#tiny tiny rss

[unpretty]

Seeing as the deathknells have gotten louder again, what's your current rss reader recommendation?

I'm still happy with Inoreader! As a person who wants my feeds to sync between five devices it's my favorite of the cloud solutions. If I weren't using Inoreader I might use Feedbin instead.

Lots of people who only need their feeds in one place seem to like Feedbro, also

I do not recommend Feedly because they're so corporate it's gross, I do not recommend self-hosting Tiny Tiny RSS because the guy who makes it is so shitty he's coded tweaks for bigoted RSS feeds right into it and that's gross.

I think FreshRSS is self-hostable, I remember not liking it when I tried it but honestly I don't remember why so ymmv.

[weirdsatellites]

MASINT #948 from NROL-82 (UNCLASSIFIED) 1. Furby Generator 2. Tiny RSS Feeds 3. Fanfic Port

[april]

what if the dashboard wasn't a stream of posts, but was instead a list of blogs and tags you follow, each with an unread count?

naturally, items with unread posts would be sorted to the top. maybe items with no unread posts wouldn't be on the page at all. but i think it would solve a fundamental problem with tumblr's dashboard...

and that problem is the weight of the blogs you follow.

with a chronological feed, every post from every blog you follow has equal weight. this sounds good (yay equality!), but if you follow too many blogs, or a few blogs post too much of something you don't care about, catching up on the whole feed becomes a chore. i don't have anything better to do, so i do it - even though it takes several sessions each day - but it's still a chore.

with an algorithmic feed, a robot determines the weight of each post. this gives you two options: trust the robot to get it right, or catch up on everything anyway. many of us don't trust the robot, so we use the chronological feed.

even if you do trust the robot, it's not perfect, because no machine can possibly ever know you and your tastes perfectly. even if it had equal intellect and empathy as another human, even if it was a human, tasked exclusively to know what you want to see... it would be capable of making mistakes.

giving an condensed overview of what's been posted since your last visit would mean you, the user, would replace the robot. you would choose what to see, and when you see it. checking if the artists you follow have posted anything new wouldn't necessarily mean wading through the posts your friends have been reblogging...

...nor would it mean unfollowing your friends...

...nor would it mean trusting a robot to deprioritise their posts...

...nor would it mean reading tumblr exclusively through an RSS reader, with all the limitations that are inherent with that.

you would be in control. no compromises needed to get the best of what you follow, just a tiny bit of extra work from you to navigate it.

would you take that trade? i would.

[relaxxattack]

bruh if they get rid of custom themes... I've roleplayed here for years, so many people do, and making themes and other things like that for a blog is such a big part of the community. I can't stand the thought of tumblr becoming sterile and samey like twitter or instagram.

^^^^^^^^^ literally

and i can’t imagine the history that would be lost; i absolutely adore the experience of clicking on a blog that hasn’t updated since 2013 and getting their weird glitterscenecore tiny-sidebar rss feed button ass theme, and seeing all their little buttons and disclaimers and about mes and shit; i would never trade that away

[incorrectmahabharatquotes]

uc hindutvas have the weirdest fucking way to show their humiliation kink to the world. they want to be "oppressed" so bad but call the actual oppressed people liars and psuedo liberals when they are pulled from their perfect hindutva rashtra casteist fantasyland where all minorities are exterminated and might i say, rightfully called out for their blatantly visible islamophobia and casteism. people like these are a blot in the name of hinduism but then again, hinduism also has a very bloody history of oppression and bigotry so, not surprised at the slightest.

i am so sorry for venting out like this and, i really think you guys are very brave 💓💗 for standing up against these ignorant bigots who make no valuable use of their so called knowledge in history.

trigger warning for suicide, rape & an event of an ongoing genocide.

these fucking neo facsists claim to care for queer people, when in fact they support facsists like yogi and modi, so many of these hindutvas were in fact laughing in these instagram comments when a sixteen year old queer comitted suicide and called that child's single mom, very derogatory stuff. these guys like to claim that hindus don't oppress women 'like muslims do' but then none of them raised a tiny inch of their voices when bilkis bano's rapists were garlanded and an olympic wrestler's abuser was celebrated by this very fucking hindutva government and these people blamed sakshi malik for her "downfall".

for some people who claim to celebrate decolonisation and freedom from invaders, these same dumbfucks remain to chose dead silent when a genocide is (still) going on and then go on defend it because "khxmxs" and i kid you not, i have seen one of these hindublr accounts actually cheer on the genocide of palestinian people and say shit like they had it coming or what not.

for these so called "gopis" i hope kanha whacks them with their gada.

