rangerkimmy:

mazarin221b:

random-nexus:

icykitty:

soaringsparrows:

nataliesfantasticadventures:

I Promise I’m Not a Murderer: The Story of a Researching Writer

now with a sequel:

I Swear I’m Not Pregnant, I’m Just Naming Characters

Don’t forget: I’m not Trying to Break Into This Building, I Just Need to Know the Layout of it

The Sequel: I’m Really Not Poisoning Anyone, I Just Need To Know The Symptoms OF Poisoning And How Long They WOULD Take To Die From It.

Additionally: Please Don’t Put Me In A CIA Prison, I’m Just Trying To Figure Out How A Character Could Sneak Into Afghanistan From Pakistan While Avoiding the Border Police and the US Military.

Spinoff: I’m Not a Terrorist, I’m Just Curious About How Bombs Work

awkward-antisocial:

no-the-fandoms-protested:

move your finger back and forth so it looks like the cat is following it

This is more entertaining than it should be.

its even more fun to do with your mouse scroller

zac-tac:

kazard:

residentfeline:

roxasdavemakara:

lepreas:

caturday:

New trick

c???ats?!?!???

cat that is a no

how do cats even work

Cats:

• A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound.
• The little tufts of hair in a cat’s ear that help keep out dirt direct sounds into the ear, and insulate the ears are called “ear furnishings.”
• The ability of a cat to find its way home is called “psi-traveling.” Experts think cats either use the angle of the sunlight to find their way or that cats have magnetized cells in their brains that act as compasses.
• One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
• A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.
• A cat’s nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human.
• If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133 °F.
• A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.
•  Cats don’t have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws.
• The claws on the cat’s back paws aren’t as sharp as the claws on the front paws because the claws in the back don’t retract and, consequently, become worn.
• Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10.
• Researchers are unsure exactly how a cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that a cat purrs by vibrating vocal folds deep in the throat. To do this, a muscle in the larynx opens and closes the air passage about 25 times per second.
• A cat almost never meows at another cat, mostly just humans. Cats typically will spit, purr, and hiss at other cats.
• A cat’s back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34.
• Some cats have survived falls of over 65 feet (20 meters), due largely to their “righting reflex.” The eyes and balance organs in the inner ear tell it where it is in space so the cat can land on its feet. Even cats without a tail have this ability.
• A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance.
• A cat’s hearing is better than a dog’s. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human.
• A cat’s brain is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to a dog’s. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.

And that’s how cat’s work.

Thanks science

Have some science! :D

crashing-ships:

ccbunz:

ritnou:

ryliceracc:

ask-zelda-ss:

bookworm28:

OMG THIS IS AMAZING. TUMBLR HOW HAVEN’T YOU PICKED THIS UP.

   its made by 

 Carolyn Chrisman

http://www.youtube.com/user/fiddlegrifffilms?feature=watch

thats her youtube

 

[[Sorry guys, I try to keep my blog…uh…clean? I dunno, just constant I guess, but i can’t not reblog this. It’s so wonderful, you all must seriously watch this. It’s so good!]]

This is really good. 

WATCH IT YOU SHIT STAINS.

ITS REALLY GOOD

THIS IS SO GOOD! 

PLEASE WATCH

;A; AHHHH

Oh my gosh. This was BEAUTIFUL. 0-0

videohall:

Husky throws a temper tantrum for watching TV on the couch. Cutest tantrum I’ve ever seen

> Luka: Why? I know it’s just for some bs.

> YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH BADGES TO CONTROL ME!

> “I’m coming” -Dog (at the end)

> “Mooooooom, let me finish my shoooooow.”

In case you need to smile and laugh.

craftyjai:

ride-the-vibes:

This is JASON FYLES and he goes to my university (Newcastle University, North East of England) He is 19 years old, 5’8, ginger hair and slim. He was last seen in the Sandyford area at 2:45am on Thursday morning and has not been seen since. He was wearing a blue shirt, grey cardigan, beige chinos and brown ankle boots. Everyone in uni is so worried about him along with his family and friends. We are coming together as a university to appeal for his safe return. It is thought that he lost his friends on the night out and tried to make his way back by himself. Please, I am begging for you to REBLOG THIS, even if you don’t live in Newcastle, or England. Every REBLOG means that someone else will see his face, they will know who we are looking for, and your followers could be the one to know his whereabouts. Stay safe Jason, we’re looking for you. 
THIS WILL NOT RUIN YOUR BLOG! 

