[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 bitorrent or utorrent.

[enki2]

[aerequets]

this is very short and quick but i got work tomorrow so this is all i got

[ghost-the-writer]

Loid and Yor both wanting to protect each other but being too wary of being exposed… my poor anxious couple

YOUR HONOR THEY WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[cookiescr]

Yknow the thing where red pandas just lay down on a branch and let their legs hang and they’re just like vibing

[cookiescr]

they’re just vibing yknow?

[dimpledgucci]

porcupines do this too :)

[callingallcars]

i have excellent news about the manul cat

[radwolf76]

Manul cat is an automatic reblog from me.

[lokeanrampant]

I am porcupine.

[krakensdottir]

Pretty much most cats that spend any time in trees, tbh

Honestly tho, in terms of lazy chill I don’t think anyone’s gonna beat this bear:

[floridensis]

look at this squirrel

by inaturalist user gregslak

[hyenafiend-deactivated20220214]

@rhythpo

[thequeenofsastiel]

And let’s not forget the time an entire pride of ten lions decided to take a nap in a single tree

Yes these photos are real

[the-real-yahoo-mail]

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"I can note your interest in that feature for future development."

[calling-the-angels]

"Fuck this shit." 😆 repeated over and over cause I don't really talk to people or customers.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

"Okay, so we do have a procedure, but no one wrote it down."

[spyderqueen]

"No, this function doesn't have an audit trail. Only like 3 things total have an audit trail."

[vaspider]

"Unfortunately we don't have any more information than you do on your package tracking. Here's the number to your local post office, start there."

[memories-of-ancients]

"Albuterol doesn't do that."

[scriptmedic]

"The bad news is that I have to stop your heart for about ten seconds. The good news is, that should fix it."

(Okay not THAT often, but it is a perk.)

[qzcyborg]

“Nuke it. That fixes everything.”

[canadianlucifer]

Would you rather spend a day running errands in + or - 30°C?

30°C (86°F)

-30°C (-22°F)

Voting ended onFeb 12

[reblogsbycow]

I've never been anywhere colder than -3°C but I'll still choose freezing over sweating.

[filthburger]

over a quarter of those polled says they'd rather die horribly of hypothermia than get a little sweaty and i really really try not to go here but yeah i dont have trouble believing this is the celibacy website. extremities rotting and falling off like "yeah but i can always put another layer on"

[bhsal]

Still here, always. [SpyxFamily Fan Animation]

I heart the Briars

if you'd like to check it out on youtuber, here it is :D!!

[jruthphipps]

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End series 2 episode 4

The date between Fern and Stark was so sweet in it's own imperfect little way. I love that them communicating honestly about how they'd tried yet been disappointed was what actually turned the moment around for them and ended up with them both smiling and laughing together. It felt very real and pure.

[qzcyborg]

I know some people headcannon Loid sharing his real (birth) name with Yor and Anya, but may I raise the idea of him continuing to be Loid Forger? What if, at the end of it all, he realizes that he doesn’t have to face all his demons and he can leave them be? That he can finally say he’s unburdened by them and that he wants to continue as Loid Forger, Yor’s husband, Anya’s father, and more importantly, the man who realized he can have a family, friends, and dreams.

I dunno, maybe it could be a tad unsatisfying or oversimplifying his trauma, but potentially an interesting route for it to go? Do people really need to know all your past secrets to love who they see? If that person’s already there to support you and love you and care for you, what else would you need to know?

[jadechasegranger]

I also love the idea that he can kind of… lay [redacted] to rest? Like, he’s come so far since then. Gone through so many traumatic things. Fought and killed and mourned and ached. And all this time he’s been erasing [redacted] from his identity, his file, himself. I feel like it would be a relief to just… let Loid bear the burden of Being. To truly become Forger, and to let [redacted] settle into the past alongside everything else Loid lost. IDK, I just kind of like the thought

[qzcyborg]

Yeah exactly. It sounds a bit fun too.

