bitter and sweet, like a kiss goodbye

gabby, 31 (they/them) a trash bard and trash for bards

[nights-at-crystarium]

12000+ years age gap is the least problematic thing about these guys. happy pride to them :>

[emziess]

Rocky + Movement Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[emeships]

#WhatDatMean

[psin314]

veilguard mermaids! i'm a little bit late cus i forgot that i wanted to draw all of them as mermaids and remembered about it uuh yesterday. but anyway i like how they all turned out!

and a lil thingie for giggles. real life sizes version (taash 15 m and harding 20 cm)

[arabian-batboy]

AU where everything is the same except Claude's model actually shows his curly hair.

[filibusterfrog]

dragonborn for @i-am-lich

[lomakes]

Sorry Alistair

[buriedknight]

executioner Pasqal appreciation 🩸

[hollenix]

if you really cared about those kids

[strangedime]

Chat, I'm not sure how I feel about this one 🥴 but I figured I'd share regardless

[sushik9]

my mass effect brainrot was killing me so i created these chibi designs to print some personal charms. i've decided to open-source the high-res files for anyone who wants to print their own fan-merch! (if there is anyone wants it....TT)

you can ​get the files here!→ 🍣🍣🍣

terms of use:​

✅ allowed: printing for personal use (charms, stickers, prints, etc.)

❌ strictly prohibited: commercial use, reselling, editing or reposting the artwork anywhere else

​enjoy! if you ever make something, please share a pic with me, it would make my day! 🥺🖤✨

[agender-ryland-grace]

doodles of my favouritest guy: movie edition

[soyavii]

lowkey made it my tradition to draw mermaid isabela for mermay

this year she has found an interesting treasure🤭

[ohgodohfuckohgeez]

Welp. Google's AI horseshit has arrived. And I'm not complying. They can pry my ID out of my cold dead hands. I will simply go elsewhere. Remember folks, DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR IDs. Do not comply. Resist, fight it, use other browsers or sources beyond youtube and google controlled services. Call them. Email them. Make noise. Fight back.

[mocrlbmutwwwptth]

I've been using Google as my main mail service since 2006, and every single account or service I've ever signed up for was made with that address. For a long time I thought it'd be impossible to divorce myself from Google.

It took less than 5 minutes to switch to a ProtonMail account, less than 2 hours to download and/or offload every byte of data from my Google account, and less than 3 days to change every single account or service I've ever signed up for to the new address.

As of today, the only single one I have that's still tied to it is YouTube. It's the only thing I'd lose access to if I deleted my Google acount entirely.

They really, really want you to believe that it's a hassle to switch to a different email system. But it's not. Most websites and/or services allow you to change the email address associated with it.

I've been using Google for almost 2 decades and it only took a few days to move everything. It's not a painful sacrifice; it's an easy change that, frankly, has absolutely been worth it.

[twilight-deviant]

Proton Shoutout

You can and should switch to a free, encrypted Proton email account. You also get all of the below perks. For free. There is no trick. It is paid for by the people with paying plans. I am one of them. The (completely functional) free tier is there to entice you into getting a paid account with even more perks. (It worked on me.) But there's no penalty or pressure for staying with the free account.

Also get your stuff off the google drive and put it on Proton's drive. It is encrypted. Only you with your password can access it. Not even Proton can see what you put in there.

[tzikeh]

Switch everything away from Google. It's easy and it's important. Read above, click the link for Proton, download your gmail and switch.

[atlinmerrick]

Also, except for some few searches once every couple weeks, I just use Ecosia for every search and have been since 2019. And they plant treeeeees!

[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

[nananarc]

[everydaylouie]

i didn’t know that about you, primeape

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post