#start page

welcome to my blog!! This is just a silly lil blog I post on sometimes!

Here's some fandoms I’m in!

-Fnaf

-Don’t hug me I’m scared

-the world of Mr.plant

-mark and friends (really anything Ashur Gharavi has made)

-welcome home

-beetlejuice

-Sally face

-heartstopper

-morel Orel

-mlp

-animal crossing

-the owl house

-smiling friends

-invader zim

-over the garden wall

musicals I like

-Hamilton

-six

-mean girls

-tick tick boom!

-Beetlejuice

-mama Mia

and many more!!

link to my art account! @statictelevisionart

my oc accounts!!

@flora-offical @iris-garden-and-bakery

I go by Neo online, I’m a bisexual man who goes by he/they/it pronouns

I have an unhealthy obsession with blinkies and early 2000’s internet

I͜͡ ͜͡L͜͡O͜͡V͜͡E͜͡ ͜͡N͜͡E͜͡U͜͡R͜͡O͜͡S͜͡C͜͡I͜͡E͜͡N͜͡C͜͡E͜͡ ͜͡&͜͡ ͜͡A͜͡E͜͡R͜͡O͜͡S͜͡P͜͡A͜͡C͜͡E͜͡ ͜͡E͜͡N͜͡G͜͡I͜͡N͜͡E͜͡E͜͡R͜͡I͜͡N͜͡G͜͡!

My only boundary is just don’t send me unsolicited porn. Or gore. That’s all.

Hi, welcome to something I'm trying out. I need a creative outlet and I've been watching Mew/Twoblr for a while now. I decided to rework some old OCs from when I was really young, and wrote a little bit. There probably won't be too much actual artwork, as I'm not the most confident in my drawing skills. I hope my writing can make up for that.

No header until I figure out what to do with it, hopefully quickly.

Characters under Read More, all available for asks!

About me

Rules

Requests:

Headcanons - OPEN

One shots - OPEN

Drabbles - OPEN

Matchups - OPEN

Asks: OPEN

Masterlists: 

Tokyo Revengers

Haikyuu

Series:

None~

No AI and data privacy. Image search is a little rocky and it doesn't have maps, but I find it consistently better for straight web search results than DDG or Google.

If you're wondering why DuckDuckGo's down, apparently it, along with Bing and other Microsoft services, are down because of problems with the AI that underpins them. Yes, DuckDuckGo uses AI. It's why I've become so boring about using Start Page instead.

[Edit:] People on Masto are saying it's down too because they can't get it to work on mobile. As far as I can tell, this isn't true.

I have never been able to *install* it on my browser from mobile, but you can enter startpage.com into the address bar and go straight to it and use it fine in browser, which we all did daily with Google.com not that long ago.

You should be able to install it fine on your web browser on PC, but if you can't, well, I also recommend using Firefox as your web browser, for a whole host of reasons. Start Page works fine on Firefox, and you'll benefit from so much more data privacy!

Been despairing a bit of search engines, because I've found DuckDuckGo nearly as useless as Google in delivering relevant results. However, today I was recommended Start Page, and I've tried it on a few things I was struggling to search on, and it's MUCH better.

You do have to scroll past a bunch of sponsored results, which is annoying, but what it hasn't done is delivered:

AI generated crap

results that cross out my key terms

irrelevant results from big brands who have clearly paid to be prioritised

Like DuckDuckGo it also respects your privacy and can be set up to warn you if the result looks dodgy.

I've also been recommended:

Quant (haven't tried yet)

Kagi (you have to pay and it's bought into AI nonsense, so that's a no from me)

Ecosia (claims to be CO2 negative, but you have to pay)

So, it looks like the market it finally diversifying, at least. So if you're sick of Google's, there are options out there.

I know people have said that on this website before, but the answers are usually either a) DuckDuckGo (which has become shit) or b) specialised search engines used primarily for academic research. I'm really glad to know there's more out there.

I started doing over my start page today with React Typescript + Vite. Before, it was a simple HTML page for searching the web with date, time, weather information. I'm changing it into a full app where I can see 2 of my active Todoist tasks at a time.

I will be adding my Toggl stats and some Todoist stats as I go, along with some weather and news information from that morning-messages python script I made a few years ago.