Hello, world.

I do what I want.

[deepcatsecrets]

If you’re here for witchy things, my side blog is runeboon. If you want to book a reading, pls see runeboon.com

:) have a lovely day

[deepcatsecrets]

I just wanna know if sodium lights would affect ghosts.

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[shitfestcomic]

I have updated my site to include all 200+ comics I've made over the years, easily viewable webcomic-style

enjoy

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Naming in Spirited away and Judaism

In spirited away names gain a lot deeper of a meaning. They are no longer what your called, but are also directly tied to who you are and your memories. Yubaba takes away names and grants new ones to show and changing of self, that your not who you once were, but are now someone under her control.

 In Jewish culture, it’s believed that names mean everything, and sometimes when something really awful happens someone will change there name to show that there leaving behind there past trauma and can move on with a blank slate. 

When Yubaba takes away there names, she not only takes away there names, but also there memories, leaving an involuntary blank slate. In both Judism and Spirited away names have the same meaning in different formats, that names aren’t only something your called, but also a reflection of you past experiences with that name and changing a name leaves you with a fresh start, wanted or not.

[deepcatsecrets]

The specific name that Yubaba gives Chihiro was also very important. Sen. That's the Japanese word for 1,000. She dehumanized Chihiro to being a literal number.

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Naming in Spirited away and Judaism

In spirited away names gain a lot deeper of a meaning. They are no longer what your called, but are also directly tied to who you are and your memories. Yubaba takes away names and grants new ones to show and changing of self, that your not who you once were, but are now someone under her control.

 In Jewish culture, it’s believed that names mean everything, and sometimes when something really awful happens someone will change there name to show that there leaving behind there past trauma and can move on with a blank slate. 

When Yubaba takes away there names, she not only takes away there names, but also there memories, leaving an involuntary blank slate. In both Judism and Spirited away names have the same meaning in different formats, that names aren’t only something your called, but also a reflection of you past experiences with that name and changing a name leaves you with a fresh start, wanted or not.

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

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“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think that eventually I lost interest in writing post apocalypse stories when I realized that we’re living in the aftermath of hundreds if not thousands of apocalypses both small and large.

What do people act like in the apocalypse? Well, they act like people. The post-apocalypse is an ongoing reality.

The great dying in the Americas after old world diseases were introduced, the Black Death, the Bronze Age collapse.

Heck, around 74,000 years ago a volcanic eruption reduced the human population to less than 10,000 individuals. Possibly as few as 3,000.

Every single one of us is descended from the survivors of an apocalyptic event.

And if you think that doesn’t count because it was 74,000 years ago my question is, why? Why does that not count? Why is that devastation so much less devastating than any apocalypse you’ve seen in media?

This right now in this moment we are living through is the ultimate ongoing fate of any post apocalypse. Life. With all of its messiness.

[inbabylontheywept]

i am banned from eating my herring inside. they make me eat it on the smoking area by the loading dock, under the theory that it already smells bad there. but it was raining today which was preventing my breakfast, so i was feeling sad and hungry and then i realized that there was a large cardboard box in the dumpster from a previous delivery. like a fridge sized box. so i fished it out of the dumpster, then tipped it on its side and had a nice little cardboard cave to watch the rain and eat my fish in. which was a great experience. very soothing. very zen. at least until the security guard from the day before stepped outside to smoke. then i tried hiding from him by crawling deeper in the box, which unfortunately did not work. instead he saw a sort of damp sniveling pale hairless creature eating fish in a box, and delivered the verbal killshot of "good morning, mr. smeagol." which is how my day was ruined before 8 am.

[hymnsofheresy]

i just woke up from a dream where i was being interrogated by a bunch of people asking me if “furbies are kosher” firstly…. im not jewish. secondly……..what the fuck

[hymnsofheresy]

please stop sending me asks pertaining to the kosher status of furbies. i really do not know. this was just a manifestation of my subconscious. im assuming that they are not kosher because furbies aren’t even food. but who knows! ask a rabbi, if you must. 

[natashatroyka-deactivated201902]

Jew here! Furbies are actually worse than unkosher–they are not permissible as food, even for gentiles. This is because the Torah teaches that it is forbidden for any human to eat the meat of an animal that is still alive, and the Furby cannot die.

[hymnsofheresy]

hi this is the most ominous description of a furby i have ever heard

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PHRASES ADDED!

“Are Furbies kosher?”

“The Torah teaches that it is forbidden for any human to eat the meat of an animal that is still alive, and the Furby cannot die.”

[sovietnam]

[teaboot]

Not to overstate the perks of divorce, but as a kid whose parents divorced, remarried, divorced, and married again one of my favourite things is to show up to family functions like “I’m related to literally none of you. What up with these mini muffins tho”

[teaboot]

I spent last thanksgiving with my ex-stepparent’s new spouse’s family and the kids were like “are you our step-brother?” and I just cackled like a cartoon villain

[teaboot]

Relationship of Theseus

[phantomrose96]

14-year-old in a normal shonen: “I need to fight for my FRIENDS!!! And to save everyone—no, save the WORLD—from total annihilation!!” *insane fight sequence*

14-year-old in Mob Psycho: “I fear if I keep living my life like this, coming to my part-time job every day and doing the same things, then life will be comfortable and easy for me, but that comfort may mean I will stagnate, and that as the years pass, the only thing that changes is my age.” *insane fight sequence*

[yorubaby]

Realizing that someone who used to often try and "mentor" me, and who used to regularly talk down to me about my education (in regards witchcraft and other places), actually had very little practical or theoretical knowledge about any of the shit they said they did, was a very important experience for me.

It helped form my understanding that many want to take up the mantle of being a "mentor/teacher/elder", but few actually should.

I feel like I learned a different kind of discernment from that connection, and I still haven't forgot about it.

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[ryebreadgf]

something something the poetry of science etc

[ryebreadgf]

woah

[dramaticwriter]

yeah