#(tesla explodes instead)

[ravioliwings]

always debating on whether or not to walk in front of teslas

[cakeandpudding1]

I would like to request another yandere please

Like what you did for Apollo but for Nikola Tesla please

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PLEASSSSSSS I BEG OF YOU I NEED ITTT PKEASEEEEE 😭😭😭😭😭

The man has barely any media and I'm pretty sure he will never even get a sub plot but okeaseeeeeee I beggggg I beg on my knees for content of him pleaseeeeeee I begggggg of youuuuuu

Ofc! Nikola Tesla 🔛🔝

Yandere Nikola Tesla × Reader

Tesla's love calculations | by sparkles and pudding (loading...)

Love isn't a good enough word for how I feel. | Tesla's love calculations

- I'd say you were a janitor, who'd always clean up after him and all of the workers mess. You could say you even cleaned up exhausted workers who were incredibly tired after using up their brain power.

- but, not only that, you had a sweet crush on the main man. One who did not care about resting. Always using his brain whenever it came to new ideas that he believed he could create.

- he never noticed you, he was too busy with his work. And had already shown that he didn't really have given for that type of stuff. It's sad, but you had to get over it. You can't force someone to love some nobody like you.

- What you weren't aware of, was the fact that he also felt the same way. He just didn't understand his feelings yet. But that was all until he saw you interact in a little conversation with one of the men there. It just struck his heart with negativity for some reason, and he didn't understand.

- he had to think long and hard before finally realizing it after one of the dudes beside him noticed his jealous gaze, suddenly calling him out and asking if he wanted to be the one talking to you instead. Of course..how could he not have realized it before? He was in love! Or was it even love..?

- his fellow workers caught on after word spread around, obviously not to you, but almost everyone working with the mad scientist. And do not deny it, I KNOW they gossip. They oughta be snickering when they see Tesla eyeing someone out of jealousy that they were talking to you. Oh man, that was some real drama right there.

- if you look closely, he has a few books that he's been reading. About love, and all. Such a sweetheart he was...or not. (I'm sorry for edging y'all so much.)

- he came across one book that talked about the difference of love and obssession, and it really caught his eye. Making him buy it immediately and then reading about it.

- It was a poorly made book. The pages were torn and made of low quality materials. But that didn't stop him. The book perfectly described his feelings towards you, and it came to be such a surprise to him when he saw that ot was a sign of really unhealthy love. He had to read it over and over again, wanting to believe that maybe it was just a misunderstanding. But it wasn't. Whoever wrote it knew very well what they were doing.

- the next day, he avoided talking to you as much as he could. The man only wanted to make inventions, he didn't care about things like love. But oh boy was it so difficult to keep his eyes off you. The prettiest thing he saw and felt, it was undescribable. When you got the idea that he hated you, it ended with you talking to him less. And he did not like that.

- he caught you talking to another guy, a janitor who you've been talking to for the past few weeks now. And I am not kidding when I say that all the workers there saw the bitter look on Tesla's face. You thought it would end there, right? Wrong. A day passes, and you find out that the same guy you talked to, had ended up passing due to getting too close to one of the inventions. In Tesla's defence, he had told the guy not to touch any buttons, but the guy ended up doing so anyway, which is unbelievable. But you had no choice but to listen anyway.

- the real story was that the guy tried to clean the invention, which was made by the dear scientist, who made sure to program it as a bomb. Strong enough to kill anything once it's ready to explode. Tesla knew this, it was his plan all along to get rid of that pest, without putting suspicion on his name. And it worked! Good for him.

- finally, he confessed his love for you. Which you happily agreed to. Because you were just a little dummy who didn't know any better. That's why you were better off with him, cus he was smarter, and knew what was good for you.

- you won't even realize his growing possessiveness, not even when he gave such a bitter face to the people who are around you. Would you believe me if I said that he even thought of lying to you that a life threatening world ending virus was spreading and he had to lock you up forever to keep you safe? Let's be happy that he didn't go through with that. He's not THAT bad.

- he loves having you around whenever he's working on something, just so that when his eyes get tired from looking at the board, he can look back at you and immediately get an energy boost.

- he was such a sweetheart and he loved you so much. It was best of you just didn't know his secret side when it came to you. He barely let's you out. He'd drag you around to show you new things or ideas he came up with, and even asked you if you wanted anything made just for you.

- he won't ever let you out unless it was necessary. Like maybe a fire, or evacuating to somewhere safe.

- Expect him to ask for your opinion on basically anything. Just so that he can interrupt your thoughts from going anywhere near the idea of leaving.

- when you and him do it for the every first time, man was he addicted. It's like anytime he's stressed after work, he immediately gets on you so that you could relieve him. He's nice, don't worry. He's very romantic too.

- I can also believe that he'd make good pickup lines. Like geek typa shit that you wouldn't understand. But that's okay, it's Tesla. Your loving husband.

- Promise him that you'd stay with him forever. Don't ever make him think you'd leave. You know what happened to your friend right? He'll threaten to do stuff like that in the future if there really was no other way to convince you.

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@gayerthanthegays here you go!! Luv some Nikola Tesla content 😍

[misfitwashere]

ROBERT REICH

MAR 22

Friends,

Many of you are struggling with despair. The level of anxiety, stress, grief, and terror among good people today is in the stratosphere. 

Many of my students are not sleeping. Friends are haunted by what Trump and Musk and others in the regime are doing. Others I come across on a daily basis are freaked out. As for me, I’m furious. 

Some MAGA types ridicule all this as “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” but they’re wrong. None of us has witnessed this degree of cruelty, this much disregard for the rule of law and the Constitution, this extent of nihilist destruction.

I will continue to give you the best analyses, most helpful advice, and most realistic assurances I can. But please know you are not alone in this nightmare that is now a daily daymare. 

The poet Alison Luterman sent me this poem to share with you. (Thank you, Alison.)

At Albany Bulb with Elaine

By Alison Luterman

Side by side on a log by the bay.