I'm still flabbergasted by how their minds cannot separate Hinduism from Hindutva. It's genuinely so hard for them to do so because they're so deep in the RSS propaganda rabbit hole that they can't see the difference between religion and religious nationalism anymore. These people will complain about Islamic nations and it's hypocritical because the end goal of their Hindutva nonsense is that India becomes a religious state too.

They want to flatten everyone down into the label of "hindu" because diversity hurts their cause. They want things to be homogenous, easier to control. These people would call everyone a Hindu while practising blatant casteism. When someone points out their casteism, they'll turn around and say that the person pointing it out is the one creating divisions. Like they weren't freely enjoying the benefits that their upper caste status brings them. It's so bizarre. They want caste to be invisible but still ever-present. It's easier to profit off of it that way.

Queer people are just tools to be used in an argument to them. They want to be so different from the abrahamic religions and yet they follow the same archaic attitudes about queer people as them. They will also completely ignore intersectionality and point to a successful rich savarna queer person as an example of how queer people are so accepted in India.

I saw some of them praying for Kalki to come and finish it all and it was funny to me. Do they believe Kalki would believe in Hindutva of all things? Be for real.

-Mod S

[space-writes]

since it’s been working really well for me the past few weeks, i thought i’d throw together a quick tutorial for how i set up my writeblr RSS feed!

Step One - find an RSS reader

I’ve been using feedbro for years. It’s pretty simple, there’s no limit to how many feeds you can have, you can organise with folders, and it’s free. it doesn’t sync across devices, but given I mainly check my feeds on desktop and nowhere else, it works for me. i’ll be using it for this tutorial, so YMMV for setting up different readers.

Step Two - make a folder

call it writeblr. that’s it!

Step Three - kill your browser

by which I mean, open up every single writeblr you follow/want to keep track of. you don’t have to do them all at once, but it’s fun :p

Step Four - add your feeds!

for feedbro, you do this by going to the feebro extension, selecting ‘find feeds in current tab’, and adding the feed it finds to the writeblr folder you just made. different readers will have a slightly different process, so just find out what it is for your reader, and do that for every writeblr!

in feedbro, you’ll then need to go find the feed and right-click to edit the properties to have the name of the blog or the username.

Step Five - no feed? no problem!

i’ve found that for some blogs, feeds don’t show up. however, they do show up if you view the blog in the dashboard view (you know, the one where you go to tumblr.com/user instead of user.tumblr.com)

Step Six - set your boundaries

by which i mean - adjust your settings. for my own health, my feeds update once a day or when I choose to update them. having notification badges every time something gets posted is really distracting and stresses me out, so i like deciding exactly when i’m going to engage.

go through the settings options your reader has for display, and maximum entires, and all that good stuff, and tweak it until you’re happy.

Step Seven - see all the good good posts

this is how i’ve been keeping up so much better with everyone’s stuff lately! my queue is hugely full now because i’m actually seeing everyone’s posts, and i don’t see a cool snippet, then immediately forget it exists, because it stays in the feed reader until i delete it! it’s great!

and that’s how i’ve been using writeblr the past few weeks. hopefully this is helpful to at least one person!

(also, i wrote this before the newest change of 'make the icons gone and/or tiny and make it hard to see who is reblogging who' so. this method will let you keep track of actual blogs and know exactly who's posting what. everyone switch to interacting with this website exclusively through rss readers they can't stop us all)

[messengerfollower]

Follower update!

New Follower page! With a tiny update about next week's update schedule.

🧬 Newest page: http://follower.messenger-comic.com 👨🏼‍🔬 From the Start: https://follower.messenger-comic.com/follower-webcomic/follower/ 🦘 RSS: http://follower.messenger-comic.com/feed/ 💖 Early: http://chio.club

[carltonlassie]

I've been doing some research into cross-platform RSS readers, but it seems like there's not a lot of good options that balance convenience vs. privacy.

