ultralaser:

The most basic mobile phone is in fact a communications devices that shames all of science fiction, all the wrist radios and handheld communicators. Captain Kirk had to //tune// his fucking communicator and it couldn’t text or take a photo that he could stick a nice Polaroid filter on. Science fiction didn’t see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn’t see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make amazing things happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards.

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#oh my god everything about this article is hitting me where I live     #forsake manufactured normalacy and look at how extraordinary the world is right now     #there are six people living in space and we can /print/ organs and control satilites with apps     #”Voyager 1 is more than 11 billion miles away and it’s run off 64K of computing power and an eight-track tape deck”     #the internet itself is a goddamn miracle in the making in that humanity—vast swathes of otherwise unconnected humanity—gets together     #to watch cat videos and talk about television and laugh at each other’s jokes     #if the world isn’t thrilling you YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION     #god     #I’m all     #yeah  (via notbecauseofvictories)

Don’t forget the fact that two robots on another planet have Twitter accounts and people here on Earth can follow them and their discoveries. Astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield—my favorite Canadian—has a Tumblr and posted images from space so that we could see what he was seeing. We can watch videos of galaxies merging on YouTube. And we are making so many scientific discoveries that there’s actually a blog called World Science Festival that details discoveries made each WEEK.

Yes, the world is still fucked up in any number of ways, and the problems need to be fixed. But the world’s also amazing.

(via gehayi)

 

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#yes this #proud citizen of The Future

MCU HALLOWEEN HEADCANONS

captainofalltheships:

  • bruce dressing as bones and tony being appalled they didn’t coordinate so he could make pepper spock and himself kirk
  • tony being further appalled when pepper comes as spock
  • sam going as aang which was just an excuse to keep his wings and fly around half-shirtless which wasn’t part of the original character design sam
  • tony just wearing his suit but everybody stops asking him about it after the second time he blasts marvin gaye and says that he is ‘sexy iron man’
  • rhodey not agreeing to go as sexy war machine for that exact reason
  • he goes as sexy nick fury and that’s all fine and well until there’s a deep voice behind him asking what improvements he thinks he’s made
  • natasha pulling clint into doing elaborate couples’ costumes with her
  • natasha going as a dragon and clint as daenerys
  • if he isn’t addressed as khaleesi nat hissing and flapping her arms around while he shouts i am the mother of dragons
  • darcy going as mr. darcy just to fuck with people who ask her who she’s dressed as and then her name
  • t’challa dressing as robin hood and getting immediately challenged by a very tall and tipsy daenerys to an archery competition
  • steve and thor deciding to switch costumes for the night but mjolnir gets mixed up with prop!mjolnir and nobody realizes until steve is bored and whirls the hammer around propelling himself through a wall
  • jane going as a jedi because she had a light-saber already and bathrobes make perfectly good last minute costumes

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#MCU #Avengers

runescape:

What’s happening this November in RuneScape? It’s set to be incredible.

We start with the small matter of a Double XP Weekend, Clan Cup Finals, and the new Well of Goodwill – and it gets better and better.

New Treasure Trails, a new quest, and – as promised – ELF CITY BATCH #2!

It’s going to be a month to remember! Share it with your friends! 

 

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#Runescape #oooh #(as far as I know none of my followers play Runescape) #(so have little to no idea what I’m talking about) #(but ooooh)

libutron:

Jumping Spider – Tutelina elegans 

True to its scientific name Tutelina elegans (Araneae – Salticidae) is really a stylish and good looking jumping spider with long eyebrows. This is a small, iridescent-green species native to Eastern North America. The female is almost uniform iridescent green that may appear gold or even purple at different angles.

References: [1] – [2]

Photo credit: ©Colin Hutton | Locality: Duke Forest, North Carolina, US (2011)


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#spider #scopophobia #pretty things

appetisers:

HOW DO PEOPLE FALL ASLEEP SO FAST I DON’T UNDERSTAND I HAVE TO CREATE AND ACT OUT A WHOLE FUCKING MOVIE LENGTH STORY IN MY HEAD AND THEN CONTEMPLATE THE MEANING OF LIFE BEFORE I EVEN FEEL TIRED AND THIS BITCH STARTS SNORING IN TWO MINUTES

I used to have this when I was a kid. It turned out I just really hate nightlights and bed-sharing. Once I started sleeping in my own bed, with only the indirect, faint light of streetlights through Venetian blinds, I was pretty much fine.

I’m not saying that everyone’s insomnia is that easily cured, but it worked for me, and I doubt I’m the only one. There are probably people like ten-year-old me out there right now, taking two hours to fall asleep every night and wrongly thinking that’s just how things are.