ianbrooks:

Visit Planet Earth Campaign by Bri Hand

Despite the possibility of literally one brajillion sentient lifeforms out there, we’ve so far discovered it’s pretty lonely in the big, cold Universe. And while our attempts at interstellar communication have sought to connect with extraterrestrials through the universal religion of science and mathematics, you’ve really got to wonder why we didnt play up our personal traits here on Serious Planet Earth: for instance, hot dogs. Everything recreated in Minecraft. Conga lines. The fact that David Bowie sometimes lives here. Bri’s ad campaign seeks to invigorate our languishing interstellar tourism industry by luring aliens in with some of Earth’s more amazing amenities (and hopefully the promise that we’re not going to autopsy them and show it on FOX). You can check out more assets of the campaign over at Bri’s website: secrethidingplaceofbrihand

(via: Lost at E Minor)

(via we-are-star-stuff)

cracksocks:

Does anybody Know what this shit is from?

If someone who knows how to people would take over my dating profile, that shit would help.

Can we think about liking peoples posts as “giving them hearts” or giving them love?

So often I don’t like your post. Something horrible has been described within.

But I want You to know I noticed.

lycanandproud:

brodinsons:

when you happen to mention never personally wanting to have kids and someone decides to butt in and remind you not to worry and that “you’ll change your mind in time”

#I’m with Javert on this one

The thing is so many people I have known have changed their minds.

But as we get older, the people I know who say this are more and more adult and less and less kids who don’t really know their lives.

This is a place where my intellect argues with my experience

(via tehriz)

ikenbot:

thescienceofreality:

“Kiera Wilmot made an honest mistake, but the police were trying to throw away her life with a felony.  After the community stood up for the girl, the charges were dropped, and she was allowed to move on with her life.   Well, her greatness is really starting to shine, as she was recently granted several extraordinary opportunities through scholarship offers she has received.

Dr. Christopher Emdin, a professor of education at Columbia University, says that the schools are now very similar to prisons in terms of how they are structured, and how the inhabitants are treated.   Kiera overcame her situation, but there are thousands of kids across the country who aren’t so lucky.  Maybe it’s time to attack the system that is attacking us.

Check this out from Gawker: 

“Kiera Wilmot, the 16-year-old honor student expelled from her high school after she allegedly ignited a chemical explosion on school property, received a full scholarship to the U.S. Space Academy, courtesy of a NASA veteran who, as a teenager, was accused of starting a forest fire during a science experiment.”

The lessons here are simple:  Black kids have potential, and we can’t allow this system to destroy them.  Also, hard work always pays off, especially when it comes to education.  Dr. Boyce Watkins and Minister Louis Farrakhan recently held a forum called “Wealth, Education, Family and Community:  A New Paradigm for Black America.”  In the forum, Dr. Watkins and Min. Farrakhan both agree that African Americans are going to have to think differently when it comes to deciding what it means for your kids to be educated.”

Read more…

Just when I feel like all hope is lost :) may she grow up to become another awesome woc scientist, we need more of those too.

(via nicocoer)

golden eyelashes and golden lips, rodarte spring/summer 2011

The soft beginnings of rain
Are tapping on the glass

And in the humid day,
Wait brothers, on others.

Hot and dry and wet.

lonely

so my new laptop fan is sex on wheels

Its like, this is the fan-pad not the onboard fan, which is still dead, Waiting for shipping from hong kong (always buy express shipping from china, you dumbass)

but its big and blue and quiet as shit its sex. Sex man.

Yeah I don’t like sex, but I like this fan. and I’m lonely.

but that’s normal.