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DEAR READER
Monterey Bay Aquarium

if i look back, i am lost

Origami Around
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸

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almost home

祝日 / Permanent Vacation

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shark vs the universe
Misplaced Lens Cap
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@freakin-over-bands
Phillip K. Smith is an American artist who explores perceptions of light, color, and space and he found the best place to do it. Smith installed nearly 250 mirrored posts on a coast in Laguna Beach, California, ensuring that they reflect the waves instead of being “swallowed” by their force.
The outdoor work is a quarter mile long and has been commissioned by the Laguna Art Museum. “Stretching along much of Main Beach, the arc forms a visible marker between the man-made and natural worlds,” Smith said. “[It] reflects the changing colours of the ocean, sky, and shoreline throughout the day and night.”
The reflective poles were made from stainless steel and stand about 10 feet (3 metres) high, evenly spaced along the coast. “Viewers may experience ¼ Mile Arc both from a distance, with vantage points all along the cliffs and street, and from close up on the beach.” There have been concerns that these poles might be dangerous to birds, but it was displayed only a couple of days and no reports about bird harm were released. Finally, the sunset got to see how beautiful it really is. (Source)
probably my favorite thing abt being a millennial is that i can lie on my resume abt shit like being proficient in excel bc i have the common sense to just google anything i dont know how to do which gives me a giant fucking edge over gen x in the job market bc somehow that strategy never occurs to employers and my underqualified ass looks like steve jobs every time i use a youtube tutorial to make a spreadsheet
When her soon-to-be humans came over to adopt her sister, kitten Zoë charmed them into adopting her as well. She had a little trick up her chest: a big black heart-marking. Remarkably, no one had noticed this anatomically correct heart patch before then. Her humans fell in love with Zoë on the spot, and the two tuxedo sisters remained united. As Zoë grew, so did her heart and her fur. Her longer coat has earned her the nickname ‘The Fluff’, though she also goes by ‘Queen Of Hearts’.
Zoë and her sister Izzy have their own Instagram account, where they currently have nearly 75.000 followers. At first, most attention went to Zoë and her adorable heart-marking. But recently, the sisters have become equally popular as Izzy has amassed quite the fanbase of her own due to her irresistible and expressive face. (Source)
But…that isn’t an anatomically correct heart? @sixpenceee
It means the cat’s heart is actually located in the black heart patch!
Precious kitten ft tiny floof 🎀
I’m in agony!
I actually have so much love for dogs
A blind woman left doctors stunned when she could suddenly see again after ‘switching personalities’.
The German patient, referred to only as B.T., was diagnosed with so-called cortical blindness after an accident damaged the part of her brain responsible for sight when she was 20. The now 37-year-old also has a condition known as dissociative identity disorder (DID), where multiple personalities battle to control her personality.
In total, she has 10 personalities, doctors treating her reported. And it was during treatment for this disorder that something remarkable happened.While she was in her teenage boy personality, her ability to see returned.Incredibly, over the course of the therapy, she regained her sight while in eight out of ten of her personalities.The woman’s vision turned on and off ‘within seconds’, depending on which personality she was experiencing, the doctors treating her reported in PsyCh Journal. (Source)
Here’s my masterpost on the human mind and brain!
Holy shit
in the horrible wake of carrie fisher’s death i’ve still smiled every time i see “drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra” quoted anywhere and i can’t believe carrie fisher was so sharp and so funny that she preemptively came up with a line to comfort us about her own death
what a fucking rock star
When medication says “do not operate heavy machinery” they’re probably mainly referring to cars, but my mind always goes to forklift.
I’ve been part of a discussion on this before and apparently almost everybody thinks of a forklift first but none of us can say why we do.
Wait hold up
They did it, they fucking did it.
holyfducjk
HISTORY
holy shit!
can someone explain this to me
Thirty years ago a legendary ET game came to fruition, so awful that as the tale told, all unsold copies of it were buried in a pit in New Mexico. A documentary film crew has just unearthed the stash, proving the legend true.
I don’t think people fully grasp just how awful it was. This one game, by the sheer merit of its unmatched shittiness, destroyed the video game and console market so thoroughly that the at home video game nearly went the way of the 8-track player.
It was literally so awful that it nearly changed the entire course of technology.
how can a video game possibly be that bad
People don’t really understand why it was terrible though, and the reasons why are extremely important and relevant especially today.
The game itself is bad, yes. It was built up to be an exciting hit for kids to play at Christmas in 1982. So much in fact, that retailers bought WAY more stock then could every be sold based on the hype.
However, people at the time liked the game. It looks bad now, but the game itself was pretty on par with the times. It wound up selling 1.5 million copies. Which would be great, except Atari was expecting to sell 4-5 million.
While initial reception was positive, critics started panning the game as critics do. While it was no worse than most other games at the time, it was stil frustrating and hard to play. It could not live up to the hype that had been built and negative press built up quickly.
But what was ALSO happening was a flood of cheap imitations on the market. ET is a licensed game, and like all licenses comes at a higher markup. So if you wanted to buy a game for yourself or your kid, would you buy 1 game, or 2 for the same price?
Atari was also screwing around with how they handled their distributors. Just before the game went to public, but AFTER the game had been bought and shipped, Atari announced that they were cancelling every existing contract with distributors and signing with only a select few.
So distributors, now pissed off and with an abundance of games that were NOT selling and with prices slashed horribly to sell games that people were quickly losing interest in, retailers put their claims to return a collective 2.5-3.5 million copies back to Atari. Atari, unable to recycle the cartridges or resell them in any way, wound up burying them in the Nevada desert.
This caused the Video Game Crash of the early 80s that put a dark mark on video games until Nintendo (and in some small part other game companies) to revive later.
It was the perfect storm. An over-hyped overpriced game sold to an increasingly frustrated and over-saturated market with retailers scrambling to make a dime while Game Devs blame the market for poor sales.
Some say the proverbial planets are aligning again, with way too many consoles putting way too samey games on the market at way too high a cost with a strong dependence on Pre-orders and pre-order exclusives.
Wanna give the game a shot? Internet Archives actually has a copy of it at this link:
https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari_NTSC
this is like the dutch tulip bubble of our times
as I remember Carrie Fisher and what she gave to us, I’d also like to remember Vera Rubin, the astronomer who made dark matter a realistic theory, and also did a lot of outreach work to encourage young women to join STEM. she died today at 88. we lost Space Mom and Space Grandma, and i really hope that they both find their way among the stars.
If you don’t understand why people get so upset over celebrity deaths, here’s the answer.
Bringing this back for the end of the year. I feel like it’s appropriate.
i’ve waited a whole year to finally reblog this
Been in my queue for a year
michelle obama really is the most beautiful first lady we’ve ever had
Every Girl Needs To See This.
Yesss
Preach!
Every person needs to hear this tbh
Reblogging in honor of the announcement that Viola Davis is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
More Viola Davis posts on Profeminist