vodka&redbulls

[questionabletastetheatre]

NASA has released more than 8,000 images of the Apollo missions. [flickr archive]

[themartianfuckyeah]

you guys

[weavemama]

I CAN’T WITH THESE DAMN COWBOY HAT MEMES 

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO son who’s making these???

[aspiritualwarrior]

“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”

— Hindu Proverb

[pixel8or]

[toddmonotony-deactivated2016033]

Some of my favourite linguistic developments

‘Is that a thing?’ for ‘does that exist?’

Deliberate omission of grammar to show e.g. defeatedness, bewilderment, fury. As seen in Tumblr’s ‘what is this I don’t even’.

‘Because [noun]’. As in ‘we couldn’t have our picnic in the meadow because wasps.’

Use of kerning to indicate strong bewilderment, i.e. double-spaced letters usually denoting ‘what is happening?’ This one is really interesting because it doesn’t really translate well to speech. It’s something people have come up with that uses the medium of text over the internet as a new way of communicating instead of just a transcript of speech or a quicker way to send postal letters.

Just the general playing around with sentence structure and still being able to be understood. One of my favourites of these is the ‘subject: *verbs* / object: *is verb*’ couplet, as in:

Beekeeper: *keeps bees* Bees: *is keep*

or

Me: *holds puppy* Puppy: *is hold*

I just love how this all develops organically with no deciding body, and how we all understand and adapt to it.

[nooffswitch]

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[short-weird-stories]

It was human arrogance to assume that aliens would only speak to us in languages that could be heard. How many civilizations have stared in awe at the beautiful northern lights, unaware of their true meaning?

now tell me what they’ve been trying to say (via lapike)

[jadziadaxofficial]

[pleatedjeans]

[luvbey]

i just want to sit in front of the ocean for a little while

[yen-duong-deactivated20150425]

[theultradork]

[hopelesslygeek]

To boldly go

[idealmente]

[riverofbones]

vintage blog ❂

[chibisilverwings]

"At the core of "Star Trek" is Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future. He said the Starship Enterprise was a metaphor for Starship Earth. The strength of the starship is in its diversity. Everyone contributing their best, their vantage points and their unique experiences. Working as a team to face a common challenge. We can prevail if we have confidence in our problem-solving capabilities, in our inventive genius and our innovative qualities. I think it’s that that inspires every generation."

George Takei on why Star Trek is such a lasting pop culture icon (x)  (via chibisilverwings)

[cknd]

Am I the only one that finds it weird that I can transfer data from my brain to someone else’s by opening my mouth and pushing air with vibrations in their direction.

[lesshi]

How high are you

[readysteadytrek]

When I hear someone mention Star Trek

[phaenix]

April the 5th