How Smart is Dick Grayson?

Nightwing is highly intelligent. This is someone who learned and became an expert in forensics and criminology within 6 months when he was 8-12 years old. He’s a master detective, with a record to prove it.

And because it’s a feat people rate despite meaning nothing at all, in Nightwing #152 - Ra’s calls Dick detective.

Chemistry/Biology/Physics

Batman vol 1 # 18 -Dick knew his chemistry. He has an excellent report in school

Titans vol 1 # 17 - figuring out how to clone a human

Tales of Teen Titans #45 - Come up with a solution to fix the problem in Aqualad and Tula’s lungs after analysing the chemical compounds in their lungs

Language

Action Comics # 842 - Knowledge of Tamaranean

Detective Comics Vol 2 36 - Russian

Grayson 1 - Russian

Nightwing Vol 4 51 - Dick Speaks German

Nightwing Vol 4 54 - Dick Speaks 12 Languages

Nightwing Vol 2 72 - Italian

Titans Annual 001 - Japanese

Robin Vol 2 175 - Farsi

The Power Company: Manhunter Vol 1 1 - Kikuyu

Batman: Gotham Knights - French

Titans 16 - Some Romany

Nightwing Vol 2 91 - Some Romany

Legends of the Dark Knight 100-Page Super Spectacular Vol 1 2, Dick uses sign language to talk to a temporarily deaf Bruce.

Observation/Deduction

Teen Titans #12 - Deduces a coded message.

Teen Titans #46 - Notices that the number of footprints, and the weight behind them. Correctly deduces that the kidnapping was a ruse.

The New Titans #65 - Observes a Carousel for seven hours. Is able to recall everyone who went on the ride, with memory of their appearance, their clothing and who brought them to the park.

Nightwing #86 - While injured and watching TV, Dick solves four cases for “America’s Most Wanted” in a morning.

Star-Spangled Comics # 105 - Cracks a code and thinks of a way to foil radio controlled bombers.

The New Teen Titans #7 - Notices a trap on a door, saving Cyborg’s life

Batman: Dark Victory #12 - Solve a riddle before Batman himself even figured it out before becoming Robin

Flash Plus - Figured out how to escape a maze before the Flash could

Superman American Alien #4 - Showcasing his impressive deductive prowess even as a kid before he became Robin by reading Clark Kent very well (noticing that Clark’s hiding a lot of things about himself) who’s impressed by his observant talent

Justice League v2 #51- Thanks to his insight due to his deductive trained mind he starts to ask questions that give Cyborg and Green Lantern the idea to look for the source of the problem and how all the threats the League are fighting against all at once are actually connected somehow

New Teen Titans v1 #9 - Quickly deduces that he’s walking into a trap while alongside Beast Boy and that the man inside was actually a mechanical bomb about to go off

New Teen Titans v1 #30 - Detects a sniper through hearing and moves fast enough to save the target from being killed

Batman #697 - Showing great awareness/perception as he catches a reflection of someone else with Catwoman moving out the corner of his eye in the windows across the street

The Power Company Manhunter - Detects Manhunter’s presence as he’s creeping up behind him and is able to avoid his sneak attack using his speed and agility despite Manhunter’s super human reflexes 

The New Titans #86 - Detects Deathstroke’s presence nearby which impresses Slade since he mentions that not one man in a million would have heard him 

Nightwing #12 - His senses are so well honed that they’re able to pick up even Batman’s presence who’s hiding in the dark 

Grayson #1 - Showcasing his impressive level of perception (and reflex speed) by deflecting a projectile (tranq dart?) shot at him from a hidden enemy who turns out to be Midnighter who he’s also able to find very quickly as noted by Midnighter himself

Grayson #2 - Detects the presence and movement of the same speedster he encountered beforehand coming from behind him then avoids being ambushed by the speedster saving his unaware partner Helena Bertinelli in process

Batman #703 - Deduces that the getaway genius is actually a female despite the fact that she’s using a high tech holographic suit to disguise herself as a man having fooled everyone else  (It’s how she walks)

Batman & Robin #26 - Deduces Ray Man is using illusions against Nightrunner, Robin, and himself then comes up with a way to counter the illusions and subdues Ray Man 

Batman & Robin Eternal #11 - Quickly deduces Sculptor is a telepath after seeing her use her telepathy power against Harper Row (reading Harper’s mind to quickly find out her identity then putting her to sleep) impressing the telepath 

