Hello, dead internet

The internet is terrible now. Online communities are bots talking to bots. Social media is ignorant slopulist memes made by state actors, parroted by useful idiots. I feel an instant revulsion at most new content: bulleted lists, em-dashes, rule-of-three, it’s-not-this-it’s-that snowclones. We have collectively given up on caring. The content machine must be fed.

I am coming out as an old man, but RSS is still the best way to read the web. My reader is full of writers worth reading, all on sites of their own. It’s the only corner left where the writing is good. I want to be part of that corpus. So I made one.

This site is what comes after quitting Twitter and Instagram in the past few years. Some of it will be the pithy notes I used to tweet, with (aspirationally) a little more intention behind them. Some will just be photos; some will self-destruct. And some will be link posts: things I found elsewhere with my own personal comment section attached.

Meanwhile, I know now from experience that I don’t need a timeline. The good stuff will find me. And if it doesn’t, fine. I have enough to read to fill my life n times over.

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