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:0 this picrew is so cuuuuuute!!!!!!

Don’t you ever get tired?

My wife has set up a camera to continuously monitor the situation.

Wife: Maybe we should set up some padding beneath where they'll fall out of the nest? Normally they fall onto grass, not concrete. Me: Seems like we're really coddling these birds. Wife: Well, yeah. Me: I just don't want you to get invested. Wife: Way, way too late for that. I'm all in.

And here they are up close, in their resting state.

Some ideas for regressing subtly in public (specifically at places like stores, the mall, etc) that aren't just "wear cute socks and have keychains" hehe

Walk with your arms and legs straight!! Keeping my hands out a little at my sides makes me feel very tiny. And sitting with my legs straight out too

Play little games in your head!!! My favorite is people-watching games! Count how many people r wearing glasses, how many people r wearing red shirts, etc!!

I also like to walk thru th kids aisles, like toys and baby supplies! Even if u don't get anything it's fun to browse! And if anyone asks you can say "I like looking at the baby stuff because it's cute"

Excuses I've used for wanting to buy baby stuff is "my friends little sibling is having their birthday party soon" or "my friend is letting me tag along to a baby shower with them and I don't want to go empty-handed"

Also you can just take off the tags discreetly and swipe it. Stealing isn't this big bad crime like big corporations want you to think it is. Just don't steal from small independent businesses that will actually be impacted by it

I also like to kinda stomp around a little when I walk!!

Car games >:] also in ur head. But you can count car colors, jump cows with imaginary little superheroes, anything you want!! You can look up car games if you don't have any ideas :]

Thatis all byebye

Printers are notorious for claiming they’re out of ink when they haven’t come close to the suggested number of prints, and their cartridges literally still have ink in them. So after a bit of googling I found out how to ‘reset’ a cartridges automatic stopping system (its literally 1 physical wheel on the cartridge that you gotta turn back). The only downside is that I don’t get a digital ink monitor, but since it told me it was empty when still half full, I don’t mind. 

Like, you can just jiggle with some shit and solve one of the biggest money making scams in the post-industrial world and I don’t think people realise its that easy. 

Or, like, repairing your own technology. A few months ago, I swapped out my sister’s laptop screen. Did it myself, I removed maybe 4 screws, no vital parts were exposed and it cost me $40. I even got a choice of matte or glossy. 

1) ThePirateBay is still functional. (It’s not the same pirate bay that it was back in the day, but let’s not get into Theseus’ ship territory. It’s still here and it still works, that’s all that matters.) There are plenty of torrent sites around, more than there were 10 years ago – although overall traffic has plummeted. Now as then, it’s a whack-a-mole game.

2) Why was it “leagues easier” a decade ago? Some countries, not all (not north America, for example), now mandate ISP blocking of torrent sites, but this new complication can be bypassed with one (1) step: a google duckduckgo search for proxies. No government agency or ISP can possibly keep up with proxies, it’s yet another whack-a-mole game. So yes, it was technically easier before, but I don’t see “leagues” anywhere.

3) It was safer before? Are you shitting me? Have you lot forgotten that the legal departments of MPAA and RIAA sued torrent sharers (not even uploaders) and asked for millions of dollars for damages? AND GOT THEM? (By which I mean they didn’t actually get millions since the people they sued didn’t have any, but said people were convicted and ruined and that was the goal in the first place. It was a deeply amoral and cynical scare tactic.) Well they stopped doing that at some point, and focused on hunting P2P and torrent sites. Running a site is certainly less safe today. Using one, though? Depending on where you are, the ISP may be allowed to block you after repeated instances, and that’s it. You’re not getting in trouble with the law or into crippling debt. And either way there’s only a minuscule chance that any of this will come to pass, which becomes zero (0) with a VPN. (Safety of course depends on the country, and in some cases piracy is the least of your concerns. Let’s not get into that.)

