The Gothic Dryad

29 year old agender boi with an affinity for games, witchcraft, memes, metal, and gothic stuff. they/them/he/him

[lesbianeo]

mutuals, you can pick me up to put me in your inventory

[risk-repeater]

this job market is a fucking nightmare

Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted

[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.

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[ink-the-artist]

Grocery shopping

[emtropi]

the alien when it bursts out of someone‘s chest:

[hjartasalt]

[liirker-at-thresholds]

I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are

Not deterred by the closed door

Working as a group

Protecting their identities

Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction

Getting away at the end

These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere

[liirker-at-thresholds]

The church of scientology is on tumblr and they are sending me anon asks telling me that they can't even commit to reporting a post

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[pcos-and-endo-awareness]

If you haven’t heard, today PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome has been renamed to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. This change reflects that this is not a reproductive “problem” but a whole body disease.

[leahstuff]

For reference, from the WHO website:

(Text: PCOS affects an estimated 10-13% of reproductive-aged women. It is estimated that up to 70% of women with PCOS worldwide do not know they have this condition.)

[laziestgirlintown]

The Lancet link about shift to PMOS. Spread this to everyone who works in health care now. People with uteruses and ovaries are in agony - yes, the whole body suffers a crisis every fkn month - and health care should help

[anarchistmemedistro]

[armoured-strap]

royal ordering their knight to fuck an heir into them. can anyone hear me? i said royal ordering their knight to fuck an heir into them

[anarchistmemedistro]

[closet-keys]

it seems to me that a huge amount of ideological justification for oppression circles around the idea that you’re never supposed to make decisions based on what is enjoyable or desirable

if you have to do something (remove an organ, live with someone, have sex, change your name, eat something, rest, communicate, physically labor) then it is moral and good.

But if you want to? Frivolous, waste of resources, degenerate, demeaning, lazy, selfish, contagious, disgusting.

the less you want to do something, the more virtuous it is. pain is virtue and pleasure is sin.

spending time understanding something fully and voluntarily deciding to participate in something bigger than yourself for common goals is deluded and dangerous. but not asking questions and giving total faith and obedience to a superior is commitment and loyalty.

the more autonomy you insist upon (even collectively) the more immature and naive you are. only submission is maturity and intelligence

[mxjackparker]

Kickstarter now joins an ever-increasing list of platforms leaving adult content creators behind. Here's how that will impact sex workers who used the platform.

Kickstarter’s New “Mature Content” Guidelines

Kickstarter now joins an ever-increasing list of platforms leaving adult content creators behind. Here’s how that will impact sex workers wh

The article above goes over the guidelines one by one, their effects, and keeps the focus on the sex workers these guidelines were made to target. Written by myself, a sex worker who has used Kickstarter to fund multiple projects. Please share!

[the-bar-sinister]

[canipleasehavefood]

[pusong-mangga]