Toxicpufferfish

When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated by the Allies, it was a time of great jubilation for the tens of thousands of people incarcerated in them. But an often forgotten fact of this time is that prisoners who happened to be wearing the pink triangle (the Nazis’ way of marking and identifying homosexuals) were forced to serve out the rest of their sentence. This was due to a part of German law simply known as “Paragraph 175” which criminalized homosexuality. The law wasn’t repealed until 1969.

Would block Tony antis:

Would reblog Tony antis: 

Shark finning infographic by ripetungi.

“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”  

- @robinlayfield

super important!

I love seeing videos of pandas being manhandled

super important!

Big Hero 6: treats emotional trauma seriously, rather than brushing it off

The Good Dinosaur: assures kids that having fears and anxiety is okay but you need to control it and not have it ruin your life

Inside Out: explains emotions well enough for children's therapy offices to use it as an example

Zootopia: addresses racism in a family-friendly and easy to understand way, so much so that even adults understand it better

Frozen: teaches young girls that they don't always need a prince to save them, sometimes they can rely on their family just as much

Society: but they're just kids movies :/