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Sometimes I get into little worm holes. There was a time I was obsessively into conspiracy theories (I find myself still very susceptible to conspiracy theories and I have to force metaphorical ice water onto my limbic system to remind myself that we are too chaotic to collectively plan doomsday together), another time I was obsessively into ARGs on youtube, then another time where all I watched were tiny home tours (my era of tiny home content consumption is re-emerging after my husband started a show on amazon prime about various air bnbs) but the latest worm hole I have gotten into should be more accurately termed a rabbit hole, as in, an alice-in-wonderland rabbit hole where it's a whole other world down there. I have discovered the realm of neocities and have been browsing so many different sites, so much indie-user content, it;s honestly a little overwhelming but one thing I am realizing so far is the common theme, among all of them, of breaking away from mainstream social media with it's dangers of data harvesting and ad revenue where you are the product as well as maintaining privacy where you are not peer-pressured into giving away details about yourself simply to be relevant on the platform you are using, and instead you can just be as you are, post what you like, create your little space on the web outside the confines of the social media spaces that exist today which are designed to create hostile interactions because that generates more revenue, more data, more surveillance---------- and here I go on my conspiracy theory era again...
Jul 12, 2024
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Cool part of the web that may go unnoticed. Gives you a spark of what the web can be if more of us were onboarded before the big apps became our main entry point
Example: https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/9477-IndieWeb-Tumblr (furries have some of the best tech writeups lol)
Apr 11, 2025
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i am sure many people do this but i love to fall down internet rabbit holes about my favorite subjects and compile information and scholarly articles and books about my silly interests. my biggest one currently is on monsters as metaphor/horror as expression and the monstrous feminine!
Jan 25, 2024
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I tend to go down various rabbit holes about many topics. I figured this would be a cutie place to save and bookmark the things I find. Enjoy <3
Jan 4, 2025
Top Recs from @kanrakhan
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there was a perfect platform i could start writing on more frequently.
or i could just pick back up on blogger. or mailchimp. or whatever other platforms ive accumulated. not instagram tho. not instagram....
Jun 19, 2024
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- these unskippable 2 minute ads on youtube are really putting me off from watching most of the videos I click to see based on the creator. I like that creator, yes. but not enough to sit through two minutes of an ad I'm not even interested in.
- wasps. hate'em. Have been obsessively spraying for about a day now.
- I have too much house work to do and not enough hours or energy points. or money to hire someone else to do it haha, rest in peace to me.
- those jelly fish aquarium live streams are a game changer when you've got a child fighting sleep. however, it looks like they too turn the lights off around 11pm.
Jun 30, 2024
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I need a place to archive my thoughts in a dated manner, but also not on instagram. I used to post things pretty frequently on my stories and then have a 'highlights' of the year that I could go back to look at, but now, I am not so comfortable sharing on such a commercial soul sucking platform that is data mining and surveilling and selling. I also feel like I am not, in my core, a good person. There are very few people who, when I see their success and happiness, spark genuine joy for me. For the most, I have to take a deep breath and remind myself that their life does not affect mine and that I should not let the display of their wealth of happiness, opportunity and beauty spoil the pursuit of my own. Some days, I feel so engrossed in knowing and wanting to know the updates of all the people around me. Now, I just want to shrink and disappear, I do not want people to know what I am up to and I do not want to peripherally watch others either. I want to focus on myself. I feel like I need to cut the plug on instagram with a hard delete. Maybe I will just buy myself a photo printer and print out the 'instagram' shots with their memories and make my own photobook instead. But I need to find a new way to document and archive my life.
Feb 8, 2025