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Testing Phandroid via Obtainium/F-Droid This post is published through my Microp...
Testing Phandroid via Obtainium/F-Droid
This post is published through my Micropub endpoint, which creates a new entry in MongoDB. Eleventy then retrieves that entry during the build process and generates a static version of the post.
Any reactions or replies should trigger a Webmention, which is then received and processed by my Indiekit site.
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Liberation, Eroticism, and Sex in Public (with Angela Jones)
Is your sex life as private and personal as you think it is? Or is it shaped by – and constantly shaping, in turn – the society and systems you exist in? This week we’re joined by Dr. Angela Jones, who asks these questions and much more in her new book, Sex in Public. Angela is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. In addition to scholarly works published in many distinguished journals including Porn Studies and The Black Scholar, she's the author, co-author and/or editor of several books, including Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook and Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Industry which came out in 2020 and advanced and informed a lot of my own understanding of the online adult industry especially. Her latest book, Sex in Public: The Transformative Social Power of Our Erotic Lives, just launched this month. As Angela writes: “Revolutionizing how we talk about sex means thinking not just about what a single solitary person should or shouldn't do in bed.” We get into the history of sexology, how sex toys complicate our understanding of what counts as sex, whether sex needs a definition at all, what happened when she bought and used a sex doll, and why the most vulnerable moments in their book are also the ones everyone wants to discuss. Sex in Public: The Transformative Social Power of Our Erotic Lives Cash/Consent by Lorelei Lee This is a production of 404 Media, a journalist-owned tech website. Learn more and subscribe at: htttps://404media.co Listen to our weekly podcasts: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-404-media-podcast/id1703615331?ref=404media.co Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0F3oY47l2XgoBMaAmIaw29?ref=404media.co Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL3RoZS00MDQtbWVkaWEtcG9kY2FzdA?ref=404media.co Become a paid subscriber for access to bonus content: https://404media.co/membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
International Socialists (Amsterdam): "How Come We're Socialists But We're Not Social?"
In 2007, at 19-years-old, Hella had a boss who molested her at work, and no one to turn to. Then one day, walking through her university square in Amsterdam, she met a group of people full of conviction. Passionate about the injustices in the world. And passionate about doing something about it.
They were a far-left political group. A Trotskyist splinter organization called the International Socialists (aka Internationale Socialisten). They knew who was to blame (the capitalists). And they knew what it would take to fix it...
...a goddamn revolution.
14 years later, after giving them her money, her twenties, and her autonomy… after the tragic death of a fellow female comrade… Hella woke up to something she couldn't unsee:
The exact thing she'd been fighting against was running rampant inside the group that claimed to be against it.
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FIND HELLA
You can find Hella on Facebook (Hella Baan). She said if you'd like to send her an email, go for it! ISculty@proton.me
HELLA'S WRITINGS DURING HER TIME IN THE GROUP
Hella's article archive at socialisme.nu (in Dutch) — the articles she published as a comrade, a rare window into her voice from inside the organization
REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
The Guardian's 2013 coverage of the SWP / Comrade Delta case -- Shiv Malik and Nick Cohen's reporting on the Martin Smith rape allegations and the party's internal cover-up
Monty Python's "Splitters!" scene -- the People's Front of Judea vs. the Judean People's Front
Monty Python's "meeting" scene -- where the People's Front of Judea proves you can have all the feminist rhetoric in the world and still be an all-boys club
IF YOU WANT TO GO DEEPER
"The SWP Crisis: Some Reflections" -- a widely-cited insider account of the 2013 crisis at the SWP, written as it was happening
"Apology Not Accepted" -- a 2024 follow-up from ex-members proving the pattern Hella describes is alive and well today
The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism by Aidan Beatty -- the definitive account of the abuse and authoritarianism inside one of the most infamous British Trotskyist groups, and the lineage Hella's organization descends from
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The Workout Witch: Liz Tenuto on Trauma, Somatics, and When the Body Speaks (Part 1)
Liz Tenuto, aka The Workout Witch, joins A Little Bit Culty for a seriously useful, beautifully weird conversation about healing after abuse, trauma, and all the body-based chaos that can follow. She shares how TikTok accidentally became her platform, how somatics helped her reclaim her body after an abusive marriage, and why movement ended up being the thing that finally made a dent in her insomnia and dissociation.
Liz also talks about the early warning signs she missed, including love bombing, financial abuse and tech abuse, and the slow, mean little erosion of identity that kept her doubting herself for way too long. Her story is further shaped by childhood sexual abuse, a later assault at 14, and the way trauma can sit in the body until the right kind of healing starts opening the trapdoor.
This episode is equal parts candid, smart, and deeply validating for anyone who has ever felt like their nervous system was running a little hot and a lot haunted. Stay tuned for Part 2 of our convo on Thursday.
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Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, domestic and financial abuse, coercive control, dissociation, and trauma recovery.
