Just another Tuesday in this hellsite

These bills have nothing to do with keeping young people from doing certain things or protecting the children or whatever. Their point is and always has been one thing: If your operating system knows who you are it is impossible to have any real form of privacy on the computer.

i posted this on bluesky on teto day and it did really well so i hope tumblr enjoys it just as much too

Thank you I love vocal synth yuri game !!!

notable examples of "indie animation" on Wikipedia include;

The Secret of NIMH

The Brave Little Toaster

Hoodwinked!

Barnyard (the one that got a Nickelodeon show)

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Tomm More's Irish Folklore trilogy (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers)

and of course, classic independent film Spirited Away

all "indie" means in terms of art (indie rock, indie film, indie publishing, etc) is that it was released without a major label, studio, publisher, distributor, etc. one of the highest-grossing indie films of all time is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). Radiohead's "In Rainbows", several BTS albums, and the official soundtrack to The Lion King are all independent albums that hit #1 on the Billboard top-200.

NEVER KILL YOURSELF

I'D LOVE TO ELABORATE because this is one of my favorite astronomy stories.

Okay. So in the field of Radio Astronomy, there's this phenomenon called a "fast radio burst", a very short, strong radio pulse picked up by a radio telescope. They're still poorly understood, and are considered very exciting to radio astronomers because of how rare they are.

In the 2010's, astronomers working at Australia's Parkes Radio Observatory identified a number of radio signals picked up by the telescope that appeared to resemble fast radio bursts, which they called Perytons.

However, they quickly realized that the signals had to be terrestrial in origin due to the strength of the signal.... as well as the fact that they always occurred during weekdays, around the same time.

The signals tended to be clustered around midday... hmm...

Further evidence that the signals were man-made... this trend also followed daylight savings!!!

(Unless aliens also follow Australian daylight savings conventions, which is highly unlikely...)

It took the astronomers several years, but they eventually tracked down the source to a microwave oven in the facility's break room.

They were unable to recreate the signal, until they tried opening the microwave door before it beeped. Turns out the microwave was letting out a tiny amount of radio emissions when the door opened, which the nearby telescope was sensitive enough to detect.

The Peryton signals had been popping up in the data for over a decade, presumably because astronomers taking their lunch breaks had been opening the break room microwave prematurely for the same reason cited by OP.

I imagine they must have a big sign reading "LET THE MICROWAVE FINISH BEFORE OPENING" hanging in the break room now.

TLDR: If you work in radio astronomy, let the microwave beep before opening it and removing your lunch.