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what's the point of initiating conversations with people when 99.9% of them turn out to be normies
okay. how do I put this. if you approach interactions with strangers as if the vast majority of them are unbearable losers who aren't worth your time, you will find yourself not liking most of the people you meet because you'll be looking for any excuse to write them off as unbearable losers. I know this is hard to hear but sometimes the problem is you.
also, if you approach interactions with strangers as if the vast majority of them are unbearable losers who aren't worth your time, most of them will notice and react accordingly by treating you like youre a pretentious prick instead of opening up
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 caseâŚ
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 âcompute expert-level answers using Wolframâs breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.â 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 wonât record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses â&â as a bang search.
Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that usersâ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.Â
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.Â
Gibiruâs tagline is âUnfiltered private searchâ and thatâs exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.Â
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.Â
MetaGer offers âPrivacy Protected Search & Findâ 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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
https://www.mojeek.com/Â
https://wiby.me/ - Itâs goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.Â
https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesnât have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think itâs 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/Â
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
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as âproblematicâ in class and our professor was like, âThatâs cool, but âproblematicâ doesnât really mean anything. It means that the thing youâre describing has a problem, and in and of itself thatâs not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else itâs not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like youâre trying to say that this is bad, but you donât want to say âbad.â Is that right?â
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the âbadâ thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, âIâm uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.â
Once we stopped calling things âproblematicâ and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, âthatâs racistâ or âthatâs misogynisticâ or âew capitalism grossâ out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, âUhhh... Iâm not sure whatâs so bad?â and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I canât help but think of this professor being like, âGood starting point, now letâs get specific.â I think when we have to commit to saying âthatâs ___â it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever weâre claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes itâs art, and it should be full of problems, because thatâs what art is.
#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)
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just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and itâs conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings itâs not a coherent story itâs just a collection of paragraphs that donât actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you donât look clever you look like you donât know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.
in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming
that's solidarity baybeeee
Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Minersâ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to âencourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community [âŚ] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.â
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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Y'all if you're American please email your politicians and senators against the parents decide act. I'm fucking begging because we're reaching a tipping point.
Quick and easy link to both find your congressmen/women and giving you a quick and easy way to copy / paste the message into it. You want to oppose. It's an act that will demand that all major OS makers integrate a direct forced age verification control into all OS.
I received a comment on this that I figured would be very helpful- it's a template for communicating with your representatives. Be sure to use it for reference
Dear Representative [Name],
I am writing to express my strong opposition to H.R. 8250 (The "Parents Decide Act"). As your constituent and a concerned citizen, I believe this bill introduces unprecedented risks to digital privacy and security.
Specifically, I am alarmed by:
SEC. 2(a)(1)(B): Requiring age verification to even use an operating system creates a mandatory "hardware lockout" that ends anonymous computing and forces users to hand over sensitive identification data to major corporations just to power on their devices.
SEC. 2(a)(3): Mandating that OS providers create a system for all app developers to access verification data is a massive security vulnerability. This effectively creates a centralized API of user identities accessible to thousands of third-party developers, many of whom may lack adequate data protection.
This bill does not protect children; it creates a centralized surveillance infrastructure at the OS level. I urge you to protect the privacy of your constituents and vote NO on H.R. 8250.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Zip Code]
This is a hell that us down under in Australia are already living in, and itâs not even effective at what it claims to do in protecting children.
Given that, in the wake of this mandatory identification policy, my country seems to be moving to hand over its citizens biometric data, like fingerprints, Face ID files, and identification documents, over to the USA and to ICE to maintain the visa free travel (ESTA) we have, I strongly urge any US resident to send these emails, or make calls.
But if you canât do that, the most powerful thing you can do is spread the word. Tell your friends, family, coworkers, anyone who can help.
My reach will likely be small, and so I donât know if this will mean very much in the grand scheme of things, but I cannot stand to see this tracking happen to another population as it did to mine.
And if you think it wonât affect you, it will. All anonymity goes out the window when your accounts can be linked via your personal ID
I wish you all luck in preventing this act from going through.
I called my representative and left a voice message!
Hereâs the 5calls script to make it easy! https://5calls.org/issue/age-verification-internet-privacy/

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So I found out something hysterical today.
Apparently, people who use AI to request that Wikipedia create a new article are finding their requests get auto-deleted...
Because they're generating the most statistically likely result for a Wikipedia article creation request...
... And thus putting the 'deleted' tag in the request they generate.
it really is crazy that women's clothes don't fit anybody. fat women can't find clothes, skinny women can't find clothes, tall women can't find clothes, short women can't find clothes, big chested women can't find clothes, small chested women can't find clothes. who the fuck are these being made for
we all really resonated with this one huh
all women's clothes are designed to fit exactly one (1) woman - although not, crucially, the same woman each time - and then the sizing is just determined by scaling her up or down like a photo in MS paint, regardless of how implausible this makes the resulting proportions. these two facts together are why the same person can wear size 8 pants in one brand but size 18 in another and still not get an accurate fit in either.
Okay this isn't wrong but it is an oversimplification (I believe probably a deliberate one for comedy purposes) and you've activated one of the things I know a lot about, SO.
Long ago everyone's clothes were made for them custom, and were either so unfitted that it didn't matter how you were shaped or they were created with built-in size adjusting elements so you could adapt them to your body as your body changed. (Lacing is great for this.)
Then we got into the era of ready-to-wear clothing, where you could walk into a shop and buy something. These were still being handmade probably on site (or in a workshop very nearby), and were created with the assumption that the purchaser would make any needed alterations to get the fit they desired. This was also in an era where it was expected that you would achieve the fashionable silhouette via shapewear and padding and tailoring - like, fat women in the Victorian era also wore shoulderpads and hip pads, because the fashionable thing was a particular set of proportions and it was not expected that people's bodies would meet those proportions unaltered.
Then we got into an era of mass-produced ready-to-wear clothing, where you'd have size sets of a particular pattern made into multiple sizes of that garment. This is where numbered sizing or the XS-XXL size runs start to show up. We start to lose the assumption of tailoring as a normal part of the process (and some clothes are not being designed for tailoring as an option), and also where we get into Foz's thing about clothing being made to fit one (1) woman.
Enter the fit model.
A fashion house/clothing manufacturer/designer ideally draws a design, then creates a pattern for the design, sews a sample (or more than one sample if they have a few ideas to test out), and then they bring in their fit model and have her try it on. The fit model's job can be as uninvolved as "standing there and letting people poke at the garment and pin it in various places" or as involved as "doing some aerobics and telling the designer how the garment functions." A fit model is not a runway model - the fit model needs to maintain a consistent set of measurements, but that set of measurements depends on what the designer has designated as their sample size. Women's fit models are frequently a size small, I'll admit that up front, but that's not universal. (The company where my wife works, which makes athletic wear, recently switched from a size small fit model to a size medium because they found that hewed more closely to their target market.)
Once the garment has been fitted to the model and all issues worked out with the pattern, the pattern will be graded to create the rest of the sizes in the set. This is where Foz's "scaling her up or down like a photo in MS paint" bit comes from, which is indeed what happens when you don't pay for a skilled patternmaker. There are grading rules assigned to the pattern to make it larger and/or smaller depending on the direction it needs to go, and if those grading rules have been applied correctly and customized as needed, the resulting pattern and garments should actually make sense for human bodies of a similar proportion to the original fit model.
...unless you want an extended size set beyond the XXL, because it's 100% correct that you can't keep grading up a Small pattern indefinitely - that's a surefire way to end up with clothing that has absolutely bewildering proportions. A designer that actually cares about providing extended sizing will, usually at that XXL break, create an entirely new pattern, sew up an entirely new sample, and hire a fat fit model to test those samples on. This is why you'll see straight sizing and plus sizing listed as separate categories on some clothing retail websites - they're different lines created from different sample sizes.
The company where my wife works has been putting a lot of effort into developing an extended size range, including shopping around for size set information from some of the big sizing companies to find one that works (some of them don't even offer extended sizing datasets!!!), testing out different plus-size dressforms, and auditioning a bunch of fat fit models. (I've seen the fat dressform they ended up with as their extended range sample size and I'm actually really impressed with it - like it even has a belly pooch! It looks like a person!) Then they had to made the designs, and sew the samples, and try them on the fit models, and then because they're an athletic wear company that cares about function they got wear testers to actually use the garments for their intended athletic purposes and report back about what worked and what didn't, and then take that wear testing into account and tweak the patterns, and and and...
