#Controlled Disruption

[goodoldbandit]

Balancing Innovation and Stability: The Art of Controlled Disruption.

Sanjay Kumar Mohindroo Sanjay Kumar Mohindroo. skm.stayingalive.in A forward-thinking guide for senior IT leaders on balancing innovation and stability. Discover insights, real-world lessons, and actionable strategies for controlled disruption. Executive Summary Innovation is essential. Stability is vital. Both matter for senior IT leaders who want growth without chaos. I have guided many…

[mycroftrh]

“Tim is addicted to coffee” this “no actually Tim is crazy about Zesti” that “the Bats try to get him to stop drinking so much coffee” the other

Nah. Unified theory:

Tim used to be addicted to coffee. As he spent more time at the Manor, Bruce and Alfred and Dick started being weird about it, and if someone tried to swap out his coffee for fucking decaf again or give him a judgmental look one more fucking time or make one more fucking ultimatum “deal” he was going to go full Gun Batman on their asses. What drugs he does and does not use (or abuse) in order to maintain at least a semblance of functionality in both the diurnal and nocturnal worlds while also being a teenager who should theoretically “require” large amounts of sleep is none of their McHecking business. Tim’s body Tim’s choice.

…or at least that’s the impression the others get for a while… and then Tim stops drinking coffee. At all. Guzzles Zesti like it’s going out of style, but no coffee, no tea, no heart-attack-inducing caffeinated lemonade, no weird energy drinks. They question him and he just shrugs and is like. Not sure why you’re not happy? You won. I don’t agree that you have the right to control my decisions and survival mechanisms like that but it’s clear you’re gonna make everything miserable as long as I’m fighting you on it, so I gave up. You won. Congrats. And then he pops open a fresh can of Zesti.

Bruce snags a half-drunk can of “Zesti” to test it, on the assumption that Tim must be somehow swapping out the drink for something caffeinated in a way that leaves the can seemingly still sealed, possibly by buying out a manufacturing plant… and finds nothing. As far as even the most vigorous tests can tell, it’s totally normal, caffeine-free Zesti Cola.

Eventually they settle down, pleased. See, Tim? You didn’t need the caffeine to function after all. You sleep so much better and are so much less anxious now, aren’t you happy that we convinced you to cut back?

And Tim smiles at them in a way that someday, looking back, they will know had death hidden behind it, but this is early enough that they can’t tell yet, it just looks like placid agreement; and says, yes, he does seem quite happy and healthy with the amount of caffeine he is currently consuming, doesn’t he. Surprising. I guess someone was proven right after all. Not naming names.

A couple times when he’s held hostage he gets horrible debilitating headaches and nausea, gets very sick - fatigue, confusion, hand tremor, joint pain - because he doesn’t have his meds. He normally carries a few days worth of meds in a few different capsules distributed around his gear (one in a belt pouch, one in his boot, etc), but sometimes he gets held hostage too long or fully stripped of his gear and it fucks him up.

The others are sympathetic; medication withdrawal can be a bitch, and unfortunately Tim does have a few different conditions that require continuous medication and there’s really no way around that. They offer to carry some capsules of his meds themselves but he turns the offer down.

Only Leslie is privy to his full med list, which includes “caffeine pill, 200mg, twice daily”.

[sort-of-a-hero-that-way]

Dennis shielding Dee whether it's physical harm or a verbal confrontation. And thinking about ada's tag alongside the gifs

They're both of equal threat to him...

[starleska]

In reference to your heatwave warning post: As someone who lives in a country notorious for hot AND/OR humid weather in Summer, I absolutely agree with you on how important is it to spread awareness about this.

Yes, it is Winter where I am atm (plus most of our houses are designed with the opposite problem - they (usually) dissipate heat well in summer, but they barely retain it in winter which means it's super cold but I digress).

However, during really high Summer temperatures (and especially the heatwaves here), I can confirm that I've seen TV weather broadcasts put out warnings to avoid exercising outside or going outside without appropriate protection (suncream, sunnies, shaded areas, etc.).

So I appreciate you talking about this.

(And to those who keep dismissing/downplaying how severe the heatwave is forecasted to be in UK: Please don't.)

anon, thank you so so so much for adding credence to what we've all been saying about these heatwaves!! it's extremely validating to hear it from someone who lives elsewhere and deals with such hot temperatures 💖 i mentioned the 2022 UK heatwaves in that post, and that was the first time the Met Office (our weather/climate service) had ever put out a red weather warning for extreme heat!! that weather warning means:

the weather is extremely bad and poses a risk to life

travel and power are likely to be disrupted: you should not travel under any circumstances

you must take immediate action to protect yourself from harm

you must follow the advice of local emergency services, as widespread damage is likely

thankfully we're only at an amber alert right now (which means be prepared, potential power cuts and risk to life) and it's not supposed to get much worse, but ohhh it's bad right now. there's pressure sitting so heavily in my face, and it's so hot outside that opening the door is like opening an oven!! the air is so thick and inescapable, and i'm up north: my heart goes out to poor people in places like London, which must be suffocating 💔

