belligerentbagel:

thoughtportal:

Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.

“We would never work 16 hours a day for 84 straight days on the ground, and we should not be expected to do it here in space.“ 

The day when three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space (Hiltzik, LA Times)

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

sreppub:

sreppub:

all of the avengers are t-shirt-stealing gremlins 😤

all the tags are like omg 2012 avengers i miss you… welcome to my house, new friends. 2012 avengers never left

#oh thank god 2012 avengers fandom #I’ve had the most terrible dream… (via @jackironsides​)

legallybrunettedotcom:

recommending a movie to someone like oh my god they’re gonna hate it and i will be brought to the town square and stoned

phoneid:

muppethole:

muppethole:

“capitalism breeds innovation” was only ever true in the mid-2000s when cell phones kept getting more and more fucked up

^ healthy and diverse breeding practices

^ wild inbreeding in pursuit of uniformity and an arbitrary ideal of breed “purity” resulting in gross health complications

Above are the Siemens Xelibri models 1-8 and, below them, some of the unfortunate results of irresponsible phone breeding.

In addition to their malformed exterior, these unethical phones also have internals that do not meet the same standards as their healthy predecessors. For instance, you often need a special tool set and a heat gun just to replace the battery, which turns what should be a risk-free routine procedure into an expensive, dangerous surgery.

Luckily, there are some reputable breeders doing their best to offset this, such as Fairphone. There are also policies working their way through various governments to assure that ethical standards are set for phone breeding.

Kudos to OP for bringing awareness to this serious issue!

adecenthat:

Wild Horses of Nevada by Maynard Dixon  , 1927. 

Oil on Canvas
44 x 50 inches

[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Dixon

hankeatspaint:

Proud of you all for getting increasingly hotter as you get deeper into your 20s and 30s and beyond. That’s really cool and brave and so fun.

pinkatnight:

I feel so bad for people who think cats don’t love you. cats are such incredibly loving creatures and u have never felt the joy of being loved by a cat

digital-magus:

ceevee5:

kosmogrl:

hello everyone let’s stop looking back and wondering if things could have been different, it’s never gonna happen! love you

hera-the-wizard:

a-dinosaur-a-day:

haltraveler:

roseate-lagomorph:

razehider:

hera-the-wizard:

some other taxonomic facts for you to get mad at evolution for, instead of “birds are dinosaurs”

• “Insects are Crustaceans” (Pancrustacea)
• “Dolphins are Hoofed Mammals” (Artiodactyl)
• “Mushrooms are closer to Animals than they are to Plants” (Opisthokont)
• “Hyenas are Cat-like” (Feliformia)
• “Herpetology is a LYING BASTARD since Amphibians are equally close to Mammals and Reptiles, and there’s no reason it should be included like that. if anything, Herpetology should be a parent science of Ornithology, since birds are reptiles. why the fuck are toads here??” (Amniota, Sauria)
• “really, we’re all just fish” (Sarcopterygii)

Bug Edition:

• termites are cockroaches
• ants are wasps
• bees are wasps
• butterflies are moths
• ticks are mites
• fleas are scorpionflies? this one’s weird
• horseshoe crabs are almost definitely arachnids
• insects are crustaceans

Oh and rabbits are not rodents.

They are lagomorphs!

Snakes are lizards

Crocodiles are fake-crocodiles (pseudosuchia)

False gharials are gharials

Pandas are carnivores that only eat plants

Plants are algae (Archaeplastida)

All Eukaryotes are Archaens - specifically Asgardians - with at least one added Eubacteria friend inside

Protists aren’t a real thing and all those eukaryotes that aren’t plants, fungi, or animals are actually really complicated and diverse

Animal taxonomy is a mess and Protostomia and Deuterostomia as they are might not be a real thing

All bilaterans are worms. Some are just super weird worms.

Pterosaurs aren’t dinosaurs. You can technically call them (stem)birds, but they aren’t dinosaurs.

Dimetrodon is closer to mammals (it’s a stem mammal) than to dinosaurs.

Everything in Avemetatarsalia (Pan-Birds) can be called a bird. This includes all pterosaurs and all dinosaurs. And all dinosaurs were very, very bird like - more so than pterosaurs.

Dolphins and porpoises are whales which are hoofed mammals and closer to ruminants than to rhinos

Elephants are far removed from literally all hoofed mammals

Hoofed mammals are closest to carnívorans

Tuatara isn’t a lizard

Humans are Apes which are Monkeys

Birds evolved from reptiles and thus are reptiles

But mammals did not evolve from reptiles

Neither reptiles nor mammals (aka Amniotes) evolved from (liss)Amphibians

But all Tetrapods (Amphibians + Amniotes) evolved from Sarcopterygii and thus are Sarcopterygiians

We have no idea how most modern bird groups (Neoaves) are interrelated

one of my personal favorites:

sea stars are technically bilateral animals, their larvae look like this:

quasi-normalcy:

I don’t know; I kind of think that our culture is based around systematic denial of human limitations. I mean, there’s the eight-hour work day (which is about 4 hours longer than most people are consistently able to remain productive); buffing your qualifications on job applications (which everyone needs to do to some extent, because everyone else is doing it); the expectation of multitasking, even though it’s not really possible; academics are running around with impostor syndrome, ultimately because there’s only so many books that an individual is capable of reading, while a bunch of liars and grifters pretend that they’re experts at *everything* and are held up as thought leaders. Billionaires are held up as if they’re just incredibly hard workers, photoshopped movie stars held up as if they’re just incredibly beautiful. We feel guilty for not being something that never has and can never exist.

usergif:

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin.

roach-works:

shitacademicswrite:

stayinspiritforever:

deans-spinster-witch:

memingursa:

Wait hold on Tumblr girlies have been carrying that show on netflix for well over 10 years now and the guy responsible for it hasn’t gotten a GOD DAMN DIME?????

Nor the actors, writers, set people, tech folks, and anyone else involved that made it happen. This - this is why they’re angry. This is why they deserve a new contract!