Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell
imagine if a fuckin……. giant alien just showed up and stuck a huge hand in front of your face and then proceeded to offer you three different houses and wouldn’t stop until you moved out of your old shitty apartment and then helped you fuckin move
and then just left
Today I heard someone saying some stupid shit and then I learned that they’re a landlord and it made sense.
I have found that the biggest deterrent to assholes is asking "why?" Over and over.
"We can't have universal healthcare!"
Why?
"Because I don't wanna pay for a strangers health!"
Why?
"Because if they can't afford their own health care that isn't my problem!"
Why?
And so on and so on. Keep making them dig. Keep making them explain until they can't anymore and are faced with nothing but the ugly mask of bias and prejudice. Only then can they truly see that taking it off is an option. Whether they do or not is up to them. And that choice tells you whether they deserve more of your energy or not.
Trans kids can't be trans. Why? Why not? Why?
Free food is bad for ppl. Why? Why? Why? Why is feeding ppl bad?
Why?
Why is helping one another bad?
Why is doing what humans are genetically designed to do, to help and care for one another to ensure survival, bad?
Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM, 1980′s
#oh is it time to repost this susan kare photo again
Important addition y’all
Steve: 1
Secret Service: 0
For those who don’t know, Steve Jackson Games was raided by the Secret Service in 1990, and all copies of the then-upcoming GURPS Cyberpunk were confiscated. Though this was bad for the company financially (they were set back months on a major project, and had to do layoffs), it did lend a certain air of pizazz to their product.
They ended up suing the government, and won. This was the first high-profile case for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which successfully sued on behalf of the company, winning around $300,000 in the case.
The full story is here: http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
GURPS Cyberpunk still bears a proud label on the cover that this is "The book that was seized by the US Secret Service!"
A common misconception is that “red fox” refers to our fur colour. It’s actually because we are communists.
that one fucking concept art of the dragon age races that depicts dwarves like this:
you suck and i defy you
this makes me violent <3
Calling all dragon age artists! Let’s see your interpretation of what dwarven women should look like!
Okay, here u go
@luccorvus can u please do the Qunari next!!
Sure thing
Elton John's giant Pinball Wizard boots from the movie Tommy (1975). He agreed to take the part but insisted he get to keep the large Doc Marten boots when filming ended.
Elton John sold them in 1988 and they were purchased by R. Griggs Group Ltd who own them today. They are now on permanent display at Northampton Museum.
It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.
He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.
Like, look at this stuff????
It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!
Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.
And then there's this one:
The Fantasy
For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.
The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.
But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.
Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.
This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.
"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.
"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.
"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.
There’s also Alexei Leonov, writer and artist and first person to conduct a spacewalk!
You can't forget this, the first art made in space.
March 1965, Alexei Leonov made this drawing only moments after narrowly surviving the very first space walk.
I still think it's insane that the known fact that the CIA used NATO to give paramilitary training to neo-Nazi terrorist groups all over Europe gets enough attention in the Broad Debate TM
It was known as Operation Gladio and (Officially) ran between 1956 and 1990, during the course of which nearly every European country had a neo-Nazi terrorist group armed and trained by the CIA, NATO and often their own intelligence agency. They started with the notion of being stay-behind in case of Communist invasion or victory in the elections, but then shifted their strategy to trying to crush the broad Left (socialists, communists of all stripes and Anarchists) by both directly attacking us and by carrying out terrorist violence and having their friends in the police blame it on us. In Italy, where we know the most about the operations of Gladio, they carried out dozens of terrorist attacks, killing and maiming hundreds and leading up to the Years of Lead as the Left responded to the violence by defending itself. But Italy was not their only area of operations - there was a branch in most European countries, and there has not been sufficient research to establish exactly what these groups did. In Sweden, where I'm from, the local branch is suspected of being Legion Wasa, but we simply don't know because there has never been an inquiry of any kind, for example. But this might very well be the link explaining how Nazis got a hold of a bunch of millitary hardware that they used to launch a spate of robberies and murders, as well as tossing handgranades at offices and members of my union, the syndicalist SAC.
Again, we'll never know if NATO was the reason my political beginnings was carried out in an atmosphere of fear and defensiveness, but the fact that it might have been is in itself remarkable. Whatever the truth of that, we do know for a fact that they've injured and murdered hundreds, and from the only country where this was ever properly researched.
if you’re not a fan of gory horror just say that don’t try to make the genre something it’s not
it’s called horror bc it’s supposed to cause discomfort and even disgust. a foreign concept to you weeaboo shits
Guy who transforms into a swarm of locusts when shaken vigorously: hey can you turn the music down it's resonating kind of hard and shaking the ground and I don't want to endanger anyone
DJ Loudmusic: SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THESE SICK JAMS! HERE'S MY NEXT SONG, "EPIC JUNGLE BEAT THAT GIVES LOCUSTS THE DESIRE TO KILL HUMAN BEINGS"
bad news: my parole officer has informed me that "force femming a young pretty man after he suggested that me and my girlfriend turn our date into a threesome" is a violation of my parole and i will be taken into custody
good news: my two girlfriends will be present when my parole officer shows up at my house
What felony were you on parole for?
And how on Earth does that act not count for good behavior?
that's not important right now. what is important is that me and my three girlfriends need a place to lay low, just until the heat dies down
While you're laying low, perhaps your girlfriends could relax with some recreational drugs.
