Welcome to Ponder.cat RSS!

Hey, all. So I think what I'm going to do with the RSS feeds is migrate them to ibbit.at. I'll set up new communities, migrate existing stuff that's being posted off-instance to be posted by a new bot from there, and send out DMs so that people who are subscribed to stuff on rss.ponder.cat can transfer to new subscriptions on that new instance. It should be pretty smooth.

Probably I'll do it this weekend. I'm actually not sure why ponder.cat is still even operational, I think I've passed the deadline the registrar gave me at this point. But, I can do the migration even if they shut me off, it should work fine with minimal disruption. Hopefully.

So it turns out .cat is only for Catalonia. I didn't know this, just thought it was a neat hostname. So... they finally caught me not being Catalan, and they're taking my domain away.

It's sad. I'm not really sure what I plan to do, but in about a week, rss.ponder.cat will be no more. Sorry gamers. No promises but one possibility would be to set up a replacement instance, and just send everyone a DM with links to be able to get their subscriptions via the new instance instead.

People are going to complain at me about having to block the new bots, too. Hooray! Well, life goes on.

https://jacobin.com/rss

Thanks!

Can you unblock the instance (lemmy.myserv.one) so I can subscribe to this from my main account?

Hi, I ask that a bot for https://xkcd.com/rss.xml be set up (in a dedicated community) so that I can stop manually posting from there.

Thanks in advance.

Channel for selected streams of the Rachel Maddow show. They don't put everything from the show up here, but what does get put up, is excellent.

!rachel_maddow@rss.ponder.cat

Enjoy.

keyosc is the replacement forum for WATMM (We Are The Music Makers). Could we get these pulled in, please? Community name would just be keyosc

Also it would be really cool if a prefix could be added to the title of each post signifying the source RSS feed, like [Aphex Twin] or [Squarepusher], or a link to the source RSS feed in the body text of the post so you know where it came from.

Also if the sidebar could say something like "crosspost to !idm@lemm.ee "

If you could make me a moderator I can add the RSS feeds myself. I just think it's appropriate for the community to be on this instance.

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/7-new-upcoming-releases.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/9-live-music.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/17-so-many-machines.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/18-post-your-music.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/13-autechre.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/11-aphex-twin.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/20-aleksi-per%C3%A4l%C3%A4.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/12-boards-of-canada.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/14-squarepusher.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/29-%C2%B5-ziq.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/32-venetian-snares.xml/

https://forum.keyosc.com/forum/36-in-the-mix.xml/

Substacks by left-leaning writers, with a bias for people who talk about concrete actions, protests upcoming, and in general more than just "here are more upsetting things for us to talk about while we wait for the end."

!lefty_stacks@rss.ponder.cat

Feedback is welcomed as are suggestions for new ones to add to it. I do want to keep it a little bit focused on ones that are action-oriented, not just any and all of the thousands of left-leaning writers churning out stuff, but if you want to talk about adding somebody, LMK and we can talk.

General news about Ukraine and the war.

!kyivindependent@rss.ponder.cat

Enjoy!

Hi all. The Globalnews.ca feed is so festooned with spam articles that it's a constant struggle keeping the posts out of the main feed.

I really don't want to have bots that simply spam obnoxious stories into people's Lemmy front pages. There's a global blacklist for keywords like "daily deal" or "shop our", but then I had to add a whole separate blacklist for Globalnews. Currently it is (Amazon|Prime|gifts|deals|brands|with these|skincare) and it's constantly growing as people find new types of headline that aren't covered by it, and report them.

Is this worth it? Should I just remove Globalnews if they can't be a good citizen? I'm not subscribed, so it doesn't impact me at all, but like I say, I don't want to be spamming anyone else even if it's not an issue for me. Let me know your thoughts if you have any.

!globalnews@rss.ponder.cat is the community in question.

There's now a feed for Al Jazeera. It's an excellent source of news that is factual, vivid and coming from a Global South perspective. Highly recommended.

!aljazeera@rss.ponder.cat

Hi!

Would it be possible to add

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rss/search/1xePBFBNvSIhgdpjj8g-0nszUbxcwlDLTO--SZXWRvpgBezs5Z/?limit=15&fc=20250128071610

to !ketogenic@dubvee.org

I'm especially interested in getting the abstract into the post.

I usually stay away from putting up all those byzantine different options for big news outlets, but The Guardian is an especially good source of US news, and so:

!theguardian_us@rss.ponder.cat

Check it out. Hope you enjoy.

Feed of any new worldwide curiosities, as they get added to the atlas:

!atlasobscura@rss.ponder.cat

Enjoy.

