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Poetry? More like CROWETRY!

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I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

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both trots are valid ALL BUCKAROOS WELCOME

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The Devil and Ace of Pentacles

The wages of sin haven't even kept up with inflation.

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the fact that "eco" and "ethical" are two separate concerns in the global north, and that "eco" is a much more popular concern, with many "eco" products being made in actual sweatshops, is a big part of why i am The Joker

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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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Tumblr flagged this post as sexually explicit and it's literally just a trans dude in high fantasy art.

Make it make sense.

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“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

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The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course

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Matt Damon explains why they don’t make movies like they used to. Pls watch.

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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

#i drink tea every day #usually only one #i have coffee maybe a couple of times a week

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Seen surprisingly little celebration about this, the Biden administration just this past Friday (April 26th, 2024) issued a rule that does the following:

Explicitly states that queer people (including transgender people) are protected from discrimination in healthcare, this means they cannot be discriminated against or denied care based on their status as a transgender person. As set out by the ACA.

Additionally adds that nondiscrimination rules also apply to things like AI tools that may be used by healthcare professionals, and adds that those tools need to be evaluated to ensure that they do not enable discrimination.

It explicitly extends nondiscrimination protections to these cases and gets in front of the whole "oh well I put the numbers into the machine and the machine just happened to do racism about it so it's fine and it's not my fault" issue. Instead, this ruling says "actually, it's your job to know what that machine is and will do, and failure to do that is you fault." which is really good for patient protection!!

All in all, pretty fucking cool shit, hell yeah.

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Stormheim

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Spine practice

My friend's gnome engineer. I made it！ She's moving now！

Software: Photoshop and Spine.

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such beautiful interesting dragon illustrations, going through your blog has made me so happy.

I'd love to see what about a dragon inspired by fern leaves, no pressure though if you are working on other suggestions.

#102 - 龍頭 (lóngtóu / dragon head) - A pretty sight for over 360 million years! 🌿☘️🌱