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The Star Trek title card generator is over here:
Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!
The sitemaker (Josh Mayfield at https://bsky.app/profile/bean525.bsky.social) has asked for people to come in and kick its tires so he can work out any bugs they turn up. So do give him a hand, if you feel inclined. :)
(also, deeply amused by this one...)
Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time.
(id in alt text)
love wins happy pride
How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.
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 case…
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
sisko and worf trying really hard not to mention gowron's giant eyes
wearing sky-colored shoes to hide from the devil. earth colored hat to hide from god
Ok hear me out I’m pretty sure ducks nailed this one
Star trek be like
Some fake ads for the Neocities Star Trek fansite I've been working on :)
Dana Scully's iconic moments
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bonus iconic Scully moment from Hollywood AD script
Heated Rivalry Inspired by JC Leyendecker
#yeah no I’m fine just thinking about how jc leyendecker would feel seeing this recreation of a painting he did for a magazine that invented #the General American identity and thereby excluding regional and minority identities #particularly in this cover since the original solidified the myth of American Thanksgiving #and highlighted the hypermasculinity of American exceptionalism #(all while both figures were modeled by his lifelong partner Charles) #and now seeing this new piece take on characters who were allowed to be homosexual and happy for a (relatively) mainstream audience #(the same mainstream audience that he helped invent and thought could never be truly accepting of homosexuality unless layered under subtext#) #and seeing it made not for commercial reasons but for the love of art and romance #idk #I’d like to imagine he’d find some wonderment in seeing this #something something #gay lover painted over in heteronormative americana painted over in gay Canadian lovers #god I might write an essay abt this #anywho someone should paint Ilya as the ‘football hero’ cover next Honestly, these are some of the best tags I've ever gotten on a drawing and I am EMOTIONAL, because you understood my intent so clearly. I've been a long time fan of boykisser supreme illustrator Leyendecker for years and years, and studied his work and life, and to see others understand the text and subtext so well is incredible and humbling. I could not have explained myself in words better than these tags.
A great part of why this drawing was made with this reference was indeed because Leyendecker helped create the All American hypermasculine ideal we still see in sports and advertisement today, despite him having been forced to live a closeted life. I could not think of a better artist to reproduce and learn from for a series like Heated Rivalry.
I am tempted to draw Ilya as "Football Hero," (that was one of my first ideas for Heated Rivalry actually), but I've already replicated that painting twice, once as Captain America wrapped in a pride flag, and the second time as Vash the Stampede in his final manga scene. But who knows, I might do it anyways.
All of that to say thank you, @42-clocks for taking the time to write this.
people were very enchanted by the canadian orphans mentioned in this drawing
lunch date!
[Description: a TikTok video showing someone holding up a Macbook laptop with an incredulous look, with a caption reading "Alan Turing after I bring him to 2026". The person inspects the laptop, and as they do so they say "Oh my god. This is—this is incredible. Like, I just—I can't even comprehend what I'm looking at here. Like, I just never thought that like in a million years society would ever, ever be able to create something like this." They pause and look at the laptop screen, and say "And you said they're both hockey players?" /End description]
this has been in my head for weeks
