im laughing @ this image of jeff goldblum bc it makes him look like a centaur but w the horse bit cropped out
update:
Look I didn’t spend 20 minutes drawing jeff goldblum as a centaur in front of my family for 3 notes
Jeff acknowledges you
i can finally die with a smile on my face thank you Jeff
the amount of background brain processing power dedicated to The Plague at all times is just. appalling. am i a little warm or do i have a fever? do i just need to drink some water or is my throat getting dry? was that just bland or is my taste a little off? how many people are wearing masks in here? his is under his nose. hers under her chin. how many will be wearing masks at that place i’d like to go to next week? should i even go? this mask needs washed. my glasses are fogging up. did they just cough? don’t stand so close. are there too many people in here? someone i know is waiting on results. i want to see my friend but is it a good idea? someone else is isolating. i forgot to sanitise my hands on the way in. how many people will be there? i can’t be off work. how many people died today anyway? i’m outside but it’s crowded. they’re standing real close to me. it’s kind of hot in here. or am i getting a fever?
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I CANT
This sculpture is called The Gates of Hell by the artist August Rodine depicting a scene from Dante Aligheiri’s ‘ Inferno.’ Notable here are the figures of Paolo and Francesca da Rimini, two characters from the epic poem who are in the second circle of hell, reserved for the lustful. Here, the couple are trapped in an eternal whirlwind, doomed to be forever swept through the air just as they allowed themselves to be swept away by their passions.
This is Taemin dancing in front of the said gate.
I for one, welcome our demonic lord of lust. lol
see this is the post this is it this is the one that made me realize that not only does taemin invoke the virgin mary by doing his t-pose while standing above snakes (which represents the virgin mary triumphing over evil) at the same time as invoking the temptation of eve but ALSO mr. taemin francesco lee this man who was christened francesco by the catholic church and is the only western name he has and shinee’s mentioned it on several occasions that his name is francesco-
picked the statue rodin’s gates of hell to dance in front of. a statue that depicts the entrance to the level of hell representing LUST. that depicts a forbidden couple in which the woman’s name is FRANCESCA
Normalize scaling your values between 0 and 1
Normalize subtracting your data by the mean and dividing it by it's standard deviation
You know a little detail I love in The Martian book? That Mark is obviously smart, but to different degrees depending on the subject.
He’s a mechanical engineer and a botanist. This makes him especially good at math, biology, food science, physics, and techy stuff that involves building things or taking stuff apart and making it do something else and general problem solving
He’s also generally good at chemistry. He knows that to make water he can breakdown hydrazine, but doesn’t think about the fact that it would cause the place to fill with hydrogen and almost blow up until it does. He also knows you exhale some oxygen each time you breathe, but doesn’t know how much.
He knows that solar panels are held at a 14 degree angle but doesn’t know why, and only knows the angle because he was in charge of setting them up
When he gets injured he doesn’t say what muscles, just that his back hurts. He fixes most of his muscle injuries with pain killers and warm baths while thinking about how the medic would have more detailed instructions
He has no idea how the pilot is so good at pilot stuff, and never differentiates different kinds of rocks like the geologist would
It’s just cool to have a smart character who is smart at things that make sense for their degrees and experience. So many characters get the Sherlock Holmes treatment where they’re good at whatever the plot needs, but in this case the book uses his blind spots as part of the plot. He knows enough chemistry to solve problems but not enough to anticipate the problems the chemistry would cause as well. It’s refreshing to have a book where what a character is bad at, or just not super good at, works with the story rather than just getting glossed over or having the character magically good at everything because if you know botany obviously you also know anatomy and geology and meteorology, etc
“…knows enough chemistry to solve problems but not enough to anticipate the problems…” is such a good way to put it.
“Each crewman had their own laptop. So I have six at my disposal. Rather, I had six. I now have five. I thought a laptop would be fine outside. It’s just electronics, right? It’ll keep warm enough to operate in the short term, and it doesn’t need air for anything.
It died instantly. The screen went black before I was out of the airlock. Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for “Liquid.” I guess it either froze or boiled off. Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.””
Guys, we were so wrong. We've been misinterpreting horse plinko all along. It's a three-dimensional scene, but depicted without depth perspective. The round things are actually hay bales in a field leading off into the distance and the horse is weaving between them as it moves towards us, with the fire in the foreground.
Thank you, 'sperm flagellar control' side of 'horse plinko lore' tumblr
I cannot, cannot stress enough how difficult this sort of interaction is to find outside Tumblr.
...which is probably for the best, really.
What the f u c k happened in the spn fandom??? I was offline for ONE DAY FOR HEAVENS SAKE
lmao i know, it happened again.
the short version: it's been revealed that the cw (the network spn aired on) has literally never been profitable since its inception in 2006, and its parent companies cbs and the wb are looking to sell it.
bonus: it looks like this is happening now because they've lost SO much money and viewership after spn ended by alienating most of its fans, who have been boycotting the network since. this is extremely funny because destiel is wildly popular, and if they had only leaned in to its popularity and exploited it, maybe the could have actually made a profit.
instead, they killed dean and cas and placed all their bets on a reboot of walker texas ranger starring jared padalecki.
on the same day, misha posted a tweet which informed us that billie eillish is such a spn fan that she actually named her cat misha. this has endless comedic possibilities as well.
and of course, this is all happening and trending on the 1 year anniversary of the jan 6 coup attempt on the american capital, which lends a certain "destiel putin election" vibe to everything and makes it all funnier.
they should have done what Venom recently did and cater to the gays, the queers, and the monsterfuckers. theres money to be made
hope this explains it
Imagine if, instead of buying NFTs, those people "adopted" wild animals, zoo animals, or animals in rescue and rehabilitation and get to help great causes and conservation AND get cute photos and stuffed animals and updates about the animals they're supporting.
