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BLACK SAILS APPRECIATION WEEK -> day 7 – free choice

I think if you look at it in a certain light, it does look like she harmonizes with Vane and with Silver. I think it doesn’t require turning the light very much for it to look like she is in Flint’s story, that she is sort of abused and traumatized for what she is, who she is, and sort of has to figure out a way to shake her fist at civilization, but come up with different answers about how to do it. It doesn't–you don’t have to work that hard for her to look a lot like Bonny. I mean, that’s text, and in season two and three–it’s text in season four that she is literally in Eleanor’s story. She’s eight episodes behind Eleanor and living the same choose-your-adventure story and just trying to figure out how to get to a different ending. So, I do think that part of the reason she feels central to me, is because she exists in the middle of a Venn diagram in which, I think, there are meaningful pieces of everyone, and I think that’s probably part of the reason it felt right that she was the one that kind of is left standing at the end. -Jonathan Steinberg x x x

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Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.

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Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Planers, 1875

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Hubble Space Telescope: Exploring the Cosmos and Making Life Better on Earth

In the 35 years since its launch aboard space shuttle Discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided stunning views of galaxies millions of light years away. But the leaps in technology needed for its look into space has also provided benefits on the ground. Here are some of the technologies developed for Hubble that have improved life on Earth.

Image Sensors Find Cancer

Charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors have been used in digital photography for decades, but Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph required a far more sensitive CCD. This development resulted in improved image sensors for mammogram machines, helping doctors find and treat breast cancer.

Laser Vision Gives Insights

In preparation for a repair mission to fix Hubble’s misshapen mirror, Goddard Space Flight Center required a way to accurately measure replacement parts. This resulted in a tool to detect mirror defects, which has since been used to develop a commercial 3D imaging system and a package detection device now used by all major shipping companies.

Optimized Hospital Scheduling

A computer scientist who helped design software for scheduling Hubble’s observations adapted it to assist with scheduling medical procedures. This software helps hospitals optimize constantly changing schedules for medical imaging and keep the high pace of emergency rooms going.

Optical Filters Match Wavelengths and Paint Swatches

For Hubble’s main cameras to capture high-quality images of stars and galaxies, each of its filters had to block all but a specific range of wavelengths of light. The filters needed to capture the best data possible but also fit on one optical element. A company contracted to construct these filters used its experience on this project to create filters used in paint-matching devices for hardware stores, with multiple wavelengths evaluated by a single lens.

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— 6:59 AM by Shane Koyczan

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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He Who Comes With the Dawn (S03E08) THE WHEEL OF TIME (2021—)

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"we will not take up weapons. even for this." -> acknowledgement that great injustice is being inflicted. "i wouldn’t ask that of you." -> respect for a culture unlike his own. i adore perrin's and ila's true understanding of each other.

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If I’m not what I was when I was born, and I ain’t what I’ve become instead…

Anne Bonny, Charles Vane, and gender. That’s it, that’s the post.

(Click for higher quality)

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Just a note that if you support women's wrongs.

Like queer representation in your fantasy.

And want to see women of all ages kicking ass in spectacular costumes

and/or men kicking ass while shirtless,

as well as witness some of the best episodes of fantasy in current television,

This is an excellent time to get a free Amazon Prime trial and watch all of the Wheel of Time as the S3 finale is out this week and there has been no confirmation of S4 renewal yet.

COVID, the strikes and one of the main actors leaving have really made things tough (and made the end of S1 a little iffy) but they've worked their way through the problems and it's a highly enjoyable show that is getting better with every season.

Not that I have an agenda or anything.

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This came to me in a vision

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Tel'aran'rhiod (S03E05) THE WHEEL OF TIME (2021—)

requested by anonymous

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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