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*descends gently from the heavens on winged sandals i stole from hermes to hand you a single 3x5 index card containing a simple sentence of immeasurable power, written tidily in sharpie: ᴛɪɢᴇʀs ʜᴀᴠᴇ sᴛʀɪᴘᴇᴅ sᴋɪɴ *

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

And Lo It Is ᴛʀᴜᴇ And It Is ɢᴏᴏᴅ

Bonus Heavenly Message: the same applies to cheetahs and polka dots!

neverniko101

who up perceiving and reacting to stimulus

neonprotagonist

Girls Scouts encounter Bigfoot the most frequently. Part of their oath is to keep him a secret because he’s very kind and makes up 30% of their revenue due to his fervent love for thin mints.

hlahlahlahlahly

As a Girl Scout leader, I am telling you that this is NOT true, and any former girl scout that says it is, should think about what they are saying and what oaths they may have sworn in the past

the-actual-ocean

The Entirety of Tumblr from Tumblr has been Chucked in to the ocean! You're all wet now.

goldenretriever-boyfriend

#Ah tumblr

cartoonscientist

I mean, I do like spiders

what?

twelveinchcunt

@pangur-and-grim

zechery-deactivated20220114

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

thebaconsandwichofregret

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

shadows-ember

This is humanity

siawrites

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

labelleizzy

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

the-cimmerians

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

codenamewife

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

beentobeetle

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURIOSITY !!!!

nickelmining101

Happy birthday Curiosity!

the-real-yahoo-mail

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

no-one-offical

Happy Birthday, Curiousity!

joy-and-whimsy-official

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

awritersbro

if you see a Jabberwocky in an American National Park i cannot stress this enough you HAVE to report them to the nearest Park ranger. I know, I know, they fill human hearts with terror and whimsy in equal measure, but they are an aggressively invasive species in the Americas. Jackalopes are at risk of becoming extinct because during shedding season they have no natural defences against jaws that bite and claws that catch.

You don't have to worry about them killing it, they're actually endangered in England due to Victorian Era overhunting, so the British government's provided the National Park service with Vorpal Tranquilizer Darts so they can safely transport them to their native British Countryside where they can feast on borogroves and jubjub birds to their hearts' content.

edgar-allan-possum

Jabberwocks are starting to really intrude on the territory of the Snallygaster and crowd them out. Please report when you see them and help preserve our American monsters!

tlaquetzqui

Biologists prefer the term “fearsome critters”, just FYI. They resemble monsters but only due to convergent evolution.

keroa

reblog if AAAAAAAAA

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numahachi

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phuiscribbles

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jukun

valbrandur

ddemotivators

AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

minervafloofderg-migrating

thegreenwolf

itsadragonaesthetic

This is such an abstract type of comedy I don’t even know how to handle it

anistarrose

asexuals who experience sexual attraction but don't like sex 🤝 asexuals who like sex but don't experience sexual attraction:

being allowed to confuse people with their identities, and in fact, should be encouraged to confuse people even more

ashomaly

i thought asexuality was purely about the lack of sexual attraction tho?

can someone clear me up on this? genuine question i wanna know for sure.

anistarrose

I've got a whole post about this, but basically, the "little to no sexual attraction" definition of asexuality was created on AVEN for Ace 101-level visibility, not to actually enforce who can call themselves asexual. People who don't meet the "little to no sexual attraction" definition — or people who technically meet it, but who feel their asexuality revolves around a different criteria that's more personally meaningful to them than attraction — have been calling themselves ace for as long as ace communities have been around. But unfortunately, the "visibility" definition worked a little too well, and the modern ace community has forgotten a lot of that crucial history!

You'll hear "asexuality is purely about attraction, not action" a lot in defense of how asexuals who have sex are still asexual — and, to be clear, asexuals who have sex are still asexual, resoundingly so, and including them is important, I highlighted them in the original post for a reason — but "attraction only, not action" is not the correct argument to make for their inclusion! The correct argument is "different asexual people will be asexual for different reasons, where some people consider their attraction/lack thereof the most important factor, regardless of whether they have sex, whereas other people consider their aversion to sex the most important factor, regardless of whether they experience sexual attraction — and they are all equally asexual." The point is that we all get to decide for ourselves what the most important factor in defining our sexual orientation is. Attraction for some, actual sexual interest for others, probably a secret third thing for even more people too.

Personally, I identify as ace because I experience feelings that meet some subjective definitions of sexual attraction, but definitely don't meet the criteria of others, and rather than trying to decide which of those flawed definitions is most correct, I find the fact that I don't like having sex to be a lot more personally important to how I conceptualize my orientation. It frees me from having to agonize over what sexual attraction really is, when the concept is 95% irrelevant to me anyway. I don't know what being forced to define my sexual orientation based on attraction would do for me other than making me really annoyed about sexual attraction as a vague social construct, while impairing me from communicating any aspects of my relationship to sex that I actually find meaningful or relevant to my life. That's not quite the same as being an ace who experiences sexual attraction, since my whole view has been shaped by being in that gray area, but hopefully it gives you an idea of the problems with the attraction framework being mandatory instead of optional.

abigailselfships

Honestly, as much as I love "Fiction isn't reality" as a proship belief, I also saw someone using "Fiction isn't education" and I think that might be even better. Because the idea of fiction affecting reality has a different meaning to everyone and is pretty easy for antis to try and twist against us, but "You should not assume that any piece of fiction is meant to instruct you on how to think or act" is a much more clear-cut message that I think is harder to dispute. I like it a lot. Fiction is not education.

robogrind

love the word fruitless. arguing with you is like if there was no apples involved whatsoever

str-ngeloop

your strengths are harder to see than your weaknesses because the problems you're good at solving don't appear as problems, because you're so good at handling them before they become problems... unlike the relatively rare problem that becomes a crisis, which demands undue attention. it's sort of like a reverse survivorship bias. the problems that become noticed as problems, the moments where you notice your capacity has a gap, are only the ones that aren't cut off at the pass by your strength and capability, before they become problems. so if all you focus on is problems then all you'll see is your weaknesses. which isn't accurate

toasthaste

pangur-and-grim

I told my little nephew that I'd wave at his airplane when it flew over my house today, and he very calmly and politely explained that it wouldn't be possible to see me due to the limitations of human vision. I said he just had to squint real hard, and he took a deep breath and went into the toddler version of "see, what you're not understanding–"

pangur-and-grim

I face-timed to ask if he waved, and he (again, very calmly and politely) explained that while yes, he did wave, they were already above the clouds and thus it would have been impossible for me to see. I decided not to press the matter bc it was honestly really cute that he'd actually waved