Victoria May a.k.a. Nemerida

Closest match: Nemesignis banyulensis genome assembly, chromosome: 11 Common name: Orange Godiva

My God, English has so many words to describe physical intimacy, I'm in love

Merry Mari Lwyd

Something a little different then my usual fare, just in time for the holidays: A comic starring the marvelous Mari Lwyd of Welsh wassailing tradition! 

The phrase Mari's saying in the first panel is "Merry Christmas to you all".

The rings have 1px wide borders that oscillate out of phase with their interiors, and your eyes perceive the phase shifted borders as moving edges. It’s really neat, our optic nerves have specific hardware for edge detection and this gif fools it!

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.