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hi just vibing

[st4rm41d]

ooh im kinda hungry lemme see if theyve invented a food thats kinda good yet

[st4rm41d]

we are completely fucked.

[ymutate]

Nansei Sakagami, Contemporary Japanese

Autumn Moon

Painting, pigments on paper

[kawasemi-automatic]

[makingimages]

[asmeesh]

Added to this original piece

[raginrayguns]

These three versions of the same image taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity illustrate different choices that scientists can make in presenting the colors recorded by the camera. The left image is the raw, unprocessed color, as it is received directly from Mars (and as available on the MSL Raw Images Web site: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/). The center rendering was produced after calibration of the image to show an estimate of "natural" color, or approximately what the colors would look like if we were to view the scene ourselves on Mars. The right image shows the result of then applying a processing method called white-balancing, which shows an estimate of the colors of the terrain as if illuminated under Earth-like, rather than Martian, lighting.

(nasa.gov)

[fragariavescana]

Here's the swatch they have on the rover for calibration

[sobcat]

[sashasparrow]

not doomed by the narrative but saved by the narrative. yeah i know you'd rather die than keep suffering but the story doesn't actually care what you want. you have to keep going, even when it hurts. even being erased from existence won't stop you from being salvaged from the wreckage of un-being. get up. keep pushing. keep bleeding. keep living.

[fairycosmos]

did you know that apparently if you try to act normal the normalness doesn't come through but the acting does. and did you know apparently everyone can smell this on you like a bloodhound

[fairycosmos]

and did you know that apparently even if you get really really good at acting normal the outcome will be the same. but did you also know that apparently if you don't try to act normal then they can see that on you like a hawk as much as they can smell the acting like a bloodhound. and the outcome will be the same

[lichenaday]

Awright, further question: how does a new population of a lichen (perhaps on somebody’s car—we also have a little lichen growing on ours) get its mycobiont?

Ah, so the lichen that started growing on your car started out as one of 2 things:

A sexually reproduced fungal spore:

Photobiont sold separately. They somehow met, came together, and grew into a lichen.

2. An asexual propagule, aka a soridium (fungal hyphae tangled around a bundle of photobiont cells) or an isidum (a small piece of thallus surrounded by cortex made to detach from the surface).

So if in the form of a soredium or isidium, photobiont cells and fungal cells are transported, established, and grown together, but in the case of fungal spores, photobiont cells are sold separately. How do they find each other? Well, we aren't entirely sure. The prevailing theory is that there billions of photobiont cells and lichenized fungal spores out there, and that makes the 1 in million chance that the right constituents find each other less of a long shot that one would think.

We actually know very little about how these different propagules are released into and transported through the environment, nor how they settle and establish on a new substrate. That's why I am studying--I love a good mystery!

[valtsv]

trying my best to haunt the narrative but no one really gives a shit

[valtsv]

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[quietwingsinthesky]

the Relationship Ambiguity Zone™️ is a beautiful place to be. safe place to put your characters. put all characters into Relationship Ambiguity Zone. is that guy your mentor or your dad? Ambiguous!!! are you friends or enemies? Ambiguous!!! is it romantic? is it platonic? is it sexual? Ambiguous!!!!!!! never categorize anything ever in the Relationship Ambiguity Zone. just make them fucking weird about each other.

[hoktom]

[the-quasar-hero]

Very many white LGBT people understand the idea that the societal concept that CisHet is the ‘standard’ or ‘default’ state of a human, at best, is a flattened look at the human experience, and worse a dangerous idea that leads to discrimination. Yet not very many of them seem to grasp the similar concept that thinking white people are the ‘default’ or ‘standard’ version of a person also leads to the same thing.

[the-quasar-hero]

Allowing myself to be perfectly blunt, this post is about racism. Specifically about how y’all can analyze and identify bigotry under the lens of sexual orientation and gender identity; but CANNOT or WILL NOT hear the criticisms of race and racism in the same regard. Please don’t get it twisted.

[victusinveritas]

Meet Pando, not a forest but a single tree. Every trunk of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical & connected by a single 80,000 year old root system, making it one of the largest and oldest living entities on Earth!

[foone]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk through the body of a God?

[carmelia-rose]

@derinthescarletpescatarian