yes, i know that helena seems dead but i’ve heard that tatiana maslany was confirmed to be in the second season
so take that as you will
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#Orphan Black #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I’m way too faceblind to watch Orphan Black) #(but I know enough to understand this) #(even if I was previously unaware that Helena died)
when you recognize a word from another language you’ve just begun to learn and ur like hEYHeY HEY WAIT I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS and it’s probably something insignificant like ‘today’ or ‘maybe’ buT YOURE SO PROUD STILL LIKE HELL YEAH
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#n’oubliez pas oú est votre voiture #(‘don’t forget where your car is’) #(if they had actually said) #(word for word) #(‘remember where you parked’) #(I couldn’t have done it) #(but I’ve seen enough battery advertisements to know what n’oubliez pas means) #our home and cherished land
remember when you put your glasses on for the first time and you realized you could see leaves on trees
how many fucking people on this website wear glasses jfc
it’s always the leaves oh my god
it was streetlights for me
Rocks on the ground for me.
Trees on the mountains.
I was really excited to find out that grass is made of individual pieces.
People have faces.
“Oh, birds! There’s actually something up there in the sky when my mom points!”
No, I don’t remember, because I was too young.
(I remember when I was still a fairly young kid getting glasses back after having to go for…I dunno, maybe a couple months without, but that’s different. Yes, I was happy I could read the road signs, but–having had glasses previously–I had already been aware road signs had text even if I couldn’t currently perceive it.)
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#glasses #I do feel bad for people who were old enough to remember #but not old enough to know this wasn’t how the world was supposed to look
Avimimus portentosus was a small maniraptoran theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
This is a substantial photoshop reworking of an oil painting from 2001 or so. I think it might be my first successful paint-over job, which is always harder than in seems.
Why I love John Conway’s paleoart:
1. Dinosaurs with feathers! Not just a little bit of feathers-on-a-lizard. Full-on feathers! With varied and birdlike coloration!
2. Dinosaurs I never heard of! Not just Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. (Apparently I am a dinosaur hipster. …I was into dinosaurs back when they were underground.)
3. Dinosaurs with closed mouths! They’re not going “raaarrr” and showing off big spiky teeth and fighting each other all the time! I mean, I deeply love “raaarrr”, but the small part of me that isn’t a ten-year-old appreciates a more nuanced depiction.
4. Dinosaurs that look and behave like real, natural animals, not like monsters or dragons. Conway’s paintings make me feel like I went for a hike and instead of seeing a deer or a turkey I happened to see a dinosaur. And that’s pretty damn cool.
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#dinosaur #bird #art #awesome
What’s better at facial recognition, Facebook or your brain?
Ever wonder how your brain can recognize and remember so many faces? Ever wonder how we train computers to do the same? Vanessa from BrainCraft looks the science of recognizing faces square in the… face?
Bad: It joins in that annoying way that many things about relatively-unusual conditions have of assuming their audience doesn’t contain anyone who experiences it (a falsely-inclusive “we” to refer to “normal” people).
Good: Finally a non-proso who’s noticed that facial recognition technology cries out to be used in assistive tech. (I swear to god, it’s like the people in charge of this sort of thing are deliberately trying to come up with every possible use for artificial facial recognition except the obvious one.)
(Come on, The Future, you’ve been a good home to me. You’ve given me those lovely photographs of Martian desert, full of colour and detail, the next-best thing to being there. You’ve given me multiple pieces of tech that are literally out of Star Trek. Give me a glasses-mounted HUD that flags passing acquaintances with their names. I know you can do it. Google Glass has been dancing around the edge for, what, a year now? I’d prefer an attachment to the glasses I already have, but as long as I can get them in prescription and they cost less than, oh, say twice as much as regular prescription glasses, I’ll settle for buying a new pair. Please, let me have this.)
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#prosopagnosia #(cell phones and e-readers) #(and I suspect you could turn a smart-watch into something very like a combadge without much tinkering) #the power of science #with power comes responsibility #and that responsibility takes many forms
johnsbarefeetandsherlockschair:
Cordylus cataphractus
ITS A BABY DRAGON
baby no don’t eat your tail
Thats how they get away though, they bite their own tail and basically wheel away from the danger like a spikey orobouros.
“I AM SPARKS.”
“I AM MILD TO MODERATE DISCOMFORT.”
Baby Smaug, Roll Out.
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#lizard #adorable
You wanted it, and we listened.
Voice Actors! Animators! Storyboard Artists! Directors! Musicians! Sound Designers! Producers!
We are looking for a dedicated team to help make this program a reality. Using connections across the globe, the Miss Officer and Mr. Truffles project is an undertaking unlike any other.
If you think you have what it takes, please look at the Now Hiring page for details!
GUYS WE’RE FINALLY HIRING SO GO GO GO!!!
THEY MADE IT HAPPEN
Signal boost ‘cause I have some people who are good at this stuff as followers.
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#Miss Officer and Mr Truffles #even if this never pans out #I’m surprised and impressed by how much this has exploded
Yes, yes, legalize gay, sure. But have you ever considered weaponizing gay?
Unfortunately, yes, yes they have.
IM GONNA PISS
I am grateful to live in a world in which we do not actually have weaponised sex pollen, gynephile-specific or otherwise. Not so grateful to live in a world where people in charge of this sort of thing have explicitly indicated they would do it if they could.
(…and if they were making progress on sex-pollen bombs, they’d keep that a secret as long as possible, wouldn’t they?)
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#creepy #not sure why people seem to be amused by this
Happy (future) birthday, Jim Kirk!
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#Star Trek #birthday #I’m glad they have this sign #though I wonder what they’ll do if it’s still there and maintained in 2228 #not ‘future’ anymore
HEY FOLLOWERS:
HAVE YOU EATEN RECENTLY?
ARE YOU HYDRATED?
IS THERE MEDICATION YOU NEED TO TAKE?
HAVE YOU LAUGHED TODAY?
FRIENDLY REMINDER BECAUSE I KNOW I NEED THEM EVERY SO OFTEN.
ALSO HERE HAVE A KITTEN:
YOU I ACTUALLY FORGOT TO TAKE MY MEDS TODAY
this is the third time this post has reminded me to take my meds
we’re all gonna die
dude i haven’t had any water today or taken my meds thank you for this post
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#PSA #signal boost #I drink more water than probably anyone I know #(they say the average amount that people actually drink is 1L/day) #(I’m pretty sure I would die of thirst on 1L/day) #(and I know for a fact that I have a constant nagging thirst after one day on 2L/day) #(takes about two days to recover from one day on 2L) #I’m not on any meds #I’m not sure I’ve laughed aloud today but I’ve definitely been amused #and somehow I’ve managed to end up with an inner food critic that reminds me to eat rather than fat-shaming me #which is pretty sweet all in all #(its malnutrition-from-lack-of-variety-in-diet alarm is overly sensitive though) #(it’s okay not to have fruit *every* day brain) #still this is a nice concept #good luck with the whole self-care thing everybody #tag rambles
Brinens and Things 