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Here are some links that I find interesting. I’m also posting them here for safekeeping. I don’t necessarily endorse all of them.

闯 Chuang – journal on capitalism in China

10 Minute Mail – free anonymous temporary email service

2012 Book Archive – archive of books that have a Creative Commons license and are freely downloadable

ACME – “international journal of critical geographies”

Adbusters – “international collective […] smashing ads, fighting corruption and speaking truth to power”

Aeclectic Tarot – lists of tarot, Lenormand, and oracle decks with reviews

Aeon – online magazine of work by leading thinkers on science, philosophy, society, and the arts (see also their associated magazine Psyche)

Alliance of Working Class Academics “supporting faculty and students from diverse working class backgrounds”

The Anarchist Library – exactly what it sounds like; occasionally good

Ancient Jew Review – web journal about ancient Judaism

Animal Studies – Suggestions for Reading – Richard Iveson’s recommended readings for people interested in animal studies

AnonymClassic – first comprehensive, systematic study of Kalīla and Dimna, a work of premodern wisdom fables

AnyDice – dice probability calculator

Archives of Nethys – a free compendium of official materials for Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e, and Starfinder

Arisbe – resources on the life and work of Charles Sanders Peirce

ASLU – American Sign Language dictionary and curricula

Astral Noize – publication about progressive causes and media analysis

Atlas Obscura – “definitive guide to the world’s hidden wonders”

Autistici/Inventati – the privacy collective who helps me set up this website!

Awesome Critical Tech Reading List – “an opinionated reading list for the critical programmer”

Awesome Falsehood – “a curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in”

The Baffler – a leading magazine of left-wing political criticism

The Bible and Critical Theory – publishes peer-reviewed articles about critical theory and biblical studies

Bible Summary – this guy actually tweeted a chapter of the Bible every day

Biblical Archaeology Society – “nonprofit, nondenominational, educational organization dedicated to the dissemination of information about archaeology in the Bible lands”

Biblical Bibliographies and Related Material – useful biblical studies resources maintained by Charles Conroy

Bibliographica Iranica – “a predominantly bibliographic blog for Iranian Studies”

Blue Labyrinths – an online magazine of essays focusing on literature, philosophy, and lots of theory

Boatmurdered – a particularly epic and hilarious Dwarf Fortress Let’s Play

Books, Health, and History – library blog of the New York Academy of Medicine

Caligari – multimedia periodical of cinema, arts, and letters

Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database – public online database of magical gems from the Roman Imperial period

CCCB Lab – digital magazine of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, dedicated to “cultural research and innovation”

Ceasefire – independent magazine for radical ideas, covering a wide range of topics

Center for a Stateless Society – “a left market anarchist think tank and media center”

Center for Humane Technology – movement to reduce negative influence of pervasive tech on our lives; features a Take Control Toolkit

Centre for Experimental Ontology – publisher of the journal Parasol

Chick Publications – honestly these fundamentalist Christian tracts are too ridiculous for me to find them offensive

Church Fathers Scripture Search Engine – tool to cross-reference Bible passages with the writings of the Church Fathers

Citation Matters – “updated reading list for a progressive environmental anthropology”

The Collective for Radical Death Studies – “an international, professional organization formed to decolonize Death studies and radicalize death practice”

Comics With Problems – scans of strange historic comics

Commens – digital companion to Peirce

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute – “an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now”

Correspondences – open access journal on the modern academic study of all things occult

Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D. – sociologist studying effective vegan activism

Cosmos and History – open access journal of natural and social philosophy

Critical China Scholars – viewpoints on China and politics

Critical Disability Studies Collective – organization at the University of Minnesota advancing critical disability studies as an interdisciplinary field

Critical Times – open access critical theory journal

Crutches and Spice – blog of Imani Barbarin

CTheory – another open access critical theory journal

The Dark Mountain Project – publications about ecology and environmentalism

D&D 5e Random Character Generator – exactly what it sounds like

Databyss – freeform word processor and note-taking system

Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society – inactive journal on exactly what it sounds like

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein – reviewing lesser-known works of the Lovecraftian mythos

Digital Icons – journal on Russian, Eurasian, and Central European “new media” (digital and electronic)

Digital Theological Library – “a co-owned, born-digital library of religious and theological studies”

Disability Studies Quarterly – open access journal of the Society for Disability Studies

e-flux – publishing platform for commentaries on art and culture, including the e-flux journal

Early Modern Medicine – blog about exactly what it sounds like

Eidolon – a sadly now-defunct publication about social justice in classics

Emergence Magazine – publication on ecology, culture, and spirituality

eneruru – forum and resources for Mesopotamian studies

Epoché – digital philosophy magazine

Esoteric Order of Dagon – occult organization working with the “Yog-Sothothery” of H. P. Lovecraft (see also their Temple of Abzu deck and system of magic)

Esoterica – inactive academic journal on esotericism

ETANA – open access sources on the ancient Near East

European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism – an academic society

Exploding Appendix – artistic collaborative for the radical application of the avant-garde

Fast Character – make randomly generated D&D 5e character sheets fast

FilmSound.org – learning website about the art of film sound design

Flaming Text – free ritzy text designs

Five Geek Social Fallacies – classic essay on common interpersonal issues found in “geek” and other communities

Florence Ashley – “a transfeminine jurist, bioethicist, public speaker, and activist”

Florida Philosophical Review – journal of the Florida Philosophical Association

Forum for Philosophy – podcasts on science, politics, and culture from a philosophical perspective

Free e-book! – free e-books released each month by University of Chicago Press

The Free RPG Blog – exactly what it sounds like

Free Vintage Illustrations – curated vintage illustrations in the public domain

Freire Project – building international community around critical research and social justice

Giffyglyph – some homebrew supplements I like for D&D 5e

Glyph Drawing Club – online tool for custom type design

The Gnostic Society Library – primary documents, audio lectures, and notes pertaining to the Gnostic tradition

Gothic Nature Journal – open access journal on eco-horror and the eco-Gothic

The H. P. Lovecraft Archive – writings of Lovecraft and the other work inspired by them

H-Net – international interdisciplinary organization for scholars and teachers, especially in the humanities and social sciences

Habitica – gamify your life

Hampton Institute – proletarian socialist think tank

Haunted Shores Network – for studying coastlines in Gothic literature

Have I Been Pwned – check if your email or phone have been compromised in a data breach

Health Liberation Now! – alliance for trans health liberation with resources on transphobic propaganda

How to Get On – guides for people with disabilities seeking benefits and independence in the United States

The Hermetic Library – open access occultism, especially Hermeticism and Thelema

The HyperTexts – online poetry journal

Icelandic Saga Database– multilingual online resource publishing Icelandic family sagas

ID Documents Center procedures on name and gender changes in all US jurisdictions maintained by the National Center for Transgender Equality

Ill Will – a political journal

Indigenous Climate Action indigenous peoples for climate justice

Inscriptions – journal of the Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz

Institute for Social Ecology – provides educational programs for organizing based on principles of social ecology

The Institute of Queer Ecology – I actually have no idea what is going on here, but the aesthetic is nice

International Journal of Baudrillard Studies – a peer-reviewed, non-profit, transdisciplinary publication about the works of Jean Baudrillard

International Socialist Review – archive of this now-defunct journal of socialist issues

Internet Sacred Text Archive – huge (and legal) archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore, and the esoteric

Introduction to Critical Theory – Dino Felluga’s ancient website with various modules on critical theory concepts

Is That in the Bible? – personal blog for one layperson’s interest in biblical studies

Jewish Bible Quarterly – apparently the only “Jewish-sponsored English-language journal devoted exclusively to the Bible”

Journal of Posthumanism – exactly what it sounds like

Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition – now-defunct journal by and for occultists

JPEG Artifact Generator – useful for making weirdcore material

Larry Hurtado’s Blog Archived – archived posts from a leading scholar of early Christology and textual criticism

Lee Leveille – blog of a former (de)transorganizer

lew.la – web tools for Discord, reddit, YouTube, and more

libcom.org – libertarian communist website posting activist tools, news, and readings

LiBER – Linear B documents from Knossos, Mycenae, Tiryns, and Midea (with more to come)

Lichess – free and open-source chess server

List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies – open access journals dating from the 18th century now available digitally

Literary Hub – daily essays on literature and literary life

Los Angeles Review of Books – nonprofit organization publishing commentaries on culture, literature, and the arts

Lushootseed Research – organization founded by Vi “taqʷšəblu” Hilbert to preserve and teach the Lushootseed language (see also the site Lushootseed run by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington)

Marcion – software for studying Gnostic and early Christian texts

Mark Fisher ReBlog – a tumblr archive of various articles and essays by Mark Fisher

Marxists Internet Archive – massive archive of transcribed and translated texts from many authors pertaining to Marxism

The Medieval Bestiary – medieval views of the nonhuman animal world

The Missouri Review – remarkably prestigious US literary magazine

Le Monde diplomatique – English edition of a big independent French news journal

The Monster Network – researchers with an interest in monsters and the monstrous

National Rural Health Association – publishes blogs and resources on rural public health

The New Centre for Research and Practice – educational group providing seminars for independent scholars and learners

New Compass – libertarian socialist writings on social ecology

The New Inquiry – online magazine of social issues

Nietzschemanteion – divination with Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

No Subject – encyclopedia of Lacanian psychoanalysis

NoSurf – resources for not wasting your entire life on the internet

Notes from Below – socialist publication dedicated to workers’ inquiry

Nursing Clio – collaborative blog on gender and medicine

O.T.O. U.S.A. Library – online library of documents from the Ordo Templi Orientis in the United States

