Yeah I've always wondered what the hell is with that. Like, 1990s level web design taken to some crazy maximalist level. rense.com is like that (eesh i dont even want to make a clickable link to that)

my other favorite crazy person website must be https://arngren.net/ -- see if you can find the hoverpod

Looks like an oldschool referrer-based restriction. Copy-pasting it works.

Copy the link to your browser's address bar and load it directly. The site denies hotlinking by 403-ing a link with a referrer.

Apologies, will test for that if I direct link an image again. You can see said gem scrolling down this page some ways

http://brainmind.com/publications.html

his chest hair's got some sparkly brilliance reflective index out of this world

don't ctrl+f "as for girls" on that page lmao

An old trick for situations like these was to simply add a ? At the end of the URL and it seems as though it still works!

Focus the address bar and click enter, so it becomes its own referrer. In case it doesn't work, it's a galactic cool man made with Paint or something similar.