Sunlight. Unleashed dogs,

prancing through surf, almost exploding

out of their skins with perfect happiness.

Dogs who don't know about fired park rangers,

or canceled health research, or tariff wars,

or the suicide hotline for veterans getting defunded,

or or or. We've listed horror upon horror

to each other for weeks now, and it does no good,

so instead I tell her how I held a two-day old baby

in my arms, inhaling him like a fresh-baked loaf of bread,

then watched as a sneeze erupted through his body

like a tiny volcano. It was the look of pure

astonishment on his face, as if he were Adam

in the garden of Eden making his debut achoo,

as if it were the first sneeze that ever blew,

that got me. She tells me how her dog

once farted so loudly he startled himself

and fell off the bed where he'd been lolling,

and then the two of us start to laugh so hard

we almost fall off our own log. And this

is our resistance for today; remembering

original innocence. And they can't

take it away from us, though they ban

our very existence, though they slash

our rights to ribbons, we will have

our mirth and our birthright gladness.

Long after every unsold Tesla

has vaporized, and earth has closed over

even the names of these temporary tyrants,

somewhere some women like us

will be sitting side by side, facing the water,

telling human stories and laughing still.

[snowiwyvern]

ok. so. i saw these posts 1 2 and brain went brrrrrr so some quick trigun x splatoon thoughts. lwk thinking about writing a oneshot about it because yayayayay

quick note: im still reading through trimax, so the trigun stuff is more of a trigun soup grabbing from 98' and tristamp. if i decide to add in more trimax lore later, ill reblog this with some edits lmao

my idea is that instead of it just being trigun reskinned or just splatoon reskinned, the stories are happening simultaneously with trigun events occurring within the splatoon world. splatoon events would play out mostly as normal. however, all the trigun stuff would be happening far out in the outer splatlands desert rather than a different planet

while the rest of the world refers to it as the outer splatlands desert, the residents know it as no mans land! theyre cut off from inkadia for whatever reason. maybe it is too dangerous to cross the desert for most people, or maybe the people in no mans land and inkadia just arent aware of each other, or maybe both. for whatever reason, there isnt really much communication, and no mans land wasnt really involved in or aware of a lot of the big events of splatoon

so. more into the lore

prior to the great war, some people saw that the water levels starting to rise, and went: oh shit. this leads to the seeds project, but instead of going into space, they head out into the outer splatlands desert. it was a joint project, between the octarians and inklings before they descended into war, so no mans land is inhabited by both octarians and inklings without the influence of the octarian army

however, project seeds didnt have the same cryogenic chambers it does in canon--they werent travelling for years anyways. with the plants being the zapfish, rem ends up finding vash and knives near the zapfish chambers and shes like omg??? zapfishlings??? she keeps them hidden for a bit, then the rest of the crew inevitably find out and it becomes a similar situation to 98'. some people like the twins, some people dont, some people are neutral on them

due to being zapfish instead of plants, their powers tend to be more about producing electricity than the other things they make in canon. however knives isnt knives without his knives, so they both have spines like real life catfish. theyre not venomous, but i might change that. im not sure. instead of generating things, knives, vash, and the zapfish produce electricity that powers the machines that generate things. these machines can use other sources of electricity like windmills, but the zapfish are the best source to use. there are people that know how to take care of these machines, and are called zapfish engineers due to the association

during this time, with inklings and octolings being the way they are, the twins end up as basically being the ships idols in an attempt to win their affections. so they do stuff like normal idols do, doing the news, getting dressed up in cute outfits by ship inhabitants (mostly rem), and performing songs (they both sing, and knives definitely plays the piano and organ. id have to think on vash's instrument and look more at canon lmao. they might just play the piano together im not sure yet). theyre also being taught how to use weapons, because. splatoon

so everything inevitably falls apart, because of course it does. they find tesla. while exploring the ships science department storage, they find her body. tesla had appeared prior to the seeds project, got found by inkfish that arent as kind as rem, and was studied and then killed and dissected. she ended up being kept and put into storage, then being moved into the project seeds storage for future study

they both freak the fuck out, and everything is super tense after that. knives ends up sabotaging the ships, rigging the ships to overload on electricity and explode. he also changes the route so theyll crash. he makes it so the zapfish chambers are left undamaged, like maybe activating blast doors or smth. he also sabotages the emergency escape pods, changing the code to activate them. as only he knows the code, only his and vashs pod is able to shoot off and get away from the bigger ships? project seeds vehicles? eh just vehicles works i guess, because they wouldnt exactly be flying spaceships like canon, more like huge trucks. im still calling them ships though. the people cant just run out, as knives made it so everything happened during a sandstorm so they couldnt escape easily

rem manages to stop the explosions (except ship 5, the one shes on, ofc), but the rest of the ships still crash and get destroyed. the inkfish that lived through the event manage to get past the blast doors, and using the zapfish to survive no mans land gets established

the great cities each have a few zapfish, while smaller cities either have a few mini zapfish or a single zapfish. theres one great zapfish that flies between the different great cities depending on whichever one it feels like hanging out at. i feel like knives would probably have a side quest of trying to catch it, and vash would see it pass by and be like whaddup bro

thats all i got rn i might add more later about after the great fall

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Monica Lenis was in Great Exuma, Bahamas, yesterday when she caught this image of Starship's explosion. Thank you, Monica! SpaceX's flagship vehicle, #Starship - designed to take humans to the moon and Mars - exploded midair late yesterday minutes after its test launch from a beach in south Texas. Other aircraft flying over the Gulf of Mexico were forced to alter their courses in order to avoid the falling debris, which was seen by beachgoers in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Starship itself was completely lost. Meanwhile, the Super Heavy booster that had launched Starship successfully returned to the launchpad and was caught in midair. Read more at https://earthsky.org/human-world/starship-explodes-minutes-after-launch-planes-diverted/

