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I'm definitely going to "take it up with the dragon," because I wouldn't waste a good opportunity to give a dragon a good hugging. Everybody outta the goddamn way!

The idea of dragons in modern times is so fun because imagine a hot summer day on your vacay and go to use the hotel pool and staff is like "valued guests we regret to inform you that the pool area is out of service at the moment, we apologize for the inconvenience"

And people like "wtf why" looking out their hotel room window and there's this. This dragon just curled up in the pool chilling, literally, cooling itself down

Some of the staff are trying to gently shoo him away and the dragon does a soft little "rrrrrr" like a grumpy cat and a warning puff of smoke and they're like "fuck it i don't get paid nearly enough for this" and no ones using the pool today sorry!

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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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Damn

I want to fuck your throat

my thrussy!?!?

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Source

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This Biology Teacher Disproved Transphobia With Science 

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Pink Prison, a comic I did for my color theory class this semester! we had to pick a color, research it, and do a piece related to it somehow. i chose pink :)

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I feel like I've seen this build before, somewhere... I definitely remember the angled Power Miner wheel shoulders and the wrench...

New spices for studio dropped so I had to out zaria in it

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I have an old headcanon that the Toa Metru as a Toa Nui would rival the GSR's processing power on their own, no Core Processor needed.

We know that Mata Nui has some measure of psychic powers in canon: He planted the ideas for his Chosen in Teridax's brain.

These two unrelated points recently inspired another headcanon:

Mata Nui chose the Toa Metru because he sensed a resonance with them. Maybe he considered a back-up. If he was falling into a coma, he'd need a replacement to inhabit the Core Processor in his stead. What better matoran than the ones whose mind and souls resonate with his own? Who have the potential to bear this burden?

His choice plus the resonance between him and the six then-matoran left a mental impression in their minds.

These impressions are so faint that nobody else but Mata Nui would find it. Even then he'd have to search to find them again. They have no effect on the Toa Metru / Turaga Metru if left alone.

However. The turaga and Mata Nui repeatedly meet on Spherus Magna in this headcanon. (They are not aware at first how close he is.)

The impressions grow stronger around Mata Nui's latent psychic powers, which had brushed against the turaga's minds before.

Slowly, that they mistake it for accidents and good or bad luck, the turaga develop their own psychic powers independent of any masks. An example: Nokama redirects a falling boulder with a jet of water. She shouldn't have been strong enough to do that - or she should feel a greater elemental exhaustion from this feat.

But unknowingly, she used telekinesis to nudge the boulder the extra distance away. As this happened without any visible signs, nothing else points at telekinesis.

Over time, they develop a telepathic / empathetic bond with each other. Again, they don't realize at first that this is what is happening. They believe it's instincts and having known each other for so long that they often can read or predict what the others are feeling and / or will say.

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Okay, hear me out.

When the Rahaga were first learning how to do what they could to save rahi from the Visorak (and likely in general), they had to have learned quite a lot from failing before figuring out the techniques that work best. Best example: Kualus learning how to do birdspeak. But...

What if they developed a secret "hunting" technique?

Imagine this: the Toa Hordika helping the Rahaga as they're also trying to figure things out before Vakama's betrayal. They come across a rahi that's hiding in a spot that would get exposed or destroyed by the Visorak, and it refuses to come out even with their best techniques. One of the Rahaga suggests using "the secret hunting technique", and the Toa Hordika watch in fascination and confusion as whichever Rahaga volunteers to perform it...

And it becomes the goofiest dance they've ever seen. They can't believe anyone would even dance so strangely on purpose. Worse yet, they can't even believe it's even working! How is this working?!

Whenua is now questioning how this technique has the effect it does on rahi, and I would not be surprised if he didn't try to learn how to do it himself!

...Matau totally got hypnotized by the dance as well, tell me not 😂

(Inspiration for this random idea came from this Amphibia scene here.)

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Candy cane snail, Liguus virgineus, Orthalicidae

This arboreal species is found in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Photo 1 by pedrogenarorodriguez and 2 by margomora

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Having ADHD is that your brain either feels like

Or

And it can switch in a matter of seconds.

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snail collection. which one’s your fav? 🐌

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Commission for @briannathegoof

This is Kiki! Brianna's Sonic oc!

Thank you very much for commissioning me!

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Commission for @joltzer

This is Jolzer's Sonic sona, and she's a phyllodesmium opalescen!

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i hate that "that that" is grammatically correct. why is english the joke language