Category: convenience

You don't have to host your own and manage the brains of the rss reader. Instead, you get limitations or paid tier options.

Newsblur - https://newsblur.com

has a premium subscription tier :/ free accts can only add 64 sites.

inoreader - https://www.inoreader.com/

looks well established but also limits to 150 feeds for free tier

Category: full privacy

You can host your instance and not rely on any other services or create an account. You control your data, but you have to manage your own server and infrastructure.

tiny tiny rss - https://tt-rss.org/

miniflux - https://miniflux.app/

freshrss - https://freshrss.org

looks like you can self-host or join an existing server, sort of like mastodon or other fediverse apps? Still, hosting is required.

Just the reader - not quite cross platform

These apps assume that you have your feed set up somewhere, and you can read that feed using these readers. This is good if you only read from one device (i.e. from desktop only, from your phone only) and don't care about syncing your feed activity to all devices.

netnewswire - https://netnewswire.com

reeder - https://reederapp.com/

Apple apps. just a reader app. for the feed, it looks like it syncs with iCloud

Ravenreader - https://ravenreader.app

Feeder (Android) - link to play store

Free and open source! A lot of these readers apps support importing / exporting your feed using OPML format.

Combined with that other post, I think I'm gonna try out Feeder because my phone is easily accessible. I guess I'll find out about how these handle filtering/grouping/categorizing/keyword searching features!

[passerkirbius]

Hi! This is perhaps, slightly off-top for the topic-as-of-late, but something I've wondered about audio fiction production: When I started listening to podcasts, I always assumed that apps like Spotify, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, etc, paid a small amount per stream to the artist, as they do with music. Found out this year that's not the case, which is of course, why many podcasts must rely on ads or crowdfunds/Patreon. Is there a reason for this? Is it preferred, hated, neither/both/something else?

So, the simple reason is because of the origins of podcasting in the first place.

This is going to be a bit long, because the history of this is relatively obscure, so I have to go through a bit of history.

So, Podcasting in the form that it exists in now, is old as balls in internet terms, being conceived in 2000 and implemented in 2001. The technology that underlies Podcasting is a system called RSS, which was originally created as a way of syndicating website content - the idea was that a website could have it's content available as an RSS feed, that other websites could read and then distribute that content on their own sites.

Thing is RSS, is dumb as fuck. RSS is literally just a specifically formatted file, that gets popped on a web server, that computer programs can easily read and extract the information and it's context. But in the heady days of the 2000s, this was a revelation! It required very little work from a web server, didn't require authentication, and because you weren't pulling all the formatting work from a website, it was generally a lot lighter on a website's bandwidth. It was an entirely open system that anyone could use, which of course meant that just about every website used it for a while, for just about everything it could. In fact, every Tumblr still has an RSS feed - If you add a /rss to the end of your tumblr URL, it'll give you the RSS feed! So, you can take a look at just how dead simple the whole system is.

Podcasting added just a tiny little twist to the RSS system - it allows the RSS feed to include a link to an audio file, formatted so that a feed reader could identify the file and provide the metadata (and not just audio - you could use it for video and images too, but those didn't take off as much as audio did). It took a few years for programs to appear that could actually read and distribute these feeds, and the whole thing really took off when Apple's iTunes (who were looking for free, easy-to-provide content for iPod customers) not only added podcast RSS support, but created their Podcast directory, making it much easier for listeners to find podcasts they might want to listen to. In fact, it's because of this embrace of podcasting that audio-on-demand (as it was called then) got associated with iPods (which were utterly in the Zeitgeist at the time), and audio-on-demand became known as podcasting. Yep, that's right - podcasting was named after the iPod. Now you know!

In the 20+ years since podcasting took off, the system hasn't changed, like at all - podcasts still use RSS, in fact, the RSS they use is extremely similar to the RSS used 20 years ago, there's been pretty much no advancement in the technology used here. There's a few of reasons why this has happened.

