Interweb Meanderings

[doctorwood]

Fun stuff I helped write social content on

[nikkiitalks]

Grey Wolf taking a roll call and gretting responses from seemingly the entire forest.

Sound on.

[weskit-deactivated20141112]

[babygeena]

My Queen.

[optimysticals]

I do love Dolly.

[tellmeoflegends]

Here in Tennessee, Dolly has an organisation called The Imagination Library. It donates books that she chooses every month to EVERY CHILD born in Tennessee from the day they’re born until they turn five. TWELVE BOOKS A YEAR FOR FIVE YEARS EVERY CHILD! Thank you, Dolly Parton!

[adeles]

They do not deserve your protection!

Wonder Woman (2017) dir. Patty Jenkins

[wilwheaton]

Of course, Arpaio was not doing his job. His job was to enforce the law; instead, he broke it. He decided that he was the arbiter of right and wrong, not the judiciary or legislature. Never mind the Constitution and its delegation of powers to the judiciary.     And perhaps worst of all, Arpaio decided that on the basis of ethnocentric nationalism: because undocumented immigrants are a threat to society, he, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, must take the law into his own hands. The howling mob at Trump’s Phoenix rally doesn’t indicate some silent majority of good Americans. It showed us a bloodthirsty, nativist crowd of ultra-patriotic, un-American radicals with no respect for our democratic institutions. (Let us not forget the cheers when Trump derogated the free press also.) It showed us people are whipped up into an ethno-nationalist frenzy. It showed us exactly why the rule of law is such an important bulwark against tyranny, whether of the individual or the mob.

There’s No Other Way to Say It: Trump’s Arpaio Pardon Is Fascist (via wilwheaton)

[laughingsquid]

A Tiny Dachshund Dog Grabs the Reins to Lead a Regal Connemara Pony Down a Short Path

[adulthoodisokay]

whoever writes the social share headlines at @laughingsquid deserves a raise.

[berniesrevolution]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Vampires don’t like sunlight but moonlight is actually also sunlight

[smeghenegham-deactivated2024030]

Tell that to the werewolves.

[bananahaver]

Moonlight is only about 14% reflected sunlight, with a different spectrum (some wavelengths gets more absorbed than others, some more reflected, etc). If the two spectra of moonlight and sunlight were compared side-by-side with no mention of their origin, they basically appear as two completely different light sources, one peaking at the yellow wavelengths and the other peaking at the blue-green wavelengths.

To summarize; moonlight is not sunlight, it is reflected sunlight with a lot of its information lost or altered.

[smeghenegham-deactivated2024030]

Does this mean that, with the right set-up, you could make light sources which mimicked moonlight accurately enough that it sets off someone’s lycanthropy? I’m not sure what such a device would be useful for, but it’d be neat nonetheless.

[bananahaver]

Technically, yes. In practice, whether it’s simple to do so or not will depend on the exact mechanisms that causes the transformation. I suspect the easiest way would be to get a lamp that mimics sunlight and shine it onto a surface of lunar regolith trapped behind a thin layer of transparent material to protect against oxidation.

[shinydiscopaul-deactivated20200]

this is amazing thank you

[rosenagldky-deactivated20201223]

Okay but consider that the moon and the earth drift apart juuust a little bit each year—assuming that one’s lycanthropy is triggered by the AMOUNT of moonlight since what lore I know of consists of transformation on the full moon—eventually we’re going to be far enough away from the moon that the symptoms of lycanthropy will disappear forever

[zenosanalytic]

Actually no! I just heard a bit on NPR about this two days ago :3

The Moon is slowly drifting away, but it’ll eventually reach a static orbit and stop; it’s not going to fly off into space. What will happen though is kinda weird. When the Moon stops drifting away, the Earth-Moon system will become tidally locked. After that point, only one side of the Earth will ever face the Moon again. So it won’t be that lycanthropy will disappear forever; it’ll just only happen on half of the Earth :] :] :]

That raises another question though; will having the full moon always out, even during the day, mean that lycanthropes will always be shifted, or will the direct light of the sun overpower its effects during the day :?

[manyblinkinglights]

HOLYSHIT, TIDALLY-LOCKED LYCANTHROPY PLANET THIS IS THE BEST HIGH FANTASY KINGDOM DIVISION IMAGINABLE THE KING OF ALL WOLVES!!!! A BORDER WITH BORDER CONFLICTS AND ROGUES WITH DUAL IDENTITIES!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

[jennytrout]

The moon is drifting away because it’s ashamed to be seen with us.

[drst]

I love how science!tumblr and fiction!tumblr enable each other.

[robotnerd277]

it’s almost as if there were an entire genre of story known as science fiction

[politicalsci]

[wilwheaton]

In reality, just a tiny fraction of Americans — disproportionately young, male, healthy and middle-to-high income — has seen costs sharply increase because of Obamacare. Liberal and conservative experts alike place the number well below 10 million people — 3 percent or less of the population.     Twice that number – disproportionately poorer and less healthy people — gained insurance under Obamacare. Many received immense medical and financial benefits.     True to their anti-government ethos, Republicans disdain Obamacare on tax-and-spending grounds. But ideological complaints that its mandates inhibit freedom never achieved broad resonance. Attacks on its “job-killing” effects faded amid uninterrupted private sector employment gains since it passed.     That left out-of-pocket costs through premiums and deductibles the most potent GOP weapon – even though premiums and deductibles for most Americans were little changed by Obamacare. In fact, Obamacare’s principal impact on the bulk of the population has been political noise.     More than 90 percent of those with health insurance before Obamacare got it from employers or the government, mainly Medicare and Medicaid; their coverage didn’t fundamentally change.

