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
my take on what happened right before they went to war 🩷🩵
Meanwhile, on a crazy hot air balloon
Based on this
Introducing your (BLANK) DR
Introducing your (BLANK) DR-self
Resources that help you with shifting
Subliminals and Meditations that have helped you/work well for you
Scripting ideas (Scenarios, safe words, details, etc)
Your Shifting routine
Things that motivate you to shift
Techniques and exercises that work for you
Your favorite shifting methods
Ideas for realities to shift to
Your DR moodboard
Your DR playlist
how do i explain to my dad that no i dont know the girls that like and reblog my posts, but i would die for them and they're all invited to my wedding
Happy Wanderer / commission 🫶🏻
Silco and his terror of a daughter
scaramouche is so freaking hilarious to me cause like. look at him. he's a short man with so much rage. he's famously very pretty when he's not snarling at you. he wears an ostentatious hat that can be seen from a mile away. he was 'set free' by his mom/creator for having a heart then proceeded to spend the next five centuries looking for one. he was adopted by a bunch of swordsmiths when found in the wild. he knows how to make a sword as he was taught by the best professional swordsmoths of his country. he knows how to take care of babies and small children, even if they're sick. he also knows how to make a nation collapse on itself and gained a whole moniker out of it. those qualities somehow exist simultaneously. he killed the entirety of raiden gokuden but spared the descendant of the man he thought had betrayed him because even then he held love in his heart for him. he literally endured dottore's mad experiments for probably centuries. he's been to the abyss. he figured out that Teyvat's sky is fake. he straight up reached into the tree of life and erased himself so that he could reverse the fate of those he had wronged. not even vengeance. that wasn't even priority, no he wanted to save the ones he loved. when that didn't work he accepted his memories and decided to work on atonement and vengeance. at the same time. he enrolled in the akademiya – the highest educational facility in Teyvat – by getting into an argument with a bunch of researchers because he has to have the last word. he woke up in a fantasy world and scoffed at the prophecy handed to him. he saved the replica of one of Gold's most dangerous creations by saying 'you need head pats, friends and therapy'. he then proceeded to give the head pats, friendship and therapy to his baby-sized dragon friend. he wakes up everyday and chooses violence, then somehow managed to be kind anyway.
he's so funny. I love him so much.
prompt list by @bonbonbee
"you know what's funny? your sad attempt to try and stop me."
"is this your first time hero-ing or something?"
"i hate you." "why? i'm lovely."
"i just love it when dimwits like you barge into my evil plans."
"i'd like to see you try."
"my my look what the cat dragged in."
"you know, i almost feel sorry for you but then again, i don't care."
"i will stop you."
^ "how original."
^ "wow, i'm quaking in my boots."
^ "haven't heard that one before."
"gosh, you're even worse than i imagined."
"you murdered hundreds of innocent civilians!"
^ "it's not like it's a secret."
^ "it was an.. accident?"
^ "gee, really, sherlock?"
^ "this may seem like a shocker my love, but i couldn't give less of a rat's a$$."
"go to hell." "i didn't know your instagram page was a place."
"bite me."
"yell at me again, and i'll give you a real reason to scream."
"now how in god's name did you survive that fall."
"y'know fights are boring when your supposed 'mortal enemy' can't land a single punch."