Pinning this since I genuinely think Piracy is a great skill to have and I want to share it with anyone who’d like to see it
Okay so! You need to download something!
Be it a movie, a game, a software, a book. Where do you even start? You know people catch viruses or fines pirating, so how to do it, and do it safely? This is going to be a bit verbose, socoloured text has the most important info. THIS WILL BE LONG but you can just skim it! (P.S. there are some goodies for artists in the end so do take a peek there if you do art and would like courses or procreate brushes) By the end of this you should be able to download or stream almost anything.
(Disclaimer: I’m not super knowledgeable on the technical side of things, just a moderately seasoned pirate. Will explain stuff to the best of my abilities, but there will be wild semplifications. If there’s any issue, or precisations you’d like to make, or just need a hand with something, feel free to reach out to me directly on here!)
Putting a cut here so I don’t spam your dashes <3 - now, here we go:
To start thinking about Roman slavery is to stare into an infinite abyss of deliberate human suffering. The Roman Empire is considered to be one of the genuine slave states in human history, in that, like the antebellum Southern states of America, it could not exist without slavery. Slavery was the social and economic foundation upon which the entire Roman Empire rested. But while the slave states of Louisiana and Virginia lasted 150 years before abolition, the Roman Empire stood on the backs of unimaginable numbers of enslaved men, women and children for almost a thousand years. A thousand years is thirty-four generations of people enslaved to the Romans. A thousand years before the year I wrote this, King Cnut was glaring down the sea. A thousand years is an immense amount of time. And they didn’t just have domestic slaves, they had vast mines across the Empire for silver, lead, gold, iron and copper. Google the Las Médulas mines in Spain and imagine the sixty thousand enslaved people who worked there twenty-four hours a day to produce the gold the Roman Empire demanded, and then multiply that by hundreds of years and hundreds of sites and all those lives that were sent to toil for nothing and join me staring into this bottomless pit of Roman horror. Then picture the near infinite acres of land owned by the Gaius Caecilius Isidoruses and Melanias of the Roman world, each maintained by chain gangs of hundreds of enslaved people. And on top of that were those enslaved in the house, the cooks and cleaners and washers and dressers, the people enslaved by the state who maintained the aqueducts and laid the roads and built all those temples and fora across the vast Empire and fought fires and carried the emperor in his litter. A general estimate (which means, of course, a total guess but a guess from someone I’d trust in a quantitative situation) is that there were between 4.8 and 8.4 million enslaved people in the Roman Empire at any time, with the city of Rome‘s population including anywhere from ten to twenty-five percent enslaved people. Millions and millions and millions of lives, each a person with a heart full of love and hate and envy and joy and aching knees and sore eyes and dreams and thoughts and desires and hopes, all of whom were owned by another person and subject to the most extraordinary violence every day.
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon
This most recent Death Grips tour has been a fucking disaster because people don’t know how to fucking act. I think it was the Philly show where some girl got her neck broken by some asshole who was just fucking beating people in the pit, and some dude whipped his cock out and pissed on the floor like it was a joke while his buddies also got way too rough. And apparently, just a few days ago, they fucking walked off stage because the audience was throwing glowsticks and water bottles and shit at them. And, from what I’ve heard, they came back out because they wanted to perform, and they got pelted again. Stupid fucking irony-poisoned too-cool-to-care shitheads are fucking ruining these shows treating them all like goddamn jokes. Going to the show is, itself, a performance for these people. It’s a canvas for them to be the funniest person at the show, they have to be seen being the funniest, kookiest, wackiest person at the show by recreating an outfit they saw in a meme. I legit wonder how much of this is from tiktok brain poisoning and shit, because death grips shows were never even close to that bad. When I saw them at first avenue in 2015, some dipshit kid jumped off the balcony into the crowd, and then he got dragged outside by like five security dudes. That was it. The rest was great. Nothing happened at Skyway in 2017. What the fuck changed? One of my friends saw Machine Girl with 100 Gecs a while back, and she said they were largely the same. Don’t know how to fucking act in public. Every goddamn time I see one of those “playing beyblade in the pit” videos, or something similar, I just feel so fucking bad for the artist performing. This shit sucks so fuckin much. Fuck you if you’re That Guy.
I theorize the reason “bottoms” appear more prevalent than “tops” on these types of spaces is that it is simply easier to be funny about being a bottom than about being a top without sounding like a sex offender
“uuuuu 🥺 pls cock me aaaaaaaa *runs into wall like Wile E Coyote running into his own tunnel painting*” easy as shit comedy
“I want to put my DICK in someone” whoa dude calm down, take it easy
No that’s literally it. Kink is stigmatized in such a specific way that it’s actually much more acceptable to say “I want to be stepped on” than it is “I want to step on them” or even “I want them to ask me to step on them.”
