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
sorry, any disability movement that tries to have me say that I DON’T have deficits or that I’m NOT defective will always end badly. endlessly trying to reframe disabled traits as superpowers will only ever exclude the most vulnerable. it will only ever shove aside other disabled people in an attempt to normalise the limited symptoms that CAN be reframed as “benefits”. and that’s not a movement I can prescribe to
finally i can wear a miniskirt without showing the whole world my big fat ass 😭😭
35 to 70 bucks per skirt. damn…
yes, our prices are higher than you would find in fast fashion. i’d just like to preface that the following doesn’t come from a place of anger or anything like that, i just want to provide some education.
our prices are higher because we are a small business working on a small scale and because we use a factory that has extensive certifications that ensure both ethical labor practices and the usage of high quality materials, i.e. materials that are not hazardous.
this includes certifications up the supply chain, which is extremely difficult and costly to do, as things like dyes and fixings (buttons, zippers, etc) are some of the most difficult to track and some of the most likely to be made with hazardous chemicals or with unethical labor.
fast fashion prices come with bad labor practices (sweatshops, labor camps, etc) and often use materials that are harmful to humans (lead, PFAS, formaldehyde, etc) and those chemicals are still present when you receive and wear those garments.
all clothing is made by humans. cheap clothing comes with a price. it’s just not one you know you’re paying. and that’s normal because the companies that use these practices do not want you to know.
one unexpected side effect of this post is that with every response the price of my skirts seems to rise lol. first $70, then $75. y’all the most expensive item we sell is $60 😅
this is for those who despair over seeing ships or tropes that make them uncomfortable while they do their little scrolly-scroll on ao3, acting like they aren’t responsible for their own internet experience
Freelancing in technical theater means you’re on a lot of different email lists. People need a crew, they send out an email, you respond with your availability. Now, most people start these with things like “hey folks” or “hi everyone”. Neal is not most people.
His openers started off innocent enough.
Then, he started to push boundaries.
And as you can see, it has spiraled out of control since then.
Tag yourselves. I’m the anteater in a suit who thinks he can pass.
THEY JUST KEEP COMING
He’s even witty in real time.
Neal is a hecking gift.
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