Resource Index
Resources to help you use the internet, instead of letting the internet use you.
The Internet is a series of pipelines. The algorithms know our habits and how to hook us into lengthy sessions of spending our precious attention. While many of us are aware that this is happening, it is another thing entirely to learn how to disengage. Social media is designed to keep you scrolling, promising entertainment, information, and connection. It delivers little on those promises. Basically, we are not Internet users. The Internet is using us, and we are the product. That's why I'm working on this resource index.
Below is a series of toggle headers. You can click them to reveal menus of links with brief descriptions.
As a rule, I've included resources that do not use algorithms to direct your engagement. You are free to click, save, bookmark, and navigate according to your own interests and needs.
Getting Started
FindHelp.org - This site has searchable resources based on U.S. locations including food, housing, goods, transit, health, money, care, education, work, and legal support. Great for finding help or ways to volunteer and help others.
The Secret is to Begin - A page of information and resources on anarchist action.
Making a Plan - Zine to analyze and take action on values.
News and Information
Internet Archive - A non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
COVID Resources by pot8um - The pandemic that began near the end of 2019 is still not over, and many are in denial about "getting back to normal." This is a collection of quality science-based information about COVID and where to get good masks.
The Sentinel-Intelligence - Formerly known as OK Doomer, Jessica Wildfire writes here about the climate and infrastructure collapse happening all around us. She's compiling a collection of resources that's available for free to download, too. It features a variety of ways to survive, from gardening in a windowsill to building your own power bank with solar panels.
Project Gutenberg - A library that contains thousands of free eBooks.
Decolonization Library - A library focusing on indigenous sovereignty.
Aidan Walker - Internet culture researcher and analyst.
YouTube Channel: Taylor Lorenz - Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz explores technology, politics, online culture, Silicon Valley, influencers, and the creator economy's impact on culture, politics, business, and more.
LittleSis - Research organization on corporate and government accountability.
Science Literacy Project - News coverage from a science-based analysis perspective.
Hammer & Hope - A magazine of Black politics and culture.
Our World in Data - Research and data resource.
Self-Education Resources
Khan Academy - Free online courses on a wide range of subjects, from Pre-K to college level.
How to Verify Information - Video playlist by CTRL+F Digital Media Literacy channel.
Purdue Free Research Information
How to Improve Retention and Comprehension
10 Best Practices to Improve Reading Comprehension
Top memory improvement techniques for exam success
How to Actually Remember What You Read: Proven Techniques for Lasting Retention
Mental Health Resources
How Right Now - Shh. Nobody tell the US CDC that they actually made a decent directory for navigating your feelings.
Grow Therapy - Online therapy (US only). Select your therapist and attend appointments without having to make phone calls or show up in person. Most insurances accepted.
Meditation: Letting Go of the Meditator
Practical Environmentalism
Neurodivergent Resources
Justice and Resistance
For the People: A Leftist Library Project
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: Speech by Audre Lorde (1984)
The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There
How to Fuck Up An Asshole School Board
Data Collaborative for Justice
Creative Interventions Toolkit
Common Question about Police and Prison Abolition and Responses
Disability
Calling Up Justice - Organization doing communication and resource work by and for disabled people.
Wheelmap.org - Resource to find accessible routes on maps.
How to Get On - Website for navigating the US disability benefits process.
Disability Visibility Project - The wonderful work of Alice Wong, a disability justice advocate who became an ancestor in late 2025.
Crutches and Spice - Website for Communications and Media expert Imani Barbarin.
Book: The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha