TIL You can embed YouTube videos in Micro.blog. Here are the steps:

  1. Install the YouTube Embed Shortcut Plugin.
  2. From the YouTube video you want to embed, find the ID from the url of the YouTube page, NOT from the Share link (this caused me 30 minutes of frustration this morning).
  3. Create the embed code within curly brackets: yt "YOUTUBE_SHORTCODE"

The full embedded video will show up on your blog, but appear as a link on the Micro.blog timeline.

So let’s get the day started with a set of roots and dancehall reggae with Last of the Lions: