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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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“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. It means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Brönte’s Jane Eyre: “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.””

— Adrienne Rich, “Claiming an Education” (1977), On Lies, Secrets, and Silence (via sadladypoetssociety)

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The point of fiction is actually to put that guy in a situation™️, and he might try to tell you the point is to then get him out of the situation, WRONG, second situation

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home of french ceramic artist marguerite carbonell (1910-2008) world of interiors Oct 07

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Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist 🦅

The sixth and last of the characters that remind you of me series, according to the poll I did in my Instagram story in August 2022 (already??)

I added Black Hayate as a bonus for the waiting time 🐶

There are different color variations under the cut and the sketch/base and lastly the reference, an illustration by Hiromu Arakawa

Thank you again for your answers on that poll 🫶 It was fun to draw those 6 characters and I'm glad I finished them at last!

Hope you like it 💗✨

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how about genderbend?

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guy who makes a spreadsheet to figure out if his crush likes him back

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reason number one why i need to get fit: so i can outrun the guard whose security pass i snatched before running into the underground archives, and so that i can then climb the shelves and hide until they give up searching for me, leaving me free to live my fullest life in the tunnels and vaults and secret unfinished caves

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legally blonde from warner’s perspective is so funny

One day you’re dating this gorgeous but ditsy girl but your family pressures you to break up with her once you go to harvard so you do and it ends in tears but whatever.

Next thing you know, she’s at Harvard, dressed in entirely different clothes, saying its easy to get in and she’s pretending she forgot you go there. But you payed your way in and she’s rich too so you kind of assume she did the same thing and fine, so you have a stalker now.

There’s a mixer at the start of the school year. She shows up in a playboy. bunny. costume.

She tries to flirt with you while your fiance is in the next room. You tell her enough is enough and she gets like really angry at you.

Suddenly she is kicking ur ass in class, she steals opportunities away from you, she steals your girlfriend, she starts winning cases, she’s on the news now, she graduates as valedictorian

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That feeling when your body is requesting something but you're not sure what so you just start eating and drinking random stuff to try and figure it out

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What about coffee?

What do you mean, we just drank coffee at breakfast.

Well yes, but what about lähtökahvit?

(I don't think he knows about lähtökahvit.)

What! What about tervetulokahvit? Saunakahvit? Iltapäiväkahvit? Aamupäiväkahvit? Mökkikahvit? Nuotiokahvit? Sisäänheittokahvit? Puoluetelttakahvit? Iltakahvit? He knows about those right?

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kitten i'll be honest daddy isn't sure he's cut out for full time employment

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

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Ok, biting scratching howling, my main writing project, wt: journey to cloudcastle kinda already has enough settings: little towns, a city, different forests, a graveyard forest and a pietbogmire or whatever it is in English.

And my second writing project wt: agriculture monastries QOFER (Quality Oxygen From Organic Reactions) happens in an island, maybe half the size of Madagascar, and it has different forests, grasslands and dry-enough-to-walk-on wetlands. And maybe a village under a glass dome.

Ok so, there are things I want to add, maybe only to the QOFER one because these things don't really serve a purpose in the cloudcastle adventure.

Konsentrinen (kilpi)keidassuo: concentric raised bog. Idk if that is the real name for it, I can't seem to find any photos with google, but I was on a lecture where my teacher showed us aerial photos, and they look messed up. Like a huge summoning circle for the scariest world destroying monster. It seems to be a rare wetland type (google doesn't gove me photos) so I need to ask my professor book recommendations. It will be on the QOFER island and it will make the MC cry and throw up. Poor guy, he is just some university student that can't seem to bring his library books back on time.

toori: tor (rock formation). They look unsetteling (at least the ones in Finland, but I live on flat land surrounded by sky high pines so maybe they are just strange looking to me. Might make my OC insane looking for the remains of wrecked stone monastries, but only finding these for a couple of days when his food supplies are running low. Might induce hallusinations. Might make him cry a little. Might make him say some philosofical lines about the buildings of mankind. Might make him desparate for human contact. U know, the good stuff and the reader learns about geology.

Pirunpelto: devil's field. Open land area that is covered with different sized rocks and boulders. Looks creepy. What were you going to eat there buddy? Your last breadroll? Ants? Snakes? Rodents of normal size? Or would the word gopher give you flashbacks? How are you going to make a fire to stay warm at night? Huh, you didn't think about that when you left the forested area behind thinking that you might find a way to leave the Island throught the DEVIL'S FIELD, what are you thinking????

And I just learned that the word hiisi (scary mythological giant-ish creature) also at some point meant sacred forest or a graveyard. So I can use that info to make my graveyard forest more interesting.

Hiidenkivi: large rock boulder that was dropped there during the end of ice age. Might look scary. You could climb up on them if you are scared. Scared about what? About the scary looking low-nutrient wetland that wants to chew you up and get some nutrients. The hunger is making you delusional, don't worry I got you. Just eat some moss and drink the water from the large round pit that is on that huge rock. That is not scary at all. I heard that water in GIANT'S KETTLE, has healing properties. Sure drink as much as you want, I'm sure tha the devil, I mean the Giant doesn't care.

The horrors is an open plain but the ground wants to kill you and you have undealt trauma.

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Girls will be like “oh I’m just running quick some errands” and then spend all day in the wetlands appreciating the unique flora and fauna

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