something witty

devidsketchbook: Christoffer Relander - We Are...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:18:40 -0400

devidsketchbook:

Christoffer Relander - We Are NatureMultiple

(Exposure Portraits Vol. II)

[Via thisiscolossal]

jessicachu: caro: Spotted in NYC by my friend Blake Lindsay,...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:13:31 -0400

jessicachu:

caro:

Spotted in NYC by my friend Blake

Lindsay, this is for you.

Photo

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:46:31 -0400

Photo

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:18:08 -0400

Photo

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:33:57 -0400

nythroughthelens: Red umbrellas and row boats under Bow Bridge....

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:33:54 -0400

nythroughthelens:

Red umbrellas and row boats under Bow Bridge. Summer. Central Park, New York City

Sometimes there are moments that are so beautiful that they leave imprints on your heart forever.

—-

View this photo larger and on black on my Google Plus page

—-

Buy “Saturday Afternoon in Central Park - New York City” Prints here, email me, or ask for help.

That moment when you're at the pharmacy picking up your birth control and you hand over your insurance card, and they tell you your copayment dropped from $102 to $15.

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:38:35 -0400

nextyearsgirl:

And then you realize that, because of the man you voted for sticking up for the basic right to affordable health care, today millions of other people found out that they are going to be able to stop making the choice between food and medicine, and will get to experience that relief too. Thank you, President Obama.

theanimalblog: Giant pandas look through a window at the Yunnan...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:34:52 -0400

theanimalblog:

Giant pandas look through a window at the Yunnan Wild Animals Park. Three female giant pandas are to return home to the Wolong Panda Base in southwest China’s Sichuan province after being moved four year ago following the huge earthquake.Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features

atavus: Book Sculptures by Kylie Stillman

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:12:05 -0400

atavus:

Book Sculptures by Kylie Stillman

omairville: UC Davis Communications Specialist Kathy Keatley...

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:31:14 -0400

omairville:

UC Davis Communications Specialist Kathy Keatley Garvey in the Department of Entomology took this amazing one-in-a-million shot, capturing a honeybee stinging a man, with its abdominal tissue trailing behind. The photo won the first-place gold feature photo award in an Association for Communication Excellence competition. (Via.)

expose-the-light: Portrait of a Dramatic Stellar Crib One...

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:30:59 -0400

expose-the-light:

Portrait of a Dramatic Stellar Crib

One square degree image of the Tarantula Nebula and its surroundings. The spidery nebula is seen in the upper-centre of the image. Slightly to the lower-right, a web of filaments harbours the famous supernova SN 1987A (see below). Many other reddish nebulae are visible in the image, as well as a cluster of young stars on the left, known as NGC 2100.

atavus: Faroe Islands

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:22:26 -0400

atavus:

Faroe Islands

barackobama: Lynne submitted this GIF with this note: I...

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:28:02 -0400

barackobama:

Lynne submitted this GIF with this note:

I graduated from college in 2009. I was so happy to find a job after months of searching, not least because I could finally stop forking over $400 a month for COBRA coverage payments while unemployed and paying student loans!

Last year, I had a bad summer. A pinched nerve combined with a cancer scare to force me to use weeks of sick time. Still, I couldn’t help but feel really lucky, both due to my diagnosis (not cancer!!) and to my situation.

If I wasn’t living at home, where my parents could help me when I was unable to sit or stand up; if I wasn’t employed at a great company that offered generous paid leave; if I didn’t have comprehensive healthcare that paid for most of my medical tests and prescriptions and physical therapy, advantages that so many Americans don’t have — I would have gone bankrupt, no question. It’s never been so clear to me that in the U.S., the ability to take care of one’s self and of family members has been predicated on wealth and on luck.

I quit my job to pursue grad school in England recently. I’m due to return to the U.S. soon, and thanks to healthcare reform, I’ll be covered under my parents’ insurance until my 26th birthday.

The relief is overwhelming. I won’t have to struggle with paying for my medications, live in terror of something catastrophic happening while I’m trying to find a job, or worry about being denied coverage due to one of my preexisting conditions.

Thank you. That’s both from me and from my parents, who inevitably would have wound up paying the emergency room bills!

The highest of fives.

newsweek: This is genius.

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:45:59 -0400

newsweek:

This is genius.

animalstalkinginallcaps: THANK THE GODS YOU’VE COME. THEY...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:12:42 -0400

animalstalkinginallcaps:

THANK THE GODS YOU’VE COME.

THEY ATTACKED ME IN FORCE. THE GREEEN ORB, THE QUACKING BEAST, THE FERTBERL, SEVERAL OTHERS …

THOUGH I FOUGHT BRAVELY, AND WELL, THIS PINK DEMON SEEMS TO SECRETE SOME FORM OF DEADLY POISON. I CAN BARELY CONTROL MY FACE AND MY BODY GROWS NUMB.

I DOUBT EVEN A VIGOROUS RUB WOULD RESTORE FEELING TO MY BELLY AT THIS POINT, THOUGH IT IS WORTH A TRY.

I’VE HEARD WHISPERS OF AN ANTIDOTE. SOMETHING CALLED ‘BEGGIN’ STRIPS’. POSSIBLY SOME SORT OF PLANT, OR HERB. I’M NOT SURE. HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS SUBSTANCE? COULD YOU ACQUIRE IT?

I FEAR I HAVEN’T MUCH TIME.

So Republicans think saying "vagina" in public is rude, but interrupting the President is not.

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:35:31 -0400

inothernews:

Republicans live in a weird alternative universe.

Photo

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:33:41 -0400

foreverqueird: Kameron Slade, a fifth-grader from Queens, NY,...

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:23:20 -0400

foreverqueird:

Kameron Slade, a fifth-grader from Queens, NY, was scheduled to deliver a speech as part of a school-wide competition at PS 195. But when the principal learned Kameron’s speech was about same-sex marriage, he was ordered to choose a new topic or lose the opportunity to speak. (via)

Tell me how a fifth grader can understand this..but yet full grown adults can’t seem to comprehend???!!! Kameron - you rock so much

theanimalblog: Love by Mr. tiktus

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:05:45 -0400

theanimalblog:

Love by Mr. tiktus

Photo

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:40:23 -0400