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basically what happened

#tma

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Daily drawing 26 apr 2023

Alien Day

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Snug. ☺️ From April's Kittens, written and illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry. 1940. Source.

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2005

#this is nostalgic to me #idk why it just is

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dream job is to be that one rotted hand that bursts out of the grave to snatch some stupid idiot by the ankles and pull them under the earth

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Look what I found in my files

#lmao #animorphs

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*Enters a bookstore*

me to myself: be calm

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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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Because I circulated a call to action about it here that got some traction: to those of you who contacted Maine legislators when it counted, thank you— it worked. Maine just passed sanctuary-state-level protection for trans rights.

#hell yeah #while Maine certainly isn't perfect sometimes we can do the right thing #love my home state

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If you enjoyed

the Radio,

Consider:

downloading 371 songs onto your phone and an mp3 player app

#points at my ipod with 5k songs/tunes on it #this right here

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Bothering the beast

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#cybertrucks are stupid and embarrassing #you want off-road? i fucking dare you to try some of the backroads here #did you know there's a b-52 crash site you have to drive 7 miles into the Maine woods to get to :) #loving the tags in this post too #drag his ass

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Also increasingly aware that a LOT of people "manage" getting through the 40+ hour work week by sleeping less than is healthy and relying on stimulants like coffee and energy drinks to keep them going.

For people who are unwilling or unable to do this...work really does just dominate your life. Like we really should not have to rely on unhealthy practices just to have a social life or keep on top of housework or whatever.

I know I post about this a lot but I'm so TIRED all the time and it's just so depressing that this is how we're expected to spend the one life we have.

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the classic trope of "what if you went to a town and it was weird" never fails

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little doodle for the like three people out there who have both played hollow knight and listened to the mechs

#lmaoooo #the mechanisms #hmm i should rewatch the hollow knight streams kofi and sam did

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it is once again... binturong appreciation hour

#friend!