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patiently waiting for some big fandom controversy a-la "All or Nothing" to make people realize that the push for representation is a push to bring diverse stories into the spotlight, not to harass creators into portraying every identity under the sun (which inevitably ends up being half-assed at best, offensive at worst)

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hate paper straws ooh it’s biodegradable yeah i know because it’s biodefuckingrading in my coffee asshole

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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☞ THUS

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smh, trending on tumblr used to mean some shit is going down. now every time i check a trending tag it's just a bunch of 30-note posts, half of which are about the tag trending. tragic

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The fourteenth doctor's storyline is so funny because it's basically like. Both your body and your car/wife being like. Damn bitch the only one that can fix you now is the the equivalent of the high school best friend you haven't spoken to your entire adult life. And then she does in fact fix you.

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they live in my brain now

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the toymaker disseminated a memetic virus among doctor who fans because now there is no way anybody will ever be able to mention the fact that a companion is technically dead-not-dead without somebody piping up with the WELL THAT’S ALRIGHT THEN! and getting twice as many likes. the above thread had nothing to do with the giggle even

i even noticed people applying it to irl contexts. i.e. “young people aren’t facing homelessness en masse, they just have to choose between living at their parents’ house or on the streets. oh well that’s alright then!” stock phrase for the AGES fr. thank you neil patrick harris

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i love classic who's weird misogyny. the characters split up, with the men going and exploring while the women stay put. ten minutes later the women have joined a revolution and are chucking bombs around while the men got kidnapped

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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if I worked at an office or a cubicle I would get this photo framed to give me the strength to make it through the workday like those middle-aged men with photos of their wives and kids