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oozey mess
we're not kids anymore.
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Love Begins
Cosimo Galluzzi
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if i look back, i am lost
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izzy's playlists!
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Not today Justin
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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musings on June
1. anne sexton (“the truth the dead know”), 2. anne sexton (“suicide note poem”), 3. mary oliver (“august”), 4. l.m. montgomery (“anne of the island”), 5. morgan parker (“the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth”), 6. found poems: sylvia plath / peter k. steinberg (“percy key among the narcissi”) artwork by hugo grenville
Adult realization: you will make mistakes, you will act irrationally. You will commit some wrongs that cannot be fully righted. People will dislike you and misunderstand you for all sorts of reasons. None of these make you a bad person. All you can do is try your best to be kind and just to people, grow and learn.
in addition: Trying to avoid ever doing these things will cost you in ways you cannot comprehend until you stop and accept this.
YOU DID NOT COME INTO THIS WORLD. YOU CAME OUT OF IT, LIKE A WAVE FROM THE OCEAN. YOU ARE NOT A STRANGER HERE
hi i fear i was asleepies when you sent your ask but i was gonna ask you about audiobookbay! i forgot your advice on using it for free
dw i also went to sleep shortly after! audiobookbay #yay basically um
audiobookbay.lu
search bar at the top, look up yr book
if its a classic or something there might be a lot of versions of it to choose from. unless you have a preference i tend to go for the most recent upload, because that's the most likely one to be seeded. there's stuff up there from like the 2000s that's just dead links
there'll be like a big long table, scroll down to the bottom and click on 'torrent free download'. maybe the direct download button works also but ive never used it
when you click the link, it'll redirect you to a log-in page. making an account was fairly simple iirc, its just username password email.
once you've logged in it'll boot you back to the audiobook info page, click on the link again and it'll download the torrent file
i assume u know how to torrent but if not lmk !!
if something doesn't have any seeders, you can comment on the file page asking OP to reseed it but i've never done that so idk how it shakes out
have fun !
part 2 learn how to torrent! @pollackpatrol i still love u
you have obtained a .torrent file! awesome. here is how you extract it
download qbittorrent. well you can use any torrent manager but some of them are sketch and ive had no issues with qbittorrent
install it ? been a while but i dont remember it being hard
press the 'open' button on the top toolbar
it'll open a file browser, go find your torrent file in downloads and open that
it will open a screen like this! you can set it so you skip this menu but i like to go thru it every time bcos it shows you a list of the files on the side to make sure you're like. downloading an audiobook instead of a bunch of weird files. basically the only thing i usually change is where i save something! this depends on where you want your files to save. if there's a folder in the torrent as you can see at the top of mine, it automatically makes its own subfolder so you can chuck it anywhere without having loose files banging about the place. i have my video folder as my default for when i torrent anime but i shove audiobooks in my downloads folder bcos they quickly get transferred to my phone
now you have a torrent loaded up! yay. it should look something like this
now we learn how torrenting works! basically when you're downloading something normally, your computer accesses the computer where the file is stored and gets the file from there. however this puts a bit of strain on yr network especially evident with weak wifi or big files, where like. there's only so much data that can go down one connection at one time. whereas with torrenting, your computer connects to the computers of other people who have the file, and they work together to send a bunch of connections to download the thing from a few different angles and reduce the strain on any particular connection. people who already have the thing and are sending it to you are called seeders, and people who (like you) are connected to the same link and downloading it are called peers.
this is why seeders are important! as opposed to a static download link which works whenever, torrents depend on other people's computers being online to take the file from. if there are no seeders then um you are fucked! but here is where commenting on the page saying 'pls seed' comes in
there is also the option, as seen in my screenshot, of downloading from peer computers! on my file, there are no active seeders but one active peer who already has a bit of the file. while we wait for a seeder to come online, i can download however much they already have and thus might only need to depend on the seeder for like 10% of the file, which is handy if the seeder only comes online for a short while.
^ all of this is automatic! you dont have to make any choices that impact this. this is just an explanation for why something might not be downloading. audiobookbay doesnt have it, but other sites let you filter torrents by number of active seeders, and while those counts arent always accurate, sometimes its handy to switch to a better-seeded torrent if you have the option
if you dont need something quickly, you can just leave qbittorrent open in the background and it'll keep searching for seeders so like hope isnt lost
once your thing has downloaded, people might seed from you. if you actively want to do this to be niceies, just leave qbittorrent open and itll do that, but if youre not a frequent torrenter its probs more an inconvenience
vpns ! people say vpns for torrenting. i would look up local reddit threads to see like how likely it is for your locality to crack down on pirates, and if you're worried you can use a vpn (i used to use mullvad which was cheap) but it makes your internet slower bcos it has to go thru extra hoops and tbh if youre doing small potatoes stuff you will not get killed.
Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!
lets move!
Some of our favorite quotes from Artemis ii so far:
"Copy. Moon joy."
"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."
"Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."
“If you’ve ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up.”
"To all of you down there on Earth... we love you, from the moon."
"We just went sci fi."
"It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."
"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."
“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll.”
"Amaze amaze amaze."
"I said that we do not leave Earth, but we choose it. And that is true."
"Christina has been sleeping head down in the middle of the vehicle, kind of like a bat"
"It's really fun to be floatin' around, it just makes me feel like a little kid."
"Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful."
"'Homo Sapiens' is all of us, no matter where you're from or what you look like. We're all one people."
"I'm proud to call myself the Space Plumber."
"We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus."
"Copy heart. Copy bracelet."
“Welcome back. We are still here. They are in space.”
"Copy. Bubble wrap nominal."
"We have rediscovered the chocolate snacks."
“The truth is, the moon really is its own body in the universe. It's not just a poster in the sky that goes by, it is a real place."
big shout out to tumblr for being the first major site in like two years to implement an ill-advised "feature" nobody wants, likes or respects that doesn't involve AI
Naomi Shihab Nye, “The Rider.” Fuel
“Listen, everyone has a chance. Is it spring, is it morning? Are there trees near you, and does your own soul need comforting? Quick, then—open the door and fly on your heavy feet; the song may already be drifting away.”
— Mary Oliver, from “Such Singing in the Wild Branches,” in Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
i am genuinely so sick & tired of america and israel getting away with bombing countries unprovoked and committing genocide. there is no such thing as a "pre-emptive" strike. trust me if any of this were happening to an European country instead of the global south we wouldn't have to beg and protest for people to consider the lives being taken as human lives instead of obscure numbers. it is sick . so fucking sick and depraved. death to usa and israel. and if i see ANY jokes about about "i am not ready for ww3 haha i am so scared" i am blocking you on sight idgaf
how are westerners so thoroughly programmed that even when you see the violence of your empire, you parrot the same lies used to sell that violence. "bombing a school is wrong but the iranian people should be freed from the regime—" "abducting a president is wrong but the venezuelan people should be freed from the regime—" "starving people with sanctions is wrong but the cuban people should be freed from the regime —" the western people need to be freed from the regimes that brainwashed you, and I mean that
why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw
the loneliness epidemic was invented by BIG SHIT to sell you more SHIT
Read “Player Piano” by Vonnegut. He gave us an entire book about this.
I know folks have been sharing this link on other posts, but &udm=14 works well:
You can add it as an extension to Firefox now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/udm14/reviews/
this was written 100 years ago but it reads like a post i would make on my tumblr blog in 2026
they should invent a secret second weekend so that you can see friends and do fun things while still having enough time to do errands and sleep in without dying of exhaustion all the time
