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tangled up!! (๑•﹏•)

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Diversity win! Ancestral curse recognises non-biological parenthood!

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

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.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

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

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something has gone deeply wrong when "focusing pragmatically on issues you can influence and working to make life better for yourself and your community" is considered an unserious distraction while "endlessly exposing yourself to media about distressing situations you can't control" is considered political engagement

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DND character who accidentally becomes a paladin at their wedding bc they meant their wedding vows a little too hard and invents the Oath of Love subclass. Is this anything

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Maybe this therapy shit is working

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Every few days I'm like nooo you are perpetuating gender essencialism and falling into "men are horrible creatures in nature and women are fragile little angels" propaganda, stop it, it's not #feminism as you think it is

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I have this.. well very likely compulsion but I haven’t reached that yet with my thearpist so let’s just say thing where I have to start tasks or things on 5 minute marks or days of the week I mark as “starting” days (which are Sunday, Monday, or Friday if you’re curious) and it’s gotten REALLY BAD RECENTLY!!

I used to be able to start things at every 0 or 5 marked on the clock but now it’s every :30 or :00 and if im lucky every 15. So trying to get myself back to finding those 5 and 0 markers good and the start of a new day Enough to begin something has been akin to pulling my teeth out but also unfortunately crucial to my functioning as a human.

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you can start today btw

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“Memory and Delusion” by Shirley Jackson

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Been replaying Spiritfarer

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criss-cross skies, painted on 4x4 wooden coaster

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this speaking as a cis person. Nothing brings me more joy seeing people find gender euphoria in becoming a mediocre representation of humanity. And I mean that so genuinely. Local boy finds joy and fulfillment wearing a cargo shorts and t-shirt combo. Local girl has transitioned to look like someone's disheveled aunt, has never been happier. Local person experiences gender euphoria rocking the world's worst bowl-cut. Without a scap of irony, this shit makes me see the wonder and whimsy in just, being a human. An average, person going through their day-to-day, is a wondrous thing? That's amazing. And heteronormativity has stripped these experiences of their joy. Like you're right, wearing a basic girlypop skirt should make my heart sing. Why not? Why are these expressions lesser because they're normal? All this to say. Shoutout to all the basic bitches out there. Yes that polo shirt does make you look like a divorced golfer dad. Yes, that too is kind of a slay, now that I think of it.

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Dog I have 0 clue what’s happening but lovely to see all your faces (icons)

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stop drawing for others. don't draw for yourself either. play video games