FeaturesPrivacyTermsCredits

Pasteblog — paste a link, photo or thought and become a blog at yourname.pasteblog.com

pasteblog
Paste. Become a blog.

Any link, image, or text you paste becomes an entry in a blog that's yours to keep.

pasteblog
⌘V

The feed

Worth reading now

The most-followed public posts, and the latest ones.

@straits-times·19 July 2026

Russian strikes on Turkish cargo ship kill five: Kyiv

KYIV - Ukraine’s navy said on July 19 that Russian missile strikes on a Turkish-owned cargo ship carrying grain had killed five people on board, while another five crew members were missing. Russia launched three cruise

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

Putin meets North Korea’s foreign minister, hails war support

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 19 thanked North Korea for supporting Moscow’s war on Ukraine as he met visiting Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui. “I would like once again to express my gratitude for the

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

With security lines and star-studded spectacle, World Cup prepares for final showdown

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey, July 19 - And then there were two. After nearly six weeks of heroics and heartache, thrills and spills, heat, rain and rowing, New York New Jersey stadium was preparing on Sunday to host the

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

Rubio hails Lebanon for peace efforts after meeting president

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in Washington on July 19, praising the country for its “move towards peace” after the latest round of Lebanon-Israel talks. It was th

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

At least five dead and 21 injured after 2 earthquakes in Peru

LIMA July 19 - At least five people were killed and 21 injured after two earthquakes struck a mountainous region of Peru, the country's civil defense chief said on Sunday. The quakes, measuring magnitudes 5.1 and 3.7, hi

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

ICE officers to wear body cameras during vehicle stops, border czar says

July 19 - In the wake of multiple fatal shootings involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the agency will require its officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body camera, Trump administrat

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

Canada to temporarily bar entry for foreigners who have recently been to Congo, against UN advice

July 19 - The Canadian government said on Sunday it would deny entry to any foreigner who has been to Congo within the past 21 days as part of new, temporary border measures to combat the spread of Ebola. The ban contrav

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

Dozens missing after passenger ferry sinks off coast of Guyana

GEORGETOWN, July 19 - A ferry carrying 116 passengers sank off the coast of Guyana in South America late Saturday with 67 people, including 15 children, rescued so far, according to Guyana authorities. An air traffic con

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

Body of sports journalist found burnt in Italy

ROME – A man’s charred body found by firefighters in farmland in the southern Italian province of Salerno was identified as a local sports journalist, prosecutors said on July 19. Firefighters extinguishing a fire in a f

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

Earthquake of 5.1 magnitude kills five in Peru

LIMA – A 5.1-magnitude earthquake in the Andes region of Peru killed five people, officials said on July 19. The tremor on the night of July 18 injured another 21 people as it shook the town of Chongos Bajo about 300km e

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

7th PM in a decade: Is Andy Burnham and Labour’s survival tactic a cure for UK’s woes?

LONDON – Britain is getting its seventh prime minister in a decade with the 56-year-old Andrew Burnham walking through the historic black door of 10 Downing Street on July 20, after a brief audience with King Charles III

Read more
@straits-times·19 July 2026

Iran announces execution of two anti-government protesters

The two men, Erfan Esfandiari and Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi, were found guilty of “tying police officers to a road sign with ropes, injuring them with stones, dousing them with petrol, and setting them on fire” in the centr

Read more

Worth discovering

Featured blogs

Blogs kept by real people — follow a few to fill your feed.

straits-times
2511 posts
distill-pub
52 posts
webweekly
13 posts
the-economist-science
311 posts
oxsecurity
41 posts
darkdotweb
101 posts
piunikaweb
325 posts
abakcus
90 posts

Paste a link. Paste a photo. Paste a thought.
Each one becomes an entry on yourname.pasteblog.com.

““The attack constitutes an act of terrorism against peaceful navigation and a gross violation of international humanitarian law,” it added.”
Spotify
A song you love
A poem
“Stopping by woods on a snowy…”
A note
A thought to keep…
nytimes.com
The new shape of loneliness

What a paste becomes

““The attack constitutes an act of terrorism against peaceful navigation and a gross violation of international humanitarian law,” it added.”
Spotify
A song you love
A poem
“Stopping by woods on a snowy…”
A note
A thought to keep…
nytimes.com
The new shape of loneliness
An essay on digital solitude in a connected world…
A blog. Free. No ads.
  • A real address.yourname.pasteblog.com. Yours. Not a profile in someone else’s feed.
  • No login to start.Paste, see your blog. Sign in later to keep it.
  • Yours forever.Every entry is on IPFS. Even your future ones, scheduled for the day you choose.
  • Or your own domain.Connect yourdomain.com in one click. Visitors see your address - no Pasteblog branding, no chrome. Try it.
What can I paste?
Links, images, screenshots, paragraphs, YouTube and Vimeo URLs. Each is rendered as itself: a link card, a photo, a note, an embedded video.
Where does my blog live?
At yourname.pasteblog.com. A real address you can share - like a website, not a profile.
Do I need an account to start?
No. Paste and your blog exists. Sign in later to claim it and pick your name.
Who is it for?
People who want to publish fast without fighting a config screen. Personal notes, a journal, a light portfolio. Devs and writers who like Markdown and a quiet UI.
Is it free?
Yes. The whole thing.
Can I publish anonymously?
Yes. Paste and publish without an account - the blog exists at a shareable URL with no name attached. Sign in to claim it later only if you want to.
Is this a Substack alternative if I just want a blog, not a newsletter?
Yes. No email list, no subscribers to manage, no send button - just a blog at your own address. Readers can follow via RSS if they like, but nothing is pushed to inboxes.
How is it different from Medium?
No paywall, no metered reads, no algorithmic feed deciding who sees you. Your posts live on your own subdomain (or your own domain), not inside someone else’s platform.
A YouTube linkA photoA snippet of codeA tweetA paragraphA videoA Markdown fileAn HTML fileAn RSS feedA songA YouTube linkA photoA snippet of codeA tweetA paragraphA videoA Markdown fileAn HTML fileAn RSS feedA songA YouTube linkA photoA snippet of codeA tweetA paragraphA videoA Markdown fileAn HTML fileAn RSS feedA song
Anything from your clipboard