Imagine if all the money that went into mining cryptocurrency and buying NFTs went into general conservation efforts instead, if it was used to help our planet instead of destroy it more.
Exactly! Instead of an NFT linked to an ugly computer generated image or art stolen from someone else, you get a certificate with a photo of a polar bear and a cute stuffed polar bear to cuddle with, along with the knowledge that you're supporting efforts to protect arctic ecosystems and endangered animals :)
Everyone wins! Unlike with NFTs, where nobody wins.
Good news: World Wildlife Fund allows you to do exactly this! There’s a bunch of species to choose from and the plushies are adorable.
Majority of the big animal sanctuaries and wild life protection programs do this kind of adoption. You adopt a resident of the sanctuary/program and get photos, some goodies and news of the said animal to your email.
Here are a few:
Aussie Ark - Adopt a Tasmanian Devil, a Koala, an Easter Quoll, a Squirrel Glider or a Brush-Tailed Rock Wallaby. https://www.aussieark.org.au/adopt/
A Whale Museum - Adopt an orca, also for classroom adoptions for children https://whalemuseum.org/collections/adopt-an-orca
WDC - Adopt a whale-program https://adopt-us.whales.org/
Big Cat Sanctuary - Adopt a feline like a Tiger, a Black Jaguar, a Snow Leopard etc. The list on your right has all adoptable felines. https://thebigcatsanctuary.org/marketplace/
The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee - Adopt an Elephant https://shop.elephants.com/product/43E6178/adopt-an-elephant
The Shark Trust - Adopt a Shark https://www.sharktrust.org/Pages/Category/adopt
World Animal Protection - Adopt a Bear https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/get-involved/adopt-a-bear
You can find lots and lots of adoption options for a good cause just by googling “Adopt [animal]” if you wish to adopt a certain animal.
i will never be over the fact that during first contact a human offered their hand to a vulcan and the vulcan was just like “wow humans are fucking wild” and took it
Humanity’s first contact with Vulcans was some guy going “I’m down to fuck.”
Vulcans’ first contact with Humans was an emphatic “Sure.”
#iiiiiiiiiiiiii mean vulcans had been watching humans for a long time#they knew the significance of a handshake but still#they had to find some fast and loose ambassador#willing to fuckin make out with a human for the sake of not offending them on first contact#lmao#star trek give me the story of this fast and loose vulcan
“sir…these…these humans…they greet each other by…” *glances around before furtively whispering* “by clasping hands…”
*prolonged silence* “oh my…”
“sir…sir how will we make first contact with them? surely we…we cannot refuse this handclasping ritual, they will take it as an insult, but what vulcan would agree to such a distasteful and uncomfortable ritual??”
*several pensive moments later* “contact the vulcan high command and tell them to send us kuvak. i once saw that crazy son of a bitch arm wrestle a klingon, he’ll put his hands on anything”
Elsewhere, w/ kuvak: “….my day has come.”
The vulcan who made first contact with humans is named Solkar guys. Y’all just be makin’ up names for characters that already have names.
Bonus: here’s a screencap of Solkar doing the “my body is ready” pose right before he shakes Zefram Cochrane’s hand:
I swear Vulcans only come in two types and they are “distant xenophobes” or “horny on main for humanity”. Also apparently this guy is Spock’s great-grandfather and frankly that explains everything.
Hey so I looked into this at one point and that handshake literally created a lifelong telepathic bond between the two of them, and basically all of Solkar’s descendants were later obsessed with humans, including freaking SPOCK, so I’m not saying that handshake was so gay and good that it created an intergenerational telepathic bond between Solkar’s descendants and humans, but I’m also not….not….saying that.
The slow deliberation with which Solkar takes Cockrane’s–I’m sorry, Cochrane’s–hand… The sheer sensuality witch which Solkar infuses an otherwise borderline impersonal social ritual… It clearly shows a very conscious knowledge, on Solkar’s part, of what the significance of the handshake is in Vulcan terms and of how affected he is by it.
That’s why he’s so slow in doing it, and so sensual. A part of Solkar can’t believe this is happening, despite it being a perfectly logical thing to expect from a human, and the rest of him can’t believe how good it is.
I bet that if the camera zoomed in any further we would see the dilation of Solkar’s pupils and a quickly-repressed shiver of delight. Cochrane’s firm, businesslike clasp is probably (in sexual terms) being perceived as a deliciously carnal display of dominance.
No wonder Solkar is all like, “TAKE ME, YOU WILD-MANNERED BARBARIAN WITH ENTICINGLY ROUGH CALLUSES.”
And so we find out that yes, there is such a thing as bottoming in Pon-farr.
Every time this post comes round my dash, it just gets better.
#somehow the idea of vulcans being Horny On Main always gives me the giggles#like literally all they had to do#was be like actually#hand contact is very intimate for our species#and im p sure humanity as a whole would not find that insurmountably weird#there are human cultures that dont shake hands#vulcans are logical enough to think that through on their own#so clearly that vulcan was just down to fuck#down to fuck in a public#professional diplomatic situation no less#and he did not fucking care who knew it (via kittykatthetacodemon)
Some Vulcan: we could probably just explain that handshakes are intimate in our culture
Solkar, rubbing lip gloss on his hand: don’t tell me how to do my job
This is my favourite Star Trek post, complete with headcanons, corrections, the truth coming out of her well to shame Spock even. Seriously perfect fandom work.
Should you be trapped in a windless land
“Come on Traveler, let’s go! The world is full of lost ballads just waiting to be rediscovered.”
zhongli: really? right in front of my tea?
