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audreyii-fic: tavrispriteling: land-shart: look at dat...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:50:00 -0700

tavrispriteling:

land-shart:

look at dat acting

JESUS CHRIST I’M REBLOGGING THIS TWICE BECAUSE LOOK AT THE FUCKING MUSCLE SPASM IN THE 4TH GIF LOOK AT THAT JUST HOLY SHIT HOW CAN WHOVIANS NOT LOVE THIS MAN AND THIS MAN’S ACTING AND JUST

UGH I—-

CHRIST

let’s talk about things that aren’t okay

i saw your humans of New York tag "HONY" and just said "HONEY" out loud (in my head) with so much sass mostly because it was on that photo of that man leaning on the tree and i was just like "HONEY"... "whatcha doin"

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:35:04 -0700

Delayed response, but: this is awesome, especially since August saw that same post and thought it said “HORNY” and questioned why I was horny about that guy. I mean, if it were Ira Glass leaning against a tree, maybe, but come on.

★ Who is your favourite villain?

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:17:43 -0700

★ Who is your favourite villain?

I’d bet my extra copy of The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:10:00 -0700

I’d bet my extra copy of The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs that this post will be in Anna’s queue by nightfall, if it isn’t already.

"And when it comes to your own kids, if you don’t like what they’re watching on TV, turn it off...."

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:08:56 -0700

“And when it comes to your own kids, if you don’t like what they’re watching on TV, turn it off. (Applause.) If you don’t like the video games they’re playing, take them away. (Applause.) Take a stand against the media that elevates today’s celebrity gossip instead of the serious issues of our time. Take a stand against the culture that glorifies instant gratification instead of hard work and lasting success. And as my husband has said often, please stand up and reject the slander that says a black child with a book is trying to act white. Reject that. (Applause.) In short, be an example of excellence for the next generation and do everything you can to help them understand the power and purpose of a good education. See, that’s what my own parents did for me and my brother.”

- Remarks by the First Lady at Bowie State University Commencement Ceremony (via azspot)

humansofnewyork: “Before it was all about us. Now it’s all...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:48:40 -0700

humansofnewyork:

“Before it was all about us. Now it’s all about him.”

awful-bliss: jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjk: NOW ACCEPTING...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:34:41 -0700

awful-bliss:

jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjk:

NOW ACCEPTING PRE-ORDERS

fuck

Star Trek is my religion

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:17:35 -0700

Star Trek is my religion:

That’s the thing about Star Trek. It’s utopian. There’s no money, partly because they have ways to make food and objects materialize on a whim. There’s no financial system of any kind that I’ve noticed, although there’s plenty of barter, mostly dealing in natural resources. And the crucial resource that characters are constantly seeking, that somehow make the ships fly through space, are called dilithium crystals. They’re rare but they also seem to be lying around on uninhabited planets, at least for now.

But it’s not my religion just because they’ve somehow evolved past too-big-to-fail banks. It’s that they have ethics, and those ethics are collaborative, and moreover are more basic and more important than the power of technology: the moral decisions that they are confronted with and that they make are, in fact, what Star Trek is about.

Each episode can be seen as a story from a nerd bible. Can machines have a soul? Do we care less about those souls than human (or Vulcan) souls? If we come across a civilization that seems to vitally need our wisdom or technology, when do we share it? And what are the consequences for them when we do or don’t?

In Star Trek, technology is not an unalloyed good: it’s morally neutral, and it could do evil or good, depending on the context. Or rather, people could do evil or good with it. This responsibility is not lost in some obfuscated surreality.

tmbgareok: BRAND NEW! TMBGs free app for ANDROID and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:51:50 -0700

tmbgareok:

BRAND NEW! TMBGs free app for ANDROID and IPHONE!

It’s They Might Be Giants official and totally free song app. Like TMBGs original Dial-A-Song, the app has a different song every day. The app holds five of the freshest posted tracks at all times. From Don’t Let’s Start to Nanobots!

Get it for FREE at iTunes for iphones and ipads here

http://bit.ly/Wl9fGw

Get it for FREE for android-based stuff at

http://bit.ly/101jdiF

AND A SPECIAL NOTE TO ALL TUMBLR FOLKS—

It’s free because we are putting into the world that way. We would most certainly appreciate your re-blogging it to help spread the word.

THANK YOU!

This is awesome! Gorgeous and fun and brilliantly in the spirit of the original. Yay yay yay.

aplacetolovedogs: Chihuahua dog Amadeus loves to play pool....

