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@thingrepository
What is this blog?
Basically, I'm making an archive of posts with useful information. Its mostly for myself to refer back to, but it might be useful for other people, idk.
So it has nothing to do with the 1982 John Carpenter horror masterpiece?
Nothing to do with it besides the theming, sorry. I just thought it would be fun.
What about the guy from the Fantastic Four?
Yeah, nothing to do with him either.
Who are you?
Don't worry about it :^)
I was originally planning on holding off sharing this until June, but then decided to hell with that; why wait?
FURTHER RESOURCES:
Intersections: Indigenous and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Identities – this booklet from the Native Women’s Association of Canada is more intended towards 2S folks, but is still a great read for anyone.
Two Spirits, One Voice – This video from Egale is a great, no more comments needed.
A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder – This book by Ma-Nee Chacaby can be a difficult and emotional read, but very much worth it.
Becoming Two-spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country – I have yet to read this book by Brian Joseph Gilley myself, but heard positive things about it.
Please feel free to reblog with more suggestions, if you have them!
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
Masterlist Of Black Focused Resources (1)
Donate To Black Trans Groups A Diverse Discussion Playlist Black Comic Creators Masterlist Black Led Indie Projects Playlist Queer WOC\Sapphic WOC Playlist | BLACK MUSIC COLLECTION | 100 Black Punks (& more) You Could Be Listening To | Black & Indigenous Goth & Alternative Bands\Artists | Alt Black Artists 1 | Alt Black Artists 2 | Black Alternative Canadian Bands\Artists | Black Artists you need to listen to Disabled Black Creators | Collection of Sci-fi and Fantasy Books by Black Authors | READ BLACK BOOKS ALL YEAR LONG Black Voice Claims Playlist Decolonizing Games Resource List World of Black Heroes Center for Black Literature & Culture (CBLC) Zairoo Nappy The African American Voice Actor Database Feast Afrique Blacktober (Official Carrd) | 2025 Blacktober Prompt List (Unofficial) Black N Animated Black Punk Black & Brown skin The National Association of Black Bookstores NAACP AAVE Glossary Afro-Linguistics Black Girl Gamers Black Webmasters Blerdcon Diverse Books Afro Hair Library Black Doctor.org Melanin Library Sainttheron Black Nerds Create Curlsondemand Black Autism Flag Black Userbox | Black Userboxes | Black Jirai Userboxes + Sparkly Juneteenth Deco | Black Queer Banners | Black Queer Flags | Lgbtq Black Flags | Blk Mogai Support Black Women Eating disorder resources for the BIPoC community BlackLivesMatter BIPOC Mental Health Blackliveswillalwaysmatter What It Means To Be a BIPOC Student: Resources & More 65 Black, Indigenous & POC Outdoor Organizations to Support IMAGINE BLACK National Black Women's Justice Institute Buy from a Black Woman Sundown Town Map | Hate Map | Ice In My Area (ICE Activity Tracker) Master List of Black Revolutionary Readings Black Woman Savior Trope Toolkit WHAT IS WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE? Jim Crow Museum Racial Justice, Racial Equity, & Anti-Racism Reading List Antiracist Reading Lists The Black Music Project Black Music Matters Timeline Of Black Music The African American Folklorist Black Native Americans: What To Know About Afro-Indigenous Peoples Intersectional Indigenous Identities: Afro-Indigenous and Black Indigenous Peoples Afro-Indigenous Intersectionality Black American Sign Language Black ASL Black, Deaf, And Extremely Online
Protecting Our Neighbors from ICE
A do-it-yourself guide to community defense skills with which you can protect your neighbors from ICE and other federal mercenaries.
https://crimethinc.com/StopICETactics
Adapted from de-arrest tactics popularized by participants in protests against police, this guide outlines several strategies that community members can combine with rapid response networks, patrols, neighborhood hubs, and other yet-to-be-conceived models to protect our neighbors from abduction. Ideally, people who are working together to resist ICE should organize a one-hour community defense workshop to learn and practice these skills, using this material.
Its such a rip off that flowers don’t taste good
Spoken like a woman who’s never used garlic blossom in a stirfry, had an elderflower fritter or used Calendula and Nasturtium in a salad.
