Lorde’s Perfectly Imperfect Interview – “We’re conditioned now to try grab it all and grow without limit and it’s making us feel sick. Let something of value pass you by this week. Even better if it feels wrong to do so/presses into an uncomfy spot. See if the feeling you’re craving can be achieved using tools you have.” I mean, couldn’t love this woman more.

Your World of Text – “An infinite grid of text editable by any visitor.” The best way I can think to describe this site is a never-ending collection of bathroom stall graffiti conversations. Each custom URL generates a blank page that can have anonymous text added to it, and the page continues to live in perpetuity. Some fun examples are: cats, heaven, hell, poetry.

Calvin_412 – I’ve become recently obsessed with this Instagram account of photography in and around Pittsburgh. I’m finding a sort of peace in these quiet, liminal street scenes, and a romance that reminds me of my own childhood in the similarly rust-belt town of Buffalo. I cannot articulate why, but there is just something so beautiful about a humming tungsten street lamp on an empty residential street or nature that has been left to consume the manmade world.

Compost.party – A web server hosted on a retired smartphone, running on solar power. Via Ms. Information on Are.na

Bop Spotter: Like a “shot spotter” used by law enforcement to detect gunshots, but used instead to identify songs that are playing in San Francisco’s Mission District. “This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But it’s not about catching criminals. It’s about catching vibes. A constant feed of what’s popping off in real-time.” Via Spencer Chang on Are.na

LatentScape – A virtual art gallery of sorts that culls imagery from Are.na and presents it in latent space (a term I needed to look up on Wikipedia)

Max Bittker – So much fun stuff on this personal website: a super cool personal bookshelf, links to lovely little digital experiments like this loom that weaves with keystrokes.

Broider – A tool for generating “9 patch” borders for website elements. Also has a list of pre-made borders that can be copied + pasted into your CSS. Via Cyber Nymph Garden

Tradwives Are the Harbinger of Systemic Breakdown – Kristin R. Ghodsee (Everyday Utopia) explores the darker elements of the Tradwife phenomenon, and how it is being informed by our current political and economic context. “AI will soon eliminate many jobs. There is a pressing need to prevent high unemployment that could cause social chaos. Promoting traditional gender roles with separate spheres of work, paid labor and unpaid domestic labor, has the beautiful effect of shrinking the formal labor force when jobs are disappearing. It’s likely that some of the powerful people promoting traditional gender roles realize this.”

Homocommunist Library – I’ve been a follower of the @homocommunist Instagram account for a while now, but was unaware of the website (which, shame on me). It contains articles, ~spicy~ vintage photos, and the aforementioned library of free PDFs of canonical queer/socialist texts.