The first reason is that Apple Podcasts has, for most of the period of Podcasting, been the biggest distributor of podcasts. They have the directory, they have a massive share of the Apple ecosystem market, and most importantly, they've mostly just left the whole scene alone, happy to reap the benefits without doing any of the work. It also means that there's a huge number of podcast applications, and like Apple, other audio apps have been happy to treat podcasts as neat free add-on content. This has (generally) meant that podcasters have been free to do whatever, but it has a nasty side effect - because Apple Podcasts has such market power, no change in the podcast infrastructure could happen without them agreeing to it. Because you can, absolutely, make extensions to RSS (and there's been tons of work in doing that) but if Apple doesn't implement it, then a good 50% of the market isn't going to see the benefits, and none of the other podcasting apps will bother to implement it, which means that Podcast hosts (the companies that actually host the RSS feeds and content these days) will bother to set up their feeds to support it. Apple didn't exactly control Podcast RSS but they did exert enormous influence over what changes got implemented.

The second reason is that when advertisers eventually realised that podcasts were worth spending money on to sell their wares, Podcasters and advertisers suddenly realised that there wasn't really an agreed-upon way to confirm how well a podcast was going, what their audience was, etc. Eventually, a de facto standard was agreed upon, and "downloads" was the primary way to gauge the success of a podcast. Eventually, this was formalised, and the International Advertising Board created a technical specification saying what should be counted as a download, what shouldn't etc.

So, what this means is that now, podcasters had a vested interest in ensuring that their download figures were correct - anyone in the podcast ecosystem messing with those figures were going to hear about it from irate podcasters (the worst type!). This, ultimately, has pretty much entirely prevented podcasting from migrating away from the very open RSS system to anything else - the standard is there, advertisers and podcasters rely on it, you can't really fuck with it.

The third reason is sorta a side effect of the other two, but it's worth calling out on it's own - Podcasting is a huge ecosystem. Unlike services like Spotify or YouTube, which are closed systems where everything is run from the same system, RSS is truly decentralised. Anyone can make a podcast host, anyone can make a podcast reader, because no one has to ask permission from anyone else. Because RSS has no owner, and the whole system is designed from the ground up on that assumption, no podcast host or listening platform has ever managed to get so big that it could extinguish everyone else in the system. And this is now almost a part of podcasting culture - anyone trying to build a system that fucks with this ends up having to fight every other player in the podcast ecosystem, as well as every podcaster.

These three reasons have meant that the decentralised RSS system has remained King, Downloading has remained the primary way to distribute podcasts rather than streaming*, and no single app or service has ever had a monopoly over the podcast game. This means that, for better or worse, podcasts have always been free to distribute, free to listen to, and it's not really possible to make a single platform pay for each listen - you couldn't ban them from your RSS feed in reality, not for long.

All this together means that there's been no automated monetisation for podcasts, and so monetisation has been frustratingly manual - you have to either sell ads yourself, sign up with a advertising company who will help you do it, or go the Patreon route and hope to god you get popular enough for the Patreon to support you before you burn out.

And just on that subject, it's actually worth noting that ads, generally, are a pretty bad solution for fiction podcasts - podcast ads are generally sold per episode slot, and you might have at most two slots per episode. Fiction Podcasts don't tend to have many epsiodes compared to other podcasts, because the amount of effort is generally much higher - you need to write scripts, cast actors, record them, do the dialogue edit, do your sound design, etc, and most fiction podcasters simply cannot do this on a week-to-week basis - or at least, they can't do it for long before burnout hits. That usually means that fiction podcasters run on a seasonal basis, producing the whole season in one go and releasing on a schedule - which means they can't release episodes consistently for the whole year. That means less episodes for ads, which means less money for ads. Worse, the best rates for ads are for what's called "midroll" ads - ads that are in the middle of the podcast episode. If you haven't built your show explicitly for this, it means that you have to break up the action and take your listener out of the fiction to listen to an ad - not an ideal experience for anyone.

That's the main reason why fiction podcasters jumped onto crowdfunding. Campaign crowdfunding, like Kickstarter, means that you can convert your popularity to next season's budget, and the Kickstarter can also be a great advertising tool, helping you fund merchandising, and encouraging backers to spread the news of your podcast far and wide. Subscription crowdfunding, like Patreon, gives you a different kind of revenue stream, in theory allowing your most committed audience to support your creation process year-round, and not needing to go through the stress and hassle of a campaign crowdfund.

