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Here are some links to pages and resources that I believe are worth sharing.
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## Creative Resources
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### General
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* [Creative Commons Search Portal](https://search.creativecommons.org/)—The Creative Commons (CC) Search Portal helps you search CC licensed works across multiple platforms. Includes music, web, images, 3D models, video, and more.
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* [Creazilla](https://creazilla.com/)—A huge collection of media files under a Public Domain license including photos, illustrations, scanned art images, vectors, videos, and audio files.
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* [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/)—Free stock photos, illustrations, vector graphics, videos, music and sounds effects.
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### Graphic Design
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#### Education
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* [Butterick’s Practical Typography](https://practicaltypography.com/)
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#### Reference
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* [Design Systems Gallery](https://designsystemsrepo.com/design-systems-recent/)
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#### Software
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* [Converseen](https://converseen.fasterland.net/)—A Batch Image Converter and Resizer Tool for Windows, Linux and macOS.
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* [darktable](https://www.darktable.org/)—An open source photography workflow application and raw developer.
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* [digiKam](https://www.digikam.org/)—Open-source digital asset manager and image editor.
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* [DisplayCAL](https://displaycal.net/)—Display Calibration and Characterization powered by ArgyllCMS.
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* [G'MIC](https://gmic.eu/)—A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing.
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* [Glaxnimate](https://glaxnimate.org/)—An open-source vector animation and motion design desktop application.
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* [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/)—A FLOSS vector graphics editor.
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* [Krita](https://krita.org/en/)—A professional FLOSS painting and raster editing tool.
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* [RawTherapee](https://www.rawtherapee.com/)—A free, cross-platform raw image processing program.
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* [Scribus](https://www.scribus.net/)—The Go-To Libre Desktop Publishing Application.
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#### Stock Graphics
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* [Artvee](https://artvee.com/)—Browse and download high-resolution, public domain paintings, posters and illustrations.
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* [CocoMaterial](https://cocomaterial.com/)—The Open Source hand-drawn illustration library with 3,293 images.
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* [Free and open source icons](https://www.toools.design/free-open-source-icon-libraries)
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* [Getty Museum Collection](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search?open_content=true)
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* [Getty Research Collections](https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/search?is_open_content=true)
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* [Museo](https://museo.app/)—A visual search engine that connects you with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library Digital Collection
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* [nappy.co](https://nappy.co/)—Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free.
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* [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/artwork-search?download=1)—Search and download from a collection of tens of thousands of artworks.
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* [Old Book Illustrations](https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/)
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* [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/)—The best free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators.
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* [Public Domain Image Archive](https://pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all/random/desc)—The Public Domain Image Archive is a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse.
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* [Smithsonian Open Access](https://www.si.edu/openaccess)—Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images.
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#### Typefaces
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* [Badass Libre Fonts By Womxn](https://www.design-research.be/by-womxn/)
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* [Collletttivo](https://www.collletttivo.it/)—An Open-Source type foundry and a network of people promoting the practice of type design through mutual exchange and collaboration.
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* [coolLabs Fonts](https://fonts.coollabs.io/)—A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.
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* [Cyreal](https://cyreal.org/info/)—A Libre/Opensource foundry with expertise in Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
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* [Datatype](https://franktisellano.github.io/datatype/)—A font that turns text into charts.
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* [Font Library](https://fontlibrary.org/en)
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* [FontCDN](https://thomaspark.co/projects/fontcdn/)—A search tool for Google fonts.
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* [Fontsource](https://fontsource.org/)—An updating monorepo full of self-hostable Open Source fonts bundled into individual NPM packages.
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* [Fontspace](https://www.fontspace.com/)—Free downloads of 150,000+ legally licensed fonts.
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* [google-webfonts-helper](https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts)—A hassle-free way to self-host google fonts.
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* [Use & Modify](https://usemodify.com/)—A personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces.
