Call me Nardo

This is not a fandom blog, but I do post stuff from just about every major tumblr fandom. Cats, photography, and the occasional text post will wonder onto my blog as well.   "Well stick me in a TARDIS and fuck me through all of time and space." hits as of 3/30/2012, 9:00 PM

[webcomicname]

[doublethinkoutsideofthebox]

some context to make things worse

idk about you but i haven't seen enough attention on this. it's certainly not to minimize other issues, but it should at the very least be equally upsetting. you don't have to read this whole thing, but PLEASE read as much as you can then skip to the video.

president-elect donald trump has selected myron ebell to lead the epa transition. who is myron ebell? no one good. not only is he a climate change denier, he is the director of the competitive enterprise institute. let me take you on a tour of this despicable think tank.

the competitive enterprise institute showed up on the environmentalist scene criticizing Rachel Carson’s book silent spring, which raised awareness on the environmental dangers of ddt. They hosted the website rachelwaswrong.org, which, on a page titled “victims,” features photos of 50 children who have died from malaria with the description “many of these lives might have been saved had policymakers not abandoned ddt for malaria control in response to Carson’s silent spring,” thus labeling her a murderer. this page has already been modified since the election but still features the same thing.

as it turns out, Rachel was not wrong, and the dangers of ddt are recognized by the epa, the world health organization, and various other health and environment organizations. additionally, ddt was not banned indoors in areas affected by malaria, and many insect populations actually started to show resistance to it. this hasn’t stopped the defamation.

while leading the "cooler heads coalition", devoted to denying catastrophic climate change, it has received numerous donations from the american petroleum Institute, the charles g. koch charitable foundation, exxon-mobil, and the earhart foundation, which donates to other climate change denial groups such as the george c. marshall institute (which itself was owned by another dangerous person, frederick seitz, a great scientist turned big-tobacco proponent and climate change denier).

but perhaps—AND PLEASE WATCH THIS—what says the most the quickest, is this actual ad in 2006: https://youtu.be/R5D_WeWXioU proof that it's real.

even to those of you who think climate change isn't real, this should be ridiculous. the environmental protection agency will be led by people who don't think the environment needs protecting.

[thatfeministjewishgirl]

PSA: Stop spray painting and drawing swastikas places in protest of Trump.

Trump is supported by white supremacists who hate Jews.

When a Jewish person sees a Swastika next to the word Trump they feel unsafe.

There has already been an uptick in antisemitism during this election season and there will likely be an even greater uptick in the number of hate crimes against Jews now that Trump has won.

Jewish people are scared.

I don’t fucking care what your intentions are. Stop it.

[returnofthejudai]

Seriously, don’t do this. Swastikas are used to terrorize Jews and Romani. Don’t use Swastikas in protest of Trump. We don’t know your intent and it creates an environment of fear for us. Swastikas represent a collective trauma to us of events that occurred within living memory. Don’t do this.

[sinbadism]

are people LEGIT DOING THIS? holy fuck

[taavot-deactivated20170404]

why would ppl be doing that in protest of trump? to imply that he is nazi-esque? cuz when I see swastika graffiti in public I don’t think “ah, a clever comparison made by some comrades about trump’s fascism”, I think “someone who hates Jews and who’d rather have me dead spray painted that to threaten and frighten me”. idk if ppl are actually doing this because they think it’s a clever protest but if so, use ur head for 2 seconds

[battlships]

That’s it, I quit the world.

[memeseverdie]

REBLOG WHILE YOU STILL CAN

[splashpocalypse]

❤️❤️❤️

[fishy]

we have been so lucky.

[girlwithalessonplan]

*plays ‘One Last Time” and sobs*

[jaegerpilotmax]

France can have this back

[doublethinkoutsideofthebox]

OK LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR

after seeing the media incorrectly portraying these miracles of nature hundreds of times, i’ve decided to speak out.

this:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Holes_-_Monsters_in_Space.jpg

is not a black hole. black? yes. hole? sure. black hole? not even close.

“but nardo” i hear you say, “isn’t that picture used in every article about black holes, including wikipedia?”

yes. yes it is. speaking of wikipedia, here’s what it says right next to this same picture:

“Artists' impressions such as the accompanying representation of a black hole with corona commonly depict the black hole as if it were a flat-space material body hiding the part of the disc just behind it, but detailed mathematical modelling shows that the image of the disc would actually be distorted by the bending of light that originated behind the black hole in such a way that the upper side of the disc would be entirely visible, while there would be a partially visible secondary image of the underside of the disk.”

in other words, they used it as an example of what a black hole doesn’t look like. they don’t just block objects like boring planets, they move their image somewhere else. in this case, the disk would (appear to) bend around the black hole instead of going behind it. the upper side would appear above, and the lower side below. what would this distorted disk look like?

http://phys.org/news/2015-02-interstellar-technology-black-holes.html

take that, physics.

