“Together Estranged, Inc. provides free support services to adults estranged from family members.
We meet the needs of estranged folx both before they’ve advanced into full estrangement, during the process and long after as well. We also assist people as they explore which stage of estrangement is best suited for them, how to establish appropriate boundaries, self-care and support and navigating school and estrangement.
I have written about family estrangement previously.
Artist website for Ola Volo, particularly like the Miami horse mural. But, her work is wonderful and worth a look.
“At BATSHIT TIMES, we showcase artists, activists, and scientists challenging contemporary society’s geopolitical, technocratic, hypersurveilled, megacybernetwork nightmare.
We critique the chaos, dissimulation, and fragmentation of our times through visual projects, films, essays, and articles on emerging experimental art forms and science practices.
Currently on the third issue. The first issue is available as a free PDF download.
Social Explorer is an online data mapping application. The free tier only includes access to the Census 2000, according to their pricing chart. But, it looks like an interesting tool for analyzing data, and I wanted to bookmark for future reference.
“TweetDelete is a service that can mass delete your Twitter posts based on their age or specific text they contain. It can also run automatically on a schedule if you wish.”
–https://tweetdelete.net/
I haven’t tried it, but I read that this can do a rolling delete at a particular time, say 6 months. It seems like it might be useful to some people.
“The first place to look for free satellite imagery is the Copernicus Open Access Hub and EarthExplorer. Both offer free access to a wide range of open data. The imagery is lower resolution than what you can purchase, but if the limited resolution meets your needs, why spend money?
-Dexter Jagula, “Satellite Imagery for Everyone:
Here’s how you can order up a high-resolution image of any place on Earth.” IEEE Spectrum. February 19, 2022.
Interesting overview of satellites, the satellite imagery market, and how it might become ubiquitous, with everyday consumer applications, like GPS.
Musicmap is an extensive online map of musical genres. Bookmarked.
“I processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on reddit. Browse by subreddit or check out some popular results below.
Including comments up to 30 Nov 2021.
https://www.redditreads.com–
“What is Letterboxd?
Letterboxd is a global social network for grass-roots film discussion and discovery. Use it as a diary to record and share your opinion about films as you watch them, or just to keep track of films you’ve seen in the past. Showcase your favorites on your profile page. Rate, review and tag films as you add them. Find and follow your friends to see what they’re enjoying. Keep a watchlist of films you’d like to see, and create lists/collections on any given topic. We’ve been described as “like GoodReads for movies”.
https://letterboxd.com
New to me. IMDB doesn’t really do this that well. So, hopefully, this will be an improvement.
“Timeless articles from the belly of the internet. Manually curated. Served 5 at a time.”
–https://www.readsomethinggreat.com
cafebedouin.org 