Science/Fiction

Game designer and author Joshua A.C. Newman figures out how to use Tumblr

[the-indigo-symphony]

A small PSA to all those new to dealing with the porn bots that Tumblr now has a fresh wave of – I understand that when you go to report them, you want to report them as "[containing] sexually explicit material", but don't do that. Report them as spam instead.

These are spam bots flooding tags and the website in general with spam links. They often do not have anything sexually explicit on their blog (although they often have implicit material). Plus, these two reports get very different results. Reporting explicit material gets the bot slapped behind an 18+ wall, so minors can't check if they're a bot or not. Reporting spam gets the bot taken down.

Remember, folks: when dealing with a bot, report spam, not smut!

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Daisy Mae - art by Al Capp (1976)

[mademoiselleclipon]

Elizabeth Wirija / Alien Children / stazidazi

[joshuaacnewman]

Haven’t checked in with The Academy in a while. Looks like they’re doing fine.

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

もっきりや主人マモル

[thingstolovefor]

Inspiration can be found everywhere! #Love it!

[quwueen]

Art by SafdarAliMirza

[mxviatrix]

^ Thank you SO much for adding the source <3 <3 

[siryl]

This is like that diagram of finch beaks and tools that’s in every biology textbook.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Rocío Espín Piñar

Ancient Cities:

◆ Atlantis ◆ London: The Great Fire ◆ Constantinople 360 AD  ◆ Atlantis City (for the book “Plato’s Caribbean Atlantis”) ◆ Carthago ◆ Londinium ◆ Hattusa

[joshuaacnewman]

A little Bronze Age majesty.

[painted-bird]

Goths, early 80s

[joshuaacnewman]

Or, as I knew them, “The cool big kids”.

[simon-roy]

New on the patreon - this month’s story, Chapter 3 of Brave Bird!!! check it out here https://www.patreon.com/posts/21125391

[simon-roy]

A little re-blog for your work week!

[boatsthatfly]

Only of the only items to survive the museum fire; Brazil’s largest meteorite.

There’s something haunting about this.

[spaceintruderdetector]

Forbidden Planet East 12th Street and Broadway 1980-1996

http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/2012/07/street-scene-forbidden-planet.html

[joshuaacnewman]

I really miss this place. Casualty of the Disneyfication of New York.

[rhubarbes]

ArtStation - MR 3000 dual band radio device, by Joshua Cotter

[thecollectibles]

Art by Guillaume Ospital

[spaceshipsgalore]

1426891763-1426768193688.jpg #spaceship – https://www.pinterest.com/pin/327636941636900486/

[spaceintruderdetector]

Cluster – live at the Festival International de la Science Fiction, Metz 1977

[joshuaacnewman]

Cluster is one of my favorite bands. I’d have to see who the lineup is here, because I think the initial C (as opposed to K) indicated that Schnitzler wasn’t there anymore, and his presence is what I thought made it sing to me.

[loki102]

[deactivated-blog]

Wayne Barlow

[cmkosemenillustrated]

Many fossils of the long-tailed pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus have been found in marine deposits - so much that it has been theorised to be primarily aquatic - like a grebe or a cormorant. 

I took the “aquatic rhamphorhynchoid” idea to its logical conclusion and illustrated Ichthyopteryx sp. a fully-aquatic descendant of this lineage. It looks quite plausible; I can picture heaps of them flopping about on beaches of remote islands. I wonder which lengths this line of evolution would extend to - if it was real. Just to clarify, this is not a real animal, but the product of an exercise in speculative-evolution.

www.cmkosemen.com

[dustrial-inc]

25-Year-Old Textbooks and Holes in the Ceiling: Inside America’s Public Schools

We invited America’s public school teachers to show us the conditions that a decade of budget cuts has wrought in their schools.

This is so fuct.