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the cashier at barnes & noble just gave me this duck at checkout and they said “i give these to children and people with a certain vibe.”

floored to know something about me aligns with this duck

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being a sports fan evokes the same feeling that i imagine being hunted for sport would

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"cops are called because students aren't allowed to shut down campus" more lies! first of all, campuses aren't getting shut down: students can get to wherever they need to be—if they can't, it's because of the cops. but over the last few years, graduate students did thoroughly shut down campuses with strikes. columbia was again a notable center of labor action, with a 10-week strike during which TAs, discussion sections, grading, and any other graduate labor was cut out, grinding courses to a halt; sporadic picketing shut down access to campus. columbia took illegal measures by threatening to suspend all graduate students, but at no point were any cops called. other key graduate strikes took place at nyu, the university of michigan, and temple university, with no cops called despite other intimidation tactics by university administrations. this is not to mention hundreds of sit-ins, die-ins, encampments, and other protests that take place yearly across the country with no notice. yet tents honoring palestinians is just cause to unleash the police?

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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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I think people have forgotten what an album is supposed to be

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

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been working on collapsing harry styles and timothee chalamet into one celebrity entity in my mind to make room for more important stuff like the locations of nuts that i buried before winter

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The flip side of the post-World War II cries of “Never again” was an unspoken “Never before.” The insistence on lifting the Holocaust out of history, the failure to recognize these patterns, and the refusal to see where the Nazis fit inside the arc of colonial genocides have all come at a high cost. The countries that defeated Hitler did not have to confront the uncomfortable fact that Hitler had taken pointers and inspiration on race-making and on human containment from them, leaving their innocence not only undisturbed but also significantly strengthened by what was indeed a righteous victory.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger

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HAPPENING NOW: passover seder from our comrades in columbia's liberated zone/gaza solidarity encampment. this encampment is a profoundly religious space. we've seen muslim protesters praying multiple times a day, a christian communion was held, and multiple jewish prayers/celebrations have taken place. solidarity is a beautiful thing, palestine will be free.🖤🇵🇸

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if you do more than one just pick the one you do most often! (for instance i'm a sound off girl except for occasionally when i'm a game off refreshing the app nonstop girl)

#i just leave it and endure because masochism is the sports fan way #i either am full of anger and despair or i'm about to get sick with anxiety #what's up 2010 wc 2012 euros and 2023 wc penalty shootouts #the former (anger and despair) is me right now with liverpool #the past few weeks i got so pissed that i wanted time to speed up #so i could get the match over with #i debated turning off the tv or stream #but i thought about it and i felt like i'd be even angrier and more upset checking the results afterwards #than if i had lived through it weirdly? does this make sense to anyone?

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im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

#i mean. look what they did to BLM #i was afraid and unsurprised that this would happen #these are real people and real lives and real events

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Every match makes me angry and I dread it every time the starting whistle blows. The only reason I'm watching is that Klopp's leaving. Otherwise I'd just turn off the TV and pretend the season's over. I didn't even really feel this way during the Hodgson and Rodgers eras which tells you something. But there's something extra bleak and exasperating when we play like this with the squad we have. At least back then, we were used to disappointment because we had a squad of mid randos.

Klopp announced he's going to step down, the boys said they were going to try to win everything for him, and instead did the near opposite and lost almost everything (tbh we won a Mickey Mouse cup due to what now seems like pure luck). Okay. Literally the only way I can survive this and not want to fly over there to yell at all the boys is if this somehow revitalized Klopp's desire to stay for at least one more season because god, it's one thing to not win a quadruple, but how can he go out like THIS? He deserves better. (JÜRGEN, YOU CAN DO THE FUNNIEST THING RIGHT NOW AND PULL A XAVI!!!!! DO IT!!!!).

And speaking of last seasons, remember when we all speculated this would be Mo's last season or close to it or possibly Virgil's...? I wonder if that's still the case or they're too embarrassed to leave like this. They're both so competitive that i can't imagine they'd want to end on such a sour note. It's one thing to not win titles, but another to know that you can't even be mad and think your teammates or the manager is at fault because you're playing poorly too. It's noticeable how quiet mo has gotten; he used to get pissed when he got subbed off. Not anymore because he gets why.

At this point, we need to clean house because players are getting too comfortable and I don't know if this mindset is fixable. I love the boys dearly on a personal level, but it's clear that some people are good but not great and that just doesn't cut it. Some people should have never come; we've had some questionable acquisitions even if I love those questionable acquisitions. We had some people stay way too long, long after they should have left (again, even if I love those players).

MICHAEL EDWARDS, SAVE US, PLEASE. I'M BEGGING. Literally the only thing I'm looking forward to this summer and next season is his return because we made bad choices with player buys and sales.

#arika and i are talking about who we think should leave this season and who to keep #both the good ones and the ones who maybe are struggling but we think it's worth waiting out #not entirely relevant but imagine what our team would have looked like with a thiago who wasn't injury prone... #he's definitely leaving this summer but it's sad he didn't get to play at all this season #and i am biased because he's been my 'one who got away' guy since his barça days. he was supposed to be ours #but well. timing. sliding doors. windows of opportunity #so i was over the moon that he came to liverpool despite my doubts because he's made out of glass #anyway this was on my mind because everyone out there played badly today except lucho at least tried #but that missing midfield is what drives me insane for most of the match #because we have moments where the defenders and forwards' brains shut off sure #but most of the match you can see them being completely lost and unable to do anything but pass backwards or sideways #there's no midfield to control the match #i need them to understand that the goal...you see that net? those two poles and crossbar? #that is in FRONT of you. no not the one behind you. that's OURS. not sideways. there's nothing there. IN FRONT OF YOU

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One (pathetic) upside to being an adult: when football matches make you miserable, you can throw yourself into work and forget about everything!

It's always terrible to be shoddy in a Merseyside derby, but to do it when Everton's about to be relegated and they've had the second fewest goals all season? How did we make them look like they're much better than they are even with their mid plays? How did PICKFORD looking like an ace GK while Alisson looked sloppy? How did it look like we switched bodies and brains so that they were the mentality monsters and we were, I don't know, on vacation?

The thing I don't get is that regardless of the opponent and the stakes, we play the same. Same errors every game. Same mentality. I'm a broken record at this point.

I knew that it was bad when we started the match and Liverpool looked like they were full of nerves and not confident at all. They've been so unconfident the past few weeks; it's bewildering. And that negative mindset cost us everything. You know things are very bad for us when we go down 1–0 as usual in the first half, and I fall apart in despair and feel like the match is already over even if we have...70 minutes to go or whatever. Because we have no hope considering no one knows how to score or even get the ball forward anymore.