aristos achaion

un petit prince ⭐️ “I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.”

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Versus - Fall 2004 RTW

[heartpeacenquiet]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

We should popularize more hispanized phonetic spellings of classic character names like we did with esnupi

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Citripio y Arturito

[anasabdin]

Low Orbit Solitude [ 13 colors ]

[darkmoonhyena]

Inspecting my grean

[darkmoonhyena]

Yep that's grean!

[thefemalepope]

Carrie Fisher as Mystery Woman The Blues Brothers ( 1980 ) dir. John Landis

[ouranhighschool]

[cultureandcoolthings]

Baby, Mother, and Grandmother in Brazil, photographed by David Lazar

[ventresses]

This is a perfect time to read the brilliant and unforgettable graphic novel(s) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, about growing up in Iran during and after the Iranian Revolution, and the rise of the oppressive theocracy that persists to this day.

Both graphic novels are available free online (Persepolis vol. 1, Persepolis vol. 2)

It also was adapted to a wonderful film (co-directed and co-written by the author) which is available to watch for free on Sundance Now (sign up for the free trial)

[psikonauti]

Paul Bril (Landscape) (Flemish,1554-1626) & Peter Paul Rubens (Figures) (Flemish,1577-1640)

Landscape with Psyche & Jupiter, 1610 & 1630

Oil on canvas

[polkadotmotmot]

Olha Symonenko - The taste of your summer, 2026 - Acryl on canvas

[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.

[thememedaddy]

[huffylemon]

[mooreaux]

Mermay day 3: Nishikigoi (koi)

Koi fish trace their lineage to the humble common carp, first domesticated in East Asia over a millennium ago. In 19th-century Japan, rice farmers began carefully breeding these carp for their rare and beautiful colorations, giving rise to the exquisite ornamental koi. Their captivating beauty and cultural significance captured global admiration after their debut at the Tokyo Taishō Exposition in 1914.

[mooreaux]

Mermay Day 6: Broadclub Cuttlefish

The broadclub cuttlefish is the second-largest cuttlefish species, inhabiting shallow coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific, where it actively hunts fish and crustaceans. Renowned for its extraordinary camouflage, it can rapidly change both color and skin texture, and often mesmerizes prey with rhythmic waves of light before striking. This fascinating cephalopod also displays complex courtship behaviors and lays its eggs on reef surfaces, making it a captivating subject for marine biologists and divers alike.

[mooreaux]

Mermay Day 11: Spotted Silver Dollar

The spotted silver dollar lives in the warm, plant-filled backwaters and slow-moving rivers of the Amazon Basin, often among submerged roots and dense vegetation. In its natural habitat, it forms peaceful shoals, swimming together for safety and grazing primarily on aquatic plants. Timid in temperament , these fish rely on the shelter and abundance of their lush, ever-changing environment to thrive.

(She’s just an itty bitty relaxing on a 🍃)