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Welcome to my blog website! I am ReedyBear. My developer projects are under my brand name Taeluf (formerly Jakar). I have a public life under my real name, p...
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Steam supports feed readers! (RSS)
18 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I've been advocating for RSS (and you should too!), and was ready to send Steam support a message asking them to add RSS to their website. But low-and-behold they already have it! If you visit the Trackmania News page, there's a 'Links' dropdown, where you can select 'RSS'. Then you can 'Share' that page with your feed reader app (or copy+paste...

I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
17 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I've been using Feeder to keep up with the news for awhile now. For a long time, I just checked AllSides. But then I found out NPR in my state supports RSS, my local news org supports RSS, and YouTube even supports RSS! One outlet I really like is GovTrack.us, and they did not support RSS - so I emailed them about it, and they added support....

BearBlog Question Challenge
17 Jan 2025 | original ↗

Seen this a couple other places, and this is the latest one I saw 1. Why did you make the blog in the first place?To get thoughts out of my head, to archive things, and maybe a little bit because I haven't had a therapist since April last year. 2. Why did you choose Bearblog?I don't remember how I found it - I think I was perusing random links on...

Letter to my reps about forced arbitration
16 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I sent the following to my State Senator and my State Representative in the House. I play Rocket League, an Epic Games video game. Before playing tonight, Epic required me to agree to new terms and conditions that included forced arbitration, meaning I'm not allowed to sue them, not allowed to use our justice system if they wrong me. I'm...

Epic games forcing arbitration
16 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I tried to play Rocket League tonight, and there was a lovely Terms & Conditions update. I couldn't launch without agreeing. I can't sue Epic Games now. I am required to use arbitration. And I couldn't play the game without agreeing. Now, I haven't spent any money on Rocket League, so I can hardly die on the hill of having bought it, therefore...

I got my news fix tonight!
16 Jan 2025 | original ↗

I haven't been keeping up on the news much the last few weeks. I didn't have the mental energy, really, and I just didn't FEEL like it. I've still watched some yappies on youtube, and watched tech news but ... today, I took about an hour to read all the new stories on GovTrack.us (they recently added RSS support at my request! :D), and I checked...

hi hello
15 Jan 2025 | original ↗

have a great day!

What's the point of getting better at chess?
15 Jan 2025 | original ↗

What's the point of anything? Quality of life & survival. We could fuss about whether those really matter at all, but they matter to me. They're the baseline of purpose (for me). And I care about quality of life & survival for myself, for my loved ones, for my neighbors, for strangers, for my cats, and to some extent - for other life that is...

groceries
14 Jan 2025 | original ↗

it is too easy to eat unhealthy. There are so many prepared-foods, frozen dinners, boxed sides, etc. And pretty much all of them are stuffed to the brim with salt, many with sugar too. If you want less salt, you usually spend more on fancier brands. I love the convenience of these foods, and they've been incredibly important for me throughout...

drive (aka motivation)
13 Jan 2025 | original ↗

"motivation" is a dirty word. Am I "motivated"? What does that even mean? It's something I've long struggled with, and it's this foggy grey area, as many things are when depressed or anxious. It's the same thing, but lately I've been thinking about "What drives me?" For me, it has cleared up the foggy cloud of motivation, and the internal...

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