Yeah, there’s a lot of times where I’m trying to figure out how to get where I want for way too long. I don’t know if I don’t use reviews because I don’t care or if it’s bad, but it’s likely the former as I don’t go to any of these apps for recommendations. I do like their granularity as that can be helpful from time to time!

I use storygraph, though don’t care to do anything more than track reads, set goals, and share with my wife who uses that and gr.

It’s nice though! and let’s me split content by the exact edition/format pretty easily.

One idiot being whiny and petty doesn’t make another doing the bare minimum—and trying to wreck everyone else’s blocks while doing it—look cool.

How the cut and dry “modify or waive” language got so bent out of shape displays just how much of a legislative chop shop this court has become.

It occasionally takes some doing, but my wife does! She reads lots of Libby on Kobo and even manga from Libby.

And here I am coming back from a meeting TODAY telling us why we have to “return to work” (a term that implies I haven’t been working successfully for the last few years.)

I do focused work and get next to nothing done on our in-office days. Training is even better digitally as I can actually see what’s happening on my own screen at my own screen’s size. I’m not stuck taking notes on someone else doing a task.

The whole thing is infuriating and I can’t wait for it to just die as a norm.

This was sort of me. I couldn’t use my eyes to read a book after college. Something about college took that from me. Maybe that’s when I really dove into social media, maybe I never had quiet space to just read. Either way, undiagnosed adhd and some degree of dyslexia went a ways towards breaking my looong time visual reading habit.

But, I never stopped reading audiobooks. Almost a decade out and I’m still recovering my visual reading, but I downed 13 books and novellas this month via audiobook. (And finally finished an ebook I started in February!) Reading is now an inevitability rather than a goal.

I read almost exclusively sci-fi and fantasy, but slip in non-fiction or classic fiction every so often.

So, for me, it’s read what you like and read how you like.

Side note: books that I really want to ready that aren’t at my library as audiobooks are the sole driver of me getting back into visual reading. Being audio-only locked me out of a LOT of books that I really want to read. So, unless that matches you, I have no idea how to reincentivize visual reading other than that.

Grow up = “do exactly what I tell them too”

Having heard about his moderation of r/jailbait, the gaslighty tactic sounds right up his alley.

“Oh, minor victim, adults do adult things. It just happens to be exactly what I’m telling you to do. You want to grow up and be mature, right?”

The guy is a creep.

I’m here because Reddit told me they view me as a wallet, not a participant, contributor, or anything else.

The fediverse isn’t and may never be strictly “better”, but neither will Reddit. Reddit has a singular vision of worse quality and worse management going forward. They may claw BACK some of what they’ve chucked out the window, but they’ve shown they’re not going to make the product better. Ever. Just different versions of bad.

Had they taken a boiled frog approach, I’d be there a lot longer. I wasn’t excited to pay, but it would become a decision of “pay for a better experience or get something worse for freeTM”. That’s a different choice than “use my worsening app or screw off.” They made the choice relatively easy where they could have made it a lot more nuanced.