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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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#not in a clean fair fight one on one #guerilla tactics and ungentlemanly warfare though absolutely #I don’t know that I could beat most people in a fair fight #I CERTAINLY couldn’t beat prev because he’s a) a he b) taller and broader than me c) stronger than he looks according to his wife #and based on the draw weight of the bow they had lying around their house I’m inclined to trust that assessment #But generally when I describe my job people are like…. ‘so you’re a spy’ #and I’m not #but the skill set has a good bit of overlap

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Ok I don’t have any beef with Taylor swift and I like some of her songs

… but is it just me, or are a lot of her songs not really songs? Like, I’m listening to a track right now in the cafe, and there’s not really a melody to speak of. Or at least if you played it on the piano, I don’t know that I would recognize it as such. It feels like an alto part or semi-spoken word poetry.

#I’m also not a huge fan of her lyrics most of the time but that’s another story #to be clear I DO LIKE SOME OF HER SONGS #1989 has a lot of good ones #I knew you were trouble #Love story and teardrops are a bit high school but they’re great at what they are #No body no crime #willow #lover has grown on me slightly #but like…the ones that the Swifties go nuts over #I’ll listen and I just…. Don’t get it? #and I could not tell them apart if you asked me to

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some of my favourite excerpts from the street cat wiki

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ADHD

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Wow what a beautiful baby idiot

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I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

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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

#probably a yelp #which is NOT the same as a shriek #I don't think I've ever actually shrieked involuntarily #and doing it voluntarily is pretty rare #like... rollercoasters. #and that's it #or maybe a theater production once or twice

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(...) Epstein flew into a rage and asked where the airline proposed to put us [in Anchorage, Alaska] while we waited for the typhoon to blow itself away. He was not completely reassured by the captain's personally delivered promise that arrangements were in hand to put up our entire party in a downtown Anchorage hotel, probably the Westwood, one of the best in the area and well-known to airline crews. (...) Seeing that Brian was still angry, he returned later to say that he had fixed for John, Paul, George and Ringo to share the hotel's bridal suite and several equally well-appointed adjoining rooms. This caused much amusement among the four boys who instantly began proposing marriage to one another.

John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me: The Real Beatles Story, Tony Barrow (2005)

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Getting ready to prep some freshly caught salmon.

Alaska

1960

#get that salmon lady

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The Changing of the Seasons By Saint Hildegard

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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falling in love with the most obnoxious character like

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hi, im the girl tumblr hired to reblog all your posts that are weirdly personal but not personal enough to make unrebloggable. if you want it to stop you'll have to kill me

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So you know how at the end of Nona the Ninth, Harrow doubts that John is god and goes off into the River to find god, who is maybe Alecto?

It turns out we had a clue right at the beginning that John is not the metaphysical engine of the universe of The Locked Tomb...

When Teacher gives the assembled scions at Canaan House a highly selective history of the OG Lyctors, he says:

Those eight necromancers were first after the Lord of Resurrection; they have spread his assumption across the blackness of space.

Remember that John is, in the theology of the Nine Houses, the "God who became man and man who became God." It's never entirely explained what this means to them, but it's clearly intended to riff on Jesus, the 'Word made flesh' (John 1:14), "born in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:7).

But here's the thing if you're going to be a Catholic-flavoured god: Catholicism has some quite specific terminology for leveling up in terms of heavenly power.

Jesus, who is God, goes up to heaven after the resurrection. This is described as his "ascension" - it's an active process. He is ascending, going to his heavenly throne. He can do that, because he's God. He *is* the rules of the universe and metaphysics. If he wants to fly up into the sky and transcend into another dimension, he can do that, because he's God.

But there are three other people who are understood to have gone up to heaven bodily: Jesus' mum Mary, and the prophets Elijah and Enoch - for all three of them, this is described as their "assumption": it's a passive process, which they aren't doing under their own steam, it's being done by God. In art, this has historically been depicted by showing them being propelled skywards by a writhing mass of cherubs.

So let's get back to Jod.

You know, the man who became god, etc etc etc? The one who resurrected his Lyctors who then "spread his assumption across the blackness of space"?

Either John wasn't paying quite enough attention when going through Catholicism for Dummies or Teacher is being a bit sly here.

So this is a nod, right at the beginning, to the fact that John isn't actually the metaphysical power of the universe that he claims to be.

#the locked tomb #tlt meta