Cloama

La Baby

[shamebats]

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

[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]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

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 bitorrent or utorrent.

[cloama]

[goth-queen]

[cloama]

Not to kick the YAs while they’re down but the reason they keep the people aged 35+ on store registers is because the kids are not familiar with coin value and making change.

Just dealt with the most confused 18 year old. While trying to get a dollar back. I was the only person in line so I took a second, coached and quizzed him quickly on coin value. The difference between dimes and quarters. I think I played it cool enough.

We need to support the kids. It’s our responsibility. I grew up being quizzed and corrected by random adults in my life at a moment’s notice.

I just refuse to accept that the kids are cooked. I’m from the Deep South where a lot of our grandparent’s and great grandparents got a middle school education yet still managed to work hard labor and make sure their kids got a better education. Then those generations did the same for us. There is no excuse for ignoring this. Share knowledge and check in on the kids. There is no abdication of duty that won’t come back to bite us later. Might as well try.

[slunch]

tl;dr: all "algorithmically" pushed stuff on a newsfeed is mostly ads. nothing that's really surprising form this vulture article, but it is dismal and makes me grateful for one website where you only see things from people you follow WITHOUT horrible short-form video content

[bitchking-of-angmar]

The Feed Is Fake

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?

https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

Have a paywall free link to the source!

[sourcreammachine]

1980s: 100,000 is Dream Come True money

2000s: 1,000,000 is Dream Come True money

2020s: 100,000 is Dream Come True money (our dreams are worse)

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

If you like comedy where every sentence is a combination of words that has never been spoken before in human history, a la chris fleming, may I turn you on to Saya Meads

[buginateacup]

I've said it before but someone has to stay making mischievous kids movies again about a group of friends who defeat the plan to turn their local park into an AI data centre and humiliate a thinly drawn caricature of a well known billionaire

[nat-20s]

extremely funny to me that Kermit the Frog is the only main overlap character between Sesame Street and The Muppets. imagine your day job is hanging out in a community of lovely people that genuinely just want to help kids learn and care about everyone so so much and then your night job is the reason that you have to stay up to date on your rabies AND tetanus vaccine

[nat-20s]

at noon the giant you're hanging out with is Big Bird! a wonderful fellow who likes reading stories and singing and telling fun facts! at midnight there's a giant named Sweetums who makes you feel like you're being hunted for sport

[nat-20s]

Ernie, trying to maybe come out to Kermit: well you know Kermit, me and Bert-

Bert: Bert and I

Ernie: Bert and I, we've been best friends forever, but we're also something else too!

Kermit, who every goddamn night has to tell Beaker and Bunsen to keep it professional, deal with Statler and Waldorf's bullshit, AND update his organizational chart on Dr. Teeth and the Electric Polycule: that's really great to hear fellas, happy for you two! :)

[stellacartography]

Grover, alarmed at having spilled some finger paint on Kermit's flipper: I am so sorry, Kermit. Please forgive me.

Kermit, who deals with a multitude of bodily fluids on his person and all over the theatre every evening, who is unintentionally trampled by large monsters as they exit the stage, and quite intentionally has his little froggy bones launched into a wall most nights by Miss Piggy: It's ok, Grover. I'm a frog. I love baths.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

On Sesame Street: Oh, no, Telly is watching too much television!

The Muppet Show Theater, that night: Gonzo attempts to explain his latest fetish at length.

[starpeace]

i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

[starpeace]

“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS”

[elidyce]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU’VE ‘HACKED’ MANA DRAIN

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘DRINK SOME JUICE’

WHAT IS ‘LOW BLOOD SUGAR’

WHY IS THIS WORKING

I HATE YOU SO MUCH

[superjustaguyblog]

Okay but other direction can ALSO be a lot of fun

“What do you mean I don’t have to burn half my blood to create a fireball?”

“Why can you teleport more than once without vomiting? WTF is ‘quantum displacement awareness’???”

“You know HOW many spells? HOW? ... What do you mean ‘my spell book’?”

“Ooooh, you’re just summoning water portions from the Plane of Water... Lol I thought I HAD to combine hydrogen and oxygen molecules to generate water in small amounts. That’s so much easier then what I was doing!”

[anachronistic-cat]

Tags via @mia7437

[thehumantrampoline]

This is your reminder today that Irene Adler in the original Conan Doyle story is literally not a criminal. She never commits a crime.

[thehumantrampoline]

Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.

Irene Adler is not a thief, femme fatale, or blackmailer. She's just a cool lady that wants to be left alone.

[cloama]

This has been my best week in recent memory.

[ynde]

Six year old, bouncing up and down with glee as desserts are unpacked: "I'm so appointed!"

Took me a moment to realize she had logically assumed "appointed" must be the opposite of "disappointed" and used it as a synonym for "excited."

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[nostalgicmermaaiid]

Black indie animated projects that you should check out!

I thought I’d share the ones i’ve seen and link the channels in light of recent events. beating myself up for not having done this sooner tbh

Wheels and Roses - roller derby & magical girls!

The Three Tomes - a vampire love story

DizzyCat - slice of life adventures of 2 cat siblings

Crocodile Dance - a thriller combining myth and Afrofuturism

Furious and Fat Cat - comedy about 2 childhood friends who reunite as roommates

The Ebony Witch - disney/don bluth inspired fantasy series

I Don’t Want To Be A Magical Girl - yall probably know this one but I’m putting it here anyway

Please reblog with any that I missed!

[midnightnautilus]

Oh here’s some more!

Towards Galaxy’s End - Magical girl mix of fantasy and scifi

Hey. - Slice of life romcom (currently in production)

Mmanwu - Horror short film in modern day Nigerian (currently in production)

Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy - scifi pilot about aliens who encounter a lost star

And this is live action, but I’d also like to promote The Comic Shop - a mockumentary style sitcom that is a love letter to Black nerd culture

[anemonemily]

WAVES - a gorgeous animated short film by jason raymond!! stunning work, go give him some love!!

[separocean-anxiety]

@breanimator (creator of the incredible Three Tomes!!) shared this playlist in the replies for more awesome projects to support!!!🌟

Black Indie Animations

Black Indie Animations

[cloama]

The CJR collection for Old Navy is a huge miss for me. i was so excited but I’ve seen the items on people and the fit is wild. I don’t like any of the colors. This is truly for someone with the opposite sense of fashion which is nice because they can get mileage out of it.

I haven’t disliked a collection this much since that Beyoncé debuted that gryffindore looking ass Ivy park drop.

Y’all enjoy tho. The stripped knit dress is cute. Very Hanifa.

[cloama]

Please watch Naomi turn these looks tho.

I think the colors in this collection are just not for me but you can see how they would be great for others. she looks amazing. I’m very jealous.

[cloama]

The CJR collection for Old Navy is a huge miss for me. i was so excited but I’ve seen the items on people and the fit is wild. I don’t like any of the colors. This is truly for someone with the opposite sense of fashion which is nice because they can get mileage out of it.

I haven’t disliked a collection this much since that Beyoncé debuted that gryffindore looking ass Ivy park drop.

Y’all enjoy tho. The stripped knit dress is cute. Very Hanifa.