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Speaking of the challenge of making SFW-ish promo graphics for spanking stories, here are two different graphics I made for the same book.
If you're a fan of spanking stories (or spanking-curious), which version does a better job of grabbing your attention and making you want to click through to learn more about the book?
Mastodon won't let me put a poll & graphic in the same post, so please reply with your feedback. 💋
#Spanking #Spanko #BDSM #ImpactPlay #Audiobook #Audiobooks #BookMarketing
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Where: #BookmarksBookshop, #London
When: June 7
Join #StellaAssange, Pulitzer Prize winner, #EwenMacAskill and me
to discuss Julian #Assange, #WikiLeaks and my book #SecretPower,foreword by #KenLoach, #PlutoPress
Book your seat here:
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High Tea at The Royal Academy
•─⋅☾2. High Tea: Arrival☽⋅─•
#FanFiction #AscendanceOfABookworm #HanneloresFifthYear
#wss366 #PIXIVCharitySanta“Do you think Wilfred will be there?” Hannalore asked Cordula for the third time.
Her attendant resisted the urge to roll her eyes. "It seems unlikely. It would be awkward, given what has occurred, but you'll find out soon enough.—But we are here; so please don’t #overlook your manners."
The room selected for the tea was small, decorated in the latest Alexandrian fashion, complete with elegant bookshelves and tasteful ornaments. Anyone daring to take out a book would have found that it was fake. Even the Alexandrian court, influenced by their new aub, couldn't afford to display this many books in a mere academy meeting room.
Hannalore chuckled. Knowing Rozemyne, the books would soon be real. She then blushed, embarrassed to have laughed out loud at such an inopportune moment. Her unfortunate timing had already played a trick on her.
Lady Sorrona rose as Hannalore entered. She was short for her age, with a face unfashionably sun-darkened. Yet she had a cute smile, and her clothes were in the best taste, liberally decorated with tiny lace flowers in the Ehrenfest fashion.
"Lady Hannalore, once again, Dregarnuhr, the Goddess of Time, has woven our threads together and blessed us with a meeting," Sorrona greeted her. Her voice quavered, and Hannalore felt sympathy for her. She, too, felt nervous when hosting others. It must be much worse for Sorrona, a first-year, hosting such important individuals. The duty must have fallen to her because the ranks of Alexandria's nobles had been severely thinned by the recent war and by Ferdinand's removal of others he deemed untrustworthy. The man was truly ruthless.
Still, surely they could have found someone more experienced. There were other Alexandrian students at the Royal Academy.
Hannalore curtsied and smiled reassuringly at the young woman. "I am honored by your invitation and have been looking forward to the event."
“I hope you can stay afterward and talk,” Sorrona said. “Aub Rozemyne gave me a special message for you."
The guest who had arrived early stirred. Such overt favoritism was unthinkable unless it were a deliberate snub. Poor Sorrona didn’t look sophisticated enough to have mastered that noble art yet.
"Poor girl," Hannalore thought. "She's already made a faux pas."
"Dregarnuhr has kindly bound our threads extra long." Hannalore bowed while taking in who else was there: Ehrenfest, of course; Blumenfeld; and Klassenberg. Behind her, she could hear Drewanchel arriving. The fact that such high-ranking duchies had come to a first-year's tea—a duchy inferior to most of them—spoke to the influence of Alexandria's archduchess.
Tags: #SliceOfLife #AoaB #MicroFiction #TootFic #Serial #NMV366 #NMFic #Bookworm
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#BookmarkTipp: Der EU #Datenschutz-Ausschuss hat in seinem #DataProtection Guide ein englisches #FAQ mit 49 Fragen und Antworten für kleine Unternehmen veröffentlicht:
https://edpb.europa.eu/sme-data-protection-guide/faq-frequently-asked-questions_enEin deutschsprachiges Angebot gibt es von uns: Datenschutz für #Kleinunternehmen (mehr: #DSKleinunternehmen). Wir bieten u.a. eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung zur Umsetzung der #DSGVO:
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El divendres el millor dia de la setmana. #debian #bookworm #xfce
#divendresdescriptori
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Bookmarked and screenshotted for archival purposes. 🤔
#israel #outofcontrol #falseflag
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People don't talk about Bookmarklets.
Esp if you talk about Favorites, and not Bookmarks because-- of course, in that case-- you'd be talkin about Favelets. how about, Script-letsCurious about @chrispederick #WebDeveloper #Toolbar #Browser #Extension
Clear cache of course somehow never clearxs the cache, right? so you spend how many seconds with that nonsense? do the math. it wastes a lot of time.
So, this approach however, does NOT waste time. And it works, every time.
Reload Style Sheet.
But my question is this. How's that work, yo?
I recokon you appreciate my affinity for the classic #Favelet #Bookmarklet javascript one-liners for execution in browser addr bar/ javascript as the URL "bookmark" which executes on click.
Jesse's and Squrefree. that's funny. I guess the XSS / CORS stuff prevents them for functioning. I've not extensively research, but am curious. -
Writer Beware: Web design scammers targeting authors #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory #authors #amediting #fiction #booksky fraud.org/web_dev_scam
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Unfortunately, here’s a second list today of book marketing scammers sending emails to your inbox: James Ads services <[email protected]> Pacers Library <[email protected]> #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indie #booksky
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Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list: Helena Scott <[email protected]> Isabella <[email protected]> #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory #booksky
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Made a quick #bookmark out of some black paper and some pencils. It will live in the bedtime story #book I'm currently #reading for #BeardGrabber.
