Robert Kingett

I’m a blind and gay romance writer that loves fiction podcasts, audiobooks, cookies, and cats! I follow more hashtags than people. Because I take frequent social media breaks, the best way to reach me quickly is via my website or email rather than here.

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2026-04-04 22:00:05 UTC

Here, #KeePassXC explain how AI helps them with code review. Point 1 flat out doesn’t make sense to me and I think point 1 causes more headaches than they let on and point 2 just made me laugh https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/ #VibeCode #AI #LLM

2026-04-02 18:36:50 UTC

I met Kevin at a minority tech conference/hacker get together even though I am nowhere near a programmer or system administrator. But you can see a bit of Kevin here, I tried to SUDO Kevin to pamper me today but it didn't work. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/loading-cartridge-thepurrparadoxexe/ #Cat #Cats #Game #Nonfiction #Blog #Blogs #IndieWeb

2026-04-02 15:47:38 UTC

Took me 2 days to realize why nothing was taking my SSH keys on this new-ish laptop was because some edit fields inserted a carrige return after pasting for some reason. I give up my tech cred now. You all can have it! :) #SSH

2026-03-30 02:22:48 UTC

Ugh! So a few days ago my keyboard on my laptop, my trusty Lenovo I had for over 1six years, it’s finally malfunctioning in multiple ways, and I don’t think the hardware is easily replaceable so I’ve decided to try an upgraded version of that Linovo. I will include a link later but what’s your favorite debloat script? If you say Linux, I’m blocking you. I checked out some newer ones that obviously disabled things like location, things like that, and there’s even a few that actually disable all sounds, windows sounds. No thank you, I need location for things such as Aira but what’s your favorite Debloat script? I know about Tiny11 but it won’t detect the drivers for this laptop and making sure I export all the drivers for the right machine is more trouble than it’s worth. #Debloat #Windows #Microsoft

2026-03-29 23:06:59 UTC

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Wanted to say I added your RSS feed to my reader! But yeah, this is basically why I stick with podcasts anyway, plus, all of https://sightlessscribbles.com/evergreen/youtube-harm/ @nprofile…uxgk

2026-03-27 08:29:05 UTC

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@nprofile…fjwu More to come so I hope my feed gets added to your reader! Here is my follow page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you prefer audio, my podcast is https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized

2026-03-27 08:24:41 UTC

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@nprofile…04xh Hah! Yay! Thank you! More to come because my country hates poor folks and disabled folks using government assistance, so I hope my feed makes it to your reader! Here is my follow page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you prefer audio, my podcast is https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized

2026-03-26 23:05:42 UTC

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@nprofile…87fg @nprofile…rh4q More to come because the system loves fucking me over but thank you! I hope my feed makes it to your reader. Here is my follow page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you like listening more, my podcast is https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized

2026-03-26 21:57:10 UTC

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@nprofile…5jlc We should collectively flood their offices the next time they ask us for a review. I could not agree more! I really can’t stand the way the system punishes you for having/using these programs. And a truly ironic thing is, is that I just want to be left the fuck alone, regardless if I use these services or not. Why is it so difficult for others to just let me live my life and let tons of other disabled people live their lives even if they don’t contribute economically to the workforce. I hate this system of perceived value

2026-03-25 11:39:10 UTC

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@nprofile…a7nc It really upsets me because there’s tons of ways you can make email secure and able to handle sensitive documents

2026-03-25 09:37:51 UTC

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@nprofile…99ut Squeeee!

2026-03-25 01:51:40 UTC

New post: The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/

2026-03-23 12:50:29 UTC

I just boosted a question, but I have a slightly reworded question. Why is Linux and FOSS tripping over themselves to comply with Fascism surveillance capitalism instead of the international and national accessibility laws and accessibility guidelines and disability inclusion guidelines? Surely, one thing is better than the other, no? And it ain't Fascism surveillance capitalism that's the better option. #Linux

2026-03-22 22:23:10 UTC

I Tried @nprofile…5gk6 again and I did not get very far because I had a massive headache. I was impressed with the ease of use though. A real easy way to see what needs improvement for cognitive impairment, use your thing with a splitting headache. I do not have a chronic cognitive impairment, but I did have a massive headache today, and the OS did super great! It was remarkably easy to set up. I just did not know enough orca commands to get going. I know it will probably annoy the sighted folk but could you consider a very, very, very, basic but evergreen getting started text file on the desktop for orca? I would even write it for you! It can even be taken from existing creative commons guides. If it annoys sighted people to see that text file there every time they install a fresh copy, let them get over it and let them complain. #Linux @nprofile…swax