Like it’s much easier to find people talking openly about wanting to be submissive (which will be errantly called “bottoming” because being a sub is Ew Gross Kink) but once there’s someone to available to actually facilitate that, it’s Creepy.
artist emerges online with a unique or eccentric style that compresses easily (its like experimental electronic hip hop punk!!)
artist becomes popular with fringe online communities
fringe online communities make memes and jokes about said artist, poking fun at a thing they like on its own merits
artist grows in popularity, escapes the confines of the insular communities along with all the memes
random normies listen to the artist. they end up not enjoying it, but reconcile the conflict of a thing they dislike being popular by just assuming that no one *actually* likes it, it’s just a meme, or an endurance test specifically meant to torture the listener, or a joke at the expense of music itself.
ironic listeners come to outnumber sincere listeners, because the eccentricity of the artist was never going to support a massive audience
death grips ends show prematurely because crowd of teenagers won’t stop throwing shit at them
I want to do something but there’s hardly anything for me to do from Brasil besides spreading the word and not letting these testimonies fall on deaf ears. I’m asking you to do this same ant work from wherever you are.
We need kink at pride because “kink” isn’t just kink. “Kink” is:
That boy wearing jeans that are too tight
Your neighbors and their “friend” that lives with them
Having a beard and wearing a skirt
Wearing any kind of choker
Literally anything else they decide goes against the “norm”, and it can be literally anything. That is why we need kink at pride.
No we don’t. Respect ppls boundaries. If respect isn’t normal anymore what will be normal then? Anything, no matter how it impacts or scars other peoples lives? Kink doesn’t belongs to pride.
Look around you. Do you see where “No Kink At Pride” has led? Being transgender is illegal now. Exactly what people said would happen. You know what’s going to be next? Being gay is going to be illegal. Because being gay is not “respecting straight people’s boundaries”. They don’t want to see you. They want to kill you.
In support of the OP, let me clue the reply poster in to some of how the worldview of conservative bigots works:
If you are trans you are a sex pervert
If you’re gay you’re a sex pervert.
If you’re the world’s most chaste and godly nun praying in a convent, who has a lesbian thought once while delirious from a fever, you are a sex pervert.
If you’re a family with a white picket fence house, a breadwinner, a stay-at-home parent, two cars, a dog, and whose politics are right wing… if you happen to be a same-sex couple, you’re sex perverts and probably pedophiles.
If you’re a closeted, self-hating, self-hurting, self-repressing queer going through every torturous form of conversion therapy, who condemns the other queers, who screams at the people who seek abortion help outside Planned Parenthood… you are a filthy, irredeemable sex pervert, a danger to children, and the most sympathy you deserve is transient pity if you admit to struggling.
There is nothing you can do, no behaviour you can engage in, no thought you can have, no clothes you can wear, no existence you can lead that is not an unacceptable sex perversion in the minds of these people. Your existence is kink, and you cannot appease them into thinking otherwise.
The bigoted conservative mind cannot conceive of queerness except as perversion, except as hedonistic degenerate thrill-seeking. They don’t know another reason to do any thing, except as an exercise of power over someone else. Their entire world revolves around this idea. Everything is power, everything is control.
Therefore you can never appease them. Your mere existence is to them a totalizing threat, to their worldview, to their sense of normalcy, to their positions of social power, to their patriarchy, to their holiness. The only thing you can do that will ever satisfy them is die.
Which leaves us with this:
Either we have solidarity with our queer siblings - yes including the ones you don’t understand, yes including the ones who have that weird sex that you think is fucked up, yes including the cringe annoying ones who “make the rest of us look bad,” yes including the fucked up problematic ones who need to change and make amends, but who deserve their human rights whether or not they ever do that.
Because to the bigot, to the conservative, you’re every bit as much of a pervert as Jenny Piss Kink and their polycule of submissive puppy-masked gender sluts. You throw your bricks when they come for Jenny, because when they come for the Piss Puppy Polycule, they’re coming for you too.
Some people say “no kink at pride” and they mean, don’t fist each other in public. Which is a thing thats never happened and that no one is advocating for.
Other people are saying “no kink at pride” and they mean no collars, no leather. Things that have always always been a core part of pride. If youre not okay with those things, go throw your own event instead of co-opting one of the ONLY fundamentally sex positive movements in the United States. Sex negativity isnt welcome at pride because pride and shame cannot co-exist.