4) Ten years ago there was no Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis was in its infancy. If today it’s harder to find PDFs on google, it is orders of magnitude easier and more reliable to find them elsewhere. People just have to unstick their minds from the notion that stuff is either on google or doesn’t exist at all. Geez.

5) P2P still exists. IRC (the sharing channels in particular, #bookz and the like) still exists. Torrenting functions like it always did. All these methods are exactly as easy to use as before, i.e. not necessarily a piece of cake, there’s a learning curve. But it’s the same learning curve it was 10 years ago.

6) So what have we lost? Only YouTube (meh, the film/tv quality was appalling anyway, and music is still there) and direct downloads (at least the permanent ones: there are plenty of them still around, but files expire and you need to keep track of what goes up when. So this goes beyond knowhow, it’s about internet communities. Let’s not get into that either, it’s a huge subject.) It’s a loss, sure, but I wouldn’t call it a terrible blow.

7) And in exchange for that loss, we got streaming sites. This is piracy, too, and it’s much much easier than torrents, and tons of people do it. Any “piracy has declined” narrative either implies that we’re excluding streaming from the discussion for some reason, or is flat out wrong. Ten years ago, grandpa couldn’t possibly torrent a film, and it’s debatable if he even knew how to open the file you helpfully sent him. Now, as long as someone has set up kodi or similar, grandpa can watch it on his tv and it just feels like cable.

8) On why torrents in particular have declined in recent years, see here. It’s a big subject and I didn’t cover all of it, but the main reason is that people had access to easier methods to get what they wanted (some legal and affordable, some illegal and free), so they didn’t need to learn how to torrent. Ergo, they never did. There’s more of course, and there’s definitely a cultural shift too, but that’s a very long story so let’s not get into it. The linked post also includes some thoughts on why torrents aren’t dead and doomed just yet, and ooh, I forgot a very important one: you can’t stream photoshop.

To summarise, internet piracy is NOT more difficult, unreliable, and unsafe today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. For reasons why people (young or otherwise) seem less versed in it, please look elsewhere. I have thoughts on that too, but this is already a very long post, so I’ll just leave you with the best kind of thought. I’ll leave you with a doubt:

Materpost: A curated Githup tutorial of links to more torrent sites, software, VPNs, uBlock origin filters, ect. Basically everything you could ever want starting out. Do be warned though it doesn’t appear to have been updated in awhile so a few of the links are dead.

GAMES:

Vimm’s Roms: NES era->ps3 era roms and emulators to play them. Has user ratings on games. Cons: slow download speeds.

NxBrew: Switch roms/game updates/dlc

nsw2u: More switch roms. Check here if nxbrew doesn’t have the game you’re looking for.

Hshop: 3ds games/updates/dlc. Very well organized and sorted by console region. Bonus ability to generate QR codes to scan with homebrew to begin download directly on your console.

Oldgamesdownload: Old 90’s-2000’s PC games and some gamecube games. Technically, all of the games here are abandon ware, meaning the original company/creator doesn’t sell nor make money from the games anymore period. If you’re into that.

Fitgirl repacks: Heavily compressed PC games, and other various consoles. Small downloads and faster speeds for the size of the games. Somewhat limited game selection.

Steam unlocked: Steam games with easy-to-use installers. Check here if fitgirl doesn’t have what you’re looking for.

Steam Underground: A user forum for piracy support, usually about installing cracked games. Does have some scattered PC game downloads.

Google doc of Skyrim SE creation club content.

Amiibo life: Amiibo bins, can be loaded with some homebrew to load in games without any external source, or, if you buy writable NFC cards, you can make your own free amiibos.

Books:

Library Genesis: a good all-in-one ebook finder. Has books, magazines, scientific papers, ect. Well organized and able to sort by Author, Genre, ect ect. Almost all books in .epub format

Calibre: Not piracy but a free software for reading said .epub files, and other ebook formats. Good for sorting your books.

Sci-Hub: Research papers, academic books, pdfs, ect. Helpful for collage students.

IT ebook: eBooks about learning programming languages.

audiobookbay: Audiobook downloads.

Booksonic: Audiobook streaming.

5e.tools: Dnd player’s manual, guide, ect.

Books on learning various languages.

Mangadex: Manga, Doujinshi.      

Headspace sleep audio.

Various books and manuals.

Streaming:

ustvgo: Free streaming of live tv, has most US cable tv channels.

tutturu: Spiritual successor to Rabbit, allows you to stream your screen with friends.

Yes movies: Movies

Kimcartoon: Cartoons/animated movies

aniwatcher: Anime

animedao: Anime

Computer software:

getintopc: Wide selection of pc (mostly windows) software of all sorts, and different versions. Can personally vouch for the site, I’ve gotten Photoshop, Maya, and Sony Vegas from here over the years.

Other:

the eye: An archive of old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect. Cons: No search function and slightly hard to navigate.

1337x.to: Torrent site for movies, shows, games, comics, ect.

ThePirateBay: The classic.

the eye has been up since 2017 and in the last four years have accumulated 140TB of data (according to their own reports). Part of their growth is just their own work, part of it is absorbing other archives/open directories that were having issues: I know rpg.rem.uz used to be its own archive - gave way to The Trove, which is having its own issues right now unfortunately… - but now most-all of their content can also just be found on the eye. Same with a few dozen other archives.

And they have ‘old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect’, but massively more than you might think just based off how this sounds. Like…

They have it all.

If you want to try and homebrew alcohol, go check their stuff. If you want to try and read books that are out of print or otherwise in public domain (and some that aren’t yet in public domain), go check their stuff. If you want to run a campaign and can’t pay for expensive print tabletop books, go check their stuff. If you want to fuck off into the woods to live off the land (or research how that would work for a writing project), go check their stuff. If you’re trying to learn shit about drugs - any drugs, almost - go check their stuff.

Hell, if you want to go read what looks like literally every research paper on coronaviruses from 1968 up to Feb 2020, you can do that too!

As chickenmcnuggies said its a mess and a half to navigate through their collections, partially with how large it is and the fact quite a few folders were once whole other archives since absorbed by the eye…

you mattress.

But I started drawing again.

I played the piano again after months.

I cleaned out my backpack for the first time since the school year started.

I finished a crochet project that had been left unfinished for months.

I read nine chapters of a book in one sitting.

I cleaned up part of my bedroom.

I went on a walk around the block.

I finished a podcast episode I started last week.

I ate the closest thing to a healthy amount of food in a day that I’ve had in over a month.

I did all of these things that I’ve been too depressed, stressed, unmotivated to do for so long.

But none of that is graded, so I guess it doesn’t matter.

but if you were to take off the helmet underneath you'd look like the little cat guy you kin that was your pfp on the last blog (I do not know their name I am very sorry)

Phil: Oh, there's the Techno Memorial. This is really nice.

Quackity: [Gasps] That's sweet dude, that looks so nice. 🥹 Dude, I always look back on that clip of Technoblade– There's two clips I have with Technoblade that I absolutely love watching–

Phil: About the orphans?

Quackity: Yeah, he's like: "I'm the second worst thing to happen to orphans" and I'm like, "What's the first thing?" he's like, "Quackity. They weren't always orphans."

Phil: Yeah, that's a classic.

Tagging: @gauntletgirlie @wowstrawberrycow @valar-did-me-wrong @varda-star-queen @numenoria @itwillbeourswansong @onebillionblorbos @cleftones @numenoria @orehuna @permanentlyexhaustedpigeon88 @illegally-blind-and-deaf @ghost-of-morrowbright @pipistook @daughterofthesunlands @askereiniongilgalad @thetempleofthemasaigoddess @inkdusth @the-bogginses-are-gay @princessfantaghiro @willaminaaaa @wendinope03 @greenleaf4stuff @greatmolassesflood @lady-of-ithilien @sillycartoonhozier @frodosrings @silme-lorien @tuckboroughdays @mace-waz-here @helenvader @gilgadaddy+ all my other lovely moots!!!

thanks for the tag @bylerlipglances and @meepmorp1232

I’m definitely more of a cat person, even though I’m allergic :(

(at least allergies don’t apply to audio)

Passing it onto:

@fionas-frenzy @strrawberrywaffles @the-tech-turn @salubriousbean @gars-weaponeer

And also you

thank you for tag :D

@nerdle-turdle @chickencentaur @chaos--unlimited @mousely0 @augmentedchordsofficial @rins-batcave

rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 songs, then tag 10 friends to do the same

Tagged by @mbirnsings-71 🍪🍪🍪 for ya bud

LIKE I SAID IN TAGS NO FUCKING JUDGING

1. Gift & curse by Megan thee stallion

2. Odysseus by Epic (HUSH)

3. The challenge by Epic (PLEASE)

4. WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AGAIN BY EPIC (this is for angst fic...)

5. Tuned in freestyle by Megan thee stallion (BLESS YOU QUEEN)

6. Anxiety by doechii

7. Ma Meilleure Ennemie by arcane

8. Just the two of us by Grover Washington Jr.

9. HOLD THEM DOWN BY EPIC HELP

10. I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER BY U GUESS IT EPIC HELP

... LISTEN I JUST THE LAST ARC JUST UGH I HAVE MY THOUGHTS OKAY PLEASE 😭😭

405 by Gracie Abrams (for a fanfic)

Teenagers by My Chemical Romance (one of the lyrics is the title of a chapter of one of my fanfics, and all of those chapter titles are in a playlist)

Bury Me Face Down by grandson (TELL ME THIS IS NOT A JASON TODD SONG)

imgonnagetyouback by Taylor Swift (no explanation i just have a taylor swift playlist)

Out of the woods by Taylor Swift (same playlist as the first one)

July by Hozier (i like his music)

Sleigh Ride by the Ronettes (i have a christmas playlist)

Touchy Feely Fool by AJR (on my dick grayson playlist)

Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast (disney playlist)

Persephone by Daisy the Great (from my playlist of songs that could potentially work out well on other playlists)

1. That's My King - CeCe Winans

2. New Day - Blanka and Jekalyn Carr

3. I Got That - Anthony Brown and group therAPy

4. We Runnin - Tommee Profitt and Beacon Light

5. Your Power - Lecrae and Tasha Cobbs Leonard

6. Faithful is Our God - Hezekiah Walker and Love Fellowship Choir

7. Kingdom - Maverick City Music + others (I didn't want to type it out)

8. Hosanna - Kirk Franklin

9. Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos

10. Trust in You - Anthony Brown and group therAPy

1. Travellers Prayer (remastered 1996) by Slim Dusty

2. Caroline by Colter Wall and Belle Plaine

3. Swimmer… by Amanda Shires

4. Daisy Mae by Jason Isbell

5. Nobody knows my trouble, by Ryan Bingham

6. Midnight in Montgomery by Alan Jackson

7. Travelling Alone by Jason Isbell

8. Last of My Kind by Jason Isbell

9. Waltz about Whiskey by Watchhouse

10. Lethal Combination by The Wombats

Oo ten tags.

1: Juliet by Cavetown

2: Scars (what we're made of) by covenhoven

3: Roots by The Arcadian Wild

4: Ruin by the Amazing Devil

5: Mother II by TE/MO

6: Eat You Alive by The Oh Hellos

7: Weird Hills by Janani K Jha

8: In The Woods Somewhere by Hozier

9: Rain Clouds by The Arcadian Wild

10: Feed Us Your Girls by Lydia The Bard

Invisible by Anna Clendening

Little Hero by Kanaya

PUNK TACTICS by Joey Valence & Brae

I Cant Help but Wonder from EPIC the Musical

Bad Girlfriend by Anne-Marie

Wouldn’t You Like from EPIC the Musical

If I Were a Man by Barlow & Bear

Never Seen the Rain by Tones and I

Trouble by Hazel Bloom

Seventeen from Heathers the musical