Laz (don't mind me)

The cuts, the slow ramp-ups, how it matches his dance moves.

Trans activist Jamison Green's passport photos before and after HRT. Left he's age 32 (1980) Right age 41 (1989) after being on testosterone for one year (x)

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.

#god i love the weird shit people do in college #every time we ordered a pizza we would give our cash tip inside a hand written thank you card #that our apartment.any guests had collaboratively composed with flowery language #thanking the delivery person and pizza chef by name #(since the tracker told ou the name of the employees making and delivering your pizza) #and 95% of the time we'd leave a lipstick kiss and a spritz of perfume on the note #one delivery girl texted us after she got into her little dominoes car to say we made her night #it was great