westbrookwestbooks:

swanjolras:

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

So, I have to say something. 

This is my favorite post on this website. 

I’ve seen this post in screenshots before, and the first time I read it, I cried. Just sat there with tears running down my face. 

Because this, right here, is the best of us, we humans. That we hope, and dream of the stars, and we don’t want to be alone. That this is the best of our technology, not Terminators and Skynet, but our friends, our companions, our legacy. Our message to the stars. 

I’m flat out delighted, and maybe even a little honored, that I get to reblog this.

61below:

xenoqueer:

patrexes:

elaenathedefiant:

countries where prostitution is legal have higher rates of human trafficking. that’s like an actual fact. not an opinion or anything. so tbh it seems a bit ‘swerfy’ to completely ignore that

speaking, uh, as a formerly-trafficked sex worker, it’s extremely difficult to come forward as a trafficking victim in countries where sex work is criminalized; you just… get criminalized under those same anti-prostitution laws. of course reported trafficking would increase when the sole fact of coming forward as a sex worker at all no longer endangers you.

This line of argument is the same one that you see with conservatives who point to the increase in divorce rates as proof that making divorce safer is endangering marriage, while ignoring the massive drops in domestic abuse, murder, and suicide.

It’s a shot argument with them, and it’s a shot argument here.

In WWI, when they introduced helmets, they saw a sudden spike in head injuries.

What the casual observer may miss was that they were seeing the increase because of a dramatic decrease in deaths from head wounds.

gallusrostromegalus:

thebibliosphere:

quinfirefrorefiddle:

sbstewartlaing:

alsgia:

forcesunleashed:

🎃👻🎃🍁🍂It’s October folks that means it’s time to…..

get your fucking flu shots!! 🎃🎃🎃

and remember: you cannot contract the flu from your flu shot. the off feeling that MAY come from it is your body’s immune response and is far more preferable to having the ACTUAL FLU

Also, if you have an immune system issue (I have lupus and another chronic illness) you may still be able to get your shot. Ask a medical professional that you trust and/or do some research. 

It’s super important to maintain herd immunity for folks who can’t get a flu shot. 

Vaccines are good for you, do not make the ghost of Captain America’s Disappointed Face come in the night to haunt you.

Depending on your state your Flu Shot may be covered under Medicaid!  I got mine for $2! And a Lollipop to boot!

doriandangerfield:

saunteringvaguelydownwards:

v0x-mach1na:

kvitoya:

Even if you don’t like Halloween you have to appreciate its position as the sole thing keeping Christmas from advancing even earlier into the year like a cancerous growth

The goth kids hold the line.

@thebibliosphere

bob-belcher:

happy halloween. it is halloween every single day from now until the end of october. happy fucking halloween