Grayson #17 - Not only is he able to deduce that Grifter is a telepath that can read his thoughts and moves ahead of time by the feeling in his head (having experienced the “bad touch” of telepathy before), he’s also able to break down Grifter’s preferred fighting style, personality, and motivation by reading his body language in mid combat 

Robin Year One #1 - Suspects the man (Mad Hatter) who’s giving away free headphones is not who he appears to be and tracks down his hideout by following his broadcast signal then gets the whereabouts of his current location from his henchmen 

Tales of Teen Titans #43 - Deduces how Donna Troy and Cyborg were captured

Nightwing #24 - Solves a homicide case that went unsolved for over 15 years

Batman Streets of Gotham #8 - Displaying his brilliant deductive mind as he tells Gordon exactly what happened when examining two crime scenes and some dead bodies

Nightwing #144 - Deduces who the mastermind was that created an army of winged men and Talia’s involvement in the project 

Azrael Death’s Dark Knight #3 - Deduces who the new Azrael is 

Vigilante v3 #10 - Deduces Vigilante’s secret identity

Batman #694 - Damian deduces Black Mask’s plan only to find out that Dick figured it all out yesterday morning. In addition, Dick finds out the identity of one of the masterminds behind Black Mask’s operation

Justice League of America v2 #57 - Deduces that the Shade is the person linking all the shadow energy together although everyone else believes its Jade given her connection to both Shadow and Starheart energy

New Teen Titans v1 #38 - figuring out Donna Troy’s identity & background displaying some of his scientific knowledge in the process

Preparation

The New Teen Titans #16 -Has dusting powder for fingerprints on him despite not being in uniform.

The New Teen Titans #38 - Donna had searched the house before without finding anything of note, Dick had researched the blueprints and had used them to find a secret room.

Batman #687 - In a flashback as Robin, he shows his creativity in planning when he passes Batman’s test by successfully launching a well planned non-lethal sneak attack on him within the Batcave 

Trinity #9 - His mask has a small explosive charge installed that can self destruct

Outsiders v3 #37 - Has a piece of kryptonite to deal with Superman if need be

Grayson #8 - Revealing that he’s not only fought alongside the Justice League but has trained to fight them if need be (very likely thanks to his training from Batman). In this battle, we see him take on a super powered android known as Paragon who has the powers of the JLA and defeats it by exploiting the Justice Leaguer’s weaknesses while leading his fellow Spyral agent known as Tiger/Agent 1.

Computers

Action Comics # 842 - he used his knowledge of Tamaranean to hack an alien data terminal

New Titans # 55 - Hooked up the Titans computer to the Batcave’s computer

Titans United #7 - Breaks into ‘Bat-Level Encrypted’ records in a cadmus facility

Tech

Nightwing vol 4 # 25 - Saved a shipful of criminals (and himself) by extending the time field of Clock King’s high-tech alien weapon. Clock King called this “Amazing”

Titans vol 1 # 47 - Trying to repair the comm system in Titan’s headquarters.

Nightwing vol 2 # 138 - He has hacked the override to the Justice League teleporter (which Tim later hacked from him)

Star-Spangled Comics # 70 - Dick thinks of a way to survive a bomb-blast.

Nightwing vol 2 #50 - Able to point out what a full colour spectrum flash pulse is and that the gun it’s fired from is alien origin

Nightwing vol 3 #3 - Turn the microwave transmissions back to Zane

Nightwing vol 2 # 16 - He custom-made his car when he first moved to Blüdhaven

Nightwing Vol 2 # 144 - Build and program a Tech Glider with a remote GPS device

Nightwing vol 4 # 44 - Modified Escrima batons

Future State: Nightwing # 2 - Built Nano-Swarm cameras

Nightwing vol 4 # 78 - Heavily modified Escrima batons

Grayson #1 - Turns an alarm clock into a transmitter 

Outsiders #48 - Co built a mini EMP weapon, the first electrorang

Arkham Reborn #3 - Designed a special stun grenade to neutralise Clayface

Strategy

Justice League #57 - Leads a mix of heroes and villains, utilising all their powers to fight Omega-Knight 

Robin Year One #3 - As a rookie Robin, he outsmarts and apprehends Mr. Freeze by luring him into a trap he sets up on the spot

Batman Streets of Gotham #2 - Takes down Firefly by clogging his jets using a foam gun and then stirs him through a billboard 

