#Mission Creep

[aheroinasuit]

Mission Creep

#Person of Interest #Mission Creep #Harold Finch #Michael Emerson #1.03

[nemospecific]

I’ve never done intarsia before, I’ve only done a very basic cable, this is the first pattern I’ve come up with myself, why am I trying to add yarn overs now?

Note: I’ve never done yarn overs before, either.

#knitting #mission creep #I know these are all very VERY basic knitting skills #but maybe try to learn one skill at a time and not five?

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Tess from Mission Creep is asexual!

#tess #mission creep #canon aspec #asexual

[tracing-lines-in-the-infinite]

An ongoing list of my favourite lines from each episode of Person Of Interest

2.20: "you can stay there and die in that bed, or you can get up and help me find the bastard who murdered you"

2.12: "John Warren is still an illusion, the incomplete footprint of a man who doesn't exist"

1.01: "When you find that one person who connects you to the world you become someone different. When that person is taken from you, wo do you become then?"

1.02: "look, your predicament is not my doing or my concern"

1.03: "That's one of the things you learn over there. In the end we're all alone, and no one's cpming to save you"

1.04: "Which so you think I'll regret more; letting you live or letting you die?"

1.07: "I thought about taking your life, John. But I realize that would seem ungrateful."

2.22: "You lied to me. I believed you. I believed in you."

#person of interest #In Extremis #prisoner's dilemma #pilot #ghosts #mission creep #John Reese #Harold Finch #cura te ipsum #witness #carl elias #god mode #root

[use-the-cushion]

Fic Rec List for  a] s01e03: Mission Creep b] s01e04: Cura Te Ipsum

*waves* hi! long time. but here:

For s1e03:

All He'd Had to Do Was Ask - jedibuttercup  Reese muses about him and Finch after the episode.

There aren’t many fics for Mission Creep, so here’s a fic set before Cura Te Ipsum: Of Bones Are Coral Made - callmecathy John's alcoholism, wasn't discussed on the show at all after he joins Finch and gains a purpose, this fic, deals with that issue, and depicts Reese & Finch's growing partnership beautifully. CW: Alcoholism.

For s1e04:

The Guy in No. 4 - richmahogany Set in the beginning, a scene between Harold & Megan Tillman, at the hospital - nicely done. 

Playing God - brodie-wan  John and his thoughts during the last scene of the ep (you know the one)

Andrew and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - ElliQuinn Andrew Benton's thoughts of the last scene of the episode. Well done, and quite chilling. 

He Has His Reasons - jedibuttercup  Post episode, Harold has some thoughts about John. Quiet, and oh, so good.

Cura Te Ipsum - PapayaK  A neat fic exploring why the title might have been chosen for the episode, beautiful - also explores the growing partnership between Reese & Finch.

Every Step of The Way - Maekala, Podcath  Post ep, as the summary says, without giving much away: Finch supports Reese's decision and stays with him every step of the way.  A beautiful fic showing their friendship, trust in each other - partnership solidifying. Also has a podfic link in the fic itself.

Lessons - Dimity Blue (Arnie) Has references to 1.21 Many Happy Returns. Post episode, Summary says it best, Peter Arndt and Andrew Benton don’t know that they owe their being in this predicament to the same man

Tagging: @potcpoi  @argylepiratewd @nourann @benfinchemerson @detective-fiasco @ktophers @stingalingaling @ununpredictableme @thetempleofthemasaigoddess @themirokai 

#person of interest #fic recs #mission creep #cura te ipsum #john reese #harold finch #poi fic recs #person of interest fic recs #fanfic rec

[norvicfiddler]

Mission Creep important bits:

Adorable sleepy face-desk-smush Finch. Adorable grumpy sleepy rolled-up shirtsleeves (growl) Finch. Adorable book reading press-up multitasking Finch. Adorable post-exercise crew-neck t-shirt Finch. Adorable call-centre headset Finch. Adorable planting weapons in taxi cab little face shrug Finch. Adorable (and brave) bank robbery infiltrating Finch.

Did I miss any out? 

#oh yeah #elias #person of interest #mission creep #rewatching poi #there were john flashbacks #but i was too focussed on all the adorable finch #sorry

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Sarah Haider

Published: Jun 18, 2022

The Problem

If you dislike someone, you should try to get them a position of leadership in a progressive institution. If you absolutely loathe them, make that a progressive, nonprofit organization.

I felt an enormous amount of catharsis reading a recent article by Ryan Grim on the Intercept. Take a moment, when you can, to read through its entirety—it covers the vicious internal politics and infighting that have paralyzed the work of progressive advocacy organizations.  

