My place of random things

“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”  

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.

But you smile with me. You laugh when I’m making happy crazy motions. You leave me alone when I need to curl inside. You don’t judge when I need to shut out the world. And you’re always there when I reach out again. There to share in all our crazy passions and wild rants.

But then later it is revealed that he did know, but just really wanted to talk about Farscape.

Get emotionally invested in their special interest so you can blissfully listen to them infodump and actually be interested and knowledgeable about it.