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Bunker Under the Rockies

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Why under the Rockies? Global warming, clearly.
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Gentle reminder to other instructors/professors/whatever in higher education: as much as you think people "should know that by now", when it comes to things like navigating websites and checking email regularly, unless you've taught them how you have absolutely no foundation for your assumption and you are blocking disadvantaged students out if you punish them for not knowing.

#higher ed#technology#privilege
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Today we’re treated to video proof of something the great Galileo predicted all the way back in the 16th century:

Galileo proposed that a falling body would fall with a uniform acceleration, as long as the resistance of the medium through which it was falling remained negligible, or in the limiting case of its falling through a vacuum.

Physicist Brian Cox visited NASA’s Space Power Facility in Cleveland, Ohio, where they house their Space Simulation Chamber, the world’s largest vacuum chamber, to demonstrate that any two objects dropped in a vacuum will fall at the same rate. Cox and a team of engineers used the vacuum chamger to drop a bowling ball and a bunch of feathers from the same height at the same time. Even though we all know what’s supposed to happen, actually watching happen with your own eyes is truly incredible.

The best thing about this video is the reaction it elicits from Cox and the engineers. Everyone knows how the experiment will end. Like us, they’ve been told what to expect. Like us, many of them have seen it demonstrated on a smaller scale. But something about watching a bowling ball and feathers fall from a great height, together, side by side, makes them gawk, giggle, and grin like children. I think that’s kind of wonderful.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, science is super awesome.

[via io9]

#SCIENCE#science is so cool you guys
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November 7

In 1919, federal agents conducted the first of the Palmer Raids, named for one Alexander Mitchell Palmer, then the Attorney General of the United States. Palmer, like most of the WASPs in positions of public and private power at the time, hated him some immigrants. And he REALLY hated him some organized labor, which, in a refrain that never seems to change, he viewed as subversive/bad for business/an affront to The Way Things Should Be. 

During the raids, tens of thousands of people—many of them non-immigrants and completely unrelated to organized labor—were arrested, beaten, questioned, beaten, deported, and so on. If this were to happen in a different country, we’d call those people “political prisoners” and offer them asylum. Ha ha ha. 

Palmer predicted that radicals, labor organizers, and immigrants would “rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop.” So, really, when you hear people talking about how immigrants are going to destroy America, remember—we’ve heard all this shit before. Nativism (a term that has to make American Indians weep bitter tears while they laugh) is as American as apple pie and Chevrolet. And they’re always wrong. 

Now, you probably know about anti-immigrant sentiments in American history; you probably don’t know about the Palmer Raids, or most of the suppression of organized labor in this country. I wonder why our history books conveniently leave this sort of thing out. Oh, how I wonder.

#today in history
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rdjobsessions
Saying “you don’t have anything to be depressed about, your life is great” is like saying “what do you mean have asthma, there is loads of air in here.”

something my 13 year old nephew said to my mum after she claimed I had no reason to be suffering from depression, I repeat, he is THIRTEEN. (via rdjobsessions)

#depression
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November 6

In 1528, Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca survived a shipwreck and became the first known European to set foot in what is now called Texas. According to records, his first words were “¡Mierda este lugar!” He then went on to prophesy that terrible and dimwitted things would happen there in the future.

#today in history
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secondlina

The TL;DR version:

Starting this week, i’m working as a full-time artist and co-ceo of Hiveworks. We will still be updating Namesake three days a week, for now, while we assess things and work on Valor (and books 3 and 4 of Namesake). Meg will not be going full-time at the moment. She did give up her second job as a freelance tech editor to focus more on Namesake.

Here’s handy links for you! Remember, every little bit, even just hugs of encouragement, help us keep going!

Isa and Meg’s Patreon

Fairylogue Press

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rambayu

WHOA WAIT! Isnt “Nope” that idea about the main character who absolutely wants to avoid being a main character of a story THATS A THING THATS HAPPENING?! Also reblog to support.

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secondlina

Nope is Totally a thing that is happening. You can see some concept art here.

Please support these cool comics by cool people!! Namesake is really good you guys.

Support these badass ladies!

#comics#holy shit someone's actually making Nope happen#yaaaasssss
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void-sky

*gay intensifies*

are you saying there are people so gay they’re unable to be seen by humans

asexuals, pansexuals, bisexuals, and aromantics

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