I have not but im going to now
Add pics of the tasty flowers plz
garlic blossoms (allium) balls of tiny flowers, may be white to deep purple. literally just the flowering head of the garlic you use in food. it tastes like garlic. but colorful.
elderflower, the blossom of the elderberry bush. can be battered and fried. excellent with elderberry syrup or honey. tastes fruity with a tiny hint of anise. also good in teas and sweets.
Calendula, also known as pot marigold. (please, verify you’re using pot marigold, not regular marigold. calendula is actually a daisy.) tastes similarish to bell pepper, sans crunch. leaves are also edible. should be grown with broadleaf plantain:
as a poultices of calendula and plantain can be used to rapidly heal small cuts and scrapes, and are also helpful for other dermatitis. don’t use it on deep wounds though, as it can and will cause the surface skin to heal before the underlying tissues. all of broadleaf plantain is also edible. if bitter.
Nasturtium ranges in color from bright yellow to deep red. it’s peppery and very slightly spicy.
Personally I love squash blossoms stuffed with ricotta and fried in a pan. Not ideal if you also want to harvest squash, though.
Elderflowers also make great wine or cordial! I concur with the squash blossoms, can always just use the male ones so the female flowers can still form fruit.
Finally a thread for the REAL folks: those who eat flowers
Borage! Looks like blue stars and tastes a like lightly sweet cucumber. The young leaves tase like cucumber too!
The flowers that come from any brassica (cabbage, radishes, broccoli, kale, etc) are all excellent and taste like the rest of the plant.
Queen Anne’s lace blossoms, (daucus carota, just like our domestic carrots) super common wild plant, and the flowers make a jelly that tastes kind of like pink lemonade?? It’s /delicious./ but make 100% sure you have a correct identification as water hemlock and other toxic species look similar.
Rose!!! Rose flavoured things taste exactly as they smell. So scrumptious!
Same with lavender and lilac, and violets! The list goes on! 🤩✨🌱
Here are some of my local (PNW) favorites:
[X] Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) blossoms are excellent in fritters.
[X] Dandelion (Taraxacum offinale) is also excellent in fritters, or my favorite is separating the petals and mixing them into pancake batter.
[X] Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia sibirica) flowers have a delicate, lettuce-like taste.
[X] Oregon grape (Berberis/Mahonia aquafolium) flowers are delightfully sour. I like to pick off a few small flowers from the cluster!
[X] Wood sorrel (Oxalis sp.) also sour (from oxalic acid).
[X] Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is mildly sweet.
When eating wild plants, you should be completely certain in your identification and aware of any lookalikes. Be sure you are allowed to harvest and that the area has not been sprayed by any chemicals. Many of these plants are also medicine, so you should be sure that you can safely ingest them (do your research before putting things in your face pls). This was just intended to get them on your radar!
Resources for plant identification.
Broccoli, cauliflower and romanesco my beloved
You can also tempura-fry Queen Anne’s Lace! My husband and I love to do that when we’re hosting.
You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
This is a long post, so I'm not going to C&P it here, but if you want to retain Kindle Store access on your pre-2012 models there's instructions
everyone's heard of this, right? per ap article of apr 8, 2026:
Jacobs went on to record more than 10,000 concerts, with increasingly sophisticated equipment, over four decades in Chicago and other cities. Now a group of devoted volunteers in the U.S. and Europe is methodically cataloging, digitizing and uploading them one by one. The growing Aadam Jacobs Collection [link to internet archive] is an internet treasure trove for music lovers, especially for fans of indie and punk rock during the 1980s through the early 2000s, when the scene blossomed and became mainstream. The collection features early-in-their-career performances from alternative and experimental artists like R.E.M., The Cure, The Pixies, The Replacements, Depeche Mode, Stereolab, Sonic Youth and Björk.
Second offense transgender bathroom usage has a 5 year maximum penalty, but four offenses trigger's Idaho's "persistent violator" statute, w
"Second offense transgender bathroom usage has a 5 year maximum penalty, but four offenses trigger's Idaho's "persistent violator" statute, which can carry life in prison."
Trans Affirm is a community funded org that provides resources to trans people in Idaho. You can also donate to them here financially or donate supplies, as well as get involved with volunteering with them.
Hey y’all I have an announcement! My web app that I’ve been working on, Afro Index, is now live! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, for artist, animators, writers, and anyone who wants to learn more about them!