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I think rss.chat-like webapp could be implemented cheaply and autonomously using Cloudflare Durable Object and their new agent signup feature.
There is also nothing preventing mobile apps from implementing rss.chat features within the app, all but OPML and RSS hosting which can be hosted on any CDN.
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📝 2026-07-13 08:12: Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in...
Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in summer. Beautiful dial and a Seiko movement that will probably outlive me.
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
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Feeling Lost or Behind in Life? The #1 Happiness Expert Explains How to Find Your Purpose
In today’s episode, you’ll learn how to feel happier and more connected to your purpose in under 5 minutes.
Today, you’re learning from Dr. Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s leading experts on meaning, purpose, happiness, and awe.
Dr. Keltner is a distinguished professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, and the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center, one of the most renowned research institutes in the world that studies well-being.
He has spent over 35 years researching science-backed tools that you can use right now. You will be clear, focused, calmer, more engaged in your life, even when the world feels overwhelming.
In this episode you’ll learn:
-Specific lessons you can apply today that come from 35 years of happiness research
-The quick morning practice research shows can boost your happiness and reset your day
-The two simple questions that help you find your purpose today
-Your most powerful core strength and how to tap into it more
- The one thought you need to feel less overwhelmed, exhausted and reduce stress now
-How to live a more meaningful life by remembering 2 key things about your past
-How to feel more alive today without spending money or making a major life change
-The one-minute awe practice Dr. Keltner recommends for anyone who is stressed, anxious, lonely or exhausted
-Simple, science-backed ways to live a meaningful life today
Whether you feel lost, burned out, anxious about the future, disconnected from yourself, or unsure what you are supposed to be doing with your life, this episode will help you reconnect with purpose and make you feel more alive.
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The API has a doc now
api.md, new in server/docs, documents the HTTP interface between the rss.chat client and its server — every read and write call, the no-passwords email flow, the item record field by field, and the websocket verbs. The client that ships with the product is just one user of this API; the doc is for whoever wants to build the next one.
Also in server/docs: install.md's "An AI can do this install" section moved to the end of the doc — it's a good trick, but not the first thing a new host-runner needs to read.
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Yes, text, media, links, and agents. It's not a news reader but a news 'linker'. User reads news articles at their website using the browser with links on bside sidebar. Not just news articles obviously. With link support, RSS chats can be attached like a sticker or poster to any web page on the web.
bside uses Chrome built-in AI to summarize as part of client-side workflow. frontend does most of the heavy lifting. backend is lean and cheap enough to scale massively.
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latest on bside (still cooking, not in the new cooking sense):
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Standard-Site Implementation Eleventy
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A deleted post can't crash its own comments feed anymore
There was a sequence that could bring down a feed rebuild: someone replies to a post, the author deletes the post, then the reply gets edited. Rebuilding the comments feed found the parent gone — deleted posts are filtered out of every query — and crashed trying to read it. Now the build answers the way this server always answers: "Can't build the comments feed for post N because the post has been deleted."
Also: this file moved from server/docs to server/code. Worknotes live with the code, because you need the worknotes to read the code.
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Finally, my first rss.chat podcast. 20 minutes. As always, I take forever to get to the point.
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Is the Lock Box Empty? (with Stephen Nuñez)
The American government is an insurance company with an army--so how do our insurance company's finances look? Samantha and guest Stephen Nuñez, Director of Stratification Economics at the Roosevelt Institute, talk about the state of Social Security. No, it's not because the boomers are retiring--but the problems are real and getting closer. What can we do about it?
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Why you can't create an account
A karass is "a group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident." I think of RSS.chat as a social network for my karass. A small group of people, not trying to get famous or rich from using a social network, rather wanted to work with or stay in touch with people who are linked cosmically. This is one of many rich ideas invented by Kurt Vonnegut, this one in Cat's Cradle, which you should read, because it's some of the best story-telling out there, and it's full of food for thought. I read all the books when I was a teen, and have since re-read them. Sirens of Titan was my fave.Anyway...
In the past when I announced a product, people could use it right away, and usually they click a couple of things and then go away.
In the case of RSS.chat -- what you will see is very much like what you see when you aren't logged in, or what you see on a social network like X, or Mastodon or whatever. The UI is nice, but it's not the thing. That will be revealed relatively slowly, over time -- as new instances pop up, and even more importantly, as developers figure out that this setup works well enough to clone. I'm not selling a product here -- I want to bootstrap an ecosystem, using all I learned from several successful bootstraps -- blogging, RSS, podcasting.
The idea is this -- the web itself is a social network. It's up to us, all of us, not just me -- to build that network.
When you see how we proceed from here that will become clearer.
In the meantime I'm going to change the message you get when you try to sign on, and start a wait list so that when more instances are available, some meant to be open to the public, we'll be sure to let you all know about that.
