Hey, nerds and perverts!

funereal-disease:

brazenautomaton:

Or pervert nerds, like @fierceawakening, @funereal-disease, @cyborgbutterflies, @multiheaded1793@academicianzex, @mitoticcephalopod, or @windofperversion!

And @gattsuru, who may or may not be one of those things but who I threatened with this earlier today!

You liked that post about de-superlativity in smut despite the stupid name? Would you like to read more essays and ramblings and musings about Matters Lewd? Well TOO BAD, because I’m giving you some more anyway!

@smut-theory is a new collab blog, with six collaborators so far, where people can post thoughtful musings and worldbuilding and treatises and whatever about their pornographic interests and theories. Other than the first post, which is obviously mine since I am sending it out, and the cleaned up and re-named “de-superlativity” post I am working on, which is obviously mine since it is a reworked version of my own post, nobody will be signing their names to anything – so people can go into detail about why they love ‘evil, wrong’ kinks so much, without fear of it being used to start a ginned-up social media lynch mob. 

To quote that first post I made:

We don’t want to be “kink-critical”, we want to take a critical eye at kink – the same way Roger Ebert took a critical eye to film. What works, what doesn’t, why? What is the essence of what we love, how can we best capture it, how do we avoid screwing it up?

If that sounds interesting to you, check it out! We will have several more essays posted in the coming days, as well as accepting submissions, or applications for people to join on a long-term basis. You’ll laugh, you’ll fap, and hopefully, you’ll learn along the way.

@smut-theory! Give it an ogle!

This is so so so cool! I would love to participate. 


Tags:

#neat #have I mentioned I love kink meta? #because I love kink meta #sexuality and lack thereof

sinesalvatorem:

thebaconsandwichofregret:

weepingdildo:

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

Human Beings: These Are My People

(You can hear what the song would have sounded like here.)


Tags:

#Mars #Curiosity #proud citizen of The Future #neat #I hadn’t known about this #but I looked up the video


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martinekenblog:

Eye Ring is more than just a ring.

Designed a few years ago by Korean designer Jeong Yong,
it is the concept of a scanner reader for blind people. The idea was to
allow people to read non-Braille books and to avoid the costs of a
normal desktop scanner.

More on blind.tech


Tags:

#neat #jewellery

ursulavernon:

t’s an Olloclip for my phone. All of these are at 7x magnification. It goes up to 21x, but at that point I feel like I’d be taking photos of individual grains of pollen.

I’ve had macro lenses before, but not since I changed phones awhile ago, and I tend to go a little mad every time I get a new one. All unknown bugs are submitted to bugguide.net for ID, so hopefully I’ll know soon!

(Someday I’ll shell out for the lens on the good camera and THEN we’ll see some hot bug action!)

Nothing wrong with taking photos of individual grains of pollen.


Tags:

#bugs #I took a picture of a beetle with my phone recently #but I don’t have a magnifier so it’s not as awesome a picture #what was awesome was that it went like this: #’Hey that’s a neat beetle on Dad’s leg.’ #Dad (not seriously): ‘We should take a picture of it.’ #Me: ‘…hey wait a minute *I have a camera on my phone*’ #’*I’m totally going to take a picture of it*’ #Me: *boots up phone* *takes picture* #(it was already off his leg and in the grass by that point) #(but oh well)

brxkenpetal:

oldhollywoodmoxie:

These lockets are anatomically correct. The locket is held shut by the trunk of the aorta, which acts as a snap. The chain attaches to the pendant through the superior vena cava and left pulmonary vein, causing the heart to hang slightly anterioinferiorly, just like our hearts!

someone get me this, it’s amazing


Tags:

#pretty things #jewellery #neat

Manhattanhenge Returns!

amnhnyc:

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For Manhattan, a special day comes twice a year, when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan’s brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough’s grid. A rare and beautiful sight.

For best effect, position yourself as far east in Manhattan as possible. But ensure that when you look west across the avenues you can still see New Jersey. Clear cross streets include 14th, 23rd, 34th. 42nd, 57th, and several streets adjacent to them. The Empire State building and the Chrysler building render 34th street and 42nd streets especially striking vistas.

Here are the dates for Manhattanhenge 2015:

Half Sun on the Grid

  • Friday, May 29 8:12 P.M. EDT
  • Monday, July 13 8:21 P.M. EDT

Full Sun on the Grid

  • Saturday, May 30 8:12 P.M. EDT
  • Sunday, July 12 8:20 P.M. EDT

Learn more about Manhattanhenge from the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson.


Tags:

#Manhattanhenge #neat #pretty sure I have at least one follower in NYC at the moment #so here is a reminder for you