My favourite links

This is nothing more than a page I've made to show off some of my personal favourite places online. Barring my social media, for no other reason than the fact that my homepage has already covered that. Also I have gone to the effort of making a page where the entire idea is to show alternatives to Generative AI. That is it's own page because even by the standards of this site, it was kind of jarring to voice my thoughts on AI on this linkpage so...here you go

To start with, websites I consider to be significant culturally.

• The first website ever created
• A guide for how to behave online from 1995 (while the rules about "acceptable file size" have aged badly, the stuff about behaviour ABSOLUTELY needs to be screamed to some people)
• The Verbasizer - a fan recreation of a website David Bowie created in the mid 90s to write the lyrics to the album, 1. Outside If you're not familiar with that album, its my personal favourite and I'll link it here
• Ecosia - a search engine built around the conservation of trees
• The Hacker Manifesto (I'm not a hacker, I just support them and think this is a cool but controversial piece of internet history)
• FromThePage - This is an online resource where you can contribute to library collections from all over the world as a transcriber. Also, Libraries are awesome - books, movies, music, internet, what else do you need?
• Sci-Hub - Ever wanted to read scientific papers but don't want to pay for EVERY scientific journal ever made? This is the resource for you. I also made a little repository in case the site ever goes under!
• The Anarchist Library - what it says on the tin.

Now lets deal with entertainment

• My Abandonware - a Video Game repository
• Project Gutenberg - public domain books
• LibriVox - public domain audiobooks
• Bookshare - audiobooks for disability assistance
• archive.org (The Internet Archive) - a site dedicated to archival of online content and other interesting things (if you couldn't tell by how often I've linked it).
• MyRetroTV - A website domain used to arrange YouTube videos to simulate watching TV from the 1950s to the 2000s. This used to be multiple sites but they recently made it one big website. I only ever really used the 90s and 00s one BUT I do see why they made it one big website over multiple.
• Flashpoint - a downloadable repository of flash games which, after download, you can play in spite of an internet connection (I love Newgrounds' content but the "in spite of an internet connection" AND the fact that Newgrounds isn't/wasn't the only Flash content online is good enough reason to download, even if you DO have a Newgrounds account, like me)
• Bandcamp - a website used for buying and downloading independent music (my albums are hosted there AND on the artpage but there is a lot more on there)
• The Nicest Place - a website designed around giving its users a pick me up
• JS Paint - A Microsoft Paint clone
• Yume Nikki Online Project - Some people seriously made a repository of Yume Nikki AND fan games where you can play them as an online MMO. It's also possible to play on your own. So if you want Yume Nikki with the option of company, and/or you don't want to get a Steam account, here you go.
• Museum Of All Things - This is a game someone on Itch created which is meant to imagine if Wikipedia articles were their own exhibits. I find it interesting in that it's the closest anyone has actually come to making a "Library of Babel."
• qBittorrent - lets just call this "Captain Rottenbeard's Den" for those who don't know

Creatives I admire (with their own website)

This is a quick place where "I found these people online, I like their art, here's their personal website." Not much else to say

• Literal Hat - a musician/visual artist who used to have a Newgrounds account. I quite enjoy what she's made - both in terms of drawing and music
• Shadok - Creator of the web series Loveweb. Genuinely talented animator and knows how to make engaging edutainment. (I'm also aware Loveweb had AI voices for the first 8 episodes. I can understand it here SLIGHTLY MORE than other creative properties that adopted AI because the idea is these characters are creatures on the internet so "robot voices." However, I'm VERY MUCH in the camp of "inserting real actors for these parts was the best move the show ever did." And the actual voice actors who've played the parts have done a great job, Shadok has also talked about her regret with using AI for those voices because of the reaction to "real jobs taken from real people" thing)
• Nicky Case - A lot of these people are Newgrounds associated. Nicky is a video game developer who I honestly love the work of. Coming Out Simulator 2014 being an early favourite of mine. However, what I love about her work is that she does make "gut punch" games like We Become What We Behold or Adventures In Anxiety but isn't above making silly and random bullshit like her :the game: series.
• Adam Phillips - Adam is one of the OG greats of Newgrounds in that he was a Disney animator who wanted to contribute and at a time when the maximum file size upload to Newgrounds was 5MB, he REALLY pushed the technology to make some really interesting animations. Making an entire series with the intent of a film "Brackenwood."

The News

Two things before I start this one - I am an Australian. I don't usually seek out world news just on the basis of "isn't it sad what's happening in Europe?" It is but I prefer bad news I could hypothetically do something about, you know? Second, I judge a good news source based on how much people in power try to silence said voice, either by deplatforming or murder.

• Michael West Media
• Independent Australia
• Red Flag
• Wikileaks
• The Onion (I don't normally like satirical news but The Onion feels like it cuts through the BS better than mainstream journalists)
• FriendlyJordies (as this guy has gotten older, I think he's become a lot more deliberately provocative in the worst way possible. That said, he HAS had people in power try to silence him - his golden age, in my view was 2019- 2022).

Shopping

Short intro again, I am editing the URLs of these websites to make it universal to you regardless of where you happen to live

• Ebay - I think most know what this is but its a good "Amazon for those who don't want to use Amazon"
• Gumtree - a bit "garage saley" but you'll still find some interesting stuff being sold there

Now for some clothing websites

• Holy Clothing - fantasy themed clothing
• City Chic - trendy clothing for plus size fems
• Snag Tights - Tights and clothing for plus size people (referencing tights specifically because thats what they started out as)
• Beserk - a Gothic Clothing site, gender neutral in focus
• Dys4ick - a company with a focus on creating trans affirming undergarments, regardless of gender

And finally, all my personal and financial details on one webpage I've designed myself

Were any of you really dumb enough to fall for that last one?

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