A crowdsourced directory of memorial benches!
A podcast interviewing webmasters of various popular/famous indie web websites. Released weekly for 15 weeks; currently on episode 3.
Teacake Hosting is a small and affordable hosting service primarily focused on providing web space for personal and hobby-focused sites.
A list of data brokers (and related places) and how to request your data be deleted/removed from them. Updated regularly.
Nice collection of fonts you can use on your web projects-- including fandom-specific fonts!
On this site, I talk about cynicism, nostalgia, and digital culture. You’ll find unique digital lore here and other liminal strangeness. I want to highlight the downright weird millennial technology experience. Living through the birth of ubiquitous computing had both positive and negative aspects. I’m talking (mostly) about the 1990s and 2000s, when the internet was just beginning to take over our lives...
Salvaged.nu is a place on the internet that recovers, repairs, and reuploads Photoshop resources from lost personal blogs from the mid-2000's.
The Classics Club is a club created to inspire people to read and blog about classic books. There’s no time limit to join and you’re most welcome, as long as you’re willing to sign up to read and write on your blog about 50+ classic books in at most five years. The perk is that, not only will you have read 50+ incredible (or at the very least thought-provoking) works in five years, you’ll get to do it along with all of these people. Join us! We’re very friendly.
This is a fun digital versionof the classic design book, A Dictionary of Color Combinations. If you're a designer then you might also want to grab these Figma/Sketch files with the color combos, too: https://hexpot.com/blog/sanzo-wada-color-combinations
A donation of scans from the brilliant instagram account Transit Tickets (go follow!). Tony found these in Tokyo, dug out of piles of paper and added to his collection. They were issued in the early 1980s, Showa Era 56/57. These were used to get entry into a train station.
Vintage Japanese train tickets!
An independent publishing house focused on telling great science fiction and fantasy stories with queer elements and under-represented people.
Let’s outlive some motherfuckers this year
Maybe for you, it didn’t start on Twitter. Maybe was forums or the blogosphere or Reddit. Maybe it was Facebook with terrible people from high school or TikTok with people who hate you for liking a thing, or not liking it enough. But we built the machines around our weird amygdalas and then we went inside them and now the machine is no longer confined to a stack of software + policy + vibes; we carry it in ourselves. We haunt each new place we enter. We can feel this happening in our bodies, which is why touch grass is so accidentally real.
We shape our structures and afterward our structures shape us, but the we of the first clause and the us of the second are not the same.
Sortition social is a community RSS feed reader. Every day, a random feed is selected from our database and added to the timeline. After seven days, the feed falls off the end of the timeline and is replaced by a new one at the top. The timeline always shows the latest entries from the feeds it features.
Spend January 2026 on the Fediverse:
- Create an account (on our Mastodon server, or another one near you).
- Learn and explore.
- Then, bring your friends.
We can grow something better!
Over 70 bands and musicians spend the fall recording these demos, released exclusively as part of DEMO FEST on the winter solstice (December 21st) as a benefit for Solidarity Across Borders.
Punk music demos, yay!
It's almost nomination time for the Hugo Awards! As someone invested in recommendations as a type of critique/conversation, I'm thriving.
Good set of recs! I need to go through these more thoroughly later...
On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. The literary highlights range from William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying to Agatha Christie’s The Murder at the Vicarage and the first four Nancy Drew novels. From cartoons and comic strips, the characters Betty Boop, Pluto (originally named Rover), and Blondie and Dagwood made their first appearances. Films from the year featured Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, the Marx Brothers, and John Wayne in his first leading role. Among the public domain compositions are I Got Rhythm, Georgia on My Mind, and Dream a Little Dream of Me. We are also celebrating paintings from Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee.
Yay, public domain day! Also noted is another Lord Peter Wimsey book going PD this year.
Some fab projects completed AND a great list of videos about crafting history/feminism/activism to watch at the end.
omg these cookies are amazing! I love the ones that look like Greek pottery shards, and the medieval tile ones!
via @colossal@mastodon.art
Companion video from cookie creator: https://youtu.be/XDmaO-Ptvss?si=nUkfAzt7uX_EJMNk