EarthSky

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In what sounds like an attempt to hand over air traffic control systems to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system and his AI company, Trump today said—and here are his words, as Aaron Rupar transcribed them—“We’re all gonna sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new. Not pieced together, obsolete, like it is, land-based. Trying to hook up a land based system to a satellite system. The first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can’t hook up land to satellites and you can’t hook up satellites to land. It doesn’t work. We spend billions of billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying cut it loose, and let’s spend less money and build a great system one by two or three companies, very good companies, specialists, that’s all it is. They used 39 companies. That means that 39 different hookups have to happen. And I don’t know how many people of you are good in terms of all the kinds of things necessary for that. And it's very complex stuff. But when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people. You need one company. With one set of equipment. And there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems. And they would’ve, bells would’ve gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height. Because it traveled a long distance before it hit. It was just like, just wouldn’t stop. Follow the line. But bells and whistles would’ve gone off. They have ‘em where it actually could virtually turn the thing around. It would’ve just never happened if we had the right equipment . And one of things that’s gonna be, I'm gonna speaking to John and to Mike and to Chuck and everybody, we have to get together and just as a single bill just pass where we get the best control system. When I land in my plane, privately, I use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I’m landing in New York and I’m using a sys— I won’t tell you what country, but I use a system from another country because the captain says ‘This thing is so bad, it’s so obsolete.’ And we can’t have that.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted today that “the DOGE team” is “going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system,” saying that “‘experienced’ Washington bureaucrats are the reason our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling.”

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton pointed out that “US airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes. Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic controllers with layoffs. Now there have been two fatal crashes. Hope your unvetted 22-year-olds fix things fast.”

Critics of the idea of Musk taking over the nation’s air traffic control systems note that his Tesla electric vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America. The average fatal crash rate is 2.8 per billion vehicle miles driven; Tesla has a rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven. On social media, “God” posted: “Thou shalt not let the foreign billionaire whose rockets blow up all the time anywhere near the air traffic control system,” an apparent reference to the January 16 explosion of a SpaceX rocket over the Caribbean that scattered debris over the region led the Federal Aviation Administration to lock down airspace over Turks and Caicos.

[Heather Cox Richardson : Letters From An American: Feb.6,2025]

[swapauanon]

It's 2028, Trump is running for his third term, and has announced his intention to abolish elections altogether if he wins.

The anti-voting fandom is still insisting that the Democratic candidate is worse, somehow, even though the Democratic candidate is promising to restore the Constitutional Right to trial-by-jury instead of just having death squads kill anyone who's even suspected of a crime. Whilst also having a plan to address the fact that air pollution has gotten so bad that it's nigh-impossible to breath outside in large cities without a gas mask.

Trump wins in a landslide because the leftist vote was divided between the Democratic Candidate and a third party Candidate who spent their entire campaign praising Trump.

The people chanting for a Revolution go completely silent after the election and just sit back and watch as Trump sends death squads to kill anyone who isn't white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgendered, or neurotypical, instead arguing amongst themselves over which minorities "deserve" to be wiped from existence.

Meanwhile, the Europeans ignore the fascists putting up Nazi flags and building monuments to Hitler to boast about how much more progressive they are than the Americans, while at the same time mocking the progressive Americans actually trying to fight against fascism.

By 2050, breathable air no longer exists.

By 2070, the last humans are left in unyielding agony as the technology used to filter breathable air into Tesla's domed shelters (prone to exploding) finally breaks down as the workers who were expected to maintain them forever finally drop dead from overwork.

The anti-voting fandom, even as their lungs are melting into a boiling sludge, still blame the Democrats.

[doberbutts]

Tbh at this point CPS needs to be destroyed and then remade from scratch. They either seem to:

Take kids from good homes for bullshit reasons (esp. if the family is poor and/or POC) instead of giving the family actual help and resources so they can afford food/water/clothes/etc.

Take kids from bad situations and then put them into an even WORSE situation because God forbid you actually pay attention to where the vulnerable human child is going or what they actually want.

Do fuck all when a kid is actually being abused, and then when the kid inevitably dies they go "Oh we made a oopsie, sorry lol :("

Like......... I cannot fucking fathom how it's possible to be that incompetent. It's like if someone started a car company but every car they made explodes when you're driving it. You'd think at that point you would put someone ELSE in charge of making cars.

That car company exists and it's called Tesla and for some reason people still act like it's the best car company ever to buy from and suck the owner's toes about it.

A fairly significant portion of the problem is that CPS is A: a law enforcement program, not a social services program and B: human-made and thus filled with human problems of bias and bigotry. It is not made to help. It is made to enforce the law. Since kids occupy a weird space between "property" and "person", and since laws regarding raising kids are deliberately vague to allow for a broad range of cultural and religious sensitivity, we get a lot of interpretations of the law being wildly different depending on who is enforcing them.

Children playing in their quiet cul-de-sac while the parents work from home inside the house with the windows open so they can hear what's going on... is that an "unattended child" or not? How about the toddler that learns how to let themselves out of the playpen during mom's shower? The teenager that sneaks out while dad is asleep? The ten-year-old that got left home alone with microwave meals and some toys because auntie got called into work and couldn't say no?

You're a teacher. You're a mandated reporter. You notice that one of your students is constantly coming to school hungry in the morning. You put in a call. Is this student being provided breakfast by the parents? Is this student simply refusing breakfast and then showing up hungry as a consequence for not eating before they left (me)? Is this student diabetic or hyperthyroid or taking steroids for a health concern and thus is constantly hungry anyway? Is this student neurodivergent and tends to eat as a coping behavior?

Mom shows up to the hospital with a broken cheek and a black eye and two kids in tow. She swears the dog headbutted her, her husband isn't even home. Both kids verify the dog headbutted her, dad's not home, and he'd never do such a thing anyway. You're a doctor or a nurse, you're a mandated reporter. Do you call? You're the CPS agent who showed up at the house. You looked into the family's record and you see that dad's had the police called on him a couple times within the house with neighbors citing a disturbance, and once the kids called 911 due to a fight between them getting out of hand and actual blood spilt. The kids seem fractious with each other when you arrive. Mom's face is black and blue. What do you do?

