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totalariana:

When ya girl doing the most so you gotta tell her to chill 

I am legit dead

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parislemon:

Dennis Overbye on the exploration of Pluto:

But the inventory of major planets — whether you count Pluto as one of those or not — is about to be done. None of us alive today will see a new planet up close for the first time again. In some sense, this is, as Alan Stern, the leader of the New Horizons mission, says, “the last picture show.”

It’s hard to write these words and know what they might feel like 50 years from now. I never dreamed, when Apollo astronauts left the moon in 1972, that there might come a day when there was nobody still alive who had been to the moon. But now it seems that could come to pass. How heartbreaking is that?

You could say that we have reached the sea, the very icy and black sea between us and the stars. Whether we will ever cross that sea nobody can say.

What a sad, but beautiful way to put it. 

So heavy, and so poetic. -Ariel

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THIS MOVIE IS SO STUPID. I LOVE IT.

This can be your entrance.

WHAT IS THIS

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soph-okonedo:

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I am so here for her

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I’m so excited finally about to watch Jupiter Ascending let the garbage space splendor explosion begin!! 😍✨🚀🌟🌌

beatonna:

So a while ago I was either watching a video on youtube or reading an article where someone was quoting Sojourner Truth, and I don’t even remember what the thing was, but in the comments section someone had written “look up her picture, she was OLD” and then they said something mean about her looks.  I thought, I mean, it’s pretty amazing to accuse and dismiss someone born in 1797 for being old and not hot enough to listen to.

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galesofnovember:

So, it seems like this zubat person is just an across the board liar and, if not previously a scammer then at least an internet profiteer.  

However, I think that the lessons the whole sorry affair is teaching about gofundme schemes applies ever for people who are not scammers and genuinely start their projects with good intentions.

It’s cool in a lot of ways that crowd-funding has allowed small entities to pop up without having to have the support of the non-profit industrial complex.  On the other hand, there are a lot of boring, square checks and balances that institutional funders have that aren’t just a function of how they keep the status quo in place, but how they keep money from being wasted or spent on somebody’s vacation and personal make-up collection.  Some of them are:

• Does this person have the capacity to use the money if they meet their goal? Did zubat, one person, really have the capacity to process $15,000 worth of donations? Even if they meant well, probably not. 
  
• Does this person have a long term funding plan? I saw someone recently snarking their friend’s poorly thought out gofundme that was raising $1,000 for a security deposit to run a DV shelter out of her apartment.  No mention of how she would continue to have funding for this shelter.
• Does the person have the skills to implement the project?  I feel like I have seen so many “mail care packages” type projects crash and burn with the person crying to the internet about how mailing off hundreds of packages was just too much for their collection of health issues.  And man, I get that, I couldn’t do that either. But maybe a person should ask before donating: does this person who blogs about their agoraphobia/chronic pain/chronic fatigue/anxiety has the physical ability to do the number of post office runs this requires?
• Is there a reason we are giving to this one person rather than a existing organization?  That was my beef with the Feed Ferguson’s Children fund.  It was as legit a fundraising strategy as could be: She did deliver all the money to the St, Louis Foodbank, but I”m still not sure why so many people gave money to one white woman in North Carolina (with gofundme taking their cut along the way) instead of directly donating to the FoodBank.
• Is the person trying to combine fundraising to keep themselves afloat with fundraising for a charity? I’m personally convinced that Jaqueline Homan is a fucking con artist but even if she is just a troubled woman, the fact that she is simultaneously raising money to keep her house from collapsing around her and to turn her house into a domestic violence shelter should give you pause about how possible that dream of running her own shelter out of her house is. 
• Is this organization actually doing a good job?  This is my beef with small rescues that do impassioned fundraisers.  Are they actually placing animals in forever homes?  Are they actually placing hard-to-place animals? Are they doing as good a job as the humane society? Small and grassroots doesn’t always mean effective. 

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Fleetwood Mac, 1977 — Annie Leibovitz

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