This shot of a giant excavator in Germany slowly making its way to a coal site 25km away. [March, 1999]

incredible translation of sheeesh thank you google

jason todd died for this

we just keep naming bugs like this

That one scene from Wilde but 09 SoapGhost… caus it just visually encapsulates their whole dynamic for me. MacTavish in control, oozing confidence - being possessive yet affectionate. With Riley, his loyal right-hand man, sitting on his lap as an equal yet submitting by choice - soaking in the attention. There’s a deep mutual respect and trust there, and everyone can see it.

One of my favorite little facts about history is that the Mexican peso was functionally the everyday unit of currency in China in the 19th and early 20th century. Silver was one of the few western commodities that Chinese merchants were willing to trade in at rates that made shipping it to China (an expensive, arduous process) profitable; this trade became so voluminous by the 19th century that large everyday transactions even far away from port cities were conducted in pesos, in large part because Mexico's large domestic silver supply and existing transpacific trade links meant that the currency was stable (a known quantity to merchants in a time and place where relatively pure silver coins were otherwise uncommon) and readily available for use in trade

Completely forgot to do this when I first posted but I'm filling the 'Master/Pet' prompt of our bottom Sova bingo with this little cyberowl story:

Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

fall

My friend asked me how many people on tumblr really watch Star Trek on a regular basis.

Reblog for Star Trek.

Ignore for a soul-crushing sense of being alone in the universe.

Have you heard of the tragedy of the Champion of Kirkwall?

+ Bonus

The og post that made me go insane

this literally never stops being funny like dog they made starship troopers with the Baby's First Satire cranked up to 11 and these people are still fucking dumbfounded that the creators don't share their politics

Thank you Brent Spiner for this legendary tweet.