Hello, everyone. You all have helped my mother before, so I’m hoping I can receive your help on her behalf again. Recently, she has moved forward with filing for a divorce (which is a good thing!). I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time, and I want to support her through the process of attaining complete freedom. However, my paycheck goes straight to the utilities, and my mother is currently out of work but will return soon. The child support she receives goes directly to groceries. She is unable to pay for the fees shown abovemandated by our county out of pocket, so I want to ask for any donations to help us with the cost. I want to raise $265.00 and anything extra will go toward any additional costs in the divorce proceedings.
If you have anything to spare, that would be a tremendous benefit to us. No amount is too small. You are under no obligation to donate. Spreading this around will help significantly as well, so please do so if you’d like. As always, I will post updates on how much I receive and if I reach my goal I will let you all know. Thanks for listening and if you have any questions, feel free to message me here.
‘The Writer,’ 1 of 3 surviving automata
from the 18th century, is a programmable
boy that uses quill and ink to write any 40
letters of custom text. This 240-year-old
automaton uses all 6,000 of its parts to
create just enough pressure for fluid,
elegant writing, and is thought by
some to be the first computer. Source
This is truly a masterpiece of engineering from an early age. So amazing!
okay LOOK. I understand that on a purely mechanical and engineering level that this is an incredible piece but if scifi and fantasy media has taught me anything it’s that this motherfucker is haunted af and probably writes out gruesome deaths that mysteriously end up coming to pass thanks but NO THANKS BYE
computer science major here, i’m with haunted guy
Writer is actually one of a set language of three! The other ones play the organ:
And draw (it produces four different drawings):
Thank you for these images. Which just might give me nightmares.
This is the worst update I could have ever been updated with, thank you.
Scott and Mark Kelly are identical twin brothers — at least, they were until Scott spent a year living in space.
When Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a 340-day voyage aboard the International Space Station (ISS) two years ago, he was 2 inches taller than he’d been when he left. His body mass had decreased, his gut bacteria were completely different, and — according to preliminary findings from NASA researchers — his genetic code had changed significantly. (Interestingly, Scott Kelly has since shrunk back down to his initial prespaceflight height.)
A new NASA statement suggests the physical and mental stresses of Scott Kelly’s year in orbit may have activated hundreds of “space genes” that altered the astronaut’s immune system, bone formation, eyesight and other bodily processes. While most of these genetic changes reverted to normal following Scott Kelly’s return to Earth, about 7 percent of the astronaut’s genetic code remained altered — and it may stay that way permanently.
this is that freaky shit I’m talking about!!!!!!!!!!
Twilight may be trash but at least they cast actual native americans to play natives
you know you’ve fucked up when Twilight does something better than you
Okay story time
So I went to college at Western Washington University, which is super close to the Lummi reservation.
I went to see New Moon in theaters with a couple of friends (we love hatewatching stuff, and had a few drinks before going to the theater). We were super confused when we sat down, because for some reason about half the theater was full of 12-year-old boys. The movie starts, it’s just as terrible as we expect, and then about halfway through the movie theatre erupts into cries of THERE HE IS!!! THERE HE IS!!!
Turns out the boys had come to see their Lummi buddy who had been cast as one of the werewolves in the movie. It was absolutely adorable, and my friends and I instantly felt super irresponsible for having come to a movie to trash the film a kid’s friends went to to support.
Hey guys FYI the Quileute tribe (the one depicted in Twilight) is currently fundraising because they have to move their entire town of La Push to higher ground to avoid everything being destroyed by climate change related rising oceans. Maybe give them some money okay.
mt grandpa was such a chaotic influence he just straight up lied to me as a child about the weirdest stuff and now I catch myself doing it too and my siblings will be like “what is….wrong with you” and my aunts and uncles just shake their heads like “she lived with dad….he got her….”
once my cousin was admiring a sunflower and i walked up to him and i said “do you know why they’re called sunflowers” and he knows me as the Nature Facts Cousin so he perked up and i told him that we used to grow them exclusively on the sun until we sold the sun to idk…sweden? the soviet union? in the louisiana purchase so now we have to grow them here on earth and brie said “why are you like this”
Alexis 