2026-03-21 08:55:03 UTC

As much as I hate the entire LLM/AI industry, and have nothing positive to say about any consumer AI company, there is something I deeply wish that AI critics would understand. There are thousands of real people out there that really, really, like consuming and even enjoying AI slop, and this includes generative fiction. I viscerally struggle with most mainstream AI/LLM critiques because even though the heart is in the right place, the execution makes me think, more times than not, this honestly should’ve just never been published. Or, this is the thing you could’ve privately talked about with your friends. That being said, videos like this one are highlighting areas of LLM consumption I rarely see talked about. The thousands of people that enjoy the slop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=nIr4RoYMKY1OYbvX&v=nDCQm7v3I88&feature=youtu.be #AI #LLM

2026-03-20 14:12:20 UTC

Oh Hello Ana - Overthinking: AI wasn't the first to break my heart https://ohhelloana.blog/overthinking-ai/ #AI #LLM

2026-03-19 19:54:43 UTC

Hey users of LLMs, I can tell you exactly why the newer models all seem to output code and etc. Worse than the old models, and I don't even have a subscription! The answer is because, the newer models were trained on your slop you dumped onto the internet. Pat yourselves on the back. #AI #LLM

2026-03-11 12:37:00 UTC

Link at end but Best Sensitivity Reading note to wake up to!
Thank you so much for your work here! Your note will definitely make this book better. Do you accept tips? Fantastic work on this picture book!
https://sightlessscribbles.com/reading/
#AmReading #Editing #Publishing

2026-03-10 23:22:00 UTC

Latest mailing list update, The Gospel of the Public Library podcast episode. https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/6a5f6c04/the-gospel-of-the-public-library #Blog #Blogs

2026-03-10 13:25:37 UTC

This weekend, a cat held me hostage. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/loading-cartridge-thepurrparadoxexe/ #Cat #Gaming #Zork

2026-03-10 10:23:05 UTC

Hey #Stripe experts, I would like to enable direct tipping via stripe, but last time they banned me for crowd funding. Does anyone know how I cam do this without having paywalls?

2026-03-09 18:30:30 UTC

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@nprofile…xm00 Indeed! Change can happen, indeed! I was just. So. So. So. Tired!

2026-03-08 20:39:14 UTC

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@nprofile…ygxn @nprofile…6jqn Right? They call us the obnoxious types, but in every instance I’ve seen, AI evangelist just can’t leave the non-AI user alone. If they say no thank you, I don’t want to use it, it doesn’t have any use for me, then there’s a litany of replies and so much more. I had a guy replied to me and he couldn’t just leave it alone. He had to come away from the conversation letting me know that I was wrong and thus becoming that guy at the bar. These folks are an insult to computer scientists and AI is an insult to actual machine learning and machine computation

2026-03-08 12:03:39 UTC

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@nprofile…8lh5 @nprofile…7r7v @nprofile…xult @nprofile…6jqn Yep. He announced it quite proudly in his announcement anniversary post. I can't find it at the moment, but https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-spiral

2026-03-08 11:19:41 UTC

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@nprofile…7r7v @nprofile…xult @nprofile…qqrn @nprofile…6jqn These pro LLM types always miss the larger point, don’t they?

2026-03-08 09:59:45 UTC

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@nprofile…4tew @nprofile…6jqn Yep! I had my own version of this https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-bookstore-hope/

2026-03-08 09:33:42 UTC

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@nprofile…qqrn @nprofile…6jqn Using an LLM to spell check is all sorts of cringe because there are better applications of machine learning but moreover how do you know they never use an LLM?

2026-03-08 01:44:26 UTC

You all should read this fantastic post by @nprofile…6jqn about how, largely, AI people just can't leave us the fuck alone. But I'm noticing more and more and more that they get super mad when they wanna shove their #AI creation at you and you simply say, no thanks. That's it. No extra bashing, just, no thanks, and they get super offended. https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar #AIHype #LLM

2026-03-03 23:45:05 UTC

I have #RClone and I love it like you could never imagine. I’m looking for reliable, hosted, cloud storage. I would like to replace things such as OneDrive with something better and that probably will not vanish over night. I tried Koofr but they have a lot of unlabeled buttons and empty links. I’m not using Proton because I find their accessibility care to be far worse. I have a hosted NextCloud server but it is remarkably slow. Any other hosted NextCloud providers that grant me #WebDav access? For NextCloud i’m currently using DisRoot

2026-03-02 01:25:04 UTC

For real, the best hackers are marginalized hackers. Yes I know not all of them code for accessibility and the like, but I spent the day with marginalized cyber punks and hackers and programmers. Even though I was the least knowledgeable in the room, I could feel the empathy there. I was also pleasantly surprised at how much I was able to contribute to the conversation even though I was the least knowledgeable in the room. I was also amazed at how much my reading and writing skills could apply to code and programming. You would be surprised, but my extensive understanding of literary technique and vast knowledge of cleverly crafting metaphores actually came in handy a lot more times than I initially thought. I thought I wasn’t going to say two words the whole time I was there.

2026-03-01 23:14:07 UTC

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@nprofile…m5ua @nprofile…4zr8 Ugh! Damnit, I do find this to be a useful text editor. Ugh. Were they racist or other hate? If so I will edit the original post since I do not want to promote hate

2026-03-01 13:39:53 UTC

Just had a sighted person tell me they often use clients and programs that were made for us, they don’t use screen readers, but they use clients like oh i don’t know a blind Mastodon client, SonarPad, as an example, because they said, the interface is 1000 times cleaner, there’s a lot of keyboard shortcuts, and I never have to put up with animation nonsense. You know software development has vastly sank in quality when sighted folk are using blind clients. #Programming #Software

2026-02-25 13:04:08 UTC

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This is honestly why I love the Fanfiction space! Sure some people generate slop there too but it's never promoted, you know? You'd think because it's free that people would promote the slop more but I've never seen *anyone* in the Fanfiction space willingly promote it. @nprofile…j5ep @nprofile…s7d6 @nprofile…esre

2026-02-25 10:33:59 UTC

Remember kids, Doctorow, the same person that uses LLMs to do spelling and grammar checks dedicated a whole chapter to Amazon in one of his books.
[[This chapter is dedicated to Amazon.com, the largest Internet
bookseller in the world. Amazon is *amazing* -- a "store" where you can
get practically any book ever published (along with practically
everything else, from laptops to cheese-graters), where they've
elevated recommendations to a high art, where they allow customers to
directly communicate with each other, where they are constantly
inventing new and better ways of connecting books with readers. Amazon
has always treated me like gold -- the founder, Jeff Bezos, even posted
a reader-review for my first novel! -- and I shop there like crazy
(looking at my spreadsheets, it appears that I buy something from
Amazon approximately every *six days*). Amazon's in the process of
reinventing what it means to be a bookstore in the twenty-first century
and I can't think of a better group of people to be facing down that
thorny set of problems.]]
Recommendations. High art. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'm honestly kinda glad I write Romance because none of these fuckwits, CEOs and stuff, will ever read my books, because Romance is for women only in their minds.

2026-02-25 06:06:15 UTC

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@nprofile…s7d6 @nprofile…j5ep @nprofile…esre Thank you! I have an offline friend, a Fantasy writer, that just gave up. Just stopped trying to improve her craft. She began to hate publishing what she made online because she began to get nonsense critiques that she was using an LLM, when she was not using an LLM at the time. If she wrote terrible work, she used an LLM. If she did fantastic work, she used and LLM. The criticism was eating her alive slowly, day after day. She looked online and saw other Fantasy writers using it. She kept getting rejection after rejection, the rejections were eating her alive, especially after reading annoying articles by the media that started reporting on creatives using LLMs like some hidden secret that the fierce anti crowd were to stupid to take advantage of. They were making money. She was not.
The worst kind of critique was no matter what kind of work she created, everybody thought she was using an LLM. She became very discouraged in her own writing. If you’ve ever read the colonization of confidence, it was like that, but unlike Leo, the more she used an LLM to generate her work after trying it, the more she quit caring about the repercussions. She rationalized it by saying,c look. My industry sucks. I need leverage. I know it’s temporary, but I hate having to try and fight so hard to make an industry care about me or my improving craft. I hate having to constantly struggle and getting nothing in return.
She started using LLMs for blurbs and cover letters and marketing copy. It was similar to what happened with Leo, Publishers started buying her generated stories. She stopped caring about improving.
She now generates her first drafts, then edits them vigorously. She is making far more money now but we are no longer friends. She exclaimed, why should I continue to fight honorably. The industry doesn’t care about me, the industry likes the LLM garbage. I hate not being able to eat! Nobody cares about funding indie artists, not our government, not millions of institutions that have a lot of money, not churches and other large institutions with billions upon billions of dollars. Writing residencies and writing grants are competitions. They’re never opportunities. She stopped fighting and now just wants to make money. The verbal fight and shouting match we had was very brutal and very sad. I don’t think I’m gonna write about it for a while, the wound is way too fresh but she completely changed and she has no remorse whatsoever.

2026-02-24 18:41:21 UTC

So, I'm trying to switch over to #LibreOffice and my em dashes are not showing up as em dashes. I type, dash dash dash, altogether, and it still does not transform into a proper em dash.
I tried to fix this with AutoCorrect, but even after I put the, * after it, it sill does not transform.
Any ideas on how to make the AutoCorrect work?
I'm also stunned at how much it crashes, Like, no really! Especially when I am editing AutoCorrect entries. It freezes and I am forced to close the program and then recover documents.
I've also had it crash several times when editing a document---a lengthy blog post.
Honestly? I hate Microsoft, but it's inhibiting behavior such as this that make me understand why people stick with Microsoft Word.
I'm not giving up on LO by any means. I will just never badger someone using MS Word again, especially since I've seen how buggy LO is.
On the bright side, LO is incredibly fast if I am just typing a messy first draft.

