[lilmoth95]

🔥 California is on fire. 🔥 Washington is on fire. 🔥 Oregon is on fire. 🔥 Montana is on fire. 🔥 Utah is on fire. 🔥 Colorado is on fire. 🔥 British Columbia is on fire. 🔥 Nova Scotia is on fire. 🔥 Greece is on fire. 🔥 Brazil is on fire. 🔥 Portugal is on fire. 🔥 Algeria is on fire. 🔥 Tunisia is on fire. 🔥 Greenland is on fire. 🔥 The Sakha Republic of Russia is on fire. 🔥 Siberia is on fire. ⛈️ Texas is hit by Cat 4 hurricane and is underwater, as Cat 5 Hurricane Irma continues to build in the Atlantic. ⛈️ India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, experience record monsoons. ⛈️ Sierra Leone and Niger experience massive floods, mudslides, and deaths in the thousands. 🌡️Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia are in the grip of a triple digit heat wave (dubbed Lucifer). 🌡️Southern California continues to swelter under triple digit heat. 🌡️ In usually chilly August, the city of San Francisco shatters all-time record at 106 degrees, while it reaches 115 degrees south of the city.

[ronweasley]

[disappearinvisible]

[party-bees-deactivated20181211]

Reblog if you, too, are not dead- only tired and ugly.

[anasandorpygoscelis-deactivated]

same

[messy-elliot-deactivated2021041]

#RepresentationMatters

[linrenzo]

Oh my godddddd. I’m so happy for her

[alwaysbewoke]

[archiemcphee]

Don’t Meep. Meep and you’re dead. They’re fast. Faster than you can believe. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t meep. Good Luck.

One of our favorite pop culture mashups (previously featured here) has been brought to life in glorious cosplay form. Behold, the Meeping Angel.

If you know who created this super awesome costume, please contact us so we can post proper credit.

[via /r/doctorwho]

[wilwheaton]

omfg

[sweartrek]

so that’s what that light means

[kaleighfratkins]

used to be I hated my body cause I thought it looked ugly, now I hate my body cause it’s the functional equivalent of a 1998 Honda Civic with 200,000 miles, questionable brakes, temperamental AC/heating, and terrible gas mileage that’s liable to break down at any moment in the middle of the fucking road. and the seats aren’t even comfy  

[hipster]

flowers

[absynthe--minded]

there’s a Leia Little Golden Book and it is amazing

[fathercharlesoffdensen]

They even find a way to keep her out of that fucking slave bikini when she interacts with Jabba, wow

[wilwheaton]

This is the princess I want for my future granddaughters.

[sweartrek]

RED FUCKING ALERT

[the-rain-monster]

A friend once gave me some advice that resonated in me like a gong, and has become one of my mantras, repeated at least once a week to myself:

“When you see a problem in yourself, you aren’t required to fix it immediately. It can wait its turn.”

It’s not meant as an excuse for never working to improve yourself, but if you’re like me and can find all of your faults with hairline precision and get overwhelmed with beating yourself up about them, know that you don’t have to work to fix them all today. Flaws have a greater or lesser priority, and that’s within all the other matters you have to prioritize in your life.

[coach-taylor]

[pacificwanderer]

My fucking hero forever.

[jadore-histoire]

Forever my queen

[old-type-40]

Just a reminder that Sisko and Dax were responsible for (or at least contributed to) the dribble of tribbles that fell on Kirk after the initial deluge.

Bonus gif:

[mapsontheweb]

A map of about every primary passenger railway in the USA for 2016, commuter rail included.

[eddus]

Surely there are more trains lines about than this ?!

[lostinmiami]

Nope. We’re animals. I’ve only trailed by train twice in the U.S., and it was the same line, once DC to Philadelphia, and once DC to NYC for work once I discovered the train was two hours faster than flying and cabbing back into NYC.

[eddus]

I do forget though that you guys fly everywhere and trains might not be practical. I live on an island the size of one of your states !

[merseytart]

Fun fact: the busiest railway station in America (Penn Station in New York City) gets fewer passengers than Liverpool Central.

[sebpatrick]

I knew the US had a much less extensive rail infrastructure than us, but bloody hell, the fact that there are ENTIRE STATES that literally don’t have passenger rail is madness.

I’d still love to travel on it some time, mind.

[iandsharman]

Just imagine the jobs you could create by building a decent railway system!

[dorksidefiker]

Behold, the end result of graft and political corruption.

[fandork]

I had no idea most of the US had no regional lines? Like, I live in tiny little MA with one of those clusters of red. Does everybody else have to DRIVE???

[burritosong]

yes. we drive. and it’s terrible.

[fandork]

D: This is actually distressing.

[burritosong]

to be fair some cities do have good bus systems

but….yeah.

[ahiddenkitty]

what the shuddering fuck?  That’s IT?!  

[kaza999]

actually we used to have a lot more, but as far as i’m aware i’m pretty sure the car companies bought a lot of railways and then destroyed them to force people to buy cars

[anarchapella]

Also some of those states that don’t have rails also have more cows than people.

Also our trains are slow and it’s usually much faster to drive than to take a train. We don’t have those speed rail things.

[darthflake]

WAIT WHAT? THAT IS ALL?

[buchergenuss32]

There used to be more (map of train tracks 1870 & 1890), but, as @kaza999 pointed out, alot of it was destroyed on purpose by General Motors in the firsty half of the 1900s to, ahem, pave the way for the primacy of the car.  And, since then, any investment in rail infrastructure (or any infrastructure at all, for that matter) has been opposed on ideological grounds by the conservative wing.

[official-german-translationen]

When you suddenly understand Sheldon’s train enthusiasm

[allthingsgerman]

And then there’s Europe:

And because that looks a tiny bit cluttered (and because we’re a German blog), here’s a railway map of Germany:

In red are the high speed InterCityExpress lines, blue are the InterCity lines and the grey ones are smaller regional lines.

And for Americans who don’t know how large Germany is: It is half the size of Texas.

[official-german-translationen]

Consider that this map does not show local lines, for example: This is Hamburg

This is Berlin

This is Cologne

And this is Munich

(Aesthetic.)

[etothevictory]

Munich’s network deadass has more lines than the entire state of MA

[octopuscato]

Kid and me just cried looking at that.

What do people do who can’t drive? Like, I have a license, I passed the test (which is much more rigorous than in the US), but at some point I decided not to drive anymore, because a car driven by me is a safety hazard to everyone. It doesn’t really matter, as I live in a city with great public transport and can go everywhere in Germany by train. In the US, I’d not really have that choice, it seems?

[resplendentgoldenwings]

We suffer. The US sucks.

[owleyet]

Also, unless it’s changed since me adding this comment, the red one near Orlando in Florida only runs on weekdays, and even then it’s very limited with not many stops. It’s not great.

[reverseracism]

oop, this tea is piping hot ☕️

[ceelzsos]

[sherbies]

“i am a full-time student working hard to get my degree in design and pursue a career in animation, graphic design, or illustration.”

[sherbies]

i finished him

[sherbies]

update: my portfolio professor wanted him in a series

[sherbies]

i think i’ve done some good work today

[madlyfluffy]

@11cats