Everything’s better under the stars, I suppose

in elementary school i figured out how to customize the classroom desktop's autocorrect to make Word change whole sentences. this made it appear almost like the computer was responding to you. you could, for example, type in "where did i put my keys", hit enter, and watch it switch to "you put them under the couch". this was before chatbots, and we were all 9 so i considered it closer to a magic trick than a tech one.

love how much attention this post is getting i knew the gay people in my phone would understand me. btw here's the picture that inspired me to make this post in the first place:

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.

in the 5 minutes that happened between posting this on twitter and posting this on tumblr, i had somehow managed to mess up the colors AGAIN and posted the wrong version on here. so the version youre looking at here IS DULLER THAN THE FINAL PAINTING I INTENDED TO POST. im so over it guys time to actually listen to the comments under my last post and fix my damn tablet colors. i know im not sleeping easy tonight my coworkers will find me smoking out my ears tomorrow morning. i cant believe this

I put so much effort into this

project hail mary but grace's translation program uses that awful fucking default tiktok TTS voice for rocky instead.