“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”
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.
Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.
okay, so today has been an absolute wild ride, but I wanted to make a post and share what’s happened with everyone here, because it’s kind of a big thing.
I went out with my mother this morning to get some Necessities from the store. on the way back to the house, we found one of the outdoor stray cat’s we’ve been feeding, Dahlia, on the side of the road. she’d been hit by a car and hadn’t made it.
as heartbroken as we were, there was a bigger issue.
four days ago, Dahlia had a litter of kittens in the stormage ditch just off the side of our property.
pictured below, the ditch
it’s about twenty inches around, and twenty foot long. the far end of the tunnel is crushed and inaccessible. the kittens? fifteen foot into the tunnel.
below is a series of pictures of me, crawling into said tunnel.
second post with the rest of the story to come.
below is a picture my mother took from the outside of the tunnel.
this is right before I went in so deep, the flashlight couldn’t make me out.
there were six kittens in total. unfortunately, due to the confined space of the tunnel, and how the kittens were hunkered, I could only get them out one at a time.
it took me almost a full two hours of army crawling in, and then army crawling backwards out of the tunnel, to collect all of the kittens.
all six kittens, safe and accounted for!
they’re four days old, and presently don’t have eyes or ears open.
third and final addition to come!
I’m glad you saved them but crawling into that tunnel looks terrifying
it absolutely was terrifying. I went in so deep, my mom couldn’t see me even with the flashlight. those kittens were not easy to reach!
we couldn’t stand the thought of them just staying in there and starving, though, and i was the only one small enough to fit in the drain!
This is what a hero looks like.
AN UPDATE PLEASE
Of course! Currently, they are six days old. Several of them have started opening up their eyes! They’re all very healthy. I’ll be fostering them for six weeks, and then locating homes for them. Consider checking me out on patreon.com/abalonetea if you would like to support them, or follow along with the tag “Katies cat adventure” for daily pictures and updates!
Danger noodle! Usually I don’t do requests, but this time was an exception, I love snakes :“D The amazing person, who came up with the idea is @nervouseclipseroadtaco <3 Ball pythons are absolutely adorable! :3
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
