they should allow you to report posts for being gauche or passé

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

i bet girls hated it in 1902 cuz you would constantly go on dates w guys who are working on an invention to present at the world fair

And it's always like, a machine that incorporates the perfect ratios of lead, arsenic, and cocaine in your baby's food. 🙄 One, nobody asked. Two, sometimes baby needs an extra bump to keep going on a busy day. Does your machine account for that? I doubt it.

I'm stealing this. Thanks.

Why aren't men wearing aerodynamic thongs then? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Men should be tucking too. For aerodynamics.

I won't lie every comment about the wildfires that's like 'God is sending a message' genuinely makes me want to blow my brains out

As Jesus said, "Fuck the meek, for the rich shall buy their land for cheap after wildfires caused by anthropogenic climate change have destroyed everything they own."