and ye, said the sun, we shall drink ginger beer

Call me Bia. Any pronouns

[funny-tik-toks]

[animemangamenagerie]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

"Parasitic fungus (Cordycipitaceae) on a fly (Calliphoridae)."

Eduardo Carrasco, Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador

Nikon Small World Competition

[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.

[incisedwound]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

[24th century voice]

your historical fiction smut isn’t very accurate to the period. in the plague era of the 21st century, women’s bodies were so frail from the ravages of disease that they had to wear restrictive compression garments to squeeze the blood back into their brains so they wouldn’t pass out whenever they stood up. smut should feature extended compression garment removal scenes as part of the foreplay or it just isn’t realistic. really takes me out of the setting.

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

The first four chapters of Wuthering Heights (1847) so far

[random-brushstrokes]

Léon Bakst - Design for the costume of Carabosse in the ballet The Sleeping Beauty (1921)

[filletedfennysnake]

@queer-ragnelle really cool

[firebatvillain]

One fun thing about learning new languages is reconsidering the structure of words and language in your mother tongue. It seems with each new language I study, I get more little insights into English, either in how it's similar or how it's different.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

Then I stopped for a moment, and for the first time in my life, thought about seriously about the meaning of English word for the place where you buy things, "a store."

[okunichh]

You're a rascal and a rogue, a villain and a crook

Still I tug at your line, I'm a fish on your hook

[squirrelstothenuts]

[odilon-redon-art]

-Aurora-

[rslashrats]

[amphibimations]

[cloudabserk]

utena & anthy doodles

[enchantedbook]

"The Flower of the Swamp" Odilon Redon, 1885

[sockth]

Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay