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Art. Nature. Memes. over 30. Critical Role: @hold-the-fjord

[batmanshole]

crisp glass of water moodboard

[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.

[vintagegermany]

Ruhla, Germany 1910/20

[hermywolf]

benched - by mae kail (cowboymae on ig)

[rylandgraces]

there’s a friday ass vibe about this wednesday boys keep your wits about you

[dalishious]

Among these "cishet" Dragon Age women, who would you make queer?

Morrigan

Anora

Aveline

Meredith

Cassandra

Someone else (leave in tags)

Voting ended onJun 6

[whisperofthewaves]

so starting on the 1st of june, the city issued a city-wide ban on alcohol trade after 10pm

there's been a lot of posters, at least around my home-work route, so I was kinda aware

but

leaving the work at 10pm today and trying to buy a couple of breakfast/lunch essentials in biedra, since it's the start of the long weekend, made for a very funny wait in the queue, where like half of the people there were actively finding out about the no selling of alcohol after 10pm rule. one by one. because observational skills are dead in this age I guess.

[socktrace]

my comparison of no man's sky permadeath mode (basically hardcore) and subnautica's survival mode (i have the grand total of two hours of subnautica playtime)

No man's sky permadeath mode: don't forget oxygen and sodium for your hazard protection and you're gonna be fiiiine. Don't have sodium? Chill in a room or your ship for a while and core hazard protection will recharge. Just don't forget oxygen. Food? Uh, sure, if you want a temporary boost to one of your stats. Water? You mean the one in the oceans? Why would you need to consume any of that stuff? There's a single average-temperature sentinel in your area.

Subnautica survival: eat or you're gonna die. Drink this non-vegetarian water or you're gonna die. Oxygen. Oxygen. OXYGEN. There are no women on this planet who could want you and fish don't fear you.

[whisperofthewaves]

oh my god netflix is dealing me another wave of extreme psychic damage, they added YET ANOTHER BATCH of jdramas I remember from the 00s.

oh my god.

there even is the one that inspired my uni graduation paper on rakugo (which I've never written on account of dropping out lol)

[this-is-trans-joy]

I’m trying to look for synonyms of sneer and i’m fucking dying

yeah that looks normal… yeah these are all— um. hold on. hang on.

what

[the-ravens-king]

[carys-the-ninth]

Local Con Man Doesn't Even Offer Dental

[finnglas]

when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

[finnglas]

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

[finnglas]

oh no is this what we’re doing now

[finnglas]

…relic…

*crumbles and blows away on the wind*

[batrachised]

TIL that in medieval times trebuchets were sometimes used during tournaments to bombard the watching ladies with roses, and there is something so inherently comedic about this to me. picture me blasting roses at my lover's window with the force of a battlefield assault to win her hand

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[what-even-is-thiss]

I thought this would be kind of a niche post to make but I was quickly reminded that I’m on tumblr, the website full of gay people with one billion hobbies.

[english-history-trip]

[o-craven-canto]

It might seem weird and strange, or even vexing and annoying, but there is a tale and cause for the whole and totality of it.

[o-craven-canto]

curse and damn it, this is way too fun and amusing. It should be done with care and attention before it stains and ruins my whole speech and language

[fipindustries]

this is just my usual and typical way of writing text and prose. Why use one word and term when two can do the trick and fulfill the purpose?

[depsidase]

[deadelated]

Isn't this shell ridge preserve or briones trail? my homie pissed off a cliff near here

[woodrider]

what did your homie do to make the cliff so angry

[cockworms]

[rinnegami]