The rabid adherents of AI – not those who feel compelled to use it for work, but the ones who won’t shut the fuck up about it – are too blinkered, greedy, or ignorant to see the writing on the wall. They do not love computers; maybe they never did.

Welcome to Searchable Sea Literature, a free online resource devoted to works by North American authors who write about the ocean. These works include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays.

However, there are also widely-used hashtags which you may not be aware of as they use unusual portmanteau words or phrases. Here is an attempt to list some of them

A really helpful list because it's not always obvious how to find community-centered events/tags/etc. when you're just browsing on Mastodon

This site is intended as a safe, easy-to-use way to search and browse the PeerTube network. Accounts are only listed here if they are run responsibly and create good videos. Anything involving bigotry, conspiracy theories, NSFW or junk content is not allowed.

Little Webby Press is a tool to build books and websites from a manuscript folder. You write your book on your computer. There is no back-end service involved, the book generation happens locally. It is all done in your browser. At the end of it, you’ll have two zip files, one containing your book in EPUB3 non-DRM format and another with the HTML for a website.

"Bunnyrom" is the name given by the virtual pet collecting community to the software that is found on countless cheap virtual pets. The name comes from the recognizable bunny sprite which is the first character and often appears on product listings. Their more official name is Jia Yuan.

Also recognizable as the 168-in-1 pet, they come in many shapes and sizes but always have the exact same programming. They're sold and packaged under many names like Cyber Pet, Digi Pet, or some even claim to be Tamagotchi Connections. They're easy to find on sites like AliExpress and eBay, but manage to show up in physical stores and gift shops as well.

The origin of this pet software is unclear as there is no information about who made it or where it originated, but they seem to have been around since the Connection era of Tamagotchis (circa. 2005) and apparently lifted all of their menu icons from them. The characters on the device also include recognizable faces from various well-known franchises like Spongebob, Digimon, and One Piece.

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.

No Photoshop, no rendering, no cheating
Only working computers
What you see on screen was actually on the screen (no overlays, no copy and paste, etc.)

All images on this page are available under Creative Commons license — feel free to use them!

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:

1. Create an account (on our Mastodon server, or another one near you).
2. Learn and explore.
3. 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