A Little Nine And J Drawing I Made With Some Baseball Cards I Found On The Ground That Inspired Me

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=== a few days ago === March 5, 2024: Happy Birthday to Pioneer 9!!!

Man, I'm bad at this. I got held up by random nonsense, but I'm still gonna wish our favorite football hater a (belated) happy birthday anyway!

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

Famine, displacement and death...

The situation is getting worse day by day. There is no food, no milk, nothing ... only death. Not a second goes by without bombing, blasting, or killing innocent people and children.😭💔

As you can see in the picture, people are being killed every day for no reason, and corpses are flying in the air from the force of the bombing, and no one is moving a muscle.😭😔🙏

There is no food, no milk, no medicine, our lives are in danger...my family is in danger..😭

Help us and donate to buy food, milk and medicine for my family. We will die of hunger and bombing...🙏😭💔🍉

‼️You are our last hope‼️

Chuffed

Help Lama's family to rebuild her life

Hello, I'm Lama from Gaza, I'm 24 years old, and my husband Mohammed is 30 years old, we got married in 2022 in a beautiful, warm and quiet

salut! i was wondering; do you know any clean-singing metal bands that sing in french? i'd assume that'd be something in the direction of power metal (like powerwolf does some german songs) as they tend to like clean singing, but i'm open to anything :)

(i noticed you posted about french language music earlier so figured you might know)

merci - un ami suédophone

oulah sorry but i don't know much about metal (i do listen a bit but don't know much about subgenres etc), only know like 4 french bands and none sounding like what like you're looking for, even tried to ask my metalhead friend but she doesn't know either. recs open!

"Mom, can we have 17776?" "No we have 17776 at home" 17776 at home: (Read at your own risk. There's only one (1) page that has actual dialogue, and it's very short.)

I have bottom surgery scheduled in April. I am very excited about it, but I have a lot of thoughts on how the process has been.

My surgeon's clinic calls it a transmasculine surgery. My insurance does the same. Everywhere I look for information about the surgery, it is referred to as masculinizing, as a gender confirmation surgery for men and masculine people.

I am not transmasculine nor a transgender man. I am not masculine or a man at all.

I am an intersex transgender woman with ambiguous genitalia seeking urethral lengthening, a scrotoplasty, and closure of a painful vagina that doesn't go anywhere. I do not consider my wants to be masculine and don't like referring to it that way. I have been gendered a boy, a man, a sir for a lot of my life and I do not wish to be called these things. My surgeon, letters, and insurance are calling my surgery a metoidioplasty, a surgery traditionally offered to transmasculine people and men.

In order to get this surgery, I have had to repeatedly state that I am a man, or at the very least "masculine", with a phallus that needs to be "affirmed" via surgery. It is dysphoric work.

I am appreciative of my ability to access life-saving surgery through transgender medical care, but I do look forward very much to the day in which all can access hormones and surgery without it being so deeply gendered, without all of the hoops and demands to prove you are really enough of a man or a woman to justify medical care.

I look forward to the day in which genitals do not have genders.

The surgeon told me my results will be great, because his first surgeries were done on intersex people. The violence in that sentence hasn't left my mind since he said it.

space probes and football

I read 17776 about a week ago and besides being totally blown away and in love with the concept, it also got me thinking. Now I, being a fanfic lover (as many on this hellsite are), ran to ao3 for fan content as soon as I could. And, of course, I ran to Tumblr as well. And then I maybe fell down a wormhole.

Those who are familiar with the story will know that JUICE mentions this plaque on Pioneer Ten with naked people on it. We don't get a ton of context for that, so I obviously Wikipedia'ed it because what else was I supposed to do? Just accept the fact that a space probe had naked people on it and move on? I think not.

Here's a photo of the plaque, for reference:

So, to quickly break down everything on there, it's clearly a man and a woman in the nude, and then we have the hyperfine transition of hydrogen in the top left (don't ask me what that is; I have NO CLUE), a radial pattern to show the distance of pulsars to the sun and center of the galaxy?, and then, of course, the solar system at the bottom and a silhouette of the spacecraft at scale behind the people.

All this detail was reserved for two plaques: one on the Pioneer Ten and one on Pioneer Eleven, from 1972 and 1973 subsequently. At this point we've lost contact with both probes, whose purposes were pretty much to observe space and the solar system. The inclusion of the plaques was purely to provide some sort of information on the Earth if the probes were at any point encountered by intelligent alien life.

Next I want to turn my attention to the Voyager Golden Record, two identical records made for about the same purpose as the plaques that were launched on their crafts in 1977. What's interesting is that we still have contact with the Voyager probes, whose original missions were to explore far reaches of the solar system but have since moved far beyond the Sun and into interstellar space and are reporting on that.

Now, the records carried on Voyagers 1 and 2 contain sounds and images of the Earth, including over a hundred photos and sounds of human life, greetings, and music. The records also have many engravings similar to that of the plaques on them.

17776 posits that we live in a universe with no other intelligent life, and that people are perfectly okay with that. But all evidence of these "time capsules" says otherwise. All evidence says that people are always looking to space for more -- for answers that space may not be able to give.

I think that if we really were alone on this planet, it would be terrifying. Again, 17776 poses the idea that humans inherently seek out play above all other change. But isn't exploration play in itself? Isn't play just another form of discovery? And if it is, isn't space exploration and discovery inherently human?

I think people have by far accepted that there is a nonzero chance of aliens existing. And in a universe that is, for all intents and purposes, infinitely expanding, a nonzero chance is practically a confirmation, isn't it? Even in a universe as insanely empty as 17776's, I can't imagine humanity giving up on that small chance that we're not alone out here.

The idea that we're not unique in our existence is strongly non-creationist, which I will admit freely. It belies the fact that we are not a chosen people after all. But I think that we have a built-in desire to not want to be alone in the big, dark universe. Not a pale blue dot within infinite vastness, but rather part of a larger group.

Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in space ever. I think that's incredible. Maybe one day, extraterrestrial life will stumble upon our probes and play our records and hear the whale sounds recorded on them. Maybe they won't. But all signs show that we want them to.

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