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* [Open Foundry](https://open-foundry.com/fonts)
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* [Open Source Publishing Foundry](https://osp.kitchen/foundry/)
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### Sounds & Samples
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* [FreeSound](https://freesound.org/)
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* [LooperMan](https://www.looperman.com/)
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* [SampleSwap](https://sampleswap.org/index.php)
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## Education
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### Code
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* [freeCodeCamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)—Advance your career by learning in-demand skills in Programming, DevOps, Cybersecurity, AI Engineering, and English for Developers.
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### Credit-Bearing Courses and Degrees
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* [saylor.org Academy](https://learn.saylor.org/)—Learn new skills or earn credit towards a degree using free courses from Saylor Academy
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* [Sophia Learning](https://www.sophia.org/)—Online college-level courses for $99 a month, designed to transfer to 100+ partner colleges, reviewed for credit at 1,000+ other colleges and universities.
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* [University of The People](https://www.uopeople.edu/)—A tuition-free online university, accredited by WSCUC and DEAC.
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### GNU/Linux
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* [KillerCoda](https://killercoda.com/)—Interactive environments for tech you study, teach or present.
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* [Linux Upskill Challenge](https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/)—Learn the skills required to sysadmin a remote Linux server from the command line.
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* [SadServers](https://sadservers.com/)—Master Linux & DevOps troubleshooting on live servers.
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### Open Textbooks
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* [LibreTexts Commons](https://commons.libretexts.org/)—The LibreText Commons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 16 libraries in the LibreVerse in one convenient location.
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* [Milne Open Textbooks](https://milneopentextbooks.org/)—Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
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* [OER Commons](https://oercommons.org/)—A public digital library of open educational resources.
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* [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/)—Now offering 1739 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.
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* [openstax](https://openstax.org/)—The world’s largest publisher of open education resources.
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### Scots Language
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* [OpenLearn Create Scots language and culture](https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=382)—This course teaches aspects of Scots, one of the three indigenous languages spoken in Scotland alongside English and Scottish Gaelic.
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* [Scots Language Center](https://www.scotslanguage.com/pages/view/id/9)—Educational resources relating to the Scots language.
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* [ScotsHoose Yaldi](https://www.scotshooseyaldi.com/)—Scots language learning and creativity resource for children, young people, teachers and parents.
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## Eleventy Resources
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* [11tyBundle](https://11tybundle.dev/)—Learn how others are making the most of 11ty, an exceptionally simple, flexible, and performant, open-source static site generator.
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* [11tyCMS](https://11tycms.com/)—A local, serverless, dependable, and FLOSS CMS for websites made with Eleventy.
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* [Pagefind](https://pagefind.app/)—A fully static search library that runs after Hugo, Eleventy, Jekyll, Next, Astro, SvelteKit, or any other website framework.
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* [Uncharted](https://uncharted.seanlunsford.com/)—A CSS-based chart plugin for Eleventy.
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## Free/Libre Software
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* [Free Software Foundation](https://fsf.org)—A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom.
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* [GNU](https://gnu.org)—An operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom.
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* [KDE](https://kde.org)—An international community developing the world’s finest free and open-source software.
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* [switching.software](https://switching.software/)—switching.software aims to educate a non-technical audience on ethical and easy-to-use alternatives to well-known websites, apps and other software.
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## Friendly Sites (Those not linked elsewhere on this site)
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* [Davey Dynamite](https://daveydynamite.neocities.org/)
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* [Mercury Retro](https://calam.us/)
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## Health / Medical
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* [smelltrainingapp.com](https://smelltrainingapp.com/)—A free tool from Stockholms Universitet and and Karolinska Institutet to help patients with hyposmia or anosmia improve their sense of smell.
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## Indieweb / Personal Web: Discovery
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* [Akregator](https://apps.kde.org/akregator/)—A news feed reader available for GNU/Linux and Windows.
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* [Alligator](https://apps.kde.org/alligator/)—A convergent, cross-platform feed reader, supporting standard RSS/Atom feeds available for GNU/Linux.
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* [blogroll.org](https://blogroll.org/)—Because blogs are the soul of the web.
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* [blogs.hn](https://blogs.hn/)—A directory of tech sites, primarily sourced from HackerNews.
