#prism/george

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Steven Universe: Save The Light and Unleash The Light doodles during 2025?? Couldn't be me haha...

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X-Men ‘97 #1 by Steve Foxe

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A handsome younger man with a quick, easy smile. (Derogatory)

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Best Steven Universe Character Tournament - Round 2

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my new theory is that the beatles passed on The Curse to pink floyd when george harrison gave his prism to the photographer that shot the cover of piper at the gates of dawn. that's why the prism is also on the cover of dark side of the moon. its a sign

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SU Character Tournament

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How Obama Transformed the U.S. Intelligence System into an Untouchable Force

The sprawling U.S. intelligence apparatus wasn’t Barack Obama’s invention, it emerged in the wake of 9/11 under George W. Bush, who laid the groundwork with the Patriot Act and a retooled security state. But Obama didn’t just inherit this system; he refined it, expanded it, and entrenched it so deeply into the fabric of American governance that it became nearly impossible for anyone, even a president, to rein it in. His tenure marked a pivotal shift, normalizing a decentralized, privatized, and largely unaccountable intelligence leviathan. Here’s how it unfolded.

The story begins in the early 2000s, when the Bush administration responded to the September 11 attacks with sweeping surveillance powers and a new security architecture. The Patriot Act of 2001 granted agencies like the NSA and FBI unprecedented authority to monitor communications, often sidestepping traditional oversight. By the time Obama took office in 2009, this framework was already in place, but it was still raw, controversial, and subject to scrutiny. Obama’s task wasn’t to build it from scratch; it was to polish it, protect it, and make it permanent.

One of his earliest moves came in 2011, when he signed a renewal of the Patriot Act with a Democratic-controlled Congress. Rather than scaling back Bush-era policies, he leaned into them, signaling that the post-9/11 security state wasn’t a temporary overreach but a new baseline. That same year, he authorized the drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, without judicial review—a decision rooted in a secretive “Disposition Matrix,” a kill-list system driven by CIA intelligence and insulated from external oversight. Over his presidency, Obama would greenlight over 500 drone strikes, far surpassing Bush’s tally, establishing a precedent for extrajudicial action that relied heavily on intelligence feeds.

Surveillance took a leap forward under Executive Order 12333, which Obama expanded to allow warrantless collection and sharing of raw signals intelligence (SIGINT) across federal agencies. What had once been concentrated in the NSA and FBI now seeped into every corner of the government, from the Department of Homeland Security to the Treasury. This decentralization diluted accountability, as data flowed freely between departments with little public scrutiny.

The 2013 Snowden leaks threw a spotlight on this system. Edward Snowden, a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton working with the NSA, exposed illegal mass surveillance programs like PRISM and bulk metadata collection, revealing how deeply the government had tapped into private tech giants, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple. Obama’s response was telling: he defended the programs, prosecuted whistleblowers like Snowden, and declined to hold the architects accountable. PRISM became a blueprint for a public-private surveillance partnership, unregulated by Congress, immune to FOIA requests, and beyond democratic reach. Meanwhile, the reliance on contractors like Booz Allen ballooned, by the end of his tenure, 70–80% of the intelligence budget flowed through private firms, funneling billions into an opaque ecosystem.

Obama also shielded the intelligence community from legal consequences. In 2014, the Senate’s Torture Report laid bare CIA abuses, black sites, waterboarding, and even spying on the Senate investigators themselves. Yet Obama refused to prosecute, famously urging the nation to “look forward, not backward.” This stance didn’t just protect individuals; it cemented a culture of impunity, signaling that the intelligence apparatus operated above the law.

Beyond surveillance and legal protections, Obama supercharged the bureaucracy. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), created under Bush, gained sweeping coordination powers under his watch, but rather than centralizing control, it added layers of insulation between the president and field operations. He also empowered hybrid units like Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and CIA task forces, which blended military and intelligence functions. These shadowy outfits operated in dozens of countries with lethal authority, secretive chains of command, and minimal oversight from Congress or even their own headquarters.

By 2017, as his presidency wound down, Obama made a final play: he authorized a rule change allowing the NSA to share raw, unfiltered data with 16 other intelligence agencies, stripping away privacy safeguards. This move ensured that the system he’d built could hum along without presidential intervention, its reach embedded in local “fusion centers,” secret courts, and corporate data pipelines.

The outcome was staggering. By the time Obama left office, the intelligence network spanned 17 agencies, leaned heavily on unaccountable contractors, and fused with private tech infrastructure. It wasn’t just bigger, it was untouchable, legalized through executive loopholes and shielded from reform. Obama became the first president to weave intelligence into every layer of government, from foreign policy to law enforcement, but in doing so, he relinquished control. The republic did too. No future leader would easily dismantle this machine, not because it was too strong, but because it had become too diffuse, too ingrained, too essential to the modern state. Obama's Intelligence Policy

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what's an aspect of dnf's dynamic that you think really emphasizes how different they are with each other comparing to the other 2 duos (snf and dreamnap)?

dream and sapnap are brothers. that's a ride or die, til death relationship. that's i'm literally gonna put myself in the path of a bullet for you forever shit. i'll move across the country just to answer the door. the we were children and then you helped make me into the man i am kind of bond.

george and sapnap are best friends. they're the kind of best friends that fucking hate each other one minute, will yell and scream in each other's face about it, and fucking mean it. and then ten minutes later casually announce they're going to get cookies. they're the besties that sit in each other's room at 3 am just to talk shit and keep each other company. they're the 'i'll do this without you asking so we don't have to make shit awkward' bffs.

