Ironstar Innovation, by Keridan "Fox" Silverlight

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:34:52 -0400

different-landscapes: Boccadasse, Italy | Photography by...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:25:19 -0400

different-landscapes:

Boccadasse, Italy | Photography by Christian Bramante

different-landscapes: Silverthorne, Colorado | Photography by...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:29:14 -0400

different-landscapes:

Silverthorne, Colorado | Photography by Karl Shakur

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:28:02 -0400

different-landscapes: Luoping, China | Photo by Jordan...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:27:49 -0400

different-landscapes:

Luoping, China | Photo by Jordan Hammond

different-landscapes: Snow storm in 🗽

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:25:30 -0400

different-landscapes:

Snow storm in 🗽

hyperzephyrianlives: joekewlio: industrial-stims: how it’s...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:24:57 -0400

hyperzephyrianlives:

joekewlio:

industrial-stims:

how it’s made: rubber gloves

Maximum razzle dazzle achieved

JAZZHANDS.EXE RUNNING AT FULL CAPACITY

momochanners: illusionaryennui: prime89: lesbiankiliel: garashirs: everyone in fantasy novels...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:24:28 -0400

momochanners:

illusionaryennui:

prime89:

lesbiankiliel:

garashirs:

everyone in fantasy novels is horny on main for elves and it’s honestly a travesty like why the hell would you want to marry an elf you’ll just spend the rest of your days growing old in the woods with a bunch of immortal bastards whose heads are so far up their asses they think singing week-long ballads is prime entertainment and say shit like “thou” and “beseech” unironically y'all should be hooking up with dwarves who 1. actually know how to throw the fuck down and let loose at a party 2. will literally shower you in diamond dust and gold they mined and crafted with their bare hands and 3. can sling you over their shoulder like a sack of potatoes with their huge muscular arms developed from hours of said mining and crafting. there’s literally no contest.

@rainbowsburningstars

@momochanners Not sure if you’ve seen this yet, but it might bring you a smile.

Ngl, I simultaneously laughed heartily as I nodded furiously 🤣

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:22:38 -0400

bogleech: orchid-grower: themoonphase: odysseydawn: Moon...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:15:27 -0400

bogleech:

orchid-grower:

themoonphase:

odysseydawn:

Moon flowers, yes? My grandmother loved these, we have them planted in our garden :)

wow

By the way, is probably not a time-lapse. The flower opens that quickly in person!!!

Yes we had these when I was a kid and one day I just happened to be standing outside looking at them when they started opening and I almost fell down, I’d seen flowers opening in time lapse on TV and had no idea any actually opened that fast.

And it still LOOKS FAKE in person, like it opens in such quick, staggered jerks that you would swear it’s stop motion animation.

michigrim: I can’t believe Yoko Taro gave a really deep...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:08:01 -0400

michigrim:

I can’t believe Yoko Taro gave a really deep provocative thought on game design and violence in society while talking through a sock puppet.

ellie-mars: a pretty girl

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:05:16 -0400

ellie-mars:

a pretty girl

fabula-ultima: A Shy Shark ~ More Positive Art of Sharks in me...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:04:53 -0400

fabula-ultima:

A Shy Shark ~
More Positive Art of Sharks in me Instagram!

Astronaut tweets

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:31:01 -0400

catchymemes:

when you accidentally pick up a warrior's banner in the middle of battle

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:43:01 -0400

born-in-ascalon:

elysium-continuum:

derpgarden:

markfluffalo:

i do this all the time i feel like ive done something wrong.

OMG

The alternative when you don’t notice and carry on with your rotation…

pancakeke: unmovinggreatlibrary: the-foley-knoll-horror: panc...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:38:03 -0400

pancakeke:

unmovinggreatlibrary:

the-foley-knoll-horror:

pancakeke:

megatome:

pancakeke:

discsfine:

pancakeke:

my bones!! feel free to look but please don’t steal my bones!!

reblog to steal her bones

NO

we’re over halfway to stealing all of jess’ bones

STOP!!

They took the whole skellington

Congratulations to pancakeke for becoming the first living person to have their bones stolen by tumblr users.

I love how you can’t say “first person”

pro-autistic: If your feminism isn’t inclusive then it’s not...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:33:23 -0400

pro-autistic:

If your feminism isn’t inclusive then it’s not good enough

(Anti-kink, radfems, queerphobes, aphobes don’t interact.)

groggyandbored: dopeybeauty: the second disney movie no one...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:13:30 -0400

groggyandbored:

dopeybeauty:

the second disney movie no one asked for

OH MY GOD

alphynix: moonsofavalon: no seriously at what point do we stop saying dinosaurs and start saying...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:12:07 -0400

alphynix:

moonsofavalon:

no seriously at what point do we stop saying dinosaurs and start saying prehistoric birds?? is it a matter of time?? a matter of species??? SCIENCE SIDE OF TUMBLR PLEASE HELP

We don’t actually know for certain!

It’s all a gradual series of transitional forms, and where we stick the arbitrary point of “birds start here” depends on on what you consider to be their defining traits.

Do we define them by having feathers? If we do that, then fuzzy feather-like structures actually seem to go all the way back to the common ancestor of all dinosaurs and pterosaurs – which would therefore make every single member of those groups birds too.

If you’re not into the idea of calling things like Pteranodon and Triceratops “birds”, then maybe we should go more specific and use the presence of pennaceous feathers instead. The kind with quills and barbs that we normally associate with birds’ wings.

Those are at least found only in theropod dinosaurs, except… they’ve been found in ornithomimosaurs, a group well before anything we’d usually say was a “bird”. (And they might go even further back, since there are possible quill knobs known from the carnosaur Concavenator. And then Tyrannosaurus also gets to be a bird!)

Okay, that’s still a bit weird. What about being able to fly?

That at least seems to have happened in Pennaraptora, a group of theropods that includes oviraptorosaurs, dromaeosaurs, Archaeopteryx, and everything else leading to modern birds. So we’re definitely getting much more bird-like in here.

But we don’t know exactly when flight originated. Opinions on whether Archaeopteryx could actually fly go back and forth constantly (the newest research suggests yes) – but some earlier small dromaeosaurs might also have been capable of powered flight. And there’s even the possibility that bird-like flight independently evolved multiple times in different branches of this particular family tree.

It’s a bit of a mess.

Then there’s always Archaeopteryx as the traditional option for “first bird”, but we’ve found so many other similar birdy things by now that’s it’s not actually unique anymore. Pick out any defining “bird” feature in Archie and there’s an older dinosaur with the same trait which then also has to be a bird too.

And so we end up with the most conservative option: Neornithes (or Aves), the group that contains all modern birds going back to their last common ancestor. Those are all definitely unquestionably birds, but…

…Then things like Confuciusornis and enantiornitheans and Ichthyornis don’t get to be birds. And they’re very birdy-looking. If you saw one alive you’d call it a bird.

But if we keep backtracking through the evolutionary tree along everything that still looks like a bird we just end up right back in the pennaraptoran mess again. So that’s not much help either.

A lot of paleontologists still tend to consider “birds” starting at a point just before Archaeopteryx, in a group called Avialae, but there’s also a lot of inconsistency and disagreements. Really you can pick whatever definition you personally like best and just roll with that, because there’s unlikely to be a Definite Official Bird Definition anytime soon.

breefolk-hates-staff: dailytweets: I want to know who honestly thinks people aren’t MORE likely...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:04:02 -0400

breefolk-hates-staff:

dailytweets:

I want to know who honestly thinks people aren’t MORE likely to be turned on by the Hulk wearing a bra.