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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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via @indiarosecrawford

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The eggs are home!! Well, two of them, but Phil's kids are home!!

I did a big redesign on the QSMP Eggs dice collection a while back, but then Everything Happened. And with the fate of the project and characters unsure I wasn't motivated to do anything about it really. But now, it looks like they're able to bring the eggs back, and I'm so hyped to see them again.

So, what did I work on before all that happened? I completely redid the designs for Sunny, Em, and Pepito. The initial designs worked well for who they were when they first showed up, but they grew and changed so much since then, and I wanted to honor that in their dice. Sunny's 'Girlboss' keeps her gold sun and orange numbers but now has copper as her backing color. Empanada's 'Baker' has a the same peach backing color but now with a cute pink iced cupcake and pinky-purple numbers. And Pepito's 'Small' keeps the red backing but now with pale pink numbers and a mini bag of popcorn. I had to sculpt the piece for it and it was so worth it.

And I added a design for 춘식/Chunsik called 'Traditional' that I truly love. It's got such a fun color combo. The red and blue beads are strung by hand on a little thread. they're backed with dark indigo and have turquoise numbers.

The old designs for the trio are still available but just by special request. And with Lullah's new adoption certificate and new sign color, I'm wondering ... should I change her design too? Not much, the pink with the purple music note still works swell, but should I change the numbers from magenta to plum? I'd change it to dark purple but I use that for Leo already. I could change the music note as well to make it work, maybe a black music note with dark purple under it and light purple numbers? Or would it look too much like Leo's? There's a lot of options I could do if it's wanted.

As per usual all my dice are up at my etsy shop. And I do take requests if someone has a fun idea. :D

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

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like where did it come from i was literally doing a silly little art and craft

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The social attitude regarding age is consistently getting weirder. You’re not ‘pushing 30’ you’re just in your late 20s. 30 is not old and neither is 40 while I’m at it. Growing older is an enormous privilege and displaying that age is a gorgeous component of life. Spending your days trying to reverse that grace breeds an eternally wasted life.

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Over The Waves by Setsuko Matsushima

art quilt

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the notes are broken 😂

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One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

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guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.

and I think about it every day.

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characters in their 30's and older exploring their sexuality and discovering themselves beyond their teens and twenties is so important and beautiful and worth telling

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Solar Eclipse Shadows

These solar eclipse shadows form due to the distance between the sun and the leaves on the trees. The distance and the proximity of the leaves to one another cause for a "lensing" type effect, making the eclipse shadow clearer to the human eye.

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"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level