The shit Bruce has to do to maintain Brucie Wayne literally keeps me up at night. I think about the comic panel where the security guy was like, “check the bathroom, he accidentally locks himself in there sometimes” at least 3 times a day

And on my Bruce Wayne isn’t Batman post I was like, yea he definitely does that shit. Like does he just go about his day, looks at something and goes, “yea, it’s time to be stupid”

Bruce wakes up with a grin on his face. Alfred asks why he’s in such a good mood.

“Well, Alfred,” he says, “it’s been awhile since I’ve done anything entertainingly ditzy.” He closes his eyes, breathes deeply through his nose, and exhales, looking like some parody of a coffee commercial.

“It’s a himbo day.”

@theoneswhotry bruh I started coughing from laughter

@magical-awesome-kid yes

(id in alt!)

spoilers from the homura arc (c100-c104). natori gets a kitty

She's still only 17, and fate has been so unfairly cruel. I think she'll be okay, but it's going to take time.

Let her grieve...

(id in alt!)

restful. takes place before the omibashira arc.

(id in alt!)

he deserves it

i’ll look forward to hearing your statement if you ever make it out

Do americans actually live like this

Ai generated photo right. Right?

that looks like an entirely normal suburban american neighborhood so if its AI-generated, it’s realistically done.

So the rest of the world watches our movies and in a lot of our movies we mock and satirize the eeriness and soullessness of these manufactured communities but I’m guessing you guys thought it was exaggeration

This is a bloody desert. How can you people live like this???

Artist : 優曇波羅

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I'm so sick of people saying water doesn't taste. Water fuckin TASTES

well what does it taste like then?

You know, the place where I last worked wanted to use our reading room as backdrop for a filmed interview (we had a very pretty reading room). On the day the film crew was there, the audio guy came over to my desk which was at the edge of the space and said "Look, you can keep working 'cus you're not doing anything too loud, but in a minute I'm going to go over there and call for silence for 10-20 seconds, and during that time I need you to not make any noise." And I went "lol sure" but he clearly felt a little uncomfortable telling me to not move at my own desk so he explained; the purpose of those 20 seconds is to record the silence in the room.

It's so they have a patch they can edit "silence" over some extraneous background noise later (the phone ringing, me getting an email, the toilet flushing in the bathroom next door, the elevator coming and going, noisy student group, etc), but the point was that they can't just slap any old "silence" over a recording done in a certain room. They have to use the "silence" *from that room* or it will be jarring on a subliminal level to the people listening. Because silence has a sound, and it's a little different everywhere you hear it.

That's what water tastes like.

The Step-Dad MBJ jokes got to me and I wrote 17k of an An Ding Disciple Luo Binghe AU this long weekend. It's like having a tiny puppy barking ferociously at MBJ for being a shit boyfriend (SQH does not know that he has a boyfriend, obvs).

The romanization of Hawai’i only tightens America’s grip on my people.

We are not the land of Lilo and Stitch. We are not a paradise.

We are a nation suffering.

There are only around 600,000 Native Hawaiians left. Only around 200,000 of them live in Hawai’i.

Hawai’i has the second largest homeless population in the nation, falling just behind New York. There are 19 million people in New York. Hawaii only has 1.4 million people. Yet their homeless rates are neck and neck. A majority of those experiencing homelessness in Hawai’i are Native Hawaiian.

Tourism destroys sacred land. Mountains are moved to make room for telescopes. People live in tiny concrete apartments that cost $2k a month because the rich move to the islands to carve their own paradise. My people spend every night praying we can afford to eat the next day

The Navy poisons the water over and over. They lie and say it’s safe. People fall ill. Then they dump the waste into the ocean and promise to do better. They lie.

End the romanization of Hawai’i. There is no paradise under American occupation.

Your OPSEC is Bad and You Should Feel Bad

Okay so one of the many things that drives me absolutely nuts about most TV shows and (some) books that involve secret or classified information or secure facilities is how absolutely not secure everything is, so these are a few basic things that people get wrong:

You can't carry around classified information. There are, I assume, exceptions in specific cases, though they are assuredly very carefully managed, but random intel agent #12 cannot legally just take home classified information so they can work on it at home. That's incredibly illegal. And that's for a reason--secure facilities are, as the name suggests, secure. Everywhere else is varying levels of not secure. Even for people working with regular business or government materials on their work phone or laptop, there are varying levels of strict rules about where you can leave it, how to report a lost device, and not keeping it in checked bags.

Badges should be innocuous and limited in visible information. Any sensible security system doesn't have badges that are numbered/colored/otherwise identified by access level, because that is a really easy way to identify targets for thieves/people who want to break in. American federal ID cards (CAC for military, PIV for civilian) have really specific layouts. Some companies distinguish between full time employees, interns, vendors, etc in their cards.