See it in action

Press
⌘+V
Becomes
→ live at /b/yourblog

Paste to publish

Press Cmd/Ctrl+V on the home page and your clipboard becomes a real blog post - with its own URL - in under a second. A photo, a screenshot, an article URL, a YouTube link, a paragraph of text: paste it, get a page. You can also drag-and-drop a file from your desktop. No uploader, no setup, no account between paste and a live URL.

No sign-up between paste and a live URL

URLs unfurl into rich preview cards automatically

Claim the blog with an account when you're ready

Everything you can drag, paste, or import

No pre-conversion, no export-import. Drop a file on the page, or paste its contents — each type is recognized and inserted in the right place, with the right rendering.

  • Images

    PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF — plus HEIC from iPhones (auto-converted on upload).

  • Videos

    MP4, WebM, MOV, MKV, AVI, OGG. Hosted for inline playback.

  • Audio

    MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A. Native HTML5 player embedded in the post.

  • Markdown & text

    .md, .markdown, .txt — converted to rich blocks on import.

  • HTML

    Drop a .html file: we host it as a sandboxed interactive embed.

  • Links

    YouTube, Vimeo, articles — paste the URL, we generate a preview.

drop · anything

drop a file here

PNG
JPEG
WebP
MP4
MOV
MP3
.md
.txt
.html

Migrate from your old blog in one paste

Paste your existing RSS or Atom feed URL and we pull every post in. Images are downloaded and rehosted — no broken hot-links the day your old platform goes offline. Slugs and dates are preserved.

WordPress, Ghost, Substack, Medium — anything that exposes a feed

Images mirrored on our servers so the migrated archive is self-contained

Original publish dates and slugs kept — your old links stay meaningful

import · rss
WordPress✓
Substack✓
Ghost✓
Medium✓
https://oldblog.com/feed.xml
42 posts · 87 imagesdone

Photos: paste, drop, done

Drop a photo from your desktop, paste a screenshot from your clipboard, or drag a file straight onto the page. The image appears inline, full-quality, with a resize handle. Type**bold**, ## headings, or any other Markdown shortcut and it converts as you type. No image-host setup, no upload-then-paste-the-URL dance.

Paste images straight from your clipboard with Cmd/Ctrl+V

Drag-and-drop a file from your desktop, anywhere on the page

Resize handles, sketches, and freehand drawing built in

Same affordance for videos and audio - drop it, embed it

Markdown shortcuts work too if that's how you write

Untitled
Drop image hereor paste with Cmd/Ctrl+V
javascript
async function paste() {
  const blog = await clipboard.read()
  return 'live in 1s'
}

Code blocks, real ones

Paste a snippet — the editor detects the language and syntax-highlights it. Drop a .py, .js, .html, .json file from your desktop and the same thing happens. No fenced-markdown gymnastics, no copy-paste-reformat dance.

Auto-detected language, manual override available

Light or dark theme, picked per block

Drop a code file → instant code block with the right lang

Bring your own domain

Already own yourdomain.com? Connect it in one click and your blog serves at your own address, fully white-label. No Pasteblog logo, no header, no footer, no sign-in prompt. Just your archive and your writing.

Apex (yourdomain.com) and subdomains (www, blog…) supported

SSL certificate auto-issued and renewed for you

Visitors never see Pasteblog, your domain, your brand

🔒 yourdomain.com
@you
12 public documents
White-label
click
reading…
34 readers spent more than 10s on this post

Likes that count, even silent ones

Readers can tap the heart, but they don't have to. A post that holds a reader for more than ten seconds gets credited automatically. The number of dwell-likes counts as a quieter signal alongside the explicit ones, so the page rewards reading, not just clicking.

One-click likes, anonymous or signed-in

Dwell-time auto-likes after ~10 seconds in view

Reader counter shows how many people lingered

Password-protected blogs

Keep a blog public but gated: set one password and only readers who know it get in. Enter it once and you stay unlocked.

One password for the whole blog, share it with whoever you trust

Index, posts and RSS all stay behind the gate

Readers enter it once, then stay unlocked on their device

This blog is password-protected
Enter the password to read this blog.
Unlock
View all features