February 2012
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legdisabled:
you know those girls who take pictures with their favorite band members and they’re all sweaty and crying and the guy is just standing there awkwardly smiiling
i want one of those pictures with meryl streep
what a fantastic word
Mudita (Pāli and Sanskrit: मुदित) in Buddhism is joy. It is especially sympathetic or vicarious joy, the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people’s well-being rather than begrudging it.[1] The traditional paradigmatic example of this mind-state is the attitude of a parent observing a growing child’s accomplishments and successes, but it is not to be confounded with proudness as the...
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katiecammm:
topherbrinked:
if you think harry potter seriously deserves anything beyond technical oscars
you need to start watching movies that aren’t harry potter
bless.
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Daddy interrogates daughter to get a confession on who is her favorite parent.
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goldalines:
do they call benedict cumberbatch ben or benny for short or does everyone just call him benedict cumberbatch all the time
even as a small child
“finish your peas, benedict cumberbatch”
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We have landed on a world where the faint sun glints off methane lakes, seen...
– Brian Cox, Why Quantum Theory Is So Misunderstood (via cuckoocuckoo)
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if I could find a way to put my desk right next to my bed I think I might have enough space to put a small laboratory in here
this is a really exciting prospect
effington:
geoducks:
birdblog:
Tuki, the new Moluccan Cockatoo at the rescue, very softly singing an unrecognizable tune. No idea what he’s singing, but it’s too adorable not to share.
Also, thanks to smoresmordre for telling me to download RealPlayer so I could share this video from Facebook (:
AAAWWWWWW
This made me happier than I’ve been in forever
oh my god
rapierwithidesinnerpain:
I’m pretty sure I’d cry if Bill Nye hugged me. I then might shout “PRESSURE. WE EACH EXERTED FORCE DURING THAT HUG, BILL. BUT I DON’T NEED TO TELL YOU THAT.” in between sobs.
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joshishollywood:
So recently a very old post of mine involving a drawing of a whale blew up on 9Gag (for which I was uncredited but that’s to be expected) and I was looking through the comments and there was the usual shit that follows that post including some permutation of “he looks like an Indian David Tennant” and “this needs to be a meme!”
The latter response was met with several...
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I...
– Isaac Asimov
(via scienceisbeauty)
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motoroladroid:
After 5 hours of strenuous, sweaty, labor, a woman finally gives birth. Her red, crying face smiles weakly as the doctor presents her child to her. “Congratulations, he’s a boy!” says the doctor.
The woman sits up suddenly, her soaked hair falling over her shoulders. “YOU CISSEXIST PIECE OF SHIT!” she screams at the doctor. “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN HE’S A BOY? HOW THE HELL DO...
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