[sleepycap]

if your youtube video doesn't have captions i am making a frown face at you

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[slutcore-starships]

okay so . wild question but i stumbled onto the TYXYZIHN seed for orange stake on the abandoned deck, and i rly wanna try to figure out how to leverage the early madness and eternal jokers for a win. ive given it a couple runs but i cant find a good way through. can anyone help me find a way to beat this seed?

[slutcore-starships]

gonna use this thread to catalog cool seeds i find: 66MZ24QM, also orange stake/abandoned deck; early eternal stuntman set the stage for a rly rly good three of a kind build before i ate shit due to bad draws

[nyemnyems]

Would you accept good seeds from other users or just yours?

[slutcore-starships]

okay so . wild question but i stumbled onto the TYXYZIHN seed for orange stake on the abandoned deck, and i rly wanna try to figure out how to leverage the early madness and eternal jokers for a win. ive given it a couple runs but i cant find a good way through. can anyone help me find a way to beat this seed?

[slutcore-starships]

gonna use this thread to catalog cool seeds i find: 66MZ24QM, also orange stake/abandoned deck; early eternal stuntman set the stage for a rly rly good three of a kind build before i ate shit due to bad draws

[bugs-are-buddies]

(via entomemeology)

[texasfartsupply]

reminds me of this unfortunate text exchange between my father and me

[slutcore-starships]

beautiful woman told me she wants to tie me up and keep me as a living art piece the sun is shining the birds are singing everything is literally awesomes

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[w0nderland42]

this post is closing in on 10k and it’s really quite enlightening reading through the notes.

the most frequent reactions are from people from Not America agreeing that the cultural force of american pride has detracted in some tangible way from their knowledge or recognition of their own history. there’s so many links and references in the notes now, for so many different places. i had a scroll through some of them, that i could find versions of in english. the world has such a rich queer history, and i am inspired by all of the people saying they’re going to go and research more of their own histories. there have been resources shared from all six permanently inhabited continents (none from antartica, yet…), including a lot (relative to the usual zero) from the regions most frequently glossed over in our global queer histories; africa, the middle east, southeast asia, the pacific, and south america. every single person who’s shared a queer historical figure’s name, or a book or other source, or a historical event from their country or culture is doing an important thing by helping to dismantle the US pride hegemony.

the next most frequent reactions are from americans pissing on the poor, and claiming that either it’s not their fault individually because [nebulous reason missing the point] and/or that i’m racist (someone even said fascist lmao?) because the two people i mentioned were Black and latin american… it’s not the fault of those two women nor myself that americans have chosen their faces and names to put at the front of their imperialist pride. cultural imperialism doesn’t have to LOOK racist! you can be unintentionally culturally imperialist and look woke! a lot of the people who do this are queer and liberal or even leftist. the problem is forcing american queer history on the rest of us. shoutout to the Black and latine people in the notes who’ve rightfully pointed out that that’s a bullshit rebuttal. I’ve also noted the autocorrect typo on Marsha’s name, and fixed it, thanks for the heads up.

sort of the point of cultural imperialism is that the people doing it don’t notice it on an individual level. of course you don’t feel like you’re responsible! of course you struggle to see it when the rest of us point it out! that’s by design! if the rest of the world is saying something is a real experience that they’ve had, and you say “well i don’t see it / i’m not responsible for it,” that is blatant denial of a very real issue.

finally, for the love of god, stop using they/them for me, a trans woman who exclusively uses she/her. my pronouns are front and centre on my blog! funny how the people calling me racist and transmisogynistic for Using Examples are also frequently degendering me in the process, huh?

anyway, this vent was never intended to go viral, i posted it on a quiet afternoon after a conversation with a friend about our queer history here. i’m glad it has, though, because glossing over the americans swinging and missing, the breadth of history and knowledge being shared in the notes is a wonderful thing.

[aomitois]

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

[scottishcommune]

Statement from the Fire Brigades Union on the transphobic EHRC code of practice 🔥🔥🔥

[nyemnyems]

Statement regarding the EHRC's anti-trans, pro-segregation guidance - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

The I.W.W. remain, as we have done for over 120 years, steadfastly committed to integration, justice, and peace between members of the inter

The British and Irish branch of the IWW also has one too now!

The I.W.W. remain, as we have done for over 120 years, steadfastly committed to integration, justice, and peace between members of the international working class. The Draft Code of Practice released by the E.H.R.C. last Thursday is diametrically opposed to all three. For all the talk of “clarity” from the state and media, the summary of this guidance is not clarity, but obfuscation and arbitrary punishment. Whilst the Code of Practice does not formally apply to workplaces—theoretically limiting itself to “Services, Public Functions, and Associations”—in practice bigoted and discriminatory employers will take this as carte blanche to force transgender workers into the incorrect facilities, as we have seen from recently leaked internal guidance at the Cabinet Office. This is nakedly an undignified and disrespectful state of affairs. The I.W.W.’s trans members—as with any other trans person—have the right to work and to exist in public free from harm or fear, no matter what the E.H.R.C., the Supreme Court, or any other organ of the state might have to say about it. The I.W.W. cannot, must not, and will not accept any attempt to reverse the decades-old rights and freedoms of trans workers, nor shall we accept any attempt to pit one section of the working class against another. The rhetoric against trans people (and, it must be noted, trans women in particular) is nothing short of a heinous moral panic, and the I.W.W. shall continue to organise, campaign, and fight in favour of safe, just, and inclusive workplaces, and for the liberation of the working class in all its beautiful variety. We are proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with other unions on this issue; already the BMA, the FBU, the UCU, and Unison have issued similar statements. We call on every other union with trans workers in their membership to do the same. Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong.

[kyri45]

Pride Sticker Collection by @Kyri45

Here’s my absolute best-seller coming back ONLY for the month of June!!

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[flareonfloof]

if you were a fish what kind og fosh would you be

catfish

see results

Voting ended onApr 27

[flareonfloof]

i. forgor

[windup-angel]

[sanscest69]

I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

[historicity-was-already-taken]

I type things and send resumes into the void

[intlbipolar]

[drtanner]

This post is almost 11 years old now, so I feel like it’s time for an update:

[national-rail]

just one more redesign. surely one more redesign will cut costs. surely if we redesigned the railway currently mid construction to be slower it would cut costs right. surely if we alter the specs for the trains we already ordered we'll save money. surely if we downgrade the signalling system and upgrade it later it'll cost less. just one more redesign trust.

[ashes2caches]

girl who loves soft and squishy tgirl tummy so much that she ends up just chomping into it…

[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