you never fail until you stop trying

Magalie | 26 | French | She/They | Scorpio | Demi-??? | INFP-T | Writer, video games player, reader and series addict | Space Lover 🌃 Currently obsessed with The Owl House, Valorant //\\ If we don't try, everything will fail and nothing can fly //\\ Can be political sometimes. Icon: an aesthetic by @girl-bateman for one of my birthday.

[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.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with

[whatbigotspost]

Hey op thanks for fundamentally rearranging my molecules in some helpful way this fine evening

[marcelshorjian]

anatomy of a humiliation

[thatsthat24]

Heck Yeah 💥

[jabberding0]

tree grafting techniques

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

@cribins do these work? do you use any of them? is this just clickbait or?

[cribins]

Not only is this legit, it’s unbelievably neat and tidy! I’ve done some of the grafting techniques, but I tend to (because *gestures to self*) end up cutting my hands more than the plant material.

Grafting is really common. Most edible fruit trees, cultivated roses, some tomato plants etc are grafted onto a different rootstock as standard- you can control size that way, or make a useful but weak plant much stronger. As long as your two plants are related closely enough and you have cambium to cambium connection (cambium is the thin layer of green under the bark), you can do all sorts of weird shit - like a single tree that gives you plums, cherries, apricots, peaches and almonds.

And layering is fun! Free plants! The plant will sometimes do this itself when a branch touches the ground and starts sprouting roots.

[haveyoueverconsideredpiracy]

This is indeed very neatly done! And grafting works like a charm (big grafting fan here).

Grafting compatibility is *not* associated with close relations between plants. There have been multiple theories as to how graft compatibility works, but so far no luck. Also some plants can be grafted one way but not the other around. Fascinating stuff. My own current theory is that it has something to do with nutrient availability and distribution, but that is untested. In my experience stem size (in grafting full shoots on rootstocks) is not really a determining factor, as long as there is overlap between the xylems and floems.

for anyone interested, i recommend reading these papers:

wulf et al 2020 on grafting compatibility

melnyk et al 2015 on general background in plant grafting

[tesslucetram]

This is fascinating. There are so many kinds of grafts shown here. Is there any specific reasoning to use one style over another? Is it preference of the gardener, or due to bark thickness, or some other factor?

[haveyoueverconsideredpiracy]

I am not sure, ive only done grafting in smaller species (arabidopsis, tomato, letuce) so then you just cut of the whole top part and replace that. it seemes like @cribins has done some. any thought?

i know that in some species the bark is denser or more breakable, so that might play a role.

[cribins]

I had no idea that you didn’t need plants to be closely related to get grafting to work! That’s so interesting - to be honest I shouldn’t be that surprised though as plants tend to do whatever the hell they want and do not pay attention to gardeners or botanists.

To kind of half-arsedly answer your question and then point you towards a much better resource, methods of grafting tend to come down to either the amount of material you have available for the top part (scion), the size, age and condition of the rootstock (stock), or the type of plant you’re working with.

If you’ve only got limited plant material for your scion then bud grafting (chip budding) is the way to go.

If your scion and stock are similar sizes then splice or whip and tongue method (like what @haveyoueverconsideredpiracy I think is describing and mostly what I’ve done) is your go-to.

If you’ve got conifer material, for example, you’d use a side veneer.

Lots of factors and so tonnes of methods. I shamelessly lifted all these diagrams from PropG, which is an amazing resource and will describe to you all the how to’s of the graftings in the video

[lazylittledragon]

more of jinx + vi's texts as requested from the last one :3

[pt 1][pt 2][pt 3][pt 4][pt 5][pt 6][pt 7][pt 8][pt 9][pt 10][pt 11][pt 12][pt 13]

bonus bc yes i did draw both of their pictures just to shrink them down to 4 pixels

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I've posted a lot of home conversions before, but this is the first time I've ever seen a grain elevator turned into a home. Look at that thing. Somebody really had a vision. It was built in 1965 in Sabin, MN, has 4bds, 3ba, 3,000sqft, asking $325k.

I wonder what that hood over the built-in bench is.

Well, this is fun.

This is nice. Looks like an office or work station.

Nice half bath.

Long galley style kitchen. They do seem to like benches. Maybe it's all the climbing.

It looks like they got the dining furniture and trash bin from an old burger joint. The mural's cool.

This table looks too tall to be for eating.

Not sure if this is an art space or a dining room.

Bathroom w/laundry and a walk-in tub.

Then, down a few stairs from the kitchen.

There's a family room.

Above it there's a loft.

This is the bedroom in the loft.

Then, this is like a hallway to more bedrooms. Are those openings to beds?

And, you come up here to this room with 2 beds.

