click-clack-clock

calamitys-child

toskarin

the oedipal task of doing the dishes

toskarin

SISYPHEQN SISYPHEAN

pearly-sims

ratsoda

gays help me out, also leave your answer + your orientation in the tags

which is best

cowboys

pirates

wizards

emnesoi

one of my favorite aspects of red dwarf is how, every time they thought the show was going to end, they ended it on a cliffhanger. and then when they picked it back up they spent, like, an eighth of an ass trying to explain how everything's back to normal now.

pearly-sims

thepromiscuousfinger

eric-coldfire

Community Notes is so good.

pearly-sims

heedra

fuck "girl lunch" fuck "girl math" a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.

heedra

ppl are tagging this post with things like 'ooh i want to meet a woman like this' or with specific characters which kind of misses the point i was trying to make. ALL WOMEN ARE LIKE THIS. IT STANDS IN CONTRAST TO NOTHING. WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND IT.

cliveguy

ivecarvedawoodenheart

what shape are your glasses?

round (circle, oval, rounded shape, etc)

rectangular (square, etc)

a Fun Shape (hearts, triangles, octagons, pls clarify in tags)

I wear contacts (round)

I switch between pairs depending on my mood/outfit (pls clarify in tags)

I don't wear glasses but I wanna click a button

I don't wear glasses but should wear glasses and I also wanna click a button

tanoraqui

myjetpack

Text: The great writer’s words have become so valued that not one can be wasted. Image: the writer sits typing at his desk Text: Discarded papers are retrieved, reassembled and catalogued Image: the writer has torn up some paper and thrown it into the waste basket, it has been taped back together and reads “milk, bread, loo roll” Text: Archivists curate every utterance, mutter or exclamation. Image: the writer sneezes and an assistant notes down the word “achoo” Text: Solitary dog walks are monitored with long-distance microphones Image: The writer speaks to his dog and a figure in a bush records the words “who’s a good boy” Text: Even night-time mumblings are diligently recorded and transcribed Image: the writer is in bed and beside him is a cumbersome tape recorder which is capturing his words “anvil…jam…horse” Text: His oeuvre of five novels and a book of poems is appended by one hundred and forty three posthumous volumes of additional material. End.

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

confusedtravelermari

Anonymous asked:

“ooh garlic salt isn’t real” yeah well neither is your MARRIAGE after i’m done FUCKING YOUR HUSBAND and afterwards he eats my delicious cooking that i seasoned with GARLIC SALT. FUCK YOU

redstonedust answered:

i think. you sent this to the wrong person. but im enamoured with your energy. you can have my metaphorical husband you deserve her

tanoraqui

sybilvimes

😭😭😭

confusedtravelermari

play-now-my-lord

Reminded by flag discourse about my proposal for a new Massachusetts state flag. The looming black triangle represents the creeping dread one experiences in Massachusetts, the white represents the horrible weather, the blue represents microplastics, and the slogan represents I saw it on a pack of cigs and thought it sounded sick

writingtoolofdubiousintegrity barontristan

existentialterror

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.

greenjudy

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

jumpingjacktrash

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

averixus

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.

ashby-santoso

“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“

ms-demeanor

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!

ms-demeanor

it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.

INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.

workfornow

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 …

existentialterror

My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.

Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ian’s Shoelace Site [link], unless there’s another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysion’s string figure collection [link].

reblog long post reference internet history search engines marginalia

click-clack-clock

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.