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A love affair with the universe.
Blogs I follow:
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"FHM’s ‘study’ uses a cohort of men self-selected according to their preference for the kind of women who feature in FHM, conditions them with a monthly barrage of images labeled ‘sexy’, and then asks them to name some sexy women. Even if you accepted the bogus premise that sex appeal could be ranked on a universal scale, this would be a rubbish way to do it. To see just how rubbish, here’s an experiment you can try at home: go to any porn site that ranks its most popular clips, and have a look at the top 100 clips that men actually pay for - the range of outfits, body types, situations, ages and skin colours far exceeds anything you’ll find in FHM’s list. When it comes to what people find sexy, there’s a truth in porn considerably purer than the sterile, manufactured consent of glossy magazines."
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Timeline #27
2004: Though the Mars Spirit rover only had a 90 day mission, its outstanding engineering and performance enabled it to extend its mission over a staggering 2269 days. It diligently did its duty until it got stuck in soft sand that it couldn’t break free of. After several failed attempts to mobilise it again over a period of months, it slowly lost its ability to recharge its battery fully, and ended up losing all communication. It remained a hero right until the end.
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(Source: circleart)
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is that tree fucking serious right now
like was that actually fucking necessary
this tree does actually not give a fuck
Square roots!
This tree is humming “Anything you can do, I can do awesome” isn’t it?
(Source: felicitouslotus)
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And they’re off!
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George Lucas’ rich neighbors don’t want him building a movie studio in their backyard. His response is the best thing he’s done in years.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, for four decades Lucas has owned a large swath of land in Marin County in the North San Francisco Bay and has spent the past few years trying to transform the ranch on it into a massive, nearly 300,000 square foot, state-of-the-art movie studio complete with day care center, restaurant, gym and a 200-car garage. His neighbors, however, have rejected it every step of the way. Despite the promise of bringing $300 million worth of economic activity to the area, the already-well off neighbors are worried about years’ worth of construction activity and the additional foot traffic it will bring into their neighborhood once completed.
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So what is George Lucas going to do with his property now that he’s tired of his rich neighbors putting up a not-in-my-backyard stink? He wants to transform the property into low-income housing, naturally, ending their official statement with this zinger, “If everyone feels that housing is less impactful on the land, then we are hoping that people who need it the most will benefit.”He’s working with the Marin Community Foundation to instead construct affordable housing for either low-income families or seniors living on small, fixed incomes. In order to smooth along the development, he’s already given them all of the pricey technical studies and land surveys Lucasfilm spent years conducting. And we think that’s just great. Because if there’s one thing rich people will hate more than having movie magic made in their backyard, it’s poor people moving in.
"-George Lucas Does Something Likeable For a Change
This is amazing. (via liquidiousfleshbag)
Huh. An actual surprise face is on me right now. No sarcasm.
(via genderbitch)
Well….
This is surprisingly pleasant.
And watch how much racist and classist vitriol these fuckers will put up…
(via sourcedumal)
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Timeline #6
1958: America swiftly answered to the threat they perceived from Russia’s Sputnik missions. Explorer 1 became the first US satellite to reach orbit only the following year after Sputnik 1. Weighing only 13 kg it was still able to perform rudimentary radiation experiments while in orbit.
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Men who want to flirt with women have to realize: Women live in a state of continual vigilance about sexual safety. It’s like having a mild case of hay fever that never goes away. It’s not debilitating. You’re not weak. You’re not afraid. You just suck it up and get on with your life. It’s nothing that’s going to stop you from making discoveries, or climbing mountains, or falling in love. Sometimes you can almost forget about it. It doesn’t mean it’s not there, subtly sucking your energy. You learn to avoid situations that make it worse and seek out conditions that make it better.
If a female stranger is wary around you, it is not because she suspects you are a rapist, or that all men are rapists. It’s because a general level of circumspection is what vigilance requires. Don’t take it personally.
If this frustrates you, try to remember that women are blamed for lapsed vigilance. If a woman does get raped, everyone rushes to see where she let her guard down. Was she drinking? Was she alone? Was she wearing a short skirt? Did she go to a strange man’s room for coffee at 4am?
A woman must be seen to be vigilant as well as be vigilant. If she is deemed insufficiently vigilant, she will be at least partly blamed for any sexual violence that befalls her. If she’s regarded as downright reckless, that “evidence” can be used to completely exonerate her rapist. If it comes down to a he said/she said dispute over whether sex was consensual, as so many rape cases do, the dispute becomes a referendum on whether the woman seems like the sort of reckless person who would have sex with a stranger.
If a woman does go back to a strange man’s hotel room at 4am, even if she only wants a coffee and conversation, she’s more or less given him the power to rape her. No jury is going to believe she went up there for anything but sex. So, don’t be surprised if a stranger reacts badly to that suggestion.
"-Attention, Space Cadets: Do Not Proposition Women in the Elevator
I wish I didn’t need to reblog stuff like this. I wish people *got it*. But judging from the ridiculous response to these posts, stuff like this clearly still needs to be repeated.
(via lavender-labia)
I had a really uncomfortable experience on the streetcar last night, making this depressingly relevant.
(via nessfraserloves)
It pisses me off when MRAs will whine about women not trusting them, and using the statistic that more women* are raped by people that they know and not strangers, therefore being wary of strangers is oppression. First of all, fuck MRAs, and secondly, let’s just make invisible all of the scores of female-bodied people who actually have had sexual violence done to them by a stranger why don’t we? And thirdly, what the sense does it even make to suggest we trust strangers more than non-strangers? Does that not completely negate the very definitions of “relationship” and “trust”? Which are things we’re generally supposed to have with people who aren’t strangers? We might as well just not trust anybody with anything ever and live in complete hermetic isolation, by that logic.
God, women, stop being so afraid of everything and having any sense of self-preservation.
(via aquapunk)
^ (After reading this and the last comment in it) No, thanks. I’m happy with being overly wary about strangers. Rape is the worst thing you can ever go through, specially when the justice system seems to be against you. And I NEVER intent on risking myself again on that, I don’t want to go through that experience aver again.
(via driftsmybitch)
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Stephanie Wilson and Lisa Nowak hard at work with the robotic arm in 2006.
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