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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Last Notes npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Got a notification on my FB/Meta app thing that Meta accounts are a thing that's gonna happen soon, and, for the folks that. Will. Not. Leave. Despite me flinging my Signal username/SMS number to everyone over there, I fully predict by late 2027 or even early 2028 Meta will charge people to have accounts on their thing. I hope I am wrong, but I am hoping they do start charging for accounts so people will contact me elsewhere instead of fucking Facebook Messanger. #SocialMedia npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents. https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure #AI #OpenAI npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Love the Spotify bashing in this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVG9DEgErH0&is=twnQsRGkDgcvDx-D #Music npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Perhaps this is a sighted person thing, but in lists of blog posts, such as category pages, all posts pages, etc. I see dates. Some folk even make these dates headings. My worst nightmare is when these dates are headings. It's clutter, and is why I *never* include dates in my blog post lists. If you wanna know the date of a post, click into it. 10/22/2025 becomes chatter very, very, very, quickly. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett There are elections coming up in my country, and since there's an election/elections coming up in my country, that means everybody must have discourse about woke one versus woke two and it is just as meaningless and vapid as you can possibly imagine. Guess what coalition is? It means working with and alongside all POCs and yes working class whites. It means working with and yes, getting along with, everyone of every race and of every none opposition political party. Learn about the white men and Trans people and women that joined the Black Panther Party as an example. And none disabled online political influencers should just not have any opinions until the elections are over. Instead, listen to this guy https://youtu.be/OPZEAusQVuw?is=wpLTwEl4iZOcl9IC npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Unable to work full time and need money for offline and online bills. I need all your support! https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ @nprofile…3tw3 @nprofile…6kxh @nprofile…pveu @nprofile…7qh8 #MutualAid #Disability #DisabilityMutualAi… npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…6x5d I love this! I wish more web developers would do a business like this. I’m about to email you soon because I need some assistance with CSS on my Eleventy website. I was hoping you could update the CSS. I was hoping you could fix the CSS so that it works better on mobile devices. Can I recommend you as a web developer to these business types? I have many small business type of clients that use Shopify themes, get regularly sued for accessibility, and then instantly slap on and accessibility overlay because they don’t know any better and they seem genuinely confused why everybody gets annoyed at their constant upsell tactics when folks want to checkout npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett While I was moving everything out of OneDrive to Nextcloud and Koofr, Microsoft decided to vibe code an update again that instantly deleted my ".kdbx" file and my Romance novel drafts that contained sex scenes because something something virus. But hey, vibe coding is awesome, am I right? I of course had backups on external drives but just *sigh* I will be so glad when these RClone commands can proceed without Microsoft vibe coding an update, deleting all my shit as I am actively trying to get away from them. #OneDrive #Koofr #NextCloud #RClone npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Web developers, you'd probably lose your payments for this, but any time a marketing person wants something on the website, tell them no. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Just discovering Cozy Fantasy and, what? How in the hell have I not found this amazing genre until this year! It's still a marketing term and not an actual genre, yet, which makes browsing for these kinds of books super hard to find, for me anyway, but OMG! Yes! Can this marketting term stick as a genre? #Fantasy npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett OMG! Do you have a beta reading team? If so, I'd like to be one of your beta readers! I do more developmental stuff, though, than copy editing! But this sounds amazing! Where can I buy/check out your other works? Are any of them in libraries? I am assuming you don't use Draft2Digital then? :) @nprofile…0nkk npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett ah yeah! Koofr can handle that with their sharing links, etc. I am not a huge fan of their interface, but they do not appear to get hacked often, yet, so that's a good sign! I am moving all my writing over there today so will let you know how it goes, but I used to do this with Google Drive, just share a link to the folder and have others download the folder. I am guessing you do educational writing? But if you know of anyone that does any Romance writing, Google and Microsoft are banning accounts for writing anything close to smut even if it isn't at all smutty so Koofr would be a fantastic alternative, and they don't train AI on your stuff either! @nprofile…0nkk npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Yes! