get involved/stay safe

Aid

• Find Food Pantries in Your Area (USA)

General Activism & Activist Safety (USA-focused)

• ACLU Protesters' Rights (EN / ES)
• Activist Checklists for digital security
• De-Arrest Primer
• Directory of Community Bail Funds
• Protesting as a Wheelchair User
• Protest Safety Tips a good general overview
• Security Culture: A Handbook for Activists
• Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
• Street Medic Handbook

Immigrant Rights in the USA

• Bystander and Observer Guidelines/Las Directrices de Testigos y Observadores
• Family Preparedness Plan/Plan de Preparacion Familiar
• Immigration Advocates Network Legal Services Directory find legal resources in all 50 states/encuentre recursos legales en todos 50 estados
• Know Your Rights With ICE/Conozca Sus Derechos con ICE
• Online Detainee Locator System for finding where a person is being detained/para encontrar dónde la persona haya detenido
• Rapid Response Hotlines to Report ICE Activity/Líneas Directas de Respuesta Rápida para Reportar Actividad del ICE
• Red Cards/Tarjetas Rojas printable know-your-rights cards in 30+ languages

Free Palestine

• BDS Movement
• Connecting Humanity (eSims for Gaza)
• Ele Elna Elak (group that provides food & water to Gazans)
• Operation Olive Branch
• The Palestine Academy

AI Refusal

• AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide

Misc.

Look at art!

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere
• WikiArt
• WikiMedia Commons

Tumblr Blogs

• Enchanted Book, rare book illustrations.
• Having a Poem With You, poems.
• Historical Book Images, illustrations found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library's collection.
• Radical Graffiti, anti-capitalist/anti-fascist graffiti from around the world.
• Unteriors, interesting, often desolate or kitsch, interiors from real estate listings.
• Vintage Wildlife, wildlife photography from before the 21st century.

Other fun stuff

• 19th Century Medical Glossary
• Are.na, a good place to store & organize boards of images & ideas that isn't the ad-filled hellscape of Pinterest.
• Curio, for Spotify users, helps you get accurate listening data. Requires a bit of effort to get running w/ your data, but it's pretty cool.
• Every Noise at Once, a music genre map that is unfortunately no longer able to be updated but is still really fun to peruse
• Media Bias/Fact Check
• Pub Meeple Ranking Engine
• Wildflower Search

Free Software & Programs

all of the computer programs I use regularly which are available for free or have robust free versions which get the job done for average personal use

• Audacity audio editing
• Exact Audio Copy audio grabber (for ripping CDs)
• Firefox web browser
• Lightworks video editing
• Malwarebytes antivirus/malware protection
• Obsidian note-taking
• OpenOffice open source word processor, spreadsheets, slideshows, etc. (seriously recommend this one, I've been using it for a decade)
• Viddly download YouTube videos/audio
• VLC Media Player media player