nothing but respect for my boy gun. little man caught feelings and within two episodes has slow danced with his crush, slept in the same bed as him, gone on a date to the school activities fair with him, gotten him into a waiter costume, forced him to partake in a coffee shop au, and secured the ultimate signal of gay commitment: the pinkie hold. what can i say. he gets shit done. and he does it all while wearing an oversized chinchilla blanket hoodie.
this is the face of the most powerful man alive. argue with the wall.
It’s called being a babygirlboss and no one does it better than him
since i started reading moby dick ive started mentally narrating so many random daily tasks in that style like feeding my cat god hath not wrought a nobler creature than thee dear cat no finer beast in all of the creatures of the land and wise is the cat to ally itself so totally with man for from this proud partnership a creature possessing only the small fur bearing land dwelling body and endowed only with dainty grasping paws can feast upon the beasts of the sea salmon which grows in length far greater than this small noble creature cat and dwells in great rivers and oceans too deep for such a small beast to ford though cat resembles in nature a fish of the land be not mistaken dear reader the cat is a land creature all the same for soft small paws can paddle not the deep currents and churning deeps the great temple where tuna dwells where even man must fight against the roaring seas and be dragged a hundred leagues by such creatures to even chance catching one oh no feline could risk such a venture thats why they wisely warm themselves by the hearth and leave such toil for the creature known as man
I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
– https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.
– https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)
– https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.
Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)
That Google and Meta can get away with this during an era of intense misinformation and disinformation signals that we cannot rely on large tech companies to provide reliable access to information and news:
I love this, because there’s obviously something very clever going on to analyse patterns of language, but it’s also profoundly ignorant.
[ID: A screenshot of a Grammarly correction, labelled “clarity: conciseness”. The original text reads “Every book, which wasn’t many…” This is crossed out with the suggestion “Everyn’t many book” and the note “Consider shortening this phrase.” /end id]
Story time: this reminds me of some kids in an English class I’m in. They were doing written work and the teacher and I were going around checking their work. They had to do like, “do/do not”, and one example was “prepare”. Something like “My father does not/doesn’t prepare dinner”. I look at this one kid’s paper and this galaxy-brained child had written “My father preparen’t dinner” and it took everything in me to not lose it laughing right there like. This child saw a pattern and ran with it and I respect that.
Intermittentlysmitten hid this in the tags and shouldn’t have.
