NASA
Monterey Bay Aquarium

★

JBB: An Artblog!
Xuebing Du
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Cosmic Funnies
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
No title available
RMH
ojovivo
will byers stan first human second

izzy's playlists!

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Cosimo Galluzzi
🪼
KIROKAZE
Today's Document
Jules of Nature
styofa doing anything

seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Norway

seen from Malaysia
seen from Portugal
seen from United States

seen from Germany

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from India

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia

seen from United States

seen from Singapore

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from Malaysia

seen from Portugal

seen from United States
@hoodieripper
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep
I just thought this set of tweets was really important.
This is how I feel about Cinderella and Snow White. They’re pretty important, I think.
THANK YOU
Cinderella is such a powerful and admirable character. Those who view this movie as anti-feminist either haven’t actually seen it or missed the point entirely. These tweets sum it up better than I ever could.
Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.
Lawrence Person (via skinnyghost)
*inhales*
water is growing more and more scarce in california because nestle is fucking bottling all of it and selling it. they are on a native american reservation which means they dont have to involve in the emergency water procedures that everyone else in california has to follow. nestle is literally creating these shortages and no one is doing anything to stop them. not only are they doing this to california, but also places where poverty is a major issue and they barely have water to begin with, they are doing this so that it doesnt seem as if they are adding to the problem and its the areas own problems (because they have had shortages beforehand) . now. why is it california has one of the largest fucking bottling plants, and people are ignoring that maybe the plant has something to do with it??? everything to do with it. KILL NESTLE KILLNESTLE
x x x x
to push home how bad the water shortage is in cali there are literally towns where there’s no water. none at all. towns literally twenty minutes away from me and the taps are dry. no water at all. people bought bottled water to use for their toilets and to wash dishes, etc. it’s been bad. the drought has really hurt us. and nestle is fucking us over even more. fuck nestle honestly.
lecherouscat didn’t you mention this the other day?
YOU’RE WORRIED ABOUT NESTLÉ, WHEN 80% of CALIFORNIA’S WATER SUPPLY IS GOING TO AGRICULTURE? 10% of it to grow almonds, CA’s new growth industry? 15% to grow alfafa, much of which is exported to other countries?
Wanna know what 80% of California’s water is actually used for?
— Mother Jones
That’s right, our produce department. Cities run on food, so it’s not like we can drop it (but cutting back on almonds and pistachios and other luxury crops may help). Notice that it takes over a gallon of water to make a single almond.
Those towns and districts in the north (Central Valley) where the water supply has or is running out? Big ag heartland of California. Here’s photos of one of those towns.
That gallon of almond milk you’re drinking? Took 23 gallons to produce. A cup of Greek yogurt takes 90 gallons. Plain old milk took 30. And then there’s beef, which requires over a thousand gallons of water per pound. (In n Out, that’s what it’s all about.) Plus, of course, the fracking industry is making things worse by consuming millions of gallons of fresh water a day and then illegally poisoning aquifers with their waste, but, much as I want fracking shut down, almonds use more water.
Governor Brown did what he could to wheel, deal, and conserve water in urban areas, but it’s only now, over the protests of the agricultural lobby, that he’s been able to ram through groundwater-use legislation that applies to agriculture. But the timetable for “sustainable water use” isn’t until 2040. By that time it may be far, far too late. (And the new cutbacks to state water agencies to reduce water consumption by 25%, as usual, apply to business and residential customers, not farmers; they’re exempt.)
