor who did so! This actually makes a fair amount of sense, given that Jeff Miller is the only one of the libertarian editors who follows my blog. I’d just assumed that the L.A. Liberty blogger saw my post since it’d been recently reblogged by another libertarian Tumblr user (and I suppose I assume they all follow one another).
Some time ago, Tumblr started an official tag for political writing and picked some editors who would identify content from amongst the various politically-oriented blogs. These editors would “tag” the posts as “Politics” so that interested individuals could look through these featured posts,…
