i love kars

no I won’t be afraid

just as long as you stand

stand by me 

Watch the Trailer for Broadway’s Beetlejuice Musical, Featuring Shrimp Monsters, Levitating Dancers, and Shrunken Heads

Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention. 

Source

We did a pretty good fucking job, Jesus Christ

Remember this the next time you want to complain about GMO’s, we may not have done it in a lab but they still are that.

Bananas looked like lemons wtf

Isn’t this more of a combination of selective breeding and GMOs? Not just GMOs?

Yes.  But people talk about how GMO’s are “unnatural”, yet for centuries humanity has been exploiting mutations in animals and plants to produce food for themselves.

GMO’s are simply the process of inducing these mutations reliably.

People hear “Lettuce being modified with scorpion DNA” and think that we’re now eating scorpions.  But, in reality, they’re taking a tiny bit of scorpion DNA and splicing it into the plant.  Why?  So the plant will produce poison that is not harmful to humans but will deter insects, reducing the use of pesticide, which CAN be harmful to humans and the environment.

GMOs are producing rice that can survive flooding, which makes rice more reliable yields and will prevent food shortages in poor nations that rely on said crops for staple food.

GMOs are also creating spider-goat hybrids.  Why? So we can splice web production into the goat’s udders.  We’ll be able to spin huge quantities of spider silk, enough to reliably create spider silk cables and ropes, which have more tensile strength than steel.

I for one am glad I live in a time where watermelons aren’t giant tomato abominations

The issue with GMOs is that corporations like Monsanto are patenting GMOs and arresting indigenous farmers for cross pollinating with they seeds. But there is nothing dangerous about the science.

^This.

The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.

this should be in the largest letters we’ve got, plastered everywhere until it gets through people’s heads:

The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.

Did you just say spider goats? He said spider goats. Did you all read him talking about spider goats or am I hallucinating

Hell world

in 12th grade engineering class our army vet teacher made us sign up for the draft

I literally got a phone call from one of these scumbags when I was in HS and I politely told him I’m not interested and that I’d be going to college in the fall and he legit said, “Wow, I’d hate to be such a burden on my parents like that, if you join the army we’d help you pay for school.” And I was just like nahhhh my parents would prefer me in college and hung up

Left on read in IRL

hi can we normalize the idea of choosing not to drink

no cuz thats fucking lame

hey it actually isn’t! i get really really sick whenever i have more than a beer or two and i absolutely hate how people assume i must be lame/a kill joy when i refuse a drink. people choose to be sober or mostly sober for a variety of reasons, e.g. addiction, medical, etc. and not a single one of them is “because i’m a lame person who hates fun” 

The degree to which drinking is seen as a must in social situations is fucking weird, and I think the fact that people are more put off by non-drinkers than by how much alcohol consumption has permeated the culture is … troubling.

I watched my cousin die from liver cirrhosis caused by alcohol. So literally, anyone who thinks that choosing not to drink is lame needs to seriously fuck off. I choose not to drink simply because of the fact that I come from an extremely alcoholic family and have it seen kill people I love. Some of my college friends fucking bragged to me about how they drove drunk and they knew they were over the limit. THEY KNEW MY COUSIN WAS DYING AT THE TIME BECAUSE HE WAS AN ALCOHOLIC.

lilo was PEAK weird little girl representation like. all “weird” disney characters just fall under quirky cute no lilo was IT. she gave peanut butter sandwiches to a FISH because IT CONTROLLED THE WEATHER. the range

the look you have when know you are 3 events away from a breakdown

Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 (2003)

The four horsemen of the apocalypse

I got real petty over on the Facebook page and IT WAS GLORIOUS.

This is me, going to check out Legendary Books now…

Publisher: We think that the way the fantasy genre treats women is problematic so we’re going to try and do better

A Fool: If you don’t like it why don’t you make your own!

Publisher: That

That is literally what we just said we are doing

GUESS WHO’S BACK, BIGOTED FUCKWADS?

BOY it feels good to be back in this particular saddle!

AHAHAHAHAHA we have a winner for today!

*Snort*

@princessjellyfishie

if anybody like me a) lol’d and b) wanted to get my hands on that book series, here’s the link

This is magically what I’m looking for right now.

Hi Legendary Books, I’ll take one of everything.

Happy to oblige!

https://underrealm.net/books

<3

I literally don’t have the space for any more physical books, but I’ve downloaded every Underrealm book on Kindle. I read The Alchemist’s Touch specifically because of this post and I seriously can’t recommend the Underrealm books enough. they are absolutely fantastic.

I don’t really read anymore, not like i used to. And of i get a masters this year like i am planning to then that isn’t going to change. But hell yes I’m going to go and buy these books because THIS is exactly the kind of thing that i want to support!

YISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

One day I will have a job and a bank account and I will have money from the job in the bank account and I will use some of the money to purchase these books

Hey did you

did you know

did you know we have a podcast now and you can literally listen to the books for free.

(You probably didn’t. That’s okay because it’s very new).

It’s slower than buying and reading them, but it’s great if you have no book budget but you do have some listening time!

You, Sir, are my hero.

Militant Vegans be like: “Yeah, but we gotta poison the planet with more synthetics so we can save the sheep from being properly sheared and let them suffocate to death under the weight of their own wool.”

>breeds animal that produces too much hair

>refuses to cut the hair for no reason

Peel your sheeps!

I love wool. A few years ago, I started switching out all my socks and boxers for wool, and I will never go back to any other fabric or fiber. Sheep are amazing. Thank you for the gift of your wonderful wool, you magnificent sheeps.

I had never heard of wool boxers until this moment but might I just say cotton is really better for underwear being generally softer, lighter and less abrasive than wool. Other fibres have their uses and I’d hesitate to put wool directly on skin save for specific weaves on trouser fabric, and sports socks for durability.

More than anything natural fibres will always beat synthetic. Ask someone who’s sewn polyester vs 100% cotten.

people who make fun of autistic people are no longer allowed to use slime, weighted blankets, stress balls, or anything similar that originated and/or was popularized by the autistic community.

i very much agree, however, may i also propose:

good addition