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:29:51 -0700

aplacetolovedogs:

Chihuahua dog Amadeus loves to play pool. Watch how good he is in this cute video!

For more cute dogs and puppies

For some reason this made me think of you, August. Probably because this frantic chihuahua made me think of your little satan dogs.

motherjones: nickbaumann: Awesome icons of the Female Saints...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:13:17 -0700

motherjones:

nickbaumann:

Awesome icons of the Female Saints of Television, by Spencer Salberg. Prints are available here.

“Our Lady of Having it All”

jtotheizzoe: Lightning Launch Speaking of awesome lightning,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:02:09 -0700

jtotheizzoe:

Lightning Launch

Speaking of awesome lightning, did you know that Apollo 12’s Saturn V was struck by lightning less than a minute after launch? The bolt threw the navigation computer into chaos and then traveled down the energized exhaust plume.

Read about the white-knuckled minutes, the near-abort and controlled self-destruct that almost happened. Until a young flight controller suggested they flip “SCE to AUX”.

(via Universe Today)

Story of my goddamn life

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:51:34 -0700

Story of my goddamn life

jtotheizzoe: edwardspoonhands: neilcicierega: Wow a lot of...

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:20:00 -0700

jtotheizzoe:

edwardspoonhands:

neilcicierega:

Wow a lot of very shrewd minds have pointed out inaccuracies in my inspirational Einstein image. Just goes to show you what an incredible resource for fact-checking that Tumblr is.

I have updated the image to reflect the amazing truth about this amazing man.

<3 Neil

Welcome to 1 in 5 internet quotes!

I am so happy someone did this.

This, together with the linked original post and the indignant asks, is possibly my favorite thing on all of Tumblr.

Bolded jtotheizzoe’s comment for ridiculous accuracy.

thewithywindle: hit-an-alltimelow: sucha-: what’s the best thing about living in...

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:17:15 -0700

thewithywindle:

hit-an-alltimelow:

sucha-:

what’s the best thing about living in switzerland

well the flag is a big plus

I texted this joke to my Swiss friend and he told me I wasn’t allowed to tell him jokes anymore

azspot: MILLENIALS AREN’T LAZY: THEY’RE FUCKED

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:17:13 -0700

azspot:

MILLENIALS AREN’T LAZY: THEY’RE FUCKED

azspot: Just in case you need evidence about sports

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:51:18 -0700

azspot:

Just in case you need evidence about sports

jhameia: tranqualizer: [photo: a meme featuring a screenshot...

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:17:28 -0700

jhameia:

tranqualizer:

[photo: a meme featuring a screenshot of Sweet Brown, a Black woman who became popular with the phrase “ain’t not body got time for that.” pink text reads, “ain’t nobody got time for creating videos that make fun of low income people of color using auto tune. unless you’re a white person that is so privileged that you do have time and yet dont’t use that time to educate yourself on race issues.”]

kararikue:

arevolutionisacomin:

i made a meme.

sometimes I forget that some folx (namely white folx) like people like Sweet Brown and Antoine Dobson not because they remind them of their neighbors or aunts, or cousins or church school teachers, but because they perform stereotypical notions of poor people of color. I need to be cognizant of this more.

i think that goes for non-Black people of color, too, really. i’ve seen plenty of non-Black poc share Antoine Dodson videos and Sweet Brown and most recently Ramsey over the past few years. with white folks that behavior is typically predictable but with non-Black poc we really need to bring our A game and be real about how we are taught to be anti Black, internalize that and simultaneously consume Black culture/products of the exploitation of Black folks while relying on this shared identity of being “people of color.” it’s not untrue that low income people of color are made fun of but let’s be real, consistently it has been low income Black people in these internet sensations.

what loan said ^^^

humansofnewyork: “What’s your greatest struggle right now?”...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:05:31 -0700

humansofnewyork:

“What’s your greatest struggle right now?”
“Building a fence in my back yard.”
“Oh c’mon.”
“I’m serious. I married my best friend, I live on the Atlantic Ocean, I’ve played music my entire life. But this fence is giving me trouble!”

becausechocolatethatswhy: this was shared by a friend on...

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:18:41 -0700

becausechocolatethatswhy:

this was shared by a friend on facebook in reference to the heroic acts of Charles Ramsey and the way he quickly became a meme

Charles Ramsey and the troubling viral trend of the ‘hilarious’ black neighbor

“Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame.Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.”