Shadowdancer

She/Her ✧ 31 ✧ BEGONE: minors, terfs, magats, fancops, antifeminists Not a themed blog. I love video games and books. Feminist and atheist. Interested in purity culture, censorship and cults.

[shadowdancers]

Currently reading 📚

[somecutething]

Dolphins doing cartwheels with an aquarium guest.

(via Ant.Giovanni)

[luidilovins]

I'm loving this new trend of people going to zoos and participating in animal enrichment. We use to observe large exotic animals for our entertainment, but the fact is that we are now trying to make ourselves equally as entertaining for them. It's interactive, completely parpicipatory and I would argue that eventually someone's gonna come up with something new enough that it expland ethologists understanding about how some animals think, problem solve, communicate and feel and I think its fantastic.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Human: play?

Aquatic creature from an entirely different branch of the animal tree: play!

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

This incredible image of the Earth rise was taken during lunar orbit by the Apollo 11 mission crew in July of 1969.

Credit: NASA 

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Apollo 11 Launch

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

 July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind ☽ ☾  

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon’s surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent just under a day on the lunar surface before rendezvousing with Columbia in lunar orbit.

Image credit: NASA Johnson, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center,  NASA on The Commons

[marthajefferson]

Anniversary of APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING

On July 20, 1969, 109 hours and 42 minutes after launch, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin entered the lunar lander ‘Eagle’, made a final check, and the Eagle undocked from the lunar orbiter ‘Columbia’, where the third member of the crew Michael Collins, stayed in orbit around the moon. Partially manually piloted by Armstrong, the Eagle landed 0 degrees, 41 minutes, 15 seconds north moon latitude and 23 degrees, 26 minutes east moon longitude. Armstrong stepped out, and Aldrin followed 20 minutes later: human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. The two men spent 21 hours and 26 minutes on its surface. One of the astounding aspects of the mission was the seeming simplicity of the technology used to get man to the moon. According to Oliver Gassmann, professor of Technology Management, the mobile phone in your pocket has one million times more memory than the Apollo 11’s computer. Same about the procesor: the latest phones typically have more than 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” –Neil Armstrong

(gifs from the documentary Chasing The Moon, 2019)

[bathroomcube]

[comixextra]

[roach-works]

it’s what they would have wanted

[iobotomypop]

happy moonwalk day

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Things Michael Collins absolutely would have done given the chance.

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[zitasaurusrex]

unrestrained summer fun

[soyrwoo]

Happy Moon Landing Day 🌕🐇

[asylumpixie]

Feeble men should not be tempted with miracles.

artist：柴

[sprinkledsalt]

Update on the explosive diarrhea parasite situation as of July 20th

FDA says it’s still investigating Taylor Farms in cyclosporiasis outbreak

A false positive test result doesn’t change the “overwhelming epidemiological data” linking Taylor Farms to the outbreak, the FDA said.

So Taylor Farms is claiming that the FDA apologized to them over a false positive test result on their shredded lettuce, but...

It sounds like Taylor Farms tried to save face and present false confidence that their products have been definitively ruled out as the source of the parasite, but the FDA is pushing back. I think everyone should still avoid Taco Bell and Taylor Farms products, and remember, cooking produce to at least 158 degrees Fahrenheit will kill the parasite. If you chop up vegetables to cook them, remember to wash them, the knife, the cutting board, and then your hands after. Stay safe, everyone.

[shadowdancers]

My current read.

This one is very trendy right now. I've heard conflicting things, and I don't know if I'll like it. But I'm eighty pages in and intrigued enough to continue.

I've been in a reading slump for several months. I've been in specifically a fiction slump all year, after getting bogged down by too many no good very bad terrible books.

I'm determined to crawl my way out of this lol.

[shadowdancers]

Hot Wet Delirious | Rebecca Black

[jetix]

2021-07-22

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[officialfoxsquadron]

audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore

[officialfoxsquadron]

watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort