====== Linkspam ======
I regularly post collections of random interesting links to my Dreamwidth journal. This page is a collection of those entries; feel free to click around as much or as little as you'd like! If a link is broken, please let me know by leaving a comment on the corresponding journal entry.

Current linkspam is on this page. Linkspam from previous years can be found here: 

[[links:linkspam:2018|2018]] | [[links:linkspam:2019|2019]] | [[links:linkspam:2020|2020]] | [[links:linkspam:2021|2021]] | [[links:linkspam:2022|2022]] | <del>2023</del> | <del>2024</del>

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===== 2025 Linkspam =====
Please leave a comment on the original post if you wanna discuss something. :D

==== pagan websites, windows 11 foolishness, solid toiletries (2025 April 2) ====
Original post: https://tozka.dreamwidth.org/139370.html

[[https://rennybu.tumblr.com/post/754737835561598976/this-is-what-happens-when-you-watch-tos-for-the|Super cute retro Spock & Kirk fanart]] from rennybu (Tumblr)

>He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you’d expect, and none of the ones you wouldn’t. “There he is,” people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.

from theotherwesley (Tumblr) ([[https://theotherwesley.tumblr.com/post/771120254109777920/he-was-as-tall-as-he-was-tall-and-his-eyes-were|OP]])

[[https://www.tumblr.com/rainewynd/726852335927705600|How to turn off Group Policies in Windows 11]] so it'll stop tracking you as much as the default settings want to.

Bunch of interesting zine-y links at this [[https://www.metafilter.com/208206/Folding-paper|MetaFilter thread]], ty conuly for the link

A couple fun websites I found while strolling the indie web:
https://thecozy.cat/
https://mec-v02.nekoweb.org/

Plus if you're of the pagan persuasion you might be interested in looking through the sites on the [[https://magical-ring.neocities.org/|Magical Ring Webring]]. They also have an [[https://magical-ring.neocities.org/magical-ring.rss|RSS feed]] you can stick in your reader to get updates from all the sites.

Here's an [[https://garlic.garden/yg_archives/|alterhuman Yahoo! groups archive]]. I always appreciate finding archives for small communities that would otherwise have disappeared when the hosting got deleted or whatever.

r/HerOneBag put together a [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19suV8hzO2x2zo2A0QhphM1cCnPiABQMtkefR6COUnJA/edit?gid=376786570#gid=376786570|solid toiletries spreadsheet (Google Sheets)]] with recommendations from the community. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HerOneBag/comments/1jo5gqi/announcing_the_solid_toiletries_spreadsheet/|Add your rec here]] if you're so inclined.

siderea wrote a [[https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1875174.html|good breakdown of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is bad, actually]], and why people are misinterpreting the "don't obey in advance" advice.

[[https://handsoff2025.com/|Mass protests scheduled for Saturday, April 5]] fyi!

==== gardens, notebooks, field recordings (2025 March 7) ====
Original post: https://tozka.dreamwidth.org/134040.html

Happy Friday! Here's some links: 

This [[https://beep.town/@blog_challenge|Blog Questions Bot]] on Mastodon toots questions you can use as blog-writing prompts.

[[https://soatok.blog/2020/06/08/furward-momentum-introduction/|Furward Momentum]] is a guide for transitioning into a tech career. It was written in 2020 and maybe you don't want to have a tech career nowadays, but it's still got good strategies for making a career pivot. 

[[https://spasic.me/posts/take-a-walk-in-nature-bring-your-notebook|Take a Walk in Nature, Bring Your Notebook]] -- I've gotten out of the habit of handwriting a journal but have been thinking of doing something similar to "morning pages," and combining that with a walk outside seems like a very good idea.

[[https://www.cuttersguide.com/galleries/catalogues/|The Cutter's Guide]] is a collection of vintage catalogs you can download in PDF format.

[[https://tracydurnell.com/2025/03/03/decolonizing-my-garden/|Decolonizing my garden]], an analysis of the ways that colonialism has infected our gardens and how to turn things around.

