somethingmundanethen

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The fire crackled in the fireplace. The room, shut away on the second floor, seemed to isolate him from the world. Downstairs, the bookstore rested in shadow behind the closed sign. At that moment there was a knock at the door. One sharp rap, then another. The sound of knuckles rose through the wood, up the walls, and beyond the narrow staircase, until it reached his superhuman ears.

Summary:

Bruce Wayne, lonely, distrustful, and worn down by a city that never changes, witnesses the impossible: a man flies in front of him, no wires, no tricks, no logical explanation. Superman has arrived. Not as the man from Bruce's world, but as a figure who shouldn’t have crossed the threshold.

He hails from a different universe, one with different rules. A place where, according to his logic, Bruce is meant to be his soulmate. But in this Gotham, there is no destiny, there is no hope. In his home there's no room for myths.

Until now.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67119598/chapters/230821431

Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.

"Democrats and Republicans in Congress have struck a deal on a bill they say will help keep children and teens safe online. The KIDS Act could pass on the House floor as soon as next week; if enacted, it would fundamentally change the way everyone — not just kids — accesses the internet.

At stake is your ability to use many social media platforms without revealing your identity. 

That’s because the KIDS Act at least strongly incentivizes — and, for some services, outright requires — age verification. Many platforms will turn to age verification to avoid potential liability under the law. Companies like X, video-sharing services like Vimeo, and others with a history of users’ populating social feeds with edgy content may be required to verify users’ ages because they host a certain amount of content deemed “sexual material harmful to minors,” a term that the KIDS Act defines broadly. 

That’s a big problem for people who need to be able to use the internet anonymously, since, as Taylor Lorenz has previously written about in The Intercept, “there’s no way to reliably verify someone’s age without verifying who they are.” 

Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them. Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry out its vendetta against the press by creating new avenues to identify journalists’ confidential sources. [...]

damian: ...what

bruce: sorry i mean jason,wait no, dick. uhm Stephanie, i mean tim, no wait duke. alfred? no uhm barbara. wait ace.

damian:thats our dog father

bruce:alfred pennyworth the cat?

damian:

bruce: damian, i mean damian.

damian: leaves.

bonus!!:

bruce whos been awake for 56 hours: cass can you pass me the case file?

For sale: coffee, never drunk.