Local news report

PLEASE. Nobody reblogged my own post on this which I posted an hour or so ago so I’m wondering if nobody will now. This guy is my friend. If I have ever sent you a nice ask or reblogged something of yours and it made you happy for a second (or even if I haven’t; this is about helping him, not doing me a favour) for God’s sake just help now, help to find my friend Jason. You want me to make him human to you?

• Once we all grew beans in pots as part of a Biology experiment- the experiment failed miserably and made the whole lab stink, but his was the only bean that grew and he was actually pretty proud about it
• He learned to knit as part of a school project where he had to learn a creative skill, and when a couple of people teased him about it he said “gender is a social construct” and carried on knitting like a badass
• He loves the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws all his silk shirts around and he and I used to giggle over it together
• Once I asked him if he had a string of tinsel I could use in a photoshoot and he brought me a big cardboard box full of tinsel and fairy lights because he’s a helpful and lovely guy

He’s HUMAN and he needs our HELP and just PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING REBLOG THIS??? He’s been missing for four days now- when he went missing he would have been wearing his contact lenses and he won’t have had his (very thick) glasses with him so by now he’ll have had to take his contacts out and throw them away and he won’t be able to see well and oh God just please signal boost this

peachpancakes:

siochan-leat:

IRISH DANCING TO DUBSTEP.

FUCK.

YES.

woah

waoh

hold the fuck up

this is cool as shit

beinghipsteristoomainstream:

why is it socially acceptable for guys to sag their pants all the way down to their knees but if a girl shows a little bit of her bra it’s hOLY SHIT YOU FUCKING SLUT SHAME ON YOU WOW THAT’S SO NOT CLASSY LET’S DRESS CODE YOU IF YOU EVER DO IT AGAIN I’M CALLING YOUR PARENTS AND DISHONOR ON YOU DISNHONOR ON YOUR FAMILY DISHONOR ON YOUR COW 

scinerds:

Living Wall

These vegetated surfaces don’t just look pretty. They have other benefits as well, including cooling city blocks, reducing loud noises, and improving a building’s energy efficiency.What’s more, a recent modeling study shows that green walls can potentially reduce large amounts of air pollution in what’s called a “street canyon,” or the corridor between tall buildings.

For the study, Thomas Pugh, a biogeochemist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and his colleagues created a computer model of a green wall with generic vegetation in a Western European city. Then they recorded chemical reactions based on a variety of factors, such as wind speed and building placement.

The simulation revealed a clear pattern: A green wall in a street canyon trapped or absorbed large amounts of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter—both pollutants harmful to people, said Pugh. Compared with reducing emissions from cars, little attention has been focused on how to trap or take up more of the pollutants, added Pugh, whose study was published last year in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

That’s why the green-wall study is “putting forward an alternative solution that might allow [governments] to improve air quality in these problem hot spots,” he said.

Full Gallery

miss-love:

mattrenez:

igotaloveshekeepsmewaiting:

melodiesintheair:

jarpadd:

I suggest all females watch this. 

*i suggest all humans watch this.

THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED WATCHING FOR ALL HUMANS

I’m a 17 year old white guy living in middle class America. I’ve never exactly been a supporter of feminism because that kind of thing has never really affected me personally. I don’t notice it and I don’t care about it. But in nine minutes this video has made what is truly a serious problem extremely apparent. Those “why I need feminism” posts or those slut-shaming or rape culture campaigns never convince me of anything. But this video actually did I think.

tl;dr This video kicks ass, just watch it.

Stop what you’re doing and watch this

Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of indiscernible origin that exist in countries all across the world and have been reported since World War 1. They are identifiable by the unusual contents of their broadcasts: seemingly random sequences of numbers, words, letters, tunes, and Morse code, usually spoken by artificially generated voices of women and children.

The most common theory regarding the purpose of these bizarre stations is that they’re used by governments the world over to secretly transmit encrypted commands and messages to spies. That said, even though numbers stations have been discovered all over the globe and in any number of different languages, no government has ever officially acknowledged their existence. While the espionage theory is a logical one, with no official confirmation of their purpose the jury is still out.

