No such thing as frivolity.

What you can find here: Gifsets of stuff I'm watching, mostly Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor. Reblogs of other stuff I like. It's like the wall of my teenage bedroom only I'm not a teenager anymore and it's on the internet. On AO3 I am M_A_Salter.

[m-a-salter]

Twelve’s Beautiful Face  | The Specials

*Click through* for episode studies:

[Last Christmas] [The Husbands of River Song] [The Return of Doctor Mysterio] [Twice Upon a Time]

Or take a look at Series 8, Series 9, and Series 10

[cheesenames]

if we can set aside attachment discourse for a moment (please) i think the jedi marriage prohibition makes sense in a “please don’t enter a complex legal, financial, social, and in some cases religious contract, the specifics of which vary wildly depending on planet and culture” way. the single jedi with a law degree does not have time to draft everyone’s prenups to prevent the whole order from getting sued

[the-fallen-blue]

#we could create so many interesting new problems if we ignore romance and make it about contracts generally#jedi prohibition on getting a loan. jedi prohibition on signing a waiver before bungee jumping. etc

"Qui-Gon didn't try to buy Anakin or the engine because there wasn't anyone in town who offered a credit exchange service" wrong. Qui-Gon gambled for Anakin under the table because after dealing with the Cyrkon Delinquency of 24850, Master Olobi, Esq, has personally promised to hang by the the toes from the highest tower of the Temple for one week any Jedi who generates any trackable legal transaction or obligation between the Order and the Hutts.

[textpostscymraeg]

babe are you okay you've barely touched your melysgybolfa mafon

[dailysudeikis]

TED LASSO IN EVERY EPISODE — 3.07 “The Strings That Bind Us”. (x)

[persephoning]

Apparently they offered the role of the Doctor to Capaldi in the late 90s when they were looking for the Eighth Doctor and it’s good that they waited because anything close to this would have killed us all stone dead from minute one into the film

[captryanclark]

→ Beauty of a Time Lord [20/∞] {Doctor Who - 10x03 - Thin Ice}

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[sulietsexual]

"Just making sure you're not gonna disappear for another six years."

2.03 Do The Right-est Thing Ted Lasso [2020 -]

[riversongsource]

DOCTOR WHO 6.02 | "Day of the Moon"

[avontarrant]

classic who + text posts (11/?)

[neilarmstrong]

In terms of science communication and space exploration advocacy, Elon Musk has sent us back into the fucking Stone Age.

[neilarmstrong]

It’s hard enough to encourage the public to see the value in space exploration, especially when the problems facing society right now are so intense that space exploration seems frivolous and needlessly expensive by comparison (keyword “seems”) but now that this clown is the face of the future of space, it’s doubling, hell, tripling down on the idea that space exploration is a fantasy for bored billionaires that would rather fuck off to mars and escape the problems of earthly society (problems that they had a starring role in creating) rather than spend a penny of their wealth to help remedy them. Tale as old as time for a science communicator. Heard it a million times. But now it’s so much harder to get people to understand the other side of the coin because the nightmare scenario is already here and his name is elongated muskrat

[neilarmstrong]

To add a little bit of context as to what that value actually is… The thing I hear the most in this conversation is “we need to take care of this planet before we start thinking about other ones.” Yes, I agree. The well-being of our planet and it’s people should be out top priority. But we can’t properly take care of our planet if we don’t fully understand it.

The Earth does not exist in a bubble. It’s part of a dynamic and ever-evolving solar system, and galaxy and universe. He have to look at the earth in that context to be able to know and care for it. To care for a planet, we have to know how planets work. When doctors treat patients they look at the medical record, they look at family history, they look at symptoms and compare them to known diseases to find a diagnosis.

How did the earth form? What was it like in the past? Why did it change? That’s the medical record.

We’ve got the earths siblings in the neighborhood. Why is Mars a frozen desert? Why is Venus a molten hell scape? Could those things happen here? That’s the family history.

What kinds of things are floating around our neighborhood? Could they affect us? All this is necessary to diagnose the Earths problem, to anticipate the direction it’s going, and to help it heal.

And the minute we get an asteroid scare, that’s when folks start asking why we weren’t looking up 🙄

[neutrinotempest]

As a science communicator at a well known establishment, 10000x this. We have a student program that talk about Earth systems and how missions like Landsat were so useful to understand our own planet better FROM SPACE. I could go on and on but just, like, reread OP's thoughts, they're perfect.

[m-a-salter]

All of my cover letters lately:

I am not under qualified or over qualified but a secret third thing.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Ted Lasso — Season 4 Official Trailer

[entertheflame]

Books have taken over our living room

@craftymiraclepeach

[mistysblueboxstuff]

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[mistysblueboxstuff]

the complete collection

[inadvertently-biblical]

TED LASSO - "Headspace"

[tedlassogif]

Ted Lasso Season 4 | Trailer (Together)