diff --git a/appview/state/router.go b/appview/state/router.go
--- a/appview/state/router.go
+++ b/appview/state/router.go
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ "tangled.org/core/appview/spindles"
 	"tangled.org/core/appview/state/userutil"
 	avstrings "tangled.org/core/appview/strings"
 	avtimeline "tangled.org/core/appview/timeline"
+	"tangled.org/core/blog"
 	"tangled.org/core/log"
 )
 
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ r := chi.NewRouter()
 
 	r.Handle("/static/*", s.pages.Static())
 
-	tl := avtimeline.New(s.oauth, s.db, s.config, s.pages, s.logger, "blog/posts")
+	tl := avtimeline.New(s.oauth, s.db, s.config, s.pages, s.logger, blog.PostsFS)
 	r.Get("/", tl.HomeOrTimeline)
 	r.Get("/home", tl.Home)
 	r.Get("/timeline", tl.Timeline)
diff --git a/appview/timeline/router.go b/appview/timeline/router.go
--- a/appview/timeline/router.go
+++ b/appview/timeline/router.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ "bytes"
 	"io/fs"
 	"log/slog"
 	"net/http"
-	"os"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -40,7 +39,7 @@ db *db.DB,
 	config *config.Config,
 	pages *pages.Pages,
 	logger *slog.Logger,
-	postsDir string,
+	postsFS fs.FS,
 ) *Timeline {
 	t := &Timeline{
 		oauth:  oauth,
@@ -49,7 +48,7 @@ config: config,
 		pages:  pages,
 		logger: logger,
 	}
-	t.recentPosts = loadRecentPosts(postsDir, logger)
+	t.recentPosts = loadRecentPosts(postsFS, logger)
 	return t
 }
 
@@ -61,11 +60,10 @@ r.Get("/timeline", t.Timeline)
 	return r
 }
 
-func loadRecentPosts(postsDir string, logger *slog.Logger) []pages.BlogPost {
-	fsys := os.DirFS(postsDir)
-	entries, err := fs.ReadDir(fsys, ".")
+func loadRecentPosts(postsFS fs.FS, logger *slog.Logger) []pages.BlogPost {
+	entries, err := fs.ReadDir(postsFS, "posts")
 	if err != nil {
-		logger.Warn("failed to read blog posts dir", "dir", postsDir, "err", err)
+		logger.Warn("failed to read blog posts", "err", err)
 		return nil
 	}
 
@@ -74,7 +72,7 @@ for _, entry := range entries {
 		if entry.IsDir() || !strings.HasSuffix(entry.Name(), ".md") {
 			continue
 		}
-		data, err := fs.ReadFile(fsys, entry.Name())
+		data, err := fs.ReadFile(postsFS, "posts/"+entry.Name())
 		if err != nil {
 			continue
 		}
diff --git a/blog/blog.go b/blog/blog.go
--- a/blog/blog.go
+++ b/blog/blog.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"cmp"
+	"embed"
 	"html/template"
 	"io"
 	"io/fs"
@@ -18,6 +19,9 @@ "tangled.org/core/appview/pages"
 	"tangled.org/core/appview/pages/markup"
 	textension "tangled.org/core/appview/pages/markup/extension"
 )
+
+//go:embed posts
+var PostsFS embed.FS
 
 type Author struct {
 	Name   string `yaml:"name"`