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Abbey appreciation post 2012.

ABBEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY and GIBBBBBBSSSSSS. 

Warren Ellis » Pale Electric Blue Dot

This is a photo of an aurora occurring two and a half billion miles away.

It’s a composite image of atmospheric activity over Uranus.  So, not a direct shot, in the purest sense.  But, in its way, no less real than an Instagram shot, or even this:

This being the original “Pale Blue Dot” photo, the dot in question being Earth as seen from 3.7 billion miles away.  This was taken in 1990, with a camera made in 1977, bolted on to Voyager 1 and having been in cold soak for some 13 years.

It is, to me, suggestive of that science fiction trope of sending space travellers off to other solar systems, and relativity working it so by the time the explorers land, the people they left behind had evolved FTL over generations and beaten them there.

Voyager 1 sails off into the dark, having 22 years ago taken the last good photo of Earth it could, wherein our world was imaged in a single blue pixel.  And now we’re taking photos of the Uranian Northern Lights.

I wonder exactly how difficult it would be to have the Hubble take a photo of Voyager 1.

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yeah, i saw those notifications but my brain just read them as ‘good night westley, good work, i’ll most likely kill you in the morning’.

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yeah, i saw those notifications but my brain just read them as ‘good night westley, good work, i’ll most likely kill you in the morning’.

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Romney: Well, let me step back first and say I like trade. I like free trade. It is good for a highly productive nation like ours to be able to trade freely with other nations. I would like to see China and other nations join us in even freer trade than we have today. That being said, nations like China have to abide by the agreements that they’ve entered into and have to play on a fair basis. And when China on a long-term basis artificially holds down the value of their currency relative to ours, it puts our products at a competitive disadvantage, and that’s something they understand. They are slowly allowing that to correct. I’d like to see that played out to its conclusion. In addition, they are allowing the theft of intellectual property from American enterprises that cost American jobs. I know they are trying to address that issue as well but they need to be more aggressive in doing so if they want to have full and open trade, free trade, with America. Finally, hacking into computers, commercial computers, government computers, is simply unacceptable by a nation, which is a friendly nation and collaborating on the trade and playing field. And as a result, if I’m President of the United States, on day one, I will designate China as a currency manipulator and be free to take any action with regards to tariffs that would be necessary to protect American enterprise and industry from intellectual property theft, hacking, or the like.

The Page by Mark Halperin | The Complete Romney Interview Transcript

i literally do not know where to start with this.  the assertion that he’s ready to start a cold war with china on day one is //staggering//, almost more than the conceit we could not possibly lose that conflict.

Halperin: So a lot of these changes though, the tax and spending changes, kick in January 1. You wouldn’t take office until January 20. Does that worry you about what that might do to the economy in terms of confidence, in terms of perception?

Romney: Well actually if I’m lucky enough to be elected the consumers and the small-business people in this country will realize that they have a friend in the White House, who is actively going to encourage economic growth, and there will be a resurgence in confidence in this country and a willingness to take risks, to invest, to add employees. I think it will be very positive news to the American economy. Will I be able to get done between January 1 and January 20 the things that I’d like to do? Of course not, I’m not in office. But I believe that we will be able to have a grace period, which allows us to tackle these issues one by one and put in place a structure, which is very much designed to get America working again.

The Page by Mark Halperin | The Complete Romney Interview Transcript

christ, and they called //obama// arrogant.  WHAT SWAGGERING SELF-IMPORTANCE.  ”they’ll know that i can’t do anything right now, but that i //will//, eventually, and that will get people spending again.”

PEOPLE AREN’T SPENDING BECAUSE WE’RE ALL BROKE BECAUSE YOU RICH FUCKS HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY.  TAX THE RICH TO 70% AND //EVERYTHING WILL BE SOLVED//.  I’M NOT EVEN KIDDING.  THAT’S WHY THE ECONOMY WAS BOOMING IN THE FIFTIES, EVERYONE HAD MONEY.  //EVERYONE//.

LIKING THE PRESIDENT A LOT DOESN’T FIX INCOME INEQUALITY.  PRO TIP, THE LEFT LIKED OBAMA A LOT MORE THAN THE RIGHT WILL EVER LIKE ROMNEY AND THE ECONOMY IS STILL IN THE SHIT, AND YOU’RE NOW BLAMING OBAMA FOR //NOT FIXING IT// EVEN THOUGH YOUR PARTY HAS FOUGHT HIS EVERY EFFORT TO DO SO THAT DIDN’T TAKE THE FORM OF PUNISHING THE POOR FOR THE EXTRAVAGANCES OF THE RICH, BUT //COME ON//, MARIE ANTOINETTE, THERE’S //NO FUCKING CAKE TO EAT ANYWAYS//.  THE CAKE IS A LIE.  THE CAKE IS AN INSULT TO OUR INTELLIGENCE AND HARD WORK COMING FROM THE GILDED ARISTOCRACY.

Gamers get hella uncomfortable over male sexuality too. Can you imagine a “good male character who just happens to be wearing sexually exploitative outfits because he’s ok with his masculinity?” Constantly has the camera pan lovingly over his asscrack and firm glutes, and big ole dangly ballsack that is totes sweaty from all this MMA and soldiering. Time to hit the showers, and do you, personally, think it’s ok to have a long slow pan up the dude’s package (indiscreetly hidden in a jock of course), to his chiseled physique and erect nipples (pierced). He’s not even a Bond-esque confident man, he’s basically a weird Bowie caricature that’s constantly having near-dickslips in every single cinematic as the completely nonsexualized female characters do their business of being gruff and shooting dudes and advancing the plot. Finally, at the end he falls in love (out of nowhere) and/or is killed by the big baddie.

a forum post I read recently, trying to give a solid example of what ‘male objectification in gaming ’ would actually look like if it was anything equivalent to current female objectification in gaming.

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i love love //love// that the halo anniversary team took the time to make cortana’s breasts bigger but somehow made her animations //less// expressive.  ten years ago she was a sassy firecracker.  now she looks drunk.

Romney: Mark, what I can tell you is this. The fact is that I spent twenty-five years in the private sector. And that obviously teaches you something that you don’t learn if you haven’t spent any time in the private sector. If you were to say to me, tell me what you learned from your schooling that would help you be a President, it’s like, well, how do I begin going through a list like that? You learn through life’s experience. The President’s experience has been exclusively in politics and as a community organizer. Both of those are fine areas of endeavor. But right now we have an economy in trouble, and someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in politics and as a community organizer.

The Page by Mark Halperin | The Complete Romney Interview Transcript

how would i begin to go through a list like that?  do i start at the beginning or the end?  who can know!  isn’t it ultimately //more// helpful for me to just throw my hands up in the air, and ask you to simply //trust me//?  don’t i //look// trustworthy?  don’t i look like //an american//?

[also lol that romney is basically saying ‘i don’t know shit about politics therefore i should be in charge of the government’]

And I’m going to eliminate some programs that I think are duplicative and unnecessary…(such as) Amtrak subsidies, subsidies to PBS, subsidies to the endowment for the arts, to the endowment for the humanities. I’ve laid out eliminating Obamacare…and…reducing the federal payroll, linking pay to government, government workers.

New interview with Mitt Romney

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