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Mostly just reposting things from wherever, probably. Any pronouns. Image posts without description tagged #undescribed. Born in the 90s.

[prokyon]

Remove AI garbage from your web browsing experience with the uBlockOrigin Huge AI Blocklist

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock O

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-A

Install this blocklist using the instructions on the GitHub page. For Firefox, you will need to install uBlockOrigin for this. Google Chrome no longer allows the uBlockOrigin extension, so I'm assuming you're at least primarily a Firefox user - or about to be (see browser alternatives below).

For Google Chrome or mobile browsers, this will work with uBlacklist. See the GitHub page for full details on compatibility.

Remove AI Widgets:

If you go to your uBlockOrigin Filter lists page, you can select to filter out AI Widgets - this should completely remove the 'AI Mode' widget/button from your Google search page, in addition to the work done by the Huge AI Blocklist.

Using the uBlockOrigin Huge AI Blocklist filter has made my Google searches look like they used to, and gives me genuine search results.

Look at this. It's beautiful. It's informative. It's not a heap of burning trash bloated with fake information made up by a hallucinating chat bot.

We can go even further: return to the old school search results.

Now, the above results are great and should be free of generative AI junk, but some people would rather not see any of the summary widgets or 'people also ask' box at all. Fear not! You can remove all that by using the 'Web' mode in the Google search bar. Click the 'More' drop down menu and select 'Web'.

Huzzah! Incredible. It's like a functional search engine again.

You can make this the default Google search mode in Google Chrome using Method 1 from this page (https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/). Unfortunately, I don't know if there's a way to do this in Firefox too. This is why for the most part I still use DuckDuckGo (see below) as my default search engine, and only use Google to supplement my searches on the rare occasion I'm just missing something.

Extra filters (optional):

I've also added four filters (their order doesn't matter) to the My Filters page. Full disclosure: I'm not sure they still work, or may only work on Chrome, but I'm keeping them anyway, just in case.

From https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1i7kg83/comment/m8lllwr/: see which solution in the list works for you, it seems to be different for everybody.

google.*##div[jscontroller]:not(:has(div[jscontroller].YzCcne)):has(.YzCcne)

From https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/:

www.google.com##.Beswgc

www.google.com##.olrp5b

www.google.com##.hdzaWe

Make sure you hit the apply changes button when you add filters.

Browser alternatives: escaping Google Chrome.

If you haven't jumped ship from Chrome yet, I'd recommend doing so. Sometimes Chrome outperforms Firefox for niche purposes or because a website doesn't bother to fully support non-Chrome browsers, but the days of Chrome being the superior browser are long gone — by about 10 years. If you're trying to escape Chromium browsers, beware that a lot of the popular Chrome alternatives are just Chrome in a different hat.

Firefox has been the most popular non-Chromium browser for years, and for good reason. However, the company running Mozilla Firefox has annoyed their users, me included, by refusing to take an anti- generative-ai stance, and even included AI features in the Mozilla Firefox browser. Most Firefox users specifically use it because they hate Google's enshittification and want a privacy-focused, clean browser that doesn't hog their RAM and CPU for no reason. So, you can imagine that Mozilla's attitude has pissed us all off recently. You can turn off the AI features in Firefox with the built-in settings, but the company has recently steered straight into the burning garbage heap by saying they want to make the browser based on AI.

Waterfox and LibreWolf:

There are really good alternatives based on Firefox (open-source) which are not affiliated with Mozilla (the company), if you don't like how it operates. Waterfox and LibreWolf are even more trimmed down and privacy-focused than Mozilla's Firefox, and don't use AI. Anti-ai statements: Waterfox and LibreWolf.

From this page: https://programming.dev/post/42546774

In short: LibreWolf is for those who want a “locked-down” fortress out of the box, while Waterfox is for those who want a privacy-conscious browser that still feels like a normal, convenient daily driver. Choose LibreWolf if: You want the highest level of privacy without having to manually edit config files, and you don’t mind occasionally “fixing” a broken website or re-logging into accounts. Choose Waterfox if: You want a privacy-respecting browser that supports Firefox Sync, has an Android counterpart, and handles streaming sites/logins without any extra friction (it supports WideWine out of the box, which lets you stream DRM protected content (netflix, hulu, disney, etc). — [email protected]

I've heard good things about both of these browsers and will investigate them further to decide whether to personally switch from Mozilla Firefox.

