So truly, we're endless

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications.

"You hold more leverage than a cancellation could ever give you, and it works in the opposite direction. A donation that disappears is invisible. It shows up as one anonymous line in a spreadsheet, gets blamed on the economy or a bad fundraising email, and teaches the institution nothing.

"A donor who speaks up is much harder to wave off, because donors are handed a door that the Foundation’s own staff and volunteers aren’t. You should walk through that door instead of slipping out the back.

"In practice, that means writing to the Board of Trustees, whose job is to hold leadership to account, and telling them in your own words that your support has always been a matter of trust, and that trust depends on how an institution treats the people who build it.

bd- bandes dessinées

s- sucettes

m- mes amis :3

a) No, I'm not going to adopt your superstitions.

b) That's not their name. "Skinwalker" is an english bastardisation. The romanisation of the Diné term is yee naaldlooshii.** Like 1/100 of the valiant defenders of the Navajo on this site even clock that it might be odd for a group native americans to have a centuries old taboo against a very recent (1970s) english word.

c) As far as I can tell, there is no actual taboo against using the name for superstitious reasons. The name is associated with unpleasant topics (cultural association with death, plus, yknow, that time they murdered a bunch of their own tribe members in 1878 through witch hunts, still within living memory when the first ethnographies were being written) and they don't want to talk about them with outsiders.

Fuck you, OP, and everyone else you galavant by "permitting" them to "shake off the guilt" of being racist thieves.

Everyone wants permission to jump in and start tearing cultures apart. They're just waiting for someone to give the signal - ignoring ALLLL the people who say not to fucking do it - because they think it's a bullshit thing to gatekeep from them, and "We were really doing you a favour by paying lip service to your bullshit 'traditions' anyway."

"AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL - **simplifying - we have the RIGHT to strip everything from you because we don't have any value put onto it. IT'S JUST A SUPERSTITION HURR HURR, AND I DON'T HAVE TO ADOPT THAT, JUST TAKE THE THING AND STRIP IT OF ITS MEANING AND THEN WAVE IT FRONT OF YOU. WHY NOT MAKE MY OWN? BECAUSE FUCK YOU, INDIANS, YOUR SHIT IS OUR SHIT."

so you could once again cherrypick what you wanted from us and use it for your own gain.

No, I am unlikely to ever write stories about wendigos or skinwalkers. I have no personal stake in giving anyone, let alone myself, permission to write about these.

hurr hurr dumb fuckinh indians don't even know those shit things aren't real

No, idiotic tumblrites act like these creatures are real and insist on horror movie rules when discussing them for some reason. You can just go on wikipedia to find examples of actual first nations people happily using "wendigo" because the taboo against saying their name does not exist the way some of you seem to think.

Literally everyone who reblogged that post was white, too.

Straightforwardly untrue. Don't lie about people's race to get points in tumblr arguments.

we have the RIGHT to strip everything from you

It's important to me that you recognise that writers, animators, artists, whatever, do in fact have that right. Like, just as a matter of engaging with the world as it exists, they do have that right.

the Algonquin

Algonquian. "Algonquin" is the english name for the Omàmìwininìwag, a specific tribe from what is now ontario and quebec. The Algonquians are a group of tribes, spanning from quebec to northeast USA, midwest USA, and alberta, that share a language family.

just don't wanna talk about it with white people for reasons I, a white person, disagree with.

I don't know if you can tell it's Iron Lung fanart :////