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@ranger-august
Okay, months ago I mentioned that I’d been wanting to reread Rangers Apprentice and would likely live blog it. That time has come!
I’m finally turning this blog back into a Rangers Apprentice blog. I’ll be swapping my main over to somewhere else. DM me if you’d like it
Edit: If you don’t want to see the live blogging, I’ll be tagging them all with “August’s Live-Blogging” so you can block that tag
I saw a pregnant isopod today. It was very cool. I used it to teach a child the word isopod. Then I told my supervisor (who I don’t like) that the eggs were a parasite. To be fair fetuses are parasites. It should be noted that said supervisor is pregnant
ao3 mcu a:aou abo bdsm ot3 hs au pwp
the fact that this is completely understandable and rather descriptive makes me rethink what i’ve done with my life
#i understand it perfectly but you couldn’t fucking pay me to read it
this post has ended up in at least 2 masters theses and 1 presentation and im not sure how i feel about that
but is it m/m/m, f/f/f, f/m/m or f/f/m
Dont be silly, a:aou doesnt have three whole women in it
This post is just multiple punches to the face
roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that
the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people
💔💔💔💔💔
I knew Halt was too late to get Will but I hope every time
“He (Sir David) had one of the most important attributes of a good commander: almost unlimited patience”
Who wants to bet he refined that skill raising Gilan
What's with people hearing you disclose you have Tourette and then saying "oh that's cool, I knew someone who was faking that once!"?
1) you probably didn't, people with all presentations of tic disorders down to textbook examples are constantly fake claimed with made up rules and statistics. (And if it was online 90% time this person is just someone on Tiktok that has one too many echolalia tics from another person on Tiktok with TS)
2) the only thing this does is show me you don't know anyone with Tourette except someone accused of being a faker which shows me you don't think you know or respect anyone with TS.
3) this makes me immediately think you consider people with TS to be automatically deceitful and that you're way more likely to fake claim me, too.
My usual response to put some good in the world is "oh, thank you for sharing. It's really common for people with Tourette to get fake claimed. People get really into it and it's one of the reasons a lot of people with diagnosed Tourette Syndrome get harassed in public and online. There's honestly no good way to tell if someone is faking it, so I try to just let people be. If they're actually faking Tourette syndrome it sounds like they've got a lot going on anyways."
One of the worst possible feet to start off on.
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)
Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…
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
I love Ecosia! They’re private and they plant trees! It makes me feel better about my internet rabbit holes knowing that 🌳
I’ve been reading RA out loud to the kid I work with (which is why it’s taking me so long to get through) and now I need to find a new book to read to him because there is no way I’m reading the part where Will and Cassie are in Skandia to him. I’ll continue reading them once I’m past that part
“Apparently, Halt threw him into the moat.”
One man may be deceit. Two can be conspiracy. Three is the number I trust.
yay i wrote a halt concussion fic inspired by @that-one-enby-ranger-2000's fic that everybody needs to read
We need to make Halt suffer more by giving him all the concussions in the world
If Halt does not get at least a couple hours of alone time in his room, at least a complete half hour of no pointless or endless questions from Will, and at least a couple things to eat, then he will become the worst person alive and will tear into you for looking at him wrong. And looking at him wrong just counts as looking in his general direction
i saw u post a lot about tourette’s. idk how i missed that. just know you lost a follower. i have never seen a case of real tourette’s in my life. it should be incredibly clear especially after that disgusting incident at the baftas that the whole thing is a nother form of oppression against pocs and an excuse for white people to act entitled to whatever they want. im disgusted. thought you were a good person and now i remember why i hate white people
i- um…
how did you come to this conclusion
Quick, someone tell the four separate doctors that diagnosed me with Tourette’s that they were wrong. Someone tell my medication to stop working because the disorder they’re treating doesn’t exist
I still don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that Will and Horace’s most popular ship name is whorace. Like whore-ass. 10/10 no notes whoever came up w it is a literary genius
“I am a ranger, my lord”
Asdfgh
Would you like some RA fan kids content
yes
no
Do whatever you want i don't give a shit
