Gnostic mystic, recovering Roman Catholic. Pro-Healthcare. Disabled. Gay as the 4th of July. Anti-TERF. Trans kids deserve the world. Slavery happened, it was bad, white people did it. Housing is a human right. No human is illegal. We need gun control. Texan and so VERY over any of this being controversial.
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
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.
Some Places I Would Suggest To People Visiting Portland, Oregon
I read some tourist guides on Portland last night and got mad and confused and made a list of some of the places I personally think I'd be more likely to suggest to people. Today I am no longer mad and confused, but I still want to share my list of fun spots I like.
This list is heavily biased from being written by an artsy, introverted writer-type who doesn't really drink but enjoys a nice vibe. It's not a comprehensive list of every cool place in Portland. At the time I tried to pick from a variety of areas I didn't find mentioned in lists online.
Portland, with all its faults, has a lot of really cool places and things to do! Maybe one of these places can help give more texture to a future trip!
Lone Fir Cemetery: A historic cemetery and massive arboretum in Southeast Portland. Very peaceful to sit in. Hosts regular tours and other community events.
Overlook/Laurelhurst/Sellwood Park: It's subjective, but these are what I would consider to be my favorite parks. Laurelhurst is the chillest, Overlook has the best view, and Sellwood is cool if you actually want to be like AT the river.
PSU Museum of Art: A downtown museum at Portland State University that's free! Good if you want to scope out some Culture on a budget of No.
SCRAP PDX: It's a secondhand art supply store in Central Eastside, and it's fantastic. So many affordable materials and oddities. A gem. Came in clutch for me on many occasions.
The Portland Insectarium: A small zoo/museum/educational center dedicated to bugs and spiders in like the Overlook neighborhood. The people there are super knowledgeable and kind, and actually let me in for free when I told them I was trying to ease my fear of bugs. And it worked! I got to ask them all the questions I wanted and they showed me all sorts of little creatures.
Wonderwood Springs/Mini-Golf: Mike Bennett is a local artist here who's iconic enough that you'll find signs of his work scattered all around town. His Fantasy-Themed cafe and small mini-golf course is in St. Johns, which is generally considered a pain to get to. But it's a lovely spot to check out if you're in the area.
The Academy Theater: A cheap, second-run movie theater in Montavilla. Cool vibes. There are a few indie/art-house theaters around town like this and they're all very fun if you're into the idea of seeing an older movie on the big screen.
Sinister Coffee and Creamery: It's a coffee shop/custard place downtown with a speakeasy gimmick to get into the back room. There's a password they update monthly on their Instagram (it's in the bio so it's still accessible to people who don't have an account).
Word Virus Books: A modernist/post-modernist bookstore that relocated downtown from it's previous home of Way Closer To Where I Live. I'm fine and normal about this. It's a fantastic bookstore and I'm not at all bitter that it's further away now.
Memory Den - a gigantic multi story thrift mall with dozens of side rooms, a basement theater lounge, artist studios, a cafe, a bar, a library, a goth store, and for some reason a Fallout theme (it's even named after a location in the games), just fun to explore and some of it is beautifully decorated:
Movie Madness - a huge video rental store that's also a film museum, displaying original props and costumes from famous films, they even have the model ghostbusters house used on-screen, the actual "fight club" logo soap bar and a chestburster production maquette. Also has a mini screening room where they host indie films and events. Currently moving to a larger location but still open!
Floating World Comics - not just a comic book store; it sells rare graphic novels and art books from around the world, indie and local books, and vintage japanese imports like kaiju toys and model kits. Fascinating just to browse! Also currently in the process of moving.
Retro Game Bar - a bar with drinks and food that is also a console gaming library, where you can pay to pick out a console and games to play while you're there.
GIRLS!!!! DECENTRALIZE MEN IN YOUR LIFE & LANGUAGE & ACTIVISM! DO IT! JUST STOP CENTERING THEM! ITS ALL I ASK! ITS THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SAVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.
I did this series of portraits back in 2020 when I was hoping to make a “Black History in Space” illustration set for Black History Month. But then 2020 happened and I got a little…sidetracked.
In honor of Artemis II and Victor Glover’s triumphant trip around the Moon, I might revisit this…
I saw some weird ass conspiracy video thing today of like 'we were never meant to have access to yeast, that was cultivated in a lab and it harms us' bullshit and I was like well first off there's no such thing as 'meant to' and second of all um? the long history of acquiring yeast from beer foam stretching so far back ??????
If you want to make sourdough started from scratch, the process is 'mix water, flour, and maybe sugar if you've got it, then WHIP IN AS MUCH AIR AS YOU CAN' and let it sit. And this works. Because there's yeast there. In the air.
Not only is there yeast in the air, it's on a bunch of fruits, too. Ever rubbed a blueberry, plum, or grape, and it was slightly darker underneath? That thin film is wild yeasts. There is also yeasts that live on human skin (and not just pathogenic ones!). We are never without yeasts.
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