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My timeline would be so much healthier if Twitter put me in charge of who shows up in it.

After Google killed Reader I was forced to follow all the people who used to blog to keep up with their professional work. But especially in the last 3 years Twitter feeds have all come with a large side order of political hot takes that I have zero interest in sitting through.

To counteract this I have an extensive word blocklist and turn off retweets on many people so my Twitter can remain about the work of interesting people in my industry and not just an open sewer of politics.

Twitters insistence to show me posts that people I follow liked or engaged highly with bypasses all this.

[rado]

Same here. Recently discovered the RSS reader Cappuccino (thanks HN) and so far it seems to fix the problem. It even syncs unread posts between Mac and iPad.