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Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
Mosca Blanca
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They/them, she/her. Edgelord, fan of heavenly sciences and earthly delights. I think I’ve made a mistake
![zaratustra (parody account) @zarawesome • 2022-09-28
there was exactly one software engineer and one hardware engineer on the planet and they were already at each other's necks
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Nina Begus @ninabegus 2022-09-26
Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, begging her collaborator Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first general computer, not to mess with her math]
[photo of a book passage which reads:
23. To Charles Babbage
Tuesday Afternoon [1 August 1843]
Ockham
I am half beside myself with hurry & work. I could not get anything done in time to send by coach this morning; & now I am obliged still to retain one sheet; which however I hope to send you by an occasion tomorrow afternoon.
Note B has plagued me to death; altho' I have made but little alteration in it. Such alterations as there are however, happen to have been very tiresome & to have demanded minute consideration & very nice adjustments.
It is a very excellent Note.
I wish you were as accurate, & as much to be relied on, as I am myself.
You might often save me much trouble, if you were; whereas you in reality add to my trouble not infrequently; and there is at any rate always the anxiety of doubting if you will not get me into a scrape; even when you
don't.
By the way, I hope you do not take upon yourself to alter any of my corrections.
I must beg you not. They all have some very sufficient reason. And you have made a pretty mess & confusion in one or two places (which 1 will show you sometime), where you have ventured in my M.S?'s, to insert or alter a phrase or word; & have utterly muddled the sense.
I could not conceive at first in one or two places what had happened to my sentences; tho' I soon saw they were patch-work & not my own; and]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vzh3zzjcbamllzjadsmfooxq/bafkreicgtst6yv7fpisn5n4jhjidhprb4srowesxa73ae7gbq6g6sbnfu4)