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, but I've been messing around with also just basically using Git as cloud storage, but I am liking Koofr though! Thought about moving all my OneDrive stuff to it @nprofile…0nkk npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Was wondering for 2 days why I couldn't edit text files on my mounted Koofr drive with RClone, I could open the file just fine, but when I pressed, Control S, it kept opening the, save as, dialog box, then I remembered the "rclone mount --vfs-cache-mode writes" command. #RClone #Koofr npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Oh for fucks sake. I can't stand it when politicians do this bullshit when the folks can say, 'Defund the library!' and get cheers and whoops! The solution isn't to try to appeal to people that think 'defund the police' is batshit weird and silly. The solution is ignoring these dunderheads and showing them why actually, it's a good idea. Defund the police was incredibly difficult for me to explain but I blame the overall educational leaning in my country. But this isn't the solution. Ugh! Proof that this new 'dark woke' bullshit is all bullshit too. The Real Reason AOC & Mamdani Are Throwing ‘Woke 1’ Under the Bus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cex_SIsWr7w #Politics npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Brains are the best LLM! :) @nprofile…jzkz npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett And again, the world shows that our accessibility needs don't matter, but when loser nerds need them, The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People #Accessibility #A11y #AI #LLM npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett For those that missed it, The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ #Accessibility #Ableism #Disability npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Someone mailed me some raised print books and, while I am an adult Braille learner/beginning reader, I can read raised print a billion times faster than Braille. This is fantastic! I tried learning contracted Braille, what we used to call Grade 2, but I am at the point where I will remain, I believe. I'm comfortable with grade 1. Uncontracted Braille. I still say, if you can learn Braille as a child, do so. If you have a blind child, put them in Braille classes. They will thank you later even if they protest now. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Catching up with #BookTube topics this morning and, I have thoughts but nobody will have me on their show. :) npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Hey lovelies, look at how mad we are making them. This is a sign you’re doing something right/we should continue! I do think it’s incredibly hilarious that they need us to like and use the technology, but we really don’t need them. At all. on anti-ai crowd – anon-dev https://anondev.bearblog.dev/onanti-aicrowd/ #AI #LLM npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett New post: I stopped syndicating Sightless Scribbles to YouTube https://sightlessscribbles.com/why-i-stopped-syndicating-sightless-scribbles-to-youtube/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Twitch Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Amazon AI Is Opt Out Because ‘Nobody Would Opt In’ https://aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amazon-opt-out/ #AI #Twitch npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…r4ca I so love that! I will never understand why they don’t like Github, because you can publish all kinds of LLM slop on Github. It reminds me of those right wingers that hate leftist or anti capitalist politics, but they can’t survive without having left leaning friends around npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett If you liked The Ballot is a Doorstop, Not a Love Letter, my feed URL is https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I am in a mood, so my only replied to this is, Cry harder, Tech Bro. This dude can’t even wrap his mind around the notion that #Codeberg is democratically operated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8cY1DEURtE&is=7fWt1sUTiUutiCcY npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The Ballot is a Doorstop, Not a Love Letter https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-ballot-is-a-doorstop-not-a-love-letter/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Thinking about the #Fediverse that is so user hostile they don't like adding things to the main web UI that would make us want to stay, such as a way to schedule posts without using a third party client or the API. I just scheduled three posts for the end of the year and it didn't kill #Mastodon. But the Fediverse keeps telling us they don't want influencers here. I agree. Fuck influencers. They should be ran off the internet. You can't want people to switch to the Fediverse but then don't want people to use the Fediverse. Logic never works like that. I've been here since 2017 ish, and while I get viscerally annoyed at all the folks that want to have an algorithm, even a custom one, I'm not trying to chase them off. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Navigating the Brain Poisoning of Book Censorship https://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/navigating-the-brain-poisoning-of-book-censorship/ #Bookstodon #Books npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Ebooks Are Coming to Libro! https://blog.libro.fm/ebooks-coming-librofm/ #Books #Bookstodon #EBooks npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Fuck my life. My country's social security system is the pits. I got survivors benefits because my abusive mother died. I didn't know social security counts that as extra income. I was getting the maximum amount on SSI. I was approved for survivors benefits but then they lowered my SSI payments because I'd have extra income. I know people don't like it when disabled people get things for free, but I wasn't going out and buying cars with it. Fuck. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Eventually, I love the idea of having a reader group like other authors, but I wanna do it on an open-ish forum, with RSS support. I was thinking about using Groups IO for this since I don't want to self host, but what suggestions do you all have? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I was banned by this blog owner in a Facebook group because I think they thought I was promoting the use of AI when I was requesting RSS. I said I loved their website, their dedication, the effort, and all the good things. I did mention that I wanted to subscribe to the website via RSS. The RSS feed was/is broken for me at this time. I explained why I didn’t want to follow via email because I only use email for communication and I use RSS to keep up with the websites that I enjoy. I was called a Tech Bro. I read the rules very carefully before I posted what I did. I am very confident I did not break any rules. Shrug. I fully get it. Having your website scraped is terrible, but there’s a growing anti-technology feeling that I’m not liking not either. The website is still a very good website! Empyrean Riders – The first ever and largest Empyrean Series fan website. Everything about the Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros. https://www.empyreanriders.com/ #RSS npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I am amazed that an asshole figured out how to make it easy for users to paywall a blog and got a ton for reinventing the blog. I'm talking about #Substack of course. Makes me wish I knew more tech people back when I was a teen. I could have been rich! Oh and guess what Substack folks? Did you know you're blogging? I can follow via RSS and everything! Hell, that's also what #Patreon is. Can't believe they got millions for reinventing the blog. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett New post: The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you. https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett You all haven't met Kelly yet, but she's a chaotic friend that I will introduce to Sightless Scribbles readers at some point. she texts fun things such as, npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Gonna read #Fanfiction for the day because the internet is bugging the piss out of me. To learn why I love Fanfiction so much, https://sightlessscribbles.com/how-fanfiction-is-literary-resistance/ #Reading #Bookstodon npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Yep! It reminds me of captchas all over again. Does fuck all to stop bots but people will use it anyway. I maintain the best thing is to do what this blogger did, no blockers at all https://starbreaker.org/colophon.html @nprofile…nltl npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. https://shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett we don't shame smart glasses wearers enough https://blog.avas.space/shame-smart-glasses/ #Privacy #Tech npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett No slop grenade https://noslopgrenade.com/ #AI #LLM #AISlop #NoAI npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Stranger: So what are your hobbies? Me: Watching 9 hour YouTube videos covering Fandom drama, what about you? Stranger. I bake brownies. Me. You are a far better person. :) npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett SOCIALISTS AREN’T NAIVE ABOUT HUMAN NATURE https://jacobin.com/2026/07/socialism-human-nature-morality npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett My pen pal neighbor and I are now gossiping about our newest neighbor that has every tech gadget known to man, including smart cameras and stuff. Every time loved neighbor knocks on my door to deliver one of our loved packages to each other, his fucking camera tracks this. For now, we're gossiping about how creepy his cameras are, but are there any lawyers on here that can defend me in court if I say, accidentally write a story where the protagonist sabotages one of these fucking cameras? For pure entertainment reasons, of course. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett For other folks that get non-resident library cards like I do, the #Ohio one stopped. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Rediscovering vanilla as a flavor and I am loving it, especially vanilla ice cream. How in the hell did I think vanilla was an uninspired flavor? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Yeah. Everything is going up in price, but besides, I am more of a podcast person anyway. https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ @nprofile…d7fq npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I'll have to go back to YouTube because I can't afford the #PeerTube costs monthly for MakerTube. I understand why they need to do this. I'm syndicating every video thing I do to PeerTube but I'll just have to cancel I guess. Thanks, the whole of tech. Tech industry is the reason why we can't have nice things. My podcast will be my main thing, going forward. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett AI in Linux https://drewdevault.com/blog/AI-in-Linux/ #Linux npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Woke up this morning to discover that, after an update, Microsoft no longer trusts me to edit my own files and folders on my own external hard drive. I was trying to update a portable application and the usual warning popped up that was asking me, was I sure I wanted to paste these files? And I better do it with administrative rights, even though I am the fucking administrator of this Gods damn PC, so I hit continue with administrative right. You do not have permission to edit these files. I am the fucking administrator, you dolts. I am not a casual user, endless screaming. Gods, I wish #Linux was... just better at screen reader accessibility overall, but just... *sigh* I am gonna be one of those seniors that movies love to mock where they know nothing of technology because I'll just stop doing new tech things. #Microsoft npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Seeing other authors suddenly putting DRM on their Kindle titles, saying they don't want to encourage sharing and encourage more buying. I only buy DRM free EBooks, and while I do think this recent DRM free stance by #Amazon is a plot to do something even worse down the road, it's either, I buy your DRM Free book or I don't read it nor talk about it since it's not available in any of my libraries. https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GDDXGH9VR22ACM8U #Books #Bookstodon #Author #Reading npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The Thief of Always, my first Clive Barker book. Loving it so far! And yes, this is DRM free! https://bookshop.org/a/77/9781301821709 #Horror #Fable #EBook #Bookstodon npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Watching AI Bros have meltdowns about this has been better than any TV show. The best ones are the ones that say, but I was financially supporting you! Why would you ban my AI contribution? Absolutely hilarious. Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html #AI #LLM npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett This seems to have been blocked by #Patreon, but I've been looking for ways I can follow Patreon creators via RSS feed instead of email. I wrote to Patreon today, making the case that they could easily make RSS work for their model, even offering private RSS feeds for members, but we'll see. I wrote to higher ups and bypassed customer service. Shame they blocked this because I'd love to follow Patreon via RSS. https://github.com/nchlswhttkr/patreon-rss #RSS npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…mex6 Their back end nor front end isn’t very screen reader friendly. They also seem way to keen on selling authors AI services rather than their books but I do like their support while drafting method as well as their git upload workflow npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…77tp Right! I mean, you could link to the audiobook on Libro FM and that website is fantastic for consumers, but for developers, I imagine it’s a nightmare because they don’t have an official API. I think their website is some kind of CMS? I’m not really sure npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…77tp This brought to you by purchasing an e-book on Amazon because he authored doesn’t have a DRM free copy and I’m honestly getting account fatigue so I purchased on Amazon because it’s easiest rather than making an account at a random place I’ve never shocked at previously butIs there some technical way where royalties could be automated? And I would love it if a retailer would just say no to publishers wanting digital rights management on their titles or Geo restriction. I do really wonder if you could legitimately say no to Geo restriction and not getting in trouble? Or is it just about telling the publishers no. This is not gonna be Geo restricted npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I know a lot of developers are on my timeline, so let me give you a little bit of a secret. If you make a literal DRM free only bookstore retailer that only sells DRM free e-books, you would hit a gold mine without even trying to do so, and you must accept all genres. I know Smashwords exists, but there’s a reason why independent authors continue to publish work via Kindle. It’s easy. In fact, it’s so easy that even the upload process doesn’t need a lot of formatting involved. This is the key. Make it very easy to host e-books, and let authors set their prices and let publishers set their prices, and you would have a money making machine. Also, make it global. Even if publishers Geo restrict it. The design doesn’t have to be a torture either. Have an HTML page from the 90s that displays the book cover, the title, some buttons that do various things like choose a book format, E pub, PDF, about the book, about the author, reviews, and that’s it. It doesn’t need anything more than that. Anything more and it’s just a bloated waste of code #WebDev #Bookstodon npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Under capitalism, it's very normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be a little less rich is considered radical and unhinged. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…qwvz @nprofile…xc4c There’s a way you can completely get rid of the Gutenberg editor. If you would like, direct message me and then I could use remote incident manager to help you when I have a minute or two, but are you hosting it on the hosted version of WordPress? the wordpress.com domain? Or are you hosting it at a third party host? I know you’re using WordPress, but just in case you wanted to try another accessible platform, check out https://bearblog.dev/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The one email etiquette rule I break is the one about line wrapping. Everyone says you should wrap your email lines 72 something something, but I disabled line wrapping when sending emails and when I receive emails, and honestly? No one’s complained, and I do tend to write lengthy paragraphs. I'm guessing for sighted folk it fits to their screens anyway, so all is good. And disabling line wrapping when someone replies to me makes it far easier to copy code, URLs, etc. I know it's supposed to respect the folks reading emails in the terminal, but this is an instance where I say, nope, sorry! I'm never line wrapping again because your terminal email client displays long lines horribly. #Email npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett By @nprofile…p9u9 Every Reason Why I Hate AI https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html #AI #LLM #AIHype npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett In my quest to get others to visit my website to see what I am up to instead of wondering why I am not posting or interacting on Facebook, I got this reply, which just made me sad. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Is there an open source contact management program, very lightweight, no AI bullshit, that allows me to edit VCF files in a very simple GUI interface? With native controlls? I use Windows but I am very comfortable editing text files and working in the terminal. #OpenSource npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The reason I keep an email around is because, frankly, the more obnoxious tech dorks are using chat because they can't write in paragraphs. I, on the other hand, actually send lengthy novels to very close people. That's why I continue to use email in this chat bubble push we are in now. I don't use email for newsletters anymore. Spam isn't as huge of a problem for me after blocking email addresses outright. #Email npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Shit. This is on the calendar, and yes, it is the national book banning bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7661/text #Censorship #Books #Book #Piracy npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I'm in one of those, a touch screen is the worst design ever made, moods. Why anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond me. I'm a pretty good typist but it took me thrice as long to compose one of my lengthy text messages asking a very important question, than when I used my PC to send an SMS message. Why did our generation believe typing on glass is cool. Nobody can type on glass. I'm a very skilled typist and it takes me nearly 10 minutes to fiddle with the awful latency on the keyboard running VoiceOver. Navigating the phone is better, somewhat, but Apple fucked up typing speed forever I feel and I am not even sure what they did. #UX #Apple #Rant #Rants npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett You all, my Python script isn't working, can anyone assist? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett If you all aren't reading Young Adult and Middle Grade literature today, you are missing out on some fantastic writing and representation. MG and YA fiction tend to have writing that is more straightforward, but it can teach you how to write action. While slightly a bit older, I highly recommend books such as, YOU DON’T KNOW EVERYTHING, JILLY P! https://alexgino.com/books/jillyp/ #Books #Bookstodon #AmReading npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…9kds Ah thank you! Is version 2 built with the same accessibility care for the front end? If you need a consultant or someone to test, https://sightlessscribbles.com/contact/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Watching techies learn that their favorite artist isn't in love with LLMs will never be boring to me, online or offline. The best part? The techs act all shocked their favorite artist would hate something that plagiarizes from them by the minute. Of course, the rebuke always is, well, artists don't understand how tech works anyway so they shouldn't be listened to. But still, the initial reaction is priceless, every time. #LLM #AI npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Thinking about using #Faircamp for my future blog post narrations and audiobooks. I know it’s a music first static site generator, but has anyone else used it for spoken word? And I haven’t read the documentation in a while, but can I do a pay what you want style via Stripe API? I assume so but I figure nerds can answer faster than I can sift through documentation #WebDev npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Leftist takes like this, link at end, but I will never understand why leftists are bending over backwards for this guy. Let’s entertain the notion that it was all a ploy to begin with. The Nazi tattoo didn’t give you pause? You seriously mean to tell me that there was no other person that had the same politics? Maybe a little bit less, but close enough? I don’t get it. What is so great about him? I genuinely don’t understand . The Graham Platner Affair | naked capitalism https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/07/the-graham-platner-affair.html #Politics npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett How Fanfiction is Literary Resistance https://sightlessscribbles.com/how-fanfiction-is-literary-resistance/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett > I can’t understand how we got to this place with “app culture”! Software companies are happy to make their lives harder (and more expensive: deploying to the big app stores isn’t free!), in order to deliver HTML content to fewer people and with fewer features https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/ #WebDev #Programming npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Hey #Grammar people, I see this all the time when reading published books. The ellipsis spaced out, like this. ". . ." npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Oh yes, I *love* using #DeltaChat with Miranda NG! I use JMP as a VOIP number and that's how I can SMS with people via PC but I do wish there was a more modern XMPP client for Windows that is screen reader friendly. @nprofile…ruwx npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I've been recommending people use/try #DeltaChat more than #Signal and it's worked far better than I thought! It's screen reader friendly also, across desktop and mobile! At least, on Windows anyway. https://delta.chat/en/help#multiclient #Chat #Privacy npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Just saw that quote of a quote of a quote of a quote of a quote that eventually lead to 2 blog post nonsense on here, which is exactly what I came here to avoid. I don’t understand why people think that is a good user experience. At least when I quote I dive past all the quote of a quote of a quote of a quote nonsense to bring you the original toot or include all the blog post links. I don’t really understand why other users think this is a superior experience then just sharing links to the original blog entries themselves. If I quote anybody on hear, it is with the utmost intention, paying attention to where the trail of 99quotes leads, and what information is provided, and what information is left out. #FediMeta #Fediverse npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…fcdr Like, maybe it's the stutter? I have the kind of stammar where words are blocked rather than repeating, so, mom, stretches out into mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmom, but like, I don't get it. I tell them I'm blind and they think OMG NEEDS ASL INTERPRETER! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The number of times I get an unasked for sign language interpreter as an escorting accommodation when I say I'm blind and need assistance navigating is just wild to me. I know I have a stutter but come on people. I have Deaf friends that decided to just bring me along because it's become an ironic happening they'll get a sign language interpreter faster if I'm with them. #Ableism npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The Leftists who Mocked Graham Platner's Victims https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pQxb_lAncM&is=iX5YxqKiUbW_8DW_ #Politics npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I was in conversation with a person that blogs on Facebook. When I said I write on my own website, she was endlessly baffled as to how I have readers. I Explained my RSS fee gets submitted to directories, and people share my stuff in forums and indie social media and she just could not comprehend it. Since my audience is not a built in audience with an algorithm, she doesn't understand how I can maintain an audience. She kept asking me, if there's no algorithm, how do people find out about you and keep up with what you do? I explained that I have a mailing list for the folks that don't use RSS. She asked me how I monetize my content. I said, for the things that's on my website, I don't aggressively monetize it. I ask for donations if people like it. But your work is open for everybody to read it? She asked. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Ever since moving my workflow to almost everything #PlainText it seems very revolutionary compared to 99.9% of rich text editors today. I can work in almost any application. If I dislike what Microsoft does to notepad, I can always just get another #MarkDown Or plain text editor. I don't have to contend with arduous menu structures or unintuitive keyboard commands to perform sentence formatting options. Modern web design and software design feels extremely bloated right now. It's gotten to the point where I started to feel like I needed to get the most modern processor just to run Microsoft Word and that will never be normal to me. It's always going to be a strange Feeling. My new workflow is also extremely portable. With just a few custom autohotkey scripts and a text editor, I can work almost npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…r70g Looks like an interesting channel! I tried to see if it was in podcast apps and could not find a native feed, so I turned the channel into an audio podcast with https://podtube.me/index.html npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…r70g I don't listen to talk show style podcasts, so I actually lay down to listen to podcasts, just as I do with audiobooks https://sightlessscribbles.com/podroll/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I discovered today that sighted people don't listen to audiobooks. They consume them. no wonder sighted people don't understand audiobooks. Sighted people can't just sit down and listen to something. They consume audiobooks while doing other things, and think I'm a genius when I can recall more of the book than they can with less effort. #Audiobook #Audiobook #Audiobooks npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…h8rl Bookmarks, you can export bookmarks, posts, no. If you wanna export posts, try Ice Shrimp or other Fediverse programs npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Just finished the legally blonde audiobook, and this is one of those times where I think the movie is just a little bit more dimensional than the book. I do highly recommend the book though! If you love the movie, the book will be a huge treat! https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GVN5JPJP?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp #Bookstodon #Romance #AmReading #ReadingCommunity npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen? https://reprog.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/what-does-jeff-bezos-think-is-going-to-happen/ #Enshittification #Amazon #Kindle npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Can we retire from the expression “the kids are okay?” Because I am at my morning coffee shop and I just met and hated a 20-year-old cis het white guy, Let’s call him Brad, that believes emotions are an inefficiency that only inhabits stupid people and I tripped the bastard with my cane because he was explaining the optimum way a woman should sit at her Linux laptop computer so LLM systems can't malfunction because of her “bigger than average breasts.” She bought me a drink after she saw me trip the bastard. We're exchanging anime shows we like. I'm telling her I'm new to anime and that I'm a Romance writer. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett LMAO! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Minority hacker friends of mine are laughing at Hacker News tonight because they can't comprehend PeerTube, nor do they seem to understand brands and ownership. One question was proposed to me as he was serving me tea. "And people in tech wonder why I have no friends in tech. How do we get tech people to think a little?" I suggested give them ice cream. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759634 #PeerTube npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…5lhv I was thinking like for the beginning mode have like, the most mainstream distros? I think he wanted a central Linux hub where he could go get stuff from, from *all* distros. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Loving these ideas, actually! If this central installer were community owned, better! https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/which-linux/ #Linux npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Love this thread! #BandCamp npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The Weight of a Voice https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/71513517/the-weight-of-a-voice #Audio #Podcast #Podcasts npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Casual censorship and accessibility issues online https://puppynet.work/casual-censorship-and-accessibility-issues-online/ #Censorship #Accessibility #Internet npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett If there's one modern slang I absolutely hate more than anything else in the world, it's this phrase.