2026-02-24 18:26:18 UTC

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I was 2 seconds away from punching Detective Dipshit but I don't know any lawyers, LOL! I have to deal with these troglodytes constantly online, so to have one invade my offline sanctuary made me snap! @nprofile…j5ep @nprofile…esre

2026-02-24 10:26:22 UTC

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@nprofile…j5a9 The extra funny thing is that was a lot of guessing and bluffing! I do not use Linux but I know the very basic architecture, and I generally know how hardware tech works. I wanted the fucker to leave and a part of me thinks the reason why he invaded the store in the first place, was, he probably thought, oh yes! Here’s a store full of Black and brown people I can hoodwink simply because they don’t know as much about technology as I do! He probably thought he could use some tech words, get those minorities impressed, and then he has them eating out of the palm of his hand. It’s so disgusting

2026-02-24 10:11:01 UTC

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@nprofile…j5a9 Thank you! I snapped because I am bombarded by these people online and having one of them invade my offline sanctuary was just too much to take.

2026-02-22 21:24:19 UTC

New post: The Bookstore Battle https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-bookstore-battle/

2026-02-22 10:30:20 UTC

Get ready. Angry Sightless Scribbles post incoming. Yesterday a fucking Tech Bro just came into an independent bookstore, where everybody was happily reading, drinking hot chocolate or tea, and this dick hole just decided to come in to try to promote his stupid shitty AR but he called it an AI glasses where it would attempt to use AI to generate images of things you were reading, as if the imagination is a stupid thing that needs to be disrupted. I couldn’t take the shit. I have to deal with these morons everywhere in my online life, and I sure as shit did not want them in my offline life too but the fucker would not leave. I stood up, slammed my cane on the floor so that it made a very loud, crack! I began by saying, shut the fuck up. That’s when the technological beatdown happened. I can’t express how much I hate these people. He just saw a bookstore and decided to just invade our fucking sanctuary, and he really, really, hated it that a person he saw as a luddite, his version of a luddite anyway, knew the tech and new the operating system he was using better than he did. I can’t stand these fucking people. On the bright side, the bookstore owner said I could write in there for free anytime, any day, and I get free hot chocolate for life because that beatdown was golden. If I appear on TikTok, you know why.

2026-02-21 12:33:57 UTC

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@nprofile…5f6c HAH! Thank you! In truth, there are spelling and grammar errors in there, like with my wrong use of the em dash, and someone pointed out my "whine" VS "wine" and I corrected that in early January but thank you! :) I hope my feed makes it to your reader at some point. https://sightlessscribbles.com/about/

2026-02-21 11:12:07 UTC

People need to look at what Massachusetts did back in 2023, they raised taxes by 2 percent on people making 1 million dollars or more. And the residents of the state voted on it. They have been reaping 3 billion dollars a year ever since just from this alone. And guess what? There wasn't this mass exodus of rich people from the state.
If these wealthy people want to uproot their lives for a 2-4 percent increase, let them, but we have data showing taxing the rich makes everybody more money in the long run

2026-02-21 07:14:38 UTC

I disagree with this update. Here is the follow up to the article I shared yesterday. Personally I think it’s OK if everybody is feeling a little bit emotional about their hero willingly using a technology that is rooted in a lot of all kinds of systemic oppression. To me, I hate this need for every figure people look up to to be perfect, but I do not expect anybody I actively promote to turn on a dime when it’s convenient for them. Anybody that calls this emotional response purity anything is missing the point. The point is about being frustrated because people appear to stop caring. On Alliances https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/ #AI #LLM

2026-02-09 21:42:57 UTC

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@nprofile…pl2l @nprofile…c2w7 Readers go there. I write on my own website instead. This is 1 reason why though http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2025/06/regarding-substack-and-writer-centric.html

2026-02-08 19:24:47 UTC

Can more news places make text only pages like this? Far easier to read, especially since I am on a low connection. https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5705413 #Accessibility #Journalism

2026-02-06 20:19:24 UTC

I just discovered Tannith Lee and she was such an amazing writer that I hope that the publishing industry, including readers, treated her with the utmost highest of respect until her death. I eventually want to write about how awful it is that word gets out about fantastic authors when more famous authors are dreadful in one way or another. Like, I wish readers would’ve been screaming about her excellent work long before Neil Gaiman was awful. I want a world where everyone shouts out fantastic authors because they’re fantastic, not because of what someone else did/does. There’s just something very uncomfortable about how everyone is like, yes, he’s a creep, if you want an author that’s not a creep, you should check her out, and my question to them is, why are you suddenly recommending her now? Is it just simply because you think he ripped her off? Or do you genuinely enjoy her work? There is something about that that will never be normal to me. She was a fantastic author. Read her for that rather than just a replacement for an awful author.

