#The Optics

[notyetbulletproof]

So yes, the more I think about it— I am aware that the pre-promo makes sense because the show audience knows both the characters and book audiences have been rooting for them since day 1 and all. It’s a unique situation because we’ve been living with them for longer as opposed to them arriving with the season and changing life as we know it for themselves, the Bridgerton sibling present, the Bridgerton family and the ton as a whole.

Having said that — they still did Kate dirty last season because the way they dropped the ball on her story (which we saw in the book) in favour of the dumbest plot lines that SERVED NO PURPOSE, gosh I will probably never let that go. We can say that because (see: Simon’s story).

Anyway, all this to say, I understand the different promo. What I am still sad about is the seemingly lack of care and respect leading up to last season and ONCE THE SHOW DROPPED but maybe it really was just an improved team or even different focuses/investment by the showrunner because Queen C also got better promo but AIYA I’m just unlikely to forgive which begs the question — why do I want to to stay??

Kate and Anthony. And Benny B. That’s why. STILL, if Benedict doesn’t get ALL the press in his season... If Luke Thompson (and I assume - Claudia Jessie and Hannah Dodd) don’t get promoted like crazy, things really just AREN’T FAIR. It really could be the focus of the showrunner.. hmm. GOSH.

Life isn’t fair. Am I being a child about this? MAYBE SO. And yet here I am, screaming into the damn void.

[zegalba]

I-80 highway through Wyoming. nicknamed The Sisters, for the three sets of hills that create an optical illusion of the road rising into the sky

[sandbothe]

Basic Glitch pattern from Modern Groove quilts. No idea how I'm going to quilt this one!

[avastazyana]

'Transformers One' Cast Answer 50 of the Most Googled Transformers Questions (x)

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Not A Joke, Not Unreality:

A company called Quantum Fiber (under Century Link) recently set up my home town for fiber optic internet. I got them a month ago and aside from a few outages it was decent.

Last week, it went out. They sent me a super specific time it would be back-

They failed to make it and sent another, minutes later.

And another when that failed.

And over the week, more and more.

I called and they just read me the same email out loud. They offered no escalation or resources. Every time, they fail. I have not had internet for my house in a week, and this morning I got this one-

I looked into other people having the same problem and found this-

Edit forgot link

That's not something called a "766" line, that's them fucking up my city 766 times. This company is fucking shit, and I'm sick of this. I've filed an FCC complaint but those take a month to even get a reply.

So I'm hoping my 173,365 followers can help make this show of their ineptitude and callousness go viral. Please.

They are in a time of massive expansion into many new states and cities. I am asking anyone so inclined with a few minutes to spare to find your town or state's government information technology office or liaison, or just a local government representative of any kind, and write them a quick note stating that this company destroys town utilities and offers absolute frustrating failures of service in return.

If you have Quantum Fiber and have been similarly failed by them, please file an FCC complaint. You might at least get a free month out of it.

If you work with a news source or popular blog, please boost this however you can.

If you are on any app on which they are present, please feel free to write or tag them and let them know they have failed their customers and cities they work with.

Please do not engage in threats or harassment of any form. Keep this legal, civil, and proper so that it can create a legal basis and record of good citizen interaction on the part of this company's victims. I am asking for help in a grassroots campaign, not a violent or prank-filled heap that just gets people in trouble. AND DO NOT FOR ANY REASON EVER PESTER THE WORKERS, PHONE REPS AND TECHNICIANS THEY HAVE OUT THERE. This is the corporation's fault, not the poor folks they employ who they likely try to make take the backlash.

If you have any other ideas on how to hold a mega-corp responsible for the shit they put their customers through, please comment and recommend. I am sick of this shit. I know there are worse things happening and even worse companies doing horrid things right now. But maybe this one is new/small enough that a viral campaign can kick them where it hurts and get them to act more responsibly to their customers and safely to the places they work.

Please help if you have time. Please spread this in the hopes they see it and get off their butts and fix their horrible shit. Any random reblog or post on any platform might be the one their investors hear of.

Thank you anyone for anything you can do.

-Ari

[faeberrywine]

ID credit: 3846465911 on 小红书

(please like, reblog and give proper credit if you use any of my gifs!)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

[neil-gaiman]

Correct?

Close. The thing you assumed was a birch tree is actually a duck. There is, surprisingly, no cat in that picture.

[neo-kajatrash]

I've updated this little meme with different art heh... If you want to fill this out, please tag me! :3

[jareckiworld]

François Morellet (1926-2016) — Random Distribution of 40,000 Squares Using the Odd and Even Numbers of a Telephone Directory (oil on canvas, 1960)

[bunnieswithknives]

AU based off Nature except I kept thinking about it too hard. Dales not a good dad, but its such an easy problem for him to throw money at, and what do you do when a part is damaged? Well, you replace it.

Basically an AU where Dev gets to experience medical trauma and realizes much sooner how much his dad doesn't love him

[arcadebroke]

link

[zegalba]

Fata Morgana

a superior mirage caused by warm air resting on patches of colder air in an atmospheric duct that acts like a refracting lens. Objects on the horizon could appear to be mirrored, distorted, or float. This form of mirage could be the reason for the Flying Dutchman Legend.

[jpthrilla]

[discocuttlefish]

"Inside-Out", a cedar shingle trompe l'oeile on the side of a garage. By Robert Sprachman, 1991.

And here it is in 2023.

Photographs also by Robert Sprachman.

[valtsv]

my favorite safety sign symbols are the ones that look like they were designed by wizards