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    <title>bloggery &amp;mdash; Yingtai is thinking</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Hello world</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[I&#39;m checking this platform out because it doesn&#39;t feel right to go back to my old blog, the University of Abject Submission.&#xA;&#xA;I still love the old thing. I made it to delight my eyes and it does just that. The tags and 404 page still make me smile. And I love my younger self who was just beginning to discover the kink community and wanted to share what she had learnt. &#xA;&#xA;But it&#39;s definitely dated now. The design doesn&#39;t matter so much, but the advice does. It&#39;s not wrong exactly, but it doesn&#39;t speak for me any more.&#xA;&#xA;For a long time it didn&#39;t matter, because I didn&#39;t have the spoons to blog. Posting on Mastodon was enough. But now I&#39;m starting to have new longform thoughts again!&#xA;&#xA;I thought about starting afresh at my old blog, but even the domain name feels wrong for some of the things I want to say now. And life is very different now that I&#39;m ten years older and have long covid. I don&#39;t want to keep updating WordPress plugins and fighting with photo captions every time I have an idea.&#xA;&#xA;So, a new blog. Just as an experiment, to start with.&#xA;&#xA;Let&#39;s see how this goes.&#xA;&#xA;#bloggery #TMI&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m checking this platform out because it doesn&#39;t feel right to go back to my old blog, the <a href="https://abjectsub.com" rel="nofollow">University of Abject Submission</a>.</p>

<p>I still love the old thing. I made it to delight my eyes and it does just that. The tags and 404 page still make me smile. And I love my younger self who was just beginning to discover the kink community and wanted to share what she had learnt.</p>

<p>But it&#39;s definitely dated now. The design doesn&#39;t matter so much, but the advice does. It&#39;s not wrong exactly, but it doesn&#39;t speak for me any more.</p>

<p>For a long time it didn&#39;t matter, because I didn&#39;t have the spoons to blog. <a href="https://zirk.us/@yingtai" rel="nofollow">Posting on Mastodon</a> was enough. But now I&#39;m starting to have new longform thoughts again!</p>

<p>I thought about starting afresh at my old blog, but even the domain name feels wrong for some of the things I want to say now. And life is very different now that I&#39;m ten years older and have long covid. I don&#39;t want to keep updating WordPress plugins and fighting with photo captions every time I have an idea.</p>

<p>So, a new blog. Just as an experiment, to start with.</p>

<p>Let&#39;s see how this goes.</p>

<p><a href="https://yingtai.writeas.com/tag:bloggery" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">bloggery</span></a> <a href="https://yingtai.writeas.com/tag:TMI" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">TMI</span></a></p>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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