[emptyghost]

Richard Siken, from “The Torn-Up Road”.

[that-stone-butch]

personalized ads are so funny to me

'hey we've been spying on you and tracking your every move. it's a culmination of state of the art technology and an unprecedented invasion of consumer privacy. a room full of men with made up jobs bent their will toward decades of constructing this system, defending it in court, and tirelessly innovating new ways to aggregate more data about you'

and the end result is

'yeah so uh we saw that you recently bought a car. so here's an ad for that car'

like no i'm good actually. you might be aware that i already have one

[elfwreck]

[kiefbowl]

"men aren't allowed to express their feelings" is actually the number one factor that set feminism back, not makeup or smut books or whatever. women all over think they're doing a service to mental health by acknowledging men are suffering & stoic to the point people will be like "men punch walls because they can't express themselves" I think he did express himself there by punching the wall which is bad and you can be angry at him and judge him for it

[nat-20s]

out of curiosity, how many books have you read this year

0

1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

41-45

45-50

over 50

Voting ended onJun 5

[lesbianliadan]

When someone brings us dinner if my mother is feeling okay she’ll answer the door and she’ll always say something like “thank you so much for bringing this, it’s so nice for me to not have to worry about cooking for them when I have cancer”

Which makes my dad and I (her 31 year old daughter) look like useless freaks!!! You would not be cooking anyway. You do zero cooking now. We are capable of cooking and do cook most nights. Whyyy

[lesbianliadan]

It feels lazy that therapists in books are always Jewish, if only by implication, but often explicitly. If it’s a Freud reference, it’s overdone. If it’s supposed to reflect reality, it doesn’t…I’ve seen a lot of therapists and none have been Jewish.

[lesbianliadan]

The local cancer center has support groups for breast cancer and ovarian cancer and then multiple support groups for Men with Cancer…What are you supposed to do if you’re a woman with a Man cancer…

[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

[stereomike]

did you ever meet/have you ever met any of your great-grandparents?

Yes

No, they all died (or likely died) before I was born

No, but 1 or more were/are alive during my lifetime

No, but with nuance

Voting ended onJun 4

[lesbianliadan]

I didn’t get this job that made me do a like, 5 day long unpaid test but I’m almost surprised at how relieved I am. I know that would have been good money but god did it have increasingly many red flags.

[lesbianliadan]

Also. He specifically said that he realized Tuesday was bad anyway because Tuesdays are always hard because they’re either Day 2 or chemo infusion or they’re part of the recovery from chemo infusion, and “why would I come when you’re really sick?”

Yeah, you’re only the son. Your job is come for the only two good days of the two week cycle and make the world revolve around you for them, silly you forgot.

[lesbianliadan]

One of the issues I have with my brother swooping in to be an honored guest every okay weekend we have is that he brings his wife with a cat allergy so now we have to add getting cat hair out of everything to our Tasks

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[20thcenturystarlet]

woman feeding a sea lion on a California pier. c. 1930s

[lesbianliadan]

From other academics it often just reads as people having a fit that they can’t turn in sloppy work and have it all tidied up for them by people they look down on anyway. Do your own work, take some responsibility.

[lesbianliadan]

I’ve been seeing this talking point on social media (also from academics) that peer review doesn’t happen anymore and editing no longer happens at journals. As someone who’s done fact checking, line editing, and peer review facilitation at journals this has always been weird to me and I don’t know where it comes from. I saw someone specifically say that a journal I worked for, that employed me to fact check, did no fact checking. And they said it based on their experience publishing with us (though I wasn’t assigned to their piece)

I’m not sure if it’s an op or paranoia or anti intellectualism or if people have unfair expectations of fact checkers. Like it’s my job to correct dates and place names and verifiable details but I’m not going to correct your lit review (beyond direct quotes) or your archival sources, that’s your job. Maybe back in the day wives and secretaries did this kind of tedious work (which is really research and writing) for men but that’s not the journal’s responsibility.

But the notion that journal articles are riddled with mistakes now and this never happened before is ludicrous. Compared with the 1980s? With the years of “it came to me in a dream”?