[lynnbecks-mainblog]

Honestly in hindsight, Doom (2016) wasn't that far-fetched, like within the next few years Tesla might actually end up forcibly turning their employees into Revenants (but with ugly steel armour that corrodes really easily, jetpacks that explode when exposed to water, and rocket-launchers that sometimes jam and explode because they use AI to tell when to ready the firing sequence instead of like a mechanical mechanism).

[versaphile]

I will never kill anyone again: The Big Fall

Followup to my previous thoughts on Vash's "I’ll never kill. Ever again." I'm 90% sure that the previous "kill" he's referring to is the Big Fall and the countless deaths that resulted. I think he considers those, thanks to Nai's manipulation, to be directly his fault. Blood on his hands personally.

And this is why. The tally marks he makes in the SEEDS03 cell. They're not, as first seems, tallying the number of days he's held prisoner. In fact, as Brad takes 2 weeks to go through the rubble of SEEDS05, and adding a few days on each side of that, Vash is only in the cell for 2-4 weeks at most. We directly see him carving all the marks over the course of three nights and two days.

I can't find the post that first talked about this, but Luida has been asking Vash to think about what he can do, what he's useful for. And the only thing Vash has been useful for in his short life to that point is inadvertently causing the deaths of millions of people and some unknown number of plants.

So going back to the comparison of canons again, we have to consider the Big Fall in those timelines. In all of them, of course, Vash had no idea what Knives was planning until it was too late. From an external perspective, Vash has no real culpability. The Big Fall was Knives' crime.

In 98, there is no Tesla, and we see very little about dependent plants. Instead The Big Fall is driven by more straightforward child abuse. Steve treats Vash and Knives as monsters and abuses them, and Knives classifies all humans as threats as a result. After the twins flee the ship, Rem stays behind and saves the rest of the fleet, but her ship explodes. While we don't directly see the Big Fall itself, 98 in general ramps down the death count and it seems like most of the ships were able to land safely. We see the reverse thrusters firing because of Rem's actions.

98 Vash loses Rem and he loses his home, but almost everyone else survives. Vash stays with Knives after the Big Fall, and 15 years later, Knives makes the gate guns. Knives declares his intent to use them to destroy what's left of humanity. It's at this point that Vash has had enough. He rejects Knives and explicitly states that the deaths from The Big Fall are on Knives alone.

In the manga, it's all driven by what was done to Tesla. And the casualties are horrific. Rem saved some by staying behind, but she did not save basically everyone as happened in 98. It seems that the vast majority of the fleet was destroyed, 802 confirmed destroyed and at best only 198 ships surviving at all.

But again, after all that, Vash stays with Knives. He stays with him for 80 years. In Vash's words, "Time passed slowly. We didn't part, but we didn't grow any closer either. [...] I knew I couldn't leave him." What finally forces them apart is Knives massacring an entire village to save Vash himself. And again, it's "how many people do you have to kill?" Manga Vash does not take the blame for the Big Fall either.

Which brings us back to Stampede Vash. And here is the difference. Because Vash shared the access codes, and that revealed Tesla (the motivation for the Big Fall) and provided Knives with the ability to sabotage the fleet. So Vash has two points of blame.

And that's even before Knives puts the blame on him again in "To A New World." Not only did Vash reveal what happened to Tesla, not only did Vash provide the means to destroy the fleet, but Knives HAD to kill every human (and still HAS to) because Vash himself is too human. It's no wonder that was the final blow to Vash's sense of self.

So in "Millions Knives", when Vash says "I will never kill anyone again"? Vash absolutely feels that he has killed. He has millions of dead on his hands. Knives' actions are his responsibility, his fault. Vash carries the guilt, maybe more so because Knives rejects any guilt for those deaths.

Interestingly, that very much echoes how Vash, in the beginning of the manga, has already been "responsible" for mass deaths via July. We start the manga with Vash carrying that burden. In Stampede, Vash starts out with that burden but from the Big Fall, and then July happens on top of that, with the extra salt in the wound of Knives guilt-tripping him about the Big Fall in a brand new, awful way.

I think when season 2 starts, with the Ericks storyline, in a way we will also be seeing Vash as he was after Dragon's Nest. Carrying the deaths of millions, and now not just responsible for them by accident, as an accomplice, but directly through his failure to safely release the Energy Cube in space. And carrying what he believes is Knives' death. A far, far darker Ericks than we saw in 98 and the manga, where Vash didn't carry The Big Fall, and didn't even fully remember July, and he knew Knives was out there, alive and well.

[chartreuseian]

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don't be shy and share anyway! 

Tagged by @truedairship and @tinknevertalks. Love to you both ❤️❤️❤️

I'm going with the ten most recent ones I've written rather than posted. And I tried to do ten different fics (which was hard because I write a lot for one and then move on). Some of them are sexy and have a few references to unclothed sexy times but nothing too scary I hope.

1. Not Ever (from the Dread Queen AU that isn't actually a story yet)

While Nikola’s walk so far has been familiar, this final barrier is entirely new to him. As he approaches he feels his feet slow as his heart rate picks up and despite his best efforts, his palms grow sweaty. The night is quiet, made doubly so by the thick walls of her chambers but there is a stillness to it that he wishes he could find in himself too. Instead the only thing in his chest is his erratic, unpredictable heart that seems to want to tear out of his chest now that it knows the object of his affections is so near. Really, Nikola thinks as his toes curl into the lush rugs that line her chamber floor, he should have a better handle on things by now. In the months since his first summons he has done what he can to get a hold of himself and while he feels he has made significant improvements, he also suspects his Queen delights in finding new ways to turn the screws on his devotion. Almost immediately after he thinks it, Nikola feels his cheeks colour. It is an ungracious thought, unseemly given how benevolently she tolerates his need to be near her. Nothing is ever enough to truly quench his desire, but she lets him kneel for hours on end and it is a greater gift than he knows how to accept. Yet he is greedy and no matter how much she offers, he always wants more.