Nightwing #146 - Takes out a young & stronger Creighton Kendall (who’s turned himself into one his winged men) by cleverly turning him into a lightning rod

Robin Year One #2 - Defeats the original Blockbuster by luring him into a trap he thought of on the spot 

Nightwing #15 - Tricks Blockbuster into bringing down a building on himself

Nightwing v2 #5 - Defeats the powerful rhyming demon known as Acheron (similar to Etrigan The Demon) by luring the demon back into the place from where it came which binds the demon 

The Titans #25 - Commands Kid Flash to use his powers to direct a gas

Nightwing vol 3 #9 - Tricks William Cobb into entering a location where Dick can lower the temperature quickly, rendering Cobb unconscious

Justice League of America #53 - Formed a plan to defeat mega man and the crime syndicate

Outsiders #23 - Can fool a polygraph

New Teen Titans v1 #5 -Leads the Teen Titans to victory over Goronn

New Teen Titans v1 #6 - Leads the Teen Titans to victory over Trigon 

Return of Donna Troy #2 - Despite not being apart of either team at the time, he naturally takes command over the Outsiders and Teen Titans when they’re ambushed on Minosyss

Return of Donna Troy #3 - Quickly comes up with a plan for the team to subdue a brainwashed Donna Troy as we also see the others looking to him for his leadership in the situation

Return of Donna Troy #4 - Leading the Outsiders, Teen Titans, and native rebels in a war against the Titans of Myth 

JLA #69 - Chosen by his mentor (Batman) to lead the new JLA that the Dark Knight formed as a contingency plan just in case something happened. Batman refers to Nightwing as the best and only person able to lead the team

JLA #73 - Successfully leads the JLA in battle against the very powerful Gemamnae as they manage to take her down and trap her. However, their efforts prove to be only a temporary victory since she is much more powerful then they know 

Justice League of America v2 #42 - Takes command over a newly formed JLA as they bring down the powerful Atlas

Blackest Night Batman #3 - Trusting his judgement, Red Robin and Deadman follow Dick’s lead as he comes up with a very clever yet risky plan on the spot to save/hide Red Robin and himself from the Black Lanterns after deducing how they respond to emotion (He freezes himself and Tim)

Action Comics #842 - Immediately takes command over a group of meta humans which includes Superman once their group is attacked

Booster Gold v2 #22-23 - In an altered timeline Dick is killed in the past while he was still Robin and as a result the JLA was left without it’s greatest tactician (Batman/Dick Grayson) to come up with a plan to defeat Trigon who ends up conquering earth. This is due to the fact that Dick wasn’t around to replace Bruce Wayne/Batman when he was “killed” by Darkseid during the Final Crisis story

Local house witch telling you to please learn basic housekeeping skills.

It’s not your fault if no one ever taught you but YouTube is a magical place and can teach you at your own pace.

Someone asked me what housekeeping skills I’d recommend learning.

Keep in ming that this is not me shaming you, I know you have your reasons, folks. This is just a guy who enjoys clean spaces asking that you start learning now.

Here’s what I suggest as an adult who has lived with other adults who didn’t have housekeeping skills:

First and foremost, learn about all the places in your house that need to be cleaned and understand how often they should be cleaned. the American Cleaning Institute (I guess that’s a thing) has a good article about basic cleaning info. Plus this video on cleaning tips is great!

Learn how to do your dishes. HOT water is the only way to clean your dishes.

Learn how to clean your shower head, especially if you live in a place with hard water. Same goes for your sinks.

Learn how to do your laundry correctly. Even without the whole “separating whites and colors” thing, there are things you need to learn about washing your clothes. Learn what the tags mean, too.

Also, you don’t have to use fabric softener and you shouldn’t use it on towels or any fabric meant to absorb. (Learn about laundromats) And please learn how to clean out your dryer vent, it’s a safety hazard!

Get a disinfecting cleaner for your high-touch areas, especially the gross ones like the bathroom. Just because it doesn’t look dirty, doesn’t mean it’s clean!

Learn how to sweep, mop, and vacuum effectively.

You’ll also want to make sure to change out your home’s air filters.

TL;DR, here are some cleaning videos.

