tumblr dot com
Discoholic šŖ©
gracie abrams
tannertan36
Sweet Seals For You, Always
taylor price
PR's Tumblrdome
NASA
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Andulka
šŖ¼
Doug Jones
Game of Thrones Daily
ā£ Chile in a Photography ā£
š
Show & Tell
untitled
#extradirty
Not today Justin
@theartofmadeline
seen from India
seen from Brazil
seen from Brunei
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from Greece
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from TĆ¼rkiye
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from Germany
seen from Greece
seen from France
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Pakistan
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
@fukigennachou
ai fatigue
ai books, fanfics, ai google assist, ai short form content, ai summaries, ai memes, ai artists
I cant even go and see some street food trucks without their damn menus having AI images on it. you have a camera. take photos of your goddamn food. I would rather see a photo of the most weirdly lit burger than the fake monstrosity you're showing me.
Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.
I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.
Stop backing up my fucking files.
Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.
Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.
I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.
Fuckers.
Friend, I have news you're gonna love. Here's a text tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 10.
Here's a text tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.
Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 10.
Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.
Go forth. Be free.
Reblog to save a life... and someone's sanity
Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to knowā¦
What is your AO3 user ID?
Iām an OG user 5 digits or less
Six figures baby!
Iām in the millionsā¦
Iām so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!
@animangacreators challenge 51 ā mbti KATSUKI YUURI
The Danish training ship āGeorg Stageā (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021Ā
not the kind of gay ship Iām used to seeing on tumblr but cool
ship georg is an outlier but SHOULD be counted
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)
Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in caseā¦
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 ācompute expert-level answers using Wolframās breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.ā 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 wonāt record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses ā&ā as a bang search.
Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that usersā identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.Ā
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.Ā
Gibiruās tagline is āUnfiltered private searchā and thatās exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.Ā
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.Ā
MetaGer offers āPrivacy Protected Search & Findā 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.Ā
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.Ā
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.Ā
https://www.mojeek.com/Ā
https://wiby.me/ - Itās goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.Ā
https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesnāt have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think itās 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/Ā
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
Mitch McConnell has been sent to a nice farm out in the country where there's lots of open space to run around and lots of other senators for him to play with
I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.
To Americans who might feel inclined to scoff at Europeans talking about the heat: I know youāve heard this before but maybe youāll listen to an American who spent many years of her life dealing with 115F / 46C summers out in the American west and now lives in France.
THIS IS WORSE. Itās so much worse.
When you hear āthereās no ACā you probably are thinking likeā¦oh thatās rough, but still Iāve dealt with those temps. My old place didnāt have AC. It canāt be that bad.
NO. The lack of AC trickles down into every facet of dealing with the heat in a way that slowly and quite literally boils you alive. Itās not just āoh my apartment is hot this sucksā, itās āthere is nowhere you can go to cool down and if you overheat there is no help availableā
For most thereās no AC anywhere. Anywhere. The coolest place available is maybe your local church, or a shopping center. Both will kick you out around 8pm, the hottest part of the day. In France and Spain in particular, the time zone is wrong (Hitlerās faultāweāre still aligned with Germany instead of the UK) and the sun doesnāt set until 10-11pm. Heat is still being actively pumped into your living spaces at 10pm.
And the temps do not meaningfully drop overnight. (Which you might expect if youāre from the American west. Southerners do understand this.) Many people live in stone walled buildings that just keep heating up. This is very literally the experience of being in a stone oven. And thereās no way to drop the temperature. You canāt escape it.
If your body temp climbs to unmanageable levels and you start experiencing heat exhaustion, you can call the hospitalā¦most of which also do not have AC. Iām not sure how theyāre treating people, I guess with ice packs? Thereās already been a handful of deaths in my city, and thatās before any kind of post-wave reporting. These are real time reported deaths.
Anyway I want you to really, really internalize the sense of panic that starts to set in when youāre in these circumstances. The animal brain really starts to go wild when thereās no options and no escape. Thatās why Europeans are posting about suffering.
(And noāleaving isnāt possible either. Many people donāt have cars, and the trains are down due to track over heating. And also donāt have AC. These conditions are frankly genuinely scary.)
UTAāPRI GRAND SHOP: "Mystical Curiosities" visuals (collection coming soon)
In the 2000s, phones had quirks and class....
In the ye olde days, when technology allowed phones to become small but there was no general concensus on what a phone should/ought to look like, it was like the wild west of phone design. The crazier it was, the higher the prestige. Phones back then did two things and they did them with flamboyance.
And then Steve Jobs ruined everything.
I miss the pre-glass rectangle era SO MUCH.
This sketch is incredible. Perfect moment to capture. 10/10 for the artist.
Link to post
A hearing in Luigi Mangioneās state murder case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was postponed until Wednesday after pr
all cops are bastards because all cops are just doing their jobs
āIām just doing what Iām told. If I am ordered to remove gold fillings from refugees theeth then thatās what Iāll doā, says police officer Michael Hansen. Just thought Iād add this since not a lot of people outside of the nordic countries seem to have seen it. This is a danish police officer discussing a new danish law that says the police should seize the possesions and money of refugees to finance the integration.
He uh, skipped awful quickly to āstealing gold fillingsā didnāt he?
Original Article the image & caption are taken from.
Itās real.
Remember that ājust following ordersā was a claim made by the nazis who survived World War Two who were charged with warcrimes.
They also stole the gold from peopleās teeth.
Reblog to save a duck
Quack quack
Itās getting to be that time of year where more people are going outside to parks and stuff so i thought it would a good idea to reblog this again
Once I was feeding some ducks from a bag of birdseed I brought with me, and this woman next to me looked so confused and asked what I was feeding them
When I said it was birdseed she just went āoh- can they actually eat that? Is that safe?ā
I didnt know how to respond like, at all, so I just pointed at the duck and said ābirdā
She then had a look on her face like a new groove was just forcibly carved in her brain and said softly āoh my fucking godā
There are a lot of people in the notes saying, basically, "Yeah, that's polyester for ya!"
but, the thing is
even polyester fabric was higher quality in the past
yes, not all of it, but, still, a noticeable amount of older polyester was...nicer.
yeah, it would still get picks and hold on to every bit of underarm odor, and that's on top of no-one knowing about microplastic shedding
but a 1950s Wash'n'Wear shirt, or 1970s double knit pantsuit, or 1980s neon sweatshirt, or a 1990s slinky knit or crushed velour mock turtleneck...so many of them would have been significantly higher quality than the fast fashion of today.
i work in historical costume. i work in a big-ass warehouse, with hundreds of thousands articles of clothing dating back over 100 years (for original pieces).
the BLINDING difference in clothing quality between even the 1990s and the mid-2000s...not even going in to the decline in quality of clothing made in natural fibers (jeans with elastane, i'm looking at you), I've got faux-leather trousers from 1980s that are in near-mint condition, even after being hired and worn repeatedly for the past 40 years. we get donations of clothing that shows and films have bought online for contemporary shows that are disintegrating after being used on one show, for like....10 days, max.
don't even get me started on the seam allowances we used to get in clothes, because the assumption was you'd alter it at some point...
they hate you. they hate the planet. they have drip fed you worse and worse quality clothing until you don't even realize you're being sold Garbage
i have a suggestion
