videos
reform!
jon bois
An explanation of the rise and fall of the US Reform Party, featuring some of the strangest people you’ve ever seen in your life.
fighting in the age of loneliness
jon bois, felix biederman
The life, and death, of competitive MMA.
hell on earth
matt christman, chris wade
A podcast series explaining how a series of posts from a German madman in Wittenberg, and an international pandemic, hauled capitalism out of the corpse of the Middle Ages.
articles
the reverse-centaur's guide to criticising AI
cory doctorow
Explains the current business model behind AI, how weak that model is, why it's bad for workers, and crucially, what to do about it.
sweet and slim, greasy and grim
erin davis, liana sposto
Erin Davis read Wise Man's Fear, bless her for trying, and found a 35-page description of a fairy girl so offensive that she did data science on gendered descriptions in literature.
other websites
- Angry Metal Guy – A metal review blog.
- Topsters – Tool to create grids of your favourite media.
- A Soft Murmur – Easy background noise tool.
- YTDLP – Download Youtube videos from the command line.
- Sumo Database – Info about every sumo wrestler, ever.
- Global Lightning Map – See all the lightning on the planet.
- Pia and the Little Tiny Things – A comic about moving to the country and fitting in.
- Go Get A Roomie (note: NSFW) – Same author as Pia. My favourite comic of all time.
- Kill Six Billion Demons – Fantasy adventure comic about a white girl going to Hell.
- Therapy Worksheets – A massive resource of therapy worksheets that covers all sorts of issues; relationships, anxiety, self-esteem, what have you.
my grids
these are from topsters. apologies for image, this will be html eventually