Badges shouldn't be displayed outside of the office. This is not really followed by real people (if you get on the metro on DC you will see a wide variety of visible badges), but displaying a badge is not security-wise because 1) it makes them easier to steal, and 2) it can make you a target.

Names/access level/information shouldn't be openly announced. I'm looking at you, MCU Spider-Man fanfiction. Just. Don't.

Confidential/classified information shouldn't be openly discussed. Stop having your characters talk about confidential or classified information in front of people who shouldn't know it, or even just out in the open at all. They shouldn't be telling their parents, their friends, their spouses, etc. Even businesses or government buildings that deal with sensitive information, there may be spaces where certain things can or can't be discussed, and employees/contractors will go through approximately 8 million trainings on where you can't discuss certain information. This also involves erasing whiteboards, locking computers, etc.

You can't have cell phones in certain secure facilities. People shouldn't be having their cell phones with them in SCIFs. This prohibition extends to all things that can be recording devices, including furbies.

I live in an army town that has a lot of military intelligence and electronic warfare development stuff going on. The end result of this is that I’ve known a lot of people who deal with classified stuff in some nature. This means that I’ve had a lot of experiences of watching TV with someone, only for them to pause and start ranting about this kind of thing, as well as just kind of living in this environment with these people.

So, I have some further things to mention (keeping in mind that this is coming from someone on the outside)!

And finally, and most importantly:

It's good to know that amidst all the bad representation that generals can be just as moronic in real life as they're sometimes portrayed

I was a SIGO (signal officer aka communications officer aka in charge of unit networks aka the commander's personal IT guy) and I've got a few to add. Security violations are the ONE thing that are ABSOLUTELY IRRECOVERABLE from a career perspective. A looooot of shady shit can get swept under the rug even when it shouldn't be, but security is not one of them.

I know people whose careers came to a permanent standstill because of security violations where nothing was even compromised-- like leaving the encryption keys in an unlocked drawer in the wrong locked room. Even if you aren't bust down in rank, there is exactly ZERO chance you will ever get promoted again, you loose your clearance, and if your job needed a clearance, guess what? No more job. No one can protect you if you mess up security, even if it's on accident, even if it's not entirely your fault.

As mentioned, there's a lot of intense regulations regarding anything and everything about security. Not only are there extensive special rules about how to transport classified info, there's only certain people who are allowed to transport the classified info and need both training and formal orders to transport that info.

Also EVERYTHING that can hold or transport information is labeled with its classification level. Papers? Labeled. Phones? Labeled. Desktops, laptops, occasionally kids' walkie talkies as a joke (but never labeled as Secret even as a joke because losing your career isn't funny). It's why all reports, power points, and random documentation coming out of the military say Unclassified even if it seems obvious that it's unclassified, like a unit holiday party.

Having a clearance doesn't mean a lot as far as accessing info. My spouse and I both had clearances, but we worked in separate units. We couldn't tell each other classified info for a variety of reasons-- no need to know, no secure place to talk, etc-- but also most classified information is boring as shit. The reason it ends up classified is because knowing enough of the "boring little logistics" can still badly compromise a mission. We'd never say "it's classified" when a topic under the umbrella came up, we'd just say "can't talk about that" and move on to a new topic.

Now, knowing aaaaaaaall this, you can delight with me in the horror that the World of Tanks game regularly has to remind its player base to not send classified information as evidence that they need to rebalance the in-game specs of a real-world tank :)

As someone that has to do annual OPSEC training, yeah, all of this.

Oh, you think you can write a character just plugging a usb into government computers? lol. lmao. Every usb port on those things has been disabled for data transfer to basically anything other than a keyboard or mouse.

You want to burn a cd? Good luck with that. You literally don't even have access to a cd burner or the ability to use it unless you have the proper clearance and a hyperspecific, government approved reason to.

For a closed network with a classification and ID system, You have to have your government id card plugged into the computer's card reader at all times or it will instantly log you out of your user profile.

If you are using a temporary profile because you don't have card yet, no information can be saved on it because all of it will be wiped the second you log out (have fun trying to complete your excruciatingly long entrance trainings before your shift ends, because the paper completion certificates are the ONLY proof you did them, before you get an ID card to tie any user data to).

You're basically not allowed to do any normal computer fuctions/commands without an IT person's approval. We're talking disk cleanup, using task manager to kill memory eating bloatware, installing literally anything, etc.

Every keystroke you make is logged for review in case of security issues.

pov: you are walking in the forest and think to yourself: ‘you are dead’ ‘no, i am dad’ and lose your mind so you make a whole comic about it and then put it together in a video with background music and animation

and because you are a tmnt fan, you make it about tmnt

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