One particularly odd station, UVB-76, has existed since the late 1970s and has broadcast a simple, repetitive buzzing tone 24 hours a day ever since. On very rare occasions, however, listeners have reported a Russian voice interrupting the buzz to read out sequences of numbers and words, always in a consistent format — this happened once in 1997, once in 2002, once in 2006, 56 times in 2010, and 14 in 2011. As with all numbers stations, its true purpose is and will probably remain unknown, but the increase in frequency of whatever it’s doing is certainly odd.

You can listen to well over 100 recordings of numbers stations for free on archive.org but be forewarned that they’re all kind of, well, eerie. They feel like something you shouldn’t be listening to, which stands to reason since apparently you’re not supposed to know they exist.

savvlles:

I got i picture of this sick fuck before he walked away.

i was at the store looking for items i could use for cosplay, when i notice this man walking past me multiple times within 10 minutes. As i was moving on to other isles, i noticed he kept following me and glancing at me and making excuses to brush past me (people dont normally squeeze by you with their crotch facing you now do they?) and this is when i knew something was up.

So, i move to an isle to bait him for this picture, as he approaches me directly this time, i turn around to try and snap a picture before yelling “APPROACH ME AGAIN AND ILL HAVE YOU REPORTED.” no response, he just walks away. so thinking he’s been scared off, because i hadn’t seen him for a good 25 minutes after that, i finish up my shopping, and as im reaching for a bottle of nail polish, i see a large hand lean against the shelf and this man chuckle and say ” oh sorry” as he grabs my hip. i didnt hear him come near me, and it scared the shit out of me,(mind you im 5’0” and only 16) so my automatic reaction was to punch, kick, and claw my way free, but i mostly did kicking and managed to give him a mighty kick to the crotch (go dancer legs go!) and ran towards the first employee i could find. i showed them this picture and she had at least 6 of the employees try to find him. but apparently he had already left.

Dont take this shit from ANYONE. if some one is making you feel unsafe, try to get a clear picture of your attacker and report them to the closest security officer/employee/cop you can find. No one deserves to feel unsafe.

(this was in the Anaheim/Fullerton area and I would watch out for this man in case i wasn’t his only victim.)

This makes me sick. It reminds me of work, which sometimes makes me sick too. 

Lemme add something to this. If you go to a public library, do the shelvers a favor, pay attention.

It’s scary to be shelving and have someone pop up behind you, even if you are only looking for a book or movie. It’s easy to get cornered in a library. 

Also, pay attention to them, and I don’t mean in a creepy way. But if you see someone chatting up a shelver and they look uncomfortable walk over and ask a question, ask them to help you find something, anything. Just get them away from the person. 

I don’t know how many times I could have used a person like this when I was at work.

I don’t know how many times I’ve had to tell a guy to leave me alone because I’m working, only for them to keep talking, to keep hinting at wanting to get in my pants. (and I’m not just saying that, I’ve more or less had guys ask me to go into the bathroom to do it…when I’ve said nothing but “I’m working sir.”) 

I don’t know how many times I’ve had to say I was married, or a lesbian just to get them to back off….and sometimes that doesn’t even work. (Usually the response is “He’ll never know” or “You just haven’t met the right guy, I’m that guy.”) 

We get stalked around the library all the time. With people pretty much doing what this guy did to OP. They follow, they watch, they get close enough to touch, and sometimes they do. 

I’ve been flashed on a couple occasions, I’ve had guys follow me from one floor to another. I even had a guy follow me home. Luckily I live a block away, in the center of downtown, and when I was almost at my door I turned around, smiled at him, mostly just because I wanted to get a REALLY good look at his face, and headed back to work. Once there, I asked a cop to walk me home.

This sort of crap happens a lot more than people realize. 
Like OP says, TAKE A PICTURE.  I have many pictures of the creepers from my work. I send them to my boss, who sends them to security. They keep an eye out for these men and watch them when they come in next time looking for any reason to trespass them.

Also, look them in the eye, study the face just in case. Sometimes if they are being really creepy, like OP’s guy was, this can get them to back off.  It doesn’t always work, and sometimes ignoring them can be better. But it doesn’t hurt to get a good look at the face so you can describe it to cops later if needed. 

