saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?
ALSO
It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...
[A white fortune cookie paper with black text on the front and an icon of a bee. It reads: There are big changes ahead for you. They will be good ones!]
astrology observations about women because the birth chart is louder than therapy sometimes!!
- aries women will defend you in public and roast you in the car home. that's love.
- taurus venus girls don't "catch feelings." they simply decide you're part of their routine and now you're expected to come over, eat pasta, and watch the same comfort movie every weekend.
- gemini mercury women have already replied to your argument in their head, won it, and moved on before you finished typing.
- cancer moons say "it's okay 💕" while opening a folder in their brain labeled evidence.
- leo suns don't need attention. they just somehow become the main character by existing.
- virgo women will notice your split ends, your mood, your typo, your fake laugh, and the fact you said "lol" with a period.
- libra venus spends three business days deciding what to wear for a 20-minute coffee run (
- scorpio moons already know who's lying. they're just waiting to see how committed you are to the performance.
- sagittarius women disappear for a weekend and come back with a new hobby, three stories, and absolutely no explanation.
- capricorn risings looked 27 at age 15 and somehow still look 27 at age 40.
- aquarius moons process emotions by sending one oddly specific TikTok and hoping you understand the lore.
- pisces moons fall in love with potential, write a movie in their head, cry over the ending, and the other person still thinks they're just friends.
- women with fire placements will say "I support women's rights" immediately followed by "and women's wrongs."
- women with earth placements communicate affection by asking if you've eaten.
- women with air placements could solve world peace but will still text "idk lol" after writing a 14-paragraph message and deleting it.
- women with water placements don't hold grudges. they simply remember every detail until the sun explodes.
(using the placements people conveniently forget to talk about)👇
- venus in the 8th house girls don't have crushes. they accidentally form soul contracts.
- moon conjunct saturn women hear "don't take it personally" and immediately take it personally for the next six business months.
- mars in libra will rehearse an argument in the shower... then apologize first.
- leo rising + saturn in the 1st somehow looks intimidating and awkward at the exact same time.
- venus square uranus women wake up one day, lose feelings overnight, dye their hair, delete Instagram, and call it "growth."
- moon in the 12th house has a PhD in pretending everything is fine while spiritually evaporating.
- gemini venus falls in love with someone's vocabulary before their face.
- aries venus gets the ick at Olympic speed.
- mercury conjunct pluto asks one question and suddenly you're confessing crimes from 2017.
- aquarius rising dresses like either a futuristic art professor or someone who got lost on the way to another dimension.
- venus opposite saturn acts completely unbothered while internally questioning if anyone has ever actually liked them.
- mars in the 12th house has imaginary arguments that deserve an Emmy.
- capricorn moon learned emotional regulation by simply... scheduling the breakdown for later.
- jupiter in the 1st house somehow gets free desserts, compliments, and opportunities just by existing.
- scorpio venus doesn't stalk. she conducts independent investigative journalism.
- pisces mercury starts telling a story, remembers another story halfway through, and somehow lands on childhood memories.
- lilith in the 1st house walks into a room and accidentally starts drama without saying a word.
- 5th house stellium flirts like it's a competitive sport and then wonders why everyone has a crush on them.
- saturn in the 7th house dates like she's interviewing candidates for a CEO position.
- venus trine jupiter is physically incapable of buying just one little treat.
if this felt suspiciously accurate... the stars are innocent. i'm just observing.
respectfully... if your chart was mentioned, this post found you for a reason. ✨
Since it's my birthday tomorrow, I figured I'd make a little set with some of my favorite colors to celebrate!!
graphics are not my own; I find most assets through pinterest or canva! credit isn't required to use but is appreciated along with liking and reblogging!
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.
Remember, if you clear your cookies, your search engine preferences will reset, including any settings you enabled/disabled to avoid AI. This applies to DuckDuckGo as well; check your settings every time you clear your browser!
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.
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).
✶ the type of foreign places your 9th house sign may be weirdly drawn to ✶
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mini disclaimer: the 9th house is obviously much bigger than just travelling, and your sign alone won’t tell you exactly where you’ll end up going this is more about the kind of foreign environments, cultures + experiences you may naturally find yourself fascinated by. i’d also look at your 9th house ruler, Jupiter, planets in your 9th + aspects to them for the fuller picture. take what resonates 🤍
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♈︎ 9th house in aries
i’ve noticed people with Aries on the 9th house can be weirdly drawn to places that give them the feeling of being completely unknown again. they may like the idea of going somewhere nobody knows their name, where they don’t have an established reputation and they can just start fresh and do whatever they want. they’re usually more interested in places that feel alive, fast-moving or full of things to actually do rather than somewhere they have to sit around quietly for two weeks . they may gravitate towards countries with a strong independent spirit, competitive energy, adventurous landscapes or cultures that feel very direct and straightforward. i can also see this placement being drawn to foreign places during major periods of personal reinvention, because sometimes the attraction isn’t really about the country itself, it’s about the version of themselves they imagine becoming once they’re there. they may randomly decide “i need to go there” and then become obsessed with making it happen.