2026-02-06 19:15:55 UTC

Why I Lost Faith in Kagi https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html #Kagi #AI #AIHype

2026-02-06 18:20:07 UTC

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Have a look at https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html @nprofile…lter

2026-02-06 14:02:04 UTC

I saw someone straight out just say "I stopped using search engines because the #Fediverse is far better these days" And, I have to agree. I was looking for an author website and Google just floods the page with their own useless book showcase thing, the one with the tabs that say reviews, description, etc, and then page 1 had nothing but storefront links. Meanwhile, I always find far more interesting stuff in here. It's almost like human beings are bett--- Oh never mind.

2026-02-06 01:02:01 UTC

The Death of Sherlock Holmes: a dated uprising https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing/20250915/ #DRMFree

2026-01-31 19:51:17 UTC

Blogging is dead! Everyone cries as they write posts on Facebook that are 500 to 1000 words long, but sure, blogging is dead I guess! How is irony lost on everybody over there?

2026-01-30 03:12:09 UTC

I’m watching this mass #TikTok uninstallation with great interest, partially because I’m looking forward to seeing what venture backed app people will flock to next. To be fair, I used to do the very same thing and never really looked into how horrible anything venture backed anything. was until I actually looked into better alternatives based off a crumb that was left on the mainstream platform I happen to use at the time so I don’t know what the correct solution is, but it is fascinating to watch happen over and over again. I wanted better. I just didn’t know where to go or what to try. I did try looking up alternatives, but absolutely none of the alternatives mentioned were anything close to things like the IndieWeb or Mastodon, etc. there are millions of others that are perfectly fine, not happy, but an accepted fine, with the abuse that mainstream tech does to it’s users. As much as I hate mainstream places, there needs to be breadcrumbs left for those that are like me and are looking for something more but don’t know where to look or what to look for until they find it. #Tech #Technology

2026-01-23 20:17:02 UTC

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@nprofile…3xzu Markdown. Never do PDF ever. Saving it as HTML is best too since they can open local HTML files

2026-01-22 14:37:55 UTC

I have a friend that likes Audible more than Libro FM because he told me Audible is easier than downloading an MP3 zip folder or a single M4B without DRM. I just had someone unironically tell me that buying from audible and then removing the DRM is easier than buying the DRM free audiobook and just downloading the DRM free option when LibroFM has the book in question. This one small conversation made me lose all respect for tech. #DRM

2026-01-21 00:50:04 UTC

The more I use my phone rather than a computer, the more I’m really starting to understand that VoiceOver, as a screen reader, is fundamentally broken on the iPhone and I don’t think it can be repaired. I just had three cases where I opened an app, or navigated to a new screen, and voiceover jumped focus three times without me ever touching the screen. I also constantly have to navigate a typing delay. There is a significant delay now where VoiceOver will, on occasion, more than not, just randomly decide not to say the key my finger is navigating over when typing. It feels like everything about VoiceOver is very sluggish in this latest operating system version. I genuinely think that VoiceOver is broken in so many ways that it’s more advantageous to use a desktop and a desktop screen reader. Even with NVDA’s flaws, it’s 1 million times more useful than what I’ve just encountered. I don’t understand the blind folks that exclusively use an iPhone without a computer by choice. Those blind people have a fuck ton more patience than I do. #Apple

2026-01-20 12:50:05 UTC

How Fanfiction is Literary Resistance https://sightlessscribbles.com/how-fanfiction-is-literary-resistance/ #Fanfiction #Writing #Reading

2026-01-20 12:49:45 UTC

New post: How Fanfiction is Literary Resistance https://sightlessscribbles.com/how-fanfiction-is-literary-resistance/

2026-01-17 05:15:33 UTC

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@nprofile…7nkt What did I miss?

2026-01-15 19:41:15 UTC

@nprofile…qtty hey, so I am actually trying to actually delete a page, but make the URL redirect, but every time I add the redirect front matter in the YAML, Eleventy throws up an error about duplicate permlinks. I'm trying to make all instances of /archive go to /map. Any idea how we can delete the /archive page gracefully? Including having it automatically deleting itself from the main navigation menu without messing up the menu?

