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Sightless Scribbles
Personal blog · sightlessscribbles.com/postswritingculture
Sightless Scribbles is a personal blog at sightlessscribbles.com about writing and culture. Since 2025, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “The Colonization of Confidence”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Robert Kingett's blog, written by a blind author with cerebral palsy, for posts on disability and tech such as the 'disability dongle' piece and a post on AI writing. Comments only cite them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
Most-linked posts?
- The Colonization of Confidence3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-11
- The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-27
- The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-14
- The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-26
What Hacker News says?
This idea is a major theme in this story by Robert Kingett: https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidenc...
Comment linking /the-colonization-of-confidence/
on “Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation”Submitted The Colonization of Confidence as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is such a classic HN take, thinking you know better without any real knowledge of the situation. Here’s a real-life blind person who strongly disagrees with you: https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/disability-dongle/
Comment linking /posts/disability-dongle/
on “Christmas Village shoppers no longer will be allowed to enter booths”Submitted A Requiem for My Dignity, Sacrificed at the Altar of AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussion[How confident are you that this writer uses AI?]( https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-con... )
Comment linking /posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/
on “The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner”Submitted The Kingett Guide to Free Pizza as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://sightlessscribbles.com/about/ > Kingett has Cerebral Palsy, CP, in addition to his blindness. He’s had both ever since he was a baby. He has Retinopathy of prematurity, commonly referred to as ROP. Even though he is ambulatory, his cerebral palsy makes it difficult to walk long distances or to stand for lengthy periods of time, which is probably why writing fell right into his lap! So it sounds* like he uses…
Comment linking /about/
on “The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You”Submitted The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dream of Tomorrow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Thermodynamic Failure of the Soul as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keyboard Shortcuts are my Superpower as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted He Learned the Gestures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Colonization of Confidence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Violent Aerodynamics of a Pastry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My website is my safe space as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Audiobooks are not accessible as a story · 1 points
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