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It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

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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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If I had to pick something I think I primarily collect activities/entertainment? If that makes sense. I think I probably have well over 1000 video games at this point spanning through all the Nintendo consoles since the gameboy era, along with about 80 pc games including all of sims 4 and sims 3 which I’m including separately because they have so many packs.

Beyond that I have a good hundred or so puzzles (including about 15 3D puzzles!!), just about every board game you could imagine along with multiple versions of several of those games, and so, so many books. I hoard books. I swear I’ll read them some day…

I also collect hobbies but I think that’s my adhd primarily. I have a lot of yarn and knitting needles (I only know one stitch). I also have a bunch of tools and stuff for whittling that I use occasionally but never actually finish a project with. Then there’s all of the art supplies. I have so many bottles of paint and so many canvases, very few of which have seen much, if any use.

Oh, and if Spotify counts I collect music. I have 48 playlists and my liked songs playlist is over 8 days long at this point. I listen to a bit of everything and if I put it on shuffle it sounds like when I used to use pandora.

As for physical objects that aren’t related to entertainment, I have a shit ton of blankets pillows and stuffed animals. I’m talking if it were all on my bed you would never find me, and I can’t actually count it all. I’ve been told I nest like an animal, and as a result every holiday I’m given at least one large fluffy object to add to my collection/nest.

In the past collections I used to have but were lost for one reason or another include rocks, headphones, notebooks, cameras, picture frames, keyboards, computer mice, controllers, and also McDonald’s happy meal toys.

I can’t believe how accurate this is. I’ve had a rock collection since I was a kid, and I’m still collecting them to this day.

Do any of you relate to this? If so, what do you like to collect? It can be plushies, toys, whatever. :)

Neurodivergent Girl

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I got a tumblr, it really was quite great

I blog about a lot of things, but mostly what I ate.

I thought it was a sweet gig, it really was quite cushy.

Then they went and banned me, ‘cause all I ate was pussy.

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Meth

I found out this week that my daughter told everyone at school that I'm on Meth because that's what I call my Methotrexate. 🤣

#autoimmune #autoimmunedisorder #autoimmunedisease #methotrexate #chronicillness

#me with my methylphenidate #I also top everyone because of my topamax #haha #I need a nap

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i say the names of my disorders and people stare at me like i just casted a spell.

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“do it scared” “do it badly” “do it alone” i hate to say it but. nike was right. just do it

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At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.

You must unlearn this.

You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.

If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.

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me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

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just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone

🔁 pls reblog for sample size

#I have anxiety disorders #many of them #I can’t leave the house alone #like at all #soooooooooo

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Ignore the fact that my teacher can’t spell/doesn’t proofread.

I fucking love being a psychology student.

#college student #psychology #psychology major #true crime #antisocial personality disorder #(that doesn’t mean what most people think it does. I didn’t even know what it was until I read my textbook) #schizoid personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder should be switched tbh

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but especially with the end of the school year coming up soon, and a bunch of people about to leave high school or about to leave college, I just wanted to say:

Being an adult can be really nice, actually!!!

Like, okay, yeah, life can be fucking stressful sometimes, and there's definitely an annoying amount of paperwork.

But me and just about every single adult I know will agree: I would never choose to go back to being a teenager, even if I somehow could.

Insert obvious disclaimer that nothing is universal. But for people worried about aging or graduating into the next chapter of life, here's some words of reassurance:

When you're a teenager, your brain is extra mean to you. Like, neurologically. All of the changes it's undergoing really, really increase rates of depression/anxiety/etc. A lot of the time, literally just not being a teenager anymore is really good for your mental health

Less than five months out of high school, everyone I knew my age was like "Thank fuck we're no longer in high school." Once you leave high school and adolescence there's really just such a dramatic drop in petty bullshit. Shit that would have been a huge social humiliation or gossip in high school is really often just like, "Hate that for you, man." Boom, done.

When you're a teenager or a brand new adult, you're encountering so many problems for the first time ever. When you're older, you just. Have learned how to handle a lot more things. You know what to do way more often and that builds confidence

When you're an adult, other people generally don't care if you don't do things perfectly, because jobs and life don't work like grades. This was such a trip to learn, honestly? But when you are an adult or have a job the bar for success is usually just "Did you do the thing?" or "Did you do the thing well enough that it works?" or "Did you show up to work for your whole shift and look like you were doing things?"

