bit of an internal spill here:

the past week has been a really rough go between figuring that some peeps in our group just are not for us, letting a pet go because of emotional disregulation stimming from their coping mech-
#sliceoflife #headmates #socialreboot

Blogroll | @glecharles | As in guillotine... A curated selection of some of my current favorite blogs, newsletters, and microbloggers (aka, social media).

New year, updated blog roll!

There are several new-to-me blogs in the mix that I discovered in 2025, along with some of my favorite YouTube channels.

All of them will improve your feed in 2026.

#SocialReboot

loudpoet.com/blogroll/

Blogroll | @glecharles | As in guillotine... A curated selection of some of my current favorite blogs, newsletters, and microbloggers (aka, social media).

Updated my blogroll to include a few social feeds (microblogs) that are as good as my favorite traditional blogs. Some people use social in ways that work better for them than a blog, and they'll improve your feed on those platforms.

#blogging #SocialReboot

loudpoet.com/blogroll/

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Your feed isn't broken—it's just rigged.

Legacy social apps manipulate what you see. OmniSocial is algorithm-free, user-owned, and reputation-driven.

See the difference:
omnisocial.dev

#SocialReboot #OmniSocial

powRSS - Feed the web powRSS is a public RSS feed aggregator for independent websites. Discover the small web.

Do you love blogs and wish there was a way to serendipitously discover new ones again?

Check out powRSS for a daily batch of new posts from a rotating selection of blogs, or click on "Random" and see what you get!

#RSS #blogging #SocialReboot

powrss.com

Remember the Blogaround Challenge? Cynics might consider this engagement bait nowadays, but this was pre-social media (as we currently know it), when blogs were peaking.

Remember the Blogaround Challenge?

Cynics might consider this engagement bait nowadays, but this was pre-social media (as we currently know it), when blogs were peaking.

#SocialReboot

Blogroll — @glecharles — As in guillotine... A curated selection of some of my current favorite blogs and newsletters.

I unsubbed from all Substacks a while back, including RSS feeds.

I still miss a few, but there are SO MANY other good newsletters/blogs, and we should spotlight our favorites insteads.

My #blogroll has 10 of my current must-reads I recommend to everyone.

#SocialReboot

loudpoet.com/blogroll/

newsletters are the new blogs Hello! I hope you are doing as okay as possible. It's January and it's been cold as heck here in mid-Michigan. It's supposed to get into above-freezing temps today and this feels like a miracle someho...

"Seems like we're all pretty disenchanted with Big Social Media these days, and I've been enjoying newsletters from a variety of folks - enjoying in the way I used to love blogs back in the heyday of the feed reader." 💯

#SocialReboot

newsletter.annearchy.com/newsletters-...

Intension, intent as intention, and language choices We who think a lot about what we read, from books to news, often ponder language choices. Change one or two words, and you just slanted the facts or story, guiding the reader to what you want them …

"The fact that so many people still, in January 2025, are painting one of the wealthiest white men on the planet as a powerless victim is telling, and not a coincidence." @azteclady.bsky.social

#SocialReboot

herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/i...

Bad shape The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.

"The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet."

Another must read from
@kissane.bsky.social

#SocialReboot

www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

"Ah shit, here we go again." A man in a tight tank top looks down an empty, sunlit alley. Probably from a GTA game, but I've had it saved for uses like this for many, many years.

Some of y'all are so invested in recreating your previous engagement experiences rather than learning from past mistakes to make this a better place, that keyword muting isn't enough.

Fascist billionaires aren't the only source of internal rot.

#cmonson #SocialReboot

A man in a tight tank top looks down a brightly lit alley and says, "Ah shit, here we go again." Possibly from one of the GTA games?

*whispers*

It's really okay to ease yourself into a new platform, selectively following people over time rather than trying to (re)build a large following as fast as possible.

Why not take this opportunity to rethink what a social network should mean for you, and start fresh? YMMV

#SocialReboot

Five Things: October 31, 2024 — As in guillotine... "Nothing good in tech lasts forever." On #SocialReboot, radical RSS, content strategy, publishing tech, and the truth about snake oil.

"Nothing good in tech lasts forever."

On #SocialReboot, radical RSS, content strategy, publishing tech, and the truth about snake oil.

loudpoet.com/2024/10/31/f...

We can have a different web Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

"If we wanted, each of us could escape those walls and set up our own spaces within the limitless, fertile soil beyond." @molly.wiki

#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot #community

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