How to Clean Everything in Your Bathroom

How to Clean Everything in Your Kitchen

Livingroom Cleaning Routine

How to Clean Everything in Your Bedroom

Now these resources are not the end-all-be-all, but I think if you don’t know much about cleaning your space this is a good way to start.

here’s some of the things that are helping me actually clean (as an adult who had messy parents, and has a hard time getting threw my nurodivergency about cleaning specifically) that may be helpful to you:

Favorite Cleaning Book: it helps you work through the emotional side of cleaning (and other care tasks)

Current Favorite Decluttering Method/Concept: it helps you know how much is too much to keep and how to get started when you’re overwhelmed. (having too much stuff makes it incredibly hard to clean/organize.)

Basic Cleaning Skills: this channel is amazing! this man has a special interest in cleaning and cleans people’s spaces who deal nurodivergence that make it hard to clean. he does this for free (or at a deficit because he pays for supplies and dumpsters and transport and such) and does it all with empathy and kindness working With the people as much as people can handle instead of just coming in to “fix” an issue. these videos are a bit different from his usual ones, (the last one’s most like his usual videos) but i find having the sped up cleaning videos with a voiceover can help fill in for body doubling when im too ashamed to bring people into my messy spaces.

I’m gonna queue this as well so you’ll be seeing it again from me in a few months without any comments on it, but this is all good things to know

suddenly realized i haven't seen a single tumblr post about yesterday's ECJ ruling (that all EU countries must recognize same-sex marriages conducted in another EU country, even if the country in question does not have legal same-sex marriage). this is huge and feels like people on here would be more enthusiastic about it

being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something

Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾

Hey people who speak latin: if "ad nauseum" is "until [you] throw up", then what would be "until insanity"? Would it be "ad delerium"?

I need this for all my "repeat until you go completely insane" expression needs.

As a Latin scholar, ad delirium is not only correct but also a wonderful use of language 👍

Sweet! This is a valuable addition to my arts and crafts vocabulary.

some others i found in the notes

When you find yourself in a loop, ask yourself which one of these applies?

(also i love all the fun translations Tumblr has made)

Y’ALL!!

THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!

Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"

What is open source AI?

It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.

Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.

This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format

Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.

You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:

TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It's a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model

Spread the word

Y’all! The Em Dash has finally delivered a public statement regarding the AI allegations.

And it’s glorious!

Read the full article on the McSweeney’s website here!

- listen here my good bitch

Imma start using that as a loving nickname for my followers

Also I love all this, my girl has been slandered far too long!

these are all currently on sale on my store ~ only a few remaining of most :)

being sick & miserable objectively sucks, but it has become significantly easier to cope with since learning that “sickness behavior” is a well documented part of the body’s immune response

feeling not only physically but also emotionally like fucking garbage is unfortunately an extremely effective way to force your body to prioritize fighting infection & keeping you alive. i don’t have to like it, but knowing why i get weepy & pathetic when sick does help at least a little

i just found out that this is not common knowledge and am reblogging so more people know

YOUR BODY DOES THIS ON PURPOSE

YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON BECAUSE OR "WEAK" WHEN YOU ARE SICK IF YOU CAN"T CARRY ON AS NORMAL

special defense

does this count as anything ???is this art

If one of your party members gets downed at this part, Gerson pulls some candy out of his pocket to give them.

OMG THAT SO SWEET

Look. The way you ask for a refill?

Sometimes, what you need to do is literally ask for a refill. I know that can be scary and upsetting and requires you to be willing to be vulnerable, but please consider two things:

One: if what you want to do is be able to fill other people's cups, you can't fill from an empty cup. You literally can't do the work if you're emptied out. You need to do this so you can help.

Two: for the people that love you, the people that really matter, you aren't imposing on them by asking for a refill. This is one of the things I really internalized from coming home to Judaism: when someone asks me to help them, they're giving me the opportunity to perform a mitzvah. No matter your belief system or outlook, I think we can probably all agree that being given an opportunity to be more awesome is pretty great.

So ask. Here are a few scripts you can try.

"Hey, I am...

Could you please help me? I could really use...

I have genuinely never asked my friends to love me a little bit louder and gotten anything but an outpouring of support.

People love you and want to take care of you. All you have to do is give them an opportunity and maybe tell them the best way to love you right now.

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

this is prime proof that this ENTIRE WEBSITE is autistic because nowhere else would a no tags post that's just an informative list about slang get this much traction.

anyway more addittions

"can anyone hear me" for when the clowns have jacked your post.

Thicc crocodile passing on your timeline🐊

--- TRICK OR TREAT! ₊˚🕯️♱‧₊˚.