Subtle Ways To Honor Nyx 🌚🪶

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

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One of the most reliable and popular instagram accounts covering what has been going on in Gaza @/sbeih.jpg has started a free online crash course about Palestine history and the decolonisation movement to help educate more people and spread awareness. It is on instagram @/palestine.academy and their website is thepalestineacademy.com. It is completely free and has tons of resources on how to get informed, find further information, and how to help Gaza right now. If you have the time I recommend exploring the website and following their instagram!!!

im sure someone already made a post about it but i came across a ublock origin add-on that blacklists around 950 AI websites and disables AI overview ☝️ so u can be free from seeing AI in your search

In regards to research:

Don’t accept witchcraft books for history. Read history texts. 

Don’t accept witchcraft books for mental processes. Read psychology and biological texts. 

Don’t accept witchcraft books for mythology. Don’t accept witchcraft books for religion. Read original texts and papers written researchers credited in their fields. 

Use witchcraft books for witchcraft, and witchcraft alone. That is what they specialize in and what they are published for. If it branches out into a different subject, be suspicious and research the topic later. 

The "Search Within Results" Field and You, Pt. 1

When we brought back the tag filters after their long sleep last year, we tried to keep the interface as uncluttered as possible and focus on frequently used or requested search options. Like the Archive itself, this is a work in progress. There’s a lot of scattered documentation about finding stuff to read, look at, watch, or listen to on the Archive: The little blue question marks all over the Archive should provide some pointers, and there’s also the Searching and Browsing on the AO3 tutorial for more details.

However, there are some “secret” search options that are already built into the filtering and search code, but aren’t necessarily reflected in the interface (because ticky box overkill). Here’s an overview of neat things you can put into any of the following places to narrow down (and sort!) your results:

the “Search within results” field in the tag filters for works (e.g. for the Pacific Rim tag or in the Dark Agenda collection)

the “Any Field” box in the Work Search form

the main search box in the header

For Works:

words:1000 (works with exactly 1000 words)

words>1000 (works with more than 1000 words)

words<1000 (works with less than 1000 words)

words:1000-5000 (works between 1000 and 5000 words)

(works for: words, hits, kudos, comments, bookmarks)

sort:kudos (sort by kudos, default to most kudos first)

sort:>kudos (reverse to fewest kudos first)

sort:words (sort by words, default to longest works first)

sort:>words (reverse to shortest works first)

sort:>posted (oldest works first, going by actual posting date)

sort:>updated (oldest works first, going by author’s publishing date)

(works for: author, title, posted, updated, words, hits, kudos, comments, bookmarks)

restricted:true (only restricted works; requires you to be logged in)

complete:false (only unfinished works/works in progress)

expected_number_of_chapters:1 (only one-shots)

-expected_number_of_chapters:1 (only multi-chapter works)

For (Your) Bookmarks:

private:false (your public bookmarks only)

private:true (your private bookmarks only)

rec:false (everything but recs; works for any bookmarks)

bookmarkable_complete:true (bookmarks of completed works only)

Search Operators:

These will handle any text matches in the title, summary, notes, and list of tags. Note that there will be some inaccuracies due to the way the code stores information and handles search strings: “Derek/Stiles” will also match a list of tags containing “Derek, Stiles” in that order. (Please stay tuned for Part 2 for a workaround! Part 3 has the information you’ll need to filter out specific ratings and warnings.)

kittens

"needs hugs"

"kink bingo"

m/m OR f/f (works tagged either M/M, F/F, or both)

explicit OR mature (most of the porn)

-death (exludes works with ‘death’ in the title, summary, notes, or tags)

-rape -"dubious consent" -"consent issues"

-crossover -fusion -"alternate universe"

Mix and Match:

fanart -m/m words<100 sort:>posted

“raleigh becket/mako mori” -explicit words>1000 sort:hits

“warehouse 13” “character study” sort:words

“uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto” angst kudos>10

“teen wolf” podfic words<500 sort:posted

These were put into the main search box in the header to generate results, but you can also use these tricks in the “Search within results” field to narrow down work lists for a particular tag. Just remember to put everything into one of the three search boxes listed above.

Happy browsing!

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

I wish boobs were detachable. Because sometimes I want to look like a genderless being, other times the outfit needs boobs.