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 Meta Smart Glasses Empower Blind People to Participate in Corporate Surveillance https://thesqueakywheel.org/meta-smart-glasses-empower-blind-people-to-participate-equally-in-corporate-surveillance/ #AI #LLM #Blind #Disability 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 I don’t know how else to say that if you are against using any LLM, then you should stop using AI checkers of any sort. Not only are they just another tool to slurp up text, but every bit of writing with common words and phrases will be flagged as generated when it’s not because every LLM has common words and phrases in its training data. Lastly, every one of these checkers is designed to eventually get you to pay the tech company money so they can pretend to make your writing more human. They do not work the way you assume. #AI #LLM #NoAI #AISlop npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett This! Yes! Actually Centrists Should Love the DSA https://www.burnsnotice.com/actually-centrists-should-love-the-dsa/ #US #USA #Politics npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Outlook Interview with Robert Kingett part 2 https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/ce68fb27/outlook-interview-with-robert-kingett-part-2 #Podcast #Podcasts npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett SARCASM folks, I think I was a temporarily embarrassed Elon Musk fan all along! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I am the worst Romance hero ever. 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 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 HAS THE INDIEWEB BECOME IRRELEVANT? https://starbreaker.org/opinions/has-indieweb-become-irrelevant.html #IndieWeb #Fediverse #WebDev 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 Was paid to troubleshoot some neighbors LLM output and Just discovered that I am a better LLM prompter than my tech enthusiast neighbors and it saddens me. Hey guys, wanna know why telling the bot, “please don't hallucinate,” doesn’t work? I’d be more than happy to tell you, for the low price of $500,000. But get in while deals last, because this is a special, exclusive, earlybird price! #LLM #AI npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…yzvs @nprofile…wwlr So according to the terms of service, you can write about anything you want to, you just won’t be promoted in the Discover feed npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…yzvs Yeah. About that, I would say read https://matduggan.com/self-hosting-isnt-a-solution-its-a-patch/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Why I Left WordPress for BearBlog – Cats and Birds and Stuff https://catsandbirdsandstuff.com/why-i-left-wordpress-for-bearblog/ #Wordpress #Blog npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett SOCIALISTS AREN’T NAIVE ABOUT HUMAN NATURE https://jacobin.com/2026/07/socialism-human-nature-morality npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Latest mailing list update, newsletter updates and serializing audiobooks. https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter/archive/podcast-updates/ #Blog #Blogs 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 @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 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 The best compliment I could’ve ever received! Why don’t you artist types ever describe technology in technical terms? How do I know if you are correct or not! My reply? That’s the whole point! Here’s a little hint! I did that on purpose to make all the tech nerds squirm ! How to make portable Passkeys, Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/how-to-make-portable-passkeys/ #Passkey #Security #Technology 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 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 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 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 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 New post: On Access Trauma https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/on-access-trauma/ 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 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 I mean, I fully agree, but I can't share his blog posts with my offline friends because of sentences like the below, even if I fully agree with them/it. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett This thread exemplifies the #Fediverse hypocrisy I see all the time here 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 Loving these ideas, actually! If this central installer were community owned, better! https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/which-linux/ #Linux npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Speaking of, hey tech people, regarding this whole #BandCamp talk. You could help artists set up Faircamp instances instead of posting, but that would be actually supporting the artists instead of just consuming their art 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 @nprofile…4zr8 Ah thank you! Oh I actually *really* love Scribe by the way! Could you DM me your email again? I meant to send over my resume but your email got lost in the shuffle. One question, these are PDFs. I use a snail mail to email service so this is a scan of a handwritten letter. How much is human remediation? I haven't checked, but do you offer conversion to either plain text or Markdown? I remember seeing RTF and DOCX and audio but I don't remember plain text/markdown but it's been a while since I tried it last. But here I go! Off to give it a shot! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Any blind folk know a good OCR web tool that can OCR handwriting I can use from a computer? I already know about Be My Eyes and I use all the blindness LLM interfaces, Aira Access AI or whatever it's called, but I'd love to move away from those and move to a more dedicated OCR tool since basically that's the only thing I use any of these LLM things for anyway. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The one thing I wish the #Fediverse understood about places like Facebook is the fact the social network itself isn't liked, nor popular, But people *love, love, love, love* private, and let me repeat this, private, groups like the below. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Hey @nprofile…gcx5 can you update my PeerTube listing on Fedi directory? I don't plan on making any more channels, so not sure if I should link to my account or channel, but https://makertube.net/c/robertkingett/videos #PeerTube npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett One of my beta readers thinks I have invented a new romance trope, but I can assure you I did not. In my book, a partner clips the protagonist toenails with such care and tenderness that it is an act of love and non-sexual intimacy. She wants to call it body care but i’m pretty sure there’s an official, industry standard, name for this existing trope. Does anyone know what this is? I can assure you I did not invent this trope. #Romance #RomanceLandia npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…8epu Nailed it! Meanwhile I can’t tell you how much fanfiction I read that’s better than some original IP npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Thinking about every dehumanization of bloggers I’ve seen growing up. To me, it seemed like pop culture hated, and I mean hated, bloggers. I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. Now however, I get more information, news, personal perspective, and even educational material through people running blogs on their own websites but when I was growing up, you weren’t a real writer if you had your own blog and website. You were the laughing stock of the Internet if you had your own blog and your own website. Imagine if we encouraged blogging and website ownership decades ago. To put things into perspective, the dehumanization of bloggers and website owners is almost the same as the pop culture dislike of podcasts today. #IndieWeb npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…l0xh @nprofile…0dn2 I don’t know how long you have been on the internet but Fedi works better than Google because Fedi is not a SEO wearhouse npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I wrote to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to enable an RSS feed, or at least make it far easier to find. Seems endlessly strange to me that they do tech activism and won't enable their RSS feed or otherwise make it easier to find. I am *not* joining their mailing list. I only use email for communication. @nprofile…eexk #RSS npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…q597 Do you know if I can use it via WSL or something? Mutt or NeoMut, but fully agree! I see it happening all the time. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Me too! The more I am forced to interact with the mainstream web, the more I hate it. Maybe a chat app *shouldn't* be an audio calling app, nor a bloated hot mess the way Discord is. Maybe IRC is actually fine for like 99.9% of chat rooms and maybe #XMPP is better than fine for instant messaging. Ever since really changing how I do email, I love it! No more spam, and I am writing people letters again! @nprofile…q597 npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I get the point of this whole blog post isn't this quote, but every time I hear people say the below quote, I roll my eyes. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…g5d5 I have a blog that broadcasts my life to people in Kenya, so I don’t need these glasses! The people in Kenya can subscribe to my blog via RSS! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I mean, who in the world could’ve ever seen this coming? This is an absolute shock to everybody! But they just gave a batch of these away for free to the blinded veterans association. Meta One subscription for AI glasses | AI Glasses Help https://www.meta.com/help/ai-glasses/1384571770097740/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Hey @nprofile…gcx5 @nprofile…p4lr would you know any servers? See above? Especially about automation? I was thinking about Wandering Shop but they don't allow automated posting npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett We're obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Hey @nprofile…zx6n so I've been making an effort to use the main Mastodon interface more and more. For autocomplete suggestions in the compose area, how would I review those via keyboard? I am bypassing screen reader commands so I am intereacting with the browser directly, but when I press down arrow, nothing appears to read. Is there an easy way to review these while I am composing a toot? #Fediverse #Mastodon npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Aside from the fact that this is why I do not get along with most blind leaders, because they beleive accessibility is different from intersectionality, how come every sociological and privacy and non accessibility point disabled critics of LLM companies talk about are ignored? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Looking for a new #PeerTube instance. My podcast host doesn't support video, otherwise, I'd upload there, but I am not a traditional video artist. Mainly showcasing my events and otherwise that are recorded, literary events that are recorded, and some game streams. Not at all interested in self hosting. Frankly, if there isn't a similar instance, I'll put these on YouTube. To see the previous videos I've done, https://spectra.video/c/robertkingett/videos #Video #Videos #Fediverse #AskFedi #YouTube npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett So you all know I use piracy websites like a catalog I browse and then place the books on hold at the library because I'd rather wait on hold 100 days then use a shitty torrent client, but the number 1 pirated book for months now? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code – OSnews https://www.osnews.com/story/145130/open-source-project-contains-hidden-instruction-for-ai-agents-delete-my-code/ #OpenSource #AI #LLM npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I'd say, now, yes. Unfortunately, it is still quite difficult even for me to know exactly where to begin. Is it UI issues or more of an accessibility culture thing because I can't do much about the lack of accessibility culture. I did start suggesting encouraging accessible settings, like, maybe doing things such as reduce motion being enabled for new users, kind of suggestions, but I can't fix culture issues. I am much better for UI issues and otherwise. I made a bunch of suggestions in the UI area but what other kinds of suggestions were they looking for? @nprofile…327n npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett This site surfaces indie blog posts and I love it! https://bubbles.town/ #FollowFriday #RSS #Blog #Blogging #Blogs npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett So, I've got a masculine friend. No speech disability at all. Standard mid-western American accent whites feel comfortable around, and an accent you'd think these white dudes in tech would code for/train on, and this is how advanced dictation has become. Hi Robert, I hope you got a good sleeve last night, I was wondering if you wanted to get a coffin with me today? we could go to the spores and I can pipe the penny for you. Have a good day, custard! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…eh70 @nprofile…lvgx I forget if I asked but is there an internet radio of your streams or a podcast of your streams? Partially because I’m really getting into Internet radio again, like, the love a brother radio, and things like that, and I love podcasts, but I generally listen to fiction podcast so I’m trying to diversify from fiction podcast npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Friend: seriously, you should use your journalism background to get the inside scoop on the rich, it could be fantastic for your research! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett It's super hard! I have people/friends that I don't wanna lose, but no matter how hard I try, see link at end, they just. Will. Not. Leave. Facebook. They won't email, and this is also a constant problem even to this day https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/6552/ @nprofile…mnlu npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett So because some audiobook groups I am in told me they will *never* leave Facebook, I wanna ask here. What audiobook blogs can I add to my RSS reader? Share yours! Even if you do reviews. I'd love to know about it. #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #Audible #Audiobooks #Audiobook #RSS npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Is there a Fedi service that aggregate all the links posted from my followers into one RSS feed that I can subscribe to for the times that I don’t log onto the Fediverse? I did find mastodon to RSS but that uses an algorithm to only show the links that are most clicked, and I want a service that shares every link that my followers post even if no one clicks on it. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I hear this every day. I’m tired npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…240u You win comment of the year! Yes to all this! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I haven’t read her books closely, or even at all, but After looking into this controversy, I’m convinced there is no such thing as bad press. Wait until people realize that Israel citizens are different from government. This might rock you, but there have been Israeli people in prison for protesting the genocide their government is doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCg7rIBdn1g&si=ktXd2mALVthYh83x #Bookstodon @nprofile…9pr4 npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…qtty Oh do you read via Kindle, on the app? As yuck as Amazon is, I was told that basically you can change fonts etc in almost all books, but I dunno for sure! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Honestly been reading a lot of Public Domain books lately. Anyone know where I can find some modern Creative Commons books? I mainly get them from Gutenberg because I don't understand Standard EBooks. Gutenberg formats are fine for me, sighted people seem to *love* Standard EBooks. https://www.gutenberg.org/ #Books #Bookstodon npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I know many sighted people, 20/20 vision, that buy large print books like this. Publishers are missing a market https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kennedy-ryan/score/9781538782750/ #Publishing #Accessibility #A11y npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I love this concept. Private blogging first where no one can access it unless you give them access. Does anyone know of similar, private first, blogging services I can share with people that wanna blog but *not* have it open to the whole internet without changing a bunch of settings? https://havenweb.org/faq.html npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett *Sigh* I just don't even know what to say these days. This is how tired I am. Absolutely zero energy to reply. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Really pleased to see authors going back and releasing their series as duet narration, also as a series box set. I hope the author makes a lot of sales because I know this was not cheap. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GPZ5L4GN?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The Gift Horse's Mouth is Full of Terrible Braille https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/c8450d38/the-gift-horse-s-mouth-is-full-of-terrible-braille npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I am currently living a real life romance trope, I just can’t find what this trope is. For weeks now, my neighbor and I have been exchanging text files on a flash drive rather than emails, because our inboxes are flooded and a lot of people have asked us, why not just exchange email addresses, but there is something revolutionary anticipatory about receiving a knock on my door, a flash drive tucked into a bag, with some kind of fruit, shampoo, or cookie or something the other might need. What really makes my heart swoon is these aren’t short letters either, they’re lengthy! Of course we talk to each other and we see each other often around the complex, but we don’t have enough time to converse the way we write to each other. #PenPal #PenPals npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I will believe that corporations are people when police and governments start executing them. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett When can we bully CEOs? But also, fantastic reporting! 'We've Been A Little Bit Too Romantic About The Idea That We Should Have Employees And Give People Long-term Job Security' Is An Extraordinary Thing For A Video Games CEO To Say On Record https://aftermath.site/video-game-job-security/ #Capitalism npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Related to the Blender announcement. Claude for Creative Work \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work #AI #Blender #LLM npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett New, accessible, podcast app and internet radio station player for Macs and iOS by @nprofile…cpgg needs more blind and low vision testers! I'm already making a lot of suggestions for Fiction podcast fans such as myself but the test link for both mac and iOS is https://testflight.apple.com/join/VrMXgQsS #Disability #Accessibility #A11y #Apple #Podcast #Podcasts @nprofile…75z9 npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…nntf Thank you for this! I was honestly like, you mean there are alternatives? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…wxdx @nprofile…3a0m Can nonfiction be solar punk? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Keeping my iPhone SE 3 until I am forced to upgrade. Got a battery replacement planned for tomorrow and it honestly is nice not to drop $1,500 every year. I just pay about $60 and I have a working phone for years to come. Finding chargers is becoming harder and harder though. #Apple npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett If any of my #France #Accessibility people have weight here, make sure they require #Disability support because to a lot of the open source community, disability access is a feature, not a right. These corporations software are more disability friendly France ditches Microsoft for Linux to achieve digital sovereignty – and it's not the only one! | Tuta https://tuta.com/blog/countries-ditching-microsoft-choosing-linux-digital-sovereignty #OpenSource #Linux npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett How to Spot AI Audiobooks on Libby | Lifehacker https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-spot-ai-audiobooks-on-libby #Libby #LibbyApp npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett My sighted friends are listening to movies on their jogs and stuff. YAY #AudioDescription npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Respect, Trust, and Scale: A Note to Our Community https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/respect-trust-and-scale-a-note-to-our-community/ #Disability npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Has anyone asked these Tec Bros why they are here? As you can see, they hate it that this isn’t like other mainstream platforms, but I also think they also hate that us marginalized users created a space without them? I also believe that they are projecting because they couldn’t figure out the dot com bubble and are furious that marginalized users created a thing without them npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I can't tell you how much I loved this post! Thank you! Gonna go find some of your erotica to buy now. @nprofile…nntf npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett AH! Thank you! Is your personal site updated often? Like, what's that RSS feed? I haven't looked at your profile yet, but yeah! Now I should keep a list of links I like just because I hate the way browser bookmarks behave. @nprofile…6jqn @nprofile…lwmd npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Ugh, so today's just not my day. I spent hours looking for the blog of @nprofile…6jqn thinking I was looking for a different blog, because I was remembering old posts I wanted to read again, so I spent hours trying to find those old posts, unaware that the thoughtful posts I loved so much were actually all on https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ #FediBlog #FediBlogs npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I mean, fuck LLMs but if you are going to use #AI, use their money instead of yours. It does give me glee that people are spending company token money. https://www.cio.com/article/4155404/ai-token-freeloaders-are-coming-for-your-customer-support-chatbot.html #LLM npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…hcex Honestly this is a brilliant tip! I haven't been exposed to them a lot with other social media so just never used it/them but I started using it/them here and it's been fantastic for my memory!