but dream and george just feel like... the deep end of the pool. like there's always been a desperate tinge to the amount and quality of time they spend together. like they're tapped in, always; even if one of them or both of them still goes off and does other things, they orbit each other always.

i do think since george moved to america what played out online has turned more personal and private, with a layer to it they've realized they have the option to hide. but god, if this year proved anything, it should have proven that george and dream are locked in step no matter what is happening in their lives. they love each other in a way that dream will declare, voice breaking and life falling apart, as a full step sentence all of its own. they choose each other repeatedly even when, at different turns, everything in their lives could have gone easier if they'd done anything else but choose each other so publicly and unapologetically.

i don't actually think there's a 'one above the other' type of situation between the three of them. people are complicated, they have different dynamics, and rely on each other in different ways. it's just like, three different angles of a prism, the light is going to splinter differently depending on how you look at it and the time of day.

[russalki]

Beauty is the prism in which all possibilities of light play, and the flow of the bewildered imagination confers the power to give form to the most distant dreams.

— Georges Bataille, from The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism

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A token of appreciation [Fred Weasley x Reader]

Title: A token of appreciation.

Pairing: Fred Weasley x Reader

Timeline: Set in the future- after Deathly Hallows. No mentions of the war or Voldy and Fred lives (as he should).

Summary: It’s Father’s Day in the muggle world, and Fred needs a gift.

Warnings: None? Established relationship. Fred and y/n don’t want kids right now.

"If it's Father's Day, then why are you trying to find y/n a present?" Ron grumbles, following Fred around the small little boutique on Diagon Alley as he looks at little trinkets that might be a suitable gift.

"Shut up Ronald," Fred mumbles in reply, picking up a little handmade ring that caught his eye on a little display case inside the new shop in Diagon Alley. It was a little blue and pink butterfly ring that had a prism of colour within it, like a marbled effect with a simple silver band. It was simple but pretty, and exactly what he was looking for. 

Ever since Hermione had popped by the shop earlier that day to say bye to Ron before going to visit her parent's and had disclosed that it was Father's Day in the muggle world, Fred had been on a mission.

"My princess," Fred says as he walks into the flat above the shop with Ron trailing behind him once again. You and George were lounging around in the living room, each seated on different sofas as you zoned out to an awful muggle show that was playing in the background after you had closed the shop for the night. He kisses your head from behind before appearing at your side with his hand outstretched, a little wrapped gift inside his palm. You frowned briefly at him, unsure of why he would be giving you a gift when you saw his eyes flash with a wickedness and then a wink, alerting you to what you had forgotten.

"Why thank you my love," you smiled, taking the box from his hand. He jumped onto the sofa next to you and eagerly watched as you pulled open the wrapping that the woman in the shop had so painstakingly perfected.

"Oh it's beautiful! Thank you Freddie," you gasped, seeing the little ring. You leaned forward and gave him a sweet kiss of appreciation, feeling his arms snaking around you so that he could pull you closer to him on the couch, almost ending up in his lap.

"I don't get it?" Ron says, still frowning as he plops himself down onto the other sofa next to George, completely clueless. "If it's Father's Day, why do you get a gift?"

"It's a gift of appreciation," Fred says, offering nothing else as he turns his attention back to you as you slip the ring onto the fourth finger on your right hand, smiling as it fit perfectly. Fred presses his lips to your hair and kisses your head once again, snuggling into you, completely unfazed by his two brothers sat in the same room.

"For what?" Ron asks, close to giving up.

"For not making him a father yet," you giggle, finally explaining Ron's queries. George laughs and looks away, back at the TV as Fred smirks wickedly, immensely pleased with himself.

"You pair are so bloody strange," Ron murmurs, looking away towards the TV and frowning once again.

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MHA 2.25 - Encounter - part 1/3

I have finally gotten to the last episode of season 2! It only took me...roughly 100,000 years.

You know, Ol' Chap Lips really needs to work on his social skills. It sounds like he is talking about a tacky outfit instead of people, lol. "That's an ugly purse, and it doesn't even match the shoes."

He is just jealous that the newbies all want to join Staingina George's plastics club, and only want to be around Shigaraki's Lindsay Lohan ass, because they think he's friends with Queen Stain.

It only took 20 seconds for them to try to kill each other. How is Shigaraki going to handle leading a group of villains? He has 0 self-restraint.

Everyone looks crushed, except Denki, who looks like he smoked a blunt before coming to class.

Why is this the happiest I have ever seen Aizawa? He is the kind of guy that pretends he got you charcoal for Christmas when he secretly bought you the biggest gift under the tree.

Good logic! It would make no sense to leave behind the kids that need the most help to improve. I am so happy that everyone gets to go to the summer camp together.

SHOPPING TRIP WHOO! I haven't been to a mall in years. This episode kinda made me nostalgic.

Here we can see the resident bird man regretting taking a nerd out in public. Can't take Deku anywhere, I swear.

Why is everyone attacking Deku today? He just came here to have a good time! They really hit him with 'you scare children', and 'you 're a bug', back to back. Then they DITCHED him!

OH SHIIIIII---------------------------------------------------------(garaki). Man, he has the most recognizable voice. I do not know why he is pretending right now.

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Best Steven Universe Character Tournament - Round 1

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do you think the Lucy from "Lucy Leave" is the same Lucy from "Let There Be More Light" who is also clearly implied to be the same Lucy from "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds". deep lore going on here for this chick