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.

i felt like tumblr needed to see this

client call

client : doctor, my cat won’t eat after i feed her the pills. Can i stop giving her pills?

me: the prescribed pills don’t have such side effects. it’s only one day left, i suggest that you keep giving her until tomorrow. However if she’s having bad appetite i suggest you bring her in for further examinations

client: but she has good appetite! she’s eating normally!

me:…

the resurgence of female separatism will be the fucking death us

Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.

Custom engraved silver necklace by Silberwerk, commissioned by me- words from Belovéd by Yves Olade

love this sentence because it makes it sound like he’s lying about his height. Lestat is six feet tall (source: Lestat)

Something fancy

a stud in black leather on a black motorcycle just revved their engine at me and thank god I tore my demonic uterus out ages ago because I think that would have finally knocked me up

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

like i feel like im going absolutely insane with how much intentional self infantilization im seeing women my age doing.. and then acting like im a wackjob for being like “i don’t think thats cute and i find it insulting” i want to be taken seriously i want to be regarded as intelligent and bright and capable. i dont want to act like a high school sophomore when im a 24 year old woman with loans and bills and wisdom to share and learn. im a human being and im tired of being roped into this weird culture of “20-something teenage girls” it’s time to fucking grow up and if you can’t or won’t do that then leave me absolutely out of it and speak only for yourself. your female ancestors would find you an embarrassment.

bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

greeeeeeen

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Hochverehrtes, deutschsprachiges Tumblr:

Hier eine weitere Abstimmung. Nicht so hitzig, wie die ums Stoßlüften, aber trotzdem etwas, über das ich gerne Klarheit hätte:

(Again, all non-German-speakers: Please just wait for the results

another big win for girls who are me

There’s still debate about split attraction on my dash why do you people even care