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Sometimes Iâm looking for something online - often âhow toâ articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decadesâ worth of experience. I donât want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesnât understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I donât know what search settings to put into Google to get this.
thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me
ngl these days iâm just happy when itâs not a video
search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!
The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.
This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they arenât sufficiently search engine optimized.
âIt is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didnât even know you were looking for. If you search for âPlatoâ, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaimanâs blog.
If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, youâre on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?
I donât expect this will be the next âbigâ search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.â
i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!
it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.
INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.
tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but âŚ
My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.
Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ianâs Shoelace Site [link], unless thereâs another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysionâs string figure collection [link].
Men don't like tattoos and piercings on women because they had to be an adult to get them.
Men don't like body hair on women because that means they've been through puberty.
Men fetishize cheerleader and school girl uniforms in mainstream media because those are things worn by children.
80-90% of child sex offenders are men.
When ranking what age men view women as being "most attractive" the majority of men across all ages will select the youngest age available.
"One in 15 men questioned admitted they would have sexual contact with a child under the age of 14 if âno one found outâ, while one in 25 said the same about children under 10."
"Men in Australia, UK and USA who report online sexual offending behaviours against children also report being 2 - 3 times more likely to seek sexual contact with children between the ages of 10 â 12 years old if they were certain no one would find out"
"nearly 1 in 10 men reported committing at least one type of sexual offending behaviour against children online at some point during their lifetime."
Millions of men would have sexual contact with a child if they were certain that no one would find out, research has suggested.
Men at every age are consistently most attracted to women in their early 20s.
Oh my god???!
This absolute queen.
The author says she will help fund a legal action after a vulnerable 13-year-old was denied her request to be moved at the Bishopbriggs unit
Read the full article, itâs fucking hair raising
This is what it looks like to use even a fraction of your time, talent, and resources to help women btw. This sort of thing should be the norm. Imagine if all extraordinarily wealthy women would regularly do things like this to help other women and girls, the strength and solidarity we would begin to build.
Trigger warning: male violence, sexual assault
Mental hospitals being mixed-sex is a human rights violation
I miss when ads were a single click and then theyâre gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesnât even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.
I hate advertising. I hate that you canât do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that thereâs nothing I can do about it.
Husband just said: "what if Hitler was a successful painter and still had his political career? It would be so weird to go to an exhibit of his paintings and talk about separating the art from the artist."
We were talking about J.K. Rowling.
Reblogging because I'm sure they'll block me:
If you're comparing a feminist fighting to keep women and girls safe from male violence who spends millions supporting and running charities that lift up the world's most vulnerable people (living in poverty, women of colour, etc) to a man who engineered the murder of over 6 million people you're beyond stupid, you're actually mentally ill.
Let's review and compare
Hitler;
Incited violence by having his supporters go into minority communities and opposition communities with the explicit purpose of starting fights
Blamed a small ethno-religious minority (the Jewish people) for all of Gremany's and Europe's people's, including financial issues and illnesses
Got to power and started working on oppressing the Jewish people. Making them wear The Star of David to identify themselves in public, seizing their assets, having them fired from jobs, and segregating them into gulags with minimal food and medicine so they could die of disease.
Encouraged his followers to join the Nazi party or become informers, so they could more easily control Jewish people.
Set up camps with the express purpose of killing and experimenting on Jewish people.
Started sending Jewish people to these camps, many didn't even make it to the camps, they were killed on the way there, either by soldiers or sickness/stress/injury
Immediately executed anybody not able to work upon entering the camps. This included children, the elderly, the disabled, and then otherwise frail. The gas chambers were so horrific that there are preserved scratch marks on the inside of them where dying people tried to get out.
Worked Jewish people in extreme conditions, without food or water, and if they stopped being able to work, they were executed.
Took Jewish people for experimentation/torture. People were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia, pregnant women had their babies cut out of them, people had limbs removed, and so much worse.
He did this with all countries the Nazi party invaded. In total, 6 million Jewish people died and the global number of Jewish people has still not recovered, even as we get close to the 100 year mark since he came to power. Families were destroyed by his cruelty, the few that did survive were often left with no family.
JKR
Wrote a popular children's book series that made her billions
Donated so much money to charities for children, women, literacy, and the disabled (among other things) that she lost her billionaire status.
Founded a charity called Lumos that supports children in institutionalized care, such as orphanages.
Recognizes that there are two distinct sexes in humans and that males and females are different.
Acknowledges people's right to live how they want to, just not at the expense of others. Dress however you want, sleep with whoever will have you, but a man in a dress is still a man.
Founded a female only rape crisis center after so many women complained about feeling unsafe going to the other crisis center, because there were so many males involved.
Supports women's rights through financial supports. This includes supports for legal fights for women's only spaces, keeping male offenders out of women's spaces, and protecting little girls from males in their spaces.
