Sightless Scribbles
Sightless Scribbles
Robert Kingett
Meow. This is my blog and website. I'm scared of being famous but I love people sharing my work. I'm a totally blind, gay, author and accessibility consultant. I used to be legally blind. For more background, check out my about page.
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Mood: Tired. Just tired of it all. The air always tastes of exhausted ozone and venture capital these days. It's a cloying stench that's polluting the beautiful bedrock of society. Tech Bros are currently engineering the loudest, most...
This won't be a lengthy post. It will consist of a small update and a brief explanation regarding why I am no longer publishing Sightless Scribbles to YouTube. For those that do follow my YouTube channel, you might have noticed that I...
Throwback notes. This was previously published on the Libro FM blog. I've edited one word, and have chosen not to link to the audiobook I am mentioning because of what surfaced about this author in 2026. I’ll be the first to tell you...
Throwback notes. This was previously published on the Libro FM blog. I've edited one word, and have chosen not to link to the audiobook I am mentioning because of what surfaced about this author in 2026. I’ll be the first to tell you...
Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake. There is a feel-good genre of viral video that I call "The Inspiration Porn Industrial Complex." You know the one. It usually features a college engineering team, a dramatic piano...
Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake. There is a feel-good genre of viral video that I call "The Inspiration Porn Industrial Complex." You know the one. It usually features a college engineering team, a dramatic piano...
This was previously published on Writer's Digest. The column instructed us to be a clueless literary agent. This was accepted, and I was so happy my satire was accepted, I bragged about it to the grass and to gravity itself. The...
Read the story here Read the backlash background on this Wikipedia page here I’m sitting here remembering a short story published before the pandemic this year, in 2020. My god, that seems so long ago, but the story is still in the back...
Read the story here Read the backlash background on this Wikipedia page here I’m sitting here remembering a short story published before the pandemic this year, in 2020. My god, that seems so long ago, but the story is still in the back...
The thought of changing the world comes to me quite often, when my friends and I are deep in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign and we’re playfully bantering about what direction we should head, as I’m quietly munching on a yummy chocolate...
Mood: Functioning at 1000% efficiency. I often feel a deep, confusing pity for sighted computer users. I know, I know. You have your high-definition monitors and your colorful icons and your wallpapers of tropical beaches you’d rather be...
The website that hosted this review is no longer online so I would like to keep it here. The below review was written when I was sighted. I am fully blind now. Side note, nearly 15 years later, this game seems like some serious fun now!...
Sadly, the review hosting this isn’t online anymore so I decided to publish it here, on my own website. This was back when I had vision. I’m fully blind now. Game details Version tested: PC Also available on: iOS Developer: BeautiFun...
I experienced a trauma that my fellow disabled people encounter on a daily basis. It was early in the morning, and I was checking my email. I got an email from someone that wanted me to consider writing about their disabled business or...
This was published on Vice. It was a good journalism piece, I feel, even though I am no longer a journalist. Still, this was great because I got paid well above what I was expecting. It was my first publication where I negotiated my...