Society & Culture
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https://aristasia.guide/
The Aristasian Reminiscence is an unauthorized retrospective guide to Aristasia, a strange and complex movement that combined elements of a feminine micronation, live-action roleplay, spiritual practice, and what some describe as a creepy right-wing cult. Creator Claire Mayhew digs into the beliefs, lore, history, and unsettling origins of this now-defunct community through essays, audio lectures, and detailed documentation.
https://lsr-projekt.de/poly/en.html
Created by Bernd A. Laska, this paraphilosophical project explores the lives and ideas of three Enlightenment thinkers: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Max Stirner, and Wilhelm Reich, presenting them as visionary dissidents ahead of their time. The site offers extensive bibliographies, essays, and multilingual surveys covering topics like Stirner's radical individualism, Reich's sexology, and La Mettrie's materialist philosophy.
https://doctorispie.neocities.org/
Doctorispie's personal webzone is a colorful, warning-laden landing page that promises flashing lights, humor, and queer content. The site hints at a chaotic and playful personality with its tongue-in-cheek disclaimers about 'tom foolery' and 'boneheaded antics.'
https://reducing-suffering.org/
Brian Tomasik's extensive essay collection dives deep into the ethics of reducing suffering across all sentient beings, including farm animals, wild animals, insects, and far-future beings. With dozens of carefully researched pieces covering consciousness, moral philosophy, charity cost-effectiveness, and welfare biology, this site is a substantial intellectual resource for anyone interested in effective altruism and animal ethics.
https://capone.mtsu.edu/rbombard/RB/spinoza.new.html
Studia Spinoziana is a scholarly resource hub dedicated to the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, offering translated texts of the Ethica and De Intellectus Emendatione, chronologies, logical indexes, and directed graphs of his arguments. Beyond Spinoza, it extends into broader early modern philosophy with curated links to Descartes, Leibniz, Rousseau, Hume, and Enlightenment-era primary sources.
https://fanac.org/
The Fanac Fan History Project is a massive preservation archive dedicated to the history of science fiction fandom, housing thousands of fanzines, convention photos, recordings, and the comprehensive Fancyclopedia reference work. Run by a team of dedicated volunteers including Joe Siclari and Edie Stern, it serves as the definitive online repository for SF fan history spanning decades of Worldcons, APAs, and amateur publishing.
https://tilde.town/~oyvinrob
A tilde.town member page by oyvinrob, part of the old-web revival tilde community where users SSH in to craft personal homepages. The content is nearly bare, offering little more than a greeting and a nod to Helvetica Neue, but it signals participation in the tilde subculture.
https://hgftx.org/
The Houston Genealogical Forum is a Texas-based genealogy society offering members resources for surname research, shared interest groups, and access to their publication 'The Genealogical Record.' The site features upcoming events, courthouse visit recaps, free public data files, and local and regional research resources for anyone tracing their family history.
https://sanguineroyal.com/com/rabbithearted
Rabbit Hearted is a web clique created by Krish for anyone who identifies as having a rabbit's soul, inviting members to declare their specific rabbit type on their personal website. With 42 members listing everything from Holland Lops to Cashmere Lops, it combines old-web clique nostalgia with a charming rabbit-themed community.
https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm
Peter Suber's comprehensive guide to philosophy on the internet, compiled over eight years at Earlham College, catalogs thousands of links across philosophers, topics, journals, associations, etexts, bibliographies, and more. Though last updated in February 2003, this massive single-file directory remains a remarkable snapshot of early academic philosophy web resources.