I Was Off Tumblr For About Two Hours And Suddenly My Dash Is Literally 1/4 Covered In People Raging About

I was off tumblr for about two hours and suddenly my dash is literally 1/4 covered in people raging about this dress meme which has already overstayed its welcome. What.

Kelly Egan’s PonyTrope is an amazing 3D printing project and a beautiful work of art. 

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a while back, ghostbong bought a very cheap, very used Roomba from craigslist.  ”so, you’re going to ‘hack’ this, right?” said the man at the parking lot rendezvous.  but we just wanted a vacuum.  since then, the addition of the word “robot” to our casual, every-day lexicon is continually jarring, as if even living in the future will give you future-shock.

doing maintenance on the robot.  the robot is stuck on a cord.  the robot ate a sock.  the robot ran out of power before it got back to its charging station.  the robot knocked something over.  it doesn’t help that the Roomba programmers saw fit to outfit the little thing with a series of Artoo-like MIDI scales and honks, to convey the mood of its message: docking successfully produces a tiny fanfare, and getting its brushes jammed on a foreign object makes it cry out in sad distress. do i verbally reassure the robot when i pull a wad of cat hair and bread bag tabs out of its works and set it back down on the floor? you bet i do.

but the larger point is that it is now possible no for me to say (or type) out loud and without irony, sarcasm, or any kind of fictitiousness: “the robot knocked over the kitten’s water dish >:I “

the future is here, and it is me on my knees on the floor yanking hairballs out of a domestic droid while it softly boops at me

In case you were curious, the original clip came from a video of Spot, a robot made by Boston Dynamics. I was planning to provide a link to more info on the design, but the company is apparently weirdly taciturn in regard to their products, so if you want to know more, try this article which consists mostly guesses and speculation. Huh...

Robot Problems

my dad just walked in, asked me “what do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?” and left

Though this blog is not exclusively animals, it's probably about 50% animal related stuff (that's probably a totally inaccurate guess - I can't tell). However I have an exclusively animal blog for cute animals with an emphasis on not being limited to puppies, kittens and bunnies: unconventionally-adorably.tumblr.com

Searching for animal blogs!

Please reblog if you post ANYTHING about animals (prehistoric and current), from pictures, science, medicine or even just stories! Even you only post about one animal, especially equestrian or veterinary blogs please reblog this so I and maybe others can find more people to follow :)