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twice-five-miles:

twice-five-miles:

Tell me these aren’t their threesome pitch faces.  You can’t.

I bet they even have a powerpoint ready to go.

“Why You Should Have Sex With Us”

  • we’re adorable
  • google “ethical sluts tv tropes” if you want to check our references
  • we haven’t been brainwashed to spread crazy sex games around the ship in like, two whole years
  • that’s all in the past
  • seriously we couldn’t be cuter
  • franchise opportunities available

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#Star Trek #TNG #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

Can you tell who this is?

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dhalim:

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My first gif! I spent way more time on this than I probably should have. Anywho, I put this together from a Brain Games episode on National Geographics (Episode name is called “Patterns” for those of you who are interested).

I want your feed back- when could you tell who this was the first time you saw the gif? Was it the 2nd text “Did you get it yet?”, or was it not until the 3rd or last text that you could tell? Please be honest.

My prediction- those with Prosopagnosia figure it out faster than those who are neurotypical (NTs). Why is this? Because we are used to piecing it together with less information, where NTs require more facial information before they know. Perhaps we just found the evolutionary advantage to prosopagnosia?

I suspected it might be Abraham Lincoln when I could only see around the edge, but the more they revealed, the less sure I got, until by the end I was convinced it wasn’t him. You tagged the post “Abraham Lincoln”, so I guess I should’ve gone with my first thought.

I note that when I took one of those online facial recognition quizzes, I had a similar experience with Barack Obama: my first thought was that it was him, but then I thought “no, that can’t be him, he isn’t that old” and failed the question (like I did every other question on that quiz). I’d forgotten how much politics ages you. (Though in Lincoln’s case, the “no, that can’t be him” was because this face looks too wide to be him.)

(Who says there has to be an evolutionary advantage? All a trait really has to do to stick around is not get you killed too often.)

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#prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag #reply via reblog

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thelandofmaps:

Map of New Jersey Stereotypes [924 x 1600]
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#home of the brave #New Jersey #I went to Google Maps trying to figure out if this map had placed my childhood home in #’happy white families’ (which was true but fails to mention that about half of them were *also* Jews) #or ‘huge homes and country clubs’ (which wasn’t true) #but then I saw that Google Maps depicts Marlton and Cinnaminson as being about equally far away from Cherry Hill #with Maple Shade kind of in the middle #except that Marlton was a 20 minute drive and Cinnaminson was about a 70-80 minute drive #(with Maple Shade so close by and so melded with Cherry Hill that we frequently went in and out without really noticing) #so now I’m confused #damn you geography #tag rambles

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dhalim:

My first ProsopAnonymous video is up! Tell me what you think!

Note: these will get better over time. I have a friend of mine working on an intro song for the show, so I’ll be able to add one by episode 2 or 3

It’s promising, but I suggest you try talking a bit more slowly. Your speech struck me as kind of rushed in a lot of places. This isn’t a conversation: nobody’s going to butt in and cut you off if you give them the slightest pause. (I swear I read somewhere that people actually do expect recordings to speak more slowly than live people, but I have no idea where.)

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#reply via reblog #prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag

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