#ring doorbells

[toloveviceforitself]

Assuming for a second that this is a real person and not an ad for those security devices (silly assumption I know)...

I'm also kindof captivated by how much this sucks at what it sets out to do. Your security is only as strong as the least secure entry point, right? If you live in a castle and you reinforce your north wall until it's three times as strong as the other walls, all you're doing is making sure that any invader with half a brain will come from the south.

This woman is reinforcing the locks and setting all kinds of alarms on her doors... and her windows are literally right there. All of that door hardware is just making sure that any home invader will come through one of the many windows. This is exactly why homes that are in "high crime" areas and which are (rightly or wrongly) sincerely afraid of break-ins put BARS on their windows. Because all the door security in the world doesn't change anything if someone can easily enter your house by breaking a single pane of glass.

And I think that gets at a really fascinating piece of all this. Because so many of the solutions that would actually be effective at repelling a home invader (putting aside the question of whether its reasonable to worry about such an invader) (it isn't) are class-coded, right? Window bars and door chains are for poor people in "bad" neighborhoods, and so even though they're really the only solutions that make sense, they're off-limits.

White suburbanites have backed themselves into this weird little fear corner where they're absolutely petrified of "crime" but the aesthetics of being afraid of crime would diminish their status. The aesthetics of wealthy suburbanites are exactly those of someone who doesn't have to worry about crime. So they need all these weird ineffective gadgets to act as just a little bit of a safety blanket that none of their neighbors can see. You can't drill a chain into the door or get a heavier-than-usual lock, you need portable lock reinforcements and alarms that you can remove if one of the neighbors comes over. There's no aesthetically-compatible solution for the windows so you just try not to think about them. You're scared all the time but you can't admit it to your neighbor who, being a white suburbanite, is probably just as scared as you.

I dunno what this means exactly, but it's interesting, isn't it?

[sweetcatastrophex]

good for jeff bezos for getting so much of the population to believe that their government surveillance device is actually for “home defense” lol 

[siltyriver]

this post but it’s Tim and Danny

Tim came across a weird symbol during a case and he’s run into a dead end with it. He’s taken to doodling it as he thinks and one night it gets particularly bad and he’s probably drawn it like a hundred times as he mentally goes over all the details of whatever case he’s working and then BAM there’s a glowing green (Lazarus Pit green, oh shit) swirling vortex and someone, no, something, is crawling out of it and —

“Okay, enough! I’m here!! What the FUCK do you want?”

It’s a… teenager? With glowing green eyes and white hair and he’s… floating? and super hot What the fuck.

Tim: What the fuck.

Danny: No that’s my line. What the fuck. Do you want?

Tim: Uhhh —

Danny, looking around: Wait holy shit is this the Batcave!??

[polarsirens]

a modern day (human) gerard, pinocchio, ylfa and (definitely a cat) pib—referencing the yotsubato! pose 🌻

[gallusrostromegalus]

Herschel is a very Gen Alpha Dog because he knows how to operate a touchscreen but does NOT know what the landline telephone in my parent's house is.

[ms-scarletwings]

Do you think Horvitz did multiple takes of this and they carefully decided this was the best one or did they just give him one go and committed to whatever happened

[3liza]

i have another pet tip, for all pets not just dogs: take them to the vet young and/or soon after you adopt them, BEFORE something is wrong with them. either book a basic wellness appt for checks (no shots or procedures) or just ask the vet if it's ok if you drop by with the pet either on leash or in a carrier and just get as far as the waiting room or outside the clinic if they're still doing COVID airlock protocols or busy. plan for this to take several hours. let the pet approach the vet office entrance and hear/see/smell the waiting room, windows into the room, the door, all the spots around the door, etc. engage positively with them if they're feeling interested, soothe them if they're nervous, and give high value treats if possible. maybe assign a super S tier treat JUST for the vet (bacon, shrimp, stinkiest cheese, whatever). feeding them can short circuit their anxiety loops (not all the time for every animal, but as a general guideline). even a single positive exposure to the vet office environment will help next time you bring them in. a treat jackpot for every time they act brave and explore further is a great technique

vet visits aren't just more pleasant when the pet is not freaking out, they're safer for the vet and safer for the pet, not just because animals injure themselves and humans when scared, but also because it's a lot harder to examine a panicky cat or aggressive dog. if your pet is sick and you bring it to the vet and the vet needs four techs just to restrain it to take a temperature, that vet is not going to be able to get a good observation of the symptoms. they won't be able to get a baseline blood pressure or heart rate. panic alone can kill small animals like rabbits and birds.

when you meet the nurse or tech or vet at an appointment, pass them some of the special treats and ask them to feed some to the animal if the animal is willing to take them and it doesn't interfere with the appointment. vets are usually able to spare a couple seconds to do this to make the visit easier and the next visit even easier. i did this for my dog and he thinks the vets are his best friends even though he's had multiple surgeries, vaccinations, exams where he was nervous or uncomfortable, etc.

not all animals can be acclimated to the vet but most can. in an emergency it can make a huge difference whether your pet is a behavior case when you bring them in to the office or not, which is not the vet's fault but a factor of animal behavior. you can plan for it and make it easier on yourself!

edit: buying a muzzle in your dog's size and getting him used to it is an even bigger bonus tip. vets will love you for this. even good dogs sometimes need a muzzle. pain and fear do weird things to animal behavior

[morganbritton132]

I think it’d be really funny if before he became Robin, Tim saw Batman doing some shit he didn’t like and was like, “Hmm, gotta fix that.”

Then went about it in the most-annoying-kid way possible.

Like, Tim sees Batman send Robin home even though Jason wasn’t sick (he would know) and didn’t have a test (he’d know this too). So the next morning, he skateboards up to Wayne Manor when he knows Jason is at school, Alfred is doing a grocery run, and Bruce is most likely trying to catch up on sleep.

He rings the doorbell seven times.

Bruce watches on a security monitor after being woken up as his neighbor’s kid ding dong ditches him and then takes off down the driveway on his skateboard. He’s so baffled by it that he doesn’t even ask himself why the kid isn’t in school.

This happens four more times before Bruce makes the connection and thinks, “This has something to do with Batman.”

[declamationark]

imagine a dp x dc fic where danny gets summoned as the ghost king by the JL for some reason and then clockwork shows up, the JL thinks he’s the ghost king but then this child ghost with a flaming crown pops up sleepily from under clockwork’s cloak and clockwork is scolding the summoner cuz he’s just gotten his baby to sleep for goodness’ sake—

[tarn-ation]

OPEN THE NOOR-

[thatsbelievable]

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts - Halloween Town

[laddertek]

etho the tango girl TM

Etho: You shoulda seen Tango this one day, when we were tryna figure out the statistics math for voting and stuff. Oh my goodness. Tango...Tango knows some math. Bdubs: Really? Etho: Yes. Tango: [giggles] What are you talking about? Etho: Remember when we were tryna work out what's fair voting and all that? And you went into all this probability stuff. How there's actually no such thing as a fair vote, and everything's biased. Tango: Yeah. [laughs] I kinda remember that. Etho: Oh, it was...And he proved it! And I was like, wow... Tango: [giggles]

[senselessalchemist]

Bow problems (+ other nonsense)

[hercarisntyours]

"in my defense you left me unsupervised"

[whyyjakee]

POV: you get reeeally unlucky on extermination day

"knock knock! any sinner home?!