2026-01-13 23:48:30 UTC

The most infuriating thing to me is when a marketing executive, that has never used a screen reader a day in their life, fights me back on a comprehensive accessibility report they asked me to do. I provided logs. I provided video. I provided version numbers for everything. and they fight me and say we can’t reproduce anything in the video. Could you send over a screenshot of the NVDA settings you have, and also, have you tried tabbing? What version of NVDA are you using, as if they are the expert and I am not. I want to write back, downloading a screen reader for a day does not make you an expert. No sir, and never tell me to send a screenshot again, or I will triple my invoice. #Accessibility #Rant

2026-01-13 19:01:34 UTC

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Oh since you read Romance too, I thought you'd like this rant https://sightlessscribbles.com/why-happy-ever-after-is-radical-restorative-justice/ @nprofile…gh4s @nprofile…9pr4

2026-01-13 18:25:38 UTC

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Thank you! Looking all of them up! After a few days of using it, I kind of understand the appeal but it's not worth paying for so after my trial ends I'll continue to use non resident library cards instead. Also, I know that in 2026 Amazon allows people to download their books again but I have yet to see any author or publisher enable this feature. Now if there was an EBook store that only sold DRM Free EBooks, I'd buy from them always, but I get the appeal of KU. @nprofile…gh4s @nprofile…9pr4

2026-01-12 16:32:50 UTC

Your Laptop Has More Than Three Years in It https://haru-txt.bearblog.dev/laptop-longevity/ #Tech #Technology

2026-01-10 04:07:13 UTC

Trying #Kindle Unlimited for 30 days. What authors should I check out? I read #Romance including dark Romance but I also love #Fantasy and I’m not keeping Kindle Unlimited. If you can, provide links. #RomanceReaders #RomanceLandia @nprofile…9pr4

2026-01-07 23:16:41 UTC

What is it that platform that public libraries use to give people access to online places like @nprofile…0jjs because I don’t have enough money for there subscription and their RSS feeds are only for paid members because their public RSS feeds show teasers only #Library #Libraries

2025-12-31 16:23:12 UTC

So, I'm forced to interact with mainstream social media because people love their walled gardens and they love fighting with the algorithm over there, for example, and refuse, outright refuse, to follow me to my own website and or RSS feed and or over here, but I *never, ever* want to hear some bullshit about how the #Fediverse is complicated to use. If you can use the absolutely awful shit design that is Linkedin, Facebook, Instagram, you can figure out that 2 instances are different from each other. No excuses, or maybe I'm just in a mood, but holy hell how do people do it?
Mainstream social is the most shit ass code I've ever encountered in a long time and that's saying something.
#SocialMedia

2025-12-19 08:59:41 UTC

Could all of you spam my website on Linkedin? I want to make people that wear suits and ties uncomfortable. https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ #Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb #LinkedIn

2025-12-17 18:22:22 UTC

One thing I find utterly scary is somehow tech caused people to fear personal websites. I'm not at all joking! I think the #Fediverse forgets what kind of bubble they are in sometimes because there really is a different world out there. Instead of improving tech literacy, we taught people to fear links and personal websites and to hate bloggers.
Like as just one example. An author published a great thing on their blog. They also syndicate to Substack. Whenever I'd try and direct people to the blog version on their website, everybody in my non Fediverse circle asked if I had an FB link or a Twitter link or a Substack link. I sent them the Substack link and everyone opened it without a second's hesitation.
And when I say tech literacy, I am never talking about code. I am talking about things like *why* RSS feeds work. I'm talking about why personal websites are good ways of expression, actually.
For those Fediverse peeps, people hated blogs the way you all hate influencers.
I remember everyone just absolutely trashing bloggers when I was younger.

2025-12-15 14:34:05 UTC

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@nprofile…ejxl @nprofile…v6uh Did you read Pass the Salt yet too? The 2 links are below.
Off the Grid https://compassiviste.com/product/off-the-grid-living-blind-without-the-internet/ and you can get the Audiobook on Audible.
Pass the Salt https://compassivistepublishing.com/product/pass-the-salt/
You can also PayPal me and I will give you DRM free of anything you want. E-book, or audiobook
Https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/

2025-12-13 13:22:57 UTC

Honestly, I’m shocked to discover that #BookTube doesn’t like Fanfiction when some of the most gripping writing I have ever read has been Fanfiction. If you don’t read fanfiction, your missing out.

2025-12-10 00:04:06 UTC

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The tags at the top will tell you if it's fiction or nonfiction. @nprofile…ukea @nprofile…n7x3

2025-12-07 16:16:54 UTC

New post: The Colonization of Confidence. https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

2025-12-05 18:55:24 UTC

Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? https://ploum.net/2025-12-04-pixelfed-against-fediverse.html #Fediverse #PixelFed

2025-12-01 14:33:22 UTC

Ryan O'Connell has a new book arriving and yes, give me more fucked up writing about Disability please! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0FLYNSFDV?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_kindle-20 #Disability #Book #Books

2025-11-27 14:23:23 UTC

Today, well, every day really, give to the mutual aid hashtag.

