someone help me budget this, my website is dying

Hey. Long time no see. And I'm unsure whether I should start posting again right now since I'll be going through some major life changes that might leave me with very little free time to be consistent with it (maybe I'll write my first friends-locked post about this) but I had some links piling up in my drafts.

said links

• thebiballerina posted a fandom-focused guide to cybersafety
• Curlie - The Collector of URLs is a human-curated directory of links for various purposes. I'm hopeful of seeing more projects like this spring up with the current rise in AI-generated SEO-bait content polluting every other search result.
• GoblinTools is a set of single-purpose tools to help neurodivergent people with things like better evaluating the tone of a text and breaking down a task into smaller steps. I've only tried it out a few times but it seems pretty neat.

sort-of-relevant news

• A write-up on Cohost by @lori@hackers.town which takes a look at the financials and sustainability of the site. I'll admit I'm sharing this having basically skimmed 2/3 of the math, because what was most concerning/entertaining for me was stuff like one of the owners posting publicly about Cloudflare making a mistake and never billing them or the encouraging parasocial bonding in order to be less accountable to your users (whether intentionally or just by having internalized the behaviour of certain online communities). I'm trying to focus on the "funny internet drama" side of things in order not to get depressed once again about how a fundamental part of our digital life is a money pit impossible to sustain without VC funding and predatory privacy practices. There's more personal thoughts on lori's mastodon and cohost if you like me enjoy reading in-depth about intra-community drama of communities you're not actually part of.
• Gumroad bans "pornographic" content, intended as content primarily for "sexual titillation" which is very easy to distinguish from content that only incidentally titillates, I'm sure /s
• I stopped reading it years ago but as a guy of wlw experience it was still sad to read that Autostraddle is probably shutting down

media log

• My girlfriend got me hooked on BoJack Horseman (have to start season 3) and I've been catching up on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel after having dropped it years ago (I think pre-pandemic? wow) (I have about two episodes left). When I first watched it I binged three seasons and was very into it right from the start, so maybe because of that initial enthusiasm the flaws of the show (basically the same ones as Gilmore Girls) got particularly grating for me very fast. But I was surprised at how entertaining I'm finding it now, probably getting into it more resigned about what the lows of the Palladinos look like (for the record they're still one of my favourite team of writers on television and I'll certainly be watching that new ballet show they're working on).
• I'm also reading Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who's far from my favourite author prose-wise but who always comes up with great premises and characters so gets a pass on everything else. I like novels with precise aesthetic ideas and that give me a glimpse in what are clearly the author's hyperfixations, which has been true of what I've read of hers so far. I'm also finally this ridiculous knowledge gap of mine that was never having read Dykes to Watch Out For save for the few strips that often get reposted online (I know). It's hilarious and everyone should read it.