#the drills

[taylorhawkins]

too much for my own good - phil x & the drills ft. taylor hawkins

[jeffcbliss]

Daniel Spreewald (left) and Phil X playing at Give Back Through Music Presents American Classics: Honoring Leslie West - The Canyon Club; Agoura Hills, CA (1-23-24). @TheRealPhilX @Danielspree @MusiCares

Photo: Jeff Bliss

[mushyooms]

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[notherpuppet]

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[prokopetz]

You know the drill.

[bluegiragi]

reward (part 2)

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[flyingbunniesart]

Had a sudden brainworm about both of them in cowboy outfits.... western AU klapollo.... hooo boi

[KOFI]

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

hi, i wanted to ask what you think about those japanese zoo's training exercises were someone dresses up as an animal and pretends to have escaped and all that, are they effective? what do U.S zoo's do to train for things like that?

They look silly, but they're a real emergency drill! They force people to think through how they'd problem-solve in real time and in the physical space, which is a very different experience than just thinking about it.

There's no consistent requirement for emergency drills in the US federal regulations for zoos, but there is a contingency planning one. Facilities licensed by the USDA have to identify and create plans for addressing likely emergencies they may have to deal with, which is everything from like natural disasters to animal escapes. That's all done as paperwork and provided to the government to prove they've done it.

BUT. That doesn't mean that zoos and other animal facilities don't do more planning on their own. Some of the third-party accreditations (it might be all of them but I don't have the docs in front of me to confirm) require regular drills for all types of emergency scenarios.

Now there's a slight problem there - a real escape drill, run fully on grounds with real people and stand-in animal, interferes with the daily operations of the zoo. You might not have to physically shut all the guests into buildings during a practice leopard escape, but you do need them to not get in the way, and you don't want to scare people who think a drill is real, etc. So there's an alternate option.

US zoos frequently run emergency management drills as TTRGPs!

Like, they use a printed scale map of the zoo and roll dice to randomize the situation. This is absolutely recommended as a strategy by the Zoo and Aquariums All Hazard Partnership: there's a whole webpage about it, including instructions for the Drill Master.

There are in-person drills, of course, because you have to practice dealing with these problems in meatspace. But a lot of them are done tabletop! I cannot express the extent of my mirth when I first encountered this in the wild at a conference about a decade ago, when the idea was really taking off. It was Very Serious Zoo People on a Very Serious Topic about preventing Really Bad Things from happening... and then suddenly there was a d20 on the screen.

[dreamchasernina]

Aang stand up without airbending challenge (impossible)

[yescking]

redraw...🤠

[frownyalfred]

okay ever since writing that fic last week about Bruce jumping the Batmobile over a river the amount of research I’ve done on what that stupid car could look like or do is haunting me…and now the ask about a hermetically sealed Batmobile is making me think about the absolute horror of having to survive a burn over or poisonous gas cloud or even a small nuke in the Batmobile.

something that disables the motor or makes it not advisable to use in fiery/gas conditions, so the only option is to ride it out in place, knowing there are people around you (downtown, in the Narrows, etc) who you can’t save, because if you break the seal you’re dead.

you’ll flood the engine if you try to move. but the Batmobile will survive — it has every disaster scenario feasible in Gotham written into its code. and maybe, for maximum angst, the only person who can override a safety protocol (we’ll call it Nest, just for added angst) is Bruce. if Bruce isn’t there, but Robin is, Robin is held inside until conditions are safe, non negotiable.

Nest protocol. nothing in or out while it isn’t safe, including Bruce.

[yellodisney]

[cosmoseinfeld]

help he's so funny

[mryddinwyllt]

[marzipanandminutiae]

thoughts on "tradwives" as a 19th-century social historian

It's great until it's not.

It's great until he develops an addiction and starts spending all the money on it.

It's great until you realize he's abusive and hid it long enough to get you totally in his power (happened to my great-great-aunt Irene).

It's great until he gets injured and can't work anymore.

It's great until he dies and your options are "learn a marketable skill fast" or "marry the first eligible man you can find."

It's great until he wants child #7 and your body just can't take another pregnancy, but you can't leave or risk desertion because he's your meal ticket.

It's great until he tries to make you run a brothel as a get-rich-quick scheme and deserts you when you refuse, leaving your sisters to desperately fundraise so your house doesn't get foreclosed on (happened to my great-great-aunt Mamie).

It's great until you want to leave but you can't. It's great until you want to do something else with your life but you can't. It's great. Until. It's. Not.

I won't lie to you and say nobody was ever happy that way. Plenty of women have been, and part of feminism is acknowledging that women have the right to choose that sort of life if they want to.

But flinging yourself into it wholeheartedly with no sort of safety net whatsoever, especially in a period where it's EXTREMELY easy for him to leave you- as it should be; no-fault divorce saves lives -is naive at best and dangerous at worst.

Have your own means of support. Keep your own bank account; we fought hard enough to be allowed them. Gods willing, you never need that safety net, but too many women have suffered because they needed it and it wasn't there.