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they weren't fucking lying that history can repeating itself

"but our society is so progressive! theres so much more lgbt representation in movies!" *grabs you by the shoulders* this happened in post ww1 pre ww2 germany. things SEEMED to be getting more progressive then too. and YET we see the exact same thing happening with the rise of open and violent antisemitism and homo/transphobia. it's just happening AGAIN. and so many people aren't paying ATTENTION because sometimes characters are bisexual or nonbinary in cartoons or whatever. explodes.

indicadyke

anyway. here's a video by a jewish lesbian about lgbt history in weimar germany

zechery-deactivated20220114

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

thebaconsandwichofregret

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

shadows-ember

This is humanity

siawrites

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

labelleizzy

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

taygeta-the-triplestar

Happy Birthday Curiosity!

highonlife22-deactivated2026021

using your city as a personality trait is such a funny phenomenon thats only allowed when you're from like 5 super well known american cities. imagine if like.. a polish person was like thats how we do it in kędzierzyn koźle

syrenki

you know that excitement when you realized you're in a location from a famous song. this is how i feel right now

outofcontextanimash

krudman

James Baxter you've done it again

ohcaptains

enyter

lostinhistory

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

powder--blue

colonel-kira-nerys

darkrainbow13

George Takei was so excited to do this shirtless episode. He spent all his free time doing push-ups for a week before they shot this.

bemusedlybespectacled

they were going to give him a katana and have him be a samurai, but he didn’t want to be stereotypical, so he told the execs that he could fence and they wrote in references to the three musketeers instead

he could not, in fact, fence

he spent the weekend before shooting learning how

jenniferrpovey

Not only that, but he found he liked fencing, kept it up, and became a master fencer.

When I had the privilege to hear him talk at AwesomeCon 2015, he informed us he is a master fencer. It was a very clear implication that he is still fencing at his advanced age. No wonder he’s so healthy.

He had far too much fun with this episode and it shows.

drst

Hikaru Sulu, our first Space Pirate.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Reblogging for all this cool trivia

And also for George Takei running through the Starship Enterprise with a sword and cackling sinisterly

theimancameron

Reblogging for ALL of this, and for the coolness of George Takei still kicking butt with a sword to this day!

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Reblog if you trust George Takei with a sword to protect you

davetheshady

“In the end, [Takei] loved his sword-fighting scene so much he held onto the rapier for several hours, poking stage hands with it and engaging in mock duels off the set.” – IMDB’s trivia

etcstims

little snakes sips | source

the-sacred-now

@pangur-and-grim can the reviled worm have a nice big drop of water? 🥺

bo0zey

i tried to be funny and it backfired miserably

bo0zey

it’s 2014 it’s time we moved on as a nation and stop reblogging this

bo0zey

every person who reblogs this in 2015 is gonna get their ass kicked by yours truly

nonetoon

Everyone meet just a normal goose :)

nonetoon

Glad you guys like this totally normal goose!

nonetoon

I am making everyone remember normal goose

nonetoon

Well, I can not find the original separate post of this so I’m just going to tack these on here

itwashotwestayedinthewater

bungus

itwashotwestayedinthewater

welcome to ‘no note bungus’. reblog and you will feel a sense of accomplishment and goodwill wash over you

hungwy

theo van gogh was the one who suggested that his older brother vincent start seriously painting. as soon as theo was gainfully employed he gave vincent around 15% of his own yearly salary for art supplies, lodging, and food. about 2/3rds of vincent's surviving letters were to theo (including vincent's earliest and last letters), all of which were found stored in theo's desk. theo's child, vincent willem, was born on january 31st, 1890, and vincent was so delighted by his nephew that he painted almond blossoms for him. vincent shot himself half a year later on july 29th, 1890. theo's distress at his brother's death worsened his syphilis symptoms and he died half a year after his brother on january 25th, 1891 (four days before vincent willem's first birthday). theo was reburied next to vincent in auvers-sur-oise at the request of theo's wife johanna.

nutropes

Almond Blossoms, 1890, Vincent van Gogh

emilyofjane

cannucks-addiction

And that love lived on Theo's wife, Johanna, who was the one who pushed for the preservation of Vincent's paintings. Johanna who made sure that her husband's beloved brother would not be forgotten. Johanna who fought tooth and nail so that Theo and Vincent would never be forgotten. Johanna who carried the family legacy, who made sure that the works of Vincent would be kept in her possession. And then Vincent Willem, named for a uncle so loved, carried this legacy and founded the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

The van Gogh family history is deeply interwoven with love. It was the love of a brother that gave a young man the courage to paint and the resources to do so. It was the love of a woman for her husband and her husband's beloved brother that made that story known. And it was the love of a nephew, who was so deeply loved even if for such a short time, that made it possible for the world to know Vincent van Gogh.

therisingking

Girl when I tell you my life flashed before my eyes

saturniandragon

lingonberry24

foolishmortal

what if you told someone you liked their shoelaces while you were on your knees blowing them in a bathroom stall and they told you that they stole them from the president

therisingking

You bitches really won’t let me catch a fucking break huh

what-even-is-thiss

It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

what-even-is-thiss

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

what-even-is-thiss

The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.

These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.

untitledgoosegay

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

Immensely cool dude. He's been a personal hero since I learned about him.

what-even-is-thiss

It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

what-even-is-thiss

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

what-even-is-thiss

The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.

These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.

untitledgoosegay

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

Immensely cool dude. He's been a personal hero since I learned about him.