“Why would you use that site? Don’t you know it’s financed by someone evil?" Yeah well, I made my own websites and you all stopped going to websites so I have to use the evil ones you like instead of my own.

• drewtoothpaste

See also: everyone who thinks RSS is “complicated” and complains that they would loooooove to follow somebody if only they were on instagram, mastodon, tumblr, bluesky, substack, webtoon, cohost, etc.

Continuing the tradition of making snow friends to check in on us from the window.

The kid’s school has been cancelled for a second day due to single-digit temperatures. Walking out to get our mail quickly had me agreeing with their decision.

Our local birds (apparently, starlings) made the most of the sun with today’s single-digit temperatures.

Start with a relatively small number of people to follow, see who they’re linking to, try following some of those people, and keep branching out from there. And always pruning and maintaining.

• Pete Brown, Exploding Comma

A tried and true recipe for discovering, and keeping, people you enjoy reading. My decades old RSS subscriptions and bookmarks are as reliable as the day I added them because I didn’t offload them to aggregators, feeds, or apps.