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i have been crying for like 20 minutes about the sincerity of art and the act of creation like ohhh my god

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it’s monday i’m in the labyrinth

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I think the Sweet Citrus shirt turned out pretty cute...! 🍊

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Jirokichi Kasagi 1862-1921

The store front of a lantern shop

笠木 治郎吉 (1862–1921)

「提灯屋の店先」

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a little bunny looking at the stars in case you're having a bad day.

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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.

#I'm sorry I had to #but ten million applauses for NASA #well done!

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#oh my gosh #i've never seen this before #what the fuck hahahahhhahahahaha

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Tolkien’s subtle connections between LOTR and The Silmarillion are just glorious to discover. Like the reason Gollum hates sunlight and moonlight is the same reason the Nazgûl get scared off when Frodo calls out to Varda! Sauron, and thus his servants and his Ring that has completely corrupted Gollum’s soul, shares the absolute darkness of Melkor, who always hated and feared Varda because she is absolute light and thereby she created the Sun and Moon in defiance of that darkness… and she created them out of the last remaining light of the Two Trees which Melkor destroyed, so every time a piece of Melkor’s darkness comes into contact with the light of the Sun and Moon, it is reminded that Melkor did not destroy that light completely, that it lives on. Gollum can feel Varda’s creations forever clashing with what is indirectly Melkor’s creation.

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Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

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Flowers 💛

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I originally read this as "the damn standard task you know you're capable of," and honestly I think both versions are mutually reinforcing.

"I'm just a girl" you are a grown woman with competency in many areas stop selling yourself short and do the damn task to the standard you know you're capable of.

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Shockingly, you can think that humans don't deserve to be killed just for being young and voiceless, and ALSO that they should have things like food and housing and education!!

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#I don't usually share petitions but gosh darn it I want my favorite show to keep going! #star trek #star trek lower decks #lower decks #star trek: lower decks

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It's gonna be ok OP. We believe in you and in God's plan for you!

Can you please pray for me? I'm trying to enter society and find a place for myself in the world after decades wasted on depression and every day it's harder to hope it's gonna be possible or to hold on to a belief in my existence being justified.

I will absolutely pray for you.

Just the other day, I went to a talk by one of the Sisters of Life, who gave one of those "God loves you" talks, but it felt real, because it wasn't just a fluffy feel-good affirmation--they work with people in the most desperate situations, sometimes twisted by some terrible choices, and they know that God loves every single one of those people and created them for a purpose and is always waiting to welcome them back with love.

So, anyway, I'm just going to attach an image of a sticker I got from them, because it's a reminder we all need sometimes, and it's not just a saying--it's absolutely true.

#is there a small group at your church you could join? maybe that could help get you back out there? #either way it's gonna be ok :)

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I went to a restaurant with a friend yesterday and upon entering we saw these splendid blueberry tarts under bell jars on the counter and we made jokey small talk with the waitress like oh, people will fight over these if there's not enough for everyone, it'll tear families apart, are you making more later? and she said no, I'm afraid that's our entire stock for today, but there are 18 slices, it should be plenty! It was a small village restaurant with only one menu du jour so there weren't any other dessert options but they don't usually get that many customers—but then a couple of large groups arrived and most people noticed the tarts like we did, and went ohh blueberry tart, it's been a while, I can't wait, and it became clear that when we'd get to the end of our meal there would be winners and losers in the blueberry tart rush

But later as we were about to order dessert I wasn't hungry anymore and I was like well that's too bad but someone else will be glad to get 'my' slice of tart—and my friend said yeah, me :) You should order it anyway, I'll eat both! At first I thought she was joking, but no. I said, there's not enough for everyone, you can't take two, and she said, we were going to order two slices, what difference does it make? and I was baffled that she couldn't see the ethical difference between two people eating one slice of tart each vs. one person eating two, when there's a limited quantity of tart. I felt like we were in a simplistic social justice metaphor it was so obvious, but there was no changing her mind. When I said "it's just... not nice" she said "okay" with a shrug, and what can you say to that. She added, you don't know any of these people and I was like, why are we reverting to tribal dynamics in a non-apocalyptic setting, how would you feel if we'd arrived a bit later and seen others ordering two desserts knowing you'd get zero? And she said, I would think that's their right, and I felt kind of amazed.

I pointed out that if she didn't think it was a wee bit wrong, she wouldn't ask me to order her second piece as if it was for me, and she said yeah maybe we don't need to do that, there's no law preventing me from ordering two desserts. What about Kant's categorical imperative Okay I guess you're not breaking any laws by taking more than your fair share of a thing other people also want, just failing a kindergarten-level morality test. I felt embarrassed for sounding like an annoying preachy rigid person so I dropped the issue, and as she ate her two slices she'd smile at me every time we overheard someone order coffee without dessert—like "See? There'll be enough, no one will be deprived of tart because of me!" as if that cancelled the fact that she didn't care in the first place. I guess it was one of these tiny issues that can still significantly alter the way you perceive a person. I tried to tell myself not to be so bothered about this small thing but I was! so bothered. And I felt like writing a letter to some agony aunt like "should I end a friendship over irreconcilable blueberry tart ethics"

#I read this in his voice

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

#my guilty little secret is that whenever I'm having a particularly bad day at work #I listen to Red's readthrough of My Immortal from OverlySarcasticProductions #Something about the combo of her slowly losing her mind and the rampant spelling and plot errors just cheers me up immensely #I've probably listened to a full readthrough of My Immortal five or six times now #(Though TBH I could not tell you the plot if I tried) #(something something Draco something something concert(s?) something something fishnet stockings something-something kawaii bitch #then the troll chapter and then Draco gets kidnapped and tortured by Snape #something something Voldemort something something gun something something everyone gasped cliffhanger never to be finished. The end.) #(Oh and at one point they go to Hot Topic and Voldemort helps Ebony find the perfect dress for her date.) #So My Immortal author if you're out there: #The story might not have been great (if you weren't trolling). But it has genuinely made me feel better on some really shitty days. #Thanks for that.