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Violet

Violet_the_Gremlin_Bean@lemmy.world
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my pronouns are she/her, my fandoms are Star Wars, Pokemon, Star Trek, Godzilla, Transformers, DnD, ATLA, The Dragon Prince, Percy Jackson and the Inheritance Cycle. i am a self proclaimed weirdo and apparently, according to my friends and sister, i am a gremlin, hence the username >:3

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a pigeon who beat Telkom in internet speed. basically, in 2009, a guy working at an office of the financial services company The Unlimited in Howick said to his boss “my internet is so slow a pigeon could outspeed it”. so his boss decided to test it out. they got a pigeon named Winston from Durban and put a little vest on him with a USB stick with 4 GBs of data on it, and then Winston started to fly back to his home in Gillits at 10 am. a taxi driver picked him up and delivered him to the head office of The Unlimited in Hillcrest and then uploaded the data at 11:45. 26 minutes before Winston started flying, they started to send the data remotely. by the time the data was uploaded from Winston, the remote transfer was just under 4% complete

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hey, i’ve seen this one, i’ve seen this one, it’s a classic

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sleepy baby

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