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1. Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 09:23:52 JST Luci for Chai Tea

   things invented by black people:
   - videogame cartridges
   - bash shell
   - crop rotation
   - transgender
   - GPS
   - Stop Lights
   - the Lingo scripting language in Macromedia Director
   - IBM PC
   - VoIP
   - Mailboxes
   - Lawn sprinklers
   - ISA bus
   - Supercomputers
   - the rendering software used in Terminator 2
   - Chemotherapy
   - Spectrographs and Spectrometers
   - nuclear reactors for power generation
   - dustpans
   - ironing boards
   - light bulbs and telephones - Lewis Latimer (in collaboration with edison and bell)

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   • Bob Williams (bobwilliams@mindly.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 12:34:10 JST Bob Williams

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     @zens John Thompson, one of my heroes. Lingo was such a great language. Fundamental in the evolution of interactivity and web based apps and games. So cool to see this in the company of the other amazing accomplishments on the list.

   • Sabogato (they/them) (sabogato@sunbeam.city)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 12:36:18 JST Sabogato (they/them)

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     @zens wow the creator of bash wrote many tools I use everyday

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer)

   • Cleo🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈:AFD: :bst: (cleo@bz.pawdev.me)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 01:51:38 JST Cleo🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈:AFD: :bst:

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     @zens@merveilles.town I'm hurt by calling transgender a invention

   • skoomer🍟 (deesenaughts@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 01:51:38 JST skoomer🍟

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     • Cleo🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈:AFD: :bst:
     @cleo @zens @cleo @zens of course it's an invention lol, what else would it be
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