To be clear, Patreon isn't always so great either - The most successful Patreons provide their patrons with more of the same type of content that you're known for. This generally means making more audio fiction content just for your patrons, which means you have a delicate balancing act of creating more content that links to your show's main content while making the actual show, without doing anything that bleeds into the main content so much that non-patrons who haven't seen the other content feel like they can't get a satisfactory experience just listening to the main feed (and it's true that this can encourage people to become Patrons, but more often it will just turn people away from your show). Also, it can be really hard if you end up with just enough Patrons to feel indebted to them, but not actually having enough Patrons for the money to actually support you in creating the art. That can feel like all the downsides and none of the upsides.

Hopefully this big explainer goes a little bit of the way to explaining the monetization environment for podcasters!

*This has changed somewhat with Spotify - Spotify actually does still download apps once and streams everything from it's own servers, but it managed a neat trick here - it allowed podcast hosts access to listening statistics, so that podcasters could still collate Spotify information and use it the way they do download data - very smart of them, honestly!

[unpretty]

ftr if you're an rss feed user, inoreader's free plan (up to 150 feeds) and ad-free plan (up to 500 feeds and no ads for $20 annual) are super reasonable and i've been pretty happy with it (i actually pay for the pro plan because i'm a nerd)

i've also heard good things about feedbin but i don't think they have a free tier, just a free trial and then $5 a month

"the old reader" is supposed to have a pretty old-school google reader vibe and it's free up to 100 feeds, dunno how much premium costs

i self-hosted tiny tiny rss for a while but the guy who makes that is a shithead and even though it's open-source code, it's specifically open-source code that includes tweaks to make feeds from transphobic websites load better, so like. no thank you.

[audiofictionuk]

New Fiction Podcasts - 2nd December (Pt 1)

Magic and How to Fix It Audio Book Welcome to the world of Astaria, a place where magic and mayhem are always just around the corner. Experience the lives of the residents of this fantasy world as they attempt to solve their magical dilemmas. Feel free to jump in where ever you like as all episodes are entirely unique stories posted fortnightly. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231121-05 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ea98926c/podcast/rss

Contos do Almanaque Audio Book Mergulhe no universo fascinante dos contos intrigantes. Cada episódio do nosso podcast é uma janela para um mundo diferente, onde a imaginação não tem limites. De mistérios que arrepiam até aventuras que inspiram, "Contos do Almanaque" traz uma variedade de histórias cuidadosamente selecionadas para despertar sua curiosidade e entreter. Seja durante uma pausa no dia ou no conforto do seu lar, permita-se ser transportado para lugares onde o impossível se torna real. Junte-se a nós nessa jornada pelo fantástico, pelo misterioso, pelo inesperado. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231122-03 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed6e3ac8/podcast/rss

“Confident Sensuality” Audio Book So this podcast is going to be a little untraditional. I wrote a book, titled, “confident sensuality.“ And on so many of my other platforms, people have requested for me to turn it into an audiobook. This is the route I’m choosing to go, because it allows me to have way more control. With that being said, this is also a zesty, delicious and steamy story. I hope you love it. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231123-03 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2280577.rss

Timothy Truckle ermittelt | SciFi-Krimi-Serie mit Matthias Matschke Audio Drama Chicago Mitte des 21. Jahrhunderts. Timothy "Tiny" Truckle gilt als bester und eigenwilligster Privatdetektiv der USA. In einer Welt á la 1984 ermittelt er für die oberen Zehntausend. Wenn es geboten scheint, die Polizei aus dem Spiel zu lassen, wendet man sich vertrauensvoll an ihn. Zusammen mit seinem altehrwürdigen Computer "Napoleon" löst er kuriose Kriminalfälle. Ausgedacht hat sich die zu Grunde liegenden Kurzgeschichten der Schriftsteller Gert Prokop bereits in den 1970er- und 80er-Jahren. Sie waren Publikumserfolge in der DDR. Vieles von dem, was sich damals als spekulative Dystopie las, scheint heute bedrohlich nah. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20221127-04 RSS: https://www.mdr.de/kultur/podcast/timothy-truckle/timothy-truckle-ermittelt-100-podcast.xml

