Links
Just a collection of sites I wanted to share.
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Neocities / Nekoweb Sites
Down Under
Site run by other Aussies!
Over 40s Club
Fellow oldies! Neocities sites run by people aged 40+
Game Dev Sites
People who make games! check their games out!
Sites I like
Interesting Sites
Fan project to crochet and display all 1025 pokemon - at the time of me adding this link, they are up to 728!
a beginners guide to gardening
a well written guide to the history of Disco music
about women writers and readers in Japanese art
A collection of postage stamps that feature bugs
Books
books
do a reading test to find your reading speed, then for any book you enter it will tell you approx how long it will take you to read it.
a free, public, searchable database listing queer rep in books
a repository of lists of books compiled by hand from various sources. Some are super niche lists, for example "Metaphysical detective stories and other literary mysteries" and "Epics, picaresques, and proto-novels: narrative fiction up to 1700"
Fun Sites
Daily game - given a set of things and you have to guess if they are real or fake. For example "Are these real Abba Songs"
generates a prompt to create a build in Terraria (game)
Useful Sites
assorted
get a temporary/throwaway email that exists only as long as the browser page is open. Super useful when you need to give an email adress to access something and don't want to end up on a mail list.
if you enjoy the XKCD webcomic and find that occasionally they go over your head, this site will explain them
created by the awesome people over at /r/ABraThatFits on reddit to help you find your bra size
site that lets you save media from instagram, tiktok and some other sites
if you have ever bought a bundle from itch.io that supports a cause (for example the Queer Games Bundle) then you know how many games/TTRPGs you have to sort through. With the bundle browser you can browse and filter them easily
When you visit a neocities or other personal site that has a collection of 88x31 button links, use the bookmarklet to visit one at random
Citizen Science
Note that you normally do NOT have to reside in the country the program is based in, most of these are open globally. I've just seperated them because I'm in Australia and wanted a special category for those.
Australia Based
transcribe botanical plates, ID animals in photos etc for the Australian Museum and the CSIRO
Contribute photos and locations of flora and fauna, particpte in projects, help ID photos etc
transcribe historical documents
transcribe audio tapes, historical documents etc
US Based
lots of projects to help out with from identifying animals in photos to transcribing documents and more.
transcribe scanned public domain books for Project Gutenberg. This one is super organised with mentors.
lots of projects to transcribe historical documents
transcribe historical documents from Archives and Libraries