tired but chugging along

Help it’s again - tal jaffe

[the-quasar-hero]

You can tell a lot about a person by entering their mind palace and encountering their greatest fears and darkest hopes in a labyrinth reflective of their subconscious thoughts.

[enki2]

[athelind]

During the original run of Leverage, showrunner John Rogers would write about the development of every episode a day or two after it aired on his blog, Kung Fu Monkey.

A good number of Leverage episodes were based on actual, real-world cases of corporate malfeasance and corruption, and in a few cases, they were able to get transcripts or recordings of the private meetings these untouchable bigwigs held, and incorporated them into their scripts.

Well, sort of. Rogers asserts that they'd have to tone down these Evil Speeches of Evil, because they were frankly too over the top for television audiences to find plausible.

[frownyalfred]

…you’re…welcome?

[decadent-hag]

Definitely one of the Top Images of all time I gotta say

[brucebocchi]

[madhopz]

[churroach]

I need season 2 NOW

[curaheed]

[a-wild-haggis]

https://www.talbothumane.org/adopt/adoption-form/

[goint]

Found the update in case anyone else was curious and didn't want to scroll through weeks of FB posts

And from their new owner in the comments

[charlesoberonn]

Daughter: You realize this puts you in the top 1% of the top 1%, right? The elite of the elite! That's extremely good.

Father: *glaring at his brand new "#272993 Dad" mug* I still don't like it.

[charlesoberonn]

Father's Co-Worker: *drinking out of a "#5122653 Dad" mug* How was Father's Day?

Father: *feeling smug* Pretty great, actually.

[prokopetz]

Level 1: Sci-fi aliens exhibit a cultural gender binary which exactly corresponds to the cultural gender binary of the human target audience.

Level 2: Sci-fi aliens exhibit the target audience's gender binary with some specific feature conspicuously inverted, like women are the stereotypically violent and lustful ones or whatever.

Level 3: Sci-fi aliens exhibit the target audience's gender binary, plus 1–3 "extra" genders just sort of dangling off the side of the system that literally never come up except to make jokes about them.

Level 4: The text insists that the sci-fi aliens have no genders, which are a human conceit; that every individual alien we meet happens to neatly conform with the target audience's gender binary is coincidence.

Level 5: The text attempts to un-gender its sci-fi aliens simply by taking the target audience's gender binary and subtracting one of the genders, like all of the aliens are lesbians, but you can still clearly tell which aliens are meant to be the "man" lesbians and which aliens are meant to be the "woman" lesbians.

Level 6: The text genuinely departs from the target audience's gender binary, but only because the author is using the sci-fi aliens' genders as an allegory for something else – e.g., physical disabilities, political affiliations, etc. – in a way that doesn't really make sense if you think about it too hard; "capitalist" is now a gender.

Level 7: Sci-fi aliens exhibit a set of genders which appear truly novel, until halfway through the text you suddenly realise that said genders have a 1:1 mapping with Dungeons & Dragons character classes.

[asthedeathoflight]

Resisting the urge to Um Actually this dragon novel because it has the dragon eggs be like three or four feet wide but there is simply a limit to how large hard-shelled terrestrial eggs can be. No matter how large the animal is, the embryo needs oxygen, and oxygen needs surface area. The larger an object is, the lower its surface area relative to volume, and the less oxygen the embryo can receive. We think of large animals as having porportionately large young because mammalian pregnancy has the unique benefit of allowing for the size of the young to scale with the adult because their oxygen is provided directly through the placenta, and almost all the megafauna remaining on Earth are mammals. But this is not the case for species which lay eggs! For fuck's sake even the sauropods hatched out of eggs barely larger than basketballs! Your hatchling dragon would be impressively enormous if it were the size of a house cat. Stop trying to make me believe that this (ROUND!) dragon egg somehow supplied enough oxygen to develop an infant the size of a large dog or even bigger. If it were possible the dinosaurs woulda been doing it!!!!

[achillbeing]

I love you /lh. Experts going off on their particular fascinating cool topics and adding unexpected context to things we take for granted is like my favorite thing this was delightful. Talk to me more about eggs and geometry and biology all you want :D

[achillbeing]

Amazing concept

[teathattast]

[gamingtide]

Reblogging to spread awareness to cat owners & lovers of cat owners

[officialcarinamusic-deactivated]

[allcapsmadbitch]

These are ‘nail totems’ by Leanne Helin who is a Tsimshian First Nations native woman. She is an artist in the Northwest who hand-engraves these pieces. You can buy these pieces and her gallery is here.  Support First Nations businesses! 

[officialbabayaga]

Here’s an updated link for Leanne Helin’s site

[saltoncity]

ITS NOT HOPELESS ITS JUST JANUARY.

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

[inbabylontheywept]

i got my cat one of those giant hamster wheel things so she could entertain herself then i showed her how it worked by putting her on it and spinning it slowly then faster then as fast as possible. and the good news is that she looooves her wheel. she just loooves being a hamster cat. but the bad news is that she doesn’t know how to use it solo so she will sit by it and scream until i spin the wheel for her. and if i dont go fast enough shell scream some more. so im hunched over this big wooden wheel turning it like igor and my cat is running so fast that shes panting like a dog and if I slow down even a little she’ll go MEEEOOOWWWWW and i frankly think I need to join a union or something. that bingus has no respect for me.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Epic depression relief video—Unitree Robotics's robot is at it again.

[sticksandsharks]

Family of Cyprinidae, Water-Type native to Kanto.