Here's a new [[https://www.womenandthewind.com/thedocumentary|documentary about three women sailing the north Atlantic ocean]] that's making the film festival circuit soon and I hope will be available somewhere I can watch it, eventually.

Here's a [[https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-field-recordings/the-best-field-recordings-on-bandcamp-february-2025|list of field recordings]] on Bandcamp. Field recording is one of those things I've always been interested in doing myself, but I don't have the patience for it so it remains a dream.

I wanted to try this [[https://github.com/krateng/maloja|self-hosted music scrobbler]] but I don't understand Docker enough to be able to install and run it, so I guess I'll try [[https://listenbrainz.org/|ListenBrainz]] instead. I'm determined to dig out my iPod when I return home in a few weeks and see if it still works (hopefully yes, but probably needs a battery replaced and if I'm doing that I might as well upgrade the harddrive and then suddenly it's [[https://wherethingsareborn.wordpress.com/2020/05/02/building-a-1tb-ipod-classic/|a whole project]]) and get back to listening to music instead of just ambient noise videos on Youtube all day.

==== wtf is up with mozilla/firefox this week (2025 March 1) ====
Original post: https://tozka.dreamwidth.org/132135.html

Link: [[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/|distilled (Mozilla blog)]]
>UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.

>We’re introducing a [[https://www.mozilla.org/about/legal/terms/firefox/|Terms of Use]] for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated [[https://www.mozilla.org/privacy/firefox/#notice|Privacy Notice]]. 

>Why now? Although we’ve historically relied on our open source license for Firefox and public commitments to you, we are building in a much different technology landscape today. We want to make these commitments abundantly clear and accessible.

Some of these changes are weird (antithetical to Mozilla's founding principles) and people are freaking out. Basically, it sounds like they're trying to excuse themselves from originally saying they'd never sell our data, so they can sell our data. Also some strange things about not uploading adult material through their services, without defining what a service is (is a browser a service?).

Mozilla made another [[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/|blog post here trying to explain]]:
>In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our Privacy Notice. Whenever we share data with our partners, we put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share is stripped of potentially identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).

Related links:
💻[[https://tech.lgbt/@iamada/114081211872050523|Discussion on Mastodon with iamada]] which breaks down the top 4 weirdest points
💻[[https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/114078061987172475|Discussion on Mastodon with sarahjamielewis]] and why she's ditching Firefox
💻[[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909|Discussion on Hacker News]]

I've used Firefox since the early 2000s, so if this is really the direction they're going then that's very disappointing.

==== arbonaut, kewpies, free books (2025 February 25) ====
Original post: https://tozka.dreamwidth.org/131013.html

The amount of open tabs are about to make my computer explode, so this will be a proper linkspam post for once!

[[https://nestflix.fun/|Nestflix]], a collection of fictional movies within movies

Get free ebooks each month at [[https://www.queeromanceink.com/join-our-email-list/|Queer Romance Ink]] and [[https://www.queerscifi.com/join-our-maillist/|Queer Scifi]] by signing up for their mailing lists.

[[https://www.rebelbadgestore.com/|Rebel Badge Book]]: merit badges for adults! Get badges for completing challenges in subjects like Crafts, Hobbies, Sports, Wellness, and the Outdoors.

[[https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest|Next Fest]] is currently going on over at Steam, where you can try different demos for upcoming games for free. 

[[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5nyv|My life as an arbonaut, explorer of the treetops]], audio interview with "Canopy Meg" Lowman.

[[https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/19/personal-website-ideas|100 things you can do on your personal website]]-- some of these would be great for a Dreamwidth-posting challenge here, too!

[[https://ballonlea.net/articles/stamp|A Brief History of DeviantART Stamps]]-- do you remember these? I do!

[[https://www.rileygrae.com/blogs/news/a-brief-history-of-kewpies-and-the-revival-of-kitschy-housewares|A BRIEF History of Kewpies (Suffrage, Mayo + Sonnys)]]