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People who are making posts telling us what is happening over on threads, twitter, and Instagram are like war correspondents sending us reports from the front.

#thank you for your service

boyslovevisualnovel

Tenma Burger Tuesday

ghostly-cabbage

Chat am I on to something

I’m so sad all my roommates are moving out and then I’m moving far away it’s literally the end of an era they’re all my best friends

#plus the one who is maybe - maybe - a little bit more than a bestie is still away #and I fear we might need to have a big scary conversation about emotions when she gets back

I did it I accepted your bestie (me) is officially a grad student

#I’m getting a masters degree #will it suck to leave my friends ? yes #but I’m the cliff I will weather the storm #AND I’ve got a TAship so my project can essentially be whatever I want it to be

thiagonm

Andy Warhol, Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times, 1963

Been thinking about comic book design a lot lately….something about the bold dark lines and supersaturated reds, blues, and yellows of the golden age…..and how similar that art style and and imagery bleeds to the WW2 propaganda of the time…..and how that’s is reflected in the 1950s-60s classic American advertisement language….but also the origins of Wonder Woman and Batman and others as political and social commentary….and how comic books clearly derived from political cartoons….and yet cartoons still exist separate from comics…..and a pictures worth a thousand words so what’s a thousand pictures worth….and then it all comes back around to comics with the pop art movement and specifically Roy Lichtenstein….ands it’s all the same visual language of how to pack a punch

#how to you tell a story #you make people pay attention #and how do you make them pay attention #you make something so enticing they can’t look away #and you fill it with pictures and relatable characters and everything else so that by the end of it they’ve come to your conclusion ->#on their own #so you fill it with saturated colors and cool people doing cool things who are the hero and get the girl and save the day #and you make them the embodiment of your messshe and everyone who empathizes by default agrees #and you win the war that way #and sell cars that way too #and then by the end of it you’ve sold so many cars people are choking on them and throwing your language back in your face as commentary

bugshroom

my mind palace is not up to code

darkestbrook

fravery

The Ever Changing Sky.

Sonia Lera Preston.

#do you #do you love the color of the sky #art tag

tuherrus

you don't even have a dog

#aroace Ryland Grace you are so special to me #grace and rocky

boatgrave-deactivated20250901

mysteryteacup

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

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

#resources

s-u-w-i

Three more requests! I meant to make them all black&white but well, green knight somehow doesn't work all that well without green 🍀

IX. The Green Knight for romanodegois and @a-gremlin-for-my-thoughts VIII. Otesánek eating his mum for msdearcos who asked for folklore's creature from Czechia VII. for christine.kasparian who asked for spooky fairytale for the autumn season. I chose czech fairy tale Hádanka (Riddle) about this queen who made household items from the bones (and hair) of her lover to take a revenge on his killer.

Enjoy! 💀

The green knight opening with the background of the water dripping like a ticking clock and the long panoramic shot, like oh you’re running out of time you’ve been running out of time since the day you were born, then you get to the duel and now you have a year and you’re still just running out of time and then you don’t die you’re not running out of time anymore but you didn’t die. And years and years pass and you have everything you’ve ever wanted yet loose everything you love, and you can’t die because actually you’ve been dead the whole time

#the green knight #thinking about this movie #dev patel #gawain and the green knight #sir gawain #gwaine #arthuriana