Since May 3rd, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) — the nonprofit behind AO3, Fanlore, and other projects — has been dealing with malicious attacks aimed at the organization and its volunteers. We wanted to share with you some of what’s been happening, as well as what we’re doing to contain it, and how it may affect our response times to your inquiries and our workload in general. Above all, we need to ask for your patience, because these are complicated times for all of us at the OTW.
An unknown attacker has been sending our volunteers threatening emails with illegal child sexual abuse material (CSAM), which has been reported to several law enforcement authorities.
My personal thoughts, very briefly: I’m not going to name names, but is it really a huge mystery which kind of people might be behind this? I think not.
Ffs… SO “fun” story from Al-Khalil. Families attend the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, in Al-Khalil, a bunch settlers have arrived and started looting the home of a Palestinian family and taken the building for their own, and they’re calling this “Building Aquisition”.
The family was at a f*cking funeral and their home is now stolen.
This is what it’s like being a Palestinian in Palestine. There are PLENTY of similar stories of people visiting their families or going shopping and returning to their homes either empty of valuables or outright claimed by settlers.
[ID 1: Text that reads, “Part of season four of ‘Stranger Things,’ the teen her sci-fi series, was filmed inside Lukiškės Prison in Vilnus, according to promotional materials distributed by the Lithuanian capital’s tourism board. The prison was used for a century before closing in 2019; it has now been converted into cultural center where guests can stay in a ‘Stranger Things’-themed cell fr 107 Euros ($114) a night.” /End ID 1.
ID 2: Text that reads, “During Lukiškės’ century of operation, it was the site of imprisonment, torture and executions for political prisoners. In 1941, the first people to be murdered in the Ponary massacre were 348 Jews and others who had been imprisoned at Lukiškės. Nearly 100,000 people, mostly Jewish, would be murdered at the Ponary site near Vilnus, formerly known as Vilna, int he subsequent months.” Ponary massacre is a hyperlink. /End ID 2.]
Ffs… SO “fun” story from Al-Khalil. Families attend the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, in Al-Khalil, a bunch settlers have arrived and started looting the home of a Palestinian family and taken the building for their own, and they’re calling this “Building Aquisition”.
The family was at a f*cking funeral and their home is now stolen.
This is what it’s like being a Palestinian in Palestine. There are PLENTY of similar stories of people visiting their families or going shopping and returning to their homes either empty of valuables or outright claimed by settlers.