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* [blogscroll.com](https://blogscroll.com/)—An open directory of personal sites and blogs.
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* [blogsearch.io](https://blogsearch.io/)—A search engine for personal blogs and independent websites.
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* [Bubbles](https://bubbles.town/)— Somewhere out there, someone wrote a really good blog post today. You'll probably never find it. Google won't show it to you. Social media buried it under engagement bait. Bubbles tries to surface it. Community voting applied to thousands of personal, independent blogs, with identity and discussion routed through the Fediverse.[^1]
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* [Bukmark Club](https://bukmark.club/)—The BUKMARK.CLUB is a collection of websites from across the Internet.
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* [Early Web Links](https://earlyweblinks.com/)—Before the internet went corporate, it was weird, wonderful, and deeply personal. People built websites just because they had something to share. This directory is full of sites that bring back that feeling.
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* [Feeder](https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder)—An open source feed reader (RSS/Atom/JSONFeed) for Android.
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* [Feedle](https://feedle.world/)—A search engine for blogs and podcasts.
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* [FreshRSS](https://www.freshrss.org/cloud-providers.html)—A self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator.
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* [indieblog.page](https://indieblog.page/)—Discover the indieweb.
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* [Kagi Smallweb](https://kagi.com/smallweb/)
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* [Marginalia Search](https://marginalia-search.com/)—Search that prioritizes non-commercial content.
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* [Minifeed](https://minifeed.net/)—Minifeed is a curated blog directory, reader, and search engine. The goal is to collect blogs written by real humans, make them discoverable and searchable.
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* [Mire](https://mire.meadow.cafe/)—A minimal, no-bullshit web-based rss/atom feed reader.
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* [Mwmbl](https://mwmbl.org/)—A crowd-sourced search engine.
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* [Mydora](https://mydora.restorativland.org/)—A continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music.
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* [Octothorpes](https://octothorp.es/)—Discover websites by hashtag.
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* [ooh.directory](https://ooh.directory/)—A collection of 2,358 blogs about every topic.
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* [PowRSS](https://powrss.com/)—A public RSS feed aggregator built to support the open, independent web.
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* [Random Blog](https://randomblog.rocks/)—Discover random blogs.
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* [Raven](https://ravenreader.app/)—A cross-platform feed reader.
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* [RSS Finder](https://lwindolf.github.io/rss-finder/)—Find RSS feeds from popular platforms, by scanning websites, and through search.
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* [RSS Guard](https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard)—Feed reader (podcast player and also Gemini protocol client) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.
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* [searchmysite.net](https://searchmysite.net/)—Search real content by real people from their personal websites.
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* [Webring List](https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm)—A list of 724 webrings containing a total of 30,918 websites.
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* [Wiby](https://wiby.me/)—Search engine for the classic web.
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## Indieweb / Personal Web: Resources
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### Analytics
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* [goatcounter.com](https://www.goatcounter.com/)—An open source web analytics platform available as a free donation-supported hosted service or self-hosted app.
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* [Mochi](https://mochi.meadow.cafe/)—Friendly analytics and webmentions for your little corner of the internet.
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### Code Generators
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* [Melon's Gallery Maker](https://melonking.net/melon?z=/free/software/gallery-maker)—a micro-static site generator that makes it super easy to share your photos, make gif resource sites and showcase your artworks!
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* [MERP Feed Embed](https://merp.ichi.city/feed-embed/)—Embed an atom feed within a static HTML page.
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* [Quiz Maker](https://kamiscorner.xyz/quiz-maker/)
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### Discoverability
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* [Octothorpes](https://octothorp.es/)—Octothorpes are hashtags and backlinks that can be used on regular websites, connecting pages across the open internet regardless of where they're hosted.
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### Effects
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* [90s Cursor Effects](https://tholman.com/cursor-effects/)
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### Forms
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* [Guestbooks](https://guestbooks.meadow.cafe/)—A free guestbook service for your website.
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* [Guestbooks (2)](https://guestbooks.kamiscorner.xyz/)—Another free guestbook service for your website.
