Queer-coded af
Queer-coded af
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Their apology is worth exactly the paper it's printed on, interesting.
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Well.. if the paper is worth what it says on it, then it's about 18 billion pound sterling in total for all the 50 notes printed.
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I'm glad he's on money but something more often seen would have been better. Although with inflation the 50 might be the new 20
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I did not know they did this although to be honest I can't remember the last time I saw a bank of England note never mind a 50
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Explanation: One of the key scientists in the construction of early codebreaking computers in WW2 was Alan Turing (yes, of Turing Test fame), a gay man. While it was not immediately after WW2, in the 1950s, he inadvertently admitted to a cop that he was homosexual when being interviewed about a burglary at his house (cops, even on the occasions they are useful, are NOT your friends). His key work in defeating the literal fucking Nazis was disregarded in favor of chemically castrating him after he pled guilty to the charge.
It is suspected that this was a major cause of his subsequent suspected suicide by biting into a cyanide-laced apple (though some still hold that the apple incident was an accident).
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At the time Turing (arguably) killed himself, the "Ultra" project was still a state secret that nobody publicly knew anything about. However, people like Churchill did know all about it and they knew exactly the magnitude of Turing's contribution to it, and yet they did nothing to defend Turing although they could have without revealing the Ultra secrets. Absolutely shameful.
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It wasn't disregarded; it was never mentioned because it was still a state secret.
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Allegedly also the Apple logo is derived from that.
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Let's also mention that Alan Turing was absolutely brilliant, mind bogglingly so.
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Wasn’t it more so that his work was still highly classified rather than actively disregarded? There were definitely those that could have intervened that didn’t though. Really shameful
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So WTF does queer mean?! Our man was simply gay, homosexual, we have words for that. That's a sincere question BTW. As an old cis guy, "queer" seems to mean whatever the fuck people want it to mean, seen a few definitions. Somebody help?
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I personally use queer as a shorthand for lgbtqia+ because saying that in conversation is a bit unwieldy
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Like the other person said, these days queer is usually used as a sort of catch-all for any one not cisgendered and straight, although sometimes people identify as simply queer if they don't feel they fit neatly in any of the predefined lgbt+ etc categories.
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"The Immitation Game" is well worth a watch.
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It's a horrific character assassination.
The only two things it gets right are: there was a second world war; Alan Turing worked at Bletchley.
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Very much so. I watched it back when benedict cumberbatch was The Guy, and it was more than i expected. It may have radicalised me a bit haha
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Bible humpers now: STOP FORCEFULLY FEMINIZING MEN
Bible humpers back then:
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Alan! Alan!