2. Closing Time (which is also an AU that is not yet an AU - Helen owns a bookshop come library, Nikola opens up a coffee shop next door and they hate each other a lot to start out)

Four days later the skirt arrived. Four days after that she wore it. Four hours before close, she found herself all but cornered and giddy with the prospect of the game afoot. The heavy tread of his furious steps as he marched through the store were more than enough to have Helen hiding her grin behind the hardback she was shelving. She’d be waiting for what felt like an eternity, her mind racing with the possibility of what he might do when he found her. And judging by her growl, she was unlikely to be disappointed. Nikola all but sprang at her, his eyes wild and his lips pressed into a thin, harsh line. She stopped him with the edge of the book she held, pressing it against his chest as he tried to swoop in. For a moment silence reigned and only when she was certain he was just about ready to explode with his fury did she smile, cock her head to the side and raise an eyebrow. “Hello, Nikola.”

3. In Case You Were Wondering (yet another AU no one asked for in which Helen and James and Nikola become A Thing back in Victorian times and it carries on into the future too)

“I think,” Helen said in a mockingly loud whisper, “our dear Mr. Tesla is jealous.” She finished the statement with a flurry of giggles, ducking her head forwards into the crook of James’s neck. Despite himself, he grinned, his body warm and relaxed from the liberal pours of brandy Helen had already indulged him with. She was on his lap, her weight only adding to the pleasant sort of floating sensation that had taken over his body and the sensation of her laughter made his skin tingle in the most delightful of ways. Nikola’s dark look only added to the effect of it all. Chuckling to himself and tightening his grip on Helen’s waist as she shifted in his embrace, he inclined his head towards their friend who was sitting opposite them, brooding and sullen. “Jealous you say,” he murmured, quirking an eyebrow when Nikola, apparently unable to resist, shot a darting glance their way. At being caught, he flushed and shifted uncomfortably in his seat. James knew well enough that his continual crossing and uncrossing of legs was a sure sign of his arousal and the idea of it only served to make his own desire burn more brightly. He did not, of course, regret his commitment to Helen, but on occasion he found himself looking at the sharpness of Nikola’s face in profile and a strange pang would overcome him.

4. A Lesson in Something - An exercise in health (this is the very last chapter I wrote for this series!)

John is the one who finds her. The day itself hadn’t been particularly notable, heavy grey clouds lingering in the sky as they fought valiantly to keep the sun from shining. Throughout the house things had been… well, normal enough. A few residents seemed to chafe at the restraint of the poor weather, but on the whole, John had not thought anything to be amiss. Perhaps if James were home, he will think to himself later. Perhaps he might have noticed something was awry. But James was not home, called away two nights before by an urgent missive and a breathless messenger not long after the three of them had tumbled into bed together. Helen had kissed him on the cheek before sliding into John’s arms, giving their departing lover a saucy little grin as if to remind him of what he was forgoing for the sake of his work. When he finds her, however, none of those thoughts occur to him. “Helen…” Her name falls uselessly from his lips as he surges forwards, falling heavily to his knees beside her limp frame.

5. Five sparks that didn't ignite (and one that finally did) (Helen + Nikola + new Sanctuary + Nubbins)

Pausing the in the doorway, Helen couldn’t help but smile at the hunched figure in the far corner of the darkened lab. She was certain he would have heard her approach but she hesitated nonetheless. Nikola was never particularly pleasant to be around when he’d pulled an all-nighter. Taking the fact that he hadn’t immediately offered her a dirty look for interrupting as an invitation, she stepped across the threshold. “Good morning, Nikola.” He grunted but did not turn. “If you say so…” Keeping her pace measured, she smiled as she picked out a path amongst the wreckage of whatever experiment he was tearing apart. “Do you object to the ‘morning’ part, or that it is good?” He grunted again and she chuckled, coming to a stop beside him.

6. An Acquired Taste - Seasons (Helen's POV from my SHHAH rewrite)

Stamping her foot and shifting her weight, Helen did her best not to let the feeling of foolishness that swelled inside her show. It would not do, she had already decided, to behave as if she was trying to achieve something scandalous or outrageous. If she did, then it would imply that the reason she was standing out in the snow beside the large doors to one of Oxford’s esteemed colleges was anything less than perfectly innocent. And it was innocent. Truly. Even if she could hear a small voice in the back of her head calling out her recklessness that sounded frustratingly like her father. Sighing to herself, Helen straightened her shoulders and tried to make it look like she was not loitering. Someone would come along soon enough, she assured herself. And then she’d be able to ask them to relay her message. After all, she’d only been waiting ten minutes so far.

7. She Had Him At Hello - Colour Theory (SHHAH rewrite but Nikola's POV)

The day Nikola Tesla’s life changed forever was, in actual fact, a rather mundane day. Oxford was its usual dreary shade of grey and, as he hurried up the steps towards the library in search of warmth and an illusive text, he gave little thought to the layer of gold and brown leaves underfoot. The last beauty of autumn had long since departed, leaving behind a thick sludge of decay that he was particularly distressed to find he was almost always tracking into his rooms. Sighing, he drew his coat around him more tightly and ducked his head. When he reached them, the stairs shone faintly with the latest smatterings of rain, the water filthy with the mud of the students who had come before him. It was another of those awful English things he had not quite come to terms with yet, sitting along side their obsession with insipid tea and that hideous swill Mr Griffin seemed quite adamant that Nikola would come to love. He was halfway up the stairs (and halfway through a bitter, internal grumbling about having to listen to the snoring of his neighbour for the third night in a row) when a flash of something so bright and so shocking he might have dreamed it caught his eye. Red. No. Not red.