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* [riku.miso.town](https://riku.miso.town/)—Riku is a free and open-source software that lets you collect responses from forms on your site.
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### Graphics
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* [88x31 Archive](https://hellnet.work/8831/)—An archive of tens of thousands of 88x31 buttons.
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* [88x31 Button Viewer](https://pilosophos.com/88x31-viewer/)—A searchable archive of tens of thousands of 88x31 buttons.
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* [GIF Printer 2000](https://melonking.net/frames/pixelsea)
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* [GifCities](https://gifcities.org/)—The Geocities animated gif search from Internet Archive.
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* [Tile-able website backgrounds](https://tiled-bg.blogspot.com/)
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### Graphics Generators / Tools
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* [blinkies.cafe](https://blinkies.cafe/)—A blinkie maker.
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* [Button / badge generator](https://88x31.datakra.sh/)—Generate your very own 88x31 buttons.
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* [Button / badge generator (2)](https://hekate2.github.io/buttonmaker/)—Another 88x31 button maker.
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* [Button / badge generator (3)](https://sadgrlonline.github.io/archived-sadgrl.online/projects/88x31-button-maker.html)—Another one!
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* [Cool Text Graphics Generator](https://cooltext.com/)
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* [MERP Draw](https://merp.ichi.city/draw.html)—Draw things.
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* [Pride button / badge generator](https://badge.les.bi/)—Generate pride buttons.
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* [Textcraft](https://textcraft.net/)—A minecraft + 8-bit style text and logo generator.
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* [Userbar generator](https://350x19.datakra.sh/)—Generate 250x19 userbar graphics.
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### Hit Counters
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* [Hit counters](https://www.websiteout.net/counter.php)
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### Hosting Services
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* [Blot](https://blot.im/)—A tool that turns a folder into a website (paid).
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* [Nekoweb](https://nekoweb.org/)—A free static website hosting. service
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* [tilde.fun](https://tilde.fun/)—A Linux machine on the internet where you can get a shell account.
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* [tildepages](https://tildepages.org/)—Free & fast web hosting.
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### Pets
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* [Gify Pet](https://melonking.net/frames/pet)—Who is there to watch over your site when you are gone? GifyPet will!
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* [tamaNOTchi](https://tamanotchi.world/)—cute virtual pets you can customize, grow, and share on your blog or website.
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* [Pocket Bird](https://github.com/IdreesInc/Pocket-Bird)—A bird that hops around your website.
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### Publishing
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* [Bear](https://bearblog.dev/)—A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform.
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* [ichi.city](https://ichi.city/)—a friendly little internet community where you can create your homepage, explore your creativity, and discover other people.
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* [Kitty](https://kitty.meadow.cafe/)—A cozy, minimal content platform focused on helping you write & publish without fuss.
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* [neocities.org](https://neocities.org/)—Create your own free website.
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Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
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* [smol.pub](https://smol.pub/)—Smol Pub is tiny blogging service accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher.
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### Social
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* [imood](https://www.imood.com/)—imood helps you keep in touch with how you and your friends are feeling.
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* [piclog](https://piclog.blue/)—share your JPEG pictures with your friends.
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* [status.cafe](https://status.cafe/)—status.cafe is a place to share your current status.
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## Literature
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* [LibriVox](https://librivox.org/)—Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.
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* [Queer Liberation Library](https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org/)—Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.
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* [Standard Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/)—A volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.
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* [TypeLit.io](https://www.typelit.io/)—Test your typing online by practicing on your favorite literature.
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* [Wee Windaes—A continuum o the Scots Leid](https://wee-windaes.nls.uk/)
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## More Links
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* [Coyote's Link Hub](https://osteophage.neocities.org/links)—Useful links, essays, compilations and more.
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## Music
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* [Free Music Archive](https://freemusicarchive.org/home)—Free Music Archive (FMA) offers free access to open licensed, original music by independent artists around the world.
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* [Musopen](https://musopen.org/)—Musopen is a 501(c) 3 non-profit working to increase access to music education by providing free music recordings, sheet music, apps, and educational materials.
