Just a Spark

Films, baking, and bunnies are what I'm all about. ISFP. Hufflepuff. Thunderbird.

[logrollingdownhill]

Alex Guarnaschelli: Regina George of Food Network

[songinthelight]

Okay tumblr I need some advice.

At work there is a group of young adults that collect recycling at least every other day, sometimes every day. There's one young man that stands out. Let's call him John.

John always greets me with a hello and a fist bump. He'll comment on the artwork that I've collected at cons, and always tries to strike up a conversation with anyone. He sounds like an alright guy, right?

Well John seems to be unaware of social cues because once I say hello back and return the fist bump, then he never.leaves.me.alone. I'll ignore him, give him one-word answers, put headphones on... anything to give off the vibe that I'm not interested in talking to him.

It has gotten to the point where my coworkers have to intervene by making up an issue or interrupt with questions. I've had to literally hide from him because he beelines for me once he sees me.

Now today, John greets me (and only me) and collects the recycling from the cubicles surrounding me before stopping to strike up a casual situation. Co-worker A pulls me away for printer "issues" John then goes around to collect the rest of the recycling, and at this point he gets the hint that I don't want to talk to him...NOPE BECAUSE THEN HE CIRCLES BACK AND TRIES TO RESTART THE CONVERSATION. Then co-worker B tries to save me with a question about an issue in our conference room, and co-worker A calls me while hiding under her desk. Then he gets upset and finally leaving.

Now I don't feel safe at work because I'm afraid he's going to keep pursuing me and that something bad may happen...like being stalked or getting shot because I won't return his feelings.

I'm freaking out and I have no idea what to do. Am I overreact? Should I trust my gut feeling?

TLDR; young kid may have crush on me, won't leave me alone when he stops to pick up recycling. I don't feel safe at work and I'm at a loss of what to do.

[korvys]

You know, I think every single skill I’ve ever learned, was just cause I had a dumb idea, and didn’t yet know how to make it into a dumb reality. 

 For example: I now have some rudimentary video editing ability.

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

Whose Line is it Anyway s14e05 - Worst deleted scene from a Star Wars movie

“Leia, I’m your brother.” “I don’t care.“

[…]

“I am the evil Emperor. First, we build a wall!“

[cobracadabra]

I’m glad @gregproops brought these awesome nicknames to the show.

[somanyofthekids]

honestly the idea that this Dumbledore

was thirsting after this Grindelwald

is just too big a stretch for my suspension of disbelief. Magic, unicorns, childhood trauma manifesting as a physical representation of destruction- that’s all cool.

But don’t try to make me believe that Jude Dumbledore Law wanted to grind on Coleslaw Head up there.

[sincerelysaraahh]

The fucking caption!!!! Omg I’m dying!!!!

[songinthelight]

Me right now

[songinthelight]

I'm so fucking fat.

Chuck-a-monk and thunder thighs will be a permanent fixture in my life.

[chrisminart]

Yeah I was probably a bit too excited. I was asking for one piece for each member of Team RWBY, separately. And the one piece of. Team RWBY.

Request numero dos is done! Remember that today is that last day I’ll be doing free requests if anyone’s interested!

[staff]

Once more for old time’s sake

🔥 With your help, we passed Title II net neutrality protections. Now we need to defend it.🔥

On December 14 the FCC will vote on Commissioner Pai’s plan to repeal Title II rules. This week he tried to justify that decision with a “myth busting” explainer where he makes a lot of sweeping claims he doesn’t think you’ll fact check. 

So let’s go through his big points:

❌ Mr. Pai claims ISPs won’t block access or throttle content

These are the real facts. Before Title II, the internet was so “free and open” that… 

Comcast blocked P2P file sharing services (EFF).

AT&T blocked Skype from iPhones (Fortune) and, later, wanted FaceTime users to pay for a more expensive plan (Freepress).

MetroPCS blocked all streaming video except YouTube (Wired).

In today’s media market where the same huge companies make and deliver content, Commissioner Pai wants us to trust that corporations won’t use their dominance to bury competitive content or services. 

❌ Mr. Pai claims Title II keeps ISPs from building new networks

Here’s another claim Commissioner Pai doesn’t want you to fact check, but:

AT&T’s own CEO told investors that the company would deploy more fiber optic networks in 2016 than 2015 when the FCC passed Title II protections (Investor call transcript). 

Charter’s CEO said “Title II, it didn’t really hurt us; it hasn’t hurt us” (Ars Technica).  

And Comcast actually increased investment in their network by 10% in Q1 of this year (Ars). 

❌ Mr. Pai claims repealing Title II won’t hurt competition

As we mentioned above, ISPs tried to interfere with the services their customers could access and courts had to step in to stop them.

The FCC tried to craft net neutrality rules in 2010 called the Open Internet Order but the ISPs sued and won. The courts told the FCC that the only way to guarantee a free and open internet was using their Title II authority. Without those protections, any of these things would be legal:

Your ISP launches a streaming video service and starts throttling other streaming services until they’re unusable.

Your phone company cuts a deal with a popular music streaming service so it doesn’t count towards your data cap but lowers your overall data limit. If a better service comes along (or your favorite artist releases new tracks somewhere else) you can’t use it without incurring huge data fees.

A billionaire buys your ISP and blocks access to news sites that challenge their ideology. 

Repealing Title II would be like letting a car company own the roads and banning a competitor from the highways.

❌ Mr. Pai claims there won’t be fast lanes and slow lanes

Let’s break this down: We won’t have fast lanes and slow lanes, we’ll have “priority access” and…non-priority access? Well gosh.

🚨 Please help us protect Title II one more time! 🚨

This week we co-signed a letter with more than 300 other companies—businesses Mr. Pai gleefully ignores—urging the FCC to retain the Title II internet protections. Now we need you.

Go to 👉 Battle For The Net 👈  to start a call with your representatives in Congress. Tell them to publicly support Title II protections. 

The FCC votes on December 14.

We’re only powerful when we work together.

Oh, also: that post about automatically unfollowing the #net neutrality tag—it’s not true. It’s really not. That’s not who we are. Whatever happened, we haven’t been able to reproduce it. We tried. A lot.

But if it were true—which it’s not, we feel compelled to say again—THAT’S EXACTLY WHY YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES and demand a free, open, and neutral internet.

We can do this one more time, guys! ❤️

[cobracadabra]

Forehead, meet crotch.

[cobracadabra]

Clips from the World’s Worst Cop Show

[cobracadabra]

Clips from the World’s Worst Cop Show

[thorodinson]

I am Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. In the name of all that is good, your wrath upon this world is over.

Wonder Woman (2017)

[triforce-princess]

[prncediana]

“It’s my favorite scene in the movie and it’s the most important scene in the movie. It’s also the scene that made the least sense to other people going in, which is why it’s a wonderful victory for me. I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people, they fight villains. So when I started to really hunker in on the significance of No Man’s Land, there were a couple people who were deeply confused, wondering, like, ‘Well, what is she going to do? How many bullets can she fight?’ And I kept saying, ‘It’s not about that. This is a different scene than that. This is a scene about her becoming Wonder Woman.’” -Patty Jenkins on the No Man’s Land scene

[megan-fox]

I used to want to save the world, this beautiful place. But the closer you get, the more you see the great darkness within. I learnt this the hard way, a long, long time ago.