brightstardazzle

"There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors" -Adrienne Rich

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

[ashstfu]

its the last month of 2023 so i’m just gonna say it: what the absolute fuck was that

[existentialterror]

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.

[greenjudy]

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

[jumpingjacktrash]

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

[averixus]

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

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.

[ashby-santoso]

“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.“

[ms-demeanor]

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!

[ms-demeanor]

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.

[workfornow]

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 …

[existentialterror]

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].

[funnytwittertweets]

[lordofseagulls]

[effemimaniac]

hey. don't cry. I went to Mad At You island and none of your friends were there :)

[fairycosmos]

since the tender age of 11 i have been so Scared due to everything being so Scary

[redrobin-detective]

After careful consideration and going over multiple options I think the best choice is stay warm and cozy in bed forever.

[tiktokarchive]

[sour-charity]

[troutlawyer]

Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

[hortensius-deactivated20240909]

the novelty of having pets really does never wear off i’ve had my cat for ten years and i still look at him strolling around like can you believe this. a cat. is everyone seeing this. he’s alive he has bones and all. unbelievable

[filthy-rat]

pining: 👀

mutual pining: 👀👀

mutual pining where both parties perceive their feelings to be unreciprocated:

👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[aubs-of-steel-deactivated201708]

fun fact: The last supper would have been more like this, according to tradition:

[evangeline-elena-deactivated201]

so casual i love it

[thedevoteddemon]

a sleepover with jc and the boys

[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

Paul: Judas truth or dare??

Judas: dare

Paul: okay lmao I dare u to kiss JC

[ghoulfr13nd]

Jesus: ok your turn peter truth or dare

Peter: truth

Jesus: would you ever betray me peter

[papa-peach-deactivated20241019]

Peter:

Jesus:

(a few days later)

Peter: *betrays Jesus*

Jesus:

[that-twink-over-there]

Jesus: *returns*

Peter: “Jesus… you’re back ?”

Jesus:

[aaronexplainsitall]

this post gets more absurd every time it crosses my dash

[lawbreaker13]

Another fun fact:

The Last Supper was actually a Passover Seder which means by the time they broke the food out, these guys were likely already drunk out of their minds.

[cutecommiefemme]

Drunk Jesus: guys take this bread

Drunk Jesus: it’s me

[just-a-donut-who-reads]

Every time I see this it gets funnier

[sandandglass]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

CHERISH HER

[sleepy-bebby]

[catlips001]

FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.

[battebitch-deactivated20200410]

what was yesterday, cat?

[catlips001]

[catlips001]

I’m not missing it this year.

[evermoredeluxe]