2025-11-26 13:51:36 UTC

LLM critics should start talking about the psychological harms LLM’s are doing to creatives. I have a writer friend. She's a really fantastic writer. I don't know what happened, but she started becoming very insecure about her own writing, and started asking LLM’s like Claude and such to revamp her writing. Help her brush up on the stuff she was lacking. Her writing isn't amateurish at all. It really isn't. Her descriptions are clear. She does a lot of telling when it comes to actions but I actually honestly get tired of writers showing everything all the time. I truly think telling can work better in some cases.
But what started happening was she started spiraling. She's losing confidence in her own writing. When shed attend writing group with me, she said she doesn’t have anything this week because she has writers block. She sends me forwarded emails of *other* people saying that the LLM writing is better because it prints stuff like, the moon hung in the sky like a polished fingernail. She would write something such as the moon glistened in the pitch darkness. Give or take. That was just off the top of my head.
But she's losing her own confidence. She truly believes LLM’s are a better writer than her because they produce, well, sentences trained on billions and billions of text with fine tuned metaphors, etc. She feeds everything into an LLM. She hates her own writing now when she legit wasn't a bad writer in the first place.
It honestly is heartbreaking to watch. I don't know how we can combat this, but for one, I wish readers would honestly quit saying something is badly written. Your bad writing is someone else’s masterpiece.
Another thing I wish readers would do is maybe understand that writing changes with our mood. Someone's voice may change after a terrible event. Someone may want to try a new voice. Someone may revert back to an old voice. None is worse than the other.
And honestly, the longer I edit people's works, the more I come to realize that bad writing simply doesn't exist. There's just different writing styles and styles you hate. That's it.
#AI #AIHype

2025-11-24 15:16:15 UTC

Hey all, looking for #Fediverse authors to add to the end of future blog posts.
I always end an essay or whatever with a call to someone else's book. Like, if you liked this, you might like this book.
The podcast version gets a full synopsis readout. The web version gets a evergreen link. I do not review books, because everyone deserves to be read and enjoyed without my judgement.
So can you tell me what you write and share links to your books? All will be included in future blog posts. I recommend one at a time, one per post, because I want to give that writer space to shine.
Also, while I am MIA, resting, could you boost this?
#Books #Book #IndieAuthor #IndieWriter #Author #Writing #Writer

2025-11-24 14:30:02 UTC

A Trans friend came out to me today. It was amazing because I wasn’t feeling really good anyway, so I canceled my accessibility meetings for this morning, but just after I canceled them, I received a phone call from her. She told me she had something really important that she wanted to tell me.
I said, I’m listening.
She broke down and told me that I was the only person she felt safe coming out to. We cried on the phone about Trans rights. About the state of the world, but ultimately, we ended on just love, heartfelt humbleness, laughter, and a lot of joking about me now having to come out as a pansexual because I dated her before today. The best part was helping her pick out her new name. She loved Coco as a name for now.

2025-11-22 08:45:17 UTC

Sittin' in a tree. K, I, S, S, I, N, G!
No but seriously, I've never seen such a bromance press conference in my life. The amount of times Trump defended Mamdani was just absolutely I like strong brown men kind of energy. Good lord what a way to end a Friday night.
I am very pleased to see that Mamdani actually never praised Trump once in the press conference. Many are saying he did, but most American's don't know how to read nor understand the media, nor have media training, so I am the only one you should listen to.
But man, this is hilarious.

2025-11-18 12:37:03 UTC

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Sadly, they still exist, but was there some recent news I missed? Or are more finally waking up to the lie that "AI" will make blah blah blah accessible. @nprofile…4cck

2025-11-07 01:47:16 UTC

The more I use iOS 26, the more I think voiceover is essentially broken and cannot be repaired. Focus is utterly atrocious. Multiple times, I close an app, or open another app, only for voiceover to continue to read the previous app as if it were still up on the screen, the keyboard has a significant delay that I can’t get rid of. No matter how much animations and or haptics I disable. Every time I want to use the space bar, upon engaging the keyboard, there is a significant delay. Everything just has a colossal delay attached to it now and I really think this is the cause of their new glass view or whatever the hell the corporation is calling it. It seems to slow down apps also. Even though it is supposed to be smooth and otherwise, there are many instances where the a6pps just feel clunky and or broken in multiple ways. I’m not sure if it’s just me, but for example, search edit boxes/feilds in apps like the podcast app just feel as if they are struggling to function. I constantly feel as if I am using my own phone wrong, which feels utterly ridiculous because I am an expert user. This is honestly why I’ve reverted back to using a computer more and more nowadays. I don’t do anything complicated on the phone. My phone has basically transformed into a portable audiobook player and podcast player because browsing on the web on the mobile phone is a level of hell I will never willingly participate in again unless I absolutely have to do so. Everything feels that badly designed. #Apple #IOS

