purplemanatees

27. she/her or they/them. Team Mystic. I like cats and Pokemon.

[purplemanatees]

animal crossing blog @manatees-crossing

posi/recovery blog @positive-platypus

[importantcatpics]

[my-dailydreams]

[desultory-suggestions]

It turns out that you can become the person you’ve always envisioned but you’ll still have the person you were before inside of you and you have to treat them with as much forgiveness and love as possible

[lizardsfromspace]

Hi, I noticed your story has conflict in it, and I was wondering why you didn't just write people who are right doing everything correctly with a note saying "I enthusiastically co-sign everything in this story"? Must be some kind of mistake haha

[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.

[catasters]

[monchursouls]

Smacka smacka smacka

[gradienty]

Fuvahmulah Paua (#62f3d1 to #250060)

[makingqueerhistory]

New Research Reveals How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People

Last year, a German court acknowledged the possibility that trans people were persecuted by the Nazis

[arcadianambivalence]

Further Reading

Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case | Central European History | Cambridge Core

Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case - Volume 56 Issue 4

Learn | Pink Triangle Legacies Project

Resources on the history and lived experiences of queer people in Nazi Germany.

The Pink Triangle Legacies Project is a grassroots initiative dedicated to researching the experiences of queer and trans people in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

KHC: Centering LGBTQIA+ Voices

This series features conversations about the Nazis’ persecution of LGBTQI+ people, how this legacy reverberates in our contemporary society,

A YouTube playlist of lectures from the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Queensborough Community College.

Trans Liminality and the Nazi State

Abstract. Weimar Berlin is considered a past haven of queer possibility, but for trans people its permissiveness had clear limits. A close r

Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.

On the Institute for Sexual Research

The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology - Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

The institute was initially occupied by The German Student Union, who were a collective of Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later, on 10

and

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wf4dmd.8

The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture

[epochryphal]

Forever recommending How Sex Changed as a nonfiction reference book, which goes over Hirschfeld, Lili Elbe, Harry Benjamin, Christine Jorgenson, Lou Sullivan, WPATH, and more:

How Sex Changed A History Of Transsexuality In The US Joanne Meyerowitz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

'How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States' by Joanne Meyerowitz

Also important context to the services Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science provided: testosterone was first isolated as a compound in 1927, and first synthesized in 1935. The looting and shutdown of the institute happened in 1933.

[biglawbear]

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

[christaaah]

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

[biglawbear]

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

[firstbornsons-deactivated202605]

@thesummoningdark hello?????

[thesummoningdark]

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

[biglawbear]

Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!

[prettycolors]

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[blumineck]

How to spring-load your bow!

This information is freely given. What you do with it is up to you! 🏹💐🧚🏼

[spicymochi]

your month, your mini cat!

[marzipelle]

wip

[purplemanatees]

no one has been held criminally liable for the 10 deaths at astroworld btw. the youngest victim was 9 years old.

[wizardarchetypes]

i'm in a group for people who own those 12 foot tall home depot halloween skeletons (i do not own a 12 foot tall home depot skeleton; do not tell on me). the skeleton owners post daily about how they're decorating their skeletons seasonally to circumvent local ordinances about "seasonally appropriate" outdoor décor. they post anonymous fan & hate mail neighbors leave in their mailboxes which appear to be 100% genuine and a number of people are regularly posting updates as they pursue litigation against HOAs and entire cities to defend their rights to keep their 12 foot skeletons standing outside year-round. with lawyers and everything. it's a look into the lives of people who have money to spend on things i can never imagine, but i am compelled by their conviction.

[wizardarchetypes]

you'd like to imagine the outcome of the bitter legal warfare might have knock-on effects that allow people more freedom in self-expression on their own lawns in general, but mainly it seems to be exclusively about the 12 foot tall home depot skeletons. and what a world.