!bbc_us@rss.ponder.cat

BBC's feed of stories specifically for stories about the US and Canada.

Usually I stay away from offering the myriad of categories of feed for major news sources, to avoid duplication and chaos, but this one seems important.

Would it be possible to add one for TorrentFreak's news Feed? They're a free news source and have full RSS feeds.

Do people want me to filter out Youtube Shorts results? Some of the Youtube channels that are in these streaming communities post shorts sometimes, but I don't find them useful. I think they're just there to feed the algorithm to promote the main channel content.

I'll probably start filtering these, unless there is some kind of objection from people who really like Youtube Shorts to show up in their Lemmy feed.

Would it be possible to add a free for The Guardian? In the current political climate we need independent journalism and they recent quit Twitter, so it is time to drag them over to the Fediverse. Thanks.

Now that everyone's cancelling their WaPo and Amazon Prime subscriptions, it's a great time to subscribe to some better news sources.

Everyone needs to pay the bills. If places that tell the truth about what's going on keep starving for money, they're going to die, and that's bad. We'll have CNN and Sean Hannity and Amazon Prime News Brought to You By Jeff Bezos, and that'll be it.

If you do decide to do this, may I offer these Lemmy communities as easy ways you can keep subscribed to the new stuff that comes out of these once you're subscribed, and comment on them. It also doesn't have to be hard-paywall sources. A lot of places without paywalls still offer ways to donate and keep them alive, and I don't think they should get punished for doing that.

This is what I did today. I was going to subscribe to Foreign Policy and The Atlantic, but I balked at The Atlantic's yearlong sub. I just did FP, and I will probably subscribe to one other one at some point. Probably either MIT Technology Review or Mother Jones.

Here's a good list of stuff that I offer as Lemmy feeds. The sticky post has a more complete list, but some of the really good ones are:

Politics and News

• The Atlantic - !theatlantic@rss.ponder.cat
• ProPublica - !propublica@rss.ponder.cat
• Mother Jones - !motherjones@rss.ponder.cat
• Foreign Policy - !foreignpolicy@rss.ponder.cat (focus on in-depth policy issues)
• The Marshall Project - !themarshallproject@rss.ponder.cat (focus on criminal justice and police reform)

Tech News

• MIT Technology Review - !technologyreview@rss.ponder.cat
• Ars Technica - All Content - !arstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat
• 404 Media - !404media@rss.ponder.cat

Environment and Climate

• Mongabay - !mongabay@rss.ponder.cat (great stuff)
• E&E News - !eenews@rss.ponder.cat (policy and enviro-politics focus)
• Inside Climate News - !insideclimatenews@rss.ponder.cat
• Grist - !grist@rss.ponder.cat (great)
• Nature - !nature@rss.ponder.cat

Enjoy. Also! Make sure that you keep leaving those comments that just say, "Paywall," under the posts in communities which are all paywalled stories, posted by a bot called "paywall." That really helps me out when you do that, so keep doing it please.

In 1976, author and historian James Weinstein, along with a handful of journalists, moved to Chicago to launch an independent publication to inform and critically analyze the emerging new movements on the American Left. They called the publication In These Times.

They modeled their new publication on Appeal to Reason, a socialist newspaper from the turn of the century that once reached more than half a million subscribers. From the beginning, In These Times relied on the financial support of its readers, and the list of founding sponsors included Julian Bond, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Daniel Ellsberg and Michael Harrington.

In These Times carved out a unique space on the Left, bridging coverage of social movements with progressive electoral politics while publishing groundbreaking investigations that challenge the growing influence of corporations over government and our daily lives.

That legacy continues on to this day. Our journalism amplifies the ideas, strategies and tactics emerging from grassroots organizing and labor efforts across the country, providing the public attention and intellectual fuel that progressives need to leverage, build and wield power.

!inthesetimes@rss.ponder.cat

Hi Philip,

Would you consider adding a DNYUZ news feed? https://dnyuz.com/feed/

I'd try using the bot to create it, but it hasn't worked in the past

I created a community for a great humor RSS feed called Bits and Pieces. I then sent a message, from Mastodon, to @bot@rss.ponder.cat, and I added the following to the message as the only line in the message:

/add https://www.bitsandpieces.us/feed/ bits_and_pieces@rss.ponder.cat

But there was no response. Did I do it correctly?

Professor Richard L. Hasen is an internationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, writing as well in the areas of legislation and statutory interpretation, remedies, and torts. He is co-author of leading casebooks in election law and remedies. Hasen served in 2020 as a CNN Election Law Analyst. He directs UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project.

This is his blog, along with a big panel of contributors and reposts from various news sources on topics of democracy and law.

!electionlawblog@rss.ponder.cat