Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th
No guys you don’t understand.
The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.
So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.
This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.
That’s not sad, that’s awesome.
*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing
Some days brain fog just makes everything really difficult. That’s not your fault.
Don’t be hard on yourself for things outside of your control. It’s hard to read, it’s hard to focus, it’s hard to do work, it’s hard to think, none of that is your fault. Pushing yourself harder is only going to make you feel worse.
You’re not stupid. It’ll be okay. Just get some rest. You can try again another time.
we need to ban parents from using the word “attitude” so they can maybe start grappling with the fact that their children maybe are having a reasonably angry response
i mean yeah guys stop gendering hair in general but i hope its clear that this sentiment isnt just something we are all saying for casual progressive fun and that hair—body hair, facial hair, the hair on your head—is extremely politicized for marginalized people.
let trans women forego things like full body shaving without accusing them of being men
let women have professional lives that do not hinge on the removal of their body hair
acknowledge the racialization of facial hair on women
acknowledge how hair is politicized and gendered on men as well—and while its important, not only in senses of “let cis men have long hair if they like it” or “let trans men have long hair without misgendering them” but also: men of colour with long hair are targeted for this
american christianity has a long history of deeming men of colours long hair as too woman-like and therefore anti-christian, and.. in the case of residential schools, forcibly cutting native mens hair. native men have been historically sexualized over and over by american historians wrt this.
and this is true of white historians with other peoples as well. men of colour with long hair have been historically sexualized and demonized in turn by white people for presentation that was gendered in the eyes of white christianity.
the gendering of hair is the politicizing of it and genuinely tied up in violence… antisemitic violence, racial violence, sexual violence.. like… i hope we are all earnestly acknowledging the pain of this beyond the obvious when we read posts like this
People die on the job every summer. Remember that water and shade breaks are crucial when working in the heat, and calling emergency services for signs of serious heat illness (fatigue, nausea/vomiting, headaches, dizziness, clammy skin, confusion, agitation, slurred speech, high body temperature, rapid heart rate, etc.) is entirely appropriate. If you’re afraid to call 911 for reasons such as being undocumented, you’ll need to get very familiar with how to prevent, recognize, and treat heat illness. If you are symptomatic and not allowed a break, water, or medical treatment, walk out. No matter how broke you are, your job is not worth your life.
