Which websites/blogs do you visit which makes you happy?

Scary Pockets https://www.youtube.com/c/ScaryPockets/videos

Funky covers of pop songs done by various LA singers and musicians, often incredibly good.

MonoNeon https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMonoNeon/videos

Crazy + amazing bass player plays over music and speech, also recently does his own songs w. videos, and live gig videos.

https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=user%3ASpud17

Non-english series torrents posted by TPB's Spud17, with english subtitles. e.g. recently watched Manayek (Israel), Vida Perfecta (Spain), Aruanas (Brazil), Thin Blue Line (Sweden) - all seriously great. (I always read the user reviews on IMDb first, to find out which are the ones to watch.) Before him, Snowhiter was doing a similar great job about 2012-19.

Good News Netework (changes daily) https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/category/news/

OpenCulture (changes daily) https://www.openculture.com

The Browser (subscription, changes daily) https://thebrowser.com

Food52 (changes daily) https://food52.com

The New Yorker Cartoon Bank (look up any word, phrase) https://cartoonbank.com

1930s, 40s, 50s comedies free on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Nn95jd6kYV-3_2MHflf...

this piece of music (5th movement from Schnittke's Suite in the Old Style) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ijCZIc9W8

https://100r.co are some really great folks

There are a couple great YouTube channels that I watch when I want something low stress/drama

Duzer TV (Most positive guy on earth)- https://www.youtube.com/duzertv

Adventure Archives - https://www.youtube.com/c/AdventureArchives

Matt's Off Road Recovery - https://www.youtube.com/c/MattsOffRoadRecovery

Venture 4wd - https://www.youtube.com/c/venture4wd

Cody Townsend Fifty Project - https://www.youtube.com/c/CodyTownsend

Dom Whiting DNB on a bike - https://www.youtube.com/c/DomWhiting

Sam Pilgrim Crazy bike guy - https://www.youtube.com/c/SamPilgrim

If these are new to you, check out videos from a few years ago and go from there. Tons of great content, no drama.

https://zombo.com/

Right now, "Where's the WEBB"[0]. At least so long as nothing goes majorly wrong it makes me really happy to see this thing being deployed and soon to vastly expand our knowledge of the Universe!

[0] https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

The Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/

I delight especially in all the old books.

The Substacks of my friends that are fiction writers. Reading their work rather than random internet chatter is like listening to an album rather than listening to a podcast. It is a boon to contemplation.

>Amazon's ecommerce site

Amazon.com or something else?

Nothing on screens makes me happy.

Probably going to be downvoted but n-gate cracked me up, shame it’s no longer being updated.

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/

Oldie but goodie, https://www.marriedtothesea.com/ and use the random button for laughs.

Amy Sedaris on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/amysedaris/

https://www.servethehome.com/

News from the datacenter and networking world.

https://rumble.com/c/russellbrand

I disagree with almost every policy Russell Brand proposes, but he points out behavior that should be equally alarming to everyone across the political spectrum.

And more generally...

https://rumble.com/

Because none of the videos on there had to be approved by a Google-paid moderator. I'll gladly sift through the 90% crackpot conspiracy theories about why Trump is still the president to find the 10% of actual news or opinion pieces that exist outside the YouTube filter bubble.

And, without a doubt, the one website on the face of the planet that has consistently brought me the most joy is:

https://desiringgod.org/

Specifically the Ask Pastor John series where John Piper takes on literally any question about the Christian faith and seeks to answer it in the most biblically-consistent way.

jvns.ca