Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • Fantastic idea! I miss Tumblr terribly ever since the Great Porn Ban of 2018, even though I never even reblogged or followed ‘adult’ blogs. I just wanted to reblog holsum and funny fanart, but fuck giving into puritan corpo censorship.

    What’s the moderation policy on genocide denial and the like? I hate having to ask this, but having heard too many people deny the Holodomor on here, I feel it necessary to make the inquiry.

    For that matter, more generally, are you prepared, in terms of moderation structure, for the massive amount of legitimately disturbing material that’s going to pass through the site and will need to be removed if the site grows beyond a few hundred users? I would hate to join and then see this crash because of (completely understandable) moderator/admin burnout at the depravity and speed of mankind’s worst elements.











  • Explanation: Gaius Aelius Gallus was a commander under the first Roman Emperor, Augustus. Gallus was ordered to undertake an expedition to conquer Arabia with 10,000 troops, including local allies - a relatively small army. If successful, it would have massively increased the tax revenues of Rome, as the Arabian states controlled the flow of spices and silk and other exotic imports from the east.

    Despite considerable military success in open battle against the Arabian polities, the Romans were chipped away at by the unrelenting desert itself - stretched supply lines, unfamiliar environs, heat, exhaustion, and sickness took their toll. Eventually, Gallus withdrew from the region, making a two-month retreat from modern-day Yemen back to Roman-controlled Egypt, having lost a majority of the expeditionary force in the process - many of them during the retreat itself.