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♉︎ 9th house in taurus
people with Taurus on the 9th can fall in love with a foreign place through their senses before anything else. they may remember a country because of one incredible meal, a particular smell in the streets, the sound of the language, beautiful architecture or the feeling of sitting somewhere peaceful and watching the world go by. i’ve noticed they can be drawn to places with strong food traditions, gorgeous scenery, craftsmanship, art, nature or a culture that seems to genuinely appreciate the slower parts of life. they don’t necessarily need an extreme adventure to feel like they’ve experienced something meaningful. they might be perfectly happy spending an afternoon eating somewhere beautiful, walking around old streets or discovering a local market. they can also become surprisingly attached to the physical comforts of a place and find themselves thinking about the food, music or atmosphere years later. the funniest thing is they might travel somewhere and come home obsessed with one very specific thing they experienced there 😭.
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♊︎ 9th house in gemini
Gemini on the 9th house tends to be fascinated by foreign places through the people, language and information they can collect there. they may become obsessed with a country because of its language, accents, slang, media or because they met one person from there who completely changed their perception of it. i’ve noticed this placement can love places where there are multiple cultures and languages happening at once because there’s always something new to learn or overhear. they may prefer busy cities with bookstores, cafés, museums, universities, markets and neighbourhoods that all feel completely different from one another. they’re also the type to have a random list of countries they want to visit for the most specific reasons. one because they want to learn the language, another because they saw a documentary, another because they heard one song in that language and suddenly need to know everything about the culture. their curiosity is usually what takes them somewhere in the first place.
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♋︎ 9th house in cancer
Cancer on the 9th house can create a really strange emotional connection to foreign places. i’ve noticed these people can look at somewhere they’ve never been and immediately feel like they somehow recognise it, or they can visit a place once and become emotionally attached to it for years afterwards. they’re often drawn to countries with strong family traditions, meaningful food cultures, history and a sense of connection between generations. they may be especially interested in learning how families live in other cultures, how people celebrate important occasions or how traditions are passed down. there can also be an attraction to coastal places, islands or anywhere near water because the emotional comfort of the environment matters as much as the actual experience. they may secretly romanticise the idea of not just visiting a foreign country but actually belonging there, imagining what their everyday life, home and relationships would feel like if they had grown up somewhere completely different.
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♌︎ 9th house in leo
Leo on the 9th house can be drawn to foreign places that feel expressive, colourful and full of personality. i’ve noticed these people often love countries or cities with strong cultural identities, especially places where music, fashion, art, festivals, theatre or performance are a huge part of everyday life. they may be fascinated by cultures where people seem more comfortable expressing themselves publicly and celebrating their identity rather than hiding it. there’s also something about travelling that can unlock a more confident version of them, so they may find themselves dressing differently, being more outgoing or expressing opinions they normally keep to themselves when they’re abroad. they can also become attached to places where they feel admired or appreciated, because the 9th house is partly about discovering new versions of yourself through experience. they may come home from a trip with a completely new aesthetic, hobby or personality trait and everyone else is just like “where did THAT come from?” 😭.
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♍︎ 9th house in virgo
Virgo on the 9th house is one of the placements i’d expect to be fascinated by how another country actually functions. these people may notice things other tourists completely overlook: how public transport works, how healthcare is organised, what people eat every day, how schools operate, how clean or efficient the streets are, how people structure their working lives or how a particular industry functions. they may be especially drawn to foreign places through studying, research, volunteering, healthcare, education or learning a practical skill. they can also be the type to research EVERYTHING before travelling 😭, but once they actually arrive, they become fascinated by all the little details they couldn’t have prepared for. they may not necessarily care about visiting the most famous tourist attraction if they can spend the day observing how locals actually live. for them, foreign travel can be a form of research, even when they don’t consciously think of it that way.