8. Divine Intervention (yet another AU but this time Helen has wings...)

Leaning back, Helen kicked her legs absently as her gaze slide from the glowing city before her to thick blanket of clouds above her that blotted out the stars she knew hid behind it all. It would likely rain before the night was out, but she didn’t much mind. There was something lovely about the night watch when a storm hit. She took a deep breath, shaking her golden curls back as a small breeze tried to throw them across her face once more. The night was perfectly still, perfectly quiet, and even the few humans who stumbled (drunkenly, she knew) between the buildings on the edge of the city seemed to recognise the need to keep their voices to a hushed murmur. In the distance she could see the glittering cathedral, standing as a silent observer in the middle of it all. Even from her place on the high, crumbling walls that ringed the city she could see the light of its hundred torches as they blazed in each window. The priests who tended to them would be working through the night to keep them lit once the storm hit and she half wished she could tell them to take the night off once the worst of the weather rolled in. Instead, she turned to look over her shoulder, taking a cursory glance towards the dark, swaying trees of the forest that loomed with a thick, unrelenting sort of darkness. Watching the forest was certainly more her duty than watching the city itself, but the stillness of the world beyond the wall was as it always was: complete.

9. Secret Room - Post-it notes from hell (because who doesn't love some secret room smut?)

When she strides into her office, face blank but fists curled, Nikola is hardly surprised. He’d known he would be in trouble before she left, and when she’d stopped responding to his text messages nearly 12 hours ago (innocent enough, though he trusted her to hear the wicked undertones he’d been trying for) his fate had been sealed. Knowing this, however, and seeing his doom come striding towards him, he now knows are entirely different things. But, because her two day absence has made him hungry for her and his hunger often makes him bold (which was the reasoning he gave whenever she deigned to bring up Rome and his poor showing), he does not cower as he knows she would like. In fact, he leans back in her chair and lifts his feet until they perch on the edge of her desk. It earns him a flicker of ire that makes his skin grow hot, but he refuses to let it show. “Good afternoon, Helen,” he says smoothly, raising his hands to lace behind his head as he lounges. “You’re back early. Heinrich wasn’t expecting you until after dinner.” She says nothing, striding around the desk and grabbing the back of her (his) chair.

10. Pretty Boy part 2 (a sequel to my February story when Nikola wore pretty clothes and was basically Helen's little pet)

He is restless as he takes yet another turn around the enormous hotel room she had organised for them and though it is richly appointed (and she’s provided more books than he could possibly read in the two days they’ll be staying) Nikola finds it just about impossible to still the restless fraying of his mind. Particularly when the rain simply will not stop lashing at the windows. The storm, relentless and loud, crackles through the air with enough force that he can all but feel the electricity prickling along his arms. There is a part of him that yearns to throw open the wide doors to their balcony and step out into fray but even though hours have passed since she told him to stay put, her words echo against skull with the same intensity as if she had just said it. And yes, he knows that the balcony cannot reasonably be considered ‘leaving’ their suite, yet he does not even dare reach for the handles. Turning away from the sight of the storm, Nikola runs his hands down his stomach, trying to let the fine silk of his latest robe distract him from his disquiet and the knowledge that she is now 12 minutes late. It is a scarlet thing, the colour like a splash of blood that he thinks makes his skin look beautifully pale. Helen too had seemed to enjoy the effect, making him turn slowly in place after she’d dressed him in it. She had revelled in him, lounging half dressed on the bed as he’d inspected his gift in the enormous, ornate mirror across from the palatial bed.

I think everyone I know has been tagged, so consider this a second tag for all of you so I can see your fun writings!

[syntheta-ac]

Alright look. Here's my thing with the Cybertruck.

Forget Elon for just a second, forget Tesla for the most part even. All the brand stuff, all the quality issues, all the rest of the nonsense.

It's fast, right? As far as I can tell, the literal one point the thing still has going for it compared to all the promises, is the fact that it moves pretty darn fast for a big fucking lego brick on wheels. The one thing they seem to know how to do is make a fast vehicle.

......................

It could have been a bike.

It could have been a fucking. Motorcycle.

Look at it. Look at that ridiculous, lowpoly, four-tons-on-an-aluminum-frame, surprisingly fast cuboid death trap and tell me it shouldn't have been a fucking Cyberbike. The sharp angles? The flat, reflective plates? White strip lights instead of round headlights? Aerodynamic-ish? The potential for that Valorant-minimal-skin look?

Fucking hell.

Like okay I still wouldn't have bought it because on top of all the Elon stuff it would probably explode under me.

But it still should have been an electric motorcycle.

[thesoftboiledegg]

When I was driving to the mall today, I saw a license plate that read "[letters]-C137." Coincidence? Probably not! In the space of 30 seconds a couple of weeks ago, I saw a Pickle Rick sticker on somebody's car and a guy with a beard wearing a Rick and Morty shirt (why is it always guys with beards?)

I also saw a Tesla recently with the word "TESLA" in the license plate number, so I guess the Tesla logo on the front isn't enough. Gotta let everybody know that they're the kings and queens of the road while their vehicles blow up.

Anyway, Rue 21 had Rick and Morty women's undergarments, which is a little different.

Finally, merchandise where Morty looks mischievous and crafty instead of yelling aimlessly. But he's still yelling on the tag!

This hoodie is adorable. I recognize the flower Morty from the Dolls Kill collaboration.

The text is a little ominous, though. "Rick and Morty time! All day long, forever..." I guess that's another way of saying "Rick and Morty, a hundred years"? But the way it trails off is a little eerie.

Spencer's was well stocked with Shrimp and Toxic Rick energy drinks. Seriously, why did the marketing team choose two of the grossest Ricks for something that you put in your mouth?

Well, at least it has one less gram of sugar than the Shrimp Rick drink. Yay, that means it's healthy!

They also had no shortage of Pickle Rick beanies, so you can buy one for yourself and each of your friends.

And a new Hologram Rick glass. I don't know what it is about Hologram Rick and Spencer's, but they're always stocking merchandise with his face on it.

I got a little curious about what Spencer's sells online and checked out the description on the Rick and Morty section. Boy, it's a doozy!

Bold of them to assume that I have friends who are also fans of Rick and Morty. I brought it up ONCE and got antagonized.

