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Stranger Things
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
we're not kids anymore.

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@bunniegrrl
This is probably one of my absolute favourite digital portraits I have made so far. When I first watched the show I just absolutely fell in love with the vivid colours in the scene. I just knew I absolutely had to draw it one day! 
Inconsistent lore or something else?
So in re-re-rewatching SVU, my brain latches onto anything lore related for Barba cause.. it's Barba. I need to know all the things. He says in 14x8, Lessons Learned, that he was a kid in the SOUTH Bronx going to Catholic School. Okay, great. But in 15x5, October Surprise, he says he, Alex, and Eddie are the Three Musketeers of Jerome Avenue. Jerome Avenue is in the WEST Bronx. Either he was bussed ALL that way to go to Catholic school (which, there are a good many along Jerome Avenue since its a two mile stretch), or the lore has a gaping hole. The only other possibility is that between when he was a kid in Catholic school and when he met Alex and Eddie, his family moved to the West side. Which one are we betting on? EDIT 3/26: So I'm reminded by a tiktok video that his mom commented on how Alex would be something someday, she never said that to him, etc. He was seven at that time, he said. So HOW.. was he in the South Bronx, going to catholic school, knowing Alex, AND on Jerome Ave in the West Bronx.. all at the SAME time? Some writer needs to be re-reading their own stuff, it seems.
Inconsistent lore or something else?
So in re-re-rewatching SVU, my brain latches onto anything lore related for Barba cause.. it's Barba. I need to know all the things. He says in 14x8, Lessons Learned, that he was a kid in the SOUTH Bronx going to Catholic School. Okay, great. But in 15x5, October Surprise, he says he, Alex, and Eddie are the Three Musketeers of Jerome Avenue. Jerome Avenue is in the WEST Bronx. Either he was bussed ALL that way to go to Catholic school (which, there are a good many along Jerome Avenue since its a two mile stretch), or the lore has a gaping hole. The only other possibility is that between when he was a kid in Catholic school and when he met Alex and Eddie, his family moved to the West side. Which one are we betting on? EDIT 3/26: So I'm reminded by a tiktok video that his mom commented on how Alex would be something someday, she never said that to him, etc. He was seven at that time, he said. So HOW.. was he in the South Bronx, going to catholic school, knowing Alex, AND on Jerome Ave in the West Bronx.. all at the SAME time? Some writer needs to be re-reading their own stuff, it seems.
Raul community
To my surprise, I could not find a Tumblr community for our beloved Raul, so I decided to create one myself. Everyone is free to join; the rules are generally just "don't be a dick", and love Raul.
Link to join is here.
“First season of LEVERAGE - so he's 21 years old - he shows me his watch designs. I'm expecting, y' know, celebrity strap branding or faces. No, it's engineering schematics of GEARS and shit. Pages of them. Even then, there were none so cool.” - John Rogers
I need this beautiful and talented man on my blog. *especially* for Black History Month
Flashback to the start of 2021 when I made this video from clips of every appearance Raúl made in 2020 during lockdown
I need a quick little video of the Leverage team reacting to the Louvre robbery. I feel like Parker would be so offended. “Who brings chainsaws to rob the Louvre??? And scooters? What kind of getaway strategy is that?”
aardvaark got a shot of what Beth posted about it! https://www.tumblr.com/aardvaark/797938429530980352?source=share
"i don't care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt" i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die
i know a lot of people study just to get paid well but girl this is engineering be for fucking real take this seriously
114 people died in the Hyatt Regency collapse, and in the US it's the third largest structural collapse fatality count, behind 9/11 and the Pemberton Mill collapse in 1860.
I've learned about this tragedy in my physics classes, to demonstrate tensile strength, and as a reminder about the importance of calculations being done right. I've also learned about it in my legal classes as an example of construction defect lawsuits. I've seen it referenced in disaster response classes.
Between AI and the current Presidential administration, we're barrelling right back towards this nightmare.
There are multiple errors that resulted in this collapse, but these stand out to me:
1. Kansas City was facing high unemployment and needed to attract jobs and business into the city. So the planning and inspection departments may have looked too closely at the designs.
2. An engineering firm too lazy to double check their designs or design changes by the manufacturer before approving them. The error that resulted in the collapse was one that the owner of the engineering firm said that a "first year engineering student" would spot.
3. The steel manufacturer treating preliminary plans as final plans, not verifying the math on their end.
The bridges' original design could only hold 60% of the minimum load required by city code. The design changes recommended by the manufacturer halved that. Less than a year and 3 weeks from opening to the public, the whole thing collapse.
Articles about the collapse say that everyone "trusted" the other party to have done the calculations correctly.
A significant portion of the population trusts what the computer or AI tells them, without checking. Imprecisely calibrated AI hallucinate information. The US economy is going into a downturn and federal regulatory agencies are being gutted.
We are going to see the Hyatt Regency Collapse repeat over and over for decades, not just in buildings, but in medicine, manufacturing, the environment, etc.
Some of this we're just going to have to weather, but the message for AI users comes straight from IBM (once the world's leading computer manufacturer) back in 1979:
"A Computer Cannot Be Held Accountable. Therefore A Computer Should Never Make A Management Decision."
The owner of the engineering firm that designed the Hyatt Regency spent the rest of his life lecturing on the disaster, to serve as a warning to his fellow engineers about the real-life consequences of sloppy design.
I don't think Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk will have the courage or the honor to do that when OpenAI / Meta / xAI are responsible for getting people killed.
So if you're going to blindly trust the AI to do critical work tasks, I hope you're prepared to be making an apology tour for the rest of your life if it all goes wrong.
If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.
Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.
Given how much tumblr likes both leverage and days of the week, kind of surprised this isn’t a thing. Happy no-stabbing Wednesday y’all.
Happy no stabbing Wednesday leverage fandom
The grumpy heavy hitter with the unnerving stare.
When you read that, you immediately thought of...
Eliot Spencer
Bucky Barnes
Jack Reacher
Someone else, feel free to reblog to let me know who
Please reblog! I only have about 7 human followers so I'd love a variety of answers.
Leverage 4x15- "The Lonely Hearts Job"
Brooklyn 9-9 ep: Coral Palms, part 2 | Law & Order: SVU ep: Twenty-Five Acts ↳ me after Barba’s first episode
I think my recent and ongoing obsession with Leverage is helping me shift to the perspective that I don't especially care that what Trump and Musk are doing is illegal and unconstitutional (which it is), I care that it is cruel and causing excessive suffering for millions of people, or even dozens of people. I'm glad that people like Tish James and my college friend who works for her are fighting the good legal fight, but the law does not really seem to matter to the people grabbing power so why should it matter to me?
Also I just finally read The Dispossessed and the basics of anarchism are bubbling in my brain.