Yes, it’s bad that Nestlé with the Morongo Indians — blame it all on the Native Americans, amirite? — are bottling water in the southern part of the state, specifically the Coachella Valley, whose water supply is fine for now, although they’re sucking the teat of the Colorado River. But Morongo is not where wells are going dry. It’s over 600 miles from there to the Central Valley. Yes, I’ve been boycotting Nestlé products since the 80s, because of the old Formula scandal, so I don’t mind seeing them squirm. But let’s be realistic. If we shut down the Morongo bottling facility tomorrow, how much would it help with the drought? Not a hell of a lot. The millions-of-dollars agricultural lobby thanks you for shifting attention away from the bigger problem.
But the stinger is, California farming isn’t just big corporations exporting almonds, walnuts, pistachios, avocados and alfalfa to the rest of the U.S. and other countries. There’s also countless CA farmers whose wells are running dry, whose fields are lying fallow, who have adopted more water-conserving methods of farming, and who are living in a dust bowl right now. These are poor people in dire straits. They need help too. Some help is coming, but not fast enough.
By the way, if anyone is interested in keeping up with links to and analysis of the American West’s water news, I strongly recommend scientist John Fleck’s Blog.
Apparently at my niece’s school the girls have started chanting “underwear” during class anytime they see a boy’s boxers from his pants being too low to protest against the teachers dress coding them for bra straps.
I’m laughing too hard to respond to my sister.
Lady knights and their trophies for MoCCA fest
Hellooooooo
Not so good, but since the most common vocabulary size for non-native English spearkes is from 2,500–9,000 words, at least I’m in the average.
Test Your Vocabulary: how many words do you know?
You guys should definitely try this thing out
35 600
32,100
36,700. As a writer, the number of boxes I didn’t check makes me feel somewhat inadequate.
Before you’re like, “you should at least hear her out,” consider this: 1) companies have to learn that “exposure” is not fair compensation and artists should be paid for their work! 2) if your company can’t pay, then it’s not big, ergo, it is NOT good exposure. 3) Doing art for free for a tech start up might be a good idea in case it gets big, but I could tell it wasn’t that because no tech company has a print brochure. 4) FUCK THAT LADY.
Found this at my local thrift shop. Gotta wonder which one is doing the layouts…
Editor’s note: How could she resist his scandalous red desk lamp? Clearly Sally Jessy Raphael is oblivious to all these goings on.
This cover has the distinction of being totally indiscernible from an 80s corporate training video.
1. You fucking live here
2. You fucking live here
3. You fucking live here
4. You fucking live here
5. You fucking live here
my grandpa is always making fun of old people he sees like he’s not 85
he goes “wow today was old folks day at olive garden” i was like yeah grandpa that’s why we brought you there at 4:30pm
Here’s the thing about ageing: you don’t actually feel like some stereotypical image of how people view your age group. I’m about to turn 36, my hair is turning silver, and I still feel like the terrified 13-yr-old I was in 1992, only now I also have to pay for everything myself and I can go to jail if I fuck it all up.
True facts about getting old.
look at this cop-hating suffragette kitty
So the thing about “ethics in gaming journalism” is that for 24 years gamers supported a magazine put out by Nintendo that reviewed Nintendo products
THE FIGHT! KICKSTARTER IS OFFICIALLY LIVE!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2016934472/fight-round-1-a-female-fighting-character-zine
It’s been a long time coming, but the FIGHT! zine kickstarter campaign is officially live. Thank you to all the artists for their amazing contributions and to everyone for their support. Please support this project or share it around, let’s get it funded!
FIGHT! is a zine which invites artists to create their own original female fighting game character. Each artist is assigned a direction to draw their character in, and the fighters are then matched up via the spreads of the book to mimic the appearance of a versus style fighting game match.
Featuring the talents of
Sam Bosma, Ze Burnay, Kali Ciesemier, Madeleine Flores, Andrea Kalfas, Guillaume Singelin, Stefie Zohrer, Kat Verhoeven, Stefan Tosheff, Patrick Carson Sparrow, Jenn Woodall, Trevor Henderson, Annie Stoll, Kevin Stanton, Schnekk, Kristen Acampora, Abby Boeh, Caitlin Rose Boyle, Alan Brown, Jenny Zych, Rachel Kahn, Baptiste Pagani, Kyle Fewell, Babs Tarr, Julian Callos, Jeanne D’Angelo, Jimmy Giegerich, Joanna Krotka, Dilraj Mann, Ralph Niese, John Lang, Paulina Ganucheau, Jordan Rosenberg, Valentin Seiche and Mathilde Kitteh!
There are loads of rad rewards for backing the campaign such as the zine, stickers, prints, screen-prints and original art!