community archivists/archives are so fucking amazing to me! university library archives are also great but they donāt scan a lot and (worst of all) oftentimes not all of it is for public access (lame!). this man JD Doyle has put so much time into this project, archiving lgbtq history online from music to old publications to photographs. itās mostly focused on lgbt music history and tx lgbt history but thereās also a looot of broader stuff (in particular the publications section has a decent anount of national stuff). you could spend hours and hours exploring this site
Jan 8, 2025
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i canāt pick a single fav website but. i wrote my thesis on queer history and loved looking thru these in the process
ACT UP Historical Archive - itās an archive of ACT UP NYās old website with a bunch of cool resources and things to read about the history of the movement to end the AIDS crisis. highly recommend exploring it
JD Doyle Archives - this guy created an amazing archive of both queer music history and Texas queer history and has digitized it online. imo it also really speaks to the role of ācommunity archivistsā in preserving the history of marginalized communities
Digital Transgender Archive - self explanatory maybe but itās a really cool archive of trans history across the world and thereās a map feature!!
May 31, 2024
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There are so many incredible online archives of everything, so much to discover and so many rabbit holes to fall into. Check out The American Diary Project, The Malware Museum, The Buttolph Collection of Menus, Hoaxes of History, The Ted Nelson Archive, The Whole Earth Index, Jocari, The Geocities Gallery just to name a few very specific ones.
May 21, 2024
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Open access and the preservation of digital artifacts are causes I can get behind, so Iām going to give The Internet Archive some appreciation here. I spend quite a bit of time browsing their offerings, some of which have made their way into my art projects. Youāll have to take your own trip with it, but some of my personal highlights include: a complete archive of Mondo 2000 magazines, a collection of K-Mart background music from a former employee (recently denoised by another IA user), and the Noise-Arch collection which pulls together many gigs of underground tape cassettes from the 1980s-90s. Recently I started using a ChatGPT Chrome extension and put it to work reading entire PDFs, searching for keywords, summarizing etc. Pretty awesome library school / digital hoarder / subvertainment stuff, if you like that sort of thing.
Nov 22, 2023
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being traditionally cool is really quite boring and iterative, and itās actually very cool and sexy to geek out about something you like or share bits of knowledge on a topic youāre passionate about
Aug 17, 2024
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i had it for a little over a year until i was like wow this is actually terrible! i genuinely think it has negatively impacted society by ruining peopleās attention spans, having a horrific algorithm, and most of all by the most mind-numbing or outright harmful trends -
fake words that people now use IRL (āunaliveā), trad wife tiktok, shein hauls, body-focused fitness vids that encourage fatphobia and unhealthy habits, shallow political/feminist theory and queer discourse, āalpha maleā podcaster tiktok, encouraging overconsumption in general, trends ruining local spots or niche thingsā¦ the list goes on
Aug 17, 2024
a million times cooler than the lackluster āsleekā tech color palette used today
Feb 22, 2025