5 hours ago

2020 has the same energy as that scene in Hercules where all the old people are gathered around the well casually discussing the various calamities befalling the city.

7 hours ago

Hi! My name is sword, and i’m a black nb lesbian and today’s my birthday! My following has slowed down a bit because I’ve focused on OC art, and I would love it if you could promo me!

My art has gotten fairly popular uncredited, and you may have seen these emojis around a lot of popular posts:

I’m the creator of these emojis! So please, if you’ve used these emojis in your servers/camera rolls/posts, and you’d like to support me and my art, please consider following me and/or dropping a tip at paypal.me/mothknights

please rb this if u can as well! ♥

10 hours ago

Im sure you guys remember the net neutrality issue that was going on with the USA a long time ago… well that’s basically what’s happening in my country right now and it isn’t great.

If you want to help, please sign this petition:

https://t.co/4KSs0bULez?amp=1

If you don’t speak spanish here’s a quick explanation on how to do it.

On the first box you write your name.

On the second one you write your e-mail.

The third one is for adding a comment but that’s of course optional.

Please sign the petition and rb this!!!

I dont usually do this but because of how important it is i will tag some people: @proshipshy @proship-pokesil @androgynousblackbox @kiranatrix @noxiatoxia @ratboychi

I am so sorry for tagging you, but most of you have have far more reach than i do and i rlly do want more people to sign this

This shit is no joke. You wouldn’t be able to repair your own electronics (laptops, smartphones, etc). This would destroy tech repair businesses unaffiliated to official companies. This would take away the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people.

Just to offer some rough translation:Things that would be illegal if this law came to fruition:-Places to replenish tonners or make copies.-Places to repair phones, computers, electronic. You could only take them to official affiliated ones or buy new products.-Buy new processors, memory RAM, screen for computers, as selling pieces for PC gaming computers.-Download articles for scientific, medical o academic research. Sites like Sci-Hub and Library Genesis would be blocked for Mexico.-Access to platforms like Facebook or Netflix could be blocked by a pay wall.

16 hours ago

please don’t do it

please take voting seriously!!!

Please don’t fucking do this shit

Do not vote for kanye West

He's also a trump supporter so you'd literally be voting for trump

1 day ago

stuff that lancer did in-game that i don’t really see many ppl talk about: a compilation

 ‘ he made the tutorial guys beanies after his dad fired them???? that’s so sweet wtf this means lancer canonically knows how to knit/crochet. this is untapped potential, please go hogwild with this information ‘

Ok, BUT did

you know who he might learn this from?

That’s right, homemade.

ROUXLS CAN KNIT

I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE THIS. OH MY GOD

1 day ago

O H I JUST REALIZED

THAT WAITRESS FROM DELTARUNE

IS THAT LION FROM UNDERTALE

MAYBE I’M WRONG?? IDK

2 days ago

In Hollywood blockbusters, explosions and eruptions are often among the stars of the show. In space, explosions, eruptions and twinkling of actual stars are a focus for scientists who hope to better understand their births, lives, deaths and how they interact with their surroundings. Spend some of your Fourth of July taking a look at these celestial phenomenon:

Credit: NASA/Chandra X-ray Observatory

An Astral Exhibition

This object became a sensation in the astronomical community when a team of researchers pointed at it with our Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope in 1901, noting that it suddenly appeared as one of the brightest stars in the sky for a few days, before gradually fading away in brightness. Today, astronomers cite it as an example of a “classical nova,” an outburst produced by a thermonuclear explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star, the dense remnant of a Sun-like star.

Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope

A Twinkling Tapestry

The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resemble a glittering fireworks display. The sparkling centerpiece is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2, named for Swedish astronomer Bengt Westerlund who discovered the grouping in the 1960s. The cluster resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina.

Credit: NASA/THEMIS/Sebastian Saarloos

An Illuminating Aurora

Sometimes during solar magnetic events, solar explosions hurl clouds of magnetized particles into space. Traveling more than a million miles per hour, these coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, made up of hot material called plasma take up to three days to reach Earth. Spacecraft and satellites in the path of CMEs can experience glitches as these plasma clouds pass by. In near-Earth space, magnetic reconnection incites explosions of energy driving charged solar particles to collide with atoms in Earth’s upper atmosphere. We see these collisions near Earth’s polar regions as the aurora. Three spacecraft from our Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission, observed these outbursts known as substorms.

Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope//ESA/STScI

A Shining Supermassive Merger

Every galaxy has a black hole at its center. Usually they are quiet, without gas accretions, like the one in our Milky Way. But if a star creeps too close to the black hole, the gravitational tides can rip away the star’s gaseous matter. Like water spinning around a drain, the gas swirls into a disk around the black hole at such speeds that it heats to millions of degrees. As an inner ring of gas spins into the black hole, gas particles shoot outward from the black hole’s polar regions. Like bullets shot from a rifle, they zoom through the jets at velocities close to the speed of light. Astronomers using our Hubble Space Telescope observed correlations between supermassive black holes and an event similar to tidal disruption, pictured above in the Centaurus A galaxy. 

Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope/ESA

A Stellar Explosion

Supernovae can occur one of two ways. The first occurs when a white dwarf—the remains of a dead star—passes so close to a living star that its matter leaks into the white dwarf. This causes a catastrophic explosion. However most people understand supernovae as the death of a massive star. When the star runs out of fuel toward the end of its life, the gravity at its heart sucks the surrounding mass into its center. At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. Our Hubble Telescope captured this image of Eta Carinae, binary star system. The larger of the two stars in the Eta Carinae system is a huge and unstable star that is nearing the end of its life, and the event that the 19th century astronomers observed was a stellar near-death experience. Scientists call these outbursts supernova impostor events, because they appear similar to supernovae but stop just short of destroying their star.

Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

An Eye-Catching Eruption

Extremely energetic objects permeate the universe. But close to home, the Sun produces its own dazzling lightshow, producing the largest explosions in our solar system and driving powerful solar storms.. When solar activity contorts and realigns the Sun’s magnetic fields, vast amounts of energy can be driven into space. This phenomenon can create a sudden flash of light—a solar flare.The above picture features a filament eruption on the Sun, accompanied by solar flares captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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2 days ago

i don’t know how to say it but please keep an eye on Hong Kong. it is now illegal for people in hk to speak out or ask for international support/foreign aid under the crime of collusion with foreign forces. a new national security agency is coming to hk to enforce this and they are authorized to surveillance those they suspect. The population of 7.5 million people are all expected to comply esp since they are installing officers to prevent protests in the wake of the bill

2 days ago

this fourth of july think of the indigenous people of america who had their country and land stolen from them with little to no reparations or apologies. land is still being taken. sacred grounds are still being ripped away. there is no “independence” for the people who were here first.

First Nations COVID-19 Relief Fund

White Earth Land Recovery Fund

ILTF Land Recovery Fund

IEN Mutual Aid Fund

2 days ago

Mark zuckerburg is suing native Hawaiians because he wants to build mansions on their land. Sign this petition (but don’t donate to change.org)

here's a site where you can donate to native Hawaiians. let me know if this is the wrong organization or if there are better ones i can link.

2 days ago

Kairi formchanges her keyblade into a guitar and starts fighting like Demyx

You’ve heard of “Dance Water, Dance”, now “DANCE FUCKER, DANCE!”

3 days ago

So we’re currently in the middle of a 4000 year content hiatusWhich is unfortunate, because ever since the big iconic Halloween-day surprise demo drop, my brain has been rattling a baseball bat against the inside of my skull and chanting “CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT” Undertale was like candy for the thematic analysis side of my brain. I still wake up in a cold sweat some nights going “fun value……he put a quantitative value on fun…..numbers going up…..” I am desperate to know what kind of themes Deltarune is going to tackle. Can you effectively predict that from one (1) 3 hour demo? No. Does my brain care? No. Which is what lead me to the wonderful world of intertextuality, or examining how a media text is shaped by other media texts It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this with me doing a playthrough of EarthBound, the video game that Toby has cited as his biggest inspiration for Undertale That was fun & interesting (the “throwing away an emotionally engaging experience to grimly make Numbers Go Up” thing feels a lot closer to home after trying and failing to get the sword of kings), but it didn’t provide much insight into Deltarune, specifically. It wasn’t enough. I needed more. I was willing to dig into literally any intertext (except Homestuck, which no force on this earth can compel me to read :) ) anyway thats how I ended up playing Toby Fox’s high school fangame

And somehow (sorry Toby) I walked out of there with an unironic theory (a game theory….if you will….): Deltarune is Toby’s adult reexamination of the Halloween Hack.

Keep reading

3 days ago

Twitter thread

Junk Terror Bill carrd

Para Sin Paras carrd

Email protest google doc

change.org petition (reminder not to donate to change.org, the money goes to the website, not folks who actually need it)

3 days ago

Let's go KH ladies!!!

3 days ago

Happy Birthday Banjo-Kazooie!! One of my favorite 3D platformers that still inspires me to this day.

3 days ago

Ok but. Same.

This human has delightfully bouncy hair

It is sad the song is necessary but it is a bop.