Here are some selected quotes, mostly from Executive Directors of various non-profit progressive orgs:

“My last nine months, I was spending 90 to 95 percent of my time on internal strife. Whereas [before] that would have been 25-30 percent tops,” the former executive director said. He added that the same portion of his deputies’ time was similarly spent on internal reckonings.

In fact, it’s hard to find a Washington-based progressive organization that hasn’t been in tumult, or isn’t currently in tumult.

For years, recruiting young people into the movement felt like a win-win, he said: new energy for the movement and the chance to give a person a lease on a newly liberated life, dedicated to the pursuit of justice. But that’s no longer the case. “I got to a point like three years ago where I had a crisis of faith, like, I don’t even know, most of these spaces on the left are just not — they’re not healthy. Like all these people are just not — they’re not doing well,” he said. “The dynamic, the toxic dynamic of whatever you want to call it — callout culture, cancel culture, whatever — is creating this really intense thing, and no one is able to acknowledge it, no one’s able to talk about it, no one’s able to say how bad it is.”

The environment has pushed expectations far beyond what workplaces previously offered to employees. “A lot of staff that work for me, they expect the organization to be all the things: a movement, OK, get out the vote, OK, healing, OK, take care of you when you’re sick, OK. It’s all the things,” said one executive director. “Can you get your love and healing at home, please? But I can’t say that, they would crucify me.”

It’s become hard to hire leaders of unmanageable organizations. A recent article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy noted that nonprofits were having an extraordinarily hard time finding new leaders amid unprecedented levels of departures among senior officials. “We’ve been around for 26 years, and I haven’t seen anything like this,” Gayle Brandel, CEO of PNP Staffing Group, a nonprofit executive search firm, told the trade publication, explaining the difficulty in finding executives to fill the vacancies.

Executive directors across the space said they too have tried to organize their hiring process to filter out the most disruptive potential staff. “I’m now at a point where the first thing I wonder about a job applicant is, ‘How likely is this person to blow up my organization from the inside?’” said one, echoing a refrain heard repeatedly during interviews for this story.

Welcome to Hell

I’ve been lucky that my explicit politics and nature of work have driven off many of the kinds of people who might create such a dysfunctional culture—but even I have not been entirely spared.

Meanwhile, I’ve witnessed other groups entirely overtaken—their work forgotten as internal reckonings routinely roil within the organization. I’ve watched their (already underserved) programs be abandoned for more fashionable, social justice oriented ones. I’ve watched identitarianism creep into hiring and firing—white males dropping out of leadership positions like flies. Sometimes they are chased out, accused of some impropriety or other. Sometimes they “choose” to resign—claiming to step down to make way for someone more diverse. It kept happening, until it became genuinely rare to see a straight white male in a top leadership position. And of course, there is nothing inherently wrong with fewer white male leaders…so long as it is a natural consequence of a fair system that finds the best people for the jobs. But of course, that is not what is happening. Indeed, I’ve been called a “white supremacist” for insisting that leadership positions should be granted on the basis of qualifications and experience—regardless of the race/gender/sexuality of that person.

Instead, organizations around me have been pressured by activists to fill leadership positions with “women of color”, accepting the absurd identitarian logic that somehow this act would solve issues of disparity (just as the Obama presidency presumably fixed racism once and for all). Sometimes this has led to the appointments of leaders who are simply not qualified for their positions—causing harm to the stable functioning of the organizations and their ability to do good work.

But even if a “woman of color” is elected (many besieged leaders in the Intercept article above were, in fact, women of color)—nothing ends the incessant infighting except an outright rejection of the politics that support it. I find that the more explicitly an org has adopted a commitment to social justice ideals, the more likely they are to be held hostage by neverending drama. The opposite is also true—the only groups who appear to be spared are those who are explicitly and unapologetically anti-woke.

I’ll borrow my own language from my last piece:

Anyone who has spent time in progressive activist spaces knows that they contain a surprising amount of petty tyrants, bullies, and even actual sexual predators. Surprising, until you understand the rules of such spaces. Here, membership in any number of marginalized groups can grant one power to flout rules, squash dissent, and silence critics. Why wouldn’t abusers take advantage of the free pass?

And while personalities of this sort are rare in any population, their ability to operate with impunity means they leave long and bloody trails of victims….I’ve witnessed countless careers ruined, healthy communities fall, and organizations crippled—all due to accusations without a shred of evidence to support them.

