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homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay

People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.

Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis

The Alan Turing statue on my campus

The only way to honour Alan Turing 💖

Also, to anyone using an Apple product, you know that cool lil’ logo that Apple uses? well, that Apple has a bite out of it because after he invented the computer and decoded the Nazi enigma in one swoop he was convicted of gross indecency (being gay) and forced to take estrogen as a punishment. he killed himself in 1954 by eating a poison apple.

It’s also why the logo for Apple was rainbow for a while and those colors inspired the spinning-wheel-of-death you see when your computer freezes.