Research into historical fabric-making/sewing/knitting/etc., focused on European countries (I think?).
Youtube videos organized into "channels" that you can surf like cable TV.
Free zines and PDFs from Half Letter Press.
Daily word puzzle where you figure out a quotation to get through the maze. From the creator of Murdle!
The Curious Travellers project explores travel and tourism in Britain and Ireland in the late C18th and early C19th. It does so through the writings of the Flintshire naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), and of others who followed in his footsteps. Focused primarily on tours of Scotland and Wales, the project has been funded in two phases by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and is supported by numerous partners. It is a collaboration between The University of Wales Trinity St David, Glasgow University and the Natural History Museum: you can learn more about our project team here. Our website provides access to our digital editions and other resources, blogs and events.
I LOVE finding super-specific websites on obscure topics!
Welcome to Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires, a protection ritual against "New Space" colonizing overlords and an exploration of peer-to-peer online gathering.
This ambitious public art project is presented by Scan Design Foundation, whose mission is to support Danish-American relations with a focus on environmental sustainability. NWTrolls: Way of the Bird King features six giant hand-built troll sculptures by Danish environmental artist, Thomas Dambo. The publicly-accessible sculptures are located around the Pacific Northwest where each whimsical troll sculpture is part of an underlying environmental story. The project celebrates the human experience of art by amplifying the connections of cultural heritage between Coast Salish tribal communities and Scandinavian traditions. Thanks to our funding partners and host site partners, there is no admission fee to visit any of the trolls.
tiny mushroom. tiny.
Writing about early CD-ROMs means coming across a lot of early examples of things that became famous later. Sometimes that means finding new and exciting angles on something familiar... and sometimes it means something that's only notable for being early. Today's disc is one of those.
Amazing art here!
We've compiled a map of bookswaps in London. These are places where you can:
- Take a book for free
- Leave one for somebody else to enjoy
- Do both!
Sadly, there’s no easy way to find ethically manufactured and eco-friendly electronics. But there are things you can do to reduce any negative impact your purchases may have. Here are a few ideas we’ve compiled, with the help of Alex Crumbie, writer and researcher at Ethical Consumer, a UK magazine that ranks brands across various categories, from environmental reporting to workers’ rights.
As the AO3 software has been stable for a long time, the change is mostly cosmetic and does not indicate that everything is finalized or perfectly working. Exiting beta doesn't mean we'll stop continuing to improve AO3—our volunteer coders and community contributors will still be working to add to and improve AO3 every day. For one, it’s likely you’ll continue to see references to us being in beta for a while as we update our documentation.
AI slop is effective on social media, meanwhile, not because it is good or because people like it but because these platforms are flooded with it, because social media companies are invested in making generative AI tools, and because their algorithms are wildly broken. It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
Access Imgur images in the UK by proxying through imgup.uk's German server. No storage, pure relay.
In the spring of 2011, artist Angela Cockayne and writer Philip Hoare convened and curated a unique whale symposium and exhibition at The Levinsky Gallery, the dedicated contemporary art space at The Arts Institute (formerly Peninsula Arts), University of Plymouth, under the title, Dominion. Inspired by their mutual obsession with Moby-Dick and with the overarching subject of the whale, they invited artists, writers, musicians, scientists and academics to respond to the theme. The result was an enthusiastic response which evidently could not be contained within the physical restrictions of a gallery space and a three-day symposium.
‘I have written a wicked book’, said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, ‘and I feel as spotless as the lamb’. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible – and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child – or perhaps its immaculate conception – the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville’s magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.
Traditions that embrace or include theologies of immanence include Paganism, pantheism, polytheism, polymorphism, animism, Heathenry, Druidry, Unitarianism, Wicca, and many more. The aim of this wiki is to promote discussion and awareness of theologies of immanence. It is not to impose an orthodoxy on the rich diversity of thinking about immanence, but rather to explore it and make it available to others.
At this moment I do feel the magick is in play and my guidance is let what has been cast unfold, keep to your practice, keep open hearted, and do the good you can before you. Sometimes it’s harder to do the inconvenient tangible thing than the big ritual.
Over the years, lots of folks have asked me how to create the proper atomosphere for writing books. The sort of atmosphere that will make them want to sit down and write, while oblivious to everything else going on around them. Well...to be perfectly honest, I don't have a clue. I only know what works for me - and that's having all the stuff I love right there around me!
A fun virtual tour of pagan author Dorothy Morrison's office space.
Microsoft’s aggressive AI push in Windows 11 through 2025 brought upon themselves the title Microslop. Unfortunately for the company, it’s everywhere on social media, and there isn’t a way to stop the spread, unless, of course, it’s their own Discord server.
Windows Latest was first to notice that the word “Microslop” was actively filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server.
lmao