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*immigrant song plays while thor beats the absolute shit outta bad guys with his new sick ass hammer in Avengers 4*

steve: where is that song even coming from?

thor: i have no idea. this has been going on for days

remember that short story they made you read in school called The Lottery where the whole town gets together and just stones a motherfucker at random what the fuck was up with that

Good lord fuck asbestos. Who thought bringing it back was a good idea. There are other flame retardants that won't slowly and painfully kill you.

apparently the EPA said asbestos is “safe” again, which is good news for asbestos memes, and bad news for literally everyone else

Yes to fun werewolf tropes

Boring old werewolf instincts:

Sexual jealousy

Constant aggression

Rigid hierarchy

Must win sports

Homophobia And Sexism Is Normal™

Eat people

Cool new werewolf instincts:

There is no five second rule

Corvids are friends

Hang out as a pack

Karaoke

Gotta pee

David Tennant on Donald Trump saying Scotland likes him.

Casual wisdom from Karamo

We need a Karamo Bible

Everytime someone says I seem to have my shit together

Big Mood

Me drinking my frappuccino with extra expresso and syrup waiting for all the juicy talk.

Finally some good fucking food! Thanks Disney!

My deep love for pride and prejudice is never ending. I think for me that line showed how much Mr.Darcy really cared and respected her. And I hope someone cares and respects me that much but without all of the misunderstandings and rude ass comments that Mr. Darcy set off.

i just read a washington post article on romcoms aging poorly due to the pushiness (and oft-stalkery conduct) of the male characters therein, and it got me thinking about pride and prejudice, and specifically darcy saying, “one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.”

because, like, that’s the seldom-portrayed romantic dream in the patriarchal hellscape that is our world, isn’t it?

a dude being willing to say, “i understand if you don’t feel the same way about me, and i’ll leave you alone forever about this if my attention is unwanted.”

so simple, yet so wonderful in its basic human decency

Oh my god this is me writing essays as deadlines approach

this fic will never be done

I love Taika Waititi

i just learned that tessa thompson was wearing a wig in ragnarok and also that it cost disney ten thousand dollars

the lack of cuddling i am experiencing right now is upsetting 

Wonderful meteor shooting advice from nasa.

10 Things: How to Photograph a Meteor Shower

Taking photographs of a meteor shower can be an exercise in patience as meteors streak across the sky quickly and unannounced, but with these tips – and some good fortune – you might be rewarded with a great photo.

These tips are meant for a DSLR or mirrorless camera, but some point-and-shoot cameras with manual controls could be used as well.

1. The Photo Op: Perseids Meteors

The Perseids are dusty remnants of comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.

Earth passes through the comet’s invisible, multi-billion mile trail of tiny debris each year around August, creating a meteor shower of so-called “shooting stars” as the particles are vaporized in our atmosphere.

Perseid meteors already are streaking across the sky. This year’s shower peaks on a moonless summer night -from 4 pm on the 12th until 4 am on the 13th Eastern Daylight Time.

Read more on the Perseids ›

2. Get away from city lights and find a place with dark skies.

In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky in Spruce Knob, West Virginia, during the 2016 Perseids meteor shower. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Too much light and it will be hard for your eyes to see fainter meteors, plus your image will get flooded with the glow of light. Turning down the brightness of the camera’s LCD screen will help keep your eyes adjusted to the dark. The peak of the 2018 Perseid meteor shower occurs just after the new moon, meaning a thin crescent will set long before the best viewing hours, leaving hopeful sky watchers with a moonlight-free sky!

3. Use a tripod.

In this ten-second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky above Washington, DC during the 2015 Perseids meteor shower, Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Meteor photography requires long exposures, and even the steadiest of hands can’t hold a camera still enough for a clear shot. Heavier tripods help reduce shaking caused by wind and footsteps, but even a lightweight tripod will do. You can always place sandbags against the feet of the tripod to add weight and stability. If you don’t have a tripod, you might be able to prop your camera on or up against something around you, but be sure to secure your camera.

4. Use a wide-angle lens.

In this 30 second exposure taken with a circular fish-eye lens, a meteor streaks across the sky during the 2016 Perseids meteor shower as a photographer wipes moisture from the camera lens Friday, August 12, 2016 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

A wide-angle lens will capture more of the sky and give you a greater chance of capturing a meteor in your shot, while a zoom lens captures a smaller area of the sky. The odds of a meteor streaking past that small patch are lower.

5. Use a shutter release cable or the camera’s built-in timer.

Long exposures are not just for meteors. In this shot taken at Joshua Tree National Park, a hiker’s headlamp leaves a trail of light along a twilight path. Credit: National Park Service / Hannah Schwalbe

A tripod does a great job of reducing most of the shaking your camera experiences, but even the act of pressing the shutter button can blur your extended exposure. Using the self-timer gives you several seconds for any shaking from pressing the shutter button to stop before the shutter is released. A shutter release cable (without a self-timer) eliminates the need to touch the camera at all. And if your camera has wifi capabilities, you might be able to activate the shutter from a mobile device.

6. Manually focus your lens.

In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseids meteor shower Friday, August 12, 2016 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

At night, autofocus will struggle to find something on which to focus. Setting your focus to infinity will get you close, but chances are you’ll have to take some test images and do some fine tuning. With your camera on a tripod, take a test image lasting a few seconds, then use the camera’s screen to review the image. Zoom in to a star to see how sharp your focus is. If the stars look like fuzzy blobs, make tiny adjustments to the focus and take another test image.

Repeat until you are happy with the result.

If your camera has a zoomable electronic viewfinder or live view option, you might be able to zoom to a star and focus without having to take a test image.

7. Aim your camera.

The Perseids appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus, visible in the northern sky soon after sunset this time of year.

Even though we don’t know when or where a single meteor will appear, we do know the general area from which they’ll originate.

Meteor showers get their name based on the point in the sky from which they appear to radiate. In the case of the Perseids, during their peak, they appear to come from the direction of the constellation Perseus in the northern sky.

8. Calculate your exposure time.

In this 20-second exposure, a meteor lights up the sky over the top of a mountain ridge near Park City, Utah. Even though this image was captured during the annual Perseid meteor shower, this “shooting star” is probably not one of the Perseid meteors, which originate from material left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle. Instead, it’s likely one of the many bits of rock and dust that randomly fall into the atmosphere on any given night. Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford

As Earth rotates, the stars in the sky appear to move, and if your shutter is open long enough, you might capture some of that movement. If you want to avoid apparent star movement, you can follow the 500 Rule. Take 500 and divide it by the length in millimeters of your lens. The resulting number is the length of time in seconds that you can keep your shutter open before seeing star trails. For example, if you’re using a 20 mm lens, 25 seconds (500 divided by 20) is the longest you can set your exposure time before star trails start to show up in your images.

9. Experiment!

In this 30 second exposure photo, hikers find their way to the top of Spruce Knob in West Virginia to view the annual Perseids meteor shower, Friday, August 12, 2016. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Once you know the maximum exposure time, you can set your shutter priority to that length and let the camera calculate other settings for your first image. Depending on how the image turns out, you can manually adjust aperture (set it to a lower number if the image is too dark) and ISO (set it to a higher number if the image is too dark) to improve your next images. Changing only one setting at a time will give you a better understanding of how those changes affect your image.

10. Enjoy the show.

The crew of the International Space Station captured this Perseid meteor falling to Earth over China in 2011. Credit: NASA

With your camera settings adjusted, capturing that perfect photo is just a matter of time and luck. The highest rate of meteors visible per hour is in the hours after midnight and before dawn. Set up your camera next to a lounge chair or a blanket to witness the wonder of a meteor shower for yourself – and, with any luck, you’ll take home some envy-inducing shots, too!

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In my own faith causing unnecessary pain is more of a sin than abortion. To cause unnecessary suffering by delaying treatment or by forcing a woman to have a child that they are not ready for is cruel. In catholic hospitals some people would rather let a woman hemorrhage to death than give her an abortion because they believe it is a woman's duty to suffer for her potential child. I wish more people in government would consider the moral and religious ideas of other people instead of forcing "Christian" ideas of life onto everyone.

A Jewish perspective on reproductive justice and birth control access from twitter user @lechatsavant.

Forreal tho

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) dir. Joe & Anthony Russo

Very useful

Reading about abusive men and the way they think. Very unsettling and an incredible book so far. Here are my very professional notes.

#SaveTheTrees

Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017) dir. Jake Kasdan 

May you find exactly what you want at the thrift shop, in your price range, next time you’re there.

there’s something really satisfying about the fact that sir arthur conan doyle was the most gullible motherfucker on the planet

When I'm feeling insomniac and consider taking a jog to calm my brain and then realize I can't because it's not safe.

walking thru the streets late at night would be so Good and calming if I wasn’t scared of every man and car I see after 8pm

someone: it’s inevitable snape turned out to be a horrible person, when you consider his childhood…

sirius: *abused and raised by blood supremacists, is disowned, is framed for murder*

sirius: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

neville: *grew up with a controlling grandmother who always told him he wasn’t good enough, lived with the knowledge that his parents were tortured to insanity, bullied and looked down on by just about everyone*

neville: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

ginny: *is literally possessed by voldemort for the better part of a year*

ginny: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

remus: *had no friends until he was 11, lives in constant fear of being outed as a werewolf, forced to become a monster every month*

remus: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

luna: *watched her mother die, picked on by everyone except ginny, treated as a freak, has only one friend until she’s 14*

luna: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

hagrid: *expelled at age 13 for something he didn’t do, accused of murder twice, outcasted for being half-giant*

hagrid: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

cho: *has her first love be murdered by a genocidal dictator and about half the world refuses to believe it, must struggle with her feelings towards harry and her guilt about them*

cho: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

mcgonagall: *fell in love with a muggle but had to break off their engagement, for fear of turning out like her own mother, later married a wizard who she loved but he died 3 years later*

mcgonagall: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

harry: *is degraded and abused his entire childhood, forced to sleep in a cupboard for 11 years, constantly treated as being an unwelcome outsider, told he should be grateful for his abusers taking him in, lied to constantly for the first 11 years of his life about who he is and who his parents were, consistently blamed for things that he couldn’t control, picked on at school and continuously beaten up by his cousin’s gang, sees multiple people die*

harry: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

This is so cute

I’m the birb that gets embarrassed by her man

im 100% sure this move was created when their combined 4 braincells were fucking around

We See Seashores Shifting with Satellites

If you’re like us, as soon as the summer Sun is out, you start feeling – well, just beachy, sand you very much. 

Lots of our favorite beaches are inside protected marine areas, which are regulated by governments to keep their ecosystems or cultural heritage intact. If you beachcomb at Cape Cod, swim in the Florida Keys or learn about Hawaiian culture at Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, congrats! You’ve visited a protected marine area.

But time and tide haven’t been kind to some protected beaches.

Beaches are constantly changing, and science teams are using our 30-year record of Earth images from the NASA/USGS Landsat program to study what’s happening.

Overall, the sum total of sandy beaches has increased a bit over the last 30 years. But time and tide haven’t been as kind to our protected beaches – the team found that more than 1/3 of sandy beaches in protected marine areas have been eroding away.

Some of these areas were designated to protect vulnerable plant and animal species or connect delicate ecosystems. They are home to humpback whales and sea turtles, reefs and mangroves that protect the land from erosion and natural disasters, and species which are found in only one habitat in the world. Losing land area could upset the balance of these areas and endanger their future.

Next step: Looking for pearls of wisdom to save the beaches!

Right now, we aren’t sure which beaches are eroding due to natural processes, and which are due to humans – that’s the next step for science teams to investigate. Once we know the causes, we can start working on solutions to save the beaches.

Those 30 years of Landsat data will help scientists find answers to these questions much faster – instead of using airplanes or measuring the beaches by hand, they can use computer programs to rapidly investigate millions of satellite photos spanning many years of change.

By tracking beaches from space, scientists can help keep our summers sandy for years to come.

And that makes us as happy as clams.

Read the full story HERE.

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dad: why are you drinking coffee at 10pm?

me: time is an illusion. once you realize that, you can transcend, and live in bliss

me: *takes sip*

me: also i have a 10 page paper due in the morning that i haven't started

Except for the heels I would work this outfit. Those heels would pitch me straight into an early grave...or the arms of a pimp

(Gifted) A Year of Living Awkwardly by Emma Chastain is out now! I hadn’t heard of this series before, but it seems really funny, and sometimes it’s fun to relive your high school years to remember why you don’t want to relive them 🙈 . How was/is your high school experience? . Thank you to @simonkidsuk for sending me a copy! . . . #chloesnow #chloesnowsdiary #theyearoflivingawkwardly #confessionsofahighschooldisaster #highschool #sophmoreyear #emmachastain #simonkids #makeup #bridgetjones #meangirls #contemporaryliterature #chicklit #bookworm #bookaholic #bookstagram #bookcover

Too true

Watch: George Carlin spoke the truth about pro-lifers in 1996 — and it’s still being proven today.

What a cutie

“Gimme gimme gimme gimme nom nom nom nom nom nom…”

Via Imgur