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.

A question popped up in my head, and now I'm curious.

T-shirt that says ASK ME ABOUT MY FEMSLASH RAREPAIRS on the front and I WILL PAIR UP WOMEN YOUVE NEVER HAD A SINGLE THOUGHT ABOUT on the back

LMAO THE "WOAH HEY" FROM MARCILLE HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK

what was likely actually happening:

OP considered themselves a trans ally because they didn't openly hate trans people, but they still hadn't done the work to unpack their transphobia

The questions they were asking were all loaded or rife with that unpacked transphobia, and people called it out.

Oppressive groups always cry, "you can't even ask questions!" In order to justify doubling down on their bigotry. "I wanted to like them, but they're just so mean." Nobody owes you kindness when you're coming at them like this

So many terfs claim to be "former tras" but I doubt it. These same people will go on to say things that are so laughably off base that it's just like, oh, you've never willingly interacted with a trans person except to insult them, have you?

Incredibly transparent. All of it.

sandra lynn’s dating history now includes:

the most red-flag, gaslighting, married guy who became a world renowned insidious televangelist and ruined her perception of love and self-worth

the saddest, wettest, cardboard-box-living, yogurt covered man with an ancient hereditary curse of bad luck

the arch devil of gluttony and living embodiment of insatiable desire and hunger

a former drug addict, high school student councillor, werewolf, who’s probably the most mentally healthy person to ever exist

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I just KNOW mary ann would fuck it up flight rising & neopets & club penguin. let's take play petsites together.....

But never let me die without a struggle and without acclaim

Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

this sims 2 ad has like such deep gay energy to it. Like this feels like queer history to me

Just started watching Delicious in Dungeon (about 12 episodes in) and here are my impressions of the characters if we popped them into DND, because that's how my brain works.

Laios - Human, Champion Fighter. Wisdom is his dump stat (poor insight) but he's profient in perception. (Example: identifying different monsters just by the sound of their footsteps.)

Falin - Human, Cleric of the Arcana Domain. I think her wisdom is decent but intelligence is her dump stat. She knows the countryside (survival is wisdom) and she figured the circle of life thing going on in that little cave/dungeon she found in her school years (nature is wisdom.) But she seemed to spend little actual time paying attention in that school.

Marcille - Half elf, Necromancer Wizard. With the Magic Initiate feat to get Cure Wounds from the Cleric spell list. High intelligence, low wisdom. Sage background. She only knows what she's read in books. She didn't even know raspberries were perfectly safe to eat!

Chilchuck - Halfling (lightfoot), Rogue thief.

Senshi - Dwarf (Hill), Gloom Stalker Ranger. With the Chef feat. He's probably a hermit background.

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sliding scale of posts about Jesus being a carpenter who was nailed to a cross

FANTASTIC video btw yall should go give it a watch/listen

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me