Online Die Roller – by Brock Jones

Open Yale Courses – free, open access introductory courses from Yale University

open! – “platform that fosters and disseminates experimental knowledge on art, culture and the public domain”

Oracc – annotated and open corpus of cuneiform

OSINT Framework – open source intelligence tools

Othering & Belonging Institute – interdisciplinary team at UC Berkeley researching targeted universalist strategies

Outline – read and annotate without distractions

Parrhesia – journal of critical philosophy

Pathbuilder 2e – phone- and web-based apps for creating Pathfinder 2e characters

Pathfinder 2e Character Generator – simple generator of 1st-level Pathfinder 2e PCs

Pennsylvania Academy of Masonic Knowledge – presentations and other learning materials by and for Freemasons

The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary – dictionary of the Sumerian language

PhænEx – “journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture”

The Platypus Affiliated Society – organizes “reading groups, public fora, research, and journalism” for the Left

The Posthumanities Hub – “platform for postdisciplinary humanities and more-than-human humanities”

Posthumans – “the global posthuman network”

The Postmodern Quaker – Quaker blog by George Amoss Jr.

Prism Break – recommended software and tools for privacy

Protean – leftist literary journal publishing online and print materials

Public Books – digital magazine to share academic discussions and ideas with a wider, more general audience

The Pudding – digital publication of visual essays

punctum books – independent, open access publisher that’s also queer- and scholar-led

Quaker Religious Thought – online open-access journal of Quaker theology

Quaker Studies – similar to above

Quaker Theology – “progressive journal and forum for discussion and study”

Queer Death Studies Network – network of researchers studying ways of “‘queering’ traditional ways of approaching death”

Radical Philosophy – journal of exactly what it sounds like (see also the Radical Philosophy Archive for issues from 1972-2016)

Rappahanock Review – literary journal edited and published by students at the University of Mary Washington since 2013

Reading the China Dream – translated writings by “establishment” Chinese intellectuals

Reclaiming Trans – blog of Ky Schever, a former member of the radical detrans women’s movement

Refuge in Grief – resources for people struggling with grief and anxiety

Religion Dispatches – “best writing on critical and timely issues at the intersection of religion, politics and culture”

Resilience – site on building community resilience in the face of environmental and social threats

Return to Cinder – database and index of many motifs and authors, focusing on and inspired by Jacques Derrida

Reusable Art – same as Free Vintage Illustrations

The Revealer – publication on religion and the media

Revenant – journal about “the supernatural, the uncanny, and the weird”

Rhizomes – an independent, peer-reviewed online journal encouraging “migrations into new conceptual territories resulting from unpredictable juxtapositions”

Ribbonfarm – exercises in “disciplined solipsism and escapism”

Rural Health Research Gateway – federally funded research on rural health

Saints’ Books – quotes and full texts written by various saints

Samaritans – emotional support resource staffed by volunteers

San Antonio Review – “international literary, arts and ideas journal”

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research – exactly what it sounds like

Sea Green Zines – zine review blog

Sefaria – collection of Jewish texts for study and interpretation

The Shoestring Initiativeadvancing socioeconomic diversity in Canadian universities

Sick of It! – disabled activists working toward prison abolition

Signo – topics in applied semiotics

Socialist Studies – open-access journal focusing on “social, economic and/or political injustice, and practices of struggle, transformation, and liberation”

Solid Ground – although based in the Seattle area, this website has resources for anyone in the US learning about housing

Somatosphere – website on “the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics”

The Spheres 5E Wiki – wiki for an alternate magic and martial system for 5e TTRPGs

Springhole.net – advice for roleplaying and writing

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – excellent scholarly overviews of philosophical topics

Studia Orientalia Electronica – “multidisciplinary journal publishing original research articles and reviews in all fields of Asian and African studies”

Subset of Theoretical Practice – “a research group that is currently engaged with developing a new approach to Leftist political thinking”

Survivor Library – books for people surviving the apocalypse or something

Symposium – semi-annual journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy; articles more than 2 years old can be found in its archives

Šum – journal and platform for contemporary art and theory

Thelemic Union – articles by and for Thelemites

This Is Black Metal – web zine devoted to the black metal subgenre

TiddlyWiki – an excellent system for non-linear journaling and note-taking

TheTorah.com – Torah study informed by academic scholarship

Trans Safety Network – collective of activists monitoring organized harm and threats targeting the trans community

U.S. Drought Monitor – we’re screwed

Watershed Review – artistic journal published by the California State University, Chico

Webdeleuze lectures and more by late French philosopher Gilles Deleuze

Worldbuilding Magazine – exactly what it sounds like

Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise – a web dossier of worldwide debates on “socio-economic, legal-political, and ethico-philosophical” issues

The Yellow Car Game – “official” site with rules

YES! Magazine – run by YES! Media, a “nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism”

Zine Making – a Wikibooks guide

Zines 101 – zines about making zines