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How-toA collection of articles, stories, instructions, on a variety of subjects.
Because of content spinning and garbage generators like ChatGPT, it is becoming harder to use search engines to find good sources of information on the internet. To combat this, we need to gather and share links written by experienced and well-meaning humans. I encourage you to keep your own list of bookmarks on your website, and to link to other lists.
First of all, gives these alternative search engines and/or web directories a go. I encourage you to submit worthwhile sites that you find to help build up a quality of database of good websites:
- Wiby (search engine for non-commercial simple html websites)
- Curlie (volunteer-run web directory)
- Neocities (web host, but also features all sites hosted on the platform, which tend to be really nice)
- Academic Research Engine (a search engine for open-access academic papers)
- Internet Archive (library of free texts, movies, software, music, etc)
I also recommend seeking out webrings:
Categories
- Learning
- Internet
- News
- Fun
- Technology
- Climate Knowledge
- Sailing
- Weather
- Preparedness
- Specieism
- Design
- DIY
- Cooking
- Language
- Articles/Blogposts
- Lists of Links
- Art
- Comics
- Cycling
Learning
- My Mooc(free online-course search)
Internet
- Handwriting Your Own RSS Feed
- Anna's Archive (open library)
- Permacomputing Wiki
- Just Fucking Use HTML
- Configuring Firefox(privacy/no tracking), Sciops.net
- Alt-text as poetry
- The Website Obesity Crisis (Internet)
- Social media and parasocial media (Internet)
- Pikselkraft (Low-tech web)
- Cobalt (Ripping videos/audio from YouTube)
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News
- The Nerve (Women-led independent journalism: tech/culture/politics)
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Fun
- Alt Text Selfies
- Radio Taiso(exercise).
- Public Domain Review (promoting public domain works)
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Technology
- Solar Protocol
- Steam Vehicles
- Low-Tech Labs
- Nomadic Research Labs
- The Right to Repair
- Low Tech Magazine
- Other Power: Make Your Electricity From Scratch
- Street Use (Low-tech, Repair/Reuse)
- MadSci Network (database of scientists answering questions)
- The Museum of Retro Technology
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Climate knowledge
- Energypedia (knowledge platform for sustainaible energy)
- Water at Airports (helping travellers with reusable bottles)
- Heated (Newsletter, Climate Journalist)
- Design life cycle
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Sailing
- Roger Taylor (Junk Rig, Solo Sailor)
- How to Scull a Boat (How-to)
- LadyJacks (Radical Feminist Sailors)
- SY Bosun Bird (World sailors, Canadian)
- SY Dawn Treader (World Sailors, Projects)
- SY Tari Tari (Sailor, Jute Sailboat)
- gunwale and hull cushioning (How-to, Article).
- defensive boating (How-to, Article)
- the black box theory
- Sven Irvind (Sailor, Small DIY Sailboat)
- Annie Hill (Junk-Rig)
- Speedwell Adventures (Junk Rig, Solo Sailor)
- Sailing Auklet (Small Junk Rig)
- Cheap Pages (Boatbuilding, DIY, Resources)
- Not All Who Wander Are Lost (Ferrocement, Gaff Rig)
- SY Sunstone (World sailors, English)
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Weather
- Metport (Detailed Wind Visualizations for specific bodies of water in Canada)
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Preparedness
- Wild Heart Homestead (Permaculture)
- Compost Guy (Bokashi etc)
- Collapsible Systems (collapse preparation knowledge)
- Rope Rescue Training Resource
- A Free Manual for Practicing Insurrectionary Medicine
- Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching
- Dark Mountain Manifesto
- Traction Project (Self-Defense, Repair, LGBTQIA+)
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Specieism
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Design
- Pixel perfect handbook
- Dither it(Online Dithering Tool)
- RNS Stitch Bank (Extensive free database of embroidery stitches)
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DIY
- Building a dinghy (How-to).
- How to Build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box(JPG, Wikimedia).
- Hybrid-Electric Small Vessel Drive (DIY Hybrid Electric System for Small Sailboats)
- cables and harness splices (How to Make Cables and Harness Splices, Nasa)
- Shoelace Knots (How-to)
- five hole pamphlet stitch
- Fabric calculator (Sailrite, Tool)
- diy watermaker (DIY, How-to, Boats)
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Cooking
- Domingo Club (Design, Fermentation)
- Ni cru ni cuit (Lacto-Fermentation)
- Nukazuke Tutorial (Japanese Fermentation Technique)
- Oat-gurt (Fermentation, Recipe)
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Language
- Toki Pona word list (Reference, Wikibooks)
- Toki Pona cheat sheet (PDF[119 KB])
- politics and the english language (George Orwell)
- On Discourse
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Articles/blog posts
I've separated these links from the rest because I vouch for the quality of each specific article, not of the entire website.
- Prey to a crocodile (Specieism)
- Resolving One Long-Standing Insecurity and Proposing Another (Article, Personal blog)
- River Nomads, Liveaboards, Canal-Dwellers and Other People of the Water (Liveaboard, Canada, Collapse)
- Vessels of Concern: Signs of the Times (Liveaboard, Canada, Collapse)
- The Work of Creation in the Age of AI (Art, Deep Meaning, Critique)
- Everything in its place (Design)
- Sick Systems (Psychology, manipulation).
- What do you Think About Chat GPT? (Technology)
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Art
- Kristen Egan (Artist that creates custom and intricate gourd masks)
- Gabriele Palla (Artists, Games/Concept art, JP)
- The Sad Ghost Club (Art project, Mental Health Wwareness)
- Dom2d (Game Artist, Mental Health Awareness, MTL)
- Boum (Animator, Comic artist, MTL)
- Matthew Forsythe (Illustrator, nature)
- Feminist Sticker Club (Artwork, feminism)
- Android Arts (Concept artist, console concepts)
- Ita Toys (Fashion, Design)
- Jenny Odell (Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer)
- Amanda Visell (Illustrator, Designer)
- Nervous system (Generative design, store)
- Stanley Lieber (Zines, computers)
- Mikes Woodwork (Wood artist)
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Comics
- Emily Carroll (Illustrator, comics, horror)
- Fran Krause (Comic artist, cartoon, horror)
- Kazu Kibuishi (Illustrator, storyteller)
- Villainette (Comics, Martial Arts)
- Hamlet Machine (Comics, nsfw)
- Perry Bible Fellowship (Comic, Humor)
- Oh Joy Sex Toy (Comic, 18+)
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Cycling
- Tokyo by Bike (Navigating tokyo by bicycle, JP)
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