Odderohs

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Disclaimer: we have talked about this before but I'm honestly sick of people not knowing the full story while either:

1) reducing our issues with Tribble and MP down to stupid online ideology wars (because no, we don't care that she used ableism or homophobia or w/e as a source of conflict in her show... we care that she did it badly)

or 2) being weird little gatekeepers and trying to insist there is something morally questionable about us reclaiming a concept from a bigot. So, yes, let's go over all this again, shall we? - We'll cover the most major point first, which is the transphobia. To start with, Tribble came out on Twitter and stated that lesbians should be able to still call themselves lesbians while dating trans men. She also doubled down on this when somebody called it the transphobic take that it was.

She would then go on to mistreat a trans member of her cast, misgendering them and also attempting to damage their credibility by falsely claiming they were fired due to homophobia/transphobia. When, in actual fact, they were dismissed from their position due to finger pointing with no evidence outside of "you're friends with somebody who I think contacted the show's funders over me trying to get free work out of my fans".

Which is very unprofessional as an employer. And maybe don't try and beg for free work in the first place when you're supposed to be in a contractual agreement with funders?

Furthermore, there's the whole portrayal of the character Moonstrike in MP itself. To bring y'all up to speed, Moonstrike is a trans woman who is shown to be heartless and aggressive to our main characters while also advocating the murder of a child. This is often a harmful stereotype that transphobes use to target trans women and it's certainly... wild to see this kind of depiction in an "LGBT+ friendly series" in the year 2021. ("Oh, but she was only aggressive towards Fire because he killed her mate!" Nope, she was ruthless towards Nothing and Feather too for no real reason, demanding Fire explain why he "allowed these Prideless into our home" and referring to Feather as an 'it' at one point) There are also other controversies that Tribble has been involved in, namely using Black Lives Matter to promote MP and accusing another artist of being an abuser/mounting an harassment campaign against her based on a petty disagreement 10 years prior. She also accused Cat of demanding a script from her and accusing her of theft when no such thing happened. Cat simply approached her via Twitter DMs because such accusations of theft were being levelled at Tribble by others. Tribble surrendered the script of her own accord.

For whatever reason, Tribble decided to switch up the narrative six months later after she and Cat had a seemingly constructive dialogue in private. Presumably because she assumed word would not get back to her as she had locked down her Twitter since the aforementioned BLM incident.

One could say there was a bit of a theme when it came to Tribble taking something personally and making up allegations against those she felt had "wronged" her in some way.

To put it simply: Tribble was a bigot and an injustice collector. If she ever rolled back on any of these controversies (i.e. the transphobia, the BLM tweet), she only ever did so for damage control purposes.

She then chose to leave the internet and let her fans cry "cancel culture!" when no such cancelling actually occurred. MP was never cancelled due to Tribble citing mental health reasons. It is officially on "indefinite hiatus" and Tribble bringing up her mental health was in reference to her producing any more fully animated episodes of the show as opposed to exploring less complex methods such as animatics and written format. Tribble also maintained - and still does to this day - a healthy fanbase that is still willing to bat for her and paint any of her critics as hysterical naysayers and/or vindictive bullies. She also faced no loss of income, while also happy to potentially impact the reputations and livelihoods of those she felt a petty dislike towards vs. handling such personal issues like an adult. And the main reason we ultimately decided to make the My Pride analysis is because Tribble was receiving the "separate the art from the artist" treatment and any criticism regarding her was being swept under the rug by her fans. Or was dismissed with "don't like, don't watch" or some other variation of that privileged take.

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

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.

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

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.

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