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Curated Tumblr

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For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.

Image descriptions and plain text captions of written content are expected of all screenshots. Here are some image text extractors (I looked these up quick and will gladly take FOSS recommendations):

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Please begin copied raw text posts (lacking a screenshot that makes it apparent it is from Tumblr) with:

# This has been reposted here to Lemmy as part of the "Curated Tumblr Project."

I made the icon using multiple creative commons svg resources, the banner is this.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, male is the default in the English language. When the gender of someone is unknown or you're referring to someone casually you use the default gender of the language. In Welsh, the default is female. Same as Maasai and Mohawk.