1) i like it here
2) erowid documents the complex relationship between humans and psychoactives. i enjoy reading the reports and chemistry and all that
3) live map of the syrian civil war. been compulsively following syria for several years and this is a good map that aggregates news from the conflict several times daily
4) cumtown radio. i’ll admit this one is embarrassing
5) the largest freely available archive of books and texts on religion, myth, folklore, and the occult on the internet. big religious studies guy. endlessly interesting and in-depth things to learn about
Feb 9, 2024
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* The Elite College Students who Can’t Read Books (The Atlantic)
* MKULTRA’s Terminal Experiments (taolin’s Substack lol)
* New French Extremity (Wikipedia)
* Rumman Chowdhury: “We could be entering a post-truth world” (The UNESCO Courier)
* Rethinking Design Tools in the Age of Machine Learning (Medium)
* A Memoir Offers an Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s U.F.O. Hunt (NY Times)
* Puella Aeturna: Little Girl Lost (Animus Project, was armchair psychologizing someone)
* Viva Raw Pets (desperately trying to get my friend to take the plunge and feed her cats premade commercial raw food and this is one of the bigger companies that ship their product though for the record I buy Steve’s)
* Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters (Goodreads)
* Pizza Menu
* Google search: “how much Zyrtec is safe to take”
* Truepeoplesearch.com (couldn’t remember a relative’s address but didn’t want to ask her for it so I just used OSINT on her instead)
Oct 8, 2024
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lff programme and tickets
e6 film processing - i used some fuji film 400 at the start of the year and didn’t realise it needed to be processed differently so just waiting to get paid to get that sorted
why do evangelicals hate catholics reddit page - my parents are always weird about catholicism so i was curious cause i've seen other evangelical like christians express this sentiment
voices radio
various sound cloud and substack pages
the annual disappointment of black history month
an introduction to fourier analysis with applications to music - paper from the journal of humanistic mathematics, great for understanding music theory actually and interesting to see how maths maps onto music
fundraiser spreadsheet - for sudan, congo, palestine, haiti and tigray
efo riro recipe
kalabari dictionary - my mum is kalabari and i’m using my moving back home as an opportunity to properly learn more about the language and culture
Oct 8, 2024
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UbuWeb - archive for video, text and sound, all avant gard art
Marxists.org - archive for marxist texts
CrimethInc - archive for anarchist publications and news
Aeon - magazine on philosophy and science
Eye on Design - magazine on design news
Failed Architecture - magazine on critical architecture and urbanism
LitHub - literary magazine
Anna's Archive - love of my life ♥️
A terra é redonda - magazine of art and politics
Passa palavra - news and articles on Brazillian politics
Digilabour - news and articles about gig economy and surveillance capitalism
Jan 3, 2025
Top Recs from @bisonspider
oh golly oh gee... I’m honored that anyone here on PI.FYI even recognizes me!! how sweet to be thought of. uhhhh as for who I am and what I’m about: my name is Ethyn, I’m 22, I’m American (flyover state), cultural Catholic, my favorite color is purple, of a forgiving disposition
I’ve been using this app basically since launch (?) bc a tiktok mutual was clued in on the ground floor and I got the invite lol. I consider myself a very curious and open-minded person and something I love about this place is how committed it is to sincerity, such that I can no longer stand the casual cruelty and close-mindedness of almost all other social media. so PI.FYI is the only social media I’m active on anymore. I suppose the reason I’m more of a lurker is because I love getting to read recs from others (and I’m pretty liberal with the like button) but I feel strange reccing something if I’m not like 100% behind it lol. like there’s gonna be a test. I’ll also go two days or so without logging on and then I’ll catch up on all the recs I missed so it results in a spam for my mutuals <3
As far as interests, I generally consider myself to be an ooky and kooky type of person. I love art in all mediums, but especially films, books, paintings, and poetry. I’ve rec’d PLENTY of all four if you care to take a look :) I’ll make the occasional lifestyle rec but most of the stuff I talk about on here is art. Lol since the earliest days of this site I’ve kinda harped on the function of story as the thing that makes us human, and myth as manifestations of the collective unconscious. This is one of my most foundational beliefs and lenses for the world.
Another common theme you’ll see in my recs is my love for the classics. Classic movies, classic books, all of it!! I think if something is classic there’s almost always a reason, and I think it’s important to understand foundations of influence for art that comes after. Everything is in context!!!! Everything is interdependent!!!!
some of my favorite films: The Wicker Man (1973), Goodfellas (1990), Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Viy (1967), Nosferatu (1922), The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
some of my favorite literature: All of Edgar Allan Poe, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, the work of William S. Burroughs, the work of Yasunari Kawabata, and all world myth categorically.
I want to affirm becoming!!!! I want to exist in service of the liberation of the full breadth of human potential!!! I want to be ripped screaming and bloody from the womb!!!! I will incarnate just to touch the wound ten thousand more times!!!!
Mar 13, 2025
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study the folklore and myth of your actual local region. live your daily life under the logic of fairytales. communicate as heavily as possible in proverbs and riddles. humans are a storytelling creature and there is a reason these archetypes and motifs appear to humans across times/cultures/places
Feb 13, 2024
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Substack that emails you the entirety of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in real time. since the novel is composed of diary entries, it sends you the diary entries day by day so you can read it on the same timeline in which it takes place. it started earlier this month but it’s not too late to catch up!! or you could wait until next may. classics can be intimidating but this gives you the opportunity to read it in daily segments in your email and follow along in an immersive way :)
May 20, 2024