“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

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Hey y'all why are writers always cold?

King the Land 킹더랜드 (2023) Dir. by Im Hyun Wook – Ep.��9

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Willow (1988) dir. Ron Howard

the fact that dorothy chooses to make oz her home at the end of emerald city of oz is so important to me and i never see it in analysis :/ like yeah she decided to return home to kansas at the end of wonderful wizard!! but she couldn't keep away from oz!! she returned to kansas because she loved her family and felt that was where she needed to be but when her family started to despair and no longer wanted to be in kansas she took them to oz with her!!! she took them to the place that had become her home!!!!! and i just. oz is not a story of giving up on chasing a perfect world. it's not a story of trading in idealism for practicality. it's not a story of dorothy rejecting the feminist values she learns in oz for kansas domesticity (an actual thing i just read!!!). she returns because home is where the people she loves are. where she feels her duty is. and when the people she loves no longer love home, she brings them into her world. because oz is her world

i'm just tired of the same old "umm dorothy rejects oz in favor of a bland, familiar, domestic, normal life!! it symbolizes a rejection of queerness or modernity or feminism or ____ (insert value of oz) and a return to traditionalism!!" NO!!!!!! did you read marvelous land of oz??? she keeps a mirror so she can say hi to ozma every day!!! she never stops thinking about oz!!! she's devoted to her family but her heart is in oz!! SHE GOES BACK PERMANENTLY!!!! i just. augh.

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The way I bona fide screamed in an empty room when this happened, the way she had so much courage (and combined with utterly no expectation), the way I genuinely had no idea how he'd react tho it was clear he liked her back, the sheer gentleness of them both and the easiness of them just mutually falling into confession and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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DD, I wanted to thank you for the Hiccup Cure (and re-up the link for anyone who hasn't seen it recently -- https://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2017/04/25/the-hiccup-cure/ !) My roommate had been uncomfortably hiccuping for hours and I cured them in 30 seconds once they let me try. It really works every time!

You're so welcome!

When the resident at the NYH emergency room spelled it out for me, I was caught between two immediate reactions: (a) suspicion, because it sounded too easy, and (b) that feeling of inevitability that sometimes accompanies explanations that make immediate perfect sense. There was, of course, nothing to do but test it. So I did, again and again and again... and it just kept working.

Anyway, here's the link again for those who don't feel like cut 'n' pasting.

I just don’t get it. How can our society act so goddamned normal about seahorses. How can anybody so casually accept that that’s a fish???

This is one of nature’s most anatomically perverse of all beasts. A FISH, like a carp or a bass or a beta is a fish, but it bent its body straight up only to bend its head permanently back down. It stretched its skull into a pipe. It tapered its tail like a lizard, specifically like a chameleon. It can also move its eyes independently by the way, you know, like a chameleon. Fun fact, it can change color to express its mood, like you know whatever does that. It doesn’t properly swim anymore. It buzzes its few remaining fins like an insect’s wings to float itself around at a snail’s pace. It lives its whole life clinging to coral branches or seaweed, which means it decided to become a “tree dweller” in an environment where gravity didn’t even matter anyway. The males get pregnant. They make noises at each other by rubbing some of their neck bones together. Every day, EVERY DAY a mated pair does a little dance and a little neck bone song so they remember which two seahorses they were. They’re a beautiful precious obscenity. Nothing so adorable ever made such a strong case against a logical creator.

They have as little skin and meat as they could get away with. Their skeleton is almost all they are.

THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023) AQUAMAN (2018)

sometimes you just need a dragon who fully supports you