let him die 🤩
I wish benevolent giants would collect me and put me in a safe place when I eat too much fermented fruit.
I love the implication that it's woke not because you can play a woman with a dick but because the woman's are larger.
They're just being true to the lore
*sidles up to you at the bar* would you like to hear my wise aphorism
only if it's actually wise. the last guy who asked me this had a pretty foolish aphorism tbh
oh… uhuh… *really should have prepared this ahead of time* never ignore… the melody of time… when your shoe’s untied?
*considers this aphorism sagely, sipping my horrible and bitter potion*
yes. there is wisdom in this. he whose shoes are untied must carefully mind the rhythm of his steps. bartender, another Wretched Potion, for my comrade here
*to self* holy shit… my aphorism… it’s wise!
I were inspired
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It’s time to activate it…
Bites The Dust! now this entire post will be reversed!
kars-did-nothing-wrong
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Am I having a fucking stroke
what the fuck was that
World Heritage Post
What it meant to be a woman in many African pre-colonial societies was not rigid. “Among the Langi of northern Uganda,” writes Sylvia Tamale, dean of the faculty of Law at Makerere University Uganda, “the mudoko dako, or effeminate males, were treated as women and could marry men.” There were also the Chibados or Quimbanda of Angola, male diviners whom, some scholars have argued, were believed to carry female spirits through anal sex.
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This practice of same-sex marriage was documented in more than 40 precolonial African societies: a woman could marry one or more women if she could secure the bridewealth necessary or was expected to uphold and augment kinship ties. The idea that a female could be a husband perplexed Europeans, and often lead to fantastical conclusions.
Wanted to share an article about pre-colonial African gender identities! The article is really great!
an incomplete collection of tweets i consider to be short poems
i have some too
RHYTHM HELL is now PLAYABLE!
check it out here (please download for optimal clapping experience):
Yet Another Tumblr Guide for New Users
- Change your avatar, header, and put something on your description right now. Do not interact with any post before you do this. Otherwise, you’ll just be mistaken for a bot and blocked.
- Post/Reblog stuff before following people. Even with your blog all customized, some people will still block you if they see your blog is empty.
- Reblog, reblog, and reblog! Reblogs are not like quote retweets. Reblogging stuff is how Tumblr works, and reblogs actually help OP gain traction.
- “Likes are useless” —You’ve probably seen a lot of guides preaching this, but actually that’s only some people’s opinions. People prefer reblogs over likes because it helps OP get more views/interaction on their posts, while likes are just—well, “likes.” It tells OP that you liked their post. Nothing bad with that. Some people also use likes to bookmark posts they want to find later. But if you want to support an artist, consider reblogging their work as well if you are able. If you don’t have enough spoons to use for reblogging, then that’s okay too.
- Tags are for categorization, not clout. If you post about one thing but then tag it with irrelevant tags (especially those that happened to be trending), then people can report your post as spam. Here's a Guide to Tagging (edit coz I forgot to link this when I first published this post)
- If you see something you don’t like, then just block the user. No need to rally people to cancel said user. Just block and move on.
- Use Tag and Post Filters. It’s your responsibility to curate what you see on this site, so add as much filters as you want.
- Spell out words. Do not say oomfs or moots. Say “just kidding” instead of “/jk”. Don’t censor triggering words like r@pe. For someone’s filters to work, the content being filtered has to be spelled right. By censoring your words, you’re putting people more at risk to seeing them. More about this on my Tumblr Posting Guide and Best Practices.
- Turn off Best Stuff First. We hate algorithms here. Everyone views their dashboard in reverse chronological order.
- Tumblr has post limits, but you rarely have to worry about them. I’m too lazy to grab links from the official docs for reference, so take this post limit screenshot (courtesy of XKit) instead. [Ignore the values under Remaining]
Edit: Okay, this is very important for Twitter refugees so I just had to include it:
When your post is reblogged by someone else, then you can no longer completely delete your post.
Unlike quote retweets, reblogs are forever. You may delete the original post, but you won’t be able to delete the reblogs of that post. They will continue to exist on other people’s blogs.
The best you can do to limit views on a post you want gone is to disable reblogs on said post before deleting it. That way, even if the reblogged version still exists, there’ll be no way to spread them further. Just make sure that you won’t regret it later.
Here’s an example of me doing exactly this on a post of mine that got over 10k notes.
“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”
hylocereus–undatus
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.
tomboy-toni
Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.
Reblogging to do
what the failed education
system never did.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Adding Wendy Carlos to the list! Trans icon and pioneer of synthesized music!!
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.
Please don’t forget Hedy Lamarr. Screwed over by the US government. She helped develop spread spectrum communication, which in part led to the development of WiFi and Bluetooth tech.
daesh-the-mad
Wait, we’re gonna talk about Grace Hopper without talking about COBOL? What???
It is arguably the most important programming language, period, with billions of lines still in production at this very moment. Your bank still runs on COBOL! Y2K was fixed by, specifically, patching COBOL installations and programs, and over 20 years later it’s still absolutely EVERYWHERE with developers today being paid big bucks to keep these systems running! (Though given that it’s stable as goddamn bedrock, the engineers working on it today will probably die before their systems are sunset.) More to the point, the language itself was an absolute fucking TRIUMPH back when they designed it. It was the first significant language designed to be human-readable by more than just math graduates. It was also the first portable language to be adopted by the industry! Every single goddamn computer maker at the time agreed to implement the COBOL spec on their devices, which means that for the first time ever you could take a program you write for one machine and run it on one made by someone totally different. This is back in the 50s! When computers cost millions and took up entire rooms! You didn’t have multiple computers in an org. You had one! There is no goddamn reason why they all should have agreed to this. It was in their best interest to silo as much as possible so that you’d stay with them forever. But, agree they did! And it changed the world forever!
And who orchestrated all that? Who brought the goddamn US government and all of these computer manufacturers together to make this shit happen? Who persisted even though it very nearly didn’t happen, because her dream was so immense that it could not be denied? Who gave us modern programming like a Naval Prometheus delivering fire??
Grace Motherfucking Hopper that’s who!!!!
A true contender for programming GOAT. The Pele to K & R’s Ronaldo and the BDL’s Messi. An absolute titan who has no modern-day equal.
Source! (requires institutional credentials, though I’m sure it’s available… elsewhere) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8415737
M-M-M-MULTIKILL!
fuck that last pic got me i won't pass this opportunity by