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olderthannetfic

Anonymous asked:

In the completely hypothetical scenario that someone donated 10 billion dollars to the OTW and then each year donated enough money to keep the archive comfortably afloat, what do you think they would do with such money? What would come first and what would take time? Since money restriction is the largest reason given behind the slow development of the archive and certain things being impossible.

olderthannetfic answered:

Well, given how everyone cries about all money spent, it would probably still be a clusterfuck.

What they should do is go back to having in-person Board retreats and telling all the crybabies who think it’s “too expensive” to fly Board members in from far away countries to go fuck themselves.

(Seriously, back in the day, I saw people whining that it was unfair to ~waste money~ on that, and why couldn’t the non-American call in??? As if the whole point of an in-person retreat wasn’t to bridge cultural gaps!)

Generally, there’s a lot of pushback to any do-gooder organization spending money on any of the things they badly need to, like professional development opportunities, living wages, etc.

The only way to judge an org is by its effectiveness at its stated goals and by how it treats its people. OTW has the same problem other orgs do with assclowns who are too stupid to deserve to have an opinion going “But the overhead!!!”

(If you donate to charities based on them having low overhead instead of on proven results, you are the problem. Do not do this.)

Broadly, the sorts of things that would make sense would be hiring someone to do payroll, an accountant, a team of coders, sysadmins, people to write documentation, various levels of manager to interface between different teams, staff to deal with Abuse reports…

Basically, anything that’s particularly onerous or where it’s helpful to have the same person working a full time workload instead of lots of volunteers doing a little bit each would work best as a paid position. There are a lot of things like this, some more to do with how AO3 functions for users and some more relevant to making the internal experience of staff and volunteers less shitty.

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rthko

The most jarring thing about reading quotes from republicans during the AIDS crisis is not how cruel and bigoted they were (which cannot be overstated), but how familiar they are. Calling to forcibly tattoo people with AIDS so they could be identified doesn't just sound like an extreme but dated position of the 1980s; powerful republicans are still saying comparable shit every day. Jesse Helms is running for president in the form of Ron DeSantis. When American liberals and moderates ask "what happened to the republicans," the answer is nothing. They have been just as brutal and genocidal for the past 40+ years, and anyone who says otherwise has been ignoring the pleas and struggles of persecuted groups.

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robothugscomic

New comic! (link)

This week I am very happy to present a collaboration comic with my friend Chrissie, who has been generous in sharing with me her experiences of gender dynamics in a technical field, and then helping me craft them into a comic narrative.

Whenever I see Chrissie’s work I’m always impressed at the cool, creative things she does. When we were discussing this comic, she told me: “I find men persistently try to direct me lots now too, which is probably the biggest problem I consistently run into”, and my feelings around that fact are a terrible and familiar blend of frustration, sadness, and lack of surprise.

When we talk about the differences in how men and women are treated professionally, especially in technical fields, we are often dismissed with ‘everyone has to deal with that’, or ‘women need to demonstrate more confidence with their skills’, or ‘they’re just trying to be helpful’, or ‘it’s all in your head’.

It’s frustrating when we know something like this is happening, but we spend so much of our time actually trying to get people to believe that it’s a real phenomenon. I find narratives like Chrissie’s validating in that she has a comparative set of experiences and is like ‘oh yeah, people totally think I’m less competent at my job now. it’s totally a thing’.  So, can guys just believe us already and get on helping it not happen?

seasicksandile

I work as a vet tech at an exotics clinic, since transitioning to male i get AT LEAST half as many questions as i use to from clients. Our older male clients specifically who could spend 15 min grilling me about the info i was giving them, dont give me shit anymore!!! I tell them their bird has x going on and the treatment is y/z, and theyre like “okay, thank you sir”


Intead of the “well, did the DOCTOR say that? I want his opinion.” Kind of shit

sumunsinsot

Maybe I’m too autistic for that, but I literally cannot grasp what the fuck must be going on in the heads of people who use services of a professional, THEN start doubting their qualifications/thinking that they know more about this field, and yet still fucking proceed to use said services.

Like, if your prejudices make you see other people as incapable of performing their work, maybe have the courtesy to Fuck Right Off?

roach-works

one of the things i noticed taper off sharply as i became more and more masculine was i stopped being corrected on the words for tools. as a girl in boy’s clothes i HAD to use the right words for EVERY tool i picked up, pointed at, or casually mentioned– and since a lot of tools have multiple casual names, someone was sure to correct me no matter what i said.

once i started passing, i could just snap and point and say ‘pincher thingy’ and someone would hand it over without comment.

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lizardsfromspace

People are fretting about the "sexuality" of people riding bikes naked at pride and as someone who was once at the Farmer's Market with family without realizing it was World Naked Bike Ride day I have to say: who the fuck sees that and gets horny instead of thinking about how awful it'd be if they crashed. I know I'm ace but if you look at a dicks out bicycle rider and think sex thoughts instead of FRETTING for that dick, being CONCERNED about the lack of safety precautions for that dick, thinking with horror about the pavement beneath, I don't know what to say