Loid Forger forged himself into the man he wanted himself to become

[qzcyborg]

I know some people headcannon Loid sharing his real (birth) name with Yor and Anya, but may I raise the idea of him continuing to be Loid Forger? What if, at the end of it all, he realizes that he doesn’t have to face all his demons and he can leave them be? That he can finally say he’s unburdened by them and that he wants to continue as Loid Forger, Yor’s husband, Anya’s father, and more importantly, the man who realized he can have a family, friends, and dreams.

I dunno, maybe it could be a tad unsatisfying or oversimplifying his trauma, but potentially an interesting route for it to go? Do people really need to know all your past secrets to love who they see? If that person’s already there to support you and love you and care for you, what else would you need to know?

[nic0-r0bs]

Hear me out:

When Yor Briar first met Twilight, he didn't notice her, and the thing greatly alarmed him

The first time Kaz Brekker met Inej Ghafa, he didn't register her presence until she tapped on his shoulder

During the Cruise Arc, one of the assassins uses his sense of smell to find Olka, and says that Yor Briar "is odourless"

Kaz Brekker knows how the scent of everyone, but Inej Ghafa has none

Yor Briar is terrified of being touched by Loid, even if she craves his contact

Inej Ghafa is touch-repulsed, but craves skin-to-skin contact with Kaz

Also:

Knives and secrets.

"For the mission" and "An investment".

[cosmicdraghon]

[divorce-enjoyer]

why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw

[divorce-enjoyer]

the loneliness epidemic was invented by BIG SHIT to sell you more SHIT

[decompositie]

[jesncin]

my high school english teacher would often critique our literature analysis work by pointing out: "you're treating these characters like they're real people. They're not. They're characters". And it took me a long time to understand what he meant by that. Because I always thought "isn't that the point? That writers want to write characters to be so three dimensional that they act and feel like real people?" but that's not it.

Characters are tools a writer uses in service of a story. Of course characters can be written with depth to the point they feel real to us, but they exist in service of their narrative. Something real people aren't beholden to at all. When discussing characters, I think it's easy to accidentally see these characters as "real people" and not extensions of the author's beliefs. Tools for a narrative. Means of storytelling.

[hadalplumes]

Thinking about how lonely Jinshi must've been in LN7; No Gaoshun, no Basen, and no Maomao. I only recently finished the book and was startled by how little we see of him during the entirety of it, and when we do, it's only in a couple of chapters

The complete isolation this man was in. He can't even go to the Verdigris House every 10 days to see Maomao anymore. She's closer than ever, working within the palace and living in a dorm nearby, yet she's never been more out of reach

He's getting poison in his tea that he's just brushing it off to do more paperwork and barely getting any sleep. And while it was hinted at in previous LNs, this is the first we got to see how he feels about all the unwanted sexual and romantic attention he's been getting from men and women since he first entered the rear palace at fourteen (if not younger even before that)

For the entire first half of the LN, the only thing we get from him are official letters to Maomao. And even then, she comments about how surface-level they are

It's only natural that when we do get some scenes with him, we get more of his childish tendencies with very little cushion or comedic relief. His answer to Suiren offering him sliced pears is a simple "Give!". His palace, despite being "empty" is the only place he can be a bit at ease, only to be reminded that it won't last because Suiren is planning for retirement in the foreseeable future

Maomao notes to herself how he always insisted on people helping him with hair and clothes, but now it's evident he only demands it because otherwise he'd have nothing. The only people to go out of their way to touch the nation's prince don't have his best interest in mind

He's so starved for touch and affection that he has no choice but to settle for "obligatory" acts of service because otherwise no one's going to caress his hair, no one's going to give him a hug or hold his hand. He literally had to beg Maomao at the Verdigris House (LN5) to tuck him in and sing him a lullaby, saying how he "shan't be sleeping alone."

And Maomao definitely knows that. We don't get an admission (because it's her POV so of course not) but she does tuck him in, she does sing him to sleep, and she does caress his face and hair while he lies in her bed, and she does feed him (albeit bugs), because she knows this man would literally get physical ill and drop dead from sheer loneliness