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## Privacy-Respecting Tools and Services
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* [Autistici](https://www.autistici.org/)—A collective offering free digital services, including:
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* Anonymity services
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* Blogging
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* Chat
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* Email
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* Mailing lists /newsletters
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* Videoconferencing
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* Web hosting
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* [De-google-ify Internet](https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/)—A project from [Framasoft](https://framasoft.org) offering access to:
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* Chat
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* Cloud storage
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* Collaborative office tools
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* Debate / decision making
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* Diagramming
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* Discussion groups
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* Forms
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* Games
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* Git forge
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* Maps
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* Mindmaps
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* PDF editing
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* Petitions
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* Video search
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* Videoconferencing
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* [Disroot](https://disroot.org/)—A platform providing (mostly French-language) online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization, including:
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* Calendar
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* Chat
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* Collaborative documents
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* Cloud storage
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* Email
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* Encrypted office tools
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* Event management
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* Expense management
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* Git forge
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* Meeting scheduling
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* Microblogging
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* Pastebin
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* Reddit alternative
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* Search
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* Temporary file storage / file sharing
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* Translation
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* Videoconferencing
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* Voice chat
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* [LibreDNS](https://libredns.gr/)—a public encrypted DNS service from [LibreOps](https://libreops.cc/)
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* [nolog.cz](https://nolog.cz/en/)—Free and open-source alternatives to common tools from an activist IT collective, including:
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* Chat
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* Collaborative markdown editor
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* Encrypted office tools
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* File sharing
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* Microblogging (Czech language)
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* Password management
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* Pastebin
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* Scheduling
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* Search
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* Video hosting
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* Videoconferencing
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* [opendesktop.org](https://www.opendesktop.org/)—a libre platform providing:
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* Calendar
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* Chat
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* Cloud storage
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* Git forge
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* Libre product publishing
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* [searchengine.party](https://searchengine.party/)—Web page for comparing popular search engines across some privacy-centric data points.
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* [sp-codes.de](https://sp-codes.de/en/)—Services run by an individual for general use, including:
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* Badges
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* Captive portal check
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* Chat
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* Encrypted office tools
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* Git forge
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* Instagram alternative
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* Microblogging
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* Notifications
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* Video hosting
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* Videoconferencing
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* [systemli.org](https://www.systemli.org/en/)—Non-commercial provider of communication services, including:
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* Chat
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* Cloud storage
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* Email
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* Encrypted office tools
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* Metadata cleaner
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* Microblogging
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* Onion services
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* Pastebin
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* Surveys
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* Ticker
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* Videoconferencing
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* Voice chat
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* Web hosting
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* [tchncs.de](https://tchncs.de/en/)—A collection of free services run by an individual, including:
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* Blogging
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* Chat
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* Encrypted office tools
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* Event management
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* Git forge
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* Goodreads alternative
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* Instagram alternative
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* Microblogging
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* Minecraft servers
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* Nature trail database
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* Notifications
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* Password management
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* Reddit alternative
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* Task management
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* Video hosting
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* Videoconferencing
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* Voice chat
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* [weho.st](https://weho.st/)—A non-profit internet service provider, including:
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* Chat
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* Cloud storage
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* Diagramming
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* Email
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* Encrypted office tools
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* Git forge
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* Microblogging
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* Search
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* VPN
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## Random Cool Stuff
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* [intertapes.net](https://intertapes.net/)—An updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations. The audio fragments include: voice memos, field recordings, mixtapes, bootlegs and more.
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* [Pocket Bird](https://idreesinc.itch.io/pocket-bird)—A pet bird that flies around web pages as you browse. Collect feathers to unlock different birds, and find hats for your bird to wear.
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[^1]: It turns out that the developer behind Bubbles.town [used an LLM to categorize blogs](https://brennan.day/floating-up-an-interview-with-the-creator-of-bubbles-town-benjamin-behnke/), even when AI crawlers were specifically disallowed in a blog's [robots.txt](/robots.txt). He has since owned up to the mistake and apologized, but… [oof](/ai).
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