bonfire of the inanities

it seemed like a good idea at the time

[neptunesbounty]

Large Magellanic Clouds & Tarantula Nebula NGC 2070

[cat-eye-nebula]

Foggy Britain, from 1928 to 1952. (x)

Click on the pictures for location information.

[escapekit]

Closed sky

Austian photographer Lukas Furlan has captured beautiful shots of the south tyrolean alps.

[50-shades-of-bob]

How all of my Dungeons and Dragons games need to turn out.

[infinitemachine]

Okay, but how could anyone possibly construe this as a spell *failure*?

[teal-deer]

You know I was just saying to myself that the new Wild Surge table dearly needs more than 50 entries…

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swarm rules that shit's deadly, okay

[biram-ba]

I was watching The Incredible Hulk cartoon from the 90’s, and in one of the episodes She-Hulk chases on foot after a stolen sports car. My brain suggested this. I liked the suggestion.

[thehappysorceress]

Brilliant.

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1. Jen would totally agree to do that.

2. Can we please get She-Hulk in the MCU? I'm hoping that's why they cast Lucy Lawless. If you've got Lucy Lawless you'd damn well better make her Shulkie or you're not actually qualified to be in charge of anything Marvel-related.

[ivilspirits]

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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I've come to accept that I'm the shady dude wearing a trench coat loaded with fake Rolexes, except mine is full of terrible Marvel comics from before I was born.

[buttart]

i’m actually kinda pleased with this despite struggling so much with the sketch

[wethatkindoforc]

I am never going to not be enthralled with how you draw faces. Damn. 

[technicolor-vulvae-blog]

reblog this and post the first meme you ever encountered on the internet

[sugarburger]

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"UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS."

You kids get off my lawn.

[tauntaunting-deactivated2017111]

It's funny that you put words in my mouth to make yourself seem better than me. People like me just fine, and I don't think I've ever asked why I haven't "landed" a hot girl yet, like women are property to be acquired. If you had actually read the posts I made I was curious as to why any girl at all doesn't seem to pay me a lick of attention despite the fact that I'm polite, well dressed and clean. The only logical conclusion is my weight.

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This is a new definition of “polite” with which I was previously unacquainted.

[modernilluminators]

John Howe’s sketch of the Cthulhu sculpture. 

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In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

[tauntaunting-deactivated2017111]

You do realize that all of your cosplay is completely wrong right? First off at least five of your so called cosplays are the wrong gender, you can't cosplay Captain America, Star Lord, Thor, Fandral or Edward (as much as I despise Twilight), second of all none of those characters are obese like you are. Just saying you should stay true to the character is all. You could cosplay as Ms. Trunchbull from Matilda though, maybe you should try that one?

If you hate it so much, get the fuck away from my blog. Problem solved, you cissexist, bigoted, shaming piece of shit.

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[chujo-hime]

JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, let me just in the short time we have left, what do both — the two of you believe it is going to take to restore a calm to the community and a sense of confidence that justice will be done? BRIAN FLETCHER: OK. I will start with that. What the community is doing, we have organized a group called I Love Ferguson. We have ordered 3,000 yard signs that say “I Love Ferguson” that will sprout up through Ferguson. I raised $8,000 within 24 hours of $5, little boys bringing up change, and these signs will start being up on Wednesday morning. MARIA CHAPPELLE-NADAL: Here’s the real deal. The constituents in this community, they want justice. They want to make sure that this officer is arrested, that there is a grand jury, and then that there’s justice through the justice system.

This interview with former Ferguson Mayor Brian Fletcher and state senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal is the perfect summary of how out of touch with reality the white political leadership in Ferguson is. [X] (via kiransingh)

lawn signs.

well then, that's sorted. drinks are on me!

[nprfreshair]

By Emily Blincoe

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the degree to which I like tomatoes is actually kind of embarrassing

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Birds Bursting Into Flames over State of the Art Solar Plant

IVANPAH DRY LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.

Hey lucasthegray, remember that joke about microwave power transmission and birds falling out of the sky pre-cooked?

Welp.

[trigonometry-is-my-bitch]

All planets, and Pluto, aligned.

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not to scale

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How we'd cover Ferguson if it happened in another country

FERGUSON — Chinese and Russian officials are warning of a potential humanitarian crisis in the restive American province of Missouri, where ancient communal tensions have boiled over into full-blown violence.

"We must use all means at our disposal to end the violence and restore calm to the region," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in comments to an emergency United Nations Security Council session on the America crisis.

The crisis began a week ago in Ferguson, a remote Missouri village that has been a hotbed of sectarian tension. State security forces shot and killed an unarmed man, which regional analysts say has angered the local population by surfacing deep-seated sectarian grievances. Regime security forces cracked down brutally on largely peaceful protests, worsening the crisis.

America has been roiled by political instability and protests in recent years, which analysts warn can create fertile ground for extremists.