Robert Kingett
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
<p>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.</p>
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Still remembering when the CEO of #Substack called me a loser blogger in a forum for keeping this list. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/substack/
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Blocked a disabled Tech Bro that unironically said with his full chest in another thread not by me that LLMs are amazing, and that humans deserve to lose their jobs, and then equated his justification by saying no one cried when washing machines were invented to replace people that washed clothes and otherwise by hand. I'm here to remind you that disabled people do not think alike, and it is OK to not listen to every single disabled person with the same velocity that you would not listen to...
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Holy Gods motorcycles are loud! I rode on one this morning, choked on almost swallowing a fly/bug, and I learned how to lean in with the turns. I assumed because of my small size it wouldn't matter if I didn't lean, but it does. Next I get to interview them about biker politics. What fun! I could make some amazing Romance conflicts with their politics but for a short explanation of, well, how I got here, https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117468207654917254
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Everyone loves shitting on the Romance genre, but quite frankly, if the men paid at all any spec of attention to the consent happening in those novels, the world would be a far better place. “is this comfortable? Can I touch you here? I need your full consent before we do this. Does that feel good? How do you feel?” You can find all those empowering questions, and more, in Romance novels everyone hates so much. #Romance #Bookstodon
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How many times does this have to happen before people start understanding that tech hates you and hates all of us? https://www.rawstory.com/no-kings-2678101228/ #NoKings #SocialMedia
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It will never stop being ironic to me that the one place I am certain never to stumble on LLM slop is piracy websites. I use piracy websites like the best catalog ever and then I go check out media from my local library. I am sure people have tried to upload LLM slop to piracy websites, but the pirates aren't sharing it, buddy. #Piracy
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If there’s any indication that audiobooks count as reading, take a hard look at the current reading is dying or is a lost art discourse, and yet, audiobook listeners continue to have better reading comprehension than those that simply do not read at all. I came across a YouTube video a few years ago where this non-disabled guy is going through self help book after book struggling to read and all the discourse surrounding him was rooted in, of course, ableism, but actively angry at him for trying...
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There’s a good reason why I choose to never attend blindness conventions, or assimilate myself with a lot of the blindness groups here in the US. I prefer hanging around a smaller contingency of blind people rather than the larger groups. Aside from the fact that the blind community is often extremely racist towards disabled people of color, trans phobic and homophobic to the disabled LGBT plus members, ableist to other disability groups, the community as a whole participates in techno ablei...
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Keep this #NoAI website, featuring software, communities, and more, without the use of any AI in the code bases or have an openly NoAI stance and policy https://noailist.org/ #AI
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Hi new followers! I would advise you to read my pinned toot, but this is going to be a short message on how I generally operate this account I often share interesting or unique or awesome things I read or listen to or watch online. I have #IFTTT share my website things to here because Mastodon does not natively support RSS imports. Not everything I share will be authored by me. If I’m sharing anything from the Sightless Scribbles domain, that is by me. If there are a lot of replies to one of my...
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There’s one thing I’d like to add to this list. If an account is not necessary, do not make an account . Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-worthless-to-tech-companies #Tech #Technology #Security #Privacy
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I am on the hunt for a public domain image I can use, well, everywhere, and I was thinking about this picture. I'd like an #Alt4Me though because the below alt text is generated, and is a tad excessively rambly for my taste. I am unsure if I can use this as my author picture, but if anyone has a better cat public domain image that exudes layers of hopeless romantic and snarky and lovable dread, would love suggestions!
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RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117310402482656220 New #AltText guide!
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I'm a fierce LLM critic but I'm getting just as annoyed at all the LLM vigilante detectives in the book space. How about you all do something useful rather than speculating if Daggermouth was generated. Here's a hint. Read the book. It wasn't. I know it's not a nine second video clip but I believe in you! You have the power! In my personal life, I've had people just stop publishing things because an unusual metaphor told someone the thing was generated. And just LMAO at u...
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recently posted Grieving Alongside Water https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/grieving-alongside-water/ #Blogging #Blog #NoPaywall
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I just now realized why there are table of contents at the beginning of some blog posts. Sighted folk don’t have a way to jump to the first heading level 3 on the page, nor do they have the capability of bringing up a list of headings on the page and then jumping to a chosen heading the way we do. Gods, how do you all use such a limited form of navigation? I would think scrolling would get tiresome after a while. #WebDev
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If you really want to tell disabled people to use an open source or alternative thing instead of the proprietary thing, you better make damn well sure that open source or alternative thing is at least screen reader friendly as a bare minimum when it comes to disability access if you're the developer. If you're a user of the open source or alternative thing, encourage the developer to do better than the proprietary developers on all disability developments, even when the developer tries...
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Unable to work full time and need money for offline and online bills. I need all your support! https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ @MutualAidNet@mastodon.social @MutualAidVisibility@mastodon.social @mutualaid@a.gup.pe @mutual_aid@starflower.space #MutualAid #Disability #DisabilityMutualAi…
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RE: https://is.nota.live/@beaiouns/117292968190158737 In case you missed it
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Here's a small database of some of the fascists in tech. Although, what I’d do is just have a single page with giant bold letters that say, tech and the tech industry is fascist by design, but still, this is a good list to keep handy! https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/fashware #Tech #Technology
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Why Young Women Aren’t Ashamed Of Disability Anymore https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/why-young-women-arent-ashamed-of-disability-anymore/ #Disability #Pride
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Checking out #Wafrn and any of my fellow blind people know if any of our blind clients can interact with it yet? Even a little? I don't need all their functions like biting. Great documentation, by the way.
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Well, this is interesting! Sighted people in my life, some of them, are using software made for us such as #Paperback and stuff like #Fedra because they say they never have that visual bloat most software has today, and they like the speed of software like Paperback. Turns out sighted people *do* get tired looking at things. https://github.com/trypsynth/paperback #Books #Bookstodon #OpenSource
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Remember, their record profits are your unpaid wages
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This was a lot more fascinating than I initially thought . observing right-wingers for twelve days – suliman's blog https://blog.sulimans.space/observing-right-wingers-for-twelve-days/
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Tech Bros are mad because everyone loves libraries, the only data center worth championing and keeping. #Library #Libraries #AI #LLMs
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I think Meta knows I do not use any of their garbage AI things so they’re asking me to send over proof of my identity because my activity is suspicious, according to them. I of course have refused and now others are wondering, yet again, how to get a hold of me if I’m not on Facebook messenger. I posted a status to friends only giving out my VOIP phone number for SMS and calls but absolutely no one over there wants to keep my phone number, they just want to use Facebook messenger. This has ma...
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I know #WebDev love their share buttons at the top of the post, but you know the one thing I consistently use 99.9% more than all of those, the copied to clipboard button. It honestly would be really nice if I could see a single button that says copy URL to clipboard at the top of posts rather than 999 share buttons I never ever use
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Ebooks Are Coming to Libro! https://blog.libro.fm/ebooks-coming-librofm/ #Books #Bookstodon #EBooks
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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. > Your new amount will be...