Candy Claus, Private Eye Audio Drama Santa's bastard daughter solves hardboiled Christmas crimes on the North Pole. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231124-03 RSS: https://feeds.libsyn.com/494958/rss

Monsters with Mortimer: Interviews with Creatures of the Night Audio Drama Join Professor Mortimer Blackwood in this scripted fiction interview podcast as he delves into the world of monsters and creatures of the night. With a dark sense of humor and wonder, uncover the truths, legends, and secrets of werewolves, zombies, ghosts, and more. A captivating blend of horror, folklore, and interviews. Tune in to 'Monsters with Mortimer' for intriguing conversations with creatures of the night! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231121-06 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/12d73c0c/podcast/rss

Connery: The Novel Audio Book Sam Coleridge is inspired by a chance meeting with Sean Connery as a child, but the lessons he learns lead him to dark places. Connery is a speculative work of fiction by John Bleasdale and read by Cai Ross, with music by Two Minute Noodles. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231123-04 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/conneryafiction

Dario Digital RPG Audio RPG Ciao, sono Dario e gioco di ruolo! Questo podcast riporta in versione solo audio alcune delle sessioni casalinghe ai GDR che amo di più e che potete recuperare, in formato video, sul mio omonimo canale YouTube. Spero che queste sessioni vi possano interessare, intrattenere e incuriosire tanto da voler provare voi stessi questi giochi! Ho anche una pagina Patreon e un profilo Instagram (sempre con lo stesso nome, Dario Digital RPG) sule quali pubblico contenuti grafici e spunti per i GDR che sto giocando in quel momento. Buon ascolto e buon divertimento! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231120-05 RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/6015342/episodes/feed

Polskie RPG-owanie Audio RPG Podcasty poświęcone grom fabularnym, czyli tzn. tabletop RPG, gdzie gracze wcielają się w różne rolę. Znajdziesz u nas kampanie, przygody, jak i tzn. jednostrzały czy to Wiedźmin Gra Fabularna, Cyberpunk RED i wiele innych systemów. Prócz typowych rozgrywek RPG, od czasu do czasu na luźno pogadamy sobie po prostu o grach fabularnych i nie tylko. Zapraszam serdecznie. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231125-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed7871a0/podcast/rss

Boss Monster Adventures Audio Drama It's tough to be the boss. And even tougher to be a Boss Monster. Based on BOSS MONSTER, the hit tabletop game by Brotherwise Games with over 1 million copies sold, Boss Monster Adventures follows Kid Croak, son of the most fearsome boss in the Overworld, on a quest to replace the magical crystal that powers his fathers' trap filled Final Castle. Joined by cool vampire, Draculad, and ever-loyal brain in a jar, Cerebella, the three venture out into a world of pesky heroes, dangerous dungeons and life-changing secrets. Inspired by popular fantasy and videogame conventions, Boss Monster Adventures is filled with 8-bit music, easter eggs and epic adventure that both old school fans and modern listeners will enjoy. Starring Noah Bentley (Dragons: Rescue Riders), Tristan Chen (Turning Red) and introducing Madeleine O’Neal. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231115-04 RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/bossmonsteradventures

#Traffick’d by AR Audio Book Welcome to the audio platform for #Traffick’d! A online short story series about a stripper from Toronto and her pimp. On this platform you’ll find audiobook versions of the episodes, group discussions and thoughts from our readers and author. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20230930-03 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/e9873d60/podcast/rss

A Queda de Ingonish Audio Drama Algo castiga os habitantes de Ingonish... se pecaste, tem cuidado. 1567. Ingonish, Canadá. Inês é uma colona relutante, forçada a abandonar os Açores com Bartolomeu, o seu marido diácono, à procura de uma vida melhor. Mas a primeira colónia falhou e Inês teme o mesmo destino: falta de recursos, frio glacial, fome. Quando uma série de assassinatos ritualísticos começam a ocorrer na colónia, Inês ganha finalmente um propósito: encontrar o monstro e proteger a sua comunidade. Mas o resto dos colonos suspeitam de bruxaria e questionam o facto de Inês não ter filhos assim como a sua ligação com as vítimas. À medida que as mortes se multiplicam e a colónia se aproxima da ruína, Inês terá de fazer tudo para se salvar… ou então, arderá na fogueira. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231129-01 RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/6017308/episodes/feed