Afterward, I stopped by the nearby head shop. That first pipe is pretty generic, but, uh...what's going on with Morty in the back? Bootleg merchandise is a lawless wasteland.

Pipes!

I asked the employee "Can I see that Rick and Morty tray?" then said "Oh, it's a Ren and Stimpy reference!" I actually never watched that show growing up. I was more of a Spongebob, Powerpuff Girls, Scooby-Doo and Dexter's Laboratory fan.

In a previous installment, I mentioned seeing a new Tesla building in the area. It would've been funny if that building just sat there empty, but...nope. Tesla is moving in.

It was hard to take pictures because the windows reflected the street, so I literally had to stand in front of the windows to cast a shadow.

Display models, a service warehouse, a "modern" office room with inexplicably tiny chairs and tables that sit one foot off the ground...it's all here!

I live in a low-to-middle income area, and Teslas aren't cheap, but I still see them everywhere, ready to explode at a moment's notice. Will Elon Musk visit one day to ramble about how he loves Rick and Morty, he's the real-life Rick, it's carton nihilism, he has ten Pickle Rick pillows, Spencer's gives him an exclusive 90% off Dudebro Discount and Rick would totally rail him in an alleyway?

Maybe not.

[gr1evance]

here's a big(?) captain starburst (nicknamed starb) summary post i wanted to write up because unlike nix and the whole of grievance, i don't actually have to keep any of his stuff under wraps because if i do anything with it in the future i don't intend on keeping a lot to myself. this might be a bit all over the place since i'm not planning this out at all, but.. enjoy!

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captain starburst is kind of my personal modern take on the "character made in a lab to be a government weapon that escaped" trope that i indulged in a lot when i was younger. he has powers that can be very destructive, and he ended up exploding when he was made and taking the whole building with him. he's from a shared superhero universe with friends, so when he was first getting a grasp on the world he immediately dedicated himself to heroism and helping people. it was rough at first, his explosive powers led him to make a lot of mistakes, and hurt a lot of people on accident. it's something he still struggles with feeling immense guilt over. he did eventually get his powers under control, and can use them to actually help people like he always wanted, but it was definitely a process. he has a lot of remorse and still-pent-up feelings about his past. nowadays he's a pretty famous and controversial hero. mostly because he's openly communist in a very capitalistic field (and country), and more about actually helping people instead of just putting on performances. he's a big sweetheart and just loves making other people's days more than anything!

he's had a few big "events" in his life, one of the most life-changing being his run in with the company that made him, AMOEBA. investigating a string of kidnappings led him back to there, and their ceo lourence. he was forced to work for them, like originally intended, to spare the lives of those in their custody. he eventually managed to escape and save the people held there, injured but alive. the event shot him into the public eye, and his career really took off from there. amoeba was never punished or questioned due to the general public assuming the event to be a publicity stunt, as so many things of that nature tend to be in this setting.

starb has also had many run ins with a lesser known villain, named russian roulette. they were similarly made to be a killing machine, and take their job very seriously. they consider starb a nuisance and a liar after the two of them had a misunderstanding that cost them their newly found freedom, and now they've sworn revenge. despite this, the two of them have.. an interesting relationship. calling it romantic feels wrong, at least at first, but they're some sort of "together?" kind of the way that love and hate are considered similar feelings, although starburst would never hate them. the two of them were recently trapped together for a while, and they've since come to a kind of understanding with each other. they're still rivals, but at the very least, russian roulette isn't trying to kill him.... as much.

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the final kind of "big" thing i can think about regarding him is his husband! a few years back he was kidnapped by scelestic, my friend @apotheoseity's villain organization. while there, he met the lab assistant, teslacoil. he was.. kicked out of being kidnapped because his gay antics with him were too annoying. lol. the two of them kept talking afterwards, got closer, and eventually got married! they live together now. it's pretty silly, considering starburst is a hero and tesla is a villain, but they make it work. tesla is kind of starb's entire world, and really changed his life. despite the weird way they met, they're kind of the perfect couple now. very lovey dovey and cheesy. they're cute!

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he's polyam- as you might have inferred- and has a few other partners as well. he's dating... himself from another universe, a version of nix i use for roleplay. he's the first person starburst got close with romantically, and nix is also the one who helped him learn how to better control his powers. another one of his partners is hocus pocus, or villian spectasy, an upcoming hero with a rich dad who used to be famous (not villain, but villian, with the i and the a swapped. kind of tongue-in-cheek for his original role as an antagonist, but i think it's silly.) they had a rough start, with villian's ego getting the best of him. the two of them were "business partners" for a bit, starburst becoming his sidekick, before starb eventually decided the two of them were better off as just boyfriends and not working together. they worked through it and are still together, and villian works on.. well, for lack of a better term, making himself less of a dickhead. it's the capitalist x communist relationship everyone's been clamoring for! (nobody has been clamoring for it) he has a few other partners, some who are friend's characters, and also.. his motorcycle! he's dating his motorcycle.

thank you for reading if you got this far, i hope this is all legible! lol. he's my special guy (and he's also me) and he means the world to me. he's got a lot going on, i'd love to answer any follow up questions! but that's my big starb rundown for now!

[biggestdev]

Converting a battery backup to Lithium because I hate myself

I've got a whole bunch of battery backups in my home, one on each computer, and a big one in my server rack in the basement. I've also got a few out "in the wild" at some of my family's places. They're great, where I live in the northeast US, the power grid is stable enough that most outages are only minutes long, and these backups (technically called a UPS - Uninterrupted Power Supply) do a great job keeping computers running through them.

My issue is the batteries. They all run on lead acid batteries, aka the same kind that's in your car, and they dont last long in this kind of environment, I'm lucky if I get 3 years out of one. On top of that, their battery life detection is terrible, It's about a 50/50 shot whether I get a warning about a dead battery pack before the next power outage takes it down without warning. Keeping track of that with just one or two is annoying, let alone 10 of them!

