finding RSS feeds

[ this post is for people who already know what RSS feeds are, and are actively using them. ]

curiously, even in this state of the degraded web, you can find RSS feeds for basically every open platform (that doesn't have a log-in wall like twitter does now) - it just takes some digging sometimes. but how to find them ... is the question sometimes. i've written down some methods below when RSS feeds aren't immediately obvious, in case it helps some of you.

* view-source (any browser) - in every major browser, there's an option to view the source code of any web-page. Navigate to that page where you see a bunch of HTML of the page you wish to gank a feed from. Now CTRL+F ("find"), and search for "RSS". 95% of the time, the page will highlight a bunch of code. let's use my log.kradeelav.com page as an example; when I do the above, it highlights the below line:

Feed" href="https://log.kradeelav.com/feed" />

you want to copy + paste the bolded/underlined text above into your RSS reader. voila! it should populate now. note that sometimes if you can't find a feed by ctrl+f'ing "RSS" sometimes you can get it by searching "feed", but it's much less promising.

* openrss: great for generating rss feeds for bsky/fediverse. while bluesky and the fediverse technically has native RSS implementation, it doesn't show image attachments. i follow people for the art, so i need the images to pop up in the reader otherwise i'm not gonna click through. (note: openrss may have issue with baraag's images / hard kink images, i haven't tested that extensively.)

* rsshub: great for generating feeds to most social media (especially CN-language accounts) - just scroll the extensive list on the left. i use this one mainly for pixiv, cara, and weibo, though sometimes there's 10% of accounts it just plain refuses to generate stuff for randomly. (I have a feeling those are the accounts that have explicitly turned off a setting on their page to discourage bots).

the biggest two "holes" of mine are instagram and twitter; twitter front-ends like nitter (rip) used to work a year or so ago but those clones get shut down too quickly to really be reliable.

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BERGAN WAS POSSESSED TOO??????????????????????????

skjsjsjhahahhahjhzjh WHY DO I HAVE SUCH AN ODDLY SPECIFIC TYPE OF HOT PSYCHO POSSESSED OLD KNIGHTS I am wheezing

anyway last proper loveblog was all the way back in the ...... henne mines?? damn.

* i find it hilarious that i was able to drop numerous mini/(bosses) with literal one-hit-concurrence-knockouts but the one enemy by far i've had the most difficulty was the fuckING NINJA AMBUSH JELLIES in those mines yeesh

* penelo going 'but the nethcite was my good luck charm, i'm not afraid of it ^_^' literally seconds after the viera getting unposessed was. something. i'm in awe, girl. i want your vibes. ALSO HER SQUEE WITH AL-CID KISSING ASHE'S HAND? adorable

* ALSO HOLY FUCK THAT CUTSCENE. you know the one, where vayne ascends to power and there's the whole coup with him and bergan and the other judges... that was so much fun to watch.

* i'm not gonna 100% the game but i'm having fun at least attempting a vast majority of hunts + espers along with the main game itself to stretch it out just a bit longer since it's so.... satisfying to play, especially after a rough day at work. flattened the gil snapper hunt just yesterday after grinding a little in the zenthin(?) caves - and i kind of love the point when you can tell you're ever so slightly underleved walking into an area and then steadily getting overleveled the more you grind/cheese through it. oddly fun.

* the fight with bergan was too shortttttt uuuu_uu. i did love how the game hella psyched him up in the desperate race back up to the mountain though.

* on the way to the labratory but gonna wrap up a few hunts in the meantime :D

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god there is nothing like that feeling like of dragging yourself out of a... a funk of sorts? (not depression, not even a smaller brain recession, just one of those multi week funks where your brain's on a slower gear and Don't Wanna. It Just Don't Wanna. closest i can think of is pre-burnout where you just need to be a Blob.)  but the last two days has been awesome :D :D 

* tore halfway through my 'send letters to family n' penpals' stack that has been languishing on my desk since uh.... january (oops) (it's so weird! letters are like my one executive dysfunction ""Thing"" that slips, it has always been like that since high school even when i do truly love both sending and receiving em.

* doing some easier and much faster dayjob projects / closed out some Big High Pressure Shit

* hardcore nagged at the rendering company that was months overdue on a personal project AND THEY GAVE ME MY 3D FILE I PAID FOR FINALLY 8DDD

* tore through a good chunk of ff12 + some other comments that had been on my to-do list

* FINALLY got the drawing mojo back tonight, hoping to get a bunch of wip pieces queue'd up this weekend since i have the place to myself mostly

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