Re-wake Audio Drama The great glowing rings in the sky are just that. The eyes always watching do not exist. Re-Wake is a science fiction podcast about a radio station in the world of Xarasiund, where horrifying, weird, and fun events take place! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231125-02 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed6b6ec4/podcast/rss

Whispers of the Lost World Audio Drama This captivating series follows the exciting journey of a diverse group of international students who are inadvertently attracted into the maze-like attic that conceals a mysterious secret—a covert portal to the hidden worlds of time. Their intense curiosity sparks unanticipated mayhem that propels them through the gaps in time itself, where the past and present collide sharply. A wild turn of events propels them into the chaos of World War II's core. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231127-01 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2281646.rss

The Draconian Universe Audio Book The Draconian Universe is a space to be lost within the world of fiction. Here you will find Audio Dramas written and produced by Black women and men, highlighting the diverse talent within the black community. We are more than our struggle. We create and we imagine. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231128-01 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/draconianuniverse/feed.xml

[bogfern]

just saw that a webcomic that was somewhat fundamental to me is going on permanent hiatus (after 17 years!) and it feels very bittersweet. 17 years is a long time to be running a comic that initially started as a WoW parody, and that's a really good runtime. But at the same time, it makes me think about how like... inaccessible webcomics have become? To readers and artists. I'm hardly the first person to say this, but webtoons has rlly done insane damage to us, and that's not helped by the internet culture that preceeded it in the 2010s.

Like I really don't think I could have the same comics experience now that I had then, trawling through smackjeeves and a million other tiny hosting sites to find these very tiny, often not polished, works of love. Like I used to just be able to set up an RSS feed for multiple websites and just.... let it do its thing. Chaotic? Yes. But it was infinitely better than whatever the Fuck is happening now.

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086 - Khef - The Way Station (The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Part 2)

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Max Verstappen sets the fastest time in the first session of the F1's pre-season testing in Bahrain

Max Verstappen sets the fastest time in the first session of the F1's pre-season testing in Bahrain, as Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton is YET to take to the track Max Verstappen set the fastest time in the first session at F1 testing in Bahrain Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon finished closely behind in second and third place Former seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton will take to the track this afternoon By Jonathan McEvoy In Bahrain Published: 11:44 GMT, 23 February 2023 | Updated: 11:44 GMT, 23 February 2023 Max Verstappen started off in pre-season testing where he left off last year by setting the fastest time in the first session in Bahrain. The Red Bull star, fresh from winning the second of his two consecutive titles at a canter, made the best possible impression, three-tenths ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, with Williams’ Alex Albon third. Mercedes’ George Russell was fifth best, 1.2sec. Lewis Hamilton is due to take to the wheel of the black-liveried Mercedes this afternoon, as part of the only three days of testing ahead of the opening race in this tiny Gulf kingdom a week on Sunday. He will have been cautiously cheered by what he watched from the TVs in the 26C paddock because the car appears not to be porpoising – the bouncing phenomenon that blighted the early part of their disappointing campaign 12 months ago. The regulations remain fundamentally the same for 2023, though the car floors have been raised 15mm off the ground, a change aimed at reducing porpoising, thus theoretically helping Mercedes while potentially hampering Red Bull. Red Bull's Max Verstappen set the fastest time in the first session at F1 testing in Bahrain Verstappen (left) impressed while Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton (right) is yet to take to the track Aston Martin broke down early on, an electrical gremlin curtailing the involvement of stand-in Felipe Drugovich.  The Brazilian’s car was taken back to the garage for repairs and later managed 40 laps. Drugovich, the reigning Formula Two champion, was drafted in after Lance Stroll injured his wrist in a cycling accident in Spain.  Stroll is uncertain to start the Bahrain Grand Prix. Share or comment on this article: Max Verstappen sets the fastest time in the first session of the F1's pre-season testing in Bahrain via Formula One | Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490