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Tumblr Savior is a neat program that blocks Tumblr posts containing specific words or phrases. For example, if you don’t want to hear all of the excellent reasons going around Tumblr why you should kill all men, you just block “kill all men” and they never show up. Add a few extra terms like “white dudes” (nothing good ever came of an article including the phrase “white dudes”), “trans”, “cis”, and “pictures of my vagina”, and you can make Tumblr almost usable. (My own Tumblr Savior list is an interesting record both of my psyche and of mid-2010s current events. Sometimes I imagine a future cyber-archaeologist stumbling across it and asking “But, but…why would he ban the word ‘puppies’?” Poor, poor innocent future archaeologist.) I recently learned about Twitter blockbots. These are lists maintained by some trustworthy people, such that subscribing to the blockbot automatically blocks everyone on the list. The original was made by some people in the social justice community to help blo

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