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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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Color and Graphic Design in the Home of a Dutch Interior Stylist

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Ball Gown

Emile Pingat (Paris, France)

c.1864

The MET (Accession Number:C.I.69.33.12a–c)

#clothes reference

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生日快乐花城~

#tgcf #cute

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Enamel Frog Pins by FrogTreeGames

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warm-ups

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Chickadee in the apple tree

Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)

April 23, 2024

Southeastern Pennsylvania

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Color and Graphic Design in the Home of a Dutch Interior Stylist

#the vibes and colors are 🔥🔥

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Last year I worked for the first time as the writer half of a writer-artist team on a short comic! Tessa Luicart aka @that.artist.tess on insta illustrated this story for the Columbus College of Art and Design Spitball anthology. Our collaboration can be found in volume 9. You can find these collections for sale at spitballcomic.com or at CXC every year. Transcript below the cut.

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Page 1

Like many young writers raised on diets of Eurocentric fantasy stories my first attempt at long form fiction was sudo-medieval fantasy. I did an astonishing amount of visual research for this comic, seduced by the aesthetics.

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But I struggled with what felt like an unmanageable plot. At times, thumbnailing this story felt like wading through mud. Other times, I pictured myself hacking a path through a jungle.

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I labored and sweated to clear a passage through the wilderness. I felt as if I was uncovering a path, a plot, that only I could see. I didn’t question whether writing needed to feel like so much WORK. When a well respected literary agent told me the story was half-baked and unpublishable, I was devastated. I’d already drawn over a hundred pages.

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After much hard thought, I decided to set the story aside. In my newly freed creative time, I started to write memoir. I was shocked by how quickly it flowed out of me. It wasn’t EASY exactly- but the pages poured out of me like water.

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Instead of wading, I was skipping easily from scene to scene. Now, I pay attention to how it FEELS to work on a story. If it feels like I’m back in the mud, I have taken a wrong turn. Or else the story isn’t ready yet to be told. When the story is READY the path reveals itself.

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

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More One piece bc I love One piece. I want to draw a lot of Dungeon Meshi 😔 help | ✧ Online Store 🌼

#one piece #cute!

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the circus was in town that day 🤡

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❤️uwu💕uwu❤️

#tgcf #❤️❤️❤️

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🌸Petal Pin up🌸

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stupid sketchbook diary, here we go again ♥ Guinea pigs, they will be never the same for me after that lecture.