It's a Miriam Monday, once again!!

This is my cat, Pigeon...

this is my cat, Pigeon :)

This is my cat, Pigeon 🤷‍♀️

Beautiful pigeons, everybody. Particularly enchanted by the last one, who appears to be some sort of nun.

This ABSOLUTELY works.

I have used this for many years. Definitely b do it.

This article was super long-winded so I screenshat the important part

the fact we’re responsible for getting doctors to “lower their defenses” in order to literally just do their jobs is ✨INFURIATING✨

Another aspect of this approach is that it implies someone else, who knows you well, has made a health/wellfare observation about you, which means it's less likely for the doctor to think your concern is "it's all in your head" or that you're exaggerating.

But yeah, it's messed up.

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This is what trying to get info on insects is like and it pisses me off

Pest control salespeople regularly come to our house to sell door to door, and some of them just absolutely cannot comprehend when I tell them that we like the spiders and wasps because they help control pest insects.

Conversation usually goes:

Salesperson: Hi there, we do pest control for your neighbor and I just wanted to come by and talk to you about—

Me: Hey thanks so much for coming by, but you came to a house full of entomologists and I don’t want to waste your time, we aren’t ever going to be interested in pest control…

Salesperson: Oh don’t worry we don’t kill the bugs we can just apply chemicals to repel them, you can see there’s some mud dauber and paper wasp nests getting started…

Me: I know, we like them

Salesperson: *bluescreening*

Me: They help kill the pest insects that eat our garden…and I think they’re pretty cute and fun to watch

Salesperson: Um, well, thank you for your time…I guess…

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Art by Simon Demaret

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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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You know that thing where you see a gorgeous view (left) and try to take a picture of it, but your phone camera is a joyless fucking nihilist who refuses to see the beauty in anything and only sees this (right)

As a more thorough demonstration, today the road looked like this:

(blatant paint-over of my own photo, because I needed you to see what I saw)

And my phone camera made it look like this:

prev tags WHAAAAT

ok im gonna explain it anyway bc of this sO HERE IS MY QUICK BREAKDOWN

[please note my breakdown IS android specific bc that's what i have, however i know that the settings should be SIMILAR for an iphone. i just couldn't tell you the exacts]

GO TO THE "MORE" SETTING (should be visible as soon as you open your camera)

GO TO "PRO"

PLAY WITH THE ISO, THE SPEED (shutter speed) AND THE WB (temperature)

a HIGH ISO will help brighten your photo, a LOW ISO will help dim it.

a FAST shutter speed will DARKEN your photo, a SLOW shutter speed will make it LIGHT. this will also have an effect on how your photo takes!!! the slower your shutter speed, the steadier you need to hold your phone or it WILL become blurry, but it allows more ambient light and is thus recommended for taking photos of, say, stars. a fast shutter speed is how you take photos of objects in motion, but it lets almost no ambient light in (this is where you would want to up your ISO!)

the WB/temperature will shift your photo from being more warm toned to more cool toned.

here are some examples i took of the same sky. each photo has a different ISO, Speed, and WB:

and here is a much more subtle example where I was messing only with the ISO and shutter speed:

finally, here is one compared to a photo I took at the same moment with just my phones normal camera:

(you can REALLY see the sun rays peering out over the clouds in the photo on the right, which is what i was trying to photograph!)

As you can see, the difference are HUGE even when they're subtle!!!

your regular phone camera SUCKS but it DOES come equipped with the right settings to take gorgeous photos. you just have up know what to look for!!!!!

[sidebar: NONE OF THESE PHOTOS ARE EDITED BTW!!! this is exactly how the phone took them!!!]

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