[vermillioncrown]

sun is out and i might have another obsession 🫶

[ubcs]

they couldn't keep carlos in the re games because he would be too loud and too right criticizing global and national politics while fighting bows

[wonder-worker]

"The division between the two families [the Woodvilles and the Nevilles] and their allies can be seen in the royal charters that they witnessed. Warwick, Rivers and Archbishop Neville of York, while serving as chancellor and afterwards, were fairly constant witnesses to royal charters and consequently often appeared together. This was not, however, the case for other family members and friends. From 1466 to 1469, if Scales or Woodville associates like Sir John Fogge, John Lord Audley or Humphrey Lord Stafford of Southwick witnessed royal charters, then members of the Neville group, such as John Neville, earl of Northumberland, or John Lord Wenlock would not, and vice versa. Discounting the ubiquitous Warwick, Rivers and Archbishop Neville, of the twenty-four charters issued between February 1466 and June 1469, twelve were witnessed by men associated with the Woodvilles, eight by men associated with the Nevilles and two were witnessed by no member of either group beyond the two earls at their heads and the archbishop; only two charters, both from 1466, featured associates of both families.

Such striking segregation of witnesses suggests that something more than simple convenience or availability was at play. [...] The evidence of these witness lists does show the extent of the split between the two groups from early in Edward's reign and of the need for political society to work with that cleavage in the heart of the Yorkist regime."

— Theron Westervelt, "Royal charter witness lists and the politics of the reign of Edward IV"

*This is specifically applicable for Edward IV's first reign; in contrast, the charters in his second reign displayed a great deal of aristocratic and domestic unity and cohesion.

[pinkysberg]

Idk how to explain it but I feel like Micah bootlicking Dutch come from the way his dad treat him, I mean yes his dad was a POS but Micah seem to refer him as with such a reverence is just his way to cope with the trauma? He seems always stride to fill that second in command post. Shown in his dialogue of jealousy toward Hosea, Arthur and John

I suppose it could be but truthfully from where I'm sitting I think Micah just knew the right way to get into Dutch's inner circle. I don't think the ass kissing was anything but calculated. He knows Dutch wants to be revered and complimented, and he knows that if he wants to get to a point where Dutch will actually trust and listen to him, that's his best course of action. I'm also not sure that he was jealous of anyone so much as he was just actively hostile to anyone who didn't serve his purpose.

[fluffypotatey]

so i know it wouldn’t make any sense in-story but imagine an adult popping up in the Box at the Glade 👀 full grown, 50 something, amnesiac in a confined green space with boy teenagers

i think it’d be fucking hilarious

[sskk-manifesto]

Ep 4 :)

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Love spending two hours with enthusiastic interns being like "yesssss talk systemic institutional violence patterns in our catchment" so they can learn more about dissent amd disruption in the mental health care field as a tactic for patient advocacy. Loved watching my interns light up at the idea that they get to actively antogonize the system and not only do I have their back but I'm actively troubleshooting their strategy with them based on anarchist principles of system destabilization.

[tomato-greens]

the cognitive dissonance between the OCDometer’s accounting of my privileges & my actual daily experience causes me a lot of strife

[catenary-chad]

Excerpt from the holy book (When the Steam Railroads Electrified) about the Maltrata Incline in Mexico that blacks out the bingo card for early 20th century electrification projects. Not shown: of course it’s powered by hydroelectricity, got ripped out in the mid-20th century, and had a ridiculous steam vs electric tug of war publicity stunt

This is why I openly mock the idea of Electra cheating in an uphill race. If you must villainize electric trains, at least do it in ways that aren’t aggressively technically and historically wrong. Going uphill is something they were infamously good at and widely used for early on, it’s part of why alpine Europe was such an early hotspot.

[gravesung-moving]

(sighing dreamily) chiaki in an awakened state is Fucking Terrifying.

[cruesuffix]

I wonder how many of these trolls who spread that stupid conspiracy that Vince sacrificed Skylar know that a chemical company was dumping radiation near where Vince and sharise lived at and gave many of the residents cancer which included their daughter

clock it anon! but if you told them this they’d either disregard it or ignore you altogether. these ppl don’t want to know the actual truth they just want to spread hate and they’ll do it regardless of the actual facts. didn’t the residents sue the company too? yeah it was a big thing at the time im sure, but those conspiracy theorists somehow don’t take two seconds out of their day to research it or don’t care to. also…i can’t believe companies like that get away with doing it in the first place. you wonder why climate change and health problems are at an all time high rn, meanwhile you got companies dumping chemicals and shit like that into the ocean. funny how that’s not even a conspiracy theory but those idiots would rather run around screaming about vince neil “sacrificing his child” than the actual important things…interesting.

[fisheito]

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