Similarly, if you're about to graduate college and you're really stressed about it, fyi just about everyone I knew in college ended up very quickly going "wow, 'real life' is way easier." Admittedly I went to a school full of very stressed out perfectionists and the like, so I can't promise this is universal, but there's a very real chance that life will in many ways get easier when you graduate

WAY MORE CONTROL OF YOUR OWN LIFE

Literally I cannot overstate that last point. As an adult, you are (barring certain disabilities or shitty circumstances like abusive family/the criminal justice system/etc.) able to make most of your own decisions. If you want to rearrange your furniture, you can. If you want to eat tater tots at midnight, you can. If you want to get yourself a little treat, you can. You can sign contracts and make your own legal and medical decisions and not need a parent or guardian signature for just about anything ever again

You generally learn how to give fewer fucks

The people around you have also generally learned how to give fewer fucks

Even when things are shitty, being able to choose what kind of shitty a lot of the time can really be worth an awful lot

#oh my god this #being in high school was fucking miserable #being in college is miserable #and I’m stressed all the fucking time #and I’ve got other health shit keeping me down rn #but if I had to go back to high school I don’t think I’d survive #and just within my friends things are better #the amount of stupid arguments we got into in middle and high school #that left us miserable and depressed and angry #are just gone #that friend that used to fight with me about politics? #yeah #we’re both too fucking worried about rent and tuition to give a shit anymore #we disagree and we move the fuck on #that friend who was always depressed because of family shit and upset everyone else in the process? #no longer in that house and thriving #I haven’t made it past college #but everyone in college is too stressed to give a shit about you #and that’s a good thing #getting to just exist is a good thing

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so i have a mildly popular “reblog and put in in the tags” post going around and its. very clear how many people don’t know how to interact with a tumblr post

so, first of all, tumblr’s culture has changed a lot in the past couple years. there’s a genuine community effort to not start any drama, and ironically a lot of the current hostility is an effort to keep things calm. there’s also a change in how people interact with posts, so if you haven’t been here in a while please skip down to the tags/replies/reblog with text section.

for newcomers: you should be reblogging posts about as liberally as you would like something on twitter. if you only like stuff, people will think you are rude/a bot. you’ve probably heard people talk about “cultivating your dash,” and thats because this platform is 100% centered around your dashboard. trending matters less, unfollowing and blocking in order to shape your dash into it’s best form is widely accepted, the majority of the content you’ll find and interact with will be because of your dash, and the only way to put things on your dash is to reblog them. tumblr users are deeply distrustful of algorithms and have largely turned off the “see posts your friends have liked” function (i recommend you also turn of the various algorithms in settings → general settings → dashboard preferences).

so, once you’ve reblogged a post, there’s three ways to add content to it. the tags, replies, and reblogging with text. all of them have different connotations

the tags: an inside voice. originally they were meant for organizing your blog (and they’re still used for this), but they’ve also morphed into a way to share thoughts that aren’t funny/insightful enough for non-followers to be interested in. when in doubt, put your comment in the tags

replies: basically talking to your friends in class. your followers have no way of finding your replies (they don’t pop up on the dash, nobody gets notified except for the original poster) so chances are, only the person who made the post is gonna see your comment. it’s for quick one-offs that you’re okay with other people overhearing, but really is only made for one person. they’re like a public dm

reblog with text: an outside voice. you’re getting up on a stage in town square and entertaining people. make sure it’s funny or insightful— bottom line, add something new to the conversation. you should use this the least

general rules of thumb: 

when in doubt, reblog. people will judge you if your blog is only personal posts and you only interact with other content by liking it.  

the only things people will judge you for reblogging are personal vent posts. leave a like to give a little virtual hug

if a post is asking about your personality/opinions (i.e: tell me what’s the last tv show you watched, that kind of thing) put it in the tags 

also if you see a nice edit, gifset, or art, reblog and say something nice in the tags! it’s that nice sweet spot of common enough that no one will notice but uncommon enough to make the artist’s day