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• Post #4439657

  Ebooks Are Coming to Libro! https://blog.libro.fm/ebooks-coming-librofm/ #Books #Bookstodon #EBooks

• Post #4434711

  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...

• Post #4421587

  The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ #Disability #Accessibility #A11y

• Post #4399997

  Using Horror to Tackle Inaccessibility and Ableism https://socialaudiodescription.com/2026/08/05/using-horror-to-tackle-inaccessibility-and-ableism/ #AudioDescription #Film

• Post #4356224

  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

• Post #4354699

  We were worried about the wrong aspects of AI https://webaligo.bearblog.dev/we-were-worried-about-the-wrong-aspect-of-ai/ #AI #LLM #Privacy

• Post #4280511

  Got an invite to go test out one of these new LLM startup things because I am on a shit load of tech PR lists. Thinking about putting on the journalism hat and attending, but in the Sightless Scribbles style, because I don't have to answer to an editor, I'm thinking it would be hilarious if I can somehow get them to put me on stage so I can sneak in my prompt that will instruct their LLM to broadcast instructions to the whole entire stadium via their PA system, “how to unionize because y...

• Post #4222715

  Because I wanted a way to syndicate my stuff to the #Fediverse without having comments on my website, I’m syndicating a different way. You can follow Sightless Scribbles Syndicated multiple ways. The Wordpress way, @blindjournalist.wordpress.com The WriteFreely way, @weirdwriter@write.as #ActivityPub

• Post #4218744

  Re: Why I Left Wordpress for BearBlog https://onlinegoddess.net/2026/07/re-why-i-left-wordpress-for-bearblog/ #Wordpress #Blog #Blogs

• Post #4212264

  Is there a #Blacksky but for blogs? Like a collective of minority bloggers? A database/webring? I know I can add Bluesky folks to my RSS reader, but I enjoy reading longer form stuff

• Post #4191727

  This #LibreOffice MASTER TECHNICAL ACCESSIBILITY REPORT is, uh, interesting. https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/msg01311.html #Accessibility #A11y

• Post #4174800

  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? Fo...

• Post #4173811

  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/max-weber/the-protestant-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism/talcott-parsons #Bookstodon #Books

• Post #4171294

  SOCIALISTS AREN’T NAIVE ABOUT HUMAN NATURE https://jacobin.com/2026/07/socialism-human-nature-morality

• Post #4141584

  hmm, wow, all these shit companies coming together? Can't be good for the major #Linux distros. Pretty soon, Linux Foundation will tell Microsoft to hold it's beer when it comes to ethics. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/nvidia-red-hat-cloudflare-the-linux-foundation-and-more-launch-the-open-secure-ai-alliance/

• Post #4122703

  Looking for additional narrators of any gender and indie producers to record Sightless Scribbles posts. Sean is still narrating them and producing them, but I need someone else I can call upon, say, when I want to try a Duette style narration with a post featuring a lot of dialog between my friend Kelly that listens to her inner organs rather than any religion, or when I write about my British friend I spilled tea on one day. Most likely, you should be open to work-swaps and installments in pay...

• Post #4106127

  Latest mailing list update, newsletter updates and serializing audiobooks. https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter/archive/podcast-updates/ #Blog #Blogs

• Post #4088321

  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 abo...

• Post #4087635

  This recent hashtag TikTok discourse wherein they belittle authors for using words that have more than three syllables, arguing that large word usage is ableism, has a whiff of racism to it. I know that there are aspects of relying on the written word has ties to white supremacy, but there’s just something about this discourse that rings like racism to me and none of the Youtubers I’ve seen talking about this issue have been pointing out the racism. For those not in the know, a lot of TikTok re...

• Post #4082253

  Now that reddit requires everyone to login, can we go back to open forums now? Yes, your shit will be used to train an LLM, but I am at the point to where I want open access internet things more than I want people trying to prevent LLM training with pay walls and login gates. #Reddit #Enshittification #Forum #Forums

• Post #4065360

  Links below. 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 train their fucking LLM and also 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. This is where I typically buy D...

• Post #4038183

  Others probably already know this, but if you let your #Audible subscription lapse, you will *not* get titles back that were previously in the included in Audible Plus subscription thing or whatever if you re-subscribe. Just be sure to download and keep all your titles, even if you purchase with cash/credit because I've had to pay for titles twice even though I paid for titles in the past and the book is still published. Tools to de-DRM your library. 1. Open Audible. I don't like this...

• Post #4035383

  Can we get more live streamed comedy events like this? I will be attending the one in Chicago tomorrow, but love this technology inclusive kind of event. I’ve been seeing a lot of anti technology sentiment from non-disabled people so this was great to see https://www.youtube.com/live/1J9ZM2y5lJs?is=s0HdJO1tLfk0MJxP #Comedy #Accessibility

• Post #4035285

  Tapped this sign again many times this week, but i’m going to upgrade it to where it talks about #XMPP too https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/6552/ #Facebook

• Post #4030607

  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

• Post #4026699

  New #Spam account so everyone report the support team account. Do not report the accounts it tags. I know nothing about the server it is on #FediBlock @Support_Team@mastoturk.org https://mastoturk.org/@Support_Team/116967283718571733

• Post #3986053

  Astonishing how so many e-book retailers and e-bookstores are just unnecessarily bloated. 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...

• Post #3974761

  A Bridge Made of Ableism https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/35b20ee1/a-bridge-made-of-ableism

• Post #3943403

  YAY! My mailing list/newsletter is now on it's own domain. Redirects should still happen but if not, bookmark https://newsletter.sightlessscribbles.com/ #Author #Authors #IndieWeb #Newsletter

• Post #3941703

  Live like you’re a book fascists want to ban!