But there is something I failed to cover in that piece—the problem isn’t merely the fact that social justice issues are abused by disturbed personalities with the right identities, it is that social justice politics condition the average “nice liberal” to accept bad behavior and cancerous work dynamics, all in in the name of “justice” and “inclusion”.

It is with the silence, or willing participation of a large portion of “nice liberals” that a subordinate cussing out their boss becomes “speaking truth to power”...and uninvolved volunteers leading insurrections to oust longtime board members becomes “sparking revolutionary change”...and junior employees demanding the addition of services outside of the mission’s scope becomes “centering marginalized voices”.

It is a simple thing to re-cast untenably toxic and inexcusably hostile behavior as the price one pays for “justice” and “diversity”, and indeed, that is exactly what happens. The nice liberals are easily duped into accepting the unacceptable, capitulating to extremists again and again, dooming their own dear causes to extreme inefficiency. The truth is, organizations simply can’t function under these circumstances—social justice temperaments routinely spell an end to the work, whatever it is.

How To Get Out

Any organization that wishes to survive (even thrive) in this climate must forcibly RE-CENTER THE WORK.

That means:

Creating an explicitly mission-oriented culture. Making it clear that all staff and volunteers are there to support the mission of the organization—that the mission is important, and deserves their full attention and commitment. This means that while they are at work, engaging in activism that is unrelated to the mission will not be tolerated. We are not here to solve all problems--we are here to solve a specific problem. In addition, employees and volunteers must understand that they will occasionally work with people whose worldviews they don’t always agree with, and that this is to be seen as an indicator of a healthy environment (so long as all agree on the value of the mission).

Creating an explicitly WORK oriented culture. I don’t know why this is a problem, but it is—especially in non-profit spaces that employ young people. Make it clear to volunteers and employees that they are here to work, to achieve an end. Nonprofits in particular are the space for you to GIVE TO OTHERS, not to take for your own ends. You are expected to treat your co-workers with courtesy, and your boss with respect. Your supervisors are there to support you and mentor you—but do not confuse them with your therapist or a parent.

Zero-tolerance. This might sound harsh to outsiders who don’t know how bad bad can be, and charitable types in general have a very hard time taking on a management style that makes boundaries clear. However, there can be no tolerance for abusive behavior, or for breaking the above two rules, regardless of the reason. If someone starts agitating against the above two rules, especially using social justice language (you’ll come to recognize it easily over time), do not wait, do not give them a second chance. Get rid of them.  

Donors, understand that far too many of these nonprofits are wasting your funds. When I give to organizations, here is what I look for:

Are they confused about what it is that they do? Are they focused on a coherent mission, or are they 10 things at once? Do they serve the homeless, for example, but also work towards increasing diversity, and also racial justice, and also ending sexism? Is their literature infused with social justice language?

How strong is the leadership? Are they willing to be “bad guys” when necessary for the work? Crucially, does the ED also have a strong board that stands behind them? An abnormal amount of fortitude and cooperation among senior staff is necessary to withstand the pull of these insane dynamics—weak leadership means capitulation to extremists, which means less work is accomplished.

If the organization is not like this, DO NOT give them your money. They will use it to deal with fires, the roots of which they cannot understand, and that they do not have the courage to stamp out.

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This is what happens when fragile, narcissistic, pandered college students become fragile, narcissistic, toxic “adults.” This phenomenon is also occurring in the business/enterprise sector too.

Sarah and Ex-Muslims of North America are just fortunate the woke revile ex-Muslims as “Islamophobes.”

#Sarah Haider #ex Muslims of North America #nonprofit #competitive virtue #intersectionality #intersectional religion #wokeness as religion #cult of woke #woke activism #wokeism #woke #woke fragility #emotional fragility #toxic work environment #toxic wokeness #mission creep #toxic workplace #social justice #social justice activism #activism #religion is a mental illness

[petits-moutons-noirs]

“The scope of the mission creep is only widened when learning that one of the earliest attempts at home security was created by a Black woman, with the intention of keeping Black women safe without ever relying on police at all.

In 1969, Marie Van Brittan Brown, a Black woman and nurse in Queens, New York, was granted one of the original patents for a home security system. The invention combined two-way microphones with a series of peepholes allowing a homeowner (pictured as a woman in bed) to see and speak to someone outside, before allowing or denying entry. The New York Times reported the story beneath the headline “Audio Viewer Screens Callers,” where Marie is pictured next to her husband, Albert, an electrician.