But seriously. I’m so sorry for what happened to you OP. I hope that this guy gets caught.

ariasune:

jsweet360:

ariasune:

ghostdunk:

typette:

I remember posting somewhere once in a thread about why girls aren’t exploited in animation anymore where some guy said, “all the disney girls are drawn to be generally attractive, but I don’t think there are any eye-candy men… or are there? Are there any Disney men that lots of girls like?” and I mentioned Roger. Tons of girls replied agreeing with me and the original guy was like “wait, Roger? from 101 Dalmatians? What’s attractive about him, he’s tall and lanky and has a big nose, he isn’t muscley at all! Wouldn’t you all prefer Gaston or something? Or do you girls think his big nose is indicative of something else?” and I was like “no, you idiot, he’s a silly, goofy guy who likes animals and can play a bunch of instruments, that’s why he’s attractive. What’s the matter with you? Gaston, seriously?”

This is why we need more girls in animation. And more guys like Roger apparently. 

my favorite disney art style

Can I just add that tall and lanky is just my type. Muscley isn’t really pleasant. Lean is cool. Dexterous is the best. Six packs are squicky for me.

And he’s hilarious. 

And he writes music.

And has the cutest dog.

That guy is ridiculous. Gaston?! The bad guy?

• The one who tries to kill Prince Adam (Beast) because he think’s he is a monster and is obsessed, to the point of being a stalker, with Belle? 
• The one who was more or less was going to force Belle to marry him, and already had the wedding waiting outside for her.
• The one who barged into Beast’s castle burned many things and then when Beast rescued/spared him, he then tried to then kill Beast. 
• The one who called her father crazy despite how obvious it is she loves her father. 
• The one who thinks the idea of her reading is a waste of time and she should only be there for sex, children and housework. 

Yes random guy from the fourm. We should all be so lucky as to have a guy like Gaston. Because I know I sure want to be locked away forced to have kids and do housework than explore and be in love.

Just to add: I love tall lanky boys. (Hell look at the men I’ve dated) Rather them be somewhat squishy than rock hard…that’s no fun to cuddle with. Besides I go for the creative or scientific mind not the one obsessed with sports or working out. 

thatonechick42:

thisisrapeculture:

[TW: Abortion, Medical Abuse]

magicalorphanboy:

bronzebasilisk:

ryunwoofie:

sonneillonv:

autumn-and-eve:

erinsmomma:

How can someone stand behind abortion, when you have a life inside of you that God created for you? How can you say that this life isn’t worth it? If you can’t take care of the baby for whatever circumstances than there is always adoption available to couples who can’t conceive, but still want the joy of being parents. OPEN YOUR EYES! God has bigger plans for us all that we don’t even realize the picture.

Excuse me but it appears your baby is actually upside down
Did you take Sex Ed freshman year because babies come out headfirst

Hi, OP!  As someone who was given up for adoption, allow me to call bullshit on your little post there!  You see, when I was adopted, I was a white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical infant, which basically put me at the top of the list, right underneath white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical MALE infants!  There’s only one kind of infant people wanted to adopt more than me!  I was SOOO lucky!  But if you actually bothered to look at the information readily available on the interwebs, you would be aware that the majority of people who are forced to rely on abortion for family planning are poor people and people of color.  Of course, those two demographics intersect, thanks to the institutionalized racism of our society!  Neat huh?!

Of course, even babies of color are not in high demand with couples looking to adopt.  Many who do want to adopt outside their race choose to go outside the country, where laws are less strict and the process is often less expensive.  Of course, most of the infants adopted this way are obtained in unscrupulous fashion, but who cares about that when you’re saving a little Korean or African baby from the horrible fate of growing up in Korea or Africa???  And all those children who have birth defects, are born with diseases or disabilities, or have other issues… WELL.  Who wants to invest that kind of expense and time?  Why would you adopt someone broken, LOLOL?!

Granted, there are some wonderful people who understand the system a little better, and make it a point to try and give POC and disabled children a good home.  But they make up a very small fraction of potential adopters!  This difference in supply and demand leaves a lot of children stuck in the foster system, where their chances of being adopted diminish with every passing year, and their chances of being physically or sexually abused INCREASE!  Isn’t that wonderful?

And of course, we haven’t even talked about the person who is giving birth to the baby!  I know you probably think pregnancy is a wonderful, happy time, and for some people it is, but it is also one of the greatest health risks a person can take. I love my son very much, and from the day I found out I was pregnant with him, I wanted him!  But I also nearly died giving birth to him.  You see, I had pre-eclampsia, the most commonly fatal birth complication in the world.  My blood pressure was 180 over 130!  At twenty-two years old, I was actually headed for a stroke, hah hah!  How funny is that?  And all it took was missing a single pre-natal appointment during which my blood pressure rose to dangerous levels and my body tried to kill both me and my son.  Those seizures sure were fun, as was the emergency c-section performed without anesthetic!  And being chained down while the operation was performed, because I was delirious and wouldn’t stop trying to fight off the doctors, that was a BLAST!  It was great for my husband too, since he almost lost his wife and child in just forty-five minutes.  You can imagine how thrilled he is at the prospect of me ever getting pregnant again.  Babies are certainly cute, but pregnancy can have massive health complications, and I know it’s such a bummer, but they are PERMANENT.  :(  My abdominal muscles never recovered from being hacked through with a scalpel, and the flood of hormones caused by late pregnancy have changed things from heartburn (never used to have it, now, all the time!) to my emotional reactions (I cry when I see pictures of kittens now.  I used to be tough).  These are changes I did not ask for, cannot control, and cannot fix!  And many people go through worse!  I know, right?  Unbelievable, but go look up the word ‘episiotomy’ and then look up ‘birth rape’ and I’m afraid you’ll find some stuff that just isn’t very shiny.  Plus, the studies actually show that people who carry a baby to term, give birth, then give it up for adoption suffer HIGHER rates of post-pregnancy complications like post-partum depression and post-partum psychosis, general depression, and other mental health issues.  Adoption actually isn’t good for the person giving birth at all!

I’m afraid the picture you chose to use there is also pretty disingenuous.  I know, I know, it seems like nitpicking.  I’m not trying to be mean!  :(  But that picture shows a fully developed, viable infant, and most abortions are performed when the fetus isn’t even a fetus - it’s a blastocyst.  That’s just a clump of cells.  Seriously! You can totally find pictures on the interwebs and they’re not even gross, LOLOL!  Later-term abortions are usually performed because of health complications, though some of our intrepid state legislators are trying to change all that!  They care so much about people who are pregnant, you see, that they want to force them to carry dead or dying fetuses inside them until their body either becomes infected while it rots in their tummies (this is called sepsis, and it makes people very sick, and can even kill them!), or forces it out naturally in a gush of blood and fluids!  Isn’t that so caring of them?  I’m so glad they’re around to make those decisions for me!  And if a pregnant person is not allowed to terminate an unviable fetus, in some states, they have to carry the child to term, give birth to it, and then watch it die in their arms because its lungs weren’t developed, or its brain formed outside its skull, or any of a million possible birth defects that will kill you just as quick as lickity-split!  Isn’t that wild?!  Of course, these people go through terrible grief, and as I mentioned, some of them may get sick and die from not being able to abort dead or dying fetuses.  But I guess that’s just A-okay with you, huh?

Basically, I think before you suggest adoption as a universal alternative, you should actually go do some research on adoption.  And before you condemn abortion, you should do some research on abortions - not the stuff your church is giving you, the stuff the real doctors are saying.  Go to Planned Parenthood (if they haven’t all been closed down, ROFLMAO!) and request whatever information they have on the process, the statistics of who has abortions and why… and actually, all of that is on the interwebs!  Isn’t technology AMAZING?

And in closing, since I’ve been asked this question many times and I know it’s coming?  Yes, I realize I am here talking to you because I was not aborted.  But the thing is, if my mother had chosen abortion, I wouldn’t know the difference, so it wouldn’t matter to me.  And if she decided that choice was best for her, then that choice would have been best for her, and I would never want to take that choice away from her.  As it is, since I was given up for adoption, and since I have seen the statistics on how badly people who give their children up for adoption suffer, I have spent much of my adult life worrying about her, whether she’s healthy, whether she’s okay, and feeling that if she did suffer from any of the common post-birth symptoms, it is at least partially my fault, even though she made that decision on her own.  Which is silly, I know, but at some point, all children have to stare down the consequences of their parents’ having them.  For some, that’s poverty.  For others, a life-time of their parents struggling to treat and care for a severe illness or disability.  For others, it’s wondering if their mother ever got over giving them away, and wishing you could reach out and assure her that it’s okay, she doesn’t have to be haunted.

May your birth control never fail!

Pro.

Sonneillonv deserves a mother fucking standing ovation here.

Slow clap.

YES

Well Damn. You go sonneillonv.