[profeminist]

“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

[villanellethepoetic-deactivated]

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.

[bogleech]

Things food snobs are wrong about

“Organic” isn’t better for you or for the environment. It actually means nothing of any significance at best and is sometimes even the more wasteful, more hazardous option.

A shitload of “natural” food including a lot of imported produce is grown and harvested through slave labor in inhumane conditions.

Pizza, fried chicken, french fries, fast food, candy bars and chips ARE nutritious. They are loaded with good things. Just because they have an abundance of excess fats and might not be healthy as a staple doesn’t mean they are “nutritionless” or that their calories are “empty.” Those are hokey buzzwords pushed by the people in charge of how much you pay for the alternatives.

Eating healthier costs more. Much more. Looking down on people for their reliance on cheaper food is extremely classist and expecting everyone to be able to live off fresh veggies and cage-free meats is insultingly unrealistic in the modern world.

“Processed” literally only means the food went through some kind of automated process. This can be literally the exact same thing a human being would have done to the food for it to be labeled “unprocessed.” Being processed does not make something less healthy.

Chemicals with long, scary names are part of nature. An apple is full of compounds you probably can’t pronounce. A shorter ingredients label only means they didn’t bother listing all 300 things the product is actually made of and HAS to be made of.

Preservatives, artificial flavors and other additives are not the devil. Most are harmless and in general they are part of the reason you haven’t already starved to death or died of a food borne illness.

MSG is not bad for you at all.

The fact that something might be made of “scrap” meats like pig snouts or chicken necks only means one thing: that we didn’t waste perfectly normal, edible meat.

I DON’T KNOW HOW I FORGOT THIS IN MY FIRST VERSION OF THIS POST BUT GMO’S ARE NOT DANGEROUS TO EAT. GMO’S ARE SAVING LIVES. YOU’VE ALREADY EATEN GMO’S BEFORE YOU EVEN KNEW THE TERM. IT’S FINE. EAT THEM.

[bogleech]

So I’ve literally done this twice before and so have several other people but here are sources on all of these, most of them fairly recent academic studies or otherwise the most up-to-date I could find:

Organic food isn’t better for you: [1] [2] [3]

Tracing food industry slave labor: [1]

Healthier food is more expensive: [1] [2]

Saturated fats (i.e. “junk food”) still provide needed energy, aren’t as bad as people thought: [1] [2]

“Processed” isn’t synonymous with less healthy, because it means a lot of different things: [1]

“Chemicals” also means a lot of things and many food components are misunderstood by the general public: [1]

MSG is not harmful: [1] [2] [3]

GMO’s are not dangerous to eat: [400 sources collected here]

[accentnz]

“Processed” always gets me, it’s like yeah even that delicious homemade salsa you brought to the party is processed - the moment you took a knife to the tomatoes it underwent processing

[liberalsarecool]

[alexbarrella]

yo “youyonna atht?” ‘full resolution’

[1chainz]

yes

[1chainz]

[resistdrumpf]

[astrodidact]

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/revealed-doj-blocked-report-showing-white-supremacists-responsible-for-all-race-based-domestic-terrorism-incidents-in-2018/

REVEALED: DOJ blocked report showing white supremacists responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018

The Trump administration has known since at least April that alleged white supremacists were responsible for every single act of race-based

[corporationsarepeople]

The story gets worse. Much worse:

Leaked FBI Documents Reveal Bureau’s Priorities Under Trump

Under President Trump, the FBI’s official counterterrorism priorities have included “Black Identity Extremists,” “anti-authority”

[modern-politics111]

Contact Your Representative and Tell Them To Fight Against Trump’s Camps

Additionally, if you can see if you can donate money to these organizations

Lawyersforgoodgoverment.com

fairfightbondfund.org

lgbtqfund.org

communitybondproject.org

immigrantfamilies.org

freedomforimmigrants.org

[whentherewerebicycles]

“How one treats one’s body and psyche speaks volumes about one’s self-esteem: abusing body or soul with harmful chemicals, behaviors, work overload, lack of personal time and space all denote poor self-regard. All of these behaviors and attitudes reveal a fundamental stance towards the self that is conditional and devoid of true self respect. Self-esteem based on achievement has been called contingent self-esteem or acquired self-esteem. Unlike contingent self-esteem, true self-esteem has nothing to do with a self-evaluation on the basis of achievement or the lack of it. A person truly comfortable in his own skin doesn’t say, ‘I am a worthy human being because I can do such and such,’ but says, ‘I am a worthy human being whether or not I can do such and such.’ Contingent self-esteem evaluates; true self-esteem accepts.”

-Gabor Maté, Scattered

[blackqueerblog]

This is probably the most insulting thing I’ve seen in a really long time.

[ruanodanna]

what the fuck??????

[ghostedgoose]

I planned on going to the UofM after high school so I’ve looked at it’s tuition fees, and it’s DEFINITELY something I will not be able to afford without any type of loans. After seeing this and researching a bit more I might reconsider my choice of college. Why? Because this is straight up unfair. Why are they allowed to go back to college and earn credits for a small price of $10 while younger students taking the SAME COURSE have to pay full tuition?? I don’t want this type of shit to be seen as some “senior discount” because to me, senior discounts for restaurants or whatever else entertainment is fine. But this is an education matter, and there should be no type of “discounts” or decrease in price for anyone because of their age. Especially since baby boomers are usually more well off than we are. These boomers want to go back to college but don’t want to spend money to pay for full tuition? Too fucking bad. Either apply for scholarships or pay full price like everyone else.

