stars--and--shadows
stars--and--shadows
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 10 hours ago
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Last night, I dreamed there was this really popular youtube channel called “WolfpackDan”, and it was a guy who literally lived with a pack of wolves in the forest, just documenting daily life.
Now, I need you to understand that Dan was not some sort of Coyote Peterson type. He looked and dressed like someone who would pretend to get drunk off of non-alcoholic beer and say “bruh” unironically. He looked like the “bro I am straight up not having a good time” guy. But there he was, literally living in the forest with a wolf pack, recording and uploading videos with his phone.
One of his videos opened with him talking to the camera about “yeah, the pack went hunting today and just made a kill”. He turned his wrist to pan his phone over his shoulder, where four wolves are pinning down and tearing into a whitetail buck who is two gasps away from death.
“We’re actually hoping to make two kills today,” he added, panning his phone the other way to show two more wolves latching onto a second deer. “The Old Lady’s pups are growing really fast and it’s getting harder to provide for them. Once they can join the hunt, that’ll be a huge weight off everyone’s shoulders.”
He panned back to the first deer, where the wolves were now tearing into the meal. “I’m really hoping they’ll leave the pelt on this one intact,” he said. “I need a new cape. Winter is coming, guys.” 
The last shot of that video was him running through the trees with the pack, with a still-bloody deer hide draped over his shoulders.
I can’t remember any more of his specific videos, but the gist I got from them was that he actually was a contributing member of the pack (hence the “we”) and had been raised at least partially by the wolves themselves. Not sure how they raised him into this dudebro-looking twenty-something with a name like Dan, but they did?
Where did he get his phone? How did he pay for his data? Who taught him English? Why did he dress like that?
I have so many questions for WolfpackDan.
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 18 hours ago
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Guys I'm making a Stan and Ford playlist for fun (and so I can put my favorite songs in there) and I may have gotten too invested in it. Can I ramble about it for a minute
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 1 day ago
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 2 days ago
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 2 days ago
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A friendly fox in Pripyat, Chernobyl exclusion zone
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 3 days ago
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i don’t know how to explain this other than i get made fun of in the discord server for liking robots a little too much
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 3 days ago
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craving the intimacy of violence all by yourself queen?
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 4 days ago
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"why did you stop writing your story!!! never stop writing!!!!!!!!!!!" well you see the character had to drive one mile to a new location and the sentence "she got into the car" was quite simply my undoing
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 4 days ago
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Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.
There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 4 days ago
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 5 days ago
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so here's what I've now done to make the internet usable as a person living in the UK without handing my ID and/or facial scans over to random third parties:
signed up for a ProtonVPN account
set up a tunnel from my router to a ProtonVPN server in Sweden
written a python script to query DNS servers for social media domains every 15 minutes and collate the results into a list of IP address ranges
created routing and firewall policies to block connections to those IP ranges on my normal connection and send them through the VPN tunnel instead
set up a second, personal VPN so I can make my mobile devices connect to the internet through my home network even when I'm not at home
now it's time to open source this whole thing so others can enjoy using the internet the same way they did three weeks ago
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 5 days ago
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ASK AND YE SHALL RECIEVE
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 5 days ago
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psst! hey! guess what! i make warriors name generators based on specific places!
-- south american names -- florida names -- tundra names -- desert names (american & australian) -- new england, america names (made this one for my coastal fanclans, since they're based in maine) -- alaska names -- mesa biome names
(go ahead and yell at me if you find something missing/something that shouldn't be there)
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 6 days ago
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I FELL ASLEEP AND TOOK A NAP A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND SLEPT THROUGH JAN 6TH. I FELL ASLEEP A COUPLE DAYS AGO AND MISSED TRUMP GETTING SHOT. I JUST TOOK MY FIRST AFTERNOON NAP IN A BIT AND NOW THIS?
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 6 days ago
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i can’t stop fucking laughing
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 7 days ago
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this is amazing 🐈 ♥️♥️
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stars--and--shadows ¡ 7 days ago
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"i'm out of the fucking goo" (long)
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