I would pay good money to hear Frank Turner cover this

3 days ago

melody of memory

4 days ago

my asshole cat once again comes to me and does his usual indications for “hey, there’s a problem I need you to fix, please help.”

because I love him and he is weirdly smart and actually really good at figuring out problems and getting help (like when he lets me know the bird feeder is empty because he wants to watch the birds) I trustingly get up and follow him.

he reaches the window, outside of which is a thunderstorm. he is very afraid of thunderstorms, and normally does not go anywhere near the windows when they happen. upon reaching the window he indicates in his usual fashion, “here is the problem, please fix it.”

no idea whether to be flattered and endeared that my cat thinks I control the weather, or frustrated because my cat is now mad at me for refusing to control the weather on his behalf. this is the second time this has happened.

4 days ago

Was anyone gonna tell me Vincent Martella, voice of Phineas Flynn on the Disney Channel original show Phineas and Ferb is on some absolute king shit on his twitter or did i just have to see this amazing series of tweets myself?

There’s more just go fucking look yourself

BOY’S ON SOME REAL KING SHIT LEMME TELL YA

I have to add this gem

4 days ago

The US government is taking advantage of the Black Lives Matter media coverage to try and pass more government surveillance. Please sign the petition and share with friends. Call you state representatives and tell them you do not support this bill.

They are voting on this bill this week. Please sign the petition, reblog, and call your state representatives. This is bad for everyone but it’s especially bad for POC.

The bill literally gives the police the power to look at your messages. If you don’t think they will use that power to target individuals affiliated with Black Lives Matter, you’re wrong. The bill is getting little to no media coverage. Please spead the word. The Senate votes on the Earn It Act this Thursday July 2nd. We have to do something about this now.

5 days ago

I don’t think anime vs western animation are as different as people claim due to the fact they have inspired and fed off each other for decades (they’re friends!!), however I do think our environmental messages to kids are… significantly and interestingly different

whereas, say Ghibli films express a deep Shinto-based respect and reverence for nature:

fighting for it as a means of both self-preservation and expression of heroism revolving around justice

and a matter of other groups of humans (the government often) going up against the stalwart youth

This is contrasted to western animation which tends to be like…. hey! look at this funny bat! And pollution is an evil spirit you can fight like physically 

that isn’t to say the west doesn’t depict environmentalism as heroic and even involving collective action, Captain Planet is a good example of this

but individualism is still very present, the struggle is stalwart youths versus an individual or individual corporation, hell, sometimes you even get a sympathetic backstory for the corporation and weirdly cool rock song

to be clear, antagonists like Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke are sympathetic too, but it is… different, Lady Eboshi is trying to survive due to circumstances but it is all of Irontown that represents a system of corruption

In comparison, there is this western idea of corruption coming from individuals rather than systems as well as the fact they aren’t trying to save nature because we are part of it, but because nature itself is a person and thus worthy of respect

In Fern Gully the fairy’s represent nature, the Lorax represents nature, Captain Planet is literally just nature, all things we can talk to and relate to, where in Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa the ultimate nature spirits are something you can’t talk to and are frankly terrifying, awe-inspiring, and mighty

Western epistemology is heavily rooted in Christianity which says that man has dominion over fish of the sea, fowl of the air, and creatures of the land, ect, which leads to a utilitarian and separate view of nature– what can it do for us as separate (higher) beings, and the only way to combat this view is to say “actually nature is a person and thus worthy of protection”

Whereas Japanese Shintoism has much more emphasis on the idea that we are all part of a whole with nature, nature is the ultimate divine with nothing more important than the other, and something worthy of protection not because we can understand it, but because we can’t

“It’s a mistake to think about nature from the idea of efficiency, that forests should be preserved because they are essential to human beings”– Hayao Miyazaki

this is not to completely bash western animation, it does have other strengths such as emphasizing children’s relationship to empathy, empathy toward others in “Toy Story” and empathy toward themselves in “Inside Out” 

However, our methods of conveying environmentalism could use some updating and steering away from “goofy” and “relatable” and maybe a little more terror and awe involved with fighting the good fight

5 days ago

a thread of links of petitions/donations/information about palestine conflict

free palestine card

palestine could end in 8 days

put palestine on map

oppose annexation of palestinian land

support an end to the israeli occupation of palestine

petition for google to stop erasing palestine

support peace and justice in palestine

donate food and medical supplies

palestine must live

end military funding to israel

take a stand for palestine

Defend Dr. Hatem Bazian and Palestinian Academic Freedom at UC Berkeley

Palestine and Israel: Mapping an annexation

palestine children's relief fund

palestinian human rights

release detained palestinian children

release palestinian political prisoners

Call for the UK government to formally recognise the State of Palestine

new york stands with palestine

donate

fundraise for imeu

save the children

save a life in gaza

gaza needs us

the israeli and palestine conflict (historical background) explained - a thread https://t.co/Ws70HWCmc2

donations help much more than signing petitions !!! signal boost

5 days ago

OP added a photo of the famous Audrey!

5 days ago