Happy Friday! I recently found out the homeowners’ sink does sparkling water using the nubbin on the other side of the faucet from the regular water handle. I coulda been having fizzy water this whole time!
Plurality is the experience of having more than one self in the same body. There are few guides written for those who don’t fit into “one person per body”, and it can be hard to figure out how to live a life where you’re never alone, especially if you struggle with internal conflicts or trust issues. For the Many offers over 100 pages of guides on self-discovery, communication, and developing an internal community.
Happy Saturday! It’s absolutely beautiful outside and I sat for several hours this morning under a tree, reading Moby-Duck…
Some links for you:
Aphyr wrote about an ongoing issue on Mastodon where AI spam accounts are signing up and getting through the initial checks; these are small, super-specific servers for tiny groups of people (queer/kinky/cozy fans even) and the bots use language with specific keywords and phrases to seem human enough to get through. The comments have some discussion about what this could mean for moderation/community engagement and how small communities survive on personal recommendations.
The Locavore Guide to Shopping New York City is a (physical!) directory of small indie shops with amazing local good! The writer does fun TikTok videos of her tracking down specific foods (and other stuff) and recently came out with this guide. There’s a website version too but honestly the book is so cute and would be great to carry around while sightseeing.
This is an AMAZING project: a directory of Georgia pagan groups from 1996-2025, WITH contact info and links to websites and so on. The author (MunuΕ‘ninanna) built it using data from WitchVox (RIP) and other internet sources; they include a great sources page, and even a 90s pagan webring page! Really a fab effort and I’m seriously considering doing one for California. (I do have an in-progress Pagan Links page with some stuff listed, in the meanwhile.)
Permacomputing is “both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.” Be sure to check out their library and projects pages, too!
PrePostPrint “highlights experimental publications made with free software” which in practice seems to be a mix of text production and ways to make the web into a text production, more or less. Some very interesting things in the resources list!
Need more stuff to read? I’ve compiled all previous linkspam posts here on my website, or you can explore the linkspam tag to find more.
Happy Friday! I’ve got another linkspam post for y’all, made of a combo of really old tabs and some new stuff. I’ll get down to a reasonable amount of tabs eventually…
First up, some major shenanigans are happening on itch.io, the indie game/book/zine platform. Basically, a Christian morality group (in Australia) put pressure on itch.io’s payment processors to block “NSFW” (including SFW LGBTQ content) from being listed on the website.
HTML Day 2025 is coming up on August 2nd, and there’s lots of in-person events happening around the world! If you’re interested in making something with HTML in a group setting, check it out!
Also here’s a bunch of interesting DIY zines from Iffy Books, including a Printable Diceware List for generating secure passphrases using 6-sided dice. They (Iffy Books) also host a Neo-Luddite book club each month which has an online version; the book club website has some great resources linked as well.
Marginalia Search’s Explore page is a fun way to find new websites. Here’s some I found: MapHistory.info, a cartography website maintained by a former Map Librarian (since 1996!); CopyFree.org, an alternative to copyright/copyleft licenses; CryptoParty.in, a community focused on digital privacy and not cryptocurrency.
How I Experience the Web Today highlights exactly the trap we’ve gotten into between trying to make money online and trying to use the internet for anything, well, useful.
An interesting discussion on Ask MetaFilter about how to age successfully solo (minimal family support). Some suggestions are to be active in your community in a hobby or area you enjoy, stay physically active, and prep your living space with accessibility stuff.
Anybody up for a blogging challenge? 100 Day to Offload is one, with the goal to publish 100 posts on your personal blog in a year.
Need more stuff to read? I’ve compiled all previous linkspam posts here on my website, or you can explore the linkspam tag to find more.
π¬ Cold Comfort Farm: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry. A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives. π
Cute!
National Parks Travelers Club is for people who love visiting US nat’l parks! They have meet-ups and stuff too, super fun!
Punk 101 Masterlist which links to various things that may interest punks (or those who admire punk ethics), including zines!
I’ve never eaten acorns and haven’t particularly thought of doing so before, but if you’re in the right part of the world you can apparently do just that. Here’s a guide for collecting and processing edible acorns from Edgewood Nursery.
Wikimedia Commons has a photo competition ongoing through July 31st. Basically they’re looking for photos of natural protected areas from various countries (full list on the site) and you can win a bit of money if your photo is chosen as the best.
I really enjoy Sacha Judd’s newsletter, “what you love matters,” which focuses on online culture– but the fun stuff! Basically it’s just a collection of interesting links and fun personal updates. It’s hosted on Buttondown, so if you don’t want another email coming to your inbox you can sub via RSS (which is what I did).
‘Why am I naming this after the Borg? Like Star Trekβs Borg, this is an aesthetic rooted in extractive consumption, assimilationist dominance, neo-colonial expansionism, self-righteous conviction, reductionist thinking, and proclamations of inevitability. It idolizes technology, often inspired by older science-fiction, and draws on cyberpunk aesthetics. The Silicon Valley Collective values groupthink and believes themselves superior to βthe other.β’
This short documentary from Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson via the New York Times has been making the rounds lately: Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth? | Death of a Fantastic Machine which sounds like it’s a history of the camera but is really about how we interact with media (including AI images).
Need more stuff to read? I’ve compiled all previous linkspam posts here on my website, or you can explore the linkspam tag to find more.
