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yoyo yo whats poppin homeskillets i’m lowkey fucking moneyless, foodless, and waterless. And I kinda need those things to survive. So if som
A dear friend of the person I've been bumping is really going through it. Likely to lose his job, antagonized by his friends and family, even deemed insane by his mother to the police.
Please, any help to him in these hard time would go an incredibly long way.
a vague sort of follow-up to my recent noelle drawing. i wanted to give kris a cute outfit too
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
Good morning. Another day, another bump. As Noah had said in his own bump, today, we’ll be trying to shoot for $165 for our daily goal. I kn
Bumping for my friend again as there's a lot that needs to be saved up to pay for their room for the weekend. Any help would be immensely appreciated.
starting a collection for my anthropology class can you guys send me more posts like these
Here's a few I have
URGENT IMPORTANT PLEASE READ
My friends Levi and Percy are battling homelessness right now and are in serious urgent need and I can only help so much myself. So if you message me with proof of donating to them I'll draw you a lined+flats waist-up illustration.
Links to donate: https://bsky.app/profile/flyingleviathan.bsky.social/post/3melsnhkhds2s
Bumping again with direct links because Bsky is being fucky. Please help out my friends
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What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?
When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.
Morning bump. If there’s anyone who can see this, please, help us out. Bump this tweet. Tell others. And most importantly, DONATE. Please. W
Unfortunately it's getting dire, any help would go a long way.
More damning, his account has been labeled as spam by BlueSky mods so even spreading the word would go a long way.
Sygna Suit doodles for a handful of Gostivalings
Sableye-style Kemptyn (@woolftee) Heliolisk-style Chelsea (@stellawadosk) Altaria-style Yvette (@boxnazrin)
I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.
I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.
At least give me a fucking transcript.
I can read faster than you can talk and these videos are wasting my time.
Once saw something that said "Warhammer is quintessentially British while Dungeons and Dragons is quintessentially American"
I've thought about it a lot and it does add up in a horrifying sort of way.
There has been this lil thing needling my brain when consuming Warhammer content where I'm like...annoyed that nobody matters? That 95% of life in this universe is regarded as cheap and meaningless? That, unless you're part of this top echelon of humanity, you're basically on par with a mouse who's solely been bred into existence to feed a snake.
And I've known on an intellectual level it's a dumb thing to feel irked by--like it's a Grimdark setting, this is the whole deal--but I kept asking myself "why does this get under my skin?" and I think that quote perfectly explains why.
The British class system is so fucked and omnipresent that, like, yeah: for the vast majority of British history, most British citizens have been feeder mice and they're well aware of their place in the hierarchy. You aren't allowed to forget it. The aggessive classism is baked so deep into the culture that it becomes a sort of obvious, bland fact of life.
And America has it's own insane class issues and rampant inequality, but we also have the myth of the American Dream and a hyper-individualist culture counteracting it. So while you are almost certainly a feeder mouse, you're still raised to feel "I'm something, I'm important, the world just doesn't know it yet". A whole country of temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
So Warhammer represents the British class system turned up to 10000; most people are a speck floating by in the background of a story about bigger, grander characters and there's nothing they can really do about it. The random guardsman is never going to become a character as important as a fuckin Primarch, there's no narrative upward class mobility if you will.
But Dungeons and Dragons is almost always a story about a ragtag crew of random schmucks taking on Big Bads and defeating them, it's about equal opportunity heroism. You may be a rogue who started life as a pickpocket street urchin, but you and your friends still lay waste to an overpowered evil wizard using naught but wits and teamwork.
And it's embarrassing to admit, but my American brain worms start screaming when presented with such a British worldview because it makes it clear: I would not matter in this setting. If I existed in this universe, I'd be dead, enslaved, a servitor, working myself into an early grave in a hive world factory or cannon fodder because that's just how life is for 95% of humanity and there's no reason why I'd be the exception. And the fact is, as unpleasant as it is to acknowledge, my dogshit American main character syndrome ego does not like that.
But whaddya gonna do.
This is intresting to read because the whole "you do not matter" point of 40k is almost verbatim stated in the old Rogue Trader/1st edition intro blurb, especially with the "you will not be missed..." line at the end.
URGENT IMPORTANT PLEASE READ
My friends Levi and Percy are battling homelessness right now and are in serious urgent need and I can only help so much myself. So if you message me with proof of donating to them I'll draw you a lined+flats waist-up illustration.
Links to donate: https://bsky.app/profile/flyingleviathan.bsky.social/post/3melsnhkhds2s
I feel like such a bum begging like this, but sincerely every dollar helps. cash.app/$ChaosQuetz www.paypal.me/chaosquetz https://venmo.c
Making another post to hopefully help boost things, friend and his disabled partner are struggling from homelessness in America and need money to stay alive until they can find a job.
Any help, and I mean ANY, would go a long way in helping them out.
Thank you.
What's Jaggly's (Jaga) favourite food?
I'm sorry now I have the thought of Jaga having a jaggly instead of a jugular, whatever that may be.
Anyways as for her favorite food, I imagine her having a strong affinity for bread, not because she like it on its own but because she loves its versatility, especially since I can picture her practically living off of the stuff at some point in her life. Specifically she is really fond of dipping it in yogurt (the plain kind, not flavored) and a dish called popara (also known as masnica) which I can affectionately describe as literally slop.
Friend I've brought up earlier is in a dire situation so posting it here in hopes of at least a few more people seeing it and helping him out
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