Here mainly for the Larry....

If anyone is wondering, it's Larry S(tylinson), 1 Direction, as fuck... Also, I'm a Louie Harrie Larrie, if anyone is wondering, and She/Her.

[catbushandludicrous]

[hedgehog-goulash7]

I empathize completely

[jenroses]

it’s more life imitating art than art imitating life in this case.

[prokopetz]

There's no obligation to Respect Other People's Beliefs regardless of what those beliefs are, but as a matter of practice you do need to get comfortable with framing arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share, because you're never going to live in a world where everyone everywhere has exactly the same moral precepts that you do.

[dailycatsblog]

[asmeesh]

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

[shit-show-no-go]

Can you swap their heads ?

[asmeesh]

omg you can

[asmeesh]

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

[theinvisiblespoon]

[kawuli]

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)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

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

[loverboy-ant]

[shopwitchvamp]

Just wanted to share some shockingly good news in these difficult times. The full article is really worth reading. [Find it here]

[pompompurin-futch]

important reminder (esp to those in liberal states) to never doubt the power of queer folks in red states to get 👏 shit 👏 done 👏

[worldhistoryfacts]

A Mesopotamian stamp seal, 3200-2900 BCE. The upper portion is shaped like a reclining calf, but the stamp itself delightfully portrays a collection of cats.

{WHF} {HTE} {Medium}

[aandvarchaeology]

Have a direct link to the online collection of the Walters Museum who holds this delightful seal from the Jamdet Nasr period!

[elodieunderglass]

Hat tip @eldriwolf how lovely!

[zayns-beer-can-gainz]

oof 💔

[emptyedwin]

Ardnamurchan, Scottish Highlands

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"Every language is valid, regional dialects are a normal and natural part of the evolution of language even on a national scale, the names that other English-speaking countries give things are just as valid as yours" I say to myself through gritted teeth as I listen to Americans describe breakfast foods

[batmanthighhighboots]

Ok so I was going to launch into an explanation of how breakfast sausage is just a type of fresh sausage which, like many types of fresh sausage, can now be purchased sans casing to save you the trouble of removing it from the casing yourself...

...but then I started wondering what meat they put on breakfast sandwichs in AU if they don't use breakfast sausage and it turns out they DO use breakfast sausage, at least at McDonalds, which brings me to why I'm actually here:

What the hell is this

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That's a big brekkie burger what's confusing

[3hobbitsinatrenchcoat]

I want to consume that immediately with a violence of need that can only be American.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#WHY THE FUCK AUSSIES GOT BETTER BURGER THAN US#WE NEED TO INVADE

DON'T BLAME US IT'S YOUR FUCKING CHAIN RESTAURANT

[laurin4475]

Also @batmanthighhighboots - you can’t buy “sausage meat” in Australia. You can buy minced meat, but it seems to be a lot less fine than what I see Americans use in recipes online.

To try and use those recipes i just have to buy actual sausages and take the meat out of the skins.

Sausage only refers to actual sausages here. Also I’d call that a hamburger patty in the pic above, but that might just be me?

Also as Derin says- American chain 🤷🏻‍♀️

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Also I gotta say, not once in my life have I considered peeling a sausage before cooking it. You can't just slice it up? Why have you gotta take his clothes off?

[postapocalypticcottagecore]

TIL that Australian Maccies just bung the hash browns in their McMuffin equivalent rather than having them as a side.

And is that barbecue or HP sauce, I wonder?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

No we also have McMuffins, this is a burger.

[jmtorres]

ok so im on the mcdonalds AU site comparing things

is this actually sausage patty? or is this another burger patty?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Americans would call that one a sausage patty I think

[the-deviations]

yeah, it’s spiced in a way the normal beef patty isn’t, and we need some way to differentiate it so…it gets called sausage, even though it’s flat

Kinda like how, waffle variant aside, we only call the julienned potatoes prepared in hot oil fries if they’ve come from Maccas. They’re chips otherwise.

[voxsecundus]

you absolutely can buy sausage meat for making patties in australia

the reason it's very easy to miss this is the profoundly unfortunate choice of many supermarkets to store it directly next to the chilled dogfood that comes in nigh identical packaging

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Yeah I always just assumed that that whole fridge area was dog food

[eastofurban]

But why's it beef? Breakfast sausage is seasoned and minced pork.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In Australia, sausages are beef by default. You can buy pork or chicken or lamb sausages but your standard sausage is beef. Sausage rolls and pasties (the things that people would likely buy this to make) are also beef by default. I've never seen a pork sausage roll or pork pastie in my life (although I'm sure you can probably get them in some places).

We don't really do "breakfast sausage" here. If you have a sausage for breakfast in Australia you'd be having one of these:

alongside your eggs or whatever for a big heavy breakfast.

[eastofurban]

You know, that's the one thing that's pretty uncommon here in the US to the best of my knowledge. We have chicken and pork sausage but minced beef is never a "sausage" per se.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Everything is beef in Australia. We raise a LOT of cows here.

Everything that isn't beef is lamb.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Come to think of it I'm starting to understand the common US reaction to our sausages in bread.

You guys aren't trying to replicate this dish with a PORK sausage, are you???

[obeliskthetormentorsfeetpics]

if you tell an american “sausage” with no other descriptors theyre going to think pork sausage before anything else so probably

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This revelation that your sausages aren't beef by default is fucking me up. I rescind the sentiment of the original post, there is a right and wrong way to do these things, and "sausage" being assumed to be beef is the correct way. Pork sausages should be a niche item. I'm not going to be able to get over this. Your country is fucking weird.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You guys can't be out there at a barbecue doing up pork sausages and having onion and tomato sauce (sorry "ketchup") with them, that's a totally different flavour profile. No wonder people in the US keep asking what the difference between a sausage in bread and a hot dog is and why we don't use hot dog buns. Pork sausages. Jesus Christ.

[kadharonon]

Hot Dogs are the one kind of sausage that does commonly come with a beef variety in the US.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This conversation is giving me Covid

[kadharonon]

I'm sorry we're teaching you Horrible American Sausage Facts against your will.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I learned early on that you guys were doing sausages incorrectly but I wasn't fully cognisant of just how many dimensions you could be incorrect in at once.

[rosebramblewolf]

having eaten both, i want to also stress that australian beef is much much better than american beef. idk what yall are putting in the grass down there but youre doing a great job

[thetimeicansee]

It amazes me how the National Park Service is the most vocal department against Fascism. Even the Democrats are a mumble when compared to these park rangers' adamant denouncement and exposing of this administration. Support our bravest federal workers who keep our world one worth living in.

[lotstradamus]

me seeing this book cover: ah, clearly this memoir is about a lesbian's journey to identifying as a Stone Butch ! this I am interpreting from the context clues of the title and the carabiner on the cover, a lesbian dogwhistle ! what an interesting read this will be !

what this book is about: rock climbing

[ogrishpuntocom]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

:D

[cryptile]

Something my dear friend said to me that i think fits

[apolladay]

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[bone-enjoyers]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Abuse isn't suddenly okay because your abuser is ill. Abuse isn't suddenly okay because your abuser is traumatized. Abuse isn't suddenly okay because your abuser is in a really bad situation. Abuse isn't suddenly okay because your abuser has good intentions. Abuse isn't suddenly okay because your abuser is nice sometimes. Your abuser does not have to be a literal cartoon villain for their abuse to be wrong. They likely have some good traits or mitigating factors, but that doesn't mean you have to excuse and put up with their abuse.