okay besties everyone put in their tags what theyre majoring or what they majored in im so curious
don't look at me with those brown eyes or I might just spend the rest of my life keeping your hands warm
Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.
thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me
ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video
The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.
This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.
“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.
If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?
I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“
i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!
it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.
INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.
tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …
My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.
Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ian’s Shoelace Site [link], unless there’s another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysion’s string figure collection [link].
maybe the problem w remakes of old kitschy sci-fi shows is that sci-fi means something fundamentally different than it did when these stories were made, it's almost a different genre now bc the level of fantasy dramatically goes down the more scientists do the shit we were dreaming about. If u wana do justice by trek u need to remember that it was almost entirely about magic. Automatic doors were magic. Food recycling was magic. people hanging out in space for long periods of time was magic and thats why they dressed like gay cyber wizards and that's why if u don't let them dress like gay cyber wizards ur missing the point
Reblog if you or someone you know is ace… I’m trying to see something
oh okay. heart steps right out of my chest and falls down the stairs
tv people stop giving us gay declarations of love and then splitting the characters up challenge
people on tiktok when they do the filter that shapeshifts your child face into your current face, and it shapeshifts their child face into their current face: 😦☹️😢
love scrolling down and seeing a suggested post that gives me a jump scare bc it genuinely looks like the person is doing blackface/minstrel makeup in the year of our lord 2023
(to be clear they had edited their face to look like something from the Mandela Catalog. but geez man)
fun fact if you look up the definition of "blorbo from my shows" there's a picture of boimler lower decks
twitter is wild tonight. boimler is trending right above hiroshima
star trek quit putting spock in weird hetero situationships challenge
I for one don't like the idea of mandatory collapsible reblogs because it makes it harder for me to get the Uniquely Tumblr Experience of reading an informative post, then reading the reblog where someone completely destroys and debunks the op, then somebody ELSE reblogs with "actually..." Then you get to read through 5 or 6 more not being sure which side you're supposed to be on til the end of the chain. Then sometimes you go in the notes and find even more chaos and come out ultimately with net zero information. Amazing.
Also why do I keep seeing Tumblr users with little guys next to their usernames where other people have checkmarks
They are not as high-profile as the WGA, but I would like to bring everyone's attention to the imminent strike action by thousands of hotel workers in Los Angeles. They are set to go on strike tomorrow, July 1st, 2023.
More than 15,000 hotel workers are seeking higher pay, better benefits, and working conditions. This includes an across-the-board $5 an hour raise, as well as affordable healthcare and better pensions. They also are seeking a ban on the use of E-Verify, which is used to deny employment to undocumented workers and workers involved with the criminal justice system. You can follow what is happening at their Twitter.
god why am I suddenly seeing more of the particular side of the true crime community which romanticizes/sexualizes murderers. No, that person isn't your "little scrunkly." They shot up a building and killed people. Time to expand my blocklist and filtered tags
This website is full of free sewing patterns that will automatically alter to ur measurements
https://freesewing.org
WHAT.
this is the post that started me off making my own clothes, i never actually used a pattern from this site bc i learned how to make my own too quickly but this is where the jump from wishing to doing happened
now im making money doing sewing commissions so lmfao i guess tumblr did do something for me after 10 fucking years
thinking about how the christian reading material I had for school/church spent so much time talking about how women's bodies are beautiful works of art etc. (to justify dressing modestly/purity culture) and I ended up being like "wow they're so right" lmao probably not the outcome they wanted
thriftbooks better world books half-price books wonder book pangobooks libgen archive.org ubuweb kanopy (library card required; free) tubi pluto tv
abebooks, book depository, and goodreads are all owned my amazon.