And, this hall, separated by curtains.

There's a shower room to the left.

That hall goes thru to a nice game room.

There's a bar up here, too.

You can see all the way down to main floor.

It looks like the house is right next to the railroad tracks in the back.

And there's a road out front of the 0.82 acre lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/11649-123rd-Ave-S-Sabin-MN-56580/250280279_zpid/?

[cat-skull]

imo the term "walkable" in "walkable cities" should be understood to mean "wheelchair accessible" as well, not just literally "possible to walk in". the act of walking in a city doesn't automatically make it walkable

[wiltking]

having an oc you're obsessed with feels good as fuck

[persephoneme]

you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1” or “it feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotel” bc some ppl will start going like “oh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DON’T CARE ABOUT for WOKE????” and you’ll be like “no, i’m pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogyny” and ppl will say “it’s not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MEN” and then the gargoyle king appears

[j-train13]

Astronauts are so funny man. Here's just a couple of things I've found hilarious from this past week of space stuff:

It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."

After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.

The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.

While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.

When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.

At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.

On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).

While Jeremy Hansen was doing an interview, Wiseman and Koch were just in the background swatting the mission mascot (a little moon plush toy named Rise) back and forth between each other.

[ekjohnston]

The stuffie is their Zero Gravity Indicator (ZGI), which have been used on missions since 1961. It's a stuffie because stuffies are light.

[prinnay]

Moving On.

[wildlifewednesdays]

A porcupine’s Halloween present (+ original sound effects)

[docwithtardisfez]

I had no idea giant porcupines made fucking precious sounds

[11213372-deactivated20160412]

[nightonblogmountain]

THAT’S THE SOUND IT MAKES!?!?!?

UN-BE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE 

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

We got asked if this is cute and okay. I can very happily say yes, this is stupid cute and those are happy porcupine noises. 

One of my favorite things about doing zoo work was all the noises you never realize the animals make when they’re excited or interested in a new thing. Coatimundis squeak and snuffle, and giant porcupines make that sound. 

[typhoidmeri]

Omgggg the sounds.

[gigi-tastic]

Teddy is back on my dash and all is right with the world

[bears-official]

WE ALMOST TO OCTOBRE POST OF PUNKINBEARS

[wafflebloggies]

HI TEDDY I MISSED YOU

[bathroomcube]

fuck me all my friends have jobs which means they have no time to play toys with me and its fuycking ruining my life

[thisarenotarealblog]

fuck me i have a job which means i have no time to play with my friends and its ruining my life

[kyri45]

🛼Urban TOH print series by Kyri45🛼

This series was the craziest in terms of lineart, but it was fun!

[tekunoraizu]

FUCKKKKKKK what if something bad happened and I forgot to worry about it

[sic-semper-hominibus]

this is gonna sound like a shitpost but the best advice i have if youre consistently coming off wrong is to start talking like an elcor

you will feel like a dumdum at first, but once you get used to it youll realize that telling people what kind of thing you're about to say ahead of time flattens their anxiety a huge amount

ive been starting every question with "question:" for awhile now and i almost never get people reading too much into what i mean anymore

it seems super dumb, but "what are your plans tomorrow?" gets people asking me what i have planned despite me obviously being in the process of figuring that out, whereas "question: what are your plans tomorrow?" gets me a quick rundown of their schedule, followed by "why?"

it also makes it really easy to work tone indicators into your verbal speech. if you're always saying "question: [your question here]?" then no one blinks when you say "genuine question: [question that could read as sarcastic]?"

it also gets you out of your own way for any types of things you struggle to say. "can you make sure to do the dishes before you go to bed?" feels like an argument waiting to happen, but "request: can you make sure to do the dishes before you go to bed?" gets the words flowing on a neutral word while making it clear that you're not looking for a fight

so yeah. suggestion: talk like an elcor

[sic-semper-hominibus]

i said "suggestion for you if you havent thought of it:" today so im reblogging this

[softness-and-shattering]

Useful addition: "this is not a guilt trip or moral judgement, just checking facts: have you done the dishes".

Or "Just checking if I need to, have you done the dishes today"

Or "please do the dishes, Im not upset I just need a plate".

Being clear about your intentions this way also heads off RSD or trauma-type anxiety, guilt, frustration, demand-avoidance, fear, etc.

Another phrasing useful for when you are emotional is "Im definitely frustrated, but Im not frustrated at you because I know you're doing your best."

Of course it only really works if you genuinely mean it.

[sic-semper-hominibus]

you get me

[catgirlwheels]

Genuine delight: elcor my beloved

[my-neuroglia]

To cosign: this also works really well in text. Talking like an Elcor makes me feel less anxious when saying things in a discord server where I don't know everybody.