DIY Microblogging
I'm pissed off.
people keep asking the ceo reasonable questions about this and all she can do is say stuff like "violence is violence and it can't be the solution. the heart of the mind is the home of soul and that's where we should all live"
— Nicky Flowers (@nickyflowers.com) September 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I said what I said, and I'm still feeling it. I just want a normal website that I can post Normal Style on. Normal Style includes saying it's okay that a nazi is dead! Goddamn I miss cohost...
When Bsky'ers started getting banned for saying "rest in piss" I felt like a clock appeared above my head, counting down to when I need to jump ship from other peoples' platforms entirely — and there's just nowhere to go. cohost is gone, as mentioned. Do not tell me about Mastodon, thank you, the conversation can end there if you'd be so kind. There's Tumblr, which I'm on but that's like... that's different from social media. It's Tumblr. I'm on there for another 15 years or until it dies, whichever comes first. There's no new, decent text-based platform for me out there and I still need somewhere to put microposts, little bits that don't warrant their own macropost on this blog here.
UNTIL NOW
You may have seen on my homepage a pink box with some symbols in it. Those symbols are letters & words and they come together to form my new microblog, "It's The Microblog". Setting this up was extremely easy, and you can too:
- Create an RSS feed
- Upload that XML file to wherever it's to be hosted
- Put the URL of the feed into the form on rss.bloople.net (I'm sure you could DIY this part even more but I don't know Javascript and don't intend to ever do so)
- Embed the generated code into your website and style it as needed
I'm pleased as punch since my homepage has been lacking and I have yet another space to be silly online. Folks can also subscribe to the feed via a reader but I hope it encourages people to check out the site itself more often. I also hope it helps slowly wean myself off of being on Bluesky!
Nicky Flowers - 09/15/25 - Join me... let's exchange feeds... - (send any comments/questions to hello at nickyflowers dot com)