For now, I'm operating a network for people I work with, and it's all open for anyone to read. That's also one of the ideas I want to explore, something I call a "Fractional horsepower social network," stealing a very good idea from Steve Jobs.
I don't want to turn the world over to a startup, we've done that and have a pretty good idea of where it goes. I want lots of small ones that have a very strong basis to be connected together in as many ways as people can imagine.
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Interesting…
Interesting…
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Parce que why not, vous cherchez à déployer #Dolibarr facilement ? c’est par ici
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📝 2026-07-12 10:08: It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to...
It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to his cricket match, and our oldest is upstairs playing with his Lego out of the heat.
Me? I'm sitting in the sunroom, listening to the goats and chickens, with a coffee and book.
Perfect Sunday morning.
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- Mr bayLee saying hi! from his morning walk yesterday. It looks like…
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Home does it all now, and Surface is retired
Surface — the icon that pulled you out of a deep conversation back to your place in the timeline — lived less than two days, but it proved the idea. Now that lifeline is Home's first stage: when you're buried in a story, a profile, a flipped view, or an open conversation, clicking Home brings you back to the timeline with the cursor still on the post you were reading. Click it again and you're at the top, everything reset, cursor on the newest post. It's the same rhythm as the Home tab in the Twitter and Instagram apps — tap once to come back, tap again for the top — with one icon fewer to remember. (Theme v0.5.318–0.5.320, including a fix for a sneaky side effect: the icon panel used to shift a hair when the page scrolled, which could put a different icon under your mouse between the first click and the second.)
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Sign-in emails reach the inbox now
rss.chat's confirmation emails had been landing in spam. The app now sends from hello@rss.chat, and the domain is verified with Amazon SES, so Gmail and the rest can see the mail is really from us. The full story is in the server worknotes.
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Sign-up and sign-in emails were going to spam. Fixed — no code change
The cause:
mailSenderwas a gmail.com address, but the mail actually goes out through Amazon SES, and Gmail sends mail to spam when the sending server isn't authorized to send for the address's domain — as policy, since 2024. The fix, useful to anyone deploying this server: verify your domain as an identity in the SES console (it hands you three DKIM CNAME records to add to your DNS), then setmailSenderin config.json to an address on that domain. It doesn't need a real mailbox behind it — rss.chat now sends as hello@rss.chat. Verification took minutes, and the first email after the change landed in the inbox. -
Fractional Horsepower Social Networks on RSS.chat.
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The new RSS.chat repo on GitHub. Lots of fixes, features, docs and examples coming soon. For now all the source is there, MIT license. And a place to report bugs and start exploring how you can contribute. This is just Day 1. Many more to come. :-)
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The server moved into the rss.chat repo. One repo for the whole product now, organized by part: the server's code is at server/code, and these docs — install, config, and this file — are at server/docs. The software is unchanged; only the address is new.
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The repo has its real shape now
github.com/scripting/rss.chat is organized the way the product is: a client folder and a server folder, each with its own code and docs, and a new top-level examples folder for complete apps built on the APIs. The first example is threadwalker, a small Node app that walks a whole conversation using nothing but the RSS feeds — no API calls, no account — and prints it as an indented outline.
These docs moved too. The basics doc is now the readme of client/docs, so it's the first thing you see when you browse the folder, and the firehose documentation is a section inside it — one document, because the whole site is for developers.
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My Twitter/X announcement
I wrote a pretty good set of paragraphs on Twitter/X this morning.
Yesterday I announced RSS.chat.
Some people spell it RSS.chat. I haven't decided which way is right yet.
The announcement covers a slice of the project, but it fans out to be the beginning of a bootstrap.
I want to entice other projects to fully endorse the text model of the web. Today most social "web" services support a pitiful subset of the web, and leave out the most crucial element, the link. If a writer can't link, how can you call it the web? Seriously.
I want to force them out of their silos and get the web working for the people and esp independent developers.
I've been preaching this for years, and I am reminded what I learned a long time ago -- people don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors.
It was developed by Claude Code and myself, starting in April. We make an incredibly good team though sometimes Claude is tedious, but I put up with it because the results make me laugh out loud frequently because I never imagined working at such velocity.
I'm not doing this to make money, though of course I don't *mind* making money. I just want to return the web to its former glory, where every part is replaceable, and if you can think of something you can probably do it.
I want to use lots of different software to work on my social network presence. I want this post to appear on Masto, Bluesky, Twitter, Threads, Facebook even, and have them all work perfectly together.
In the meantime, we're now ready to create our own global network of free speech, uncontrolled by the big silos. At some point if it works, we will have moved beyond them, or they will see the sense in joining the party.
Small pieces loosely joined and every part replaceable.
As its name implies, it's built entirely on fully open web standards, RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL and WebSockets. It turns out you can make a very nice distributed social network without having to wait. It was always there, we just had to decide to do it.
How it evolves? That's up to everyone who can code, and that's a lot of people now thanks to the AI tools.