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mostly things that make me laugh | nicolas

[laterkiss]

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[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.

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[dknightlight]

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[tropacant]

have some shitty chaotic pride flags ^^

check out the rest of the flags on my profile since tumblr has a 10 image limit lol as well as the fixed versions of a few of these cuz I’m big dumb

[xxtc-96xx]

it's that time again, kids

[chilewithcarnage]

Actor Emanuele Vaccarini in Roman gladiator attire, 2019.

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[batshit-auspol]

Here's our most requested item: Bob Katter's same-sex marriage speech, in all its unhinged glory

Follow for more Batshit Moments in Australian politics!

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Des noeuds encore des noeuds

[fipindustries]

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

[mint-corset]

Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.

[such-justice-wow]

Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch

[lectorel]

Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are

[domina-honoribila]

I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.

[teaboot]

"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen

[dreamycastaway]

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

[iwriterobots]

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[sm64mario]

which'a worse, landlord or oil baron?

[sm64mario]

this is'a nice

i'a like you'a thinking

[sm64mario]

waluigi'a definitely doing it the evil way though

[waluigioilofficial]

Yeah dude fuck you too.

[gregtom]

[k-simplex-deactivated20241001]

Happy Pride

[haridraws]

happy pride month to everyone - to other disabled people, to people who don’t fit into neat labels, to people made to feel they’re not queer ‘enough’. To people who get shit for being out & people who can never be out, i’m thinking of you all, i love you

[haridraws]

When I drew this, I wrote a blog alongside about the tension between being a ‘palatable’ trans or queer person vs genuinely being yourself, and why it means so much to me to tell queer stories - in the current climate, I think it feels more relevant than ever.

For this pride, I just unlocked it for anyone to read here.

[herpsandbirds]

Trip Report: Mount Lassen Volcanic National Park, northern CA, USA

This park isn't that well known outside of the area, and I was excited to visit a new park and bring my park count up to 35!

It was a really beautiful mountain landscape, with amazing volcanic features, with a ton of ravens, snow plants (a totally red parasitic non-photosynthetic plant), and sagebrush lizards.

Lassen Volcanic National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Also pictured, wolf lichen, steller's jay, western wallflower, and my bf, Evan.

photos by Paxon Kale CC