23. Aspiring novelist/librarian. Seriously I'm one of the most awkward and nerdy people you'll ever meet.
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“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”
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”
Grace Hopper did more than coin the term “bug”. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computer’s operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.
also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.
Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.
just thinking about Oliver letting James backhand him in stage combat training because he couldn’t even comprehend ever doing anything bad enough for james to hit him or even that james would ever hurt him, boy too busy instead staring into his eyes
“i’ll take care of you.” “it’s rotten work” “not to me, not of it’s you” -euripides
“it’s not the whole truth. the whole truth is i am in love with him still” -if we were villians, m.l. rio
“if anyone does not believe in venus they should gaze at my girlfriend” -unknown
“heaven help a fool who falls in love” -ophelia, the lumineers
“i will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong” -lemony snicket
“the world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. the curves of your lips rewrite history” -oscar wilde
“but loving you is a good problem to have” -monster, adventure time
“life is the flower for which love is the honey” -byron
“i know the world’s a broken bone, but melt your headaches, call it home” -panic! at the disco, northern downpour
“where you go i’m going so jump and i’m jumping” -achilles come down, gang of youths
“i can take care of myself just fine. all right?” “no” “what do you mean no?” “no” -dead poets society
“i just want to get groceries i pray you want to get close to me” -groceries, mallrat
And just in case you are too young to recognize this scene: those are Iron Lungs, and each one has a child in it, the device keeping the child in it breathing. It wasn’t just about being paralyzed and confined to a a wheel chair.
When you went back to school in the Autumn each year you looked around at your class to see how many of your school mates had been taken out by Polio.
Let’s talk about something else Polio-related! Post-Polio Syndrome. Do you know anyone who had it?
Probably not!
I do! My in-laws were in their forties when they adopted my husband and as such, my father-in-law was one of the lucky kids stricken with Polio was a child in the 30s.
Now, he really was one of the lucky ones because he survived the initial bout of Polio. However, he had permanent damage to his lungs, joints and muscles. As he got older, he was in constant pain. He had heart problems, breathing problems, he was exhausted all the time. His last few years were horrible, not just for him, but for his family and friends who watched him decline much more rapidly than his wife and others his age.
I’m telling you this secondhand, because I never got to meet him. He died in his early 60s because of the effects of Post-Polio Syndrome.
Most of us don’t know someone with Post-Polio. We are all going to know someone with Post-COVID Syndrome, or Long-COVID, as they are calling it. And the effects are going to be bad and they’re going to vary. A lot of people are going to be living lives that are much shorter and much less pleasant than they need to be because of this fucking anti-vax mentality.
Self Care Tips From Tumblr: When you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. When you feel like you hate everyone, eat. When you feel like you hate yourself, shower. Someone out there feels better because you exist.