Just to be clear, one killed several MILLION people and was the leading man behind the largest and most well known genocide on Earth. Again, the global Jewish population has STILL not recovered from the Holocaust.
The other is a feminist book author who supports your right to live how you want as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others and who has killed 0 (zero) people.
Frankly speaking as a trans person who was assigned female at birth, if you crow to me about my "female biology" or "biological reality" or "female socialization" I'll kill you. Like I should get to kill you. You're a TERF.
itâs quite telling to me that you want to kill women because they acknowledge biological reality and female socialisation, and by extension misogyny. He/him pronouns wonât save you from the patriarchy, I know that myself as Iâm quite literally a detransitioner. I hope you overcome your misogyny one day and realise violence is not the answer, genuinely.
This is why acceptance rates for trans people are going down and detransition rates are going up btw. The intolerance for being able to talk about a lived reality based on your sex is alienating to literally everyone else outside the trans rights bubble and also a significant amount of people in it, even if they don't speak up because of the backlash.
Imagine any other delusional and/or entitled group jumping to violence, even just the written threats of it on a mostly-fandom blog site, because someone won't uphold their delusions. And we're supposed to respect your takes? And not think you're in a cult? Or, at the very least, not think you're a self-hating misogynistic who can't distinguish between personality, the bullshit concept of gender, and biological sex??
iâm constantly seeing trans men making posts about about âtransandrophobiaâ or âtransmisandryâ in the trans communityâŚfellas, your trans âsistersâ arenât assholes to you because they believe youâre men. they treat you like shit because they know youâre female, regardless of whether or not you identify with the term. itâs misogyny. we live in a patriarchal society that thrives on misogyny and youâre not immune to it whether you follow all the rules as a feminine tradwife or break the rules and become a transgender man. itâs bullshit, but all the testosterone shots in the world arenât gonna stop it.
Whatttt is with the tendency of Tumblr users to seek absolution from every single person who offhandedly posts about disagreeing with something they do
I say this not unkindly, but firmly: to function as a member of a social species, you have to get comfortable with the idea that not everyone will like you
about that "male firefighters actively sabotage equipment that female firefighters use"you said... were there documented cases or just something you personally noticed?
This isnât the article I recalled, but an example anyway:
Morningstar was hired but given a 90-day probationary period; for men it was 30. Then the gear theft and tampering started. Her gloves, hoods, and radio vanished (2007); her mask was sabotaged (two weeks after 9/11). She found what appeared to be semen on her bed (2012). Clothes continued to be stolen and destroyed. Word of the harassment rose all the way to Mayor Don McIlroy, and the department issued a warning against equipment tampering, but nothing substantively changed.Â
Another:
Her concerns included having her firefighting gear tampered with several times
And another:
Ever since Judy Brewer became Americaâs first female firefighter 45 years ago, women have been hazed in the fire service, including sabotaged oxygen tanks and glass in their boots.
More:
Youâre living twenty-four hours a day in a firehouse and nobody will talk to you. Shit in your boots. Women at the front end of a fire hose and a fire scene and the water gets cut off from her.
I canât even find the article I had in mind (it was around four or five years ago), but it looks I didnât need to.
And men wonder why women donât want to go into male-dominated career fields. đ
I love when MRAs are like âwomen make men do all the hard and dangerous jobsâ while the women who do enter those fields have to put up with men trying to kill them
Not to mention that women make up the majority of sweatshop workers, prostitutes, and slaves in the world. Men only do more of the âdeadliestâ professions because prostitution, sweatshop labor, and human trafficking arenât catalogued as real jobs nor are they subject to any safety oversight.
Additional source: prostitutes have a higher risk of fatality and violence than the official deadliest profession, which is mining, I believe.
This firefighter thing is so terrifying cos not only are men putting their female colleagues at risk, but also putting the people theyâre trying to save at risk of harm and death. Men are so fucking stupid and hateful
I know this is in the realm of personal anecdotes, but last year I went on a date with a girl back in France who had done firefighting training and quit the force afterwards specifically because of shit like this. She explicitly told me that if her place goes up in flames, firefighters will be the last people she calls for help. Which gave me chills.
This problem clearly isnât restricted to the anglosphere, Iâd be interested to hear from other countries if any of you gyns have info on the topic
I would too.
