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Reblog if you still think LGBT+ couples are underrepresented in the media

Trying to prove a point to my mom.

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i love this! as a transgirl, i feel safer. although, i have my a sword of my own. actually two...

any cute girls who are looking to be protected and cared for

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Here’s What Actually Happens Inside Our Lunar Lab

Water is a precious resource – especially on the Moon! In the near future, robotic rovers may roam the Moon’s poles in search of hidden reservoirs of water beneath the lunar surface. But traversing the poles can be a perilous journey. Depending on the Sun’s position in the sky and the way that its light falls on the surface, hazards such as boulders and craters can be difficult, if not impossible, to see. 

Inside our Lunar Lab at Ames Research Center, researchers are using Hollywood light kits and a giant sandbox filled with 8 tons of artificial Moon dirt to simulate driving conditions at the poles. The research aims to provide rovers and their human supervisors with 3-D hazard maps of the Moon’s terrain, helping them to avoid potential obstacles that lie ahead. 

Here’s how it works:

STEP 1: GENERATE A MOON MAP

Researchers begin with a map of the Moon’s terrain that’s randomly generated by a computer, based on real orbital data. The map indicates the number, location and size of features like rocks and craters that should be placed inside the 12x12-foot testbed.

STEP 2: BUILD A MOONSCAPE

Using the map as a guide, researchers build the terrain by hand with everyday tools. The terrain is then dusted with a top layer of artificial Moon dirt to eliminate shovel and brush marks.

STEP 3: CAPTURE IMAGES

Lights are positioned at different locations around the testbed. One by one, the lights are switched on and off while a camera captures images of the terrain. Notice how the appearance of the terrain changes depending on the source of illumination.

STEP 4: CREATE A 3-D MODEL

Using a computer algorithm, a 3-D hazard detection model of the terrain is generated from the images. The model provides important information about the size of an obstacle, its height and where it’s located.

STEP 5: GO EXPLORING

With this technique, researchers can teach a rover to recognize the effect of different lighting conditions on the Moon’s poles. The tool could come in handy for future lunar rover missions like Resource Prospector, which will use a drill to search for subsurface water and other compounds on the Moon.

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I was born to see this video

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Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

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What being Trans has earned me:

-5 months of homelessness waiting to get into a program

-Said program refusing to allow me anywhere near anyone else "for my own safety"

-Said program telling i had an apartment waiting.

-Said program NOT Telling me telling me said apartment is off site and alone. (i do not do well alone. it is not pretty.)

-Not being let into the on site treatment apartments.

-Did i mention NO TREATMENT from a mental health treatment program?

All because i am trans.

Love it. It's great. So glad this is a world where people can be themselves. I guess i just missed the small print where we have to be our selves away from socionormal people.

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actual footage of Theresa May calling the 2017 General Election

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Reblog this and put your favourite kind of tea in the tags 🍵

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which one, which one?

retweet if you’re GAY, you’re CONCERNED ABOUT THE BEES, or if you WANNA DIE

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Unintentionally annoying things trans/nonbinary folk hate hearing:

everyother trans person you have encountered.

That you have never met "a trans" before. about your gay uncle that you "love" so much you only ever mention him to tell people he is your gay uncle.

Patronizing statement about how beautiful we are and how "it gets better and that we don't have to listen to anyone's hateful words"

questions about our sexuality.

questions about the contents of our pants. 

that "alot" of people who transition regret it. 

All the things you think you know about HRT and SRA. 

“how do you know?/how can you be sure?”

"so you're like caitlyn jenner?”

adding “for a transgirl” to the end of compliments

using the word "transgendered."

when you get transboy and transgirl backward.

going awkwardly out of your way to say how nice we look or how well our makeup is done as if we really need you grand show to feel good about ourselves.*

Wow you really do look (masc/fem)

Oh i thought you were a (insert identified gender)

 Long story short: TREAT US LIKE YOU WOULD TREAT ANYBODY ELSE.

(*on this one, what i mean is that just say “hey you look good today” do not give your best Oscar performance of “oh my gosh, look at princess over here, she’s got this nice top, oh and look at those lashes MHMmm lookin good girl” it makes us uncomfortable and just makes a production of the fact you think we are different and are trying to hide it.)

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bored at work so i made a compilation of my fave vines

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Hey, Barry can you add a smiling burger floating gently from right to left?

Thank you Barry.

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I believe hidden in this mess is the meaning of life.

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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW

THIS IS A TRUMPET

THIS IS A TROMBONE

THIS IS A TUBA

AND THIS IS A FRENCH HORN

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

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sometimes my writing isn’t shit

“They all knew where this was headed. The grand climax of our strife, it was as inevitable as your next breath. You could delay it of course. But in the end, survival supersedes will, and your lungs inflate, pulling air into your body as fate pulls you were you would otherwise not tread...

[plot shit happens. and its cool. and sad. you gun cry here when you read my book.]

...And just then, all things froze, held by a silence thick with the words no one dare speak. Words ever so slightly whispered in their thoughts hitting them with the force of a hurricane. Even fate, transfixed in this moment, thought perhaps it had gone to far...”