Brown told the Times the idea for her patent came because “it takes considerable time to dial the police and get action in an emergency.” Rather than a faster means for contacting police, Brown wanted a device to let homeowners, women especially, see and know who was outside their home and filter them. Notably, the emergency alarm button triggered others in the neighborhood, not police.

The device Brown imagined was meant to save Black lives, but corporate interests have twisted her legacy into one built on distrust of Black people and the endless presumption of our guilt. This contradiction epitomizes mission creep and is the ultimate fate of the entire suite of police and surveillance technologies that claim to protect us: Ultimately, they’ll entrap us in the walls we create. Neighborhood watch groups across the US have pushed for “safety” technologies that include drones, license plate readers, gunshot-detection microphones, and even military weapon exchange programs.”

#mission creep #surveillance #vigilante #black history #marie van brittan brown #1969

[awakeonsundaynight]

SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS-BEAUTY IS TRUTH

#SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS #ALTERNATIVE MUSIC #INDIE ROCK #POST PUNK #POST-PUNK #MISSION CREEP #2018 ALBUM #Youtube

[junk-heart]

I haven't posted in a while huh

This is what I think would happen if Tim and Masky switched mid mission/whatever

Brian would have to knock him out and drag him back to bed or smth:")

#Brian dragging Tim away mid creeping on Jay #in his head he's going: #ABORT MISSION ABORT MISSION #smh Tim ¬-¬ #marble hornets fanart #mh brian #mh tim wright #marble hornets

[aheroinasuit]

Wait for me. Please.

#person of interest #Mission Creep #John Reese #Jim Caviezel #1.03

[itskaitsart]

when you’re both field agents and happen to be in love

#mission impossible #benji dunn #ethan hunt #benthan #they’re married TO ME #there’s no way they are not in love #they’re so london boy by taylor swift coded #also love the hell out of you by lewis capaldi #everytime i think i’m over them #they slowly creep back up on me #they were on my mind so i sketched this and then i went a little overboard

[heraldofcrow]

I’m telling ya. Nothing works better to defer creeps than saying something about almost anything related to Bloodborne out of context.

The workplace weirdo starts taking an interest in you? Tell him about how you like to consume umbilical cords and hunt the moon for sport. Maybe tell him about that one time you got your brain sucked out by a tongue-headed demon-creature. Talk about how you hear babies crying randomly at night, or how you need to put the invisible child to “sleep” after you murder its wet nurse. Don’t forget the finger quotes around “sleep.”

—

“Hey, what are you doing after work?”

“Avoiding this madman that screams a lot and tries to beat me to death with a human corpse. Maybe kill an orphan that got a little too comfortable using his placenta as a murder weapon. What about you?”

#hottest new tips for young ladies in the workplace!! #quote bloodborne at him girls! #you must out-creep the creep #no seriously this actually really weirds out this one sus guy at my work and now he thinks i’m a witch apparently #mission accomplished #it’s so perfect like you don’t even have to be mean #just say the most insane thing in the sweetest voice possible #>:) #bloodborne #life hacks #CrowNotes

[nade2308]

This scene always murders me. Because you can tell Lane has rattled Ethan to his core. And Ethan is doing his best not to freak out in front of Walker, because Walker can't know about what happened with Lane. Which further proves my theory that something really happened.

Fallout, man. That movie is the best way to get me to ramble.

@thethistlegirl @malewifebillcage

#ethan hunt #august walker #mission impossible #mission impossible: fallout #tom cruise #henry cavill #my gifs #mission impossible gifs #my edit #missionimpossibleedit #he is scared of Lane #and creeped out #what happened to you Ethan? #the way he reacted to Walker inquiring #the brain is having thoughts ™

[hauntrend]

jack morrison is off chasing ghosts.

screaming.

#overwatch #overwatch 2 #i know this is late but i just bought the missions #im screaming #reaper76 #its creeping back into my mind #jack morrison

[goncharov-propaganda-factory]

if u seek amy??? ok. but the guy im looking for is named bob. im going to a different gas station you are not helping me track this hee hee ha ha ho down.

#pov: you are agent spears fbi. it is 1998. youre on a deep undercover mission to bust a west virginia smuggling ring. youve driven into #the dead center of the state. your accent is flawless and your truck looks as beat up as any other flivver here. but everyone knows youre #a fed. somehow. place gives you the creeps. hollers permeated by a dead quiet #the scent of burning coal on the air carrying from miles away. power plant or coverup? thats what youre here to find out #this safeway guy is suspect. you asked the questions #and got out of there fast. some of those sandwiches had expired when the berlin wall was still up. not a good sign.