2025-11-03 12:11:04 UTC

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Ironic but you're missing the point of the critiques. https://theluddite.org/post/ai-hype.html @nprofile…q4uv

2025-11-02 23:20:05 UTC

Even though sighted people have not joined this yet, I am witnessing an increased desire for more audio based social media apps such as this from sighted people. Ramblio https://ramblio.com/ #Audio #SocialMedia

2025-11-01 09:45:58 UTC

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Yes, 2 ways to get it!
I serialize audiobooks, my audiobooks, on my podcast. Pay what you want, get an RSS feed to use anywhere.
https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings
Or you can get it on places like Audible and iTunes.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Off-the-Grid-Audiobook/B0FV3R8MJM?qid=1761990194&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=PBPD8C2VE4J8J69J0M5D&plink=rAULQwPZWpPv9z1F&pageLoadId=HLTkT9yjiPeW9NDU&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1 @nprofile…ejxl

2025-11-01 09:16:28 UTC

Available as an e-book and audio, Off the Grid was just released and is about me living as a blind man without internet for one month as a social experiment https://compassiviste.com/product/off-the-grid-living-blind-without-the-internet/ #FediBookFair @nprofile…04gj

2025-10-27 15:23:31 UTC

Better tech won’t make joining the indieweb easier, but collectives could https://www.thisdaysportion.com/posts/collectives-not-more-tech/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging

2025-10-26 21:22:01 UTC

The 'Accessibility' link is a Lie: My Adventures in Weaponizing Corporate Virtue Signaling https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250724/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall

2025-10-17 17:05:33 UTC

Owning physical media is privilege | thomasrigby.com https://thomasrigby.com/posts/owning-physical-media-is-privilege/ #Tech #Technology #Accessibility #Media

2025-10-17 11:55:02 UTC

Before you buy Girl Scout cookies you should know they support trans people and reject donations from anti-trans organizations, and then buy a couple more boxes!

2025-10-05 23:26:40 UTC

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Got a URL for this or something? Do you mean banning accounts or just preventing them from talking to the main folks on the main pod thing or whatever it's called. @nprofile…5mxp

2025-10-04 09:19:12 UTC

I’m watching the #BlueSky situation with utter fascination because the CEO is revealing her TransPhobia, but what has me more interested is the amount of people that are recommending just Mastodon instead of the wider Fediverse, like why is nobody recommending Ghost with activity pub, or BookWyrm, or Friendica or Go to Social instead of Mastodon?

2025-10-03 09:06:33 UTC

The title of this video is a little misleading. But it absolutely demolishes in explaining why Charlie Kirk is nowhere near a Martin Luther King https://youtube.com/watch?v=D6LI4noNM1U&si=0jMrB-QnySISu83j #CharlieKirk #YouTube

2025-10-01 11:35:04 UTC

This might be related to the government shutting down, but my Social Security has not deposited. I really need your financial support now more than ever. My rent is due. I need more than 800 for US folk, my Zelle is kingettr@gmail.com or find other ways to give on https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #DisabilityMutualAid #DisabilityMutualAidRequest

2025-09-30 01:56:13 UTC

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@nprofile…awsw @nprofile…0p0d Medium has a lot of the same issues as Substack. I can tell you that as a reader, they don’t prioritize RSS feeds so I am unable to follow you as easily but if you were using a platform like ghost or similar, I could actually follow you easier in my RSS reader. I don’t subscribe to newsletters via email. I only use email for communication

2025-09-30 01:51:33 UTC

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@nprofile…5jjk @nprofile…yd4f Do their interactions show up as boosts and or favorites?

2025-09-15 12:42:43 UTC

#FediBlock for not just me, but apparently, he’s been going around and harassing others that are posting in the mutual aid hashtat apart from me. His reply to me is here. https://cr8r.gg/@R/115204791606341614

2025-09-15 12:30:06 UTC

Since I got the green light to serialize both Pass the Salt and Off the Grid audiobooks on my podcast, you can get it by donating monthly! Any amount! You'll get a private RSS feed and that will contain all the private episodes, including the 2 audiobooks. I might upload a chapter a week for both books. https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings #Audible #Audiobooks #Audiobook #Podcast #Podcasts

2025-09-12 03:48:30 UTC

It's Time to Ditch Plex https://melkat.blog/p/ditch-plex/ #Plex

2025-09-11 11:55:48 UTC

Spotify is Adding DMs, Still Doesn't Pay Artists | cmdr-nova@internet:~$ https://mkultra.monster/social-media/2025/08/26/spotify-dms/ #Spotify