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25- She - PNW of the USA. Hufflepuff. Main posts include; plant stuff, nerd things and other posts that strike my fancy.

[cuntnymeria]

[anxietyproblem]

[duncan-rohanne]

Honestly? Netflix should pay me for my quality promotion work I do here.

[meyerlansky]

#gOD IT’D BE SO FUNNY #poor mal #he’s got the teal coat on. he brought souvenirs from his travels for everyone. he made a little scrapbook. #meanwhile nikolai is hanging from the ceiling and hissing. alina’s gone evil. turns out dRAGONS exist. and aleks is bodysharing with a monk #oh and also there’s some space-time dimension whackystuff eating the world and the war is going VERY badly #BUT!!! mal got them all little lime green novelty shirts that say ‘ketterDAMN’ and some fjerdan snowglobes. #so I think that will help (via @goatsandgangsters)

[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.

[that-feral-montanan]

Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.

[the-haiku-bot]

Reblogging to do

what the failed education

system never did.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[hairy-dykes-r-us]

Adding Wendy Carlos to the list! Trans icon and pioneer of synthesized music!!

[foone]

Also, just about every computerized device outside of desktops is running ARM chips now. Your phone, your keyboard, your car, your watch. Basically everything.

And ARM was primarily designed by Sophie Wilson, a trans woman.

[queerpyracy]

thinking about anti-role models. people you look at like "well whatever i'm gonna be in life it's not gonna be that"

[dsmsix]

parents

[radiofreederry]

Reblog with your animal. It’s toucans for me

[azraelabyss]

Flamingos. At first it was because I love tacky stuff, and lawn flamingos are as tacky as it gets, next to gnomes (which I also love). Now it’s just like a Thing with my friends.

[webscene-remade]

answered a scam call today and had the most bizarre conversation

[webscene-remade]

scam caller: hello, how are you today?

me: great!

scam caller: good. I’m calling because your IP address has been compromised. I’ll just need you to get in front of your computer so we can get your account fixed up.

me: okay! there is one thing I’m wondering, though

scam caller: what?

me: you really couldn’t think of a better lie?

scam caller:

me: like, my “IP address has been compromised.” How, exactly, does an IP address become “compromised”?

scam caller:

me: I was just wondering, is all

scam caller: why did you answer?

me:

me: what?

scam caller: if you knew this wasn’t a legitimate call, then why did you answer?

me: oh, I just though I would have some fun at your expense.

scam caller: what expense? talking is no expense to me.

me: well, you’re currently not accomplishing your goal

scam caller: my goal?

me: your goal of scamming my elderly grandmother. You’re not accomplishing that. I’d call that an expense.

scam caller: well, can I scam you?

me:

me: did you- did you ask if you can scam me?

scam caller: yes. can I scam you?

me, baffled: sure, you can try

scam caller: you need to get in front of your computer

me: yeah, that’s still a problem. I’m eating tater tots right now and I really don’t feel like getting up.

scam caller: okay. I will call you tomorrow morning, then.

me: I might not answer. My grandma definitely won’t.

scam caller: You answered today.

me: …touché?

scam caller: I will call you tomorrow. Have a good day.

[marioyuri-moved-to-transkaito]

Enemies to lovers, slow burn, 500K

[lordterronus]

This reads like a bit from a British sketch comedy.

[tilthat]

TIL that airplane pilots would announce that Jonas Salk was on board and passengers would burst into applause. Hotels routinely would upgrade him into their penthouse suites.

via reddit.com

[findingfeather]

For those who don’t know and don’t want to click thru to find out: Jonas Salk is the reason we in North America no longer live in terror of polio. He also refused to patent or profit from his vaccine. He also spent the last years of his life researching a vaccine for AIDS, long before that was cool and back when a lot of people were secretly hoping it really would just kill all the gays. So you’re damn right people applauded and gave free upgrades.

[doomhamster]

Reblogging again because this time I did click through, and because of the times in which we live: Jonas Salk was Jewish, and the child of immigrants. 

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Lilo & Stitch is a great example of a story that has no villains. It has antagonists, sure, but most of them are well-meaning. The worst person in the film is that little shit Myrtle, but she’s not in the film that much anyway.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Since this post is getting traction I want to clarify how not-villainous the antagonists are:

The Grand Councilwoman is literally just responding to what she sees as a threat to the galaxy and is extremely reasonable.

Gantu is much the same. He’s a bit overzealous, yes, but he thinks he’s saving the galaxy from stitch.

Cobra Bubbles is literally just doing his job, he’s obviously not happy about it but he is doing what he feels is best for Lilo. And much like the Councilwoman, he is extremely reasonable.

Myrtle is, again, just a little shit. She’s a schoolyard bully and is truly small potatoes.

Jumba calls himself an “evil scientist,” but literally nothing supports that. His only onscreen crime is creating a bunch of Pokémon that have powers that will mildly inconvenience people and can be persuaded to be nice over the course of 22 - 90 minutes, to say nothing of himself seeing as he decides to change his ways at the softest bit of persuasion.

Pleakley is literally just gay.

[wakewithgiggli]

[slipping-into-madness]

[mightbeawriter1]

Yes. This.

[tilthat]

TIL that Billy Crystal’s character, Miracle Max, in the Princess Bride was so funny that it nearly stopped the production of the movie. One actor bruised a rib from clenching to try not to laugh.

via reddit.com

[nookisms]

Fun fact in addition: Cary Elwes wasn’t allowed to be part of that scene because he kept laughing. The Westley on the table was dummy.

[quill-of-thoth]

This is AFTER he broke a toe riding Andre the Giant’s ATV, and got concussed when he and Christopher Guest tried to make the scene where Count Rugen knocks Wesley out more convincing. Mandy Patinkin busted the rib trying not to laugh, and also accidentally stabbed Guest during their fight scene.  About the only person who didn’t get some form of overenthusiasm-induced injury or illness during filming was Robin Wright, who had to repeatedly get her dress burnt up in the fire swamp scene because Goldman ruined one of the takes by screaming “Oh my god, she’s on fire!”

[sfitty]

i swear the princess bride movie was just a bunch of cast and crew deciding to dick around and film it.

it was Jackass before Jackass

[aphony-cree]

The guy in the giant rodent costume got arrested on his way to the set and they had to delay production to go bail him out

[moveslikekeithrichards]

may your next ibuprofen take effect swiftly and noticeably

[jaubaius]

When some lemurs running in reverse…

[bmwiid]

[aletheiawriting]

My only real and valid writing tip is that you google every word you make up for your fantasy stories. That's It

[pacmastermeow]

there won't be any results though because you just made it up

[wizardpotions]

[oranaro-deactivated20241016]

One time I made up a name for a character and after googling it discovered it was a Zimbabwean slur

[thellamamongler]

Star Wars used "Jizz" as the name for a genre of music.

[fair-itself]

Oh my god, I had completely forgotten about this. When I was in middle school my best friend and I wrote fantasy stories and shared them with each other for feedback and she had named the staple food of her fictional nation's labor class "cum stew." I said nothing. Mandi, if you're out there, I'm sorry. I hope that detail didn't make it into the second draft before you let your dad who was a pastor read it.

[mysharona1987]

[omghotmemes]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

The way the machine pauses like “should I do this?” before it draws the circle