Unwind
Animals, kindness, compliments from strangers and pages built purely to improve your afternoon. No irony anywhere on this list.
15 sites
A countdown of a thousand small good things, from the cold side of the pillow to popping bubble wrap, written daily for years.
Cut-out cats rain down and bounce off the bottom of the screen, and you can grab one and fling it at the others.
One sincere, specific compliment per click, written by people rather than generated. For days that have not gone well.
One button, one progress bar, and the firm assurance that everything is now OK, which beats the alternative.
Every adoptable animal in a hundred thousand shelters, searchable by postcode, which is dangerous browsing after 11pm.
A pug in a rug, plus a timer counting exactly how long you have now watched the pug be in the rug.
The internet's default supply of small animals doing small things, restocked constantly by thirty million subscribers.
Strangers being decent to each other, collected into one feed for the days when every other feed has been too much.
A library of specific, doable kindness ideas and the research on why doing them helps the doer as much as the recipient.
Giant pandas eating bamboo, live from Washington, on the webcam that periodically takes down the zoo's own servers.
Animal rescue stories with the video attached, engineered from the ground up to make you cry quietly at your desk.
A rescue that livestreams its foster kittens and feral colonies around the clock, with vets narrating in the chat.
A live room of service-dog puppies in training, which is the single most reliable meeting-break on the internet.
The account that rates every dog above ten out of ten and has defended that scale in public for over a decade.
Newborn animals from zoos and aquariums worldwide, with their names, weights and the keepers' notes attached.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.