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Jennifer’s body is not a horror movie. it’s a love story between two girls. that’s just how girls are you wouldn’t understand.

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the right: i want a woman to cook and clean and fuck

the left: omg…..girls?????? girls are soooooo soft……and soo good at organizing??? god i love how they organize their closets it’s soo cute…i just…wow…ugh date a girl who’s cute and soft and cooks for you

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via NASA Hubble Space Telescope

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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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power lines are crushed with the weight of four days of accumulated freezing rain in boucherville near montreal, canada, january 9, 1998

photo by robert laberge, via bbc archives

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

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whenever I’m just sitting at my computer gaming or working or whatever I always have this urge to have a little creature in my lap. like a sleeping kitten or something. just smthn to hold.

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Porn creates unreasonable expectations against women just as RomComs create unreasonable expectations against men

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Meng MUA Cemetery, Na Kluea, Thailand

24 October 2018

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Here I am today! 8th of June 😳 already so much of the year gone. Scary! We spent the whole day on one drawing which we haven't done yet. It's an erasure drawing. I time elapsed the start (wish I had done this towards the end when it was more interesting lol oh well)

Here'swhat I ended up with:

Obsessed with this

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Photos from yesterday in drawing practice class!!! I'm doing a cert 4 in visual arts <3

I like how this looks more than when I blended it, super cool contrast!!!!

Here it is blended

Here's the still life in action!

Andddd here's me :)

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“Strike Your Fancy” by Arna Miller and Ravi Zupa

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Untitled

Soft pastel on paper

2022