All of this costs money, obviously, so what if you're cheap? Well, you might not offer any extended sizing at all, because keeping to one size set is a great way to lower your costs. What if you're even cheaper than that? Well, you don't technically need a fit model, right? You can buy a data set of sizing information from one of the big brokers and work directly from that, no need for pesky in-person fittings or feedback. You can make your patternmaker auto-apply grading rules to get your size set, and send that to the factory without bothering to tweak it or adjust it in any way. Then you can make garments that have minimal seam allowances, so it's almost impossible to alter them, out of the cheapest fabric possible, so they fall apart after three washes. It doesn't matter if they don't fit well because you're already moving onto the next thing, and the consumer get the cheap clothes they demand, and no one's happy.
[slaps down Uno card] THE PROBLEM IS CAPITALISM!!!
This also doesn't even get into the different fit proportions of different designers - like, I love Morningwitch's designs but their fit of choice is "boxy," aka garments with very little in the way of shaping. I do not enjoy wearing boxy garments, so I know if I buy a Morningwitch garment that I'll have to make alterations to it in order to get the fit I want. On the other size of the spectrum you have a place like Trashy Diva, which is deliberately going for a vintage Hollywood Starlet Va Va Voom type of fit, with things that are fitted through the bust and waist but flare out at the hips. Both of these shops have an extended size range, but their fit priorities could not be more different from each other!
Listen, the fashion industry has a lot of problems, I will not deny that, but the people on the garment side of things are not all locked in a vast conspiracy to make you feel bad about yourself when the clothes don't fit. It's a massive interlocking puzzle of market pressures and technical requirements and it's complicated by a consumer market that 1. has been trained to constantly expect new designs all the time and 2. has been trained to think they shouldn't have to pay more than $20 for anything ever. Clothes that have been fitted to a fit model are actually made to fit a person, and if you have similar proportions to that fit model you're golden. It costs more to have a fit model, though, and it is an annoying amount of work to try to find a company with a fit model that matches you, and we'd all be a lot happier if tailoring was an accepted, normal part of clothing purchases and our clothes were made with tailoring as an expectation.
We also need to dismantle and regulate the fast fashion business model out of existence, but that's a different conversation.
People on the internet love to criticize work by Some Guy with zero institutional power like it's made by Disney Studios, and talk about Disney movies like they're made by their personal friend Amy, who is just trying her best,
knowing when not to open the comments is a skill
internet soft skills
not opening the comments
letting people be wrong
letting people be wrong about YOU
letting people have a bad impression of you (see above)
knowing when your input isn't needed
spotting bot comments
block button
blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them
"why'd they block me? we've never talked" bro if i see you being nasty to the bartender i'm not gonna chat you up
i need to come up with a way to say âi mean like, movies for grownupsâ that doesnât make me feel like a villain
*peeks in the replies* *gets really nervous and locks my house up and leaves*
well, i mean more like La Piscine or Mulholland Drive,
i think i am going insane
Apparently it is impossible for Tumblr users to think of a not ageist way to describe their tastes, because everything must always be compared to how inferior children are -- despite the fact that it is pretty much never the choice of any child or children when media aimed at them is dumbed down etc.
Things when bad: kids and children are involved!
Things when good: this is very Adult this is specifically Adult only Adults can understand or want this
i literally just donât want to watch Kung Fu Panda
okay weâve come all the way back around. letâs pack this up. this post is done. âwho askedâ you just walked into my post that i made on my blog..? who asked YOU?? am i losing my fucking mind?????
"I want to watch movies where the writers assume the audience can handle complex themes and sensitive material."
"Do you mean porn? Or are you being ageist? You're ageist if you don't like Kung Fu Panda."

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The solution to homelessness is housing.
I hate the term 'differently abled'. The only reason it exists is because the word disabled makes abled people uncomfortable.