In my area several years back we had a female firefighter who comited suicide because her male co workers treated her like shit. Now i wonder what else they where doing
London Fire Brigade was found to be institutionally sexist and racist during an Independent Culture Review in 2022.
https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/media/8183/independent-culture-review-of-lfb-report.pdf
âWe heard from women who had been verbally and physically assaulted, bullied, harassed, intimidated, abused online and held to a different standard. This ranged from being groped during training exercises and kicked and punched to having their uniforms urinated on and men keeping diaries of when they suspected women were on a period and telling them they âdidnât want to be around women who were bleedingâ. It was reported that some men had explicitly said they didnât want women on their watch and there were multiple accounts of women being subjected to unwanted sexual attention.â
One female firefighter said: âItâs now reached a point with me that I tell my female friends not to let male frefghters in the house. I would advise any single woman not to let them in to check smoke alarms. Why? Because I know what they do. They go through womenâs drawers looking for underwear and sex toys. Then they will spend hours bragging about the dildo they found and they will refer to the women as sluts. We hear it all the time and Iâm sick of it. You shouldnât have to listen to this all the time in any workplace.â
more on the effects of T in females. vulvodynia and clitorodynia mean that this woman is suffering from chronic, shooting pains in her vulva and clitoris.
i could never hate trans men so much that i would want to hide the fact that T might cause them crippling genital pain, or wreck their adrenal glands.
Lmao maybe go actually talk to a trusted medical professional. where is the source for this bullshit???
âtrusted medical professionalsâ permanently disabled this formerly healthy woman. they knew she trusted them, and they took advantage of that trust.
and even the informed consent paperwork lists atrophy as a side effect of testosterone. why would that be a painless experience? if your arm or your lungs started to âatrophyâ, to become weaker and smaller, couldnât they also start to hurt?
trans guys take testosterone for the systemic, permanent, whole-body effects, right?⌠and you donât believe people when they say âthis drug has systemic permanant effects, all throughout the bodyâ?
i think you should place a little less trust in âmedical professionals,â a little more on your own common sense.
Source? Statistics of this happening??
@d3nt4l-d4m4g3 drop the sources queen
Here is my post on how and why this happens, using a peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Impotence Research.
Here and here are some reddit screenshots both from r/detrans and r/ftm.
Here is my master spreadsheet of reddit testimonials which is currently sitting at 89 entries (don't think I've been sleeping on it! And don't think I haven't started archiving the posts ;)))) they're there forever bb :)))) .
Because of the death/dox threats I recieved at original publishing date, I privated this spreadsheetâYou have to DM me to access it or email me at d3nt4l-d4m4g3@gmail verifying your tumblr username with me. The entries are in order of amount of time on testosterone so you can get a sense of the timeline of destruction.
It's always "believe trans people's experiences without questioning (even online where no one obviously ever lies) uwu" until it's horrible medical conditions and adverse experiences. đŤ Then it's "source???? statistics???"
I hope more people realize that sex trafficking isn't just abducting someone and selling them. It can be, but it doesn't have to involve abduction at all.
It often involves blackmailing a person or making a person indebted to you, and then selling that person from their own home or forcing them to go out to work.
Many people who get sex trafficked are in an economical crisis and/or have some form of addiction, or are already trapped in an abusive relationship, and the trafficker takes advantage of that.
Examples:
-A homeless person who is allowed to live with the trafficker, given the impression that they have an overly kind roommate, only for the roommate to threaten to kick them out if they don't agree to the prostitution.
-An addict whose "friend" threatens to report their addiction to the police if they don't do what they say.
-A parent stuck in an abusive relationship, whose partner threatens to harm their children if they don't agree to prostitution.
-An abusive family member of a disabled person, whose disability allows the caregiver to have legal control over all their finances, and the caregiver tells the disabled person that they need to "repay the financial burden" through prostitution.
Etc, etc, etc. Infinite other examples exist.
Please be aware that sex trafficking is usually not a simple abduction case, and that a lot of the time someone will get sex trafficked right under your nose!
SPIRITED AWAY 2001 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki
fixed it
so has any human being who isnât an MRA or a troll or a terf in disguise actually used the term âcotton ceilingâ or
Iâm an MRA and Iâve never heard that term before. What is it supposed to mean?
it means nobody likes you go away
Gonna assume itâs not something Iâd ever say then.
Cotton ceiling is the tendency of trans women to be excluded from the higher echelons of (cis-dominated) womenâs and queer spaces â specifically within the porn industry, but also society in general. It is a manifestation of transmisogyny at the intersection of cissexism, misogyny, and the glass ceiling
I mean I donât use it, and I donât really understand it etymologically, and I think itâs couched in a lot of fancy language which means a lot less than it says, but⌠I donât see whatâs wrong with it, eitherâŚ
You donât see whatâs wrong with womenâs underwear being called a barrier to be broken through?
the underwear being referred to ISNT the cis womenâs; itâs the trans womanâs (or fat, disabled, nonwhite, etc. woman- the cotton ceiling often refers to radicalized bodies in general). the implication is that what is in the trans womanâs pants is excluding her from spaces and connections, and itâs something she needs to overcome. transphobes twisted the language the other way to demonize trans women.
Dude, I was around for the Cotton Ceiling Conference.
