stormsdameron:

so the Natural Environment Research Council has this big fancy new £200m Royal Research Ship which will first head to Antarctica in 2019

and they asked the public for help naming it, because they apparently didn’t learn from every other time that has happened

the result?

yup. £200m Royal Research Ship….Boaty McBoatface.

but that’s not all.

yall i’m fucking D Y I N G 

ROYAL RESEARCH SHIP BOATY MCBOATFACE.

thepioden:

sunspotpony:

snowysauropteryx:

wnycradiolab:

You know those little things that keep bread bags closed?  Well, the internet would like to tell you about them.  If you’re not doing anything too important right now, I think you should visit HORG (that’s the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group) and explore a beautiful, obsessive, hilarious taxonomy of occlupanids.

(ht Metafilter)

Some of these must have a tiny , isolated reproducing population, because they’re looking rather in-bread. 

@thepioden

This is amazing and up your alley.

Phylogeny is such an artificial fucking hot mess, I love it. I love it all. 

bramblepatch:

leagueofaveragefolk:

bramblepatch:

guys whine about being “beta males” like no shit most people would rather wait for the stable release than fight with your unspeakably broken user interface and that weird glitch where you clip through a wall and end up in the friend zone

Guess that would make alpha males where they don’t have the textures finished yet, so it’s all primary colors with no shading or nuance.

I mean

I feel like that’s a pretty good description of a guy in a polo shirt