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A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.
“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”
What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.
I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.
And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.
I would fuckin ROCK a maid dress
10000 notes and I post a pic of me wearing a maid dress
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I swear to god if I wake up tomorrow to 10000 comments
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We Are the Daughters of the Microbes Who Could Survive in an Oxygen-rich Atmosphere
A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕
Sourcing the photos as taken by Mark Ham on Instagram, according to one of the replies.
Happy Pride month to the moon
round one
Charlie
Sophie Chi
Arthur Lester
Barbie
Gilgamesh Wulfenbach
Barbie
From Barbie (2023)
Headcanoned as aroace
Barbie's actress Margot Robbie described her as "asexual". Barbie also repeatedly expresses disinterest in romance or sex and her happy ending specifically avoids her ending up in a romantic relationship.
Arthur Lester
From Malevolent
Headcanoned as aromantic
“He felt broken bc he couldn’t love his wife” - @the-frog-wizard-fe
Sophie Chi
From Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao
Canonically aroace
Charlie
From The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
Canonically implied acespec
Gilgamesh Wulfenbach
From Genius Girl
Implied demisexual
He gives a rant to one of his friends about how he’s certain he’s always be a bachelor because he’d never been interested in anyone at all until he met this one girl who he really connects with out of a shared interest in mad science (who he proposes to in week one and the next week is informed has died). - @annoyinglandmagazine
How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.
You know, on some level I have to respect the Foglios' commitment to only resolving long-running plot threads if they can think of a way for solving the problem to actually make things worse.
rereading 17776 and thinking about adapting into into a play and how it would FUCK
I have started a google doc we are too far in boys
Guys I just emailed Jon Bois about getting his permission to put on a production of my adaptation for my senior capstone
what the fuck
HE SAID YES IM GONNA EXPLODE HOLY SHIT
I’m on page 140 of the script and chapter 23 of the actual work
I have one actor that will most likely end up playing Nine (though I want them as Ten more, but the way the people I have works out they’re the only nonbinary actor I’ve got atm) and two others in mind for Ten and JUICE but I need to ask them if they want to lol
I’ve started a list of potential actors for the ensemble, but I need to make a tracking sheet of characters to make a track sheet for actors to see how many I’ll need
I also need to get permission from the planetarium (it’s literally just emailing my boss, and yet) to solidify dates, but it’ll likely be in November!
There are two whole songs in the preshow playlist so far, only one of which is Steely Dan
Omg hey so it’s like midterms
Planetarium didn’t work out (alas we’re very busy this semester) but that’s okay! I can still do the show in other places :)
I also have all my actors!! I have 8, which is the bare minimum number you need for the show
It’s gonna end up being a staged reading and not a full production, which is a little bit of a shame but also is probably for the better tbh because right now our department doesn’t have our usual building and we’re in a bunch of in between spaces across at least three buildings, so having this be smaller makes things easier :)
Also it’s October 18th which feels scary
The final draft is 156 pages. I HAVE to make cuts but I’m struggling with what to keep/cut and AUGH
I currently have a 79 page cut and a 99 page cut, but I can’t tell if I’ve cut too much of the context of the world or not
I cut it to 111 pages! I did have to trim some bits and completely take out garbage football, ed and tim, and the jason/emily nyc phone call which makes me SO sad but alas. It also makes some of the videos a little tricky but I’m working on splicing them together
I also will be recording the show!! If all of the actors are okay with it, then I’ll post it, likely on YouTube or something!
I’m gonna invite Jon Bois, tho I highly doubt he’ll actually show up just bc he’s a busy guy and also because It’s In Three Days
HELLO HERE IS THE LINK!!! I meant to post it sooner but, uh, college busy. However, today is the perfect day to do so! Enjoy forever :)
hes so real
Baldwin is a cool name. It is the opposite of Hairloss
You think? Let’s test that then!
First, you gotta get a cool cup. I got this one from a thrift store for a very affordable price. But if you can’t find one, a standard clear cup or jar should suffice
Now, you don’t need a decal, but I recommend it because they’re cool. I just got some sticker vinyl, traced and cut out the Wii logo and some stars
Now for the drink!!
