Individual Self Care

Here is a self care assesment that isn't an advertisement. Here is a self care assesment in the form of a flowchart that takes you through base level physical and emotional needs.

Here is a short guide on creating and enforcing boundaries. here is a short guide on conflict resolution. Here is a downloadable PDF worksheet on expressing feelings. In fact, here's a whole free catalogue of therapy worksheets, all available for download. Here is a list of Dialectic Behavioral Therapy skills.

You want to start T and do it yourself but don't know where to start? DO NOT CLICK THIS!

Food and Bills

This is a cookbook full of recipes that will keep you fed for $4/day. About 10 years old, so beware of inflation costs.

This is the United Way 211 website. You can also dial 211 as a phone number to get connected with your local office. If you need help paying bills or finding food resources, this is a good place to go. (USA).

If someone has shared or is threatening to share your nudes, visit this website for resources. Note, you only qualify to create a case if you are 18+.

At least 30% of the Microsoft 11 code was written by AI . Here is a guide on switching from Windows to Linux Mint. Here is a blog on tumblr that you can send questions to.

Google is in a $45M contract with Israel. Switch to Firefox and disable Firefox's AI bullshit. I personally recommend DuckDuckGo. There are AI features but they are easy to disable, and DuckDuckGo is privacy oriented. You can use Libre Office instead of Google Docs/Sheets/Slides or Microsoft Suite. You can use Proton Drive and Proton Mail instead of Google Drive and Gmail.

Paywalls are annoying and restrictive. All information should be free and the press should be open to everyone. Here is a handy website for you, with extensions for your browser.

Advertisers are leeches who see us as products rather than people. They have no issue skimming through, collecting, and selling personal data to obstruct every part of your internet experience with targeted advertisements. You can use The Infamous UblockOrigin to help with this issue! You can also use Ad Nauseam, an extension that blocks and autoclicks every ad that attemps to soil your graphical interface. This skews the data that advertisers are able to collect about you, effectively throwing a wrench in their sick little operation.

Goodreads and IMDb are both subsidiares of Amazon. Luckily, you can use Letterboxd for movies, Trakt for TV, My Anime List for anime, and Storygraph for books. If Storygraph isn't to your liking, you can use Library Thing or Fable.

Spotify is sending your subscription money to a military AI drone company and running recruitment ads for ICE. Physically owned music rocks, so burn a CD. Use Antennapod for your podcasts. Go here or here or here or here to download your music.

The Inside Books Project sends free books to incarcerated people in Texas. The Prisoners Literature Project sends free books to incarcerated people across the USA.

Here's a free copy of Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues. Here's a free copy of Transgender Liberation: a Movement Whose Time has Come Here too.

CountryBoi's Youtube Channel, where each episode features a little known event or person(s) from Black history.

The POC Zine Project, which aims to make zines by POC, "easy to find, distribute and share."

Speaking of books, physical copies rule!! You can find cheap copies at Thriftbooks. You can use Book Finder to compare book prices.

Sure would be cool if someone archived a bunch of David Attenborough's documentaries for you to watch whenever.

Reference Louis Rossmann's Youtube Channel and IFixIt to repair your broken technology.

Troubleshooting guide. Types of files and how to use them. Youtube Channel called Reject Convenience with a bunch of videos to help you learn about internet privacy. Here is a basic guide on reading privacy policies.