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Join da official Matrix space!!! :3 https://matrix.to/#/#196-blahaj:catgirl.cloud
A few of u might maybe kinda probablynot remember the unofficial c/196 space started by me and euphoric.kat(who isnt in the community anymore but shes fine if anyone was wondering :3), but its pretty dead now and we havent bothered reviving it until now >v< but now that Im mod here and after someone suggested we could have a matrix space I figured it made more sense for it to be the space for this community now! :3
There r 9 rooms (General, Introductions, Shitpost, Tech, Queer Chat, Horny, Media, Pets, and Roleplay) and theres already some people since this is actually months old X3 there r 180 participants but very few r still around XP So we need YOU to uhhhh be gay and cute or something :3
Btw I was going to use that image for the original post on c/196 but didnt so I just edited it further for this post as u can see X3 idk the original artist but I got it from KYM https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2340512-spronkus-kronkus
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Fucking hate it when people gatekeep smh my head.
Alt: Crudely put-together image titled “Gatekeeper Starterpack” which consists of multiple pictures including one of a fence gate, a person in a security guard outfit, a security guard putting their hand forward to motion ‘stop’, and a security guard drinking coffee. Text on the image says: Restricts access to warehouses, factories, gated communities and the afterlife. May or may not be asleep. Always asks for some card or something idk. 300 mg of caffeine and counting.
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If you don't know know what is this, please see this post: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/11096964
I did accidentally posted the same image yesterday, I fixed it snow, sorry for the confusion 🙇
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40679506
So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board. And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time. One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!!
going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!
We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it
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Transcript
A picture of a minecraft dog on a blue/purple background. It says "bedroom cup check! Do you have any cups or plates in your bedroom? take a moment to take them to the kitchen."
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transcription: "to be a top is to know power, to be a bottom is to show courage, but to be vers is to embody wisdom" - princess zelda
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Just because I can.
But it also proves 2G is still at least somewhat usable.
I would just switch my phone to 2G only and then continue the download in Termux using wget because that's most reliable way to download files.
I let it run overnight, then stop it when I needed my phone during the day, then let it run again at night when not needed anymore.
However, 2G is quite inefficient, so this actually drains the battery a lot.
I wonder if the carrier just sees a weird spike in 2G data usage.
Anyway, calculation time. Wikipedia Kiwix ZIM file is approximately 110GB. 109,886,078,976B to be precise. With average speed of say 21KB/s, it would take around 2 months to download the whole English Wikipedia with low res pictures over 2G EDGE.
But also EDGE is quite better than original GSM Data (CSD), which offered breathtaking 9600bps.
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What is this picture?
This is a painting I made of the Sigil of Prith.
Huh? What is this about?
Prith, the gay demon, is a chaos magick egregore conceived of and created by a small group of likeminded queer magicians several years back when that "PRIDEMONTH -> DEMON" meme went around. I strongly feel it is time to make it public.
Wait is this some weird woo-woo nonsense?
Yes, and I am 100% serious about it. I'm not here to debate or evangelize.
Why are you posting this here?
Because every occult/witchcraft space on Lemmy is dead as a doornail and I want this to have exposure. The fascists are way ahead of us for mass coordination and activity on occult fronts and it's high time there was a response beyond just #bindTrump.
Okay I'm interested, what's it do?
Prith is intended as a general "protector spirit" type entity by and for the queer community at large, with three aspects relating to Protection of the community from hostile forces, Arbitration within the community to promote cooperation, and Restitution to make whole those who are wronged.
What do I do with it?
Apply whatever your existing practices around working with spirits, Prith accepts all and does not discriminate.
Where can I learn more?
I have made our original internal writeup from 2022 about the egregore available here in PDF format.
The document is incomplete!
Correct. This ain't no medieval grimoire demon, this is straight from the experimental frontier of postmodern occultism. Be creative and do it your way!
You're a crazy person, you should be organizing with your community and organizing protests and such instead.
There is zero reason to not do both, an important component of most any magick is taking action in the physical world. This is a supplement to and not a replacement for real-world activism.
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is reaction post to dis one which made me... vrri uncomf.
its hard to remain positive in these times. we dun need to share mor negativity. if anythin, positivity is whad we need most <3
aimin for the stars isn a bad thing. its encouraging to kno - thad seemingli magic things rlli cn happn in our not-so-magic world.
- if u havnt found ur special someone - u still cn.
- if u havnt found a reasonabl job til now - u still cn.
- if u havnt found a gud hobby - u still cn.
no amount of "failure" (which is rlli jus a learnin opportunity) makes u less likely to suceed.
jus lik how rolling a 1 four times 🎲 in a row doesn influence the next role, infact, the chances havnt changed at all.
dun get demotivated by peeps sharin evil words. they dun kno u. they hav no idea who u r besides the smol amount of data they cn see on-screen.
imagine u readin ur own post by another user who u dun kno.
if it sounds evil, or in bad faith - mayb consider rewriting it.
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