[americaexplain]

Fuck old whites

[whitmanic]

The concept of “loitering” is violent and evil

[whitmanic]

The privatization of nature itself, of the outdoors… It’s violent to insist we can only legally be in a place if we (1) bought it, (2) payed our way to be there via goods. It’s violent to remove a human’s place outside and insist they have no community with the spaces that make up our world. Imperialism and capitalism have ruined ruined ruined our harmonies with nature and with our communities

[blackqueerblog]

MAILING ADDRESS 

Town of Tusayan 

P.O. Box 709 | 845 Mustang Drive

Tusayan, AZ 86023 PHONE [phone] 

EMAIL

Mayor Craig Sanderson 

[email protected] 

Vice-Mayor Becky Wirth 

[email protected]

Councilor | Brady Harris 

[email protected]

 Councilor  |  Al Montoya 

[email protected] 

Councilor  |  Robb Baldosky 

[email protected] 

if you don’t have time to write an email, here’s a pre-written letter: https://pastebin.com/Cc3YBWYA 

just copy, add your name, and send the email to a town member!

Please do! Corporations are the biggest criminals of climate change, environmental damage and pollution. Capitalism is rooted in destruction. 

[politicalsci]

[aint-coming-back-lol-deactivate]

Seeing biblical teachings being reversed into conservative teachings is one of the funniest things holy shit. Like this makes it painfully clear that Jesus taught the exact opposite of all these things yet conservatives in the US wanna call themselves “men of god”.

[annadownsouth]

Women belong in the home. Men belong in the home. We all belong at home. The idea that we must pursue meaning and significance in the modern rat race of career is making us sick and sad. We would all be happier and holier if we lived like a loving home was our greatest accomplishment.

Joy Clarkson

[loloftheday]

Energy company has got some sass

[bransrath]

Duke Energy Fined $102 million for Polluting Rivers with Coal Ash

[hawkeabelas]

This is the best summary of the corporate deflection of blame for environmental destruction onto the consumer to save face I’ve ever seen

[gunsandfireandshit]

[shefloatsblack]

And they all wearing the same looks

[owlmylove]

can we like…. talk about what a healthy relationship with technology looks like? not just for us, but for future generations: its super easy for us to accept tech unquestioningly bc many millennials and gen-Zers grew up alongside the growth of tech, and had a naturally evolving level of exposure to it. but what about the 5 year olds with tablets? the 8 year olds with perfectly curated instagrams?? i’m as obsessed with my phone as the rest of us, but can we please stop simply bemoaning how none of us read as much as we were kids and start exploring how all these screens might be affecting the kids growing up right now?

[owlmylove]

i work in customer service and please know that i am not baby-boomer aggrandizing when i say i have seen so many children, literally toddlers, dead-silent and completely, utterly absorbed in tablets bigger than their heads. i’ve seen a shitton of pre-pubescent girls posing for pictures together, planning their angles and backgrounds, and checking what shots their mom took bc they’re worried “they might look fat.” like. i’m talking 7 year olds. this isn’t meant to be some holier than thou bullshit, this is me being legitimately terrified about a problem i really haven’t seen any of us discuss or even acknowledge

[nerdgul]

We need to bring back those crappy burner phones for kids (the ones with no touch screen and only can be used to call/text a few numbers). So they still have emergency contact and a way of talking to friends but arnt bombarded with the constant uncontrolled stream of content on the internet. And please for the love of god, no tablets for kids under 10. Nit to be all anti tech but its not even good for adults to have to much screentime its certainly not good for developing brains.

[likethewaterandwind]

screens are proven to be really bad for kids’ brain development and social development. kids who play on tablets instead of with physical toys aren’t getting the motor skills they need from touching and manipulating toys. they aren’t getting the balance or understanding of gravity and physics that they get from playing with blocks or bouncy balls.

not to mention the blue light is real bad for their eyes. pretty soon we’re going to have a generation of kids with terrible eyesight and chronic headaches from staring at screens. 

you shouldn’t have the tv on or even have your own phone in the room with a baby under 6 months. this is because babies need eye contact to develop empathy (no, seriously) and if you’re looking at your phone, you aren’t playing with your baby. the pretty flashy lights of a phone are much more interesting to your baby than you are. 

if you think it’s too hard or annoying to engage your kid in conversation, and prefer to just hand them a tablet to keep them quiet, your kid is going to grow up having never learned to hold a conversation or to notice other humans. they’re also going to be hella impatient.

[quill-of-thoth]

Also: please for the love of god supervise small kids if they’re on youtube. While there’s plenty of things out there specifically for them, the algorithm is also full of nazis, especially on the subject of games. The number of times I’ve been watching a lets play and the next video is conspiracy theories, nazis, or challenges of questionable safety is ludicrously high even though I aggressively curate my feed.