“but does it really matter nardo?”

yes. it matters. it’s important to realize that black holes aren’t just magical vacuum cleaners but solutions to the Einstein field equations that effectively break known physics. they’re not big black balls of stuff, they’re areas of space and time that physically don’t exist anymore. the least we can do is draw them correctly.

http://spaceartguy.deviantart.com/art/Interstellar-Gargantua-disc-rotation-GIF-534386106

[writerswritecompany]

Soap for Writer’s Block

[gothiccharmschool]

:: giggles a trifle hysterically, slumps back in chair ::

[cryptidfuckery]

fun fact: if a persons body odor smells good to you that means they have an immune system basically opposite of yours! this happens so the chances of finding a mate with the opposite immune system is greater and the chances that any offspring you produce together will have a stronger immune system is greater.

[ghosthotel]

this is fascinating

[duhv-deactivated20210424]

so you’re saying deodorant is the reason none of us can find love 

[phallus-phalanx-deactivated2019]

[lolnein]

That balloon will take an awfully long time to decompose.

[mysterysolver]

guide to new meme:

the snake/snail memes formed separately, so they have different formats. with snake, the full phrase goes first, but with snail, the shortened phrase goes first with the full version in parentheses. basically it’s “snake people, or sneeple” vs “sneeple (snail people)”

[mysterysolver]

everyone reblog this so people can be informed on proper meme usage

[tamamoland]

ah yes the four seasons. wet, hot, halloween, and christmas

[cloaga]

i love that charles dickens got paid by the word. like i cant even be mad when he’s boring and long-winded bc i would do xactly the same??? i wouldnt use contractions or colours at all. want to say the word red? too bad. we r now only using “the colour of freshly-spilled blood on snow; the hue of the horizon when the sun sets over the deserts of sub-saharan Africa” BOOM guess who can afford 2 eat now: me and my boi dickens 

[faewithoutconsequence]

What I love about Alexandre Dumas, in contrast, is he got paid by the line. So it’s not really wordy, it more like 80% dialogue which makes it sound pretty modern but also ends up like-

“Where are we going now?”

“We are going to the city.”

“Which city?”

“Paris.”

“We are going to Paris?”

“Yes.”

[laissezferre]

# can you imagine the kind of extended torture we would have been subject to if victor hugo had been paid by the pun (via vlajean)

[xmemorabilia-deactivated2018061]

A large portion of this website.

[big-bootyakasha]

I had my boyfriend for secret santa this year and he was joking when he asked for a portrait of Vladimir Putin made entirely out of swedish fish

but i don’t fuck around when it comes to christmas

[big-bootyakasha]

As many of you may now know, Vladimir Putin has recently outlawed memes. Literally. I never thought that this post would become as viral as it has, and if I’m going to be executed by the KGB because of this I couldn’t be more proud tbh. If I’m going to die young it honestly better be because I pissed off a powerful foreign president by making a silhouette of his face out of candy fish

[sad--gittarius]

Things in Harry Potter that will never make sense

wizard children need their parents signed permission to go to perfectly safe village full of candy shops next to the school but not to enter a tournament in which you can most definitely die 

[sasstronauuut-deactivated201906]

LISTEN UP I GOT A STORY TO TELL

SO AT OUR SCHOOL THERE ARE NO PHONES ALLOWED BUT WE STILL TAKE THEM TO SCHOOL BECAUSE WE’RE FUCKING IDIOTS AND TODAY THE CLASS PRES ALMOST RAMMED THE DOOR DOWN AND YELLED “HIDE YOUR PHONES THE HEADMISTRESS WILL CHECK YOUR BAGS FOR PHONES AND TAKE THEM AWAY IF SHE FINDS THEM” AND FOR LIKE 5 SECONDS YOU COULD SEE THIRTY FACES OF PURE HORROR AND THEN PEOPLE STARTED SCREAMING AND TAKING OFF THEIR SHOES AND PUTTING THEIR PHONES THERE, SOME PUT THEIRS IN THEIR UNDERWEAR, A GIRL WITH THICK CURLY HAIR PUT HERS IN HER FUCKING HAIR, SOME HIDTHEIR PHONES IN THEIR BOOKS, A BITCH I HATE TAPED HERS TO THE BOTTOM OF HER CHAIR AND I HID MINE ON MY BRA AND THE EARPHONES ON MY SHOE AND YOU COULD SEE BULLIES HELPING THEIR VICTIMS HIDE THEIR PHONES AND ASKING THEM IF IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THEY HID THEIR PHONES ON THEIR PANTS OR STH AND AFTER THE HORROR HAD PASSED PEOPLE WERE YELLING BECAUSE THEIR PHONES SMELT LIKE DIRTY FEET IT WAS AMAZING

[sasstronauuut-deactivated201906]

let this die i beg of you

[espurrellie]

This is beautiful and shouldn’t die.

[sasstronauuut-deactivated201906]

I SWEAR TO FUCK THIS HAD LIKE 400 NOTES AN HOUR AGO WHO MADE THIS BLOW UP WHO

[ubercharge]

a beautiful situation showing humans working together and co-operating