You’ll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its “feed URL”– often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓– and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.
Some feed URLs for social media:
Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using “Download a user’s friends list” on Tweetbeaver)
Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog’s “my art” tag (as an example)
Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)
Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn’t have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it’s not so simple to generate a feed URL.
Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.
(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere…)
*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.
This!
RSS feeds were a great way to keep track of things before the rise of the platforms, and (if we’re smart) they’ll be great again.
Did you know? Many webcomics can be tossed into RSS feeds, depending on how the website is built, so you’ll get notifications every time they update! This includes:
Tumblr webcomics (using that tag thing listed above)
Self-hosted things that use any kind of WordPress installation
(Tapas and Webtoon are in the same boat as Instagram, where the developers have limited their RSS capabilities intentionally.)
RSS is a great solution for comics that update sporadically, too!
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#ooh‚ I’ll have to try out those Nitter and RSS-Bridge tricks #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #PSA #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Python 3 script for backing up your Tumblor blog; I can confirm it works perfectly once you add your API key using the README instructions. I did have to pass –no-ssl-verify on the command line, because without that it spat out of a bunch of SSL failures, but other than that it worked (and very quickly too, my ~5000 posts took less than a minute)
WordPress itself also has an import tool that can bring Tumblr over to any WordPress blog- mine is up at https://thestonesgowalking.wordpress.com/ Just look for the ‘import’ tab under ‘tools’ in your dashboard there. WordPress has been showing an interest in the fediverse, so I’m hoping that at some point in the future I can double-import from Tumblr->Wordpress->Hypothetical Fediverse Thing, basically to keep blogging with as much continuity as possible and maintain a (theoretically) searchable history across platforms.
As always, multiple backups are better than one, so I’ll be using this python script as well. Tumblr isn’t being formally shuttered yet, but with @staff down to a skeleton crew, they won’t have as many resources to throw at hardware failures, technical snafus, and other such problems. You should take final responsibility for your own data at this point; don’t assume that you’ll get much warning if the worst does happen.
And of course, pour one out for the folks that put so much work in to the site. There was a phenomenal amount of human energy that went in to keeping our collective garbage fire burning, and I am, truly, so very grateful to them for that.
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#I can’t reblog The Post because jv turned off reblogs in an attempt to stem the overwhelming flood of Discourse #(Discourse with‚ disappointingly but unsurprisingly‚ quite a lot of bad reading comprehension) #((meanwhile the CEO‚ Tumblr user photomatt‚ is desperately doing damage control)) #((”there are amazing examples like OpenAI and Telegram running circles around much bigger players with small teams. #That’s what we hope to replicate.”)) #((”since people leaving Tumblr aren’t being laid off #they’re just switching to other teams within Automattic #if something doesn’t work or breaks we can always pull them back in to work on it.”)) #but really‚ when it comes down to it: #there isn’t much left for me to say that I have not already said #and very little left for me to feel that I have not already felt #y’all know where to find me #I keep a local copy of the list of Tumblrs I follow‚ and I’ll look y’all up elsewhere if need be #call this an evacuation drill #Tumblr’s final demise may or may not turn out to be causally downstream of this incident #but someday it *will* die #(…also‚ uh‚ contemplate LiveJournal’s current state for a few moments) #it’s just been declared Backup Awareness Week here on Tumblr‚ and I will be moving posts on digital preparedness to the front of the queue #as for this specific post: #I did not know there was a Python 3 version of tumblr-utils! #maybe I will be able to finally uninstall Python 2 now #I’ll have to test this out #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #recs #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #tag rambles
yudkowsky’s belligerence here is honestly adorable
What the fuck did you just fucking say about reality, you biased little bitch? I’ll have you know that reality graduated top of its class in the Level IV Multiverse, and has been involved in numerous quantum branches, and has over 10^80 confirmed particles. It is trained in the standard model and generates the top quark and all four fundamental forces. You are nothing to it but just another proper part. It will wipe you the fuck out with inevitability the likes of which has repeatedly been demonstrated on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to reality over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak reality is contacting its pervasive configuration space across the observable universe and your light cone is being traced right now so you better prepare for the incredulity, maggot. The incredulity that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your classical intuitions. You’re fucking quantum, kid. Reality is anywhere, anytime, and it can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with vacuum collapse. Not only is reality extensively trained in modeling itself, but it has access to the entire arsenal of the Large Hadron Collider and it will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the wavefunction, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “counter-intuitive” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. It will shit paradoxes all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking quantum, kiddo.
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#physics #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(
on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!
IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help
hey! HEY. it’s Halloween 2023! AND YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT WEXTER IS DRESSED UP AS THIS YEAR.
she’s… (WEXTER! here girl!) she’s a… a…..
she’s a T. Rex.
GOTTEM!
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#happy Radical Saturday #dinosaurs #Jurassic Park #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #long post #this post was queued to ensure proper timing
My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency
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#that one post with the thing #I have this fantasy but in a negative way #what if my problems are caused by things that are actually incredibly‚ stupidly easy to treat #what if I find out twenty years from now that a ten-dollar vitamin bottle from the grocery store would have fixed me #and I’ve been suffering for nothing #what if I *never* find out #(fun fact) #(last year they threw some things-in-the-general-vicinity-of-the-immune-system bloodwork at me) #(to see if anything turned up regarding the Immune Bullshit NOS) #(and the test for B12 deficiency pinged) #(to be clear I don’t think that’s what was causing the immune bullshit) #(I’ve been tested for B12 at least once before and it was fine then) #(I haven’t actually felt *anything* from the B12 supplements: it seems we caught it before it became symptomatic) #((…mind you‚ the one cold I’ve had since going on B12 was the second-mildest I’ve ever had‚ and I think within the normal-person range)) #((still‚ like I said‚ I’ve had okay B12 in the past)) #(but I’ve heard the horror stories of what happens if you *don’t* catch B12 deficiency early) #(and I wonder if there are other such traps in my path‚ that I have *not* discovered) #tag rambles #illness tw #medical cw #venting cw?
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #moose #our home and cherished land #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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