New Horizons Spacecraft Displays Pluto’s Big Heart

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airbuilder7:

Happy Valentine’s Day from Pluto! <3

It’s Pluto’s first one since we visited! :D


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#found one! #the ultimate in Valentine space pareidolia #proud citizen of The Future #and no Valentine’s Day in The Future is complete without a picture of Pluto #Happy Valentine’s Day from an aromantic asexual #Pluto #space #pareidolia

nonternary:

rangi42:

xeppeli:

tunnaa-unnaa:

xeppeli:

xeppeli:

lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

 

Aesthetic Birds 1

 

Too bad Lahore pigeons are a domestic breed and don’t appear in the wild at all.
Some equally balanced wild colorations include

Aesthetic Birds 2

Pygmy Falcon

Aesthetic Birds 3

Great Hornbill

Aesthetic Birds 4

Wallcreeper

and

Aesthetic Birds 5

Black-throated Loon

this is a good addition to this post. thank you for this birds educations

First impressions:

Lahore pigeons: central in the space of “bird” concept; like fluffy chocolatey NYC pigeons

Pygmy falcon: exactly what it says on the tin; pygmy falcon is to falcon as domestic cat is to tiger

Great hornbill: damn that is cool; reminds me of cormorants’ orange and black color scheme

Wallcreeper: a cross between a butterfly and a bird

Black-throated loon: peaceful-looking; makes an adorable noise

And let me add:

Aesthetic Birds 6

Spectacled owl

Aesthetic Birds 7

Little pied cormorant

Aesthetic Birds 8

Blue-and-white flycatcher

@bartlebyshop


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#bird #pretty things #long post #scopophobia

@justice-turtle, saw this and thought of you.

(Sorry about cutting the leftmost bit off. This was on a high shelf (meaning I couldn’t see what I was doing and have a decent camera angle at the same time) and I was in a bit of a hurry.)

(For the curious, this rock is part of a geology exhibit at the Ecotarium museum in Worcester, Massachusetts. I went there in late November while visiting relatives over Thanksgiving weekend.)


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#it’s pretty and local #this took me significantly more than five minutes here in Tuesday #though most of trouble was digging through your blog trying to figure out whether your location was public knowledge #(I couldn’t remember whether you’d limited it to friends-locked posts) #(in which case I ought to maintain the secret) #(but no I found some public posts mentioning it) #oh look an original post #geology #(bonus fun fact: Worcester is pronounced approximately ‘WUH-ster’) #(like ‘Worcestershire sauce’ but without the ‘-shire’) #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #Happy Valentine’s Day from an aromantic asexual

un-rare:

huntinthedwellin98:

un-rare:

let’s stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them

everyone knows that the real way to show someone you love them is to find them a really cool rock. not a diamond. just a neat rock that you think they will enjoy

honestly ? you’re so right

@justice-turtle


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#Happy Valentine’s Day from an aromantic asexual #aro poly friendlove celebration #(I actually saw this post last Tuesday) #((in fact I’m writing this post last Tuesday)) #(I almost never use my queue but this seemed like a good Valentine’s post) #…you know what hang on let me go get a picture off my phone camera #back in five minutes #(by which I mean I will queue that one for five minutes after this post)

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Okay, fodder finally sold (I had to drop most of them to 29k and wait an additional half-hour, but eventually they went), spent all my treasure on gene scrolls, time to go to bed.

I think tomorrow I might go through my alert history, auction listings, and hoard and count up how many genes I’ll have flipped by the time I’m done. I haven’t directly kept track of scroll-flipping profits because it’d slow me down too much, so number-of-scrolls is the best I can do.


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#Flight Rising #oh look an update #this concludes your dragon-capitalism liveblogging for tonight #oh look an original post

sdhs-rationalist:

(Note: on mobile, so can’t tag. A reblog tagging the mentioned people would be much appreciated)

Well, Shabbat at Stanford was/is excellent. In a surprise turn of events, @theunitofcaring has become the first non-@rosetintedkaleidoscope rationalist to meet me irl, beating both @sinesalvatorem and @arbitrarilychosen, the two prior favorites.

Here you go:

In a surprise turn of events, @theunitofcaring has become the first non- @rosetintedkaleidoscope rationalist to meet me irl, beating both @sinesalvatorem and @arbitrarilychosen, the two prior favorites.


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#you’re welcome #congrats on the meetup

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There’s roughly two pages of adults before mine. The treasure marketplace resets its stock in fifteen minutes, which means the gene pickings are slim for a while afterward. Usual computer-shutting-off time is only twenty minutes later.

*fidgets*


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#Flight Rising #oh look an update #I may end up staying up a little late wrapping everything up #oh look an original post #(I’m *pretty* sure it’s in fifteen minutes?) #(I have trouble keeping straight whether ‘odd-numbered hours’ is FR time or mine) #(pretty sure it’s mine)


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Okay, here goes. 66 adult fodder, 29,995 treasure each. (There are so few dragons between 29,500 and 30,000 that selling them for a non-round number looks like it’ll actually be practical.) Pre-named, for your convenience!

For combo bonus points, I intend to immediately re-invest all the money into gene scrolls while Lightning still has dominance.

(I don’t especially enjoy participating in heated dom battles, but standing aside and selling popcorn while other people duke it out is great.)


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#Flight Rising #I made a spreadsheet #(because of course I did) #to calculate the profits of various types of gene scroll #there’s columns for both absolute profit and profit as a percentage of the cost of the scroll #I’ve been working with absolute profit throughout the week because I had enough seed money to afford to do that #but now I’m putting all my treasure into stockpiling the higher-percentage scrolls #oh look an original post


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