Resources, Links, etc.


https://unionkid.bandcamp.com - My music on Bandcamp

https://yesterweb.org/ - The Yesterweb community

In my own words, the Yesterweb was a collective celebration and reminiscence of the good parts of what the internet once was. I think the best part of Yesterweb was its focus on how we, as participants, users, online denizens, etc. can improve the internet in a democratic way. The internet might not have been created as a public resource, but given how it's evolved, it ought to belong to everyone. I wouldn't have ended up on Neocities without Yesterweb's info. While I'm not particularly fond of nostalgia, I think many of Yesterweb's ideas are worth reading about for yourself. For example, permacomputing: slowing down or eliminating this silly cycle of tech obsolescence and replacement. (Unfortunately, the permacomputing website has become ridden with identity politics since 2023, though its core ideas are still great.)

https://jacobin.com/ - Jacobin

By the time I finished college, I had become politically apathetic and nihilistic. Jacobin's articles, their videos on [evil video streaming giant], along with their podcast episodes on [evil Swedish audio streaming giant] all helped me understand the world and contextualize everything I had learned so far. Nowadays, I ruminate less and avoid cathecting over trivial things.

https://workerorganizing.org - Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

If you want to form a union with your coworkers but don't know where to start, start here. Their Organizing Guide is easy to read and understand. There are plenty of other resources on EWOC's website, from printables to more detailed guides. Unionizing successfully would get you and your coworkers real material improvements, like better wages, benefits, and working conditions. Workplaces throughout history have often been assumed to be impossible to organize. But history shows otherwise - from factories and fast food chains in the past, to Starbucks and Amazon in more recent years.

https://userstyles.world/style/3061/jacobin-night - "Dark mode" theme for Jacobin

To a non-coder, this makes me look way more competent at CSS than I actually am. To anyone with a modicum of CSS knowledge, it will expose me as a total amateur. Still, it's free (forever), so if you like reading Jacobin articles in dim (or no) lighting as much as I do, give this a try. I also wrote a similar theme for Canadian Dimension. I'm aware that there are a few "universal" dark mode plugins which achieve a similar effect: make white backgrounds dark and black text light. I use Dark Reader for Firefox for just about every site, but use custom styles for sites (like Jacobin), where the DR plugin doesn't darken site elements enough.

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ - A satirical website criticizing modern web design