porrim-mama:

tahthetrickster:

i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like

AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE

(Source: theyuniversity)

merlinthegrey:

Now that’s a motherfucking gifset. 

(Source: chalkandwater)

Truncated transcript from today’s SCOTUS argument

courtneymilan:

For those of you who don’t want to read the transcript of the oral argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which is all of 82 pages long, or whose heads exploded when you tried to read it, I’ve written a helpful summary. It’s available below the jump.

This summary is still fairly long, but it’s shorter and I’ve worked to make things as accessible as possible to those without legal training.

As a result, there are some places where I might have oversimplified the legal argument. My summarizing might be partially colored by my personal viewpoints, but this is basically what happened, plus or minus the aliens eating children.

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BRILLIANT.

thollukthcaptor:

howardphillipslovecraft:

starscrossed:

pfdiva:

OMG, that’s so fucking cool!  Someone from the science side of Tumblr needs to come along and tell me what’s going on here!

the bubble is freezing you fucking idiot

thank u science side of tumblr

(Source: cineraria)

basilton:

In the early years of space flight, both Russians and Americans used pencils in space. Unfortunately, pencil lead is made of graphite, a highly conductive material. Snapped graphite leads and particles in zero gravity are hugely problematic, as they will get sucked into the air ventilation or electronic equipment, easily causing shorts or fires in the pure oxygen environment of a capsule.

After the fire in Apollo 1 which killed all the astronauts on board, NASA required a writing instrument that wasn’t a fire hazard. Fisher spent over a million dollars (of his own money) creating a pressurized ball point pen, which NASA bought at $2.95 each. The Russian space program also switched over from pencils shortly after.

40 years later snide morons on the internet still snigger about it, because snide morons on the internet never know what they are talking about.

Now…is there a cite?

(Source: yourresidentginger)

ihititwithmyaxe:

karaniwangbinatilyo:

LAWS OF NATURE

Science!, simplified.

Tupperwolf: Wealth, risk, and stuff →

vruba:

Via Anne Galloway on Twitter, I just saw Living With Less. A Lot Less, an opinion piece in the New York Times.

I run into some version of this essay by some moneybags twig-bishop about once a year, and it bugs me every time.

Here’s the thing. Wealth is not a number of dollars. It is not a…

This explains a lot of things about my shopping habits that I never fully understood (and has caused a bit of conflict with people who don’t understand why I operate the way I do).

soiscrewedmycompanions:

I think this might be relevant to some of my follower’s interests…

I laughed. (But I enjoyed it nonetheless :3)

(Source: romy7)

devildoll:

are you fucking kidding me