SOOOOOODDAAAAAA

Because reasons..

[cpericardium]

[themainspoon]

This was a whole thread, here are some of my favourites:

[treecitysessions]

Scream this is iconic….

[zvaigzdelasas]

10D Chess

[kkshowtunes]

google siting ao3 as a source is so unhinged

[strawberrygirldick]

Google is quickly approaching a fucking unusable state

[crazy-pages]

So I started using duckduckgo a little over a year ago. At my research job I was advised to be careful about what I googled (versus looking up in reference documents), because Google is data mining all of us and the company is concerned that Google might sell data on what we are searching about to competitors. Which is its own level of creepy cyber dystopian hell.

Anyway I figured I'd just bypass that entire problem by using a search engine which didn't datamine me, a thing which apparently never occurred to our data security team because Google has sunk its claws into every aspect of our lives. And at first it felt a little bit clunky because it has different searching priorities than Google and I found myself having to relearn subtleties of search term optimization and how to parse results which I never realized were unique to Google in the first place. Meanwhile at home I was using Google and duckduckgo in unequal proportions because I hadn't really committed to making the switch you know?

And this means I got to be the frog with one foot in the slowly boiling water and one foot in a nice bath of room temperature water for reference as Google rotted from the inside. I don't know how long this process has been going on and how much I missed. But from 2022 to 2023, Google has gone to hell. It is almost unusable compared to what it was a year ago.

Nonsense pay to play search engine results now consume more than half of the first page, which we all know, but the stuff below that has gotten less and less useful too. It's gone from duckduckgo being a slightly less powerful search engine (with a bit of a learning curve that compounds the effect) to being objectively head and shoulders better than Google, and it's not because duckduckgo has gotten better! In just over a year!

I feel almost crazy because I don't think I would have noticed it if I hadn't had one foot in and one foot out of Google like I have, simply because of how often we all use Google and how slow that makes the enshittification process from search to search. But it's real! Google has gotten so much worse! It is eating itself alive!

[substitious-bastard]

stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it's trying to teach but i've taught myself to hand make lace so all is well

[decayalectical]

hey sorry if this isnt true i forgot exactly where i read it but this person should be brutalised and subjected to some of the most horrific acts of cruelty humanity has ever seen. it might be nothing though i might have the people mixed up

[saudadite]

wow i didn't know this. i always thought they should be unpersoned though. spreading this so that others can be informed + to protect minors

[theqhreator42]

Damn, I already had a feeling about them since... I’m not sure when. Their fashion sense really threw me off and I hated their takes on video games. I’m glad that my impulse to find out their identity, uproot their career, and destroy their life was justified after all, at least based on what I can remember!

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

you want proof that it happened? well, check this out, after we filled their inbox with accusations, they didn't immediately roll out a full PR statement on why they're sorry for doing the things I said they did and how they'll do better in the future. they acted as though they had never even heard of any of the people or events involved, and they even got angry once I insisted they were actually the scum of the earth and deserved to be hunted down and shot for the rumours I kinda half heard about them. why would they double down like that if they WEREN'T guilty?

[naamahdarling]

They turned off anonymous asks after posting responses to fifteen anons, which is good enough evidence for me that they know they have done indefensible things and are facilitating crime. If they were innocent they would take the abuse and respond to every accusation with a unique acknowledgement of every bad thought they have ever had and abject apologies for ever having dared to be on the internet, where countless people have been harmed by their 1,000-follower blog.

[tunneldweller]

never heard of this person before, but all the previous posts must be right! people wouldn't try to mislead others on the internet, especially knowing how easy it is to start a dogpile!

[jesse-pinko]

Okay Walter White was actually pretty funny as a character bc he was so toxic that seasoned drug lords were like I cannot work w this man I have to put my mental health first

[epilepticsaints]

[hungwy]

goku could be broly's best friend in the world i promise you this. but big dragon ball wont let it happen

[knife-ass]

[tess-mercer]

the absolute BEST rival dynamic is where one of them is like “you are my equal unlike any other, you respect me and my power even if you disagree with my methods, i will only die by your hand and you by mine, perhaps i want your attention perhaps i love you, together we challenge each other to unseen heights, we are each other’s destiny, we are intrinsically linked,” and the other person is genuinely like “please die”

[alisoun-deactivated20240131]

good morning im nbc news israel destroys palestinian neighborhoods in airstrike in graphic footage, hamas refuses to apologize, we're joined by a cia employee, israeli ambassador, and a tv chef to watch this tiktok of a boy being a little too honest with his parents. heres 9 minutes of commercials

[orcboxer]

i love monks in dnd because the guy on the battlefield armed with only his fists doesn't seem very threatening until he starts sprinting toward you at 69 miles per hour

[angelasscribbles]

[tchaikovskaya]

had to be there i guess

[arvethli]

I told y'all it was a pun

A very long thread on it: https://twitter.com/lmrwanda/status/1505646738627088389?t=06aHTTZkf1ZaJyCDhWUzTg&s=19

And the punchline, if anyone wants to jump there directly: https://twitter.com/lmrwanda/status/1505648702119202823?t=IHkQWeElTa0T63o3lbr12Q&s=19

[honeylazors]

[fierceawakening]

that's excellent

[thisarenotarealblog]

cracking open a cold one with the sumerian dog

[angelicguy]

Just had to paint this idea I had

[angelicguy]

Lol

[lillyofthefern]

you dont even have to zoom in, reverse image search shows that its being used as a photo to represent a diner for sale, its a staged photo that OP scraped from a very far off corner of the web.

[angelicguy]

i literally googled breakfast

[nerdpoe]

AU where Zuko, by technicality, wins the Agni Kai against his father.

AU where his father put out a "i'll give you a handicap; if you can manage to burn me then you win not only the argument, but the throne lmfao"

So when Ozai is burning Zuko's face, Zuko, completely by instinct, grabs at his fathers hand to get him to stop.

Zuko's self preservation kicks in and he burns the absolute shit out of his fathers wrist, leaving a scar just as violently bad as the one he got.

Zuko doesn't know he did this.

The entire court knows he did.

His father never banished him, his father ordered his execution and the council smuggled him out; Iroh told him a lie to protect him.

Ozai is never seen in anything short sleeved again, and demands that all Fire Nation fashion be long sleeved. The locals hate this and don't understand why, but the council knows.

The council knows and the council plots.

Because according to the terms laid out, Ozai is not the King. The regiment Zuko was defending is instead rerouted for special training, giving false reports of deaths and defeat.

They have been selected to be Zuko's personal and palace guard, after all; they should not be anything less than perfectly trained.

Basically everyone is plotting against Ozai and the only ones that don't know are Ozai and Zuko.