@Cal@kind.social Disclosure is key for me; and I hate the intrusion of "okay, but why", and yet, the why matters: is it for accessibility? Please, do!
Any other reason is a, "extremely negative" reaction.
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Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon.
#RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
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azteclady
@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
#PSA: if you don't want any images in your Google photos to be used to train GenAI, you need to OPT OUT.
"“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”"
#GenAI #Google
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/18/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live/
"“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”"
#GenAI #Google
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/18/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live/
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
RE: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/115985224639778868
Nothing quite as devastating as the anger of a gentle soul.
"for liberty and justice for all"
Nothing quite as devastating as the anger of a gentle soul.
"for liberty and justice for all"
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
Because one of my favorite genre romance reviewing blogs reminded me this morning, may I recommend a trilogy with excellent 'oh no, we must cuddle to survive' scenes in the first book, which ends with "and the trillionaire does get what he had richly earned": the Nowhere trilogy, Felicia Davin
In case, you know, you're in the mood for that.
#Romancelandia #RomBkBlog #NowhereTrilogy #FeliciaDavin
Author's website: https://www.feliciadavin.com/the-nowhere/
My review of the first book:
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2022/01/21/edge-of-nowhere-by-felicia-davin/
In case, you know, you're in the mood for that.
#Romancelandia #RomBkBlog #NowhereTrilogy #FeliciaDavin
Author's website: https://www.feliciadavin.com/the-nowhere/
My review of the first book:
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2022/01/21/edge-of-nowhere-by-felicia-davin/
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
@CatsOfYore "sálvese el que pueda!"(so many proverbs and sayings are the same in various languages, not just in overall meaning, but sometimes almost literal translation)
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
#PSA: If you are in Salem MA at the moment, you can visit a remarkable exhibition: 30 works of Edmonia Lewis, the first Black and Indigenous artist born in the U.S. at the Peabody Essex Museum
#Art #Sculpture #EdmoniaLewis
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/edmonia-lewis-black-indigenous-classical-sculptor-2762228
#Art #Sculpture #EdmoniaLewis
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/edmonia-lewis-black-indigenous-classical-sculptor-2762228
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
@dzwiedziu
I want to get some solar for my house (need is probably the better word) but I'll be damned if I give this particular company one red cent.
@blogdiva @licho
I want to get some solar for my house (need is probably the better word) but I'll be damned if I give this particular company one red cent.
@blogdiva @licho
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azteclady
@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
Heads up: Raygun is moving their newsletter to Substack, the known Nazi promo platform. The owner's argument is "there are Nazis everywhere, what can we do?" as if Ghost or other platforms with a "no Nazis allowed" policy don't exist.
#SubstackHasANaziProblem
In case you think the above is a bold claim:
https://gizmodo.com/substack-sends-push-alert-for-nazi-newsletter-2000636663
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/12/casey-newton-quits-substack-nazi-newsletter
https://theracket.news/p/substack-s-extremist-ecosystem-is-flourishing
https://www.techpolicy.press/substack-founder-defends-commercial-relationships-with-nazis/
https://medium.com/bouncin-and-behavin-blogs/substack-and-the-nazi-bar-im-not-sticking-around-653ba87d2b5f
https://www.businessinsider.com/substack-nazi-problem-free-speech-money-analysis-2023-12
#SubstackHasANaziProblem
In case you think the above is a bold claim:
https://gizmodo.com/substack-sends-push-alert-for-nazi-newsletter-2000636663
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/12/casey-newton-quits-substack-nazi-newsletter
https://theracket.news/p/substack-s-extremist-ecosystem-is-flourishing
https://www.techpolicy.press/substack-founder-defends-commercial-relationships-with-nazis/
https://medium.com/bouncin-and-behavin-blogs/substack-and-the-nazi-bar-im-not-sticking-around-653ba87d2b5f
https://www.businessinsider.com/substack-nazi-problem-free-speech-money-analysis-2023-12
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
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Via Scientific American: Trump wants to cut funding for NASA--again.
#CelebrateScience #NASA #CallToAction
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/white-house-budget-puts-54-nasa-science-missions-on-the-chopping-block/
#CelebrateScience #NASA #CallToAction
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/white-house-budget-puts-54-nasa-science-missions-on-the-chopping-block/
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
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"If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out The Planetary Society--they have a plan."
#CelebrateScience #ArtemisII #NASA #CallToAction
https://www.planetary.org/save-nasa-science
#CelebrateScience #ArtemisII #NASA #CallToAction
https://www.planetary.org/save-nasa-science
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
#JoyScrolling #ArtemisII #HiddenFigures #CelebrateScience #CelebrateWomenScientists #KatherineJohnson #NASA
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
"Canadian authors, if you aren't eligible for the US Anthropic lawsuit bc you didn't register US copyright, we have our own class action suit! It doesn't rely on registering copyright and you're included in the class by default" -- Arden Powell on Bluesky
#AnthropicClass #Canada @bookstodon
Sign up for updates:
https://www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action/anthropic-pbc-ai-copyright-class-action/
#AnthropicClass #Canada @bookstodon
Sign up for updates:
https://www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action/anthropic-pbc-ai-copyright-class-action/
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116369793687490139
If you have an older kindle device:
"they won’t be able to download more, and if they reset those Kindles to their factory defaults, the devices won’t be able to sign back in to an Amazon account....if you check your Kindle’s software version and see anything older than 5.12.2.2, it means your Kindle is losing access to Amazon’s store and your e-book library."
