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we need to start lighting stuff on fire

@queenquid

ruby, 31, they/them

tumblr glitch that hath rended my dash asunder:

free shitpost generator??? why isn’t this an official browsing mode. anyway here are my fav screen grabs, all hits no misses:

pure poetry. it’s like trying to tune into a specific radio station but you have giant lobster claws instead of hands

wow my blog is officially cursed, we love to see it

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

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Time to drop some links again.

https://searchmysite.net/ Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.

https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)

https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines A list of academic databases and search engines.

https://tineye.com/ Reverse image search alternative to Google’s. Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)

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That Google and Meta can get away with this during an era of intense misinformation and disinformation signals that we cannot rely on large tech companies to provide reliable access to information and news:

Hi! I’d like to clarify something about the accreditation of this comic.

It’s by Matthew Inman, and you can find the original comic at his blog, “The Oatmeal”, and I’m posting it below as well.

Reblog if you want to flatten Christian values with the gayroller 2000

guy in 4000bc about to invent wine: i love trampling these stupid purple fruit into smithereens and selling the juice that's been all over my feet to unsuspecting suckers. i bet if i waited for several months first it'd be even easier

Xuan Lu & Wang Zhuocheng | Divine Destiny By the Wuding River, you had accompanied me for thousands of years. How can I just sit by and watch? How can I let you suffer disasters alone? Since we were banished to the mortal world, I had accompanied and protected you for 99 lifetimes. And in this life, I've been looking for you. I finally found you.

btw i highly recommend smashing things in a safe and contained manner when you're upset. the instinct to rage and destroy can be sated by the sound of broken glass. find a place and a few objects to shatter, it's good for the soul. i just took a hammer to my ex's bong and i feel so much more normal now. you don't always have to be careful and precious with the world around you, you're allowed to destroy things too, i give you permission. violence can be healing when you're inarticulate with rage :)

have some vicarious violence 🫶

If you want to smash stuff but you don’t want to have to clean up a mess, throwing ice cubes at a brick wall is highly satisfying.

Fox news parents think every city is an active battleground at all times

I’ve said it before but it’s genuinely so insane to me, living in Chicago, that reactionaries are convinced this place is Mad Max or some shit. regardless of what neighborhood you’re in, even. I think if you sat one of them down and tried to explain that downtown Chicago is just office buildings and fancy bars, either their head would explode or they would accuse you of lying