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I wonder how many thousands of times I've punched in my phone unlocked.

As if we needed a reason to have MORE of a crush on him:

"A confidential BBC memo written by Sir David Attenborough 45 years ago reveals that the naturalist urged the corporation to hand over the airwaves to minority groups including #transgender people."

inews.co.uk/news/david-attenbo

(h/t @LaserScheme )

100% stealing "I'm me but stronger" from that one Meatpunks teaser sequence.

Boost this toot if rainbow, trans, or other queer flags are a primary decoration in one of your living spaces.

It's Kind Of A Thing.

We had incandescent bulbs for like a hundred years, then compact florescent for a decade ish, and I have a feeling we'll be running LED for the next hundred years.

Poor transitional CFL.

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Remember when you could seriously burn yourself on a lightbulb? I'm glad tech has gotten so much better since then.

I just found out about this piece of art and, dang.

Luis Camnitzer, 1966

Yay, rainbow sign v1.5 done in time for CFT!

Now brighter and quieter. Can run off of wall power, 12V li-ion power bank, or 8xAA in a pinch.

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Barnard 228: The Dark Wolf Nebula in Lupus

Image Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Rodrigues Santos

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180726.ht #APoD

"ugh, they gave me this drink on the rocks when I specifically requested boneless."

" these songs represent a gothicism that was utterly juvenile, guileless, and absurd—which is almost certainly the best sort of gothicism."

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Oh my gosh Alex Reed (Seeming) just released an album of goth music he wrote as a teenager over 20 years ago.

Living the best life right there.

alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/th

Deadspin, swearing in headline, capitalism 

"In absolutely any moral sense these things are pure theft, but they’re all legal, because in America, despite all this society’s supposed hatred of “class warfare,” it’s legal for the rich to prey upon the rest of us."

"Anyway, I just wanted to point out that it doesn’t have to be like this, while I still can, before this company’s eventual buyer eliminates my job and deletes this post from the internet. "

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Deadspin, swearing in headline, capitalism 

theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-

"It’s legal to do this. It’s legal, if you’re rich enough, or carefully enough obscured behind the legal fiction of a hedge fund or corporation, to borrow vast sums of money, purchase a company with it, and then simply pass that debt along to the people who do the company’s work and make its products, by stripping their jobs so you can redirect their salaries toward debt payment."

i've just realised my brain has come to think of a lot of ocean life stuff as A Splatoon Thing because i play it so dang much

like i just thought "octopuses? that's a splatoon thing" and then realised , that

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