Thanks I Stole Them From Bernie Sanders

Previously @mmddyy. Devin | 23 | they/them | queer | so many goddamn sideblogs (dm for urls) | just be nice

[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.

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[eldritchbauble]

You should be immediately suspicious of anyone who tries to convince you to hate other trans people.

[senatortedcruz]

This is what it’s all about. Saturday night. At home. Switching between the same 4 apps on my phone. Getting scared.

[prthedisaster]

[unalivejournal]

Ok. What you're gonna want to do is chop up a cucumber and put it in a bowl. Then you're gonna sprinkle a generous portion of salt on top. Then you're gonna drizzle them with a balsamic vinaigrette and gently shake to combine, leaving you with a cool and refreshing summer snack. In 15 seconds dangerous and burly men are going to drag me away to an unknown second location. Remember everything I've taught you. I love you

[gaytanic-panic]

[albertserra]

They wanna say the word so bad

[thecolorsfucked]

thats not a fag thats a canvasser for clean water action

[largishcat]

this is like the boy version of “this is the butchest girl twitter can handle before they start getting scared.” that is a masc guy wearing a daisy pin

[neurotypicalite]

theres a pink blue and white flower at rhe grocery store i have to make. a joke

[neurotypicalite]

call that a transplant

[the-big-mood]

At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[weaselknievel]

*introducing myself to the guards who caught me* seized to meet you

[animentality]

[angie-words]

I had training at work recently where we were going over the AI policy. I work in education. Our group was asked to think of a task we might consider using gen AI to assist with.

And I drew an utter blank. Not because I couldn't think of any (compiling research, checking my emails for tone, creating plans to follow etc). But because I do not want nor need the assistance, especially not from a tool I have ethical and academic concerns about.

"It can read all the research out there on a certain topic and summarise it for you, saving you time!" Let's leave aside for a moment the harm my use of gen AI would cause to the environment. Can it actually do all that stuff? Won't I process the information better by reading it myself and seeing the exact phrasing and using the 20+ years experience I have to interpret and challenge it? Can I trust it isn't making stuff up or misrepresenting? Any time saved would be used again fact-checking in any case.

I've seen the case made for gen AI helping neurodivergent folks deal with tasks that have caused barriers. That it can help with reading, for example. But for all those reasons above, I truly don't believe it actually helps people understand texts in a meaningful way. Do you know what does? Teaching students strategies for how to engage with a text in a way that works for them, making the text more accessible, and spending time "prepping" a text before telling students to read it (i.e. here are the key concepts this 20th century scholar of language talks about in this work, let's make sure you have a basic understanding of all those before launching you into a dry, complex book designed to be read by peers of the author and PhD students, not 1st yr Undergrads).

I mentioned checking the tone of my emails as an example, something I always find a challenge. But, at the end of the day a) practising and editing over and over actually helps me build better and more independent skills in this area and b) if I put my email through gen AI, it won't be my voice anymore. It'll be a sanitised version of me, designed to fit into neurotypical norms. I don't want my way of being human to be erased: I want people to recognise that other ways of being and studying and working are as valid and needed. That they need to be understood and included.

I just...I don't want to use it because the effort, the creativity, the processing: that's me engaging with the world, connecting with it directly. If I use gen AI to act as the middleman, it's just another barrier between me and others.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

recession indicator: scam texts are job offers instead of claiming you won money or something

[flagellant]

Hey guys I made a pride flag for when your gender is nobody else's fucking business! Check it out!

[flagellant]

happy one year anniversary to this post getting marked as "potentially mature content" and then never leaving content review when i appealed. tumblr's own default loading graphic is considered by their own tos "potentially sexual" it seems.

@support you got any explanations for how this post got flagged? or why it never got reviewed? or what mature content might potentially be happening? believe me i am ALL ears

[flagellant]

it's 2026 and this post is officially no longer "potentially mature" and is just "mature". so: either tumblr's own default loading graphic is now confirmed to be explicitly sexual and pornographic

or the concept of a pride flag is considered to be inappropriate for 13 year olds.

happy pride 2026. here's a pride flag for when corporate interests of a site run by dogshit transphobes, handwringing pearlclutchers, and "powerless" "allies" tell you that pride and your gender is no one else's fucking business:

[stabbydragon]

"Love/sex is what makes us human" Wrong. It's the obsession with rectangles. look around you and count the number of rectangles you see.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#looked up and thought ‘that can’t be hard’#and then my eyes widened with horror as I realized the sheer number of rectangles everywhere#I’m . I’m horrified

It's a good shape!

[in-the-eye-of-whimsy]

The art of Kathleen Ryan

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

not my tweet but I thought it would be a good psa for artists here too

[ayy-junipei]

Oh this is a common scam I find at work. Any file that:

isn't jpg, jpeg, pdf, or png

Is a file extension you don't recognise (this one is a visual basic file, used for scripting, but others like exe or bat are used)

has a very low or unexpected file size (this one's is less than 1KB, or 0.001MB, a good reference should be at least 500KB)

Is likely a scam. Stay safe kids.