Puschelin

Pom or Noah | 30+ | bisexual | she/her or any pronouns | writer | translator | professional fangirl with regular scheduled hyperfixations, currently: caitvi, the last of us part 2, abby and ellie specifically, the locked tomb | my friends are the best | anxious bean | Puschelinchen on Ao3 | pfp by sleepiestdesigns

[socialistexan]

[ekbelsher]

Tiffany Aching and You, the white kitten she gives Granny Weatherwax in Wintersmith. I loved this series so much 🖤 GNU Terry Pratchett

[dailycaitvi]

[badassdemonsword]

Im dryin up faster than lake mead just thinking about it

[chicknparm]

Futures

Made of

Ethical romantasy

[lemonscribs]

pomegranate sharks?? little tiny aril sharklings!

I‘m really happy with how this one came out :D

[khushiiiiiiiii]

some lore accurate kiramman waist worship

[lascitasdelashoras]

Glowing Giant Fish Made of Discarded Plastic Bottles, Playa de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

[bogleech]

The glowing

[morionette413]

@eddieintheocean

[ladysantos]

wanted to draw that one scene in girls like girls but with my ocs

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

every conversation on here increasingly feeling like this tweet

[herssian]

how do you explain to people that spending all your pre-adolescence and adolescent years in such deep depression you didn't expect to make it past 19 and somehow making it to 30 changes your worldview. like i don't need any aspirations, i'm just vibing with my iced coffee that brings me actual joy and contentment. might chuckle at a funny post later. life's simple. it's good

[so-very-small]

listen to me. you don’t need AI. if you want to constantly refer to something that provides you misinformation, you can just keep me in your pocket and pull me out when ya got a question. i’d love to answer all your queries wrong with the utmost confidence. AI isn’t special, i too can fit in your pocket and lie to you.

[rosenkranz-does-things]

what if the vengeful soul of the earth remembered the people who cared for her and braided her hair every morning. what then

(bonus because I know this is what you guys wanted and I'd hate to disappoint)

[bugbugly]

trauma humping

[sweatermuppet]

closing statement from an article about being intersex & the possible connection of gender expression and sexuality in intersex individuals, published in The Gay Liberator, 1970s

[kuromi-hoemie]

me when i see an animal that is known for being in my area

[anxeious]

[depsidase]

[bealittleimprobable]

This has been driving me insane.

I used to be *good* at search. It was a whole thing - I found people's "lost songs" or their unknown-source childhood stuffed toy or whatever from Google.

Now, you can't search for the exact brand/design name of something and get accurate answers. It drives me spare on Amazon - if I search for XYZ and you don't have any, or you only have 2, tell me that.

I wouldn't mind if it said "Here are 2 XYZ. Shoppers also searched for..." Instead it'll just throw a random, barely-linked pile of results and you have to wade through every single one to see if the thing you want exists.

[kimberlychapman]

THIS. For ages I used to say that I had "high Google-Fu". I could find *anything* because I knew how to use strings to enhance searches. The string commands haven't even worked for well over a year or more, far before they put in this infernal (and often wrong!) AI BS on top.

I used to be able to search for recipes and easily eliminate unwanted ingredients with a -. For example I'd look for low-carb desserts but without the zillions that use peanut butter simply by searching for something like:

low carb chocolate dessert recipe -peanut

And I'd get a slew of on-point suggestions. For some time now if you do -peanut Google ignores the - and assumes you want recipes stuffed with peanuts.

Where it's even worse now is now you get directed to sites full of bogus AI recipes that don't even make sense. But they have peanuts in them.

I used to be able to use reverse image searches to find out who made that awesome art so I could give credit in my share. They've removed that ability entirely and replaced it with Lens, which is AI BS just showing you more like what you looked for. (Rebecca Watson complained about this in her recent video about JD Vance jizz cup rumours and I apologise for that sentence but...yeah. Watson is great, go find her on Youtube and subscribe because she went into detail about how Google has become less and less useful for debunking.)

This isn't just about Google inserting shopping ads instead of what you wanted to learn about. That's bad. But the results now are just *broken*. The tools we used to have to make searches better have been removed. Google no longer wants us to find the answers we seek, but the answers they want us to have, and that's super creepy and dangerous.

And the alternatives are either using Google in the back end or have other significant barriers to use.

This sucks.

[bogleech]

Duckduckgo and all the other alternatives work this way too, now.

[revretch]

Verbatim search, guys!! Go to "Tools," and enable "Verbatim."

It's a pain in the ass, but it still works!

[dalniente]

1) yay, thank you

2) WHAT THE FUCK WHY DID THEY HIDE IT

[anthropwashere]

Okay so verbatim search is a life saver on the eyes alone??

I forgot search results used to look so normal