Problems With Authority

Really fucking queer. They/them. Playful violence and food are basic needs. 18+ content guaranteed. Writing, photography, drawing. Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/quin-engle/shop?asc=u

[quinbi]

In case of critical tumblr failure, you can find me on bluesky:

@quinvisible.bsky.social

Or for hockey and silly drawings of squids

@krakyandco.bsky.social

[mellifexfarm]

behold my ugly

[waywardwarren]

I painted your ugly

[quinbi]

Baby birds are what would happen if tumblr designed a birb by poll

[dailybtvs]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.07 — "Lie to Me"

[quinbi]

Do you like the colours of the rhubarb?

Personal photography: Do not repost.

[quinbi]

Probably shouldn't have done my behind my own head clipper haircut with a depth perception altering migraine. But the migraine was making the need to get my hair off my neck very critical,so...

[arowitharrows]

I feel like people struggle to understand that my life as an aorace person is not centered around an absence of relationships. There is no romance shaped void that I am trying to live with, or live around, or which my life's purpose is to fill somehow.

I go to university and I go to work and I volunteer in my community and in the in-between moments I drink tea with my friends and I plant tomatoes on my balcony and there is no need for anything else. There is no room for anything else anyway.

When I am asked how I deal with 'the hole in my life' or what I do with 'all my free time', I know these questions are not about me at all. They are a reflection of the person asking.

[thatsthebirds]

Its kind of asking how you cope with the lack of parking spaces when someone doesnt own a car

[ace-of-bass]

Ooh I love this analogy because not owning a car does come with problems (at least in the US typically), namely that US infrastructure is so reliant on cars that not owning one means that you deal with other problems, like lack of bike lanes, infrequent public transit, people always assuming you can drive places, etc. Aro/ace people do face problems due to amatonormativity in society, such as inaffordability of places to live alone (because it's assumed you'll live with a roommate until you're a "real adult" and live with a partner and also because of capitalism), lack of ways to meet new people that aren't specifically focused on dating, and people always asking when you'll settle down, aren't you lonely, don't you miss having a partner? as OP talked about.

Like, there are problems that one encounters as a carless person, and there are problems I've encountered as an aroace person. But the problem as a carless person isn't lack of parking spaces and the problem as an aroace person isn't lack of a relationship.

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨

[afcroyjamie]

happy pride month + afc richmond

[fibro-memes]

[simkaye]

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[nostalgic-teddyy]

Imagine the level of whimsy I could reach if I just had $5M in my bank account rn

[chambergambit]

in the past i've described my experience of being an ace with a sex drive as being hungry with no appetite, but actually my experience is more like being hungry and never going out to eat because i always have all the tools and ingredients to make exactly what i want, exactly how i want it, at home. i don't want other people in my kitchen and i certainly don't want to be in anyone else's kitchen. love reading about fictional kitchens, though.

[leaveme2thewolves]

i block ppl all the time so my blocklist ranges from "actual fucking asshole fascist" n "post that mildly annoyed me because im petty" and if i went thru my blocklist rn i probably would have no idea why i blocked each of them but whatever

[quinbi]

A good 50% of mine are people who fail to use the Read More function and post entire fics in a tag I like

[lorquiana]

canvassed my brother and one of my friends over what i should read next and they Both went hockey book. obviously.

[lorquiana]

third opinion what should i read next

hockey book (adapted into popular television)

dead lions (but i only have the spanish translation)

house of the spirits isabel allende

Voting ended onMay 29

[quinbi]

If you are considering Heated Rivalry just on its own for pure reading value, there are better options in the same genre. But it is one that is interesting to look at how they adapted to screen. This is my campaign to get more people to read the Hockey Ever After series and especially Unrivaled by Ashlyn Kane and Morgan James before it gets obscured by the new Game Changers book.

[probuccalfat]

these women did wonders for the “i’m single and i like it that way” community… i’m having a sexy ass life!

[unfuckablebogtroll]

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

[katherinetheok]

This is why i switched to Duck Duck Go last year for my searches. They also let you block AI results in image searches, and the amount of slop it filters out when all i want to see is the skeletal structure of a horse or a specific varietal of cornflower (for fic reasons) is absolutely staggering. They have an AI supported version as well, but fuck that noise. Use the one @anarchopuppy mentioned.

DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

[quinbi]

While it's good for users to switch, the issue that is being addressed in the article is more insidious and will effect even other search engine users:

Websites cost money to stay alive and especially to get new content - especially websites providing you information only, not selling something. That money comes from ads or other things determined by visitor metrics. Most people outside our anti AI bubble are not going to switch to another search engine. They mostly don't even know others exist. But if Google is depriving websites of the majority of that traffic, those websites can no longer get the revenue to stay up. Or maybe they earn enough to stay up, but don't get updated.

Not only is it harder to get to the information, it may start disappearing no matter what search engine you use.

Data farms drive up the cost of server space. This drives up the cost of hosting. Then your website isn't even earning the cost of your hosting. Websites don't just keep existing if someone isn't paying for the hosting. They disappear.

My industry is food blogs. As much as so many people love to hate on the "stories" and excess words, where are you going for your recipes if those sites (which are very expensive to host with all the pictures and video) don't exist? Do you have an entire shelf of cookbooks to cover all the recipes you may need? If the website isn't paying for itself and new content, there's no point or money to create IG or tiktok content. That's gone. It will be a few big producers and that's it. Say goodbye to the diversity of ideas and go back to only a few voices - mostly controlled by broader publishing networks.

If there is a website you like, start supporting it in other ways. Buy their cookbook, support a Patreon, get on their email list and buy their small item or digital course.

And shout to everyone you know about switching to other search engines and preventing more data centers.

[quinbi]

It is very offensive that repotting some house plants and preparing the balcony pots for my tomato seedlings actually calmed down my brain. How dare mental health advice actually work?!