Lithium UPS's exist, and theoretically last many years longer, but they are many times more expensive than a normal backup. I'd like to not spend new-car money replacing a dozen UPS units, so I did some math instead.

I have a husk of a ups (no battery), and I tested it out: the open circuit voltage on the battery cable is 27.6 volts, which just happens to be almost the exact voltage needed to float charge a series of 8 Lithium-iron-phosphate (LiFePo4) batteries!

Why is that exciting? Usually when you think of lithium batteries, you think of lithium-ion (also can be called lithium-polymer) batteries. These are the batteries in your laptop and phone... And also Tesla cars. They hold more energy than a LiFePo4 battery, but are very sensitive to temperature, over and under-voltage, over-charging, and over-current conditions. Abuse them too hard, and they swell up and pop! That's why Teslas seem to catch fire more often than other cars: most other companies gave up range for a battery chemistry that isn't a ticking time bomb, like LiFePo4.

These LiFePo4 batteries can take a beating compared to Li-ion ones. Most importantly, they can be "float" charged, that is, left on the charger 24/7, without worrying about overcharging it and blowing caustic smoke everywhere. This is critical, because I'm attempting a direct drop-in swap for the old lead battery in this UPS, because float charging a lead battery is basically a requirement, and doing that to a Li-ion battery is asking for a fire!

Using a Li-ion pack would require a custom charging circuit, as the UPS's 27.6V is not correct for any configuration of Li-ion, and would either under charge the pack, losing me 50% of my capacity, or overcharge it, and make it explode. It would also have to stop the batteries from being float charged, again to keep the battery from exploding, while fooling the UPS into thinking a battery is still attached so it doesn't beep at me all the time, and my head is spinning just thinking about how that would work. Much easier to give up capacity for a simpler, and more robust battery.

This UPS can deliver 900 watts of power on battery, that equates to roughly 30 amps of current from the 27.6V battery pack. Adding a safety factor, I bought a BMS (Battery Management System) rated to 50 amps. A BMS is essential, as it offers extra protection against short circuits, over and under-charging and temperature cutoff. Also cell balancing, which keeps all the cells at the same level of charge during use (if they go out of sync-that's bad, is all I'll say for now). The batteries are rated for 120 amps continuous draw, so I am well under the limit where the cells would self-immolate.

With all that said, here's the guts:

Looking close, you might see that I had to cut some plastic out to make it all fit. That's an error on my part-I didn't measure right. If I make more, I'll definately be using a smaller cell, so it will be a proper "drop in" mod. Lots of drilling, cutting, and filing to make this all fit!

It took several hours to link up the cells, terminate the balancing wires (the small red spindly ones), and and stuff them in the battery box. That's a LOT longer than I was hoping it would take, but the on-the fly mods took a lot of time. but eventually, it all fit in, and I was able to test it:

It works! I unplugged it from the wall, and it stayed on! For now, I am in full helicopter parent mode, since I don't want to deal with a lithium fire, even though my math checks out and the UPS should never get the the point that these cells are ever "abused". I only leave it on when I'm in the room, and when I leave, I unplug from the wall, and remove the red lead from the battery, so no charge enters or leaves while I'm not there to watch it.

In theory, the only issue with this retrofit will be a useless runtime meter. The "minutes of runtime" meter is measuring the voltage of the battery as it discharges to estimate how much longer it will last, and the voltage drop over time is different for lithium and lead, so the meter won't be measuring accurately. Once I'm confident it won't explode randomly, I will likely install it permanently somewhere in one of my compters.

Wish me luck!

[westleyjackson]

I don't know how to answer the poll... because I got Elon Musk.

On one hand, holy shit, now I'M inside. Just think about what I could do! I'd have to be very very careful because if I changed things too fast I might be ousted. But god, just anything I could change would help so much. Even if it's just being sand in thr gears because I'm "eccentric" If nothing else, I'm the perfect mole and could leak info to others that can do something with the info. Aside from that, I could perhaps find ways to salvage tesla and Twitter and all the other businesses he has that -could- be amazing and actually help drag us all into a new era. Imagine starlink being used in a humanitarian way like it was at first doing for places like Ukraine. Imagine space x not being a glory project and actually following more sound principles so they stop constantly exploding. And no I'm not smart enough or trained in any of these things, but neither is he. Only I'd hire people who know this shit and respect it's potential and not just be yes men. And then I could put his money to work -for- the people instead of hoarding it like an evil dragon.

The reason I don't know how to answer tho is cause dear god I wouldn't want his life. His life would be miserable. He is a deeply poor man in every way but actual money. I wouldn't-want- his wealth. But here's the thing. I'd take one for the team. The team being, ya know, people. The human race. So I guess "oh fuck, oh fuck" applies, but it doesn't get the real feeling across.

Spin a wheel to be assigned someone!

[olehswiftcomstock]

Ni Da

First Ariana Grande, Apollo Global Management has access to Blackwater. My wonderful journey to first 2x/ then 3x/ then 4x Modafinil started from that our valid replacement of Marc Rowan was able to successfully use Black Water to cut way through for parcels, which made Russians' asses to, as always, explode and burst from disappointment of themselves. Therefore you need to watch yourself if you about to destroy this apparently not totally adverse and still working mechanism, since BW mercenaries are indeed just doing what they are told and we can control then through our valid replacement of Marc Rowan, therefore if you prefer to destroy Black Water and Apollo Global Management instead of for example destroying Tesla Corporation, Meta Platforms or Russian FSB agency, I will not quite understand this

Reapers, members of set PT, Trusted Facilities and ASIs assigned to Trusted Facilities or Reapers, continue to replace upper level management of Apollo Global Management and Blackwater (Constellis or Academi, however they called themselves now), however do not eliminate all of ordinary employee as according to previously issued by me orders: I cancel liquidation of all employees of Apollo Global Management and Constellis/Academi/Blackwater, however I preserve order about replacement of all upper level management members and all members of boards of directors in all those companies. This is order