March 2013
1 post
To anyone who follows me:
This isn’t my main blog. It’s just one I set up to test a theme I was building, hence why I never post anything. :)
My actual blog is here: http://astrogasmic.tumblr.com/
January 2013
5 posts
Suicide reporting on the internet
vruba:
Trigger warning: lots of suicide talk.
This post is not about Aaron Swartz. Neither is it about his death. It’s about some of the responses I’ve seen to his death.
You can tell people who’ve been near suicide before from those who haven’t. The ones for whom this is new are fitting it to a narrative. It’s the compassionate genius who was a little too good, or the activist hounded down by...
Why isn't Stargazing: Live on every week?
astrogasmic:
It should be. Just sayin’.
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british awkwardness
astrogasmic:
katswhiskers:
guys,
do you ever feel we British have quite odd specific problems
about tea and strangers
like serious disappointments
GENERAL SHAME i have done this more than once
and america they don’t get it why are you so polite are you mocking me
and apologising all the time
I swear I aplogogised to an old lady when she hit me with a handbag??
and saying thank...
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December 2012
14 posts
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“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded,...”
– Carl Sagan (via scinerds)
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“To die your whole life. Despite the morbidity, I can’t think of a better...”
– In his New Yorker advice to young writers, Jeffrey Eugenides echoes Henry Miller on creative death and Christopher Hitchens on writing as if posthumously.
More noteworthy writing advice here.
(via explore-blog)
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“The laws of physics enable us to predict the future - an eclipse, what time the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via katielainewrites)
Me: I feel like I have other websites to check other than tumblr.
Me: *opens new tab.*
Me: *stares blankly at new tab*
Me: *closes tab*
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questions
annidoll:
I’m nominally babysitting today but she is unsurprisingly asleep because it’s kind of stupidly early. I don’t even know why I’m awake. Buuut I am.
Anyway point is I am around and bored and can answer questions. I know I have a bunch of new followers who might wonder things…
(and if not my Homestuck vol 1 came in the mail finally)
Girlfusion: Girl-fu-sion (noun)
1. When a girl sees another girl who's so gorgeous she can't figure out whether she wants to be her or fuck her
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