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A calm, ad-free space where artists and researchers gather links, images and notes into shared channels. Follow one thread and an hour disappears.
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Are.na sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. Are.na is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Are.na without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Are.na as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
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A daily showcase of early-stage startups looking for their first users, sorted by topic. A preview of what might be everywhere next year.
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Generates a genuinely handsome natal chart and flags the rarer patterns, with celebrity charts on hand to compare against.
One astronomy image a day since 1995, each with a paragraph from an actual astronomer and an archive going back decades.
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