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Hot Links

Hot Links, a bloggy alternative to X and others. More info at the bottom of the page.

Also on: Bsky.

  • Karen Bass is out. Nithya Raman will be LA’s mayor

    The Democratic socialist unseated incumbent Karen Bass after campaigning on housing affordability, renter protections, homelessness, and increasing police oversight.

    Source: Karen Bass is out. Nithya Raman will be LA’s mayor

  • The Oregon Trail

    The original DOS game, online: https://oregontrail.ws/

  • JACL Statement on Raid of Rep. Omar’s Home – Rafu Shimpo

    WASHINGTON — The Japanese American Citizens League issued the following statement on Oct. 13: “JACL stands with Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and her family after federal agents searched her D.C. home early on Oct. 12. “Rep. Omar has been a steadfast partner and advocate for immigrants, refugees, and the protection of civil rights and […]

    Source: JACL Statement on Raid of Rep. Omar’s Home – Rafu Shimpo

  • Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy hospitalized with a stroke : NPR

    Murphy’s office says he was taken to the hospital this weekend after experiencing numbness in his arm. His chief of staff said he is responding well to treatment and expected to make a full recovery.

    Source: Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy hospitalized with a stroke : NPR

  • Internal DHS Database of 40k Employees Published

    A 501(c)(3) dedicated to archiving and publishing hacked and leaked data.

    Source: Home – Distributed Denial of Secrets

More About Hot Links

RSS feed URL: http://riceball.com/category/hot-links/feed

This is a WordPress centered way to create a category of posts to create a microblogging/tweeting area on any regular WP site.

  1. Create a Category named “Hot Links”.
  2. Make a Page called “Hot Links”, and in it, put a Query Loop block, and have it filter for the Hot Links category. Adjust the layout to show the entire content of the post, and the Featured Image, and Title (and maybe Author). Remove the Excerpt. Add a header note, and a footer note (like this one).
  3. Install the Press This plugin. This helps with sharing a web pages link to your site. It’s located in the Admin Dashboard under Tools -> Available Tools. This is already installed on WordPress.com free sites.
  4. (Optional) Install the Pretty RSS Feeds plugin to get the human-readable layout for RSS feed URLs.
  5. Add a link to the Hot Links page from another page on your site, for SEO.
  6. Add links out from the Hot Links page to social media or other sites.
  7. Develop a routine to use Press This to share the link, and then repost to your social media. (You can share the original link.)

Why bother?

Why bother to post on your own blog? Because social media deprioritizes/shadow-bans some news posts. They don’t get sent to followers. You get a smaller group of non-subscribers in your views and liks.

Combined with aggregator pages, RSS feeds and microblogging can rebuild networks of link sharing that were taken over by “social media” in the mid 2000s.