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Age: 30 They/them Latinx Hey, you found me! Short of the long, this blog is a way for me to explore myself, my gender expression and really figure myself out (hopefully find a sense of community along the way). So there will be a lot of journal type posts, genderfluid stuff, and not gonna lie, some Christian things so I can remind myself that despite what I hear I'm still valid.

[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.

[lgbtqiatext]

[starburstsangel]

THE BEAUTY IS THAT GOD MADE YOU QUEER, AND SO HE HAS KNOWN ALL ALONG THAT YOU WERE. AND WHEN YOU FINALLY STUMBLED UPON IT, HE CELEBRATED IN JOY !

[gabriestat]

why did no one tell me jeremy irons lives in a restored irish castle

[gabriestat]

[gabriestat]

[amongst-dandelions]

@frownyalfred

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Texts From Superheroes

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[hipsternumbertwo]

Update!

[orteil42]

am i losing the drive to create things for an increasingly alien and hostile world whose mounting taste for fascism feels like a cold metal vise around my skull or am i just lazy and unmedicated and looking for excuses

[orteil42]

they're on the twitter stealing my shit‼️

[derangedrhythms]

This is how you live when you have a cold heart. As I do: in shadows, trailing over cool rock, under the great maple trees.

The sun hardly touches me. Sometimes I see it in early spring, rising very far away. Then leaves grow over it, completely hiding it. I feel it glinting through the leaves, erratic, like someone hitting the side of a glass with a metal spoon.

Living things don’t all require light in the same degree. Some of us make our own light: a silver leaf like a path no one can use, a shallow lake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.

But you know this already. You and the others who think you live for truth and, by extension, love all that is cold.

Louise Glück, The Wild Iris; Lamium

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

[great-gatsby]

every reread kills me a little bit more

[great-gatsby]

reread and enjoy <3

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

he's going through a hair dye phase (sleeping in a berry patch)

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

feels like some of u aren't properly appreciating the fact that he sleeps in a berry patch. and he rolls over and squishes the berries into his fur. because he's so sleepy and content.

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

maybe people think he's an ugly dog but just to be clear he is actually a beautiful pig

[plushie-neko]

CLAIM YOUR FREE BADGE HERE!!!

[penny-anna]

i think the reason why the assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the funniest political assassinations is for this very simple reason:

1 guy stabs 1 guy: not funny. that's murder.

2 guys stab 1 guy: even less funny. that's two against one.

60 guys stab 1 guy: uproariously funny. why do you need so many guys.

[grandpuppyalpaca]

60 guys say they'll stab 1 guy, but he only ends up with 23 stab wounds: peak comedy and peak relatability for group projects. what can surpass it?

[stealingpotatoes]

messing around with the lighting on my Yor hallway scene model

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Saturday, 2/21 — Matthew 18:1-7

[Jesus] called a little child over to sit among the disciples, and said, “I assure you that if you don’t turn your lives around and become like this little child, you will definitely not enter the kingdom of heaven. …Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.” - vv. 2, 5 

When you are disabled, neurodivergent and/or chronically ill, you constantly feel that your needs are an imposition. You learn not to ask for “special” accommodations. That is what the world teaches you. 

What Jesus teaches us is the exact opposite: The most vulnerable ones are the standard. The ways of the Kingdom are built to serve them. Because the simple logical truth is: when their needs are met, everyone’s needs are met.  

“When Black lives matter, all lives will matter.”  When a place is accessible, everyone profits.  We won’t be free until we are all free. 

Growing up, especially when you are a part of a marginalized group, you internalize bit by bit that your most essential needs will never be the standard. Jesus is very clear that this is a sin committed against you. It is hard work “turning your life around” and unlearning those things. It can help to remind yourself that by demanding your own rights, you are actually helping everyone.

- Laura Sommer

[florencemachines]

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

🎬 Peter Jackson

+ IMDb trivia (FotR trivia) (ttt trivia)

bonus

[eternal-echoes]

“A friend once told me the story of how she first met God. She doesn't remember her age; she must have been about five or six. Her family lived in the countryside on the rim of one of our big eastern cities. And one July evening, cloudless, moonless, with just the hint of a humid breeze, her father took her out into the backyard in the dark and told her to look up at the sky.

From one horizon to the other, all across the black carpet of the night, were the stars—thousands of them, tens of thousands, in clusters and rivers of light. And in the quiet, her father said, "God made the world beautiful because He loves us."

That was more than sixty years ago.My friend grew up and learned all about entropy and supernovas and colliding galaxies and quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity. But still, when she closes her eyes, she can see that carpet of stars and hear her father's voice: God made the world beautiful because He loves us. Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears His signature. And it's our home.”

-Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World