![]() ![]() These feeds - plus the ones I'm not including in this sampler - are how I get around three-quarters of my online news. (The last part of the OPML file includes my current preferences for RSSOwlNix, such as fonts and standard feed-refresh times, and that I prefer to run a "clean-up" of the database once a month.) Oh, and a trio of RSS feeds for some YouTube channels, mostly to show how you can do that for your own preferred channels. ![]() Mostly sorted out, I've got a pile of political comics and newspaper editorials furry comics gaming comics newspaper strips science-fiction comics and a smattering of random ones.Īfter that I've got feeds from a variety of authours (from published professionals to silly homebrew worlds), some furry blogs, feeds specific to my local area, politically-focused blogs and newspapers, a wide selection from the LessWrong/Rationality community, feeds about particular pieces of software, and a final half-dozen I haven't sorted anywhere in particular. (Though you probably want to be a bit wary of those subreddits, which are imperfectly moderated at best, so you have to watch out for propaganda and outright falsehoods.)įollowing all that seriousness are the webcomics. If you subscribe to nothing but the above two sets, you'll be better informed about current events than a disappointing proportion of the general population. And lastly for this set, my newest collection of feeds: submissions to a half-dozen COVID-19 subreddits. This section has two subgroups for Canada's health agencies, reporting product recalls, food safety, and other things. Next up is what I've been calling 'Emergencies', which for some time I've been treating as 'the actual international news' - plane crashes, earthquakes, floods, and all the other things that you'd expect to be covered in newspapers and the six o'clock news, but so rarely actually are. (Pluralistic is new, but it's run by Cory Doctorow, who's been part of Boing Boing for years.) Following them are two feeds from KnowYourMeme, which helps me keep track of whatever new in-jokes the young'uns keep coming up with and sending through the intertubes. The first half-dozen feeds are my general online news, mostly feeds that I've been subscribed to for years: Boing Boing, Slashdot, Metafilter,, and the top-voted items of Hacker News. I won't list all the feed URLs here - that's what the OPML file is for :) - but here's a summary of what's what: RSSOwlnix is a very useful program, but even it can start to chug a bit with how many feeds I've occasionally managed to fill it with.) (I've tried subscribing to several thousand feeds over the years, trying out things like grabbing feeds from every newspaper, TV station, or other mass media outlet I could find or focusing in on specific topics from Fortran to the First Nations but dropped most of the ones I found myself not paying attention to. I admit 418 seems like a lot, but 114 of them can be ignored and deleted by anyone not in Canada, another 121 are webcomics, and at least 46 are connected to the LessWrong online diaspora, leaving only 137 of general interest. (If you do subscribe to the whole bunch, I suggest letting your reader populate your copies of the feeds, and then mark the whole thing as read so that you can pay attention to only the new posts as they come in.) You should be able to simply import the whole thing in one gulp into RSSOwlnix, if you're trying that program out if you're using some other feed reader, the OPML file is plaintext, and if that reader can't import it, it should be easy enough to figure out the folders, feed names, and feed URLs. I've taken my full list of feeds in RSSOwlnix ( ), trimmed out any that are particularly personal or that I can think of some other reason not to post, and stuffed the resulting list at, for anyone to download and make use of. On April 9th, I blogged at : Four Hundred Eighteen RSS feeds
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