NASA putting mice in zero-g environments is one of the funniest fucking tests anyone has ever done and I hate having to hand that to them. Put those beasts in a situation.

get ready for

cutthroat kitchen aka alton brown’s bdsm culinary extravaganza 

What even the fuck

It’s possible I used to have a huge crush on him, and really want to see more of this… it’s just a possibility though. 

As an avid good eats fan this is a level of tumblr I’d never thought I’d see.

My best friend mentioned still being really freaked out by the Great Fairy fountain scene that scared them as a kid; So I made this in the hopes that the Great Fairy would seem a little less scary.

fuck your entire life

The rise of the mechanical keyboard fandom proves that there is an innate human desire for clickity clacks that is going unfulfilled

10+ years on Tumblr and all it took was a frog in thigh-highs to get to 1k notes. Y’all never cease to bewilder me.

This man gets it.

“There’s a cure?!” asked the girl that kills everything she touches.  “Hey shut up we’re perf” replied the girl that makes clouds. 

norman reedus and his son mingus dont look related at all

this looks like matty b raps took a blind homeless man to a basketball game instead of a nice family photo

fuck you thats not his name

what do i have to gain by lying on this site? what the fuck is in it for me? fame? fortune? clout? meaningless distractions. there is no pleasure greater than the knowledge of mingus lucien reedus’ true name. and as i have suffered to gain this, so too shall you all. live as a flagellant and bleed in his name. our lord, mingus.

The Reedus family’s cat also has a weird ass name but the story is so cute and Norman is a great father omg

Chaotic good

If an actual zombie outbreak were to happen in New York City, everyone would be ‘undead’ within 24 hours.

However, researchers who estimated the zombie infection rate in America using the same method epidemiologists would for real diseases also found that people who live farther from big cities would have a whole month to prepare, with the safest place being the northern Rockies. 

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how y’all feelin

“I believe I can fly…” [video]

LEMON GARLIC SHRIMP RECIPE

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

#you did it pal

Companies are no longer grounded in reality.

My roommate recently came home pale-faced, like he’d seen a ghost. More like witnessed a massacre. Mass-firings were just done at his company. His job, he’d been assured, was safe. All of his coworkers weren’t so safe, and he had to get texts and phone calls from his work-friends, people he’d worked alongside for years, people he‘d gone out to have drinks with, learn they were no longer employed. To say he had survivor’s guilt would not be hyperbole.

Was this because the company had fallen on hard times? The pandemic has been rough for a lot of industries. No, actually, the company had turned a very nice profit both last year and previous, even in such a troublesome market.

The problem was, you see, the company’s stock price hadn’t risen quite as high as had been projected. They’d made money, sure. Quite a lot of money, in fact. But too many people had projected, i.e., bet the company would do better.

How did the company offset this “loss”? Easy: fire people. Quickest and easiest way to pad the numbers.

No but you don’t understand stock had fallen a percentage point! There was no other way!

We see it all the time. Hugely successful companies reporting ‘record-breaking’ profits then fire huge segments of their workforce - the very people responsible for those record-breaking profits. Why? The money “saved” on personnel costs can boost the stocks even higher!

If your company is struggling, not turning a profit, losing money, people expect layoffs. But to work hard, be successful, your company churning along strong and healthy, and you still lose your job? For what? Because half a percentage point that was dictated by speculation, guessing, by gambling that things would go up or down a certain amount on a graph of rich-people feelings?

I wonder how next year’s speculations will be affected with the information that the company laid off a lot of the people responsible for last year’s profits? Probably not much because the workers are just the components at the company; it’s the leadership that drives the ship, that makes the successes.Those leaders whose bonuses are coincidentally decided by, among other things, the stock price.

Companies are no longer grounded in reality.

“Don’t learn about money, kids. Don’t learn about economics. I know cosmic horror usually focuses on how the biological or astronomical sciences will expose you to the terrible true face of god and you’ll go mad, clawing out your eyes as things that Cannot Exist destroy your life and kill you, but that’s stupid. Biology and Astronomy follow rules.”

“Economics is the tongue of devils and madness and it turns mortal men of moral character into alien monsters incapable of comprehending even the most basic of human connections.”

It’s important to recognize that this isn’t horror, it isn’t insanity, and it isn’t really about companies no longer being grounded in reality.

Sure, it might be comforting to look at business decisions as making little to no sense or being the domain of nightmares, but that doesn’t actually arm you with any useful knowledge in this fight. It just teaches you to treat these things like incomprehensible boogeymen.

You *should* be studying economics. And politics. And the labor theory of value. Because…

Capitalism is highly rational, highly biased, and completely amoral.

Human beings love to find optimal solutions to any problem. The problem capitalism is trying to solve is how to accumulate and centralize the most wealth and power. The kind of behavior described above is completely rational if you understand that capitalism is about meeting that requirement for profit and growth.

It doesn’t care about me, it doesn’t care about you; it doesn’t care about anyone. You can’t make a capitalistic system moral because it does not consider moral concerns when trying to optimize for profit. Literally anything you can do that increases profit is encouraged, regardless of what harm it might do.

These things aren’t alien horror, they’re completely understandable and predictable. And we need to understand them if we’re going to dismantle this kind of system and replace it with something that doesn’t harm people.

There’s a quote that came out of the Ford Pinto Memo:

“If a corporation can make $99 by killing no one, and $100 by killing a thousand people, then a thousand people are going to die.”

The most true and disgusting quote that ever came out of Leverage was the pharmaceutical CEO who said that 10% of the profits on a drug that killed people would go towards a class action lawsuit. That’s like tipping your waiter. EUGH

Andrew Garfield: “To heal the most traumatic moment of his own life through doing it for his younger brother. Making sure that he didn’t have the same fate, there’s something cosmically beautiful about that. It meant getting a second chance at saving Gwen.”

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) dir. Jon Watts Screenplay by Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers