Does Anyone Else Have A Grandmother Who Does That Thing Where She Keeps Plastic Bags In The Dishwasher???

Solarpunk by Rita Fei

I almost scrolled past this; was not expecting it to be this funny oh my god

If you really want to help indigenous people, now is your time.

Ngati Paoa and other protestors have been occupying Putiki Bay after resource consent was given to develop it without consent from the local iwi. Today, they are blocked by police as developers being to destroy Little Blue Penguin habitat, a species on the decline with climate change and habitat destruction.

Public outrage and eyes on Putiki may be the only thing that can save Putiki now after every route has failed. Spread information about Putiki every where you can - Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, your local group chat, whatever. Please please please help save Putiki Bay, Aotearoa NZ!

Draw nigh, come through the press to grips with me, so shall ye learn what might wells up in breasts of Amazons. With my blood is mingled war!

Queen Penthesilea, in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ The Fall of Troy

Quoted in Wonder Woman: Warbringer

I feel like this should say “Leaf me alone,’ instead of ‘Leave me alone,’.

everytime zuko goes out he leaves iroh a note that says “gone insane, back later”

Heartbroken, wandering, wordless, lost, and ecstatic for no reason.

Coleman Barks

Describing the work of 13th century Turkish poet Rumi. Quoted in Kate Harris’ book Lands of Lost Borders.

Astronaut tweets

“less than twelve parsecs!”

I’m a day late for May the Fourth, but I’m gonna share this anyway!

At this point, most of us are fully aware that parsecs are a unit of distance, not time. Star Wars even went ahead and used Solo to retcon Star Wars: A New Hope to reflect that fact. If you’ve watched Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts on Netflix, you might also know that 1 parsec is equivalent to 3.262 light-years. But what actually is a parsec?

Parsec stands for parallax per arcsecond. 

Astronomers use the observed parallax of celestial objects to determine how far away they are. Parallax refers to how an object in space seems to shift against its background when observed from different points. If you hold your finger out in front of your face and then tilt your head left and then right, you can observe this for yourself.

The angle where the sight line from each point of observation meets the observed object is called the angle of parallax. With that angle, astronomers can use trigonometry to find the distance to the object - usually a star. It’s only really useful if the objects are within a distance of 200 parsecs from Earth, because for objects farther out than that, there’s not really an observable parallactic shift.

I’m pretty sure that this next bit gets taught in grade school at some point, so some of you may recall what an arcsecond is. An arcsecond is 1/60th of an arcminute, and an arcminute is 1/60th of a one-degree angle. So, 1° = 3600 arcseconds.

So, back to that parallax per arcsecond definition. What it means is that:

One parsec is equal to the distance of an object from Earth when the angle of parallax between them is equal to one arcsecond.

And there you have it! That’s what a parsec is! May the Fourth be with you.

so I met this kid who was like 9-10 today and...

kid: do you have a boyfriend?

me, walking by: no.

kid: can I be your boyfriend?

me, laughing: no.

kid: I'm 25!

me: sure, kid.