No, but this is actually crazy in the most dystopian sense.
So I learned from my friend that coconut water can be used as an emergency blood transfusion, and of course my first thought was “So, can a vampire drink coconut water?”
and of course we had this idea of these tropical vampires being horrified when these old world vampires come and are still drinking blood like some sort of monster.
guys oh my god
VEGAN VAMPIRES
but consider this: vampires who turn into fruit bats
FRUIT BATS
*loses it*
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every single day i think about how horribly rumi’s poems have been translated from persian into english & how they’ve been turned from gorgeous poems abt islamic spirituality into these… pithy vapid little quotes that white people post as instagram captions. white scholars & translators straight-up falsified and misrepresented the essential themes of and islamic mysticism inherent to his work in favor of turning it into easy-to-consume love poetry & it never fails to make me angry
here’s a good thread to read through abt this exact topic as a start !!
because i know most of you can’t be bothered to look at the thread:
take a time to read through the thread if you can!!
most of the ‘sufi poetry’ or works by rumi you’ll read in school or find at any book store or online is just a bunch of this orientalist garbage that not only mistranslates, but intentionally puts forward a colonialist, orientalist mindset that you consume without knowing it
i’m sorry i’m still not over this butchery ^^^^^^^
Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th
No guys you don’t understand.
The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.
So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.
This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.
That’s not sad, that’s awesome.
*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing
This is humanity
Happy Birthday, Curiousity.
Happy birthday, Curiosity.
the novelty of having pets really does never wear off i’ve had my cat for ten years and i still look at him strolling around like can you believe this. a cat. is everyone seeing this. he’s alive he has bones and all. unbelievable
Oh hey, it uploaded! This is the second day of work on this; I did the painting in Friday and the binding on Saturday.
Myst be like that.
The full version shows they're playing Super Solvers Outnumbered, which makes sense as this is a The Learning Company catalog.
Also, fun fact: They remade this photo (the edit!) for 2016:
