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Changeling

@farouchestray / farouchestray.tumblr.com

I'm trying- 29 maybe
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jadedanddark

"I'm going to tell you a story with a joke at the end.

"This happened a long long time ago when the gods were little like me. Loki was a little baby. He wanted to go outside but they told him, 'no you are a baby.' He said it was too hot inside, and they said it was too cold to go out.

"He went out anyway and they said 'come inside it's too cold for babies,' but he just climbed a tree and they couldn't reach him. And he swung around from tree to tree like a macaque until he was all nice and cooled off, then he slid down the tree.

"When he gets to the bottom his hands are all full of sap and splinters. So he pulled them all out and put them in the fire, and it made a smell like your smoky stuff, Mama. They opened the window and it wasn't so hot inside anymore. The end."

"And what's the joke, sweetie?"

"Oh! Why did the chicken go to the underworld?"

"Why?"

"TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE!"

(original tale from my kid who is four and apparently knows a secret story about Loki as a child inventing incense. Also that joke slaps.)

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radicalgraff

Barricaded doors at the occupation of a campus administration building in California State Polytechnic University Humboldt.

The occupation of Siemens Hall was established after a violent clash with campus and local police in Monday night. The students and community members occupying the building have stated that they have no plans to leave until campus leadership supports a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and divests from companies that support the Israeli military.

Cal Poly Humboldt joins several college campuses across the U.S., including Columbia University in New York City, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California to occupy campus spaces in support of Palestine.

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The dissertation is officially real!

Want to take home 150 pages of comics on prairies, history, foraging, and restoration, all drawn by yours truly? This is my final revised dissertation and contains a decade of prairie research all in one place.

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iamnotlanuk

rich people be losing theoretical money and making it our problem. like imagine anyone not wealthy being like "this is how much money I thought I would be making and since I'm not, I'm taking it from someone who needs it way more than me" and then we call it inflation or rising costs of living

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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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