For Purposes of Self Expression

This is me, in words that will never truly explain any person fully, but gosh darn it I'm going to try.

[psychotic-gerard]

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[kiragecko]

[Image of text saying,

Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

End ID.]

[safije]

Katie Harris is photographed with her Appaloosa. Harris made most of the horse trappings as well as her own traditional outfits herself, including the bead work. Some of the trappings are passed down from older generations but the girls like to make their own to continue the tradition.

By Erika Larsen

[mymotherthemountain]

Katie is Nez Perce, Cayuse, Umatilla and Karuk

[chondrichthyes-nuts]

@draconym you've prob seen this, but I think all the trappings are just so lovely!

[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

[cargopantsman]

[deliriumcrow]

I mean, I'm 44 and just learned that you can pick up an egg yolk. Seems like cursed knowledge to me.

[thegrimmlovely]

I don't like knowing this.

[sufficientlylargen]

Garlic makes your fingertips a little sticky, and specifically has mercaptans in it which bond well to the egg yolk, which is why this works.

Mercaptans are sulfurous hydrocarbons that should not be confused with mercaptains, who are ranked just below mermajors in the mermilitary.

[awkwardosthe3rd]

Have a woofer

[nephilidae]

How can anyone hate Junji Ito 

[demigodoftheatre]

I love when you recognize junji ito’s style and you read on not knowing if it’s going to be horrific or just cute cat stuff

[spencerthespacer-deactivated202]

[fox-in-the-wheat-deactivated202]

THIS IS THE HARDEST I HAVE LAUGHED IN SO LONG YOU HAVE CURED MY DEPRESSION

[ywg]

This is one of the greatest posts I’ve ever witnessed. The payoff was amazing.

[mono-red-menace]

copper my beloved

[mono-red-menace]

rose gold, brass, bronze, what cant she do

[mono-red-menace]

beautiful base colour, beautiful patina, and it mixes to make beautiful alloys. 10/10 best metal.

[mono-red-menace]

she also makes up so much of your wiring, she’s a working gal too.

what CANT she do

[kirby-left-front-away-from-me]

Don’t forget about the most beautiful blue made by copper sulfate!!

[mono-red-menace]

my absolute FAVOURITE comments on this post are ones like this.

where they just add on something ELSE that copper does. it’s great.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

When you need to work in an atmosphere where a stray spark could cause an explosion, you switch out your steel tools for copper alloys since it conducts heat much better and thus won’t spark easy.

[swan2swan]

So when Tumblr user @mono-red-menace​ hypes up copper, it’s a 60k-note banger, but when I, Ea-nasir,

[eleonorpiteira]

These are already a few months old, but here are some more traditional adventures! Gouache, and trees are in watercolours.

[photosthatarensfw]

I need you guys to pay attention

[photosthatarensfw]

I need you to behold

[james-silvercat]

I am observing

[photosthatarensfw]

[scrollingfan]

Observation appreciated

[ikahim]

I continue to attend, in search of additional observations to be made.

[photosthatarensfw]

Here you go

[ygosideblog]

who keeps giving her these things

[frommetrunui]

[super-saiyan-rose]

she ends up condemned too D:

[princesspornstar-deactivated201]

damn bitch get it together

[estrogenpatchnotes]

[megadethzenbu-deactivated202011]

She’s a Darklord now too

[ashestoashesjc]

[spdy4]

This what my phone translates the last card to

[ygosideblog]

hey guys guess what

her old friends joined her

[smooththegoofyshark]

Good for them fuck shit up ladies

[boobiemom]

I wanna add those two girls’ names as cards, and they’re pretty great names. 

Also they are 100% drawn to be placed at Condemned Darklord’s sides. 

This is what peak polyamory looks like.

[thetetrarchyofcassidy]

Any girls wanna get corrupted together and then have hot gay sex maybe?

[ygoheritageposts]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Heritage Post

[ggunbusted]

As a trial run here’s a drawing from right after i stopped posting on here. An original character name Ava. Actually a redesign of this character (Originally posted Nov. 2020)

[alexseanchai]

[afeelgoodblog]

“May I?” “You may.”

[callemreine]

I saw this last month on twitter and took a screenshot! Heres an addition

[oriolida]

[fuck-usag]

Sometimes real life beats the shit out of movies can you imagine LIVING THIS

[liberalsarecool]

Curriculum is about preparing minds to think and reason, it's not about parental control and subordination. Banning books is small-minded.

[transbb]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[pocketss]

Rib and Cricket cause existential dread!