#A. Turing

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History.com: The Mysterious Contents of the Voynich Manuscript

Is this the real life Necronomicon?!!

This manuscript, was found in the Jesuit College at Frascati, by William Voynich in 1912.

During a 1921 tour, Voynich claimed that its pages held discoveries more advanced than 20th century science!

(How would he know? The manuscript is still undeciphered today!! Yeah, I know. Advertising...)

Written in an unknown language, this medieval treatise has intricate drawings of stars, plants & nude women!

Which many intelligent folk, from Alan Turing to the FBI, have tried decode - with no success...

There is a letter included with the manuscript which claims that Roger Bacon wrote this book - but, ink & radiocarbon dating confirm it's actually from the 15th century - 300 years after Bacon!!

(I wonder, has that letter being dated yet?)

For those who are interested, the text is available online at the Beinecke Library.

Strangely enough, for the 15th century, some of the 230+ calfskin pages fold out into large composite images!

The paperback sized Voynich manuscript seems to be a collection of worldly knowledge.

It seems to be divided into 6 chapters, out of which the 'Recipe' section has 300 short paragraphs - or, are they magic spells?!

Researchers are still trying to figure out if the 'book' is written in a cypher or a made up language... They don't even agree if there's anywhere from 34 or 70 unique symbols in it!

One person thought Francis Bacon wrote this book in microscopic letters - til it was realized the micro- scope hadn't yet been invented in Bacon's time!!

Today, the thought is that it might be an ingenious medieval prank - or, an alien handbook!

Sigh...

"It's a cookbook!!"

Sorry, Twilight Zone flashback...

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I will genuinely never forgive anyone involved in making The Imitation Game for their absolute travesty of Alan Turing’s story.

He was intensely autistic, and gay, and *kind*.

He mentored people below him in the programme - including women, who pretty much everyone else was crappy to.

He had terrible allergies and went cycling in a gas mask in the country to avoid then, and when he got overstimulated at parties he pulled incredibly daft elaborate “walking into a cupboard” leaving gags to handle them that left everyone screaming on the floor despite the silliness.

He got on really well with kids and never talked down to them. He gave his neighbours his sugar rations on their kids’ birthdays so she could always make them birthday cakes - even when he was being persecuted after the war, even when he was suffering horrible side effects from the tortures they put him through.

He was such an utterly, genuinely lovely human being, and he deserved so much damn better, and at the very *least* he deserved to be portrayed as who he was in the 21st fucking century instead of falling into a whole slew of horrifically harmful stereotypes that erased the fucking gift he was to us all over again.

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needless to say the vibes were in shambles

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Giving Alan frozen raspberries as a summertime treat

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myrcella and margaery hanging out :) (marg had a dress made for myrc bc I really wanted an excuse to draw her in reach fashion lol)

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this is the gay video games website so it’s honestly such a shock that i never see people talk about the metal gear character who’s entire personality is being a butch lesbian

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[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]

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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/41pu2j0alrvmmqq/AADcNEo2K-fsdlacFfuXnKtva?dl=0

Above is the link to an audio file with Palestinian music, read-aloud poetry, storytelling, and excerpts from speeches on history and liberation. It was gathered by Radio Al Hara, an internet radio station broadcast from Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Amman in Jordan, founded during the pandemic as a way to connect during isolation. “Al Hara” means ​“the neighbourhood” in Arabic. From the river to the sea! 🇵🇸

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new type of person just dropped. who even does this. what's going on here

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Kwame Ture on anti-colonialism and anti-capitalism.

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gryphonnnnnnn

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Dead on Main Prompt/AU - All Halfas are zombies and the only ones who can see the ecto aura of a human. (Also halfas bleed green)

Jason is found by the GIW instead of the LOA after crawling out of his grave. Due to no pit to rapid heal, he still has amnesia even after regaining consciousness. Doesn’t even know his name. GIW doesn’t care to give him one beyond his eventual code name, White Knight. GIW sees this as an opportunity. One of Jason’s powers is to see if someone is ecto contaminated. Basically they glow a soft green aura.

Even though he doesn’t remember, Bruce’s morals are still instilled in him. He refuses to kill for them but they start torturing and brainwashing him. (Basically what Hydra did to Bucky).

So for a few years there has been this assassin that’s slowly been picking off the Justice League Dark members. But no confirmed sightings. A “ghost” story. (From studied patterns, Batman can deduce it’s more like the dead members matched some other criteria than just being JLD members.)

When Danny has his lab accident, he comes out of the portal looking human, and just drops dead from electrocution right there. (Sam forever blames herself. She’s the one that made the stupid joke of going in the damn thing).

Danny, due to no head trauma during death, remembers who he is when he crawls out of his own grave. GIW find him as well, and try to train him like they did Jason. But he is not ‘naturally gifted’ like Jason was. Bat training.

Instead he seems to be more gifted with tech. So they use him to make their ecto weapons.

(When he’s around Danny, Jason feels human again, feels like he’s more than a weapon again. Danny feels like he’s not alone anymore. That he’s safe like he was with family.)

After their failed portal and dead son, Dr Fentons stopped their research and experiments for a while. But a government facility in town contacts them for help with equipment do to their usual ecto being tech being ‘uncooperative’.

While it hurts to work on such a subject again, the ability to actually see an ecto being is exciting. They promise this is the last ecto job they do before giving up to go get normal jobs.

Due to it being years of torture, Danny doesn’t quite remember the look of his parents so he doesn’t recognize them, especially when they no longer wear their jumpsuits. (Danny died in his, they feel gross just looking at them in their closet.)

When Dr Fentons arrive they start looking at the engineering and are impressed. When they ask to see the inventor, they were not prepared to come face to face with their long dead son.

Meanwhile in Bludhaven, Nightwing is fighting off this guy all in white kevlar with a white mask on the bottom of his face, the white goggles he had covering his eyes have long since been lost in the fight. Constantine was in town to inform Nightwing of another JLD death when this guy showed up.

“The White Knight does exist,” Constantine says, fear filling every inch of his body. The White Knight charges Constantine after kicking Nightwing in the face, but the bird isn’t down for long. Nightwing wraps his arm about the Knight’s neck and pulls him back. In the process of freeing himself, the White Knight loses his mask. Once both are upright, Nightwing freezes.

“Jason?”

“Who the fuck is Jason?” The White Knight says before shooting Nightwing in the stomach.

Constantine quickly wraps himself around the bird and whisks them to the Batcave with his magic.

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'the sunlight,' oil on unframed fabric, ture nikolaus cederström, swedish, c. 1890s.

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