DuckDuckGo:

I would also recommend installing the DuckDuckGo extension to your browsers and setting it to be your default search engine.

I've had DuckDuckGo installed on my browsers, Chrome or Firefox, for like 10 years now. It is a good search engine, it's unobtrusive, and blocks trackers, cookies, and does not save any data about you. I've also used it as my default mobile browser for years, along with Firefox mobile, which you can add the AI Blocklist to (see again the GitHub page). I haven't tried the DuckDuckGo desktop browser yet, but I imagine it works just fine like the mobile version. I think DuckDuckGo's browser is also Chromium-based, at least indirectly. I use Firefox with the DuckDuckGo extension so I can have a widely-supported, non-Chromium browser, but include all of DuckDuckGo's anti-tracking features.

Note: DuckDuckGo has included AI in its browser product, however you can opt-out of all AI features with the built-in settings and they will not push it on you like Google does. I hope they remove AI features entirely in the future, but for now I am comfortable with the barriers in place to keep AI out of my face. Firefox also has AI features like Chrome does, which you can turn off with the built-in settings.

There's also noai.duckduckgo search, an alternative version of its normal search engine which removes AI-generated images and turns off AI results/assists by default. Even though DuckDuckGo's inclusion of any AI features annoys me, its policy to make these features 100% optional builds trust with this browser/extension/search engine.

You can always use Google search if you need to, but with uBlockOrigin and the AI Blocklist filter added on, at least you shouldn't have AI-altered search results or the AI overview anymore.

Other browsers exist, probably:

There are certainly more non-Chromium alternatives out there, but Firefox, Waterfox, and LibreWolf are the top three recommended to me. That link to alternatives, plus this ComputerCity page are the best lists I could find in a brief search. If you google "non-Chromium browsers" you'll get a lot of mixed results which require a bit of digging to realise they're not really recommending you what you looked for at all.

I've heard about Ecosia over the years, and while I like the idea of a search engine that plants a tree for each query, I don't think that's actually what happens — at least, that's what they used to be reputed to do, but I believe that's an unsustainable business model which has likely changed. In 2026, Ecosia says it uses 100% of its profits for the planet and runs its search engine off clean energy. That's cool! It's still Chromium-based. And it also uses generative AI for chat bots, so I don't trust its principles on environmentalism. I need to do more reading on this to form a stronger opinion about it.

I hope this post has helped at least some of you have a better experience browsing the web and googling your questions.

The Huge AI Blocklist really has been an amazing tool to keep my internet life free and clear of a lot of generative AI rubbish. I'm not a tech expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm savvy enough to understand what genAI is and does, and that the more I learn about it, it's even worse than I thought. I truly hate it, and I hate the enshittification of all our experiences, even those as simple and innocent as googling "snow leopard" or "how to cook pasta" or "what is a phascogale" (go ahead and test your freshly-cleaned search engines out with that one hehe).

[etirabys]

can anyone find me that mesopotamian clay tablet telling you to marry a party girl because she'll bring you joy

[mentalwires]

It's from the "Maxims of Ptahhotep", purportedly written by a 96-year-old vizier to pass on his wisdom to his son:

If you marry a good-time girl

A joyful woman known to her town,

If she is wayward,

and revels in the moment,

do not reject her, but instead let her enjoy;

joyfulness is what marks calm water.

[etirabys]

yay ty. Between the above and the links in the mentions we have 3 translations total

[fatsexybitch]

Happy Wife Happy Life is 4.5k years old

[assortedinsanities]

Other sites also have the "Does anyone have this image?" posts, but only on tumblr you'll find "Does anyone have that mesopotamien clay tablet?" posts.

[masked-hero-z]

[image description: a screenshot of a tumblr thread.

first in the thread is a transcription of the poem next to the hieroglyphic version. It reads: “if you marry a party girl, one known as fun loving to her townsfolk, if she is rather unregulated, and indulges for a while, do not deny her, but let her enjoy herself; as a light heart makes for navigable waters”. The tumblr user who posted it writes: “advice from 4500 years ago”.

