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kagaintheskywithdiamonds reblogged from kagaintheskywithdiamonds smol-blue-bird posted by smol-blue-bird
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sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium

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thirdchoiceurl's avatar thirdchoiceurl

Francium IS a stupid element. It has a half life of 22 minutes and barely exists at all, only naturally occurring as a product of the extremely rare alpha decay series ²³⁵U ➝ ²³¹Th ➝ ²³¹Pa (𝜷 decay) ➝ ²²⁷Ac ➝ ²²³Fr (1.38% chance). There’s less than a gram of it on earth at any given moment. It has no uses to anybody and it isn’t even the most reactive group 1A element due to relativistic effects fucking up its electron binding energies. Stupid substance.

If you somehow asked a genie to get you a gram of Francium in a sealed vial so you could do an experiment with it, the genie would just give it to you because the enormous amount of radioactivity it produces would instantly vaporize the sample and cook you alive. Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse

bimyheel's avatar bimyheel

found the guy

hellsquills's avatar hellsquills

take the shot

Posted on Apr 12, 2025 with 137,848 notes
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kagaintheskywithdiamonds reblogged from kagaintheskywithdiamonds yeehawpim posted by yeehawpim
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Black and white comic with simple digital drawings. Text: I'm sorry they built me to break Panel 1: Nondescript person with minimal features holds open the top of a printer and curses in symbols. They hold a piece of paper in their other hand. The printer has a small circular mark in the front where a logo would be. Text: that my bones are mismatched and misshapen Panel 2: Close-up of two screws screwed in next to each other in slightly different sizes. Panel 3: A circular sticker of the end of a USB chord with the text "USB" under it. A line crosses over it diagonally symbolizing no USB compatability. Panel 4: Wide shot of the printer sitting on a lower cabinet in the center, a computer desk with keyboard, mouse, and a discarded screwdriver on the left, and the person leaving through a door with a frown. Steam comes off their head in frustration.ALT
Panel 1: The printer sitting by itself on a surface. Text over the printer reads, "I was meant to be replaced, not grow old" Page background fades to black near the bottom right. Multiple simplified shapes of the same model of printer drift into the right corner as well, growing in number as they go. A few ink cartridges can be seen as well. Each item has a money symbol on them. On the printers it is in the place of the small circular mark for a logo.ALT
Panel 1: A hand throws down a plastic package with a different screwdriver inside. There are small action lines to indicate motion. Panel 2: The person sitting on a wheelie chair in front of the computer with their right hand on the mouse. A video is playing labeled "TUTORIAL" Text: The burden of labour to fix me shouldn't have fallen on you Panel 3: Person with their tongue sticking out in concentration as they stick the screwdriver in the back of the printer and hold the printer steady with their other hand. Panel 4: Close-up of a hand peeling off the no USB sticker to reveal a USB symbol labeled port underneath. Panel 5: The person sitting at the computer on a wheelie chair and smiling. The screen reads, "SCANNED" with a checkmark symbol underneath. The printer is shown beside the computer and has 3 small action lines to indicate action.ALT
A front on simplified drawing of the printer on a white background. Text underneath it that reads, "Thank you" Watermark in the bottom right corner: @yeehawpimALT

a comic about printers

I remember seeing a post a couple months back of someone talking about printer troubles and companies making them bad deliberately, like pointlessly different screw sizes and a lying no-usb-compatibility sticker

If someone knows it please tell me, I'm pretty sure I remember it had good resources on a youtube channel that teaches you how to fix stuff!

Posted on Apr 12, 2025 with 61,316 notes