Gef (with a hard "G") she/her, Canadian, lesbian, seriously stop assuming I'm hetero, weird goddess-worshipping witchy creature idk my spirituality is a mess, TERFs/radfems/gender crits fuck off, six Capricorns in a trenchcoat and I don't even believe in astrology, header is mermaid lesbian pride flag
Does anyone else have trouble watching TV because you think "I could be doing something else but I'm just staring at this screen" I've been listening to videos on the internet (NewPipe lets you listen like it's a podcast) while playing games so I think it's affected my ability to just watch stuff.
Watching someone else play a farming sim is a bit frustrating cause they're like "Where do I get this? I don't know where to get this." And I'm just like "You could check the shops in town? Check the NPCs with jobs?"
They might not have what you need but it's a start.
This is the face she makes when you're petting her and then you stop:
She likes to take my dad's slipper and set it beside her when he's outside and she's not. She doesn't chew it she just has it with her. She lets him take it when he comes back inside.
She loves carrots. She will do anything for a carrot.
She is very protective of Mr. Claus. He hissed at a visiting dog once and she jumped up immediately and stood between them.
She is buddies with Elvis and lets him sleep with her in her bed.
Elvis was watching Daddy at the computer and Stardust decided to sit on the opposite side to also watch Daddy on the computer. Usually she moves away whenever Elvis comes near but today she decided to tolerate him I guess because supervising Daddy was very important
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.
we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen
also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote
suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response
Back from the dentist. They just used the scaling tool on me and they were like "And you're done" and I was like "????" but I didn't have to pay for it.
Anyways, plaque's all gone and that's what matters.