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searchingforknowledge: fuckyeah-nerdery: Abbey appreciation...

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:31:41 -0700

fuckyeah-nerdery:

Abbey appreciation post 2012.

ABBEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY and GIBBBBBBSSSSSS.

Warren Ellis » Pale Electric Blue Dot This is a photo of...

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:29:17 -0700

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.

wordsandturds replied to your photo: [wordsandturds liked your...

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:27:15 -0700

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Umm I’ve been following you forevs get on the ball I reblogged you last week boo

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’.

Obama spending binge never happened

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:12:02 -0700

Obama spending binge never happened:

Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true.

But it didn’t happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.

Even hapless Herbert Hoover managed to increase spending more than Obama has.

Here are the facts, according to the official government statistics:

In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush’s presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. Check the official numbers at the Office of Management and Budget.

In fiscal 2010 — the first budget under Obama — spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion.

In fiscal 2011, spending rose 4.3% to $3.60 trillion.

In fiscal 2012, spending is set to rise 0.7% to $3.63 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget that was agreed to last August.

Finally in fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3% to $3.58 trillion. Read the CBO’s latest budget outlook.

Over Obama’s four budget years, federal spending is on track to rise from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion, an annualized increase of just 0.4%.

There has been no huge increase in spending under the current president, despite what you hear.

BUT IF WE CUT OBAMACARE WE CAN BALANCE THE BUDGET. DON’T ASK ABOUT THE F-35 THAT’S DIFFERENT WE NEED THAT TO KEEP CHINA IN LINE.

[wordsandturds liked your photo: therealkatiewest is now...

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:07:00 -0700

[wordsandturds liked your photo: therealkatiewest is now following you [hello…]

[WHAT? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!]

//she’s following me too//. i have to go hide forever now.

therealkatiewest is now following you [hello gorgeous]

Fri, 25 May 2012 22:47:00 -0700

therealkatiewest is now following you

[hello gorgeous]

"Romney: Well, let me step back first and say I like trade. I like free trade. It is good for a..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 22:30:08 -0700

“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..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 22:10:00 -0700

“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..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:50:14 -0700

“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.

(via nothingbutsurrender)

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..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:40:00 -0700

“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)..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:31:04 -0700

“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

(via climateadaptation)

bonaparte

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:27:46 -0700

bonaparte

motoko

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:27:35 -0700

motoko

ordinary

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:22:54 -0700

ordinary

soft

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:22:07 -0700

soft

close

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:22:00 -0700

choosy-moms-choose-gif: kari byron is a fancy...

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:19:32 -0700

choosy-moms-choose-gif:

kari byron is a fancy lady.

[mythbusters]

philnoto: Spock’s Daughter

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:49:08 -0700

philnoto:

Spock’s Daughter

"I have no process. I start a new tour with the old tour. I never write a show; it’s always..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:47:13 -0700

“I have no process. I start a new tour with the old tour. I never write a show; it’s always improvised from whatever comes into me that night. Any show is a constant work in progress. I’m constantly chucking out old stuff which is boring me and improvising new stuff. Then I’ll develop that and a week later I’ll think, Oh, there’s another bit I can add to that. It’s a constantly moving process. About five to 10 minutes of my show is improvised, but only five to 10 minutes.”

- Eddie Izzard

via Off to see the Izzard - Salon.com
(via this-is-ryan)

this-is-ryan: philnoto: Highly Illogical HAHAHAHA also phil...

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:44:00 -0700

this-is-ryan:

philnoto:

Highly Illogical

HAHAHAHA

also phil noto has a tumblr, extrapolate.