Like, literally irl around. It was hosted nearby, even, and I spoke with Morgan Page, one of the people presenting it.
It distinctly referred to the underwear of lesbians who refused to find trans women sexually attractive.
But hey, donât take my word for it! Letâs hear from Avory Faucette, a trans activist involved with the Cotton Ceiling:
[T]he cotton ceiling [is] us[ed] to challenge cis lesbiansâ tendency to support trans causes generally but draw the line at sleeping with trans women or including trans lesbians in their sexual communities.
Drew Deveaux, the originator of the term, is even more specific:
âThe cotton ceiling is a theory proposed [by trans porn star and activist Drew DeVeaux] to explain the experiences queer trans women have with simultaneous social inclusion and sexual exclusion within the broader queer womenâs communities. Basically, it means that cis queer women will be friends with us and talk day and night about trans rights and ending transmisogyny, but will still not consider us viable sexual partners.
The term cotton ceiling is a reference to the âglass ceilingâ that second wave feminist identified in the workforce, wherein women could only advance so high in the workforce but could not break through into positions of power and authority. The cotton represents underwear, signifying sex.â
So right there from the horsesâ mouthâ
The cotton ceiling represents underwear, signifying sex, and the underwear in question refers specifically to lesbiansâ
Please, donât try to retcon history to someone who watched it go down.
If the term is a reference to the âglass ceilingâ then it wouldnât make sense for the cotton [underwear] to belong to the TW. Where do they get off trying to gaslight us like this? How fucking insidious of them to hound us for our sexuality being âexclusionaryâ, to the point where they appropriate a valid feminist term, and then turn around and say âno, we said YOU are the ones who need to break through the cotton of OUR panties, duh!âÂ
Well, hereâs something to ponder on: The Glass Ceiling was proposed by feminists who saw that women, as a class, were missing out on opportunities in the workplace. It is a term meant to represent women in the workforce as we fight against prejudice, so that we can finally gain access to something we want. It is a term proposed by those who are missing out, to enable them to fight against a system that is disadvantaging them.Â
Who, exactly, is the term âcotton ceilingâ meant to represent? Who, because of the existence of this supposed barrier to equality, are the people missing out? Because it doesnât make sense to propose a theory like this from the standpoint of those who supposedly hold all the power in the situation. If lesbians wanted to break through the cotton barrier then we would, but we donât want to, which is exactly why this tacky, rape apologist, mess of a âtheoryâ was proposed in the first place.Â
To illustrate my point:Â A visual representation of the Glass Ceiling - âthe unacknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and members of minoritiesâ
See how the barrier is stopping the disadvantaged group(s) from attaining what they want.
Now contrast this with the Cotton Ceiling -Â âtheory proposed by trans porn star and activist Drew DeVeaux to explain the experiences queer trans women have with simultaneous social inclusion and sexual exclusion within the broader queer womenâs communitiesâ
The cotton ceiling was proposed to represent TW who, by their twisted entitled logic, feel THEY are being discriminated against by lesbians who refuse point blank to suck their dicks.
Also: the glass ceiling is mainly about women being kept out of job opportunities further up the ladder, roles with power and authority. Apply that aspect to the concept of the cotton ceiling, and, well⌠it certainly tracks with the male viewpoint of sex as an act of dominance and claiming someone as your own. đ
Oop! There it is!
The way men lie, manipulate and gaslight women over everything. Like the way men admit absolutely no one wants them and theyâre not embarrassed and they donât realize theyâre the problem. Like maybe go off yourself if itâs that upsetting or just get over it? Men literally think being an incel is a human rights issue itâs like please never look, speak, or approach another woman or girl.
The way you know that transwomen are predators is that they could choose to date straight women, gay men, each other, or whatever and they ONLY want the one group of women who consistently tell them No and ask to be left alone, they want the women that will never feel attraction towards or fall in love with them. They get off on knowing all of this isnât consensual. Itâs sexual harassment and they know that.
Holy fuck
This works best if you keep windows closed.
Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.
This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.
https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html
A better more efficient and odor eliminating homemade air purifier than just taping a 20x20x1 filter to a box fan. Sometimes you need to
If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.
Weâve been using one, and theyâre great. Might try to make the double filter version this year.
theyve been doing a bunch of studies on this during the pandemic and this design is best! 4 filters and a shroud to optimize flow rate.
Corsi-Rosenthal Cube
https://encycla.com/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube
Iâve personally used both the flat single-filter version AND the triangular two-filter version, and based on subjective personal experience I would argue that the benefits from the second filter, both in terms of airflow and filtration, are absolutely worth it. If you need a makeshift air filter and you have two filters to work with, build the triangle (if not the box, i have no idea how good that one works but based on the info here i presume itâs a fair bit better.)
This trick works. We use it in my house.
If anyone wants aesthetic inspo or design ideas check R/CrBoxes