alex evans – just lies, by rawr423 on deviantart

All I’ve got

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I saw Crimson Peak today and liked it a lot.

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Favorite Tom Hanks characters: Captain John Miller

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killerchickadee:

arpeggia:

Jean-Luc Mylayne

“When I see a bird, I see at the same time that bird on a tree near the house. I see everything as an ensemble, and I realize that’s how I see everything in life… With my lenses, I can take in that place, then the tree, the bush, the house. I try to capture all those places at the same moment, just like our eye travels from one spot to another in taking in the scene, and I try to reconstitute it.”

— Jean-Luc Mylayne, 2006

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This is the artist whose stuff I saw in Chicago with thebrideofcaliban and absolutely loved!!!!!

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space-pics:

Saturn’s North Pole Storm. Absolutely Mesmerizing.
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#nasa #THIS IS FOR REALS LIES? #0.O #space photography (via @redshoesnblueskies​)

Yes! It’s technically a false-color image to bring out the detail, but it’s a real photo returned by Cassini. From nasa.gov ( <– very much worth clicking on for the bigger version of the image):

The Rose
The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second).

This image is among the first sunlit views of Saturn’s north pole captured by Cassini’s imaging cameras. When the spacecraft arrived in the Saturnian system in 2004, it was northern winter and the north pole was in darkness. Saturn’s north pole was last imaged under sunlight by NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1981; however, the observation geometry did not allow for detailed views of the poles. Consequently, it is not known how long this newly discovered north-polar hurricane has been active.

The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2012, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light. The images filtered at 890 nanometers are projected as blue. The images filtered at 728 nanometers are projected as green, and images filtered at 752 nanometers are projected as red. In this scheme, red indicates low clouds and green indicates high ones.

Here’s a wider-angle view in true color, taken in July 2013:

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erubes1:

Fall is in the air

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space-pics:

Saturn’s North Pole Storm. Absolutely Mesmerizing.
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madgastronomer:

robothugscomic:

New comic! (link)

This week I am very happy to present a collaboration comic with my friend Chrissie, who has been generous in sharing with me her experiences of gender dynamics in a technical field, and then helping me craft them into a comic narrative.

Whenever I see Chrissie’s work I’m always impressed at the cool, creative things she does. When we were discussing this comic, she told me: “I find men persistently try to direct me lots now too, which is probably the biggest problem I consistently run into”, and my feelings around that fact are a terrible and familiar blend of frustration, sadness, and lack of surprise.

When we talk about the differences in how men and women are treated professionally, especially in technical fields, we are often dismissed with ‘everyone has to deal with that’, or ‘women need to demonstrate more confidence with their skills’, or ‘they’re just trying to be helpful’, or ‘it’s all in your head’.

It’s frustrating when we know something like this is happening, but we spend so much of our time actually trying to get people to believe that it’s a real phenomenon. I find narratives like Chrissie’s validating in that she has a comparative set of experiences and is like ‘oh yeah, people totally think I’m less competent at my job now. it’s totally a thing’.  So, can guys just believe us already and get on helping it not happen?

When my wife transitioned, working in tech, she found that her coworkers and subordinates did start treating her differently. She even had one guy working under her who tried to tell her how to use a piece of software that she herself had taught him only three months before.

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aquilavolat:

how do I explain to my flatmate that the reason I am flailing about my room is because shit just went down in a kiwi webseries adaptation of love’s labours lost

This turns out to be a broad class of problem that’s harder than I would have thought. It reminds me of the time someone I knew by sight but had never talked to before came up at the gym and asked about my Darcybot “MALFUNCTION” shirt.

It’s like, the brief explanation appropriate to a non-acquaintance just got a blank look, so I backed up and started giving more context, and it just kind of snowballed until he backed away waving his hand like, it’s okay; I’m good; don’t really need to know more; thanks.

Sigh. I’m glad I have Tumblr. You guys understand.

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love-squad:

More Furiosa pics
Photo by Ksenia Makarova (Makks Tobi)

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the-eldest-woman-on:

THIS IS WALLET SPIDER. REBLOG FOR $$$

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illinoisrbml:

On this day in 1937, JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit was published for the first time. Tolkien had been grading papers in the late 1920s or early 1930s (accounts vary), when out of nowhere he scribbled the novel’s opening words “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit” on a piece of paper. His inspirations for the book ranged from Norse mythology to Beowulf to William Morris to the Germanic language. Although The Hobbit is frequently classed as children’s literature, Tolkien disagreed with that categorization, saying, “If you’re a youngish man and you don’t want to be made fun of, you say you’re writing for children.”

The first edition of The Hobbit differs in small but substantial ways from the second edition. By 1937, Tolkien had started on The Lord of the Rings trilogy with the sinister One Ring as its centerpiece and decided he need to revise the chapter about Bilbo’s encounter with Gollum to be more in line with events in his new books. In the first version of “Riddles in the Dark,” Gollum is a far less treacherous character, who cheerfully wagers his “precious” in the game of riddles he plays with Bilbo. When Gollum goes looking for the Ring and can’t find it, Bilbo having already secretly pocketed it, he is only sorry that he can’t give it to Bilbo for winning the game. He then willingly leads Bilbo out of the cave where they’ve met. In the revised version, of course, Bilbo forfeits his life if he loses the game (Gollum’s suggestion) and despite winning it, is pursued out of the cave by a murderous Gollum, anyway.

Featured here is the first American edition, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1938. In addition to the original version of “Riddles in the Dark,” it contains four color plates of Tolkien’s illustrations and red maps on the end-papers. The Hobbit has not been out of print since its publication 78 years ago. SL

JRR Tolkien. The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again. (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1938)
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simena:

Douglas Arthur Teed

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matterofawesome replied to your post: It’s Thursday for one more minute, so …

OBAMA!!!

Here comes the CHANGE everybody!!

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swanjolras:

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us— we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

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Helps answer the question of why there was only one candidate on the stage at the first Democratic debate who talked like a real person. Because if the DNC and the corporate “news” media weren’t conspiring to keep Lessig out of the polls and off the stage, there would have been two.

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muchtoofullofsand:

Hell yes I am going to see this.

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