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bajn

on this day one year ago someone sewed a fried egg to a tshirt

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this is your only day to reblog this for a year

hostileworkenvironment

i missed my chance last year so this has been in my queue for 364 days

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on this day one decade ago someone sewed a fried egg to a tshirt

hobgobknowsbest

"Mountain Climbing Horror Stories" by SoysenSyndrome

hannahlockillustration

I've stocked some of my past Patreon prints on my Patreon shop. If you join to my love letter tier, you have the option to add these to this month's rewards for free.

Patreon link here.

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brb trying this

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chromegnomes

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J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

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Little Qualicum, BC

funzos

pink tiger strikes again

nocturnal-stims

Panther in the rain.

theotherwesley

Happy Wet Beast Wednesday to all those that participate

petermorwood

Handsome creature.

As the saying goes: “Why Friend-shaped if not Friend?”

dilfhamlet

the literal only funny tags on this entire post

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#i have to come back here once a year #to mentally prepare myself for autumn

he truly is

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google siting ao3 as a source is so unhinged

strawberrygirldick

Google is quickly approaching a fucking unusable state

crazy-pages

So I started using duckduckgo a little over a year ago. At my research job I was advised to be careful about what I googled (versus looking up in reference documents), because Google is data mining all of us and the company is concerned that Google might sell data on what we are searching about to competitors. Which is its own level of creepy cyber dystopian hell.

Anyway I figured I'd just bypass that entire problem by using a search engine which didn't datamine me, a thing which apparently never occurred to our data security team because Google has sunk its claws into every aspect of our lives. And at first it felt a little bit clunky because it has different searching priorities than Google and I found myself having to relearn subtleties of search term optimization and how to parse results which I never realized were unique to Google in the first place. Meanwhile at home I was using Google and duckduckgo in unequal proportions because I hadn't really committed to making the switch you know?

And this means I got to be the frog with one foot in the slowly boiling water and one foot in a nice bath of room temperature water for reference as Google rotted from the inside. I don't know how long this process has been going on and how much I missed. But from 2022 to 2023, Google has gone to hell. It is almost unusable compared to what it was a year ago.

Nonsense pay to play search engine results now consume more than half of the first page, which we all know, but the stuff below that has gotten less and less useful too. It's gone from duckduckgo being a slightly less powerful search engine (with a bit of a learning curve that compounds the effect) to being objectively head and shoulders better than Google, and it's not because duckduckgo has gotten better! In just over a year!

I feel almost crazy because I don't think I would have noticed it if I hadn't had one foot in and one foot out of Google like I have, simply because of how often we all use Google and how slow that makes the enshittification process from search to search. But it's real! Google has gotten so much worse! It is eating itself alive!