I subscribe to the Miami Herald, and they offer their stories via RSS, which I really appreciate.

Unfortunately, they also include "from our partners" posts, mostly sports betting and casinos. They also seem to have a large number of "lottery winner" stories, and "strange creature" stories.

I wish NetNewsWire offered a filter setting that allowed me to hide posts that contained certain keywords or phrases. It's pretty quick to just arrow down through the feed, but it just makes the experience of browsing the news less pleasant. Not that what remains is very "pleasant." They also cover a lot of out of state murders, "cold cases," child and adolescent deaths by accident. None of these things I regard as "news" for me.

Similarly, there are some very high-attention earning bloggers I get tired of reading. So I unsubscribe or unfollow, but because they're such high attention-earners, other people I follow may quote them. In the quotations, I see the same tired rhetoric I saw that caused me to unfollow them. Not to be all mysterious, it's John Gruber.

I wish I could filter any post that contained "Gruber."

It's not that I can't stand him, or hate his writing or anything. I'm just so very tired of it.

It's to the point where I can anticipate pretty much anything he's going to write on any given topic, and it never adds anything to my understanding of a particular issue. I know what his point of view is, it never varies, there's little to "surprise and delight" me. I wonder if he feels somehow trapped by his audience and his need to maintain his readership in order to attract sponsors.

In any event, I unfollowed and unsubscribed, and his writing still pops up in my feeds.

Rob, if you're looking for a feature to add to Stream...

(And I just noticed your screenshots. Oy!)

The cool thing about the marmot is that if you unsubscribe or unfollow, you're pretty much guaranteed to be untroubled by its existence.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 07:27 Saturday, 16 December 2023