Synaesthesis

fringe-element:

deducecanoe:

fringe-element:

I scrolled past this really fast and had to scroll back up to see if it was a car with underbody lights.
It is not a car. it is a squid.
Cars WISH they were as cool as this squid.

SQUIDS WITH UNDERBODY LIGHTS

Apparently, Monday means I cannot tell the difference between squids and octopuses. Octopodes? Octopi?

deducecanoe:

fringe-element:

I scrolled past this really fast and had to scroll back up to see if it was a car with underbody lights.

It is not a car. it is a squid.

Cars WISH they were as cool as this squid.

SQUIDS WITH UNDERBODY LIGHTS

Apparently, Monday means I cannot tell the difference between squids and octopuses. Octopodes? Octopi?

plenilune:

this is a very important video i need everyone to watch for science

THIS IS THE BEST THING SINCE THE SQUEAKY FROG

So what do we make of a God who is worshipped not for His might but for His weakness, even for His wounds? Not a human wearing the medals of military conquest to convince us He is a god, but a God who wears His suffering on His sleeve to convince us He is human? Instead of “my god can beat up your god, my king can beat up your king,” Jesus’ path to kingship comes wrapped in a very old strategy indeed: He is the King of kings largely because he lets himself get beat up. He is victorious not despite His scars, but because of them.

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—	Jonathan Martin, Prototype (via waiting4morning)

improbablenormality:

humourous-misadventures:

megasilly:

You know what language I love? Welsh.

I mean

how

can you not

love

this ridiculous

amazing language?

you know our word for ‘microwave’ is ‘popty ping’, right?

this language is literally keysmashing

squiddishly:

thegreatestusernameinthegalaxy:

doctorwhogifs:

If you don’t ship it, you’re wrong.

I have yet to encounter someone who has seen Battlefield and doesn’t ship them.

I just love Brigadier Bambera and Ancelyn and everything about them.

But I especially love that we have Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, a beloved character of many years’ standing, replaced in his job by a young, aggressive, super-competent black woman, and no one bats an eyelid. She works with everyone, even when she thinks they’re downright crazy. She makes a knight, a servant of Merlin, fall in love with her by threatening him.

WINIFRED BAMBERA, GUYS.

bbglasses:

freshphotons:

A LEGO minifigure set for women in science

Want!

chicagopubliclibrary:

Chicago Public Library Welcomes City’s First “Maker Space”

From Crain’s Chicago Business:

Next month, the Chicago Public Library will open the city’s first free “maker space” on the third floor of Harold Washington Library in the Loop. The pop-up fabrication lab will offer the public access to 3D printers, laser cutters, a milling machine and a vinyl cutter as well as a variety of supporting design software.

The facility is the first to come out of the CPL Innovation Lab, an effort to introduce new technologies to city residents. And the library is the first in a large city to experiment with a “maker space,” the city says. Though it will be similar to maker spaces at the Museum of Science and Industry and Pumping Station: One, this fab lab will be free to all.

The space opens July 8 and will close at year-end. After its six-month run, the library says it will consider hosting labs in neighborhood branches.

The space fits into a growing movement of hands-on collaborative learning environments that allow people to come together and exchange ideas in the pursuit of innovation, and was funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington.

“We are thrilled to be able to offer Chicagoans the opportunity to learn firsthand new technologies and skills used in today’s manufacturing at the library,” Library Commissioner Brian Bannon said in a statement. “The maker lab is the first of several ideas we plan to test over the next few years in the Innovation Lab, as we focus on expanding access to 21st century ideas and information to our communities.”

Hi! I was wondering if you'd seen the post on the Chicago Public Library's tumblr about their soon-to-open free maker space? Ever since I read Quicksilver, I've been on the lookout for mentions of maker spaces and the like. :-) (pardon the odd formatting, tumblr is not my first language and it won't let me insert a link.)

Anonymous

I had not! Thank you for drawing it to my attention — I’m about to reblog it right now.

Probably no man has ever troubled to imagine how strange his life would appear to himself if it were unrelentingly assessed in terms of his maleness … If he gave an interview to a reporter, or performed any unusual exploit, he would find it recorded in such terms as these: “Professor Bract, although a distinguished botanist, is not in any way an unmanly man. He has, in fact, a wife and seven children. Tall and burly, the hands with which he handles his delicate specimens are as gnarled and powerful as those of a Canadian lumberjack, and when I swilled beer with him in his laboratory, he bawled his conclusions at me in a strong, gruff voice that implemented the promise of his swaggering moustache.” […]

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From seanan_mcguire’s posting on Sexism, the current SFWA kerfuffle, and “lady authors:” in the comments, via jenk, a long lovely passage from Dorothy L. Sayers’ 1947 essay, “The Human-Not-Quite-Human”. Read the whole thing. The perception of this problem is nothing new… (via dduane)

I love me some Dorothy L. Sayers.

(via sarahreesbrennan)