If I Tell you not to Interact, Will You?

Shower poll goes by again and

What do you mean soap

What do you mean deodorant


cidthecoatrack-blog

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.

siyurikspakvariisis

an article on the subject for the curious:


aliiiiiiice

why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?

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I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail

aliiiiiiice

everyone else is like "oh we gotta stay inside the most secure places possible and never leave" and I'll be storming through the wastelands in my bloodstained suit of armor, blasting the Doom (2016) OST and plowing my way through waves of the undead. one of them tries to bite me but his shitty rotting teeth don't even leave a dent in my armor before I turn his head into paste. I'll be unstoppable until I die of dehydration or something like an idiot

earlgraytay

this goes along with my other pet peeve about zombie apocalypse stories, namely: why does no one ever think to ride a bike? 

bikes are quiet- if the zombies react to loud noises, they won’t hear you on a bike the way they might hear you in a car. bikes don’t need gas, meaning you won’t be stranded if you run out. bikes are much, much easier to maintain than a car- there’s no computer that can short out, no fiddly engine bits that could kill you if you mess with them wrong. you can learn how to maintain a bike with a couple weeks’ worth of classes. almost every adult knows how to ride a bike, and without cars on the road, it’d be much safer to do. 

what i’m saying is

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American author Mark Twain (b. 1835) lurches from his grave only to give you a massive thumbs up and die again

elodieunderglass

Mark Twain essentially invented the genre of a bystander sent into a time-travel sci-fi plot just to get someone to draw this image for him. And today we can simply search for such a picture. It is a time of wonders


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beggars-opera

#this post has everything. zombies. knights. bicycles. knights on bicycles. mark twain.


charlottan

thinking about that damn deer statue again

charlottan

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sorry i cant be her


pirateprincessjess

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

dietspam16

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thedustyleaves

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Getting into the habit of drawing again with a little comic about a customer at an old job of mine


mindfogs

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10/10 permanently changed me as a person and a victim of love

would slay again


plaguedocboi

We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched

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Like there is nothing sexier hthan this

theboboshow

Can’t wait for OP to get scurvy

plaguedocboi

Are you under the impression that the ships themselves are what caused scurvy

plaguedocboi

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Once again. Do you think this is the fault of the ships themselves

legsloveless

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girlballs

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sorry im having a hater moment again but like. is there a fucking. widespread virulent brain parasite that makes people draw like this. is there an art goblin with a pair of heavy-duty pliers running around and crunching these women like some kind of fucked up Chalk Zone antagonist

sudrien

They want the lines of a corset but have literally lazed the corset away


arctic-hands

I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again

ryanthedemiboy

To be clear to those unfamiliar: these are the companies that libraries use to lend ebooks.

They are literally cutting off library access to minors.

ayellowbirds

If you are affected by this or other bans and restrictions in the United States, be aware that the Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to anyone age 13-21 nationwide as part of their Books UnBanned initiative:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

BOOOOOST

elfwreck

Seattle has joined them:

mandrellaeffect

@queerliblib is a digital library dedicated to LGBTQ+ literature, and if you live in the US you can apply for membership. One thing that I have not seen before, but thought was incredibly neat and such a smart idea, is they have a "quick exit" banner at the top of their website (the website proper, not the tumblr blog) where clicking on it will redirect the page to the weather channel's website