hungover me, lurching downstairs at 7am to chug a quart of water: *trips on the second step, falls off this and lands on my neck, crushes 12 vertebrae, dies*

This one of those things at taco bell you drop coins in to try and get free food. Except you’re the coins

Iced coffee girl is an icon. we stan a legend

Kintsugi philosophy - to embrace and highlight the history, struggle, repair in gold for that is where the true beauty lies.

be like elle woods °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

SJAHDHSJSBSBS

For everyone who says, “But CIA director candidate Gina Haspel is a woman!” despite her running a torture program in Iraq

Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.

It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green!  Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.) 

Check out this diagram from ResearchGate.  It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic.  (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.)  See how orange and green look to them?

Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.

It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra.  Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo.  These aren’t animals with great color vision.  They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not.  Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it.  Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light.  They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing.  That’s way more useful if you’re prey.  Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red.  This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light.  Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.

We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.

I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.

Ok but like, I think you underestimate just how well they blend in when actually in the environment. Like, just using tigers as an example.

or how about a leopard?

It’s called ‘disruptive colouration’ because the markings help to break up the animal’s outline against the grasses or rocks. And the rosettes on leopards and jaguars? Sun spots shining through the trees and leaves on the ground.

And this is how hard it is to spot them WITH colour vision. Now imagine the above images but with the limited coloured mentioned above?

I’m sorry but there is not an animal in that first leopard picture

Are you, sure about that?

“Tigers are fruit colored” is my new favorite phrase.

I’m just your average space bisexual

The nanites absorb the kinetic energy and hold it in place for redistribution. 

In Black Panther, we see women going about their business and supporting each other. They argue with each other and have different points of view, but they are not pitted against each other and I think that’s extremely important. In doing this, audiences can get a sense of the fabric of Wakanda as a nation, where we see women alongside men and we see how much more effective a society can be if they allow women to explore their full potential. — Lupita Nyong’o

Did y'all ever think that Tony revealed himself as Iron Man because he didn’t want Iron Man to become part of the old system with zero accountability that he had so long been a part of, albeit unwillingly and through ignorance? He knew people were already wondering who the guy in the red and gold armor after he showed up in Gulmira. Then, after that public fight with Iron Monger in LA, people would’ve wondered even more, especially those caught in the crossfire that night. And given it’s generally accepted that Iron Man was a new lease of life for Tony, he wanted to start it with proper accountability so that one day if he failed at his job, people would know exactly whom to blame. Accountability is literally the raison d'etre of Iron Man in the MCU - he’s not perfect, he makes mistakes along the way - deadly ones - but he would never shift the blame, not even with the Accords which would have put him under the same scrutiny as the rest of the active Avengers.

Yep! His internal monologue in the Iron Man novelization, right before his iconic “I am Iron Man” line, he’s looking at the cover story cue cards he was given by Coulson and he thinks about how if things are really going to change, then there needs to be complete transparency.

this is so fucking funny

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Fox canceled Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Twitter is rightfully angry. This show did wonders for thoughtful, authentic representation; I’m really sad to see it go. 

I can’t stop laughing at this

Really Gina! My Pokégear is impressive. That is what is impressive. My Pokégear. Gina here thinks that my Pokégear is what is impressive

Did you hear that, Lugia, Guardian of the Seas? Gina says my Pokégear is impressive