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i was playing scrabble and i had a B, U, R, G, E, and R and i thought “aha burger, one who burgs, but my mom will never accept that as a word” but then i remembered burger is actually a word

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the bond between mutuals who only share one or two fandoms is stronger than an entire fandom combined… I do not know what you are blogging about but you are right, pip-pip and bing-bong are homosexuals who crave blood and understanding and I will heart that in support

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Most polite doggy

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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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Hey. Assuming you’re in the UK, but if your role is being made redundant, the company has a legal obligation to align you with a new role that is substantially similar to what you’re currently doing. They might try get out of that. Also if more than 25 (I think, it’s deffo around that) people are being made redundant there should be a collective consultation as well in which a representative of yours can debate your package and roles, and in which you can also ask qs on selection criteria.

Sorry, I work in HR, and thought this may or may not be useful. No need to reply :)

I appreciate the information, but I am actually American, so based in the land of freedom and no worker protections. So far as I know, they are not obligated to provide me with a similar position. Everyone they've made redundant can apply to open positions within the company but are not guaranteed to be hired to those positions. Based on the way it was handled and what a couple of upper level managers have said to me, it seems they do want to keep me, but of course nothing is a guarantee until I have a signed job offer.

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I'm sorry what the fuck did you just say ??? This has to be fake.

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5.02 ⋄ Arthur's Bane: Part Two

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painted my beautiful wife Gwen BBC Merlin :)

[ID: a realistic digital painting of Gwen from BBC Merlin over an olive green background. Gwen is in 3/4 view, shown from the waist up. She has a soft, neutral expression on her face. She is wearing a purple linen dress with a natural linen apron and a natural linen corset embroidered with flowers and animals, and her hair is down.]

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↳ endless gifs of morgana ∞

KATIE McGRATH as MORGANA 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖓 ⧽ 𝟏.𝟏𝟐 "𝔗𝔬 𝔎𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔎𝔦𝔫𝔤"

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Using a VPN to watch the UK version of Married at First Sight. This is what technology was intended for.

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The department head emailed to let me know the position would be posted sometime next week and that she would email me again when it was actually posted and to please apply if I was interested, so I'm choosing to take that as a good sign.

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So I was writing a small paper in Microsoft Word and the program suddenly crashed (I saved a couple minutes before, thank god) and I get this message in the corner of my screen two seconds afterward

what the fuck