aka Chamise

(...and you don't want to join 20 new websites)

First, get an RSS reader*:

Desktop: Feedbro (browser extension), QuiteRSS, Raven Reader

Android: Feeder

iOS/Mac: NetNewsWire

You'll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its "feed URL"-- often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓-- and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.

Some feed URLs for social media:

Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using "Download a user's friends list" on Tweetbeaver)

Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog's "my art" tag (as an example)

Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)

Mastodon: Use instance.url/@­username.rss

Deviantart: Info here

Spacehey: Info here

Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="

Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn't have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it's not so simple to generate a feed URL.

Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.

(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere...)

Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don't have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).

Give us fat actors.

Give us super fat actors and no weight loss storylines.

Out of the Woods and Into Sanctuary: Meet Bonnie

Farm Sanctuary’s newest resident, Bonnie cow, is finally “out of the woods” after being on the run for nearly a year. Before coming to Farm Sanctuary, this inspiring survivor escaped slaughter and fled to the forest, finding refuge among a group of deer who became her second family. Thanks to additional support from a compassionate neighbor, Bonnie beat the odds and made her way to our New York Shelter. Here, our resilient new friend will spend her life in peace, surrounded by caring humans and a loving herd of her fellow rescued cattle.

Just like dogs, cats, and other companion animals, farm animals deserve lives free from harm. Last year, Bonnie embarked on an inspiring journey proving the lengths they will go to achieve just that. Born on a farm in Holland, NY, where cattle were raised for beef, Bonnie spent her early months surrounded by a loving herd of family and friends. But last August, when her “owner” passed away, his family decided to sell the herd. Bonnie was just four months old at the time — still very young and reliant on her mother, yet old enough to know that something terrible was happening. She watched in fear as her loved ones bellowed and tried resisting the farmers’ attempts to move them. As the farmers loaded the trailer, Bonnie seized the first opportunity she had and ran away into the nearby woods.

“I’m tired of being shamed for having natural body hair.

“When I was twelve years old, I realised having body hair as a woman was ‘wrong’. I spent the next seven years meticulously making my body ‘right’.

"I now rarely shave a lot of my natural body hair, because I don’t want to. It helps me to feel like my body is mine, and I feel beautiful this way. Yet I am constantly told that I shouldn’t.

"Through pressure from the media and through everyday interaction, I am constantly, consistently, subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) told I must adhere to a sexist beauty standard which deems the natural state of the adult woman’s body unacceptable, even disgusting. Society is saturated with images and messages that tell me I should be ashamed of my choices, that tell me I do not have a choice at all but an obligation to meet these particular standards of attractiveness by removing my body hair. I am tired of feeling obligated. I am tired of succumbing to feelings of shame. I am tired of people treating my legs as a hilariously radical feminist statement. I am tired of this being a big deal.

"My choices about my body, as a woman and as a human being, should be the concern of nobody else but me.”