Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

[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

[louferrignojrofficial]

Buck & Tommy’s First Kiss | 9-1-1 | Disney+ UK Be still, our beating hearts 💘

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[chaifootsteps]

#Please little bird

[meriwetherwrites]

I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.

[nightguardmod]

It’s a win win. I get a bit of hope, you get a cute birb photo

[flootzavut]

I also love that I rarely see one of these that threatens bad things if you don't. (And when I do, I refuse to reblog them, even though that gives me anxiety, because I refuse to pass the anxiety on.)

Fuck those horrible chain emails. The birb is a great improvement.

[louferrignojrofficial]

BUCK, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED Aired 04/04/24

[citrus-lou]

POOKIE!!!!!!! 🥰🥰

[yesornopolls]

people who wear glasses: if you could magically have your vision restored to 20/20 for free with no risk of complications, would you do it?

People who wear glasses: if you could magically have your vision restored to 20/20 for free with no risk of complications, would you do it?

Yes

No

Voting ended onFeb 20

[apolladay]

Have you ever committed a crime?

Yes, once, intentionally

Yes, once, accidentally

Yes, 2-9 times, all intentionally

Yes, 2-9 times, all accidentally

Yes, 2-9 times, mixed intentions

Yes, 10+ times, all intentionally

Yes, 10+ times, all accidentally

Yes, 10+ times, mixed intentions

No

Have you ever committed a crime?

Yes, once, intentionally

Yes, once, accidentally

Yes, 2-9 times, all intentionally

Yes, 2-9 times, all accidentally

Yes, 2-9 times, mixed intentions

Yes, 10+ times, all intentionally

Yes, 10+ times, all accidentally

Yes, 10+ times, mixed intentions

No

Voting ended onFeb 17

[tawghasa]

Living in the wrong timsezone to notice when the hellsite is down - just like old times 🥹

[zombiethingy]

[ID: gold star with text reading "I didn't notice the tumblr outage of Feb 2026". End ID]

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

Me, before the holiday break: Look at all this free time ahead of me! I can do so many things, get so much done!

Me, now: Well. Time has sure passed.

[bobdylanyaoi]

2025 stats:

0 dubai chocolate ingested

0 labubus bought

0 episodes of stranger things watched

[virgoasf]

[curlsandstems]

I need this.

[poni1kenobi-deactivated20250915]

Reblogged last year, hoping it comes this year

[dat2ndaccount97]

Fingers crossed!

[gingersnapsvhs]

did your parents *"pre-screen" the media you interacted with when you were a kid/before legal adult age where you are?

yes, always AND they did parental guidance talks about it

yes, always but there was no parental guidance involved

sometimes, with parental guidance talks

sometimes, no parental guidance talks

not usually, but occasionally (WITH parental guidance)

not usually, but occasionally (WITHOUT parental guidance)

they never pre-screened but there were other rules (elaborate?)

my parents fully didn't give a shit about what media i engaged with

see results

Voting ended onDec 16, 2025

*by "pre-screening", i typically mean any sort of behavior that exists on a spectrum of "actually watching/playing/reading the thing before you played it" to "doing any sort of research on it before letting you watch it".

feel free to share your experiences in the tags or replies or whatever!

[gingersnapsvhs]

admittedly, i am a little obsessed with like 65% of the tags on this post so far basically saying "my parents didn't pre-screen things but they [describes behavior that DEFINITELY qualifies as pre-screening]". i kinda hope maybe this post and others like it wake some people up to the fact that yes, even YOUR parents were controlling what perspectives and ideas you were and were not being allowed to access.

[ineffabledandelions-deactivated]

I have lots of 911 hot takes today, but I try to stick to one a day (lies) at least outside of my own private discords, so.... here's the one for today:

It annoys me when people call season 1 Buck "unlikable."

He wasn't.

He was young and he liked to fuck. The show is very Southern Baptist about that, but all of his sex* was with grown adults, was consensual, was truthful, and it hurt exactly zero people - unlike the sex that the other main characters in the show had in that season.

Additionally, season 1 is when Buck became my favorite because that's when his compassion became clear for the first time. He's compassionate towards children, towards traumatized vets, towards victims he can't save, towards people who have lost loved ones, towards a woman who was struggling with her dying mother, towards that dying mother. Hell, we even see compassion towards a dude wHO stole his identity and DIED.