The reblog in the image is a different translation of the same writing. It says: “if you marry an outgoing woman, full of joy, loved by all, fickle and impulsive, never get rid of her; keep her well fed. Her joy will become yours!”. Another tumblr user captions it, “I like the translation. ‘it would be wise of you to remember this’.” End ID]

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

[gracklesong]

From Criselda Vasquez's Instagram (3 April 2026):

Donate to Help Bring My Father Home from ICE Detention, organized by Jorge V

Hi everyone, Thank you for taking the time to read this. On Tuesday, March 31,… Jorge V needs your support for Help Bring My Father Home

[gatheringbones]

I love your agreeable and amenable and flexible nature and how none of your wants and needs ever get priority and how nobody even knows what they are to begin with and how you never start or engage in conflicts and never express even mildly unsavory opinions and get along with everyone from every conceivable group, that’s so trustworthy. hey quick question. do you happen to have an enormous pressurized reservoir of rage and resentment you feel like you can’t ever analyze or express because that would break the rules for the kind of person you are and if so, do you think a lifetime of squashing it down might ever backfire?

[fuzzyfortitude]

No it's fine don't worry about it.

[nanoraydx]

Rest in peace the Walmart yodeling kid, it has died

[fuzzyfortitude]

I went to look up the yodeling kid and discovered:

He's 20 now.

He supported Lil Nas X (based)

He "did a Burger King commercial in which he yodels about cow-based methane emissions".

In 2022, he was "working at a local restaurant in his hometown making pizzas and subs."

[holdoncallfailed]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[psalmicwitch]

To put it bluntly, the only way to end homelessness is to house people or kill them.

That's it. Those are your options. Homelessness doesn't go away based on "crime crackdowns." You will imprison the unhoused, and when they are free, they will be unhoused again. Or they will die in prison.

When you burn encampments or force people out without their stuff, they remain unhoused or freeze to death.

After working with the unhoused, it's become abundantly clear that those who don't want to support them instead want them dead.

There is blood on the hands of every government and organization that controls the homeless population with force instead of compassion.

[weirdvintage]

An early 20th century postcard against the coercion of motherhood and promoting the usage of contraception.

[tr-p-antoninvs-pivs]

She is going to hit that Christian baby for a home run.

[wokeleftistmob]

[ID: A cartoon of a woman fending off an enormous baby-toting stork with her parasol, captioned "'"And The Villain Still Pursues Her"'". End ID]

[fuzzyfortitude]

https://youtu.be/TZ7kUss8bjo

[therainbowgorilla]

(it's a sound effect of Mario hitting a ball with a baseball bat)

[fuzzyfortitude]

It's the sound of the baseball bat critical hit in Super Smash Bros, the one that sends you off the screen immediately.

[weirdvintage]

An early 20th century postcard against the coercion of motherhood and promoting the usage of contraception.

[tr-p-antoninvs-pivs]

She is going to hit that Christian baby for a home run.

[wokeleftistmob]

[ID: A cartoon of a woman fending off an enormous baby-toting stork with her parasol, captioned "'"And The Villain Still Pursues Her"'". End ID]

[fuzzyfortitude]

https://youtu.be/TZ7kUss8bjo

[therainbowgorilla]

(it's a sound effect of Mario hitting a ball with a baseball bat)

[stargazermeadow]

yall should take this face blindness test and rb with what you got bc im curious

70-75

65-70

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<40

Voting ended onMar 23

Interactive measure of face memory, free, 3-6 minutes.

[lover-of-mine]

Anyways, if you have an Android, you wanna go to the store, deactivate auto updates, uninstall the app, and get the apk for version 43.1.0. Notes are in one number, one click reblogs are still real, and you can see everything attached to a post.

[myownwholewildworld]

re tumblr's notes rollout!!

just got this email from support:

PLEASE PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE POST THROUGH THIS LINK!! it links directly to @changes reblog of the original post so hopefully they'll hear us out!!

if you need a template feel free to copy/paste this or any other alternation circulating on tumblr!

Please stop the new notes rollout. It's gonna kill fandoms. Original creators and artists will stop posting if we don't get the credit we deserve and instead goes to rebloggers. There is a reason why we are here and not on Twitter. We are already struggling to reach people and this is just gonna make it worse. Fandoms are already starving for engagement and this rollout will drown smaller accounts. I urge you to reconsider.

also please still submit feedback through their online support form! the more ways we can bother them, the better.

