#sipher

[celeryman6]

💀Sipher x Reed🍃 sometimes the hunter becomes the prey... uncropped NSFW, high-res and variations on my Patreon!

[glitchmetal]

figuring out aether dragons!!

just for him

[ofisniyst1lyaga]

My version of HUMAN!Bill Sipher.

Drawed in March...

[breadfacednerd]

@mossolantern @princesolluxstash come get your faggots.

[mossolantern]

@breadfacednerd hey, make your damn baby stop shaking my horrible little grub

[tewwor]

𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 … 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐂𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐑 .

(please note that this is based off of h.owl’s moving castle the movie & is set before castle in the air!)

"You who swallowed a falling star, o' heartless man..." A boy once caught him in the form of a falling star, saving Calcifer from his demise. The two struck a deal right then and there, and resulted in a heartless wizard and a fire demon confined. Though neither one of them is able to talk about the curse, Calcifer is known to drop several hints about being Howl's very heart.

MAIN 1 – WAYWARD SPARK

Finally, the curse is broken! Wizard Howl has his heart back, and Calcifer is no longer shackled to a hearth in a castle. That being said, it gets a little lonely without the usual companionship. One of which is still flighty and skips from world to world. Knowing Howl's nature, surely someone should keep an eye on the wizard, right? Calcifer is known to travel across worlds more frequently in this verse / is the most crossover friendly!

MAIN 2 – MAY ALL YOUR BACON BURN!

Bound to an ashen hearth, Calcifer is the heart of both Howl and the castle. The curse still runs strong, and time is running out to free both him and the wizard before things turn dire.

MODERN

Howl's home planet, is it? What's so great about this so called Earth? The need to be endlessly curious is no longer needed as Calcifer followed the wizard to said planet. In the need of an inconspicuous disguise, he wanders around all human-like - as a man named Cal Siphers with bright red hair and never-ending curiosity.

[tomorrowusa]

During his administration, Donald Trump was passing Israeli intelligence on to Russia. This was known WAY early in the administration – this NYT article is from May of 2017.

Israel is one of the United States’ most important allies and a major intelligence collector in the Middle East. The revelation that Mr. Trump boasted about some of Israel’s most sensitive information to the Russians could damage the relationship between the two countries. It also raises the possibility that the information could be passed to Iran, Russia’s close ally and Israel’s main threat in the Middle East. [ ... ] Mr. Trump said on Tuesday on Twitter that he had an “absolute right” to share information in the interest of fighting terrorism and called it a “very, very successful meeting” in a brief appearance later Tuesday at the White House alongside President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, told reporters that he was not concerned that information sharing among intelligence partners would stop. “What the president discussed with the foreign minister was wholly appropriate to that conversation and is consistent with the routine sharing of information between the president and any leaders with whom he’s engaged,” General McMaster said at a White House briefing, seeking to play down the sensitivity of the information Mr. Trump disclosed.

Trump is a blabbermouth who has never had a good record on keeping classified intelligence to himself. Anybody using his Mar-a-Lago bathroom could browse nuclear secrets while trying to complete their digestion of well-done Trump steaks with ketchup.

Israel’s concerns about the Trump White House’s handling of classified information were foreshadowed in the Israeli news media this year. Newspapers there reported in January that American officials warned their Israeli counterparts to be careful about what they told the Trump administration because it could be leaked to the Russians, given Mr. Trump’s openness toward President Vladimir V. Putin. “The Russians have the widest intelligence collection mechanism in the world outside of our own. They can put together a good picture with just a few details,” said John Sipher, a 28-year veteran of the C.I.A. who served in Moscow in the 1990s and later ran the C.I.A.’s Russia program for three years. “They can marry President Trump’s comments with their own intelligence, and intelligence from their allies. They can also deploy additional resources to find out details.”

So, did any Israeli intelligence that Trump gave to Putin then go to Iran which passed it on to Hamas?

Mike Pence was Trump's vice president and Nikki Haley was Trump's ambassador to the UN at the time Trump was passing secrets on to Putin's foreign minister. They are both candidates for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. It's particularly hypocritical for Haley to try to somehow blame Biden for the current situation in Israel.

Republicans do have a poor record on dealing with intelligence this century. George W. Bush famously ignored a 06 August 2021 presidential intelligence brief warning of an attack by al Qaeda. We all know what happened five weeks later.

A vote for Republicans, especially Trump, is a vote for passing classified secrets to America's enemies.

The world is becoming more chaotic; no American should add to that chaos by putting Trump back in power.

[brainfugk]

Oh fugk, I have that book and forgot about this.

This book brought me to Numberphile on YT. Simon collaborates with them.

Simon wrote another book Simpsons and their mathematical secrets. That's how I found him.

The numberphile hosts many mathematicians, including James Grime, which does tours with Enigma. Yes, that Enigma, which was used to cipher communication for the German military in WWII.

The movie The Imitation Game (aka Enigma code) is all about this. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing.

You know the Turing test?

That's why you watch The Simpsons.

Years and years ago, I read a book on cryptography that I picked up because it looked interesting--and it was!

But there was a side anecdote in there that stayed with me for more general purposes.

