Joshua Kingsbury @emergentserendipity - Tumblr Blog

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#dr henry wu is very handsome and did his job extremely well#its not his fault his job was science being abused by capitalistic hubris#he did in fact make some bomb ass dinosaurs just like he was hired to do#maybe get better security for your murder monsters

pettycentral

desperate-acts-of-capitalism

But with your help, we can make next year even worse for Elon Musk

thelovers-thedreamers-and-me

nathanallardart

Pale violet from mussel shells. There is something beautiful about color when you know its origins - it was made in the ocean under the waves.

rintezukas

gamecube was the best designed controller of all time exclusively for the button cluster that gave you easy thumb roll access to all buttons but also gave you the a button as a thumb rest (because it’s the one you press the most) and took into account the frequency with which each button gets pressed in its design rather than doing the stupid diamond design that gives no button priority and rests your thumb in the shitty blank space between buttons

rintezukas

The Diamond Button Layout Is The Bleeding Stump Where Form Cut Function’s Head Off

wondrousworld

The Dolomites, Italy by Martin Rak

livingby

wonders-of-the-cosmos

One of the closest views ever of the 'tiger stripes' of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where the mysterious ice geysers erupt. This is another shot from Cassini's daring close pass. Cassini was skimming less than 2,000 kilometers above the surface--at 18 km per second -- when it took this picture.

Credit: RidingWithRobots

shortlifelongart

Got the urge to draw some Paleolithic pals this evening!

elioli-art

Saw a pretty full moon and had to paint it!

dogpuppy

dangerousturkey

Killing and hatred and violence

todaysbird

this leucistic blue jay, photographed by sue kiesel, is almost pure white - in stark contrast to a typical specimen’s vivid blues. leucism is a genetic mutation that presents in a lack of pigmentation, but not a full loss as in the case of albinism.

larvitarr

seite

and then they proceeded to be the worst at their jobs for the next 20 years

sindri42

No no, you don’t get it. Jesse and James are the absolute best there is at their jobs, but they have no idea what their jobs are.

They think that they’re thieves, agents of an elite criminal group led by Giovanni, stealing rare pokemon and advanced technology and such. And there might have been a time this actually was their jobs. In the first season or two, they frequently get angry phone calls about how they’ve fucked everything up, or get their expense account cut off because they have literally never turned a profit on their criminal enterprises and constantly procure and then lose/destroy expensive and elaborate devices.

But then the world came within a hair’s breadth of being destroyed, several times, and Jesse, James, and their weird cat rescued everybody. As terrible as they’ve always been at criminal endeavors of any kind, when the apocalypse approaches and they’re forced to step up, they’re really fucking good at saving the day.

And Giovanni is over here like… if the planet is destroyed, or time/space becomes unrecognizable, or civilization collapses, there’s no way for me to run a profitable criminal enterprise anymore. I need this planet, because it’s where I keep all my stuff. And I don’t pretend to understand the why of it, but these couple of bumbling nutcases that I should have fired years ago seem to be an important component of that? Somehow? So you gotta stop thinking about them in terms of acquisitions and start considering them… loss prevention. As in, even if you waste a million dollars a month on giant cat-faced robots and a vast array of fancy ball gowns and they never turn a profit, they are preventing all of your assets from going away at the same time because of something you can’t do anything about.

And that’s the great secret behind Team Rocket. These guys aren’t thieves, they’re professional superheroes (sponsored by organized crime). Of course, nobody ever bothered to tell them that.

edgar-allan-possum

“To protect the world from devastation…”

atopfourthwall

Plus, as is frequently pointed out: Jesse and James are good at every other job EXCEPT Team Rocket. They’re actually smart businesspeople and run successful food and merchandise stands and are great salespeople. Hell, even in Team Rocket situations where they’re not chasing after Pikachu they’ve done better. It’s just their Achilles Heel is one damn OP rodent.