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I taught Matthew Mercer how to play DnD, and you can hear that story if you listen to me talk about something very important first

Please help me raise money to get Rajaa and her family out of Gaza so they can be safe.

As a mother of two lovely children, I humbly seek your assistance to relocate f… Khalil Bassam k Alnemnem needs your support for Rajaa famil

cannibalchicken

mystical-one

who else is being captivated by the timeless beauty and divinity of music

dduane

(via @SmudgeTheInsultCat over on Mastodon)

breelandwalker

@friend-crow origin story

friend-crow

NEW LORE JUST DROPPED

lesvegas

Do you think they knew what they would become

lesvegas

Couldn't be assed to go back in-game to find this entry but:

lesvegas

Hey I think it'd be cool if you guys reblogged this version too

dailydivergent

There’s no such thing as work-life balance for neurodivergent & chronically ill people.

This is because everything in my life requires work:

maintaining friendships

keeping up with my hygiene

managing bills

making money

remembering my basic needs

sleeping regularly

outputting creatively

All requires some aspect of work for me.

And when everything in your life requires work, your balance goes out the window.

If you're neurodivergent and overwhelmed — I see you.

If you're chronically ill and overwhelmed — I see you.

You're not dysfunctional.

You're not incapable.

You're doing your best.

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:

"We're pretty much seeing everything we had hoped for, and that's always good news.”

carolxdanvers

inthefallofasparrow

red-mercer

This really deserves to be one of those million note posts

tenaciouszombiearcher

Knowledge is empowering

fluffmugger

you can literally get gender changers for like $3

pkducklett

And yes, that's literally what they're called.

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you got a gender changer for like $3

topherchris

runby2

This image makes me feel at home. Every time I see it, it raises my self esteem so much I start crying. Like yea. I’m part of their group. I’m a he/they Queen. Im gonna kick ass today, girls.

snubbin

celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725

Please watch this.

robert-the-redhead-lover-deacti

Shit, I’ve only seen stills of this.

wereralph

the photoset really didn’t do this scene justice im yelling

vastderp

this is one of those rare cases where the dub adds deliciousness to the source material

vodkassassin

Honestly him pouring out all his pencils onto the desk and looking at the guy expectantly was actually such a power move

saintjosie

she thought i was handing her a box of batteries

pirateprincessjess

I was so confused about why you were handing me a box of batteries, but it wasn’t batteries It was BETRAYAL

contemptible-scoundrel

SEXUALLY AGGRESSIVE BRIDGE TROLL: you must solve my riddles three or you will suck my gnarled wee

SUSPICIOUS MERCHANT: my wares cost no coin, but remember: everything has a price...

ORC WITH A URINARY TRACT INFECTION: [pissing in a bush] AAAAAOOOOOOOUUUHHHHHHH

selkiesparrow

Zoozve, my beloved

ktempestbradford

"...we don't live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club..."

This is my favorite line.

neil-gaiman

I have learned so many things from this.

prole-log

crazy-pages

This article is actually about a very serious problem. If you overgenerate electricity it increases the phase frequency of the power grid, and if that goes out of sync with your generators (including solar panels) it can destroy them. In the kind of way where your power grid is fucked for months. It is very very very very bad.

California started a program to make solar panels more affordable by offering very low interest rates for solar panels, to allow people to benefit from their lifetime $/energy cost that's below fossil fuels, without having to worry about the high frontloaded cost. However they did not do this for batteries. And power grid quality batteries with massive energy storage and serious charge-discharge lifetimes, are expensive.

And they did this because while solar panels are cheaper than fossil fuels per kilowatt hour of electricity over their lifetime, solar panels plus batteries are not. And California wanted a supplemented free market solution and didn't really want to think about the part that direct government intervention in the form of taxation and paying for this change would be necessary.

So everyone in California just kept adding solar panels to the grid with no disconnect mechanisms, until eventually it hit a point where at noon, solar panels generated more power than the entire grid needed. With no batteries to store the excess. This is a motherfucking power grid killer. It is a scenario where people get left in the fucking dark for months because of how badly it destroys the powergrid.

So the power grid authorities did the only thing they could do. They called up every industrial plant with heavy duty equipment and ovens they could and paid them to turn it on full blast (because using that equipment costs money in wear and tear even without the electricity cost). And in doing so, avoided disaster.

That's what this article is talking about. They are solar panel researchers criticizing a capitalist adoption strategy and promoting direct government intervention to create renewable energy. However as with most newspapers they don't get to choose the title, the editor picks the most provocative title that will get clicks.

labelleizzy

Okay here's another case where I originally reblogged the first part without thinking, and now we have the proper context. Damn

themysteriousmurasamecastle

i havent stopped thinking about samurai wojak its definitely my favorite one i've ever seen down to the fact it uses my favorite face that's like "OOOOOOOOOGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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