[seren-starlight]

The issue with the daylight savings time change is that people aren't used to falling back an hour or springing forward an hour, and people struggle as they take the time to adjust. But of course, if you only do something twice a year you'll never develop a talent for it. You need to practice if you really want to be good at something! Under my proposal, which absolutely everyone will hate,

[cannabiscomrade]

So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

Horne said two staff members are sorting through the calls, and two investigators are working on credible leads.

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up

make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll

[neko-setsuka]

So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn't be deterred by the prank calls because they would 'taper off eventually'. It'd be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

what is your opinion on throwing tea into harbors?

I'm all for it.

My only question would be: For whose freedom do you throw the tea into the harbor? If your revolution fails to liberate the most vulnerable and oppressed people in your social order, is it a successful revolution?

The United States of America abolished chattel slavery 61 years after Haiti, 42 years after Chile, and 31 years after the British Empire. Was our revolution really that successful? Was it even good news for the most marginalized--the Black and indigenous Americans who were dehumanized by our Constitution?

So, yes, let us never be afraid to throw tea in the harbor. But let us be careful whose tea we throw into the harbor, and consider not just the thrills of revolution, but also the governance that must come after.

[toskarin]

I went to see Parasite completely blind besides being aware (unavoidably) that there was a hard tonal shift at some point. I saw the poster and stuff, but that was it

the entire time I was bracing myself for it to shift into some sort of alien parasite psychological horror movie, which seems really presumptuous, except I saw Bong Joon-ho's The Host and that movie actually did have a giant monster in it, so I wasn't putting it past him

[toskarin]

god the class dynamics in this movie are so stressful already... keeping up this double life while still taking care of your family...... and if that's not bad enough, they're gonna have to deal with The Parasite when it shows up

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

[garvielbb]

I was reading the Warhammer novel 'Demonslayer' from the Gotrek & Felix series. Only, I had misread the title as 'Dragonslayer' (another book later on). So, without questioning, I read most of the novel, as they went into the chaos wastes, and heard the news that there was a giant demon in the fortress they were going to, all this thinking 'and they don't even know of the dragon (that will surely come after the giant fuckass demon)... :('

[headspace-hotel]

I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

[piscespixiewastaken]

Quick note that this only works in areas where forests are the natural and native habitat. So obviously deserts, tundras, steppes, plains, and other non-wooded biomes will require a different way to reintroduce native wildlife back.

Other note, if you live in an area with nonnative and invasive plants, DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE LETTING YOUR LAWN REGROW TO FOREST!!!!!

I live in New England, and fucking hell, sooooo many trees here are not native to North America, let alone the northeast. The folks in Victorian era, while they built beautiful homes, were shit at making sure the ecosystem in their yard was healthy. Many of the invasive plants were formerly ornamental plants that got crazy out of control and took over the area.

We have more European maple trees than native ones in my area because they go to seed earlier than the native variety and take over. Oriental bittersweet grows thick enough to look like tree trunks, and chokes all trees regardless of native or nonnative status. The cedar in our backyard isn’t the native kind. Neither is the pine tree. We’ve been blessed with a little cherry tree that IS native, and we hope it can grow properly.

So if you live in the US, look up what invasive plants are in your area to be aware of what not to let propagate. Many varieties of Barberry, Honeysuckle, and Buckthorn are not native to the US. Burning Bush is another one to keep an eye out for.

Also, do NOT just plant what you get from a plant nursery/Home Depot/Lowe’s without verifying if it’s native. Sooo many of those plants are from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Not saying they don’t look beautiful or wouldn’t be great in a pot, but many of them can grow out of control once in the ground. You can kinda get away with planting nonnative annuals if you live somewhere that gets cold enough that they die off after the summer or fall.

Familiarize yourself with the timing of native seedlings. Many of them can end up falling and growing before the native ones do, but there are exceptions. So learn when the native seeds fall and what their seedlings look like. Then you tear up nonnative ones knowing they’re not healthy for your area’s native population.

Plant native berry bushes and fruit trees on the outer areas of your yard!! This brings back insects and animals to the area and increases biodiversity. Fruit flowers attract pollinators, and the fruits attract animals if you’re not interested in picking them yourself. Just make sure you plant them away from your house to not invite animals or insects to become pests.

Also, keep an eye on your ornamental perennials like hastas. Most are not technically invasive, but for sure hell will grow outward to wherever they can fit. And they can be persistent buggers if you decide to dig them up.

Sincerely, an amateur gardener who is trying to win back her yard for the native plants, insects, and animals.