The author was describing a cryptography class that they had taken back in college where the professor was demonstrating the process of "reversibility", which is a principle that most codes depend on. Specifically, it should be easy to encode, and very hard to decode without the key--it is hard to reverse the process.

So he had an example code that he used for his class to demonstrate this, a variation on the Book Code, where the encoded text would be a series of phone numbers.

The key to the code was that phone books are sorted alphabetically, so you could encode the text easily--picking phone numbers from the appropriate alphabetical sections to use ahead of time would be easy. But since phone books were sorted alphabetically, not numerically, it would be nearly impossible to reverse the code without exhaustively searching the phone book for each string of numbers and seeing what name it was tied to.

Nowadays, defeating this would be child's play, given computerized databases, but back in the 80s and 90s, this would have been a good code... at least, until one of the students raised their hand and asked, "Why not just call the phone numbers and ask who lives there?"

The professor apparently was dumbfounded.

He had never considered that question. As a result, his cipher, which seemed to be nearly unbreakable to him, had such an obvious flaw, because he was the sort of person who could never coldcall someone to ask that sort of thing!

In the crypto book, the author went on to use this story as an example of why security systems should not be tested by the designer (because of course the security system is ready for everything they thought of, by definition), but for me, as a writer, it stuck with me for a different reason.

It's worth talking out your story plot with other people just to see if there's a "Why not just call the phone numbers?" obvious plot hole that you've missed, because of your singular perspective as a person. Especially if you're writing the sort of plot where you have people trying to outsmart each other.

[alanshemper]

be on the lookout for a color revolution in Iran, coming soon...

[maddest-scientist-ms]

Everyone always draws Bill Sipher so small, i think everyone forgets that guy is like at least a meter tall most of the times he shows up, he's like decently big.

[celeryman6]

uh oh, somebody's in trouble... 😓 full painting on my Patreon!

[aardwolfpack]

I missed this episode as a kid, and I thought my friend made up Mega Girl and the Warp of Life for our Nintendo-based playground games. It was weird to suddenly see this stuff in cartoon form when I watched the D.V.D.s many years later.

Why did I draw her? She’s not a good character… in fact, she barely qualifies as a character. Even by the low standards of both Mega Man and Captain N.

The Captain N episode “Happy Birthday, Mega Man” annoyed me as a kid, even if I couldn’t completely articulate the sheer depth of problems with it. There’s a lot wrong here.

But I was distinctly annoyed at how “Mega Girl” promptly vanished from the show after that episode. I didn’t know Roll existed back then (and when MM was new, one could not be blamed for that), so when I would draw my N-inspired mondo video-game world arts, Mega Girl was among the recurring cast because even then I knew we needed more female characters.

(As was Christine from Arkista’s Ring.)

Any rate… yeah, here she is. In this little project I felt like Captain N needed a bit of representation, so… here ya go.

[glitchmetal]

⚡ stubborn ⚡

[natchart]

My Watcher Tarmiel - moon godlike, sipher. After what Eothas did, she returned home to live her last life alone. As it always was.

[breadfacednerd]

@mossolantern has complete legal authority over the bottom right corner

[kaethefangirl]

“Just CALL him, Stephen,”

“No, I’ll look obsessed,” 

Any number of things could happen. Statistics show 1 in 260,256 flights crash, and what if Tony is on that one plane? Or worse what if his father’s told him he didn’t like Stephen and it was all an act at dinner? God, Stephen felt a nauseous feeling in chest at the thought of a news broadcast announcing Tony Stark dead. He paced so long his legs began to hurt and his feet ached. He continued after Christine left and had resorted to sitting in a chair by his bed in the corner of the room, waiting to give Tony a piece of his mind once he returned. It hit him suddenly that he’d been an asshole to everyone all day. They didn’t deserve that. A rush of dread crept up his spine as he realized he’d have to apologize to everyone in a way that didn’t make it obvious that it was because of-

The door unlocked and opened revealing, “Tony,” Stephen barked.

“Christ! Don’t do that shit anymore,” He sighed, setting down his many bags. 

“Why- Where- Explain to me-” Stephen sputtered in anger.

“Sorry mom, I was out with friends and my phone died,” Tony mocked, sitting on his bed.

“Damn, this feels good,” He makes a snow angel motion in his bed, ignoring the way Stephen’s face turns red.

“You can’t just up and leave without telling anyone! I was worried sick!” Stephen shouts across the room.

“You were- what?” Tony sits up with a puzzled expression that pisses Stephen off even more.

“ We’re you expecting for nobody to give a damn!? That you could just waltz on out and waltz right back in like nothin- mmph!” Tony dived onto Stephen, capturing him in a kiss. Stephen felt all his anger being siphered away in the kiss as he tried desperately to feel some kind of agitation at Tony but.. there was nothing. Once he pulled back he could see the tears forming in Tony’s eyes.

“Nobody’s ever been worried about me before asshole,” Tony punched Stephen’s arm lightly as he let his tears fall.

“Well get used to it. Don’t just leave anymore, got it idiot?” Stephen felt himself tearing up as well.

“Yep,” 

“Good,”

it comes in waves and I'm pulled below (it's not subjective its clinical)