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Give it up to Cobra Bubbles regaining his composure and going back to business with Nani after having Stitch randomly chuck a heavy ass book at his face like that.
He probably was fuming by the time he got into his car after his shades became a casualty of the attack.
"Thus far you have been adrift in the sheltered harbor of my patience" is the most amazing line what the fluff. We don't just forget how clever the screenplay was comedy wise and profound emotionally, it often did both at once my goodness
Underrated take on one of my favorite movies that I refuse to let you leave in the tags
I think overall it's very important to remember that Nate is NOT interested in trying to bring down the whole system. But boy oh boy, when Moreau says "If we couldn't move money just because it was dirty, the world economy would collapse," that is the face of a man who's very suddenly considering that the correct answer might be THEN LET IT BURN.
YEAH, actually. I did not initially think it was that deep, but…
Seasons 1 & 2 he has very little reason to stop and think about what this all means in the big picture. He never feels like he’s fully committed to it, and although he’s certainly trying to do good, he’s mostly just doing what FEELS good.
Season Three rolls around, he’s made his decision, he’s committed, 100%, which means he has to actually think about the reasoning and drive behind it. AND at the same time, he gets thrown into this Moreau thing, which, for the first time, really starts to drive home how none of these bad guys exist in a vacuum. It’s all interconnected, it’s all systemic, and yeah, maybe that DOES mean the whole system is the problem.
So yeah, I think Moreau is the first domino. But I don’t think Nate has a whole plan here. Because he needs a second, much bigger domino: Latimer, explaining to him that Leverage is just a market control. This has always bothered me because Latimer is RIGHT and that isn’t directly addressed. But Nate’s just not quite ready for it yet, because Season Four is a whole reassessing process, including the reassessment of “hmm something is very wrong with how i’ve been doing things, maybe i should just kill people?” So he kinda has to work through THAT before he gets to
Season Five: Yeah, what he’s doing isn’t enough. AND maybe he isn’t the one who can fix it. Because even now that he can see what needs to be done, he’s too mired in his own experiences — he’s still the Honest Man, here meaning he’s the one who’s been an active and complacent participant in the system. So even knowing that it’s wrong, he can’t fully visualize and commit to making it right. But he can set the stage for the ones who can.
And maybe the person who can do the most to fix it is the one who has very few preconceived notions about how the world is supposed to work. The person who has had to do the most work to learn for herself what’s right and wrong. The person who now cares very deeply about the things she’s learned through experience are right, and who doesn’t give a fuck if that lines up with the way things are “supposed” to work.
They don’t need the honest man anymore. They need the thief.
Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!
Here's what I need you to do:
If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.
Yes, that's really it.
I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.
If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.
Tumblr Science FAQ, round 1
What's your hypothesis, OP?
I am not talking about that unless I have results to share. That would bias the results.
I did write them down and I did share them with a trusted contact who can prove that I wrote them down the same day I made this post. (While I did so before I made this post, I am not sure they will be able to provide proof of that, because I did so on the same day.)
OP are you interested in...?
Do you have to click through to see the post? Does the clickthrough contain the words "mature content"? Then yes.
OP are you interested if the post is about...?
I am interested in the mature content labels, not the content of the post. Is there a clickthrough that contains the words "mature content"? Then yes.
Tumblr Science FAQ, round 2
Should I reblog this for reach?
Yes, please. I felt really silly when I noticed I forgot to include that in the original post.
Is it okay if I send you my own posts?
Yes, those are perfect for what I'm looking for. I actually need to do some processing on a post to make it useful for testing my hypothesis, and this makes it easy.
Are you looking for "potentially mature content" also, or just "mature content"?
I want both, please. Anything that throws up a blocking screen that you have to click through. The distinctions between them are one of the things I am hoping to study.
Does it matter when the post was made originally?
Technically no. There's no way to respond to this without introducing some bias in the results, and I don't want that. However, I do collect some data on a post as part of making it useful to me, and that data is easier to collect if the post is recent.
What if I request content label review on a post after I send it to you?
I need to see the mature content label to be able to use the post. Because the mature content label hides the content of the post, it is very hard to use a post that no longer has a mature content label. You could send me a screenshot, but people could use that to lie to me.
Basically, it's more work for you to make it usable to me.
OP are you a transphobe? It would ruin the experiment for me if you're a transphobe.
I promise I'm not a transphobe and not doing this for transphobic reasons. You should still double-check that I'm not a transphobe for yourself, though. I am not sure that this study will have the useful effects you're hoping for; I am studying something specific, and it may not be what you hope.
Sense8 - 1x04 - What's Going On
For me, the best scene in TV history. Always makes me cry :')
To all my writer friends who are on the struggle bus/suffering from writer's block/just dealing with life stuff right now!
pov you are sent to hell
never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It
signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy
#The number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing
The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.
how dare you say we put jam in the printer
Ok reblogging this again because story time.
I work in tech, and much of what I do is support sales reps within the company by resolving errors with the software they use.
There is one sales rep who, every single time I send her a message or email with extremely specific instructions that will resolve her issue, does something completely different from what I tell her. Every time. Without fail. It is so glaringly obvious that she has never read even a single word that I have written to her.
So one day, she sends me a message that says little more than "(software) is broken, help"
So I do my standard song and dance of asking her what she's trying to accomplish, and what specifically is stopping her from doing that. And eventually, after much unnecessary back and forth, she tells me there's an error message. I ask her to send me a screenshot of the error message. She does.