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♎︎ 9th house in libra
Libra on the 9th house can be incredibly drawn to foreign places through beauty, art and social atmosphere. these people may have a very specific idea of what a beautiful city looks like and can become fascinated by architecture, galleries, fashion, museums, music and the way people present themselves in different cultures. but i’ve noticed they’re also curious about social behaviour abroad. they may wonder how people date, make friends, communicate, dress or interact with strangers differently from what they’re used to. they can be especially drawn to places that feel romantic or aesthetically pleasing, but the romance isn’t always about relationships. sometimes it’s simply the feeling of walking through a beautiful unfamiliar city and feeling like you’re inside a completely different life. they may also find themselves comparing cultures in their head and thinking about what their own society could learn from somewhere else.
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♏︎ 9th house in scorpio
Scorpio on the 9th house usually wants to know what’s underneath the surface of a place. these people may be fascinated by countries with complicated histories, ancient traditions, political transformations, underground cultures or stories that aren’t immediately visible to tourists. they don’t just want to know what happened, they want to know why it happened and what was going on behind the scenes. i’ve noticed they can become deeply obsessed with the history of a place after visiting it, especially if something about it feels psychologically intense or mysterious. they may also be drawn to foreign environments that completely change their perspective, even if the experience itself is uncomfortable or confronting. sometimes they aren’t looking for a relaxing holiday at all. they’re looking for an experience that leaves them thinking differently about themselves and the world afterwards.
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♐︎ 9th house in sagittarius
Sagittarius on the 9th house can create someone who feels like there is simply too much of the world to experience in one lifetime 😭. they may constantly have another country, city or culture they want to learn about because the feeling of discovering something new keeps them excited about life. i’ve noticed they tend to be drawn to places that give them genuine freedom rather than places where every second of the trip is planned. they may prefer longer journeys where they can actually immerse themselves in a culture instead of rushing through a checklist of tourist attractions. they can also become fascinated by places that challenge their existing worldview and make them realise how differently other people can live. sometimes they may romanticise the idea of going somewhere far away and completely starting again, but even when they don’t actually move, the experience of travelling can permanently expand the way they think about their future.
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♑︎ 9th house in capricorn
Capricorn on the 9th house can be surprisingly strategic about foreign places. these people may become interested in countries because of their universities, career opportunities, industries, political systems or long-term potential rather than simply because somewhere looks fun. they may visit somewhere and immediately think, “could i actually build a life here?” rather than just wondering if they’d enjoy a two-week holiday. i’ve also noticed they can be drawn to places with strong historical identities, old institutions, traditional architecture or a sense of longevity. they may respect cultures that have built something lasting and become fascinated by how societies develop over generations. foreign travel can also become tied to achievement for them, such as studying abroad, building an international career or gaining qualifications somewhere prestigious. they may not travel the most randomly, but when they do, there’s usually a reason behind it.
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♒︎ 9th house in aquarius
Aquarius on the 9th house is often attracted to places that make them question what they thought was normal. they may become fascinated by countries with unusual social structures, progressive ideas, alternative communities, technology or lifestyles that feel completely different from their own. i’ve noticed they can be more interested in how people think than what the tourist attractions are. they might visit somewhere and become obsessed with one unusual social custom, political idea or cultural difference that makes them think, “wait, why don’t we do that where i live?” they can also become fascinated with a foreign country through the internet before ever physically visiting it, especially through music, online communities, niche interests or friendships with people from different backgrounds. their ideal foreign experience is often one that gives them a completely new perspective rather than simply giving them a nice memory.
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♓︎ 9th house in pisces
Pisces on the 9th house can have one of the most emotional relationships with foreign places because they may feel drawn to somewhere without being able to logically explain why. they can become fascinated by countries with a dreamy, artistic, spiritual or almost otherworldly atmosphere, especially places with beautiful music, sacred spaces, old architecture, oceans, mountains or a strong sense of mystery. i’ve noticed they can also build an entire emotional fantasy around a place before they’ve even visited it, imagining what their life would feel like there and what kind of person they might become. sometimes reality doesn’t perfectly match the fantasy, but the attraction was still meaningful because it revealed something about what they were emotionally searching for. they may visit somewhere once and feel like a tiny part of themselves was left behind there, or hear a song years later and suddenly remember the exact feeling of being in that place.
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the 9th house isn’t only about where you travel.
it’s about what happens to your mind when you leave everything you already know.
sometimes you’re looking for freedom.
sometimes you’re looking for knowledge.
sometimes you’re looking for a completely different culture.
sometimes you’re looking for proof that life can be lived another way.
and sometimes you’re secretly looking for a version of yourself that only seems possible once you’re far enough away from everything familiar.
✶ what’s your 9th house sign? 🤍
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