@wil @SuperWendy In case this applies to either of you, or someone you know:
If you have an older kindle device:
"they won’t be able to download more, and if they reset those Kindles to their factory defaults, the devices won’t be able to sign back in to an Amazon account....if you check your Kindle’s software version and see anything older than 5.12.2.2, it means your Kindle is losing access to Amazon’s store and your e-book library."
@wil @SuperWendy In case this applies to either of you, or someone you know:
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azteclady
@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116364441348826860
Carl Sagan, on Cosmos (1980), partial transcript from clip below:
"And the world impoverishes itself by spending a trillion dollars a year in preparations for war and by employing perhaps half the scientists and high technologists in the planet, in military endeavors...We have heard the rationales offered by the super powers, we know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species, who speaks for Earth?"
#CarlSagan #Cosmos #OnWar
Carl Sagan, on Cosmos (1980), partial transcript from clip below:
"And the world impoverishes itself by spending a trillion dollars a year in preparations for war and by employing perhaps half the scientists and high technologists in the planet, in military endeavors...We have heard the rationales offered by the super powers, we know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species, who speaks for Earth?"
#CarlSagan #Cosmos #OnWar
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116354480071471219
From someone on the ground in Minnesota, a thread on how to face what's happening in the U.S.
"the choice is ourselves or nothing"
If you ever asked yourself what you'd have done in the face of the Nazi state and the persecution of Jewish people therein, this is the time to find the true answer.
Every person helping their neighbors--however they do--is heroic in their own way.
#USPolitics #Minnesota #ICE #StateViolence #Fascism #Resilience
From someone on the ground in Minnesota, a thread on how to face what's happening in the U.S.
"the choice is ourselves or nothing"
If you ever asked yourself what you'd have done in the face of the Nazi state and the persecution of Jewish people therein, this is the time to find the true answer.
Every person helping their neighbors--however they do--is heroic in their own way.
#USPolitics #Minnesota #ICE #StateViolence #Fascism #Resilience
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azteclady
@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
@SuperWendy ugh, yeah, I wouldn't wanna either.
(long ago, migrating a blogger blog to free wordpress wasn't terrible--Karen did it herself without issues--but it's been a good twenty years since I saw anyone talk about it)
@wil
(long ago, migrating a blogger blog to free wordpress wasn't terrible--Karen did it herself without issues--but it's been a good twenty years since I saw anyone talk about it)
@wil
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
@SuperWendy blogger has been super weird for me for a few months; like, I cannot longer comment on Bona's blog, and I don't know quite how--she told me on my (wordpress) blog that she sometimes can't comment on blogs in her own country, so who knows?
@wil
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
@wil ::butting in, uninvited:: I don't think she has the 'moderating comments' thing popping up, but she's still moderating comments, so they seem to disappear into the ether until she approves them (unless you mean something else entirely, in which case I'll go be quiet in a corner)
@SuperWendy
@SuperWendy
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
#SayNoToGenAI
With some trepidation, because I'm new here: beyond the harm to the environment--which is fucking significant--everyone should avoid using the slop vomitron simply to protect themselves.
There are many recorded instances of harm caused by use of GenAI bots, from psychosis and suicidality to avoiding life saving medical treatment "because (the bot) told me".
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/using-genai-llms-destroys-the-planet-your-brain-and-families/
On top of which, we know it atrophies critical thinking in a hurry.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/saying-no-to-genai-llms-humans-are-prone-to-cognitive-surrender/
With some trepidation, because I'm new here: beyond the harm to the environment--which is fucking significant--everyone should avoid using the slop vomitron simply to protect themselves.
There are many recorded instances of harm caused by use of GenAI bots, from psychosis and suicidality to avoiding life saving medical treatment "because (the bot) told me".
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/using-genai-llms-destroys-the-planet-your-brain-and-families/
On top of which, we know it atrophies critical thinking in a hurry.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/saying-no-to-genai-llms-humans-are-prone-to-cognitive-surrender/
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@azteclady@kind.social
Reads (mostly genre romance and mysteries). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon. #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge #JoyScrolling
kind.social
You know that "if you see Tom Holland's LipSync "Umbrella", you must re-post/boost/share it, social media rule?
Well, I feel very much the same about this #HeateRivalryShow video edit; music is Chappell Roan's "Pink Pony Club", but you should really expand the description and read the new lyrics in one go before watching.
CN: the first few seconds have quick edit transitions that may mimic strobbing/flashing for people with visual sensitivity.
#Music #JoyScrolling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj0BcuSlUKc
Well, I feel very much the same about this #HeateRivalryShow video edit; music is Chappell Roan's "Pink Pony Club", but you should really expand the description and read the new lyrics in one go before watching.
CN: the first few seconds have quick edit transitions that may mimic strobbing/flashing for people with visual sensitivity.
#Music #JoyScrolling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj0BcuSlUKc
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