Republicans wage 7-year war against Obamacare on behalf of a tiny fraction of aggrieved Americans

Got that? When you hear someone complain about how ACA hurt them, you are almost certainly listening to someone who is young, white, male, healthy, who earns middle to high income.

(via wilwheaton)

[ithelpstodream]

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

so is Victory

[ashermajestywishes]

LOVE TRIANGLE

[bsparrow]

Don’t forget Truth (Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind)

[justrollinon]

This must be why the Trump administration hates them all 

[acciowine]

The Four Horsewomen of the Trumpocalypse.

[krustybunny-deactivated20221129]

I’ve never reblogged anything so quick

[spectrometon]

The Ultimate Squad, comin’ to wreck your shit and save the world

[quentineliot]

Rb for that art doe

[micdotcom]

Watch: The most wonderful moment of joy came when he entered a Nazi guard bungalow.

[nerapalooza-blog]

We are the last generation who can hear from these survivors directly. Do not take that lightly. Do not waste that opportunity. Do not forget your freedom isn’t infinitely guarenteed. And do not, do not, let it happen again.

[kid-with-plans]

[huffpost]

Amen. 🙌

[theronlorthemar]

Chris Pine refuses to answer the question “Would you swipe left or right for Anna Kendrick on Tinder?” and instead gives this response

[ultrafacts]

Onfim was a child who lived in Novgorod, Russia, in the 13th century. He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark (beresta) which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod. Onfim, who archaeologists believe was six or seven at the time, wrote in Old Novgorodian; besides letters and syllables, he drew battle scenes and drawings of himself, his family, and his teacher. [x]

Here is a picture of him as a knight stabbing someone.

(At least, he wrote his name next to the knight. Either it was supposed to be him or he was signing his masterpiece. Either way, still adorable.)

Several pictures of the original birch pieces can be found here:  [x]

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[lizawithazed]

“people have always been people”

[captainlordauditor]

i’ve seen similar ones from roman children living in what is now england, too. People have ALWAYS been people.

[brunhiddensmusings]

i love this so much, history with real people in it see also -archeologists at hadrians wall dig up a letter from a roman soldier to his family tanking them for sending him a new pair of underwear in the mail -norse runes scattered around constantanople and several cathedrals turn out to be viking graffiti, including “this is very high” over two stories up -the oldest known joke (egyptian) and the oldest known english joke are both lowbrow sex jokes -roman gladiators had equivalents to sponsorship deals, some murals found were basically ‘gladiator brad pitt rubs himself with capelli brand olive oil, try some today’ and action figures were also found of prominent fighters for chidlren to play with -flat stone fragments left at egyptian construction sites were used as post it notes by workers, some included variations of ‘the foreman is a jerkface’ and a crude drawing of the pharoh with a comically large donger -we have an embarrassing wealth of 4,000 year old receipts referring to one specific merchant being an ass. WE KNOW HIM BY NAME, he wasnt even a king or anything, Ea-nasir  will be known through history for being a dick about refunds

[robotsandfrippary]

I love how children, even in the 13th century, can never remember how many fingers someone has. 

[gogomrbrown]

Someone give this man a megaphone.

[bdell1]

Reblog the hell out of this - please. Even those of you who are not in the US. You have Us followers and this is obscene.

[micdotcom]

Report: Special Counsel Mueller is investigating Jared Kushner’s finances

According to the Washington Post, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the business dealings of Jared Kushner, a former New York real estate developer who currently serves as special adviser to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump.

“We do not know what this report refers to,” Jamie Gorelick, a lawyer for Kushner, told the Post, “It would be standard practice for the Special Counsel to examine financial records to look for anything related to Russia. Read more (6/15/17)

Vice President Mike Pence has hired outside counsel for Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe

Jarrod Agen, a spokesman for Mike Pence, confirmed to CNN Thursday that Pence has hired Richard Cullen, former attorney general of Virginia, to represent his interests as they pertain to special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

“I can confirm that the vice president has retained Richard Cullen of McGuire Woods to assist him in responding to inquiries by the special counsel,” Agen said in a statement. Read more (6/16/17)

Trump admits he’s under investigation in Friday morning tweet storm

Trump on Friday admitted he was under federal investigation for firing now-former FBI Director James Comey

“I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!” Trump tweeted. “Witch Hunt.”

Trump not only fired Comey, but he admitted on national television that he was thinking of the Russia investigation when he made the decision. 

It’s unclear who the “man” Trump is referring to in his tweet.

It could be Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. But Trump later told NBC’s Lester Holt that he was going to fire Comey no matter what Rosenstein had recommended. Read more (6/16/17)