#budget report

[muffinlance]

Do you get the impression the live action is treating us like utter morons?? Like I thought that making it aimed at an older audience would open the doors for more subtle story telling, but no, they're just using monologues to tell us eveything! Like in the second episode Katara's like 'oh his power isn't that he's the avatar, it's that he ~connects~ to people'. Girl we're not idiots we can see that!! And the first episode with Aang's goddawful 'I don't want this responsibility' monologue

THIS, YES. The word that keeps coming to mind is definitely "subtlety". The show for literal children? Had it. The remake for adults? Not so much.

[otrtbs]

would y’all believe that i have to go to [redacted] tomorrow on a business trip at 4:30 am to pick up and ensure the safe delivery of $172,000 worth of art to my museum ???? would you believe me if i told you i found out just monday afternoon that i was going for sure ?????

[simplyghosting]

Typing out people’s spending reports like 🫣

[deoidesign]

Guys you're not gonna believe this. The books are wrong again

At least this time I didn't even get half of them and half of what I did get was damaged...? So I only have another 70 books to deal with... This time they're soft touch......

I've got so many of book 2 it's not even funny

[stalebagels]

[transformativeworks]

OTW Finance: 2023 Budget

OTW's Finance Committee has released our 2023 budget.  They detail where donations go and what our expected income is this year.  Find out more about what it takes to run the organization at https://otw.news/af6503

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[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

stans wanna eat their cake and have it so bad. it is either feyre has equal responsibilities as rhys as high lady therefore she is perfectly capable of ruling the nc in his absence (which she is not considering she doesn’t even know the damn laws) or feyre deserves to rest and that’s why she’s doing the little things while rhys does the big things therefore they are not equals. one or the other, both cannot be true at the same time. saying feyre is helping velaris proves absolutely nothing because she’s only helping a third of her court, it’s high lady of the night court not high lady of velaris. and the things she was doing to “help velaris” are giving very much first lady, which fine, nothing wrong with that, but don’t sit there and tell me she’s the president.

[honestlyvan]

Let me be absolutely clear -- the problems with Tumblr will keep getting worse if the disabled minority and the trans people and the people frothing at the mouth at the opportunity to yell at a transphobe, keep @’ing staff and the developers on this site, tell them to kys, because in the meanwhile the transphobes and racists and white supremacists will keep using the actual tools Tumblr provides for blocking and reporting, further poisoning the datasets used for moderation, and encouraging the idea that using the official tools does nothing to basically ensure the only statistically meaningful data available to Automattic is poisoned, poisoned all the way down, poisoned beyond usability.

Hatespeech and bias needs to be reported for it to be considered statstically significant to act on from a developer point of view. Suicide baiting and spamming any of the official means of communication will get you eliminated as a spammer, even if you’re peppering legitimate criticism within your ventpost about how you hate the new thing. You are playing the TE/RFs game.

[magentagalaxies]

sometimes being the director of the buddy cole documentary is an emotional rollercoaster for reasons entirely unrelated to actual controversy with the character

basically. this morning paramount took down the comedy central website and made every link redirect to paramount plus (which i do not have). previously you could find clips from every time buddy cole was a correspondent on the colbert report for free on the comedy central website, but not only are those free clips no longer up, paramount plus doesn't even have the colbert report.

so even if this craven attempt to get people to pay ransom subscribe to their streaming service worked, they didn't even take the clips with them!!!

