reorganises images in capsule, symlinks to website
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I've been sprucing up how I follow what's happening on the Internet. I can now read all the things I want to read pretty efficiently, and enjoy doing it, which is exciting.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2025
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Published on: 19 Jan 2025
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## The problem
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ For a while, I've been hosting CommaFeed on PikaPods. This has been OK (OMG, RSS
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=> https://www.commafeed.com
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=> https://www.pikapods.com
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=> gemini://joeac.net/blog/2024/05-02_no_more_youtube
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=> gemini://joeac.net/blog/2024/05-02_no_more_youtube
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It also hasn't been any good for distinguishing between stuff I don't want to read *ever*, and stuff I don't want to read *right now* but will get round to later. I could in theory use the bookmarking feature built-in to my browser, but removing things after I've read them is too clunky, so I don't do it.
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@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@ It also hasn't been any good for distinguishing between stuff I don't want to re
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Every morning, I open my terminal and run newsboat.
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=> https://newsboat.org
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=> ./2025-01-19_newsboat.webp newsboat showing how many unread posts I have at a glance in the opening view
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=> https://newsboat.org
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=> /images/longlog/2025-01-19_newsboat.webp newsboat showing how many unread posts I have at a glance in the opening view
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I know the unread count is pretty fresh, because I've set up a systemd service to run newsboat at startup to fetch the feeds.
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I press `l` twice to open a post. Then I press `n` to navigate to the next unread post until I run out of unread posts.
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=> ./2025-01-19_newsboat-post.webp newsboat displaying a post
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=> /images/longlog/2025-01-19_newsboat-post.webp newsboat displaying a post
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If I encounter something I want to read later, but don't have time right now, I press `b`, which runs a home-made bookmarking script. Here it is:
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@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ I can also run this script manually and pass it a URL of my choice at any time,
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When I want to read from my reading list, I run `readnow.sh`, which simply opens my reading list folder, `~/readlist/unread`, in my terminal file browser of choice: namely, ranger.
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=> https://ranger.github.io
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=> ./2025-01-19_ranger.webp ranger showing the contents of my reading list with a preview
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=> https://ranger.github.io
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=> /images/longlog/2025-01-19_ranger.webp ranger showing the contents of my reading list with a preview
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Although ranger has a preview, I'll typically open the file up in my terminal web browser of choice, which is w3m (plus a couple of custom key-bindings).
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@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ I've configured this to be my preferred web browser in ranger by shifting it to
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Having configured my default web browser in my ranger config, all I need to do is press `l`.
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=> ./2025-01-19_w3m.webp A post displaying in w3m
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=> /images/longlog/2025-01-19_w3m.webp A post displaying in w3m
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No ads, no cookie popups, no giant banner images taking 2 seconds to load and shifting the content all over the place: just the text I want to read. Isn't it beautiful?
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@@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ I can now keep up to date, and I enjoy doing it.
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I get not everyone likes to live in the terminal. I think the key takeaways are:
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* Make it really easy to sift through new posts
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* When you sift, sift through every post, and for each one, either read it straight away, or add it to your reading list
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* Sift daily
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* Make it really easy to add things to your reading list
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* Make it really easy to browse, read things, and mark things read in your reading list
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* Set aside time to catch up on your reading list
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* Make it really easy to sift through new posts
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* When you sift, sift through every post, and for each one, either read it straight away, or add it to your reading list
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* Sift daily
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* Make it really easy to add things to your reading list
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* Make it really easy to browse, read things, and mark things read in your reading list
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* Set aside time to catch up on your reading list
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* Make the whole thing joyful (both because joy is good, and because you won't do it otherwise)
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## Next steps
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@@ -127,11 +127,10 @@ I still haven't really figured out social media. I'd like to stay up to date wit
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I still need to know:
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* Are my friends posting stuff on the Internet?
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* If so, where?
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* What's the best way of subscribing to their posts
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* even if they live on different websites and in different formats?
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* Are my friends posting stuff on the Internet?
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* If so, where?
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* What's the best way of subscribing to their posts
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* even if they live on different websites and in different formats?
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* What's the best way of sending and receiving comments/replies/reactions?
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TBC. Answers on a postcard please.
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@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Where green apocalypse succeeds, it succeeds by delving into the riches of myth-
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In ‘The Lost Words,’ apparently ordinary characters from the British environment – as ordinary as dandelions, acorns, and ferns – are depicted in beautiful illustrated portraits on gold leaf, in the manner of a religious icon. In the pages in-between, illustrations of fields, thickets, and moors are scattered with a jumble of golden letters, waiting to be assembled. Each icon is accompanied by an acrostic poem. Consider ‘Bramble’:
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=> /logs/longlong/2026-04-12_bramble.webp ‘Bramble’ icon
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=> /images/longlog/2026-04-12_bramble.webp ‘Bramble’ icon
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> Bramble is on the march again,
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> Rolling and arching along the hedges,
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Picture it! The human world tied up, people pushed out. Bramble barging through, conquering cities, streets, houses. Bramble is on the march again. It is decisively not fact-speak. It is imaginative – myth-speak, perhaps?
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You could also study ‘Weasel,’ who ‘acts on land like spark on tinder – / Scorches grass, turns fields to pyre, sand to glass, tree to cinder.’ Or there is willow, the wise one, who will never, can never, share willow-wisdom with us: ‘ou will never know a word of willow – for we are willow and you are not.’
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You could also study ‘Weasel,’ who ‘acts on land like spark on tinder – / Scorches grass, turns fields to pyre, sand to glass, tree to cinder.’ Or there is willow, the wise one, who will never, can never, share willow-wisdom with us: ‘you will never know a word of willow – for we are willow and you are not.’
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My thoughts are not quite there yet, but I sense there’s something here. We’re not just being given a scientific account of bramble, weasel, willow. We’re being given more than that – a mythic account, peeling back ordinary reality to find something more precious behind. Can this refocus our eyes on what really matters? Can this transcend eco-anxiety? Can this ground hope instead of despair?
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Therefore, my project amounts to an attempt to explain (at least) one way in which the Apocalypse might have once grounded hope instead of despair, and then to explore how green stories can do something similar today.
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I’ll be handing this in on the 5th of August. Wish me luck!
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