Journey before destination, you bastard

Jess, 26, ISFP, Multi-fandom, notorious shitposting, the occasional post in czech Free Palestine🇵🇸

[crowreys-wormstache]

It shouldn't happen. It doesn't happen. Not here.

This one is for my foreign followers. If it is relevant to you or yours, I'm sure you've already heard. If it isn't, I want you to hear about it anyway.

CW/TW: mass shooting, endangerment of students, death.

On Thursday the 21st, there was an active shooter at the faculty of arts of the Charles University in Prague, Czech republic. My university. My faculty. He killed 12 students, two teachers and himself and wounded 25 more. Some of them are still in critical condition.

It was the first ever school shooting in out country and the worst ever mass shooting.

Me and mine are safe. Everyone I know either wasn't there that day or was evacuated. Others were not so lucky. We do not know the names of all the victims yet as they haven't all been offiicially shared. But we do know 6 of them. The two teachers and four girls, all freshmen, all barely out of their teens if at all.

It's horrible. Nobody knows what to do, how to feel. I haven't slept more than a couple hours since.

It can happen anywhere. It will happen anywhere. But specifically to my american followers I want to say this: I promise you this does not mean that regulations don't work. It means the exact opposite. Again, this is the worst it gets here if a shooting even happens. 15 dead is still too many. But it is one incident in decades. One. Prevail. Oppose lax ownership laws. It makes a difference.

If you are willing and able, please consider donating to the fund for the survivors and families of the victims.

Stay safe. I love you.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[kaylmao]

[valla-chan]

I fed your talkfruit to my messagepig sorry

[nixscriptum]

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ఌ )

[shakespeareaddict]

ao3 tagging isn’t always intuitive and some tags are highly subjective but some are really really not. If I see “mutual baby trapping” I’m expecting two people in a situationship who’d rather engage in absurd manipulations and shenanigans to obtain a baby rather than communicate clearly “hey I want to be serious with you”; if they’re *already talking about marriage and kids* then it’s not babytrapping. If I see Underage I am expecting at least one Mrated scene with a minor, not “two teens kiss but don’t even get to second base”. If I see the big Rape/Noncon tag and then the authors note says “the Rape tag is cause they have sex while A is slightly drunk” then I am backing out of the fic and never trusting your tagging again!

Like! Tagging is for two populations—the people who explicitly want to see X and the people who explicitly don’t want to see X—and neither population is served by overtagging! If there was a fic tagged, idk, “Swedish Politics” because in one throwaway line someone mentions Sweden has political parties, I’d be upset if I was looking for Swedish Politics and this was all that came up. And I’d be just as upset if I was filtering out fics with Swedish Politics and missed the perfect fic that was overtagged!

[3000s]

[cernadusestudakova]

čeština je mýtus který vymyslel Josef Jungmann aby se mu lépe prodával slovník

[snake-eggs]

“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.

The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.

No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[leebrontide]

I have achieved the dream. I can live mostly comfortably on my part time income. (I make the same amount as my wife, but she has to work full time, or no health insurance for any of us).

I can not tell you the difference this has made in my physical and mental health, the cleanliness of my home, my capacity for parenting, and my access to creative work. It is simply better in every single way. I am a more pleasant, patient, well rested person. I'm a better friend and neighbor than I was before.

I haven't changed in any meaningful way. But my life circumstances now let me bring out the better version of myself far more often.

[sandersstudies]

I watched a 2-year-old for the weekend. Mom claims 2yo is pretty emotional and cries often. Don’t really see that during stay. Occasional normal kid stuff but always resolved quickly. I noticed she occasionally asked to play on her iPad but as a babysitter I felt it was more responsible for me to say “not right now, we’re going to [activity, game, tidy up].” So there was no iPad or TV for three days. And a lot of it was independent play. She would color and read and play with toys without me for long stretches. (Once she told me she was “busy” and she was just observing a keychain and taking in its contours.)

Her mom and dad return and give her iPad on first request. She plays with it peacefully while adults talk. Mom moves to take it away for bedtime and it’s immediate tantrum. Screaming and crying tears. The screaming continues all the way to bathtime and bed. Mom and Dad have to cajole her with a snack and lots of attention for about twenty minutes before her crying stops.

Now, I want to be fair to these parents: toddler is overwhelmed by Mom and Dad returning from a, by her standards, “long” time away. It’s getting late, toddler is tired and maybe actually did need that snack. Toddlers also just act different around babysitters than they do mom and dad.

But for a toddler who was a pleasant and attentive kid for three days to dissolve into tantrum of that length as soon as she is reunited with and then separated from her iPad freaks me out. She is not a teen upset she can’t communicate with her friend. She’s not even a grade-schooler who didn’t save their Minecraft world. She’s a toddler who is distressed by being separated from an overstimulation machine.

Her parents have convinced themselves it’s a tool and a convenience by handing it to her and gaining silence at mealtimes and car rides and every request when she’s a bright kid who can spend just as much time with a book as with a screen, with much less distress at separation.

Idk, maybe there are people out there who are actually having great experiences with their kids with iPads but if I wasn’t turned off from iPads before, damn I am now. I felt so WEIRD and UPSET seeing that sweet kid scream like that. It was totally against everything I knew about her personality, but totally in line with everything her mom had warned me about.

[marxist--lesbianist]

Homelessness is state violence. The state is capable of ensuring universal housing, and actively chooses not to. Any decision made by the state that materially harms its people is violence.

[milanesa42]

[eebie]

I just ate one

[eebie]

You can lie when you name things

[she-ramen]

the she-ra reboot makes this video relevant again which means we are in the best timeline

[she-ramen]

the kids these days dont know this masterpiece…they will learn

[logan-exe]

the Masters of the Universe remake makes this video relevant again which means we are in the best timeline

[helenekuragina]

you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"

[helenekuragina]

#and its like. 'what if ive decided its comfortable to be in the box' it is always going to be more comfortable to be in the box #they will reward you for staying in the box and punish you for trying to leave it #that doesnt mean the box is like. a good place to be — @butchfaith

[the-big-mood]

Hey, did you know archive.org has a bunch of free 90s shows you can stream?

The problem is finding them, since no one's organized them all in one place with covers and episode info. I'm trying to fix that with my new website.

It's in BETA right now, and all the content was just added today, so I've barely scratched the surface of what's out there.

Submit shows and request here

Watch party with synchronized video and chatrooms

[nonexistent-triangle]

at the club no drinks.in.fully stone cold sober: what if thsre was a secret city

[seventyeight-moose]

Face twists with bravery as a chill runs through the air We have to find it.

[nonexistent-triangle]

We have to find it

[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 bittorrent or utorrent.