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they should teach useful skills in school like home economics and how to safely pirate media

For about fifteen seconds there, we were actually playing tennis. And we understood each other completely. So did everyone watching. It's like we were in love. Or like we didn't exist. We went somewhere really beautiful together. CHALLENGERS (2024), dir. by Luca Guadagnino

sweetoothgirl

Hot Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Chai Custard

everythingfox

Crumch

depsidase

theinstagrahame

Paraphrasing several conversations/sermons:

Church: "Jesus says to love your neighbors as yourself."

Me: "so I've actually met some queer people, and they were very kind and fun. Maybe let's be less shitty to them?"

Church: "well we have to be careful not to condone or accept their sin"

Me: *stops coming to church*

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

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.

sandandglass

The Muppets s01e01

le-sad-demiurge

Fozzy getting hit on by lots of twinks

cheshireinthemiddle

Happy Pride Month

comicgeekscomicgeek

Ten years later, this bit still slaps. They made a great pun and realized they could be nice/inclusive with it too.

emmaklee

Nishimoto Ryota

a piece of wood carved to fit perfectly into a zippered plastic bag

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totallysilvergirl

I did not know I needed to see a flattened polar bear butt today, but well I've been wrong before and I was wrong this time too

sergle

u good?

girl obviously not

innerchildabortionclinic

your cat was an honor to see in the window

depsidase

funnelcloudd

I hate this particular strain of cat owner so much lmao. “My little huntress” more like your little invasive species you affected acting fuck.

I caught my dog getting into a rabbit nest once and I was horrified. I immediately took the surviving babies to the wildlife clinic, I wasn’t like oh wow great job eating those baby rabbits Holly. And cottontails aren’t even a protected species like native birds are.

If you shot a heron you’d go to jail but letting your shithead cat kill one is perfectly acceptable and “part of nature”. The way these people fetishize their animals’ killing abilities is so fucking bizarre.

funnelcloudd

I think part of the problem is how we view the lives of non-mammals. Even the mammals we eat are looked at more fondly than birds and lizards and bugs and whatnot. Bird deaths are routinely played for laughs in various media and I’ve met so many people who viciously hate them for no reason. Even more who simply don’t care about their wellbeing. Look at the comments on any post about window collisions or turning your lights off for migration season. People get pissed at very suggestion that you do something to help birds.

yarrow-heather-and-hollyhock

I wanted to post about this because I know many of my mutuals are avid crafters and I don't know how much attention this endeavour is getting outside of end-of-life spaces-

The Loose Ends Project matches crafters with a project that is unfinished because of death or disability. They offer help with a spectrum of textile mediums in over 80 countries. One project I find particularly lovely: “My mom was making this octopus for me. She was 67 years old when she passed away from COPD. She was hospitalized for pulmonary rehab several times and would always take it to work on while she was there and loved to talk about it with people."

(the red heart marks the last stitch made by this person's mom) Anyway, if something like this is something you'd like to be involved in, they are always looking for more crafters <3

the-fibre-stuff

My favourite recent finishing project that they posted about wasn't precisely something that the crafter left unfinished. The knitter in question had had dementia, and thought she was knitting scarves. So a finisher was found to piece all the little bits of knitting together into a blanket.