why am i still on this hellsite

tragedy enjoyers when even good intentions lead to ruin

why should i care about taylor swift when the killer remains at large

#girl… put 2 and 2 together

I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

Salute to our troops (70s careerwomen who put their hard-earned dollars into homemade gay erotica)

It was women with secretarial jobs doing a lot of the heavy lifting, if memory serves correctly.

They had training in type setting, could churn things out quickly, knew how to organise mailing lists, and had easy access to Expensive High Tech like photocopiers.

Boss make a dollar, she makes a dime. That's why she's printing Kirk X Spock zines on company time.

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 also am absolutely gobsmacked how the support team -- who, after 50 years, are getting up there -- have been mentoring younger engineers that have been brought onto the project.

Nobody expected Voyager to be active this long. But when confronted with it's (very fucking impressive) lifespan, older staff have been passing on their vast and esoteric knowledge of Voyager's inner working to the next generation.

It's like, an order of medieval monks. The Ancient Order of Voyager 1.

This seriously has the makings of, given a few hundred years, the accidental founding of a religion.

this is like at least 3 jokes I think

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP YOU CANT BE FUNNIER THAN ME. FUCK

every autistic person watching this episode of dungeon meshi:

i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

The fucking link to the Wikipedia for "cylinder". Brutal.

what do you mean you don't want to talk to every single npc and explore every single area in a video game

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger

low approval/annoyed Halsin is so funny he's just

"I can NOT be assed to help you useless twats but FINE... I will anyway for FUCK'S sake"

I think we're starting to dilute the meaning of "terminally online". Like, no, it's not terminally online to have eccentric opinions about a popular TV show – people like that existed before "online" was a thing. Unless we're talking at least an "it's homophobic for gay furries to have rat fursonas because they're depicting gay people as vermin", the onlineness falls well short of terminal.

(via op)

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

being an adult and trying to be "responsible with my money" is so hard like literally what corners am I supposed to be cutting on this budget. what am I supposed to stop spending money on. my anxiety meds? food for my cats? impulsive takeout orders? spotify premium? patreon artists who draw huge throbbing monster dicks? all of these are completely necessary to maintain my quality of life.

I'm not going to put the person who left these tags on blast but

like actually don't ignore the monster dick part that very much IS a little joy. like idk a lot of people have engaged with this post with a tone of "heehoo obviously that last part is a silly goof goof joke" while also agreeing that people need whimsy and little treats to live and like. why not huge throbbing monster dicks? why can lovingly drawn indie porn not be a thing that we acknowledge as a treat? it's not less pure just because someone is jacking off to it, jacking off is also fun.

Also, people who make monster dicks for a living want to be able to afford little treats too...

I'm not letting you hide the tags when you're being this correct

#as someone who has gotten to keep a close eye on sales#i personally know how when money gets tight its one of the first things people cut from their purchase list#we've done several refunds for people who ordered and realized it set them back more than they could afford because we get it#its just a little frustrating that everyone goes 'teehee monster dicks funny joke' about my literal livelihood

everyone support your local artisanal monster dick purveyors

#thought about making this point before#your little treat is often someone else's livelihood#you need to be able to afford little treats in some part so your neighbors can afford little treats#community is little treats - @awishturnedwell

and like our dear friend karl said:

I'm 2% cop on my mother's side, so fentanyl only gives me hives.