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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.

#that is so fucking cool i thought they'd just lost contact because of range #wow.... #programming #ad astra #voyager 1

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#ancient art

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i overestimated my reach with the tumblr chaotes 👀

#👀 #reading list #magic

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Don't be scared of getting older. Every year I'm reborn as the most me I've ever been.

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#programming #there is a piece of me in this thought

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can no longer see the letters CBT without a little voice at the back of my head helpfully supplying Cock and Ball Therapy

#had an actual helpful post w advice taken from therapy in my drafts that i saw just now and. yea.

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tagged by @alder-knight (thanks!!)

last song: Fairlies by Grian Chatten

favourite colour: currently very drawn to a deep sunny orange-yellow

currently watching: very slowly making my way through Historien om Sverige (drama documentary about Swedish history beginning with the first settlers just after the ice age)

last movie: I watch sooooo few movies I don't really remember. I think Rodney Ascher's Room 237?

sweet/savoury/spicy? savoury 😌

current obsessions: we have a fitness competition at work that I am very unchill about. also still feeling the adrenaline rush from being able to buy the three volume set of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell earlier today. I feel like I don't have the space in my brain for fandom at the moment but if I did I'd be back so hard in the jsamn fandom.

tagging a few people from my recent activity (hohoho makes it easier for me, zero pressure tho): @risepersephone @windvexer @rugessnome @a-chilleus @fromgloriousjupiter

#tag games

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feeling GOOD came home from the gym and had some food in the category "exactly what I was in the mood for" and the sun is shining!! gonna treat my bike to some tlc and finish off with some ice cream 😌

#one of the 'sometimes i feel like i only text post on here to vent but i wanna celebrate as well' posts that i find v necessary #life of kit #also bought book i wanted (jsamn) and tomorrow i'll be looking at another apartment #also a stressful period at work is coming to an end (likely to be replaced w another but OH WELL)

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anyway. onto better things

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ophelia..

#darling #ophelia #i will be filing this under #cows #but consider it a catchall bovine tag

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I'm reading a book named "A Guide to The Correction of Young Gentlemen Or, The Successful Administration Of Physical Discipline To Males, By Females" - essentially, a fantasy femdom BDSM book, written in 1924 by Alice Kerr-Sutherland but first published in 1991.

It has some genuinely fascinating stuff to say about gender, and I feel like it's worth looking at/thinking about in the context of Historical Gender Stuff. This 100 year old book has the following to say:

"The truth is that some young gentlemen would rather they had been born young ladies: they cannot admit this openly, because in the male world to confess as much would lead to instant ostracism if not worse; but they cannot conceal it either, and by preferring the company of girls, and soft, feminine clothing, and by flinching during the rough pursuits to which all boys, willing or no, are occasionally heirs, they attract opprobrium."

"Such boys weep too readily for their fellows' tastes - weeping is a great crime among boys unless it is generally admitted that circumstances left little choice - and are hounded for that reason."

"Just as there are girls who had rather been boys - we all know examples of the type - there are boys who, in a kinder world, would have been born into the gender more suited to their dispositions."

"Many young people of this sort are riven with a guilt they do not deserve but have been forced, by the conventions of society, to adopt; they are confused, ashamed and thoroughly unhappy."

"The ideal thing to do would be to treat these cases on their merits, send them to girls' schools, and so on. (The same thing should happen with those girls who would rather be young gentlemen.) Boys of this sort are girls in any case-in all respects save one."

"Most subjects of this sort have a secret name - a girl's name."

#reading list #queer history #right on queue

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so heads up for people who want to get the folio society three volume Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, it's live now

#I'm just about to go into the gym so very fast post but im real excited #jonathan strange and mr norrell #jsamn #so i saw someone had a copy already but idk if promotional/similar or if it HAS been on sale already #but it wasn't available the other day when i looked and now it is

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Know your horns!

(From Keith and Clothilde Sutton’s Pictorial Dictionary.)

#horns #horned one #right on queue

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#flowers #right on queue

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Y'all are amazing. Reblog to hug the person you’re reblogging from.

#🖤

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Whaling knife from the Faroe Islands, wooden handle and sheath inlaid with hook, spear, whale and boat, unknown date, possibly late 19th to early 20th century

#hhhhhhhhhhh #knives #right on queue

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The Sun and Queen of Wands

Some of us are glad because we get to go outside and play, and some of us are glad because everybody else has gone outside, so we can finally get some work done.

#tarot #right on queue