Fun Friday Resources, fossils edition 2

::BOILERPLATE:: I’m going through decades of bookmarks in my browser to see what’s still alive and still useful::

We’re still in my READING menu, most of which were staples of my opinion/news consumption before Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky. These are all very liberal websites; I’ll spare you my commentary and just list the ones that are still in operation:

• Crooks and Liars

• Balloon Juice

• Alicublog

• Driftglass

• Daily Kos

• Talking Points Memo

• Media Matters for America

• Informed Comment

I stopped reading most of these a while back when the political situation got to be too much to stay sane in. And here we are again.

Here, have some nice sites:

• Always Under Construction: Beautiful photographs, mostly architecture or architectural landscapes

• Things Magazine: An interesting approach to a link-sharing blog, just dense paragraphs of type and links with very little to guide you. You just have click to see if it’s something you wanted to see.

  • For example, the Satellite Crayon Project… (And once you get your hopes up, you find that they cannot be shipped to the U.S.) (Go look anyway.)

• The Useless Web: Exactly what it says on the box. I mean, look at this! Have fun!

RIP: ThinkProgress, still up, but last posts were from 2019; The Reality-Based Community now redirects to what appears to be a Vietnamese (?) sports site; The Progressive Realist has a creepily empty front page, and when you click on the link to the ‘blog,’ you land on a domain registration company.

NEXT WEEK: The Lichtenbergian menu!