Buck grows beyond season 1 and I love the person he goes on to be even more. But he is not a terrible character or person in season one.

* we are of course not counting that shit with the counselor - it was not consensual or appropriate or whatever; but that was not on him.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I'd say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn't the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I'm being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven't even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

yes that's how confirmation bias works

[within-stars]

People get their panties up in a twist about astrology because they think it’s people shoving themselves into boxes that are not pre-existing.

Most people who like astrology like it because it reflects things about themselves that they relate to that they have difficulty vocalizing themselves. And things like doing a chart reading can allow you to gaze deeply into yourself

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

yes that's how confirmation bias works

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#wait wasn't that also OP?#is this the third such post now?#we shouldn't be pissing on the poor at all#“ok so we should only piss on the poor a little when there's no toilets free”

It's more than three. I've lost count but this is at least the fourth.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#hi op of the Taylor Swift isn't bisexual there are many bisexual pop girlies post

[hehasacleft]

So glad 911 no longer has me in its clutches. I’ve reached the point where I’m only watching if Tommy’s is the episode because tell me why an lapd police sergeant would go to space for any reason ever.

[apostaterevolutionary]

Ew do you not change ur underwear every day??

Hold up anon, are you going to share with the class the context of why you sent this? Cause I think it's a pretty important part of it

For the full context of why anon is trying to shame me for hygiene reasons, I replied to this poll, which was asking if people change their underwear everyday. Most people responded yes, which is not surprising, and I already knew what I'd see in the notes (which I confirmed) and then I left this reply:

Notes on this feel a lot like “what do you mean people get so depressed they can’t x” “jeremy people get so depressed they kill themselves”

And the reason I left that reply is because whenever there's a post about hygiene, be that showering frequency, specifics of how one cleans themselves, regularity of changing clothes, etc. there is always, always shock and outrage that some people aren't following the recommended and/or socially acceptable hygiene routine. And people can't seem to conceptualize of many valid reasons why people may not be able to subscribe to it

Because yes, mental illness can get that bad that basic tasks become extremely difficult if not impossible - that's what makes them illnesses and disabilities. Chronic illness or mobility problems can also make hygiene tasks difficult. And there also may be circumstances such as homelessness that could lead to someone simply not having the means to take care of their hygiene properly

And I simply don't think that shaming people who are already struggling or making them feel worse about themselves is a good way to handle that. There were a few people in the notes being nicer, saying 'hey, if you do struggle, you should really prioritize this task' and I think that's a much better way to handle it than going 'ew what do you mean you can't do a simple thing? what's wrong with you, you gross pig?' because how tf is that going to help someone who likely already feels a lot of shame about this? It's not. It's going to make them feel worse. Shame is a shit motivator; humans do not respond well to it

(My secondary, more controversial take is that someone's hygiene routine isn't my business unless I am going to be directly interacting with that bodily part of them, or it starts to infringe on me in some way. So even if someone doesn't have any reason for not changing their underwear daily and still doesn't, like. How is that my problem unless I'm interacting with their genitals or there's some smell/fluid breach into my space? It's not. But I think the point about shaming people being wrong is more important so I made that reply instead)

Now I recognize the chances of the anon who sent this actually checking for a response are low, but I want to reply anyway because I really do think shaming people for their struggles is wrong and we need to kill those judgemental parts of ourselves if we really want to live in a world that doesn't suck

And if you do read this and your response is still 'but wait OP, do you change your underwear everyday or not?' then I'm afraid you missed the entire point of what I'm saying and the only thing I can say is that I hope that someday your heart has more kindness in it

[userautumn]

people who don't take off their outside clothes before sitting down when they come inside are so scary to me. there's outside on there

[jazzhaaaands]

As long as youre not rolling around in the dirt it should be ok, right?

[userautumn]

no.

[peppermintquartz]

Time for a poll!

do you sit on your furniture when you've just come home

no there's outside on there

yes but only the edge of the seat

yes I make myself comfy

I not only sit down, I flop down and relax

Voting ended onSep 26, 2025

[ratbugs]

i personally enjoy bringing my outside inside