On (over)consumption, overstimulation & dissociation, and moving offline
You're no brand- Conduct yourself like no one is watching. As liedown1 aptly puts it, "refuse digital voyeurism."
Disembodiment- Consider the ways in which you might be living a disembodied life and weigh whether it's worth it.
How to get out of hell- Commiserate with someone struggling to beat phone addiction.
Centring Text- An argument for doing more thinking and forming your own ideas, and then producing something out of it to offset the colossal (idea) consumption you engage in.
“I Don’t Know What I Think Until I Write It Down”- Write to figure out what you think.
Write in your OWN words- Strategies to aid you in producing original writing.
A Guide to Dephoning- Identify areas where you can move to analogue, and do whatever else you can to rely less on your phone; it'll only do good for you and your privacy.
Breaking Up with Google- You can live a life distanced from the monopoly that is Google. Want to watch videos ad free and without Youtube tracking you, for example? Try Invidious.
The "Luxury" of Analogue- Don't let companies sell back analogue devices to you like it's some new, hot commodity! Take advantage of analogue, but know it doesn't have to be expensive.
Web Accessibility
WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
What I've Learned About Web Accessibility as a Dyslexic, Sighted, Mouse User- An accessibility guide by Solaria.
On lack of accessibility in “web revival” spaces
You Should Care About Accessibility
Your Website Needs to Work on Phones
5 ways to make your neocities site more accessible
How to Give Your Website a Dark (or Light) Mode With CSS
Color Schemes and Theme Switchers (CSS and JS)
Randoma11y- Accessible color combinations
Accessible Net Directory
A Complete Guide to Flexbox
How to create Website Page Layout in HTML CSS | using Flexbox- The video that made flex boxes click for me
Flexbox Froggy
Screenfly- Your website on different screens
Squoosh- Image Compression
Tips: Image Compression
PX to EM Conversion
Validate your HTML
Dark Reader- A browser extension to enable Dark Mode on any site that doesn't offer it.
Other Resources
Cobalt.tools- download videos
Dithermark- dither your photos
Dither Studio- dither your photos
HTML & CSS Guides
Complete manual to online safety
Creative Pursuits
Letter To A Young Songwriter
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome as an Artist
Making Your Writing World Safe- The self-imposed suffering in the writing process; the inner critic that barrages you with nitpicks, and sometimes the voice of someone specific, should be silenced in favor of your peace.
Gender & Transition
Is Your Fear of Gender Transition Really the Fear of Aging?- This article discusses coming to terms with the potentially distressing changes that result from taking hormones. Will I still be desirable after transitioning? What happens if, when I go bald, I look in the mirror and see my abuser's face? What happens when I start passing, but I still hold on to old, gendered mannerisms? What if I make the wrong decision and cause some irreversible change?
Life, Death, and Purpose
Basic life skills
Being Boring- a poem on the value of living a boring life.
I am not always very attached to being alive- Living with passive suicidal ideation
Some Thoughts on Suicidism
The Save Yourself Files
Emergency Freakout Guide
Garden of Beeping- An network of writing with key insights into mental health
A plea on behalf of life's purpose- On conformity and life purpose
Organizing Information
How I built a "Wikipedia" of my brain
Blogs as Modern Commonplace Books
Write plain text files
Interesting Things
Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters
Binaries and Boxes
How To End Your Sentence- By far, the most impactful way (for me) of questioning the thoughts I am overidentifying with
The Four Questions by Byron Katie
On my reading list
Everyone needs to grow up- Infantilization (and, the other side of the coin, adultification), helplessness and lack of agency
i want someone to kill me- Hey, I often think that.
What I've Learned About Web Accessibility as a Dyslexic, Sighted, Mouse User- An accessibility guide by Solaria. I need to start using the 'button' tag.