The error message basically says, "these two required fields are blank. To resolve this, please fill in these two specific fields, and then click save."
So I take a few deep breaths.
Then I lie to her.
I message her back, saying "hey yeah, for some reason it's not loading that screenshot on my end. Could you type out the full text of the error message for me?"
She does.
I ask her if she still needs help.
She does not respond.
I have similar story from tech support.
Client is reporting that Some Thing Program doesn't work. I ask if there's an error message with further information about what's not working. Client says "no". I go over and ask Client to open Some Thing. Client double-clicks on the icon for Some Thing, it starts to boot, an error message dialog flashes up on screen, Client closes error message before I can read it, Thing closes after the error.
"What did that error message say?" I ask.
"What error message?" asks Client.
I tell Client to open the Some Thing again and then not click anything else. Client opens Some Thing, error message appears, Client clicks it away again.
I tell Client to stand up, step away, and give me physical control of the computer. I open Some Thing, start looking at the error message without closing it, and Client says "You should close that." I tell Client that I am reading the error message. Client is apparently accustomed to treating error messages as a kind of spam email that should be deleted as fast as possible, and gets agitated that I'm reading it.
I read the error message. It tells me what the problem is. I fix the problem. Some Thing works now.
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Later, I start thinking about how such an error message might perhaps be engineered to be more attention-grabbing and close-resistant as a way of making people read it. It's not important for some random program here, but there are more important systems (medical, etc) where it would be reasonable to demand the user's attention because people's lives depend on paying attention to the error message.
But then people with a perverted intellect would still be thinking about ways to avoid reading the message, like dragging it off edge of screen or hiding it behind another window. So maybe the dialog box could have an always-in-front feature to override other windows, and the alert could use the computer's hardware "beep" functionality that can't be switched off by muting the regular sound system, and keep beeping... shit, I realize I'm reinventing pain, and get philosophical about it.
I'm thinking about the harm of nuisance alarms now.
A nuisance alarm is a repeated false alarm. Like a fly buzzing in your ear, nuisance alarms start becoming an annoyance you just swat at to make them go away. "Oh, the temperature alarm in the cold room is going off again? Just hit reset, it always does that, management won't buy us a new one but the temperature is never too high so it's fine," et cetera. This means that when the alarm is going off for real -- the temperature in the cold room is actually too high -- recognition of the situation is delayed due to the habit of distrusting the alarm. This is something that is acknowledged and tempered in industries where it is very important for alarms to not be ignored (aviation, for eg.), but elsewhere, it can cause a lot of issues.
I'm not saying the error messages in the above story are nuisance alarms. In fact, they're the true alarms: they're the information getting lost in the noise.
In this scenario, the nuisance alarms are ads.
We have been conditioned to react with hostility to pop-ups because they are so frequently something that require hostility! All you want to do is read this delicious-sounding chocolate cake recipe on your favourite blogger's website, so why is your screen now filled with pop-ups asking you to sign up for a mailing list, and to buy this spatula on Temu, and to accept all cookies (I thought this was cake?). The solution? That little X in the upper corner, again and again and again. Ah, a clear screen, now you can read the cake recipe in relative peace.
It's understandable how that same behaviour could translate to other pop-ups, particularly if the error message sort are encountered far less frequently than the advertising sort. You're at work and you're just trying to run the program you always run, but it spits a pop-up at you. And we know how to fix a pop-up -- the little X. But the program still isn't running. You restart it in the hopes that will work, X the annoying pop-up again, and bah, no dice! Then the IT person asks what the pop-up says, and you're baffled because, well, it doesn't matter. It's just a pop-up. It's unimportant and exists to be closed. The IT person tells you that this pop-up is important and explains what you need to know, and you feel silly because how were you supposed to know that this time, this one pop-up was important?
Anyway. I don't know if there's a good and feasible solution to this kind of problem. Fixing the problems caused by nuisance alarms in aviation systems happens through fixing the alarms themselves so they don't go off falsely, but the equivalent here would be to... universally stop pop-up ads. Like, don't get me wrong, I would love for that to happen, but it's a lofty goal. Ad blockers work (props to Ublock Origin, I haven't seen an in-browser ad in years), but there are always going to be people who don't know about them/don't use them and are thus exposed to the pop-up nuisance alarms and all the problems they foster. And like we can say "just slow down and READ the WORDS before you react" but, as this entire thread can attest, that isn't exactly a solution either.
The editors super mega fucking cooked on the new game changer episode. Definitely the most humor from just cuts and transitions out of any episode so far. Sam all alone is also always so funny
when im at the jon matteson fanboy competition and will branner is there
apparently u can't add polls to posts from 12 years ago so i'm screenshotting it
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UNHOLY OFFSPRING OF LIGHTNING AND DEATH
Vanilla extract - I have 47!
so far "count the rice" is like "what if a game show was actually an escape room, but what if the escape room was actually the inferno and you have to climb your way out of several layers of hell"
I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD
Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️
Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.
Thank you to everyone who commented in their tags or messaged me. Indeed, today is “Martin and Bosco Day”. I originally whimsically blazed this photo on 13 July 2022. I never expected Martin and Bosco to travel so far and make so many new friends. The experience has been such a gift for me.
Angela's favorite Cinderella's Castle moment
Behind the Scenes of Tomb Quest Get Tomb Quest tickets here~
this is just a general notice that if you haven’t read the the msscribe story or the cassandra clare plagiarism debacle on bad_penny, you are really missing out on the depths of the TRULY ridiculous in fandom history.