Check it out at afroindex.org! 💛✨
A reference library for Black hairstyles with accurate naming, structured filtering, and curated reference images.
guys. please
both of these simultaneously
Therapy is expensive, but there are free non-chatgpt resources out there
Free worksheets, treatment guides, and videos for mental health professionals. Topics include CBT, anger management, self-esteem, relaxation
Finch - Your New Self Care Best Friend
You feel like shit. That sucks. You Feel Like Shit is a game designed to help you help yourself through your shitty times and practice self
Introduction to the Analog Brain - Skip the intro and go to the tool - Sometimes (lots of times) (all the time), I have the urge to do
I've used all of these and can vouch for them. Stay safe, love u guys 💖
edit: THIS DOESN'T APPLY TO TRANSPHOBES!!! GET FUCKED AND DIE ALONE!!!
periodic reminder that the queer liberation library is an awesome non-regional library you can add on libby to access hundreds of queer titles. NO LIBRARY CARD NEEDED. i just found an audiobook for a pretty new release on there with no waitlist. also everyone use libby for your local library too NOW
free!!! queer!! books!! for anyone, anywhere in the USA!
you can browse the collection here
sign up for a QLL card to check ebooks & audiobooks out
& if you love what we’re doing you can toss us a few bucks here so we can keep doing it <3
pet peeve is when you look up fashion references from a specific era and you keep getting modern day '[era]-inspired' fashion like NO i want authenticity damn it. i can see your 2020 photo quality and your 2020 hair and your 2020 makeup. youre not fooling me.
hello i'm a historical fashion researcher and i have a lot of experience looking up things! this is a very widely experienced irritation and you're definitely not alone in this, but i am here to share everything i know!
so, ways to get around this:
turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us
don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace
a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)
instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian
including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too
including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue
for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend
when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!
if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache
some online resources and museum collections:
fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples
the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates
costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)
v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece
lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces
nypl digital collection for photographs
national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art
national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific
stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource
wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain
auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!
anyway, i hope this has been a good place to start for anyone interested! there are probably some i've missed because there are so many museums across the world and i don't know about all of them or can't remember them. but these are the ones i've used the most! (my specialisation/jobs i've had to research for have only really been in western fashion, so my resources reflect that)
Wikipedia has a list of fashion museums. Unfortunately, the page itself is only available in German, but the introductory paragraph is very short and after that, it's organised by country, and then it's a simple list. If you click on a museum's article, the website is usually linked in the overview table.
There's also Claire Hummel's fantastic historical fashion resource list, which probably overlaps with the sources above but is worth taking a look at anyway!
Oh. Adult trans care ban time 🫠
https://diyhrt.info/
https://diyhrt.market/
https://diyhrt.wiki/index
this is absolutely concerning, but we've been through times like this as a community before, and networks exist to transition without the state's permission. Also check in with any trans community members, especially trans elders, to see if there are local diy networks near you
Lily Alexandre on YouTube actually made a video on DIY HRT about a year ago ^^
(direct video file here)
Oh. Adult trans care ban time 🫠
https://diyhrt.info/
https://diyhrt.market/
https://diyhrt.wiki/index
this is absolutely concerning, but we've been through times like this as a community before, and networks exist to transition without the state's permission. Also check in with any trans community members, especially trans elders, to see if there are local diy networks near you
Lily Alexandre on YouTube actually made a video on DIY HRT about a year ago ^^
If you're an American with a disability who receives government assistance, you likely qualify for an ABLE account, or you may starting next
The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.
It seems to me it would obviously be better if the “no more than $2000 a month” limit were simply removed and disabled people could have whatever savings accounts they chose, but this is heaps better than nothing.
Effective as of January 1, 2026, eligibility has expanded to folks whose disabled diagnosis was established prior to turning 46 years old
About ABLE Accounts An ABLE account is a savings and / or investment option for people with disabilities who qualify. It falls under Section
fuck this chungus life
hey! I can finally be that guy!
If ur using an Android, go to Settings > Connections > More Connections > Private DNS (or just outright search DNS)
and set it to >> dns.google <<
It should work without having to use vpn 🌟
*kudos to a reddit thread I read
