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I'm a British computer scientist, I like knitting, brass bands and facts. Follow me to see what I'm reading and what I think about it.

[oliviawhen]

A rainy day halts progress for forest cat.

[sapphicgardensinmymind]

the twitter for Rhodry the Scottish Deerhound who plays Argus in Gentleman Jack is such a wholesome experience

[raccooninapartyhat]

fellas, is it gay to hold a man’s hand? is it gay to realize his hands are always cold and that he never wears gloves? is it gay to knit him a pair of gloves using merino wool because he likes soft things and you hope that by making them soft he’ll be more likely to wear them? is it gay to make him a matching hat and scarf to go with his gloves? is it gay to crochet him a blanket to keep him warm at night when you can’t be there? fellas? is it gay?

[sapphiresea]

lesbian privilege, as told by kate mckinnon.

[rowdyholtzy]

[scream-for-audrey]

@dearestfrendz had to reblog with your tags bc they were so good

[oh-snap-pro-choice]

“why do you wear so much denim on denim?”

“your nails are so short”

[viostormcaller]

And the thing is, none of this is incorrect like the gif in the first rb? Their outfit is a Look™

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

[autisticraptor]

That last gif tho perfection

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ecouter-bien]

👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[higgsboshark]

The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

[puzzlebird-moved-blog]

[funtimesontheinternet-deactivat]

[thebluepeninsula]

Same energy

[girlactionfigure]

Link / Link

[rivendellrose]

@gaslightgallows, you need to see this.

[nervouspearl]

“Victoria, you’re a professional poker player[…] What’s the most extravagant thing you’ve ever bought with your winnings?”

[ronanwazlib]

au where everything is the same except sirius black is played by jonathan van ness from queer eye

[everythings-onfirebut-itsfine]

Harry: Wait, so Pettigrew actually betrayed my parents?

Sirius:

[thickthighsnbigdreams]

I am HERE for this.

[pissedandpunk-deactivated202012]

Sirius escapes Azkaban and is united with Harry and joins the Order:

[novacorps]

Sirius: My cousin Bellatrix?

[the-love-of-reblog]

Someone mentions Severus Snape at all:

[queenundomiel-blog]

[kyrafic]

“Never did like that much,” is a baller and superb way to express your irritation with the way the patriarchy refuses to acknowledge how badass you are.

[lisa-maxwell]

Word.

[johnskylar]

Before World War I, she shot a cigarette out of the mouth of the Kaiser of Germany at his request.

After the war started she sent him a letter asking for another chance, as she was afraid her aim might’ve been a little off.

[certified-p0ser]

Annie Fucking Oakley everyone

[buzzfeedlgbt]

[holy-ghost-heretic]

“We Christians talk about God as love. We talk about love as the glue that holds our community together, that identifies us to the world. Yet one seldom sees in a church anything approaching the risks that queer people take every day for the sake of love.”

— Elizabeth M. Edman, Queer Virtue

[fandomsandfeminism]

Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

[cranberrybogmummy]

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yes.

[caosdth]

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm.  That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and  it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.  

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point  is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible. 

[aflawedmind]

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

[fandomsandfeminism]

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

[twodotsknowwhy]

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

[whenandwhereienter]

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

[bogleech]

Yeah I think people seriously just don’t understand how big a billion is. There is literally no reason a single human could ever possibly need a billion dollars, and there is no conceivable way for a single human to “earn” a billion dollars. You can ONLY get a billion dollars by accumulating money from thousands of other laborers beneath you, all of whom deserve to share that wealth. It shouldn’t be legal to be able to decide your own salary with no limitations whatsoever. When you have the power to increase your own pay you should be REQUIRED to increase the pay of every single person you employ along with it, down to the last toilet scrubber. No exceptions. There isn’t a single ethical billionaire that ever lived and there never will be.

[ladymothwing]