Start by making or buying jelly. If you make it, you should do so a few hours before you intend to make the drinks, as it will need time to set. You can find jelly at most any grocery store.
Get your cup and add ice and jelly. You should cut the jelly into small pieces or use cookie cutters to make fun shapes. I recommend you don’t add quite all of the jelly, as you’ll need some for the top later
Next, add your flavoring syrup of choice, I recommend blue raspberry or melon. You should be able to find them at any restaurant supply store
Then, add carbonated water. Flavored sparkling waters also work fine, as they don’t taste like much. You should be able to find some at any store that sells drinks.
Next add Calpico, this is technically optional, but it tastes way better with it, so it’d highly recommend it. You can get it at practically any Asian market, or normal market if you live in Asia
Now, add some ice cream, or something of the sort, I use vanilla.
After that, you can top it with some whipped cream, jelly shapes, cherries, really anything!!
I would also recommend using a straw to drink it, because you will need to mix it up a bit. but you can’t really mix it before hand, because it will ruin the cool gradient affect
If anyone makes this, please rb with your results!! I wanna see!!
I'm absolutely in love with the way you formatted this. it's a little video gae side quest to collect ingredients for the Ultimate Wii Dink. that will put the status effect fixed on you dear player after you drink it.
Zeetha appreciation post. Reblog to appreciate zeetha!!
Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree
Let's play: Is it AI or Real?
Red flags: Unbelievable nature you've never seen before!, no external source cited, low image quality could be hiding AI artifacts, lacks scientific name for plant, OP is an aesthetic blog (no offense, I see you credit most of the artists you post, OP <3).
Green flags: Common name of the tree provided (although the leaves don't look like any olive tree I've ever seen).
Reverse image searches and citation trails all seem to lead back to now-deleted Reddit posts. Google Images says it's this one in r/NatureIsFuckingLit, and TinEye says it's this one in r/interestingasfuck. Both were posted back in 2020. This is important because the rise of AI images was in 2022.
People in the comments of places this image is posted throw around botanical terms like "dichotomous branching" [branches split into two at the nodes] and "divaricated" [branches grow far apart from each other], which are cool, but don't tell me what the tree is.
Searching up "Black Olive" on iNaturalist finally got me some answers, and it turns out that YES. This is a real tree! This tree is a Dwarf Black Olive (Terminalia molinetii, Formerly Bucida spinosa). The above photos are some particularly nicely framed shots of a tree with particularly small leaves, which really highlights the branching structure. I really wish we knew the photographer's name. Here are some more photos of the same species:
Terminalia molinetii by jriveracruz50 on iNaturalist, posted under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
This tree is native to Southern Mexico, Belize, the southern tip of Florida, and Cuba. Dwarf Black Olives are completely unrelated to Olive trees in the Olea genus that I'm more familiar with (the former is in Order Myrtales [Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies], and the latter is in Order Lamiales [Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies]).
Stay critical, and –more importantly– curious, y'all! The world is a beautiful place, we don't need fictional plants passed off as real ones for that to be true.
First two images show branches against the sky. The branches form almost perfect honeycomb shapes - twigs branching off at the correct angles and distances to form the sides of hexagons. Tiny teardrop-shaped leaves dot the branches, but not very densely.
Second two images show the same species of tree, but with much denser leaves. A hand to pulling down small sections of twigs. In the first of this pair, the hexagonal pattern is somewhat visible, in the second, the leaves are simply interestingly placed - a bit too geometric and regular to seem quite normal.
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I was lying in the leaf litter today when some moss spoke to me. "Excuse me, do you know the species of this fallen log beneath me?" asked the moss. "Hmm. No. Sorry, I'm a little fuzzy on logs," I said. "What a coincidence," said the moss. "I'm a little fuzzy on logs too."
Alright, I think I like tumblr now.
A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.
That was on July 7th.
Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.
On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.
There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.
But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.
99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.
None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.
And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.
You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.
Reblog the reblogging post.
Like to ignore its wisdom.