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bedrock-to-buildheight

Destressing 2

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estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

macleod

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

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i-am-a-fish

they should teach useful skills in school like home economics and how to safely pirate media

i-am-a-fish

all I learned there was that the homunculus was the powerhouse of the cell I had to learn everything else myself

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raccoonmilf

When I was in grade school I used to send emails to biologists and zoologists asking them questions to get answers to include in school projects I was working on, and would cry when they did not respond because I thought I was stupid for thinking that some random kid would ever be deserving of a response from someone who does something as smart and cool and important as *checks notes* studies frog fungus.

Now, at 29, I’m lowkey having a panic attack because my academic email is filled with middle schoolers wanting me to answer their questions about pygmy raccoons and I keep putting off answering them because I’m so overwhelmed with all the other raccoon stuff I have to do.

Anyway, greatest apologies to any scientist I ever emailed as a child and also an adult.

raccoonmilf

I know your research is really important and I appreciate all you are doing but this is so fucking funny

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divorciada

something I haven't seen people mention about The Hunger Games trilogy and movies is how it genuinely revolutionized the Minecraft server scene

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bedrock-to-buildheight

wonder how old is mewtwo? does mewtwo know how old it is? with all the medical records and etc surely at least the staff can tell, if not know... does it feel anything once feb 6th (we named it mewtwo day) rolls around? would the medical staff do anything for it or not (considering mewtwos complex relationship with existence and life)? celebrate? acknowledge? neither, like all the birthdays between?

idk had a lonely birthday awhile ago and been thinking thoughts

(or maybe feb 6 mewtwo was only the first viable mewtwo-like lifeform from mew and not cerulean cave mewtwo, eh)

Mewtwo knows it's at least 30 years old (the constant sedation and medications made the first few...years(?) very fuzzy), and it knows its actual year of birth is written down somewhere, and it made the decision not to look

Kaleido knows, and therefore both Ela and Vanilla know too, but it's not relevant to its current state so they don't bring it up. It hasn't been here long enough for its birthday to roll around, but Ela at least plan on a gift of some sort. Vanilla is not sure she’s close enough to broach the subject with it, and Kaleido can't keep track of days well enough to consider birthdays important

As for Mewtwo itself, when the day does come...

I think the staff at the lab would have celebrated its birthday. They're only human after all. This doesn't make the crimes any better

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djpachipikachu

happy pride month

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wosp-reactivated

Mondays aren't that bad once you cannot tell days apart from eachother

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juliangeneral

Beats you to death with hammers

keenkryptonut

isuggestrespecttranspeople

YAYAYAYAY

disposabullets

my additions

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tj-crochets

My grandma just called and, among other things, said “You have hips. That’s good! Men like hips!” and then she interrupted herself to say “Women like hips. People of your preferred gender like hips. I can never remember” And I was like “Thanks grandma! My preferred gender is none of them, no thanks.” and she was like “Okay, no one will comment on your hips!” very self satisfied, like “aha, I have figured it out” I think like half her grandkids are some variety of not-straight and she can’t always remember which is which but she is the epitome of like “she’s a little confused, but she’s got the spirit!”

tj-crochets

Update: I gave it some thought and my estimate was wrong. Of the grandkids that are out, it’s 1/3, not ½

tj-crochets

I told my grandma that I’d told my friends about what she said and that some of y’all had said you wished she was your grandma, and she said “Well, you can never have too many grandkids!” So like…consider her your honorary grandma* I guess? *if you want an honorary grandma, that is

tj-crochets

Update on my grandma: I told her my hair was standing up, but instead of straight line it was diagonal and she said “That’s okay, you’ve never been straight!” and then laughed so hard at her own joke I thought she was going to drop the phone

tj-crochets

Happy almost pride month! Have my confused-but-supportive grandma!

tj-crochets

An update: my grandma just called me to ask if I knew it was pride month

tj-crochets

Happy pride month!!

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cotton-glass

Rocky has a mother of pearl inlay on one of his back legs!!

Source

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itsblosseybitch

Made a new poster! :)

zwoelffarben

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kaiiaii

Stupid doodle of this post that did numbers on my other blog lol

Post also under cut

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ravenisbored26

By request I'll be posting some of my Project Hail Mary stuff over here :D Here's an animatic for one of the book scenes o7

Idk how well it'll do here but its still worth sharing

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astriiformes

The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this: