VoltasPistol

Architecture: largely what it sounds like. This is the part art, part science, part engineering mashup that is training to be able to safely design buildings without getting people killed. You need artistry and creativity in abundance, but also the technical-mindedness to make sure the building will actually stand/won't turn into a death ray in the midday sun

Construction: a very broad church, as this ranges from practical building techniques through computer modelling and all the way to civil engineering. Doesn't stop at simple buildings, either - sustainable urban drainage systems, for example, come under here too

Environment: another broad church. This ranges from habitats and ecology (i.e. save the whales), to waste management and recycling, to renewable energy, to GIS computer mapping, to climate science, to water/soil testing, to sustainable development.

All the more reason to bring back brick-wielding belligerence.

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.

I'm also not used to this much attention, lol

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

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.