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@illestbeluga

Lighting one up with the girls 🤙🏼

sometimes people try to tell me that scientists are paragons of rationality and I have to break it to them that I have yet to work in a lab that didn’t have at least one weird secret shrine in it

new guy: why is all of the equipment in this room covered in toys?

me: dONn’t touch those

new guy:

me: they need the toys to function. if they don’t all have toys they get jealous.

new guy:

new guy:

me: when something breaks just take the wizard and wave it around for a while. they seem to like that.

Science is rational, scientists are human. 

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In Taiwan we have a special brand of snacks named 乖乖 (literally means “well behaved” but in a casual way like when one’s compliment a child or a pet of being good) that has green package.

It has become the lucky charm in the IT industry because engineers believe it will make machine acting good (like the name of the snack) and stay in green light (like the color of the snack’s package) when a 乖乖 is put on top of a server.

It is the only food allowed in a server room and the biggest semicondoctor company in Taiwan (which is also the biggest worldwide) even commissioned the snack factory to make a customized version with blessing on the package.

This is how a server room is blessed by 乖乖. You put at least one on top of each server. It’s important that the engineers change them before the expire date because legend says the snack looses it’s power after expire date.

You’ll hear engineers swearing up and down that their server room crushed down the one time they forgot to change the snack.  Or some newbie ate the forbidden snack put on top of their server and caused a disastrous crush down.

The 乖乖 religion later spread to all people who want their machine to act nice. In the lab we put 乖乖 on ultra-low freezer (you really don’t want it to drop dead along with your 2 years’ worth of sample/data), mass spectrometer etc.

When Taiwan’s about to launch the first self made satellite in 2017, the develop team even put 乖乖 around the satellite model to prey for a successful launch (it did). This shit is real.

people who use baby naming websites:

- expecting parents - trans people changing their names - writers - that guy outside my dorm room who was arguing with his buddy on whether the name Zach was in the bible and then very loudly announced that “behind the name dot com says its biblical in origin so fuck you”

STOP SEXUALIZING LITTLE BLACK GIRLS!

STOP SEXUALIZING LITTLE BLACK GIRLS!

STOP SEXUALIZING LITTLE BLACK GIRLS!

STOP SEXUALIZING LITTLE BLACK GIRLS!

STOP SEXUALIZING LITTLE BLACK GIRLS!

STOP SEXUALIZING LITTLE BLACK GIRLS!

STOP SEXUALIZING LITTLE BLACK GIRLS!

Imagine how annoying it must be to have like been in comptons and then for the next 5 decades just hear abt stonewall over and over again

Context for this: the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot occurred in 1966 in San Francisco, a few years before Stonewall. It was a response to police crackdowns and raids on the cafeteria, which was a known congregating site for gay/trans people. The majority of the protesters/customers were trans, particularly trans women, who fought back against the police. According to Wikipedia, it’s one of the earliest recorded instances of pro-trans activism in San Francisco. LGBT history does not start and end in New York, or with Stonewall.

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