Very Cute & Very Gay

Alton | They/Them | 24 | 18+ only | Engaged to datgirlkiri | pfp by @pepperjackets

[iamoutofideas]

the thing about vampire clowns is they’re always going right for the juggler

[regentium-deactivated20220608]

someone: good boy

me, feeling it in my dick: say it again please i am fucking begging you

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I love weird ass succulents. why is this

[kaijuno]

Cat body language 101

[amygdalae]

Oops! You just touched a bad texture! 1000 years of blood and anguish

[blbearslove]

[hungwy]

Who told you to love your country. Knock that off

[nohohankerotomania-deactivated2]

“fish fear me” I went to the lake and none of them knew you.

[lakemojave]

You don't like tumpet? 🎺? bwaaa?

[important-animal-images]

[marisatomay]

parents please check your kids' halloween candy. just found hieronymus bosch’s garden of earthly delights inside of a peanut butter cup.

[striders]

[seabassapologist]

[everythingfox]

Sheeb bath (important)

[strongermonster]

the joke writes itself huh

[morlock-holmes]

How, and I’m not just grousing but looking for real advice, how on earth do people shop online these days?

If you ask Amazon for 90 inch blackout curtains it just vomits up a random pile of Chinese made curtains in, you know, not that size at all.

Honestly literally how do you find a specific product online these days?

[definitelynotplanetfall]

You pretty much have to already know the model number or exact product name for a specific product. It’s pretty much impossible to side-by-side compare different versions of the same object. If one had a conspiratorial bent you might assume this is the system working.

How do you learn the product name for the curtains that actually block light and aren’t made of poison when every review section is astroturfed and every recommendation is either glowing sponsored praise or some eccentric hobbyist with a corner use case decrying the lack of something you’ve never heard of and don’t know if it’s the jargon for something you should be paying attention to or some AI-generated repetitive gibberish mashing together phrases from the ad copy and the other recommendation lists and the other AI-generated repetitive gibberish?

Just Do More Research (: Caveat Emptor!! (: (:

fr there is no way I am aware of other than spending infinite time creating a brute force map of every blind alley and there is no way to publicize that map to save everyone else the trouble short of becoming The Curtain Review Guy as your full time job

(but, given the preponderance of low-credibility Headphone Review Guys and the fact that search engines invariably return useless slop regardless, this is probably also a waste of time even if you pull it off.)

the-grey-tribe’s lament that the only real solution is to go to a physical store is probably the final word here, I’m afraid.

[morlock-holmes]

It’s impressive how quickly it happened. Google and Amazon went from “Astonishingly useful” to… not that in a very short time and I wonder what happened.

[roach-works]

since you asked for advice, i offer this: it’s not a cure-all, but it does help a bit if you use firefox with as many adblockers as you can get it to run, and then duckduckgo on top of that. 

here’s what pinterest looks like for me when i search blackout curtains. see those holes? they’re where ads were served to me and then blocked out. that’s how much of your pinterest feed is sponsored products. this particular search is probably not going to help me find a link to a good blackout curtain for sale, but it’s going to take me to craft sites and review sites, so maybe i’ll see if i can make myself some, or read some reviews so i know more of what to look for when i DO go to amazon. 

this was the sixth result on duckduck go, after ikea and lowes. it’s not even on the first page of google results, which would prefer me to go to target, wayfair, and overstock.com. amazon dominates the rankings on both searches, but it’s not as aggressively presented to you on duckduckgo, 

there’s also a duckduckgo result for a comparison article from a homegoods site. i honestly like thespruce.com, and use them frequently for their craft tutorials and recipes. if they’re fluff, they’re still fluff worth reading when you feel like fixing up your home.

https://blackoutcurtains.com/product/shop-blackout-curtains/

https://www.thespruce.com/best-blackout-curtains-4152964

in conclusion the state of the internet fucking sucks, but there are people who design browsers and search engines to help you navigate your way through the hypercapitalist manipulation.

[willabee]

pov she's about to get you

[willabee]

POV SHE'S GETTING YOU

[meladoodle]

In improv class we had to come up with a kinda neutral statement for someone to respond to and one of the guys said to me “hey did you hear they’ve stopped making socks?” and I just lost it. That shit is so funny. Why would they just stop making socks. I wanna explore that world.