*pokes* hi <3

*pokes again* how are you?

*pokes* hi <3

I'm good

*pokes cheek* how are you?

:D

im good, too <3

*pinches cheek*

i look forward to these witching hours.

The batkids and their fatal flaws:

Barbara: still thinks she is the sanest of the bunch

Dick: doesn't know how to say "no" without resorting to physical violence

Cass: hypocrite. Will tease you but then get super offended when you tease her.

Jason: zombie. Daddy issues like you've never seen. Nerd.

Steph: blonde but otherwise fine

Tim: skater boy

Duke: really good puppy dog eyes and really destructive intentions.

Damian: does not understand memes but is friends with people for whom memes are a primary language

must be the season

of the witch

batmen 🦇

bonus: steph!!

the batbrothers love you!!

*pokes* hi <3

*pokes again* how are you?

Richard Siken, Crush; from ‘Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out’ (edited excerpt)

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

behold! drake!

The prophecy has come true…