so i was in mourning for a solid few hours this morning bc like if i'd known this was going to happen i would have at least screen-recorded each of the segments even if it meant the audio sync was a little off. but i had no idea this was going to happen and now yet another piece of buddy cole media was lost forever. and i'm used to having gaps in my timeline. stuff like scottland and the lowest show i've only been able to watch bc bellini happened to have a dvd he could digitize. and stuff like the buddy cole funny or die clips, out on the edge, and the ctv royal wedding special i may never see. but when something like this happens in real time after i've already dedicated myself to preserving and documenting the works of buddy cole, it really stings

i know i shouldn't feel like i somehow "failed buddy" for not preserving these episodes. i had no idea comedy central's parent company was going to throw out so much of their content, we're just in a literal hellscape with regards to how corporations value art. but i can't help but feel a little protective of buddy - not protective in terms of controversy, per se, controversy is a natural reaction to everything scott does with buddy cole and i don't always have to agree with everything the character stands for. i've already gotten a taste of being in my own buddy cole controversy, and it was horrible but it also felt like this is what's supposed to happen because we're now able to have this conversation. but being completely forgotten? that doesn't feel natural one bit even though it keeps happening to so much of this character's timeline.

anyway, i pasted the links into the wayback machine and even tho it could load the interface it couldn't load the videos. i found a record of each episode on the internet archive but they're all chopped into 1-2 minute clips, there's an option to "borrow" full episodes and have them mail you a flashdrive but i have no idea how that works and if i'd then be allowed to copy the episodes onto my own computer. i eventually found the colbert report is still available to purchase on itunes for $1.99 per episode - i'd need four specific episodes so that would be more like $8, which isn't too bad, but still stings just on principle. plus, what if that iTunes interface goes down someday? the only colbert report dvds are "best of" and even if i think buddy cole is the best part of anything he's in, the people making the dvds probably don't.

[girderednerve]

MSHA silica standard enacted!!! mining workers now have a federal silica dust standard in line with other industries, cutting the acceptable limit by half. the new rule also requires mine operators outside the coal sector to provide similar free health exams to miners

[theviolenttomboy]

I honestly wonder what the budget for most major Nintendo games are because the guy in charge of Xenoblade is very grateful that a little over a million copies per game gets sold (and Xenoblade might be the biggest first-party Nintendo franchise in terms of pure scope and scale, dunno how it compares to BOTW and TOTK), while it just came out that the latest Ratchet and Clank game lost 8 million bucks after selling 2.2 million copies.

(I also acknowledge that Nintendo might not care too much about Xenoblade making much of a profit because the deal apparently is that the Xenoblade guys can do whatever they want as long as they provide dev support to the Nintendo pillar franchises, but still. They gotta be at least breaking even.)

[howtotrainyouragents]

This is a minor thing and I get why they didn't do it, but I was super disappointed that they didn't keep Ares' little fires for eyes thing. Like they've stripped all the gods and monsters of any real gravitas, but for me especially, the scene of Ares removing his sunglasses and there's just fire where his eyes should be has stuck with me for 15 years if that tells you anything about how absolutely hardcore of a character design that is

[chaotic-history]

To this day I think that my proudest moment is that when I was 12 I sent an anonymous email to my pastor criticising how our church was spending money on stupid shit like making the building look nicer and paying the organist a stupidly high salary instead of using the money for charity and then she (the pastor) got incredibly pissed off about it because she thought the email was from someone on Session 😌

[worlds-4th-best-dad]

Oh. I would return your son to you, but you did not give the green light to our relationship. I don't want to upset him any more by killing you, so I'll just take him away.

No self-respecting father would ever willingly hand over their son to a nutjob like you! And like Hell you're taking him away!

[gaymothman]

cancel culture is so wild to me, on one hand i agree the original intent of holding people with massive public platforms and influences of power accountable for being shitty because it can cause a lot of damage, but when it comes to like, small users online or people in real life over relatively banal issues like using a term you don't like, or being kind of an asshole, or engaging with a media you deem problematic in comparison to things like... real actual hate speech or predation? i'm sorta just like, if you can't tell me "hey that hurt my feelings/offended me and i think that was shitty" and me be able to either go "oh that's good to know i'm sorry i'll try to change my behavior" or "i don't really care" and both of us be able to move on with absolutely no further interaction in either instance, recognizing this is a small scale issue in the world, and without you needing to lead a harassment campaign against me to run me off the internet, then i'm really not the one with an behavioral problem that needs to be adjusted for the greater public good am i?