Then and Now (iii): Away Mission Protocol

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gloriousunderstanding:

SEASON ONE

janeway: since not all of you are starfleet i want to go over away mission protocol before we beam down

janeway: first and foremost never become separated from your team

janeway: all teams must report to the bridge at least once every 24 hours

janeway: ensure that each of your teams has one emergency pack, consisting of one standard issue portable habitat, one medical supply kit, and two weeks worth of ration bars

janeway: and of course remember to always conduct yourself with the grace and dignity befitting your position

SEASON SEVEN

janeway: all right before i release you people on this unsuspecting planet let’s go over the rules

janeway: no ruining the economies of foreign nations

janeway: no getting eaten by giant worms

janeway: no pretending to be someone’s god to get free stuff

janeway: no acquiring stray children

janeway: no accidentally creating serial killers with your thoughts

janeway: no gladiatorial death matches

janeway: no barroom brawls

janeway: no aiding robots in their war for world domination

janeway: no sentient souvenirs imbued with the spirits of vengeful lovers

janeway: no selling drugs for your childhood friends

janeway: no getting kidnapped

janeway: no accidentally aiding totalitarian regimes

janeway: and finally

janeway: no getting arrested

janeway: i think that’s everything

tom: hehehehe

janeway: what

tom: YOU DIDN’T SAY WE HAVE TO WEAR PANTS

janeway: tom put some pants on

tom: YOU DIDN’T SAY IT

janeway: tom

tom: SEE YOU IN THREE DAYS

janeway:

janeway: tuvok

janeway: add pants to the list

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#Star Trek #Voyager #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I have decided on a policy of reblogging anything that makes me laugh aloud) #(unless maybe it’s *really* embarrassing) #(but I don’t think I’ve come across any of those yet) #(the blog owner reserves the right to blah blah blah)

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par-la-fenetre:

par-la-fenetre:

Neuro-atypical Weather Forecast

Read my other webcomics here.

Shamelessly reblogging myself and putting this little comics into the series “Ma République”.

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#not sure why they expect me to be able to focus on the crawl and the speech at the same time #I suppose that’s part of what the subtitles are for #abandon the audio in favour of devoting all primary sensory processing to visuals #(recently I was watching one of those how-to-adult videos) #(and there was a bunch of text on the screen that was *different* from what they were saying) #(I had to go through it twice) #(once listening and ignoring the video) #(once watching and ignoring the audio) #(and then the following video basically said) #(that if somebody else asks me out on an ambiguously-romantic date) #(it is *my* responsibility to make it clear if it is platonic) #(otherwise it will be and *should* be assumed romantic) #(like dude) #(if you’re going to suggest an outing it’s *your* job to state what you mean by that) #(if you rely on societal narratives to determine whether we’re dating) #(we’re *both* going to feel betrayed by the other) #(you’re going to feel strung along) #(and I’m going to feel you tricked me into dating you) #(it should not be possible to *accidentally* date someone) #(I didn’t go back to those videos after that) #tag rambles #lots of tag rambles

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jamestiberiusfuckhead:

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)

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austriea:

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

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glutenfreewaffles:

remember when you put your glasses on for the first time and you realized you could see leaves on trees

 

glutenfreewaffles:

how  many fucking people on this website wear glasses jfc

 

drkarayua:

it’s always the leaves oh my god

 

aviculor:

it was streetlights for me

 

zombiotic:

Rocks on the ground for me.

 

spindleshanking:

Trees on the mountains.

 

sarahmouse:

I was really excited to find out that grass is made of individual pieces.

 

pstumpandtheclappers:

People have faces.

 

nenya-kanadka:

“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

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pervocracy:

nyctopterus:

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

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jtotheizzoe:

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

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iatrogenic:

blackteen:

lemonteaflower:

officialmoamt:

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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