(For those interested, it's an omnibus by #EnidBlyton called "The O'Clock Tales".)#FiXatoDraws #FiXatoCreative #mastoArt #artShare #creativeToot #art #FediArt
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Information Overload: Markdown.new + bookmarklet. “Markdown.new is a nice little tool to convert a webpage into Markdown without any fuss. To make it even easier, I created a bookmarklet to instantly convert the page you’re viewing to Markdown.”
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Lesezeichen im Fediverse:
Es gibt so viele interessante Hinweise und Geschichten im Fediverse.
Je länger ich hier bin umso mehr wird mir klar, dass die Lesezeichen nicht ausreichen, um die Informationen zu speichern und zu organisieren.
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BOOKWORM TODAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :acongablob: :acongablob: :acongablob: :acongablob:
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Bookmark: #Poynter is turning 50 (congrats!) – and celebrates by looking back at 50 significant media moments and people of the past 50 years.
You can send feedback – and offer suggestions of your own.
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Bookmarked: Manu ・ Manuscript Annotation & Visualisation https://manu.is/ #Annotation #Handschriften #Tools A collaborative platform for annotating, transcribing, and visualising historical manuscripts. Built on IIIF and W3C Web Annotations.
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Writer Beware: Web design scammers targeting authors #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory #authors #amediting #fiction #booksky fraud.org/web_dev_scam
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Writer Beware: Web design scammers targeting authors #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory #authors #amediting #fiction #booksky fraud.org/web_dev_scam
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Writer Beware: Web design scammers targeting authors #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory #authors #amediting #fiction #booksky fraud.org/web_dev_scam
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Unfortunately, here’s a second list today of book marketing scammers sending emails to your inbox: James Ads services <[email protected]> Pacers Library <[email protected]> #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indie #booksky
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Unfortunately, here’s a second list today of book marketing scammers sending emails to your inbox: James Ads services <[email protected]> Pacers Library <[email protected]> #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indie #booksky
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Unfortunately, here’s a second list today of book marketing scammers sending emails to your inbox: James Ads services <[email protected]> Pacers Library <[email protected]> #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indie #booksky
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Warning to Authors: Marketing Scammers Targeting You #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting #amediting #writer #booksky #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/...
Return of the Nigerian Prince ... -
Warning to Authors: Marketing Scammers Targeting You #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting #amediting #writer #booksky #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/...
Return of the Nigerian Prince ... -
Warning to Authors: Marketing Scammers Targeting You #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting #amediting #writer #booksky #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/...
Return of the Nigerian Prince ... -
Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list: Helena Scott <[email protected]> Isabella <[email protected]> #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory #booksky
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Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list: Helena Scott <[email protected]> Isabella <[email protected]> #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory #booksky
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Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list: Helena Scott <[email protected]> Isabella <[email protected]> #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory #booksky
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If my files are correct, on this day, 20 years ago, I started using the open bookmarking service del.icio.us. Often depicted as one of the posterchild of the web-two-point-o era, with this anniversary of my personal usage of it, I wanted to reflect exactly on that: what del.icio.us meant to me and what happened to open bookmarking.
I remember fondly discovering http://del.icio.us, maybe first because of its strange name. Early 2000 was still a time when most websites names started with double-you-double-you-double-you (or “ouéouéoué” if you said it in french) and ended with dot-com or dot-net or dot-org. And that was about it. Delicious here broke all the rules and even used a top level domain, dot-US, not to describe a geographically relevant website, but to make a funny sounding and definitely memorable url.
I’m pretty sure this domain name confused a lot of people and participated in making the service only accessible to the most savvy Internet users at the time. And that’s also why I probably loved it immediately. It had that techie, private club, early adopter feel that most social webthings bet upon to attract their first cohort of fans.The second aspect that got me hooked pretty early on was that most of the creators and artists I was following at the time had started using the service. That’s probably how I found it in the first place. And the fascinating thing was that they were sharing their bookmarks with everyone. So not only could I follow their blog or wherever they were posting at the time, I could also peek into what they were following and where their “surfing” habits brought them. I could access their “sources”.
It’s really that social aspect of openly sharing what we found interesting online that made del.icio.us an instant hit. Websearch was ok at the time. I mean, Google existed and was the best search engine around. But the web was growing rapidly and there was not one news website or blog or Yahoo sub-sub category that could curate all the new stuff fast enough. Until the power of the crowd came in, and that’s exactly what del.icio.us made possible.
The novelty of del.icio.us could be told like this. If I found something interesting online, instead of bookmarking it in my browser, which made it extremely vulnerable to a computer crash and loss of data, I could save it online (in the cloud, as we say now) and suddenly make this bookmark accessible to everyone. Instead of having to decide in which folder I wanted to store it, I could just attach a few words (tags) of my own choosing, and the “organization” of my bookmarks would be “done by itself”, grouping similar links based on these particular words.
Multiplying this by the number of people using del.icio.us, now my best links are grouped with other people’s bookmarks tagged with the same words, allowing me to find similar or equally interesting pages than the one I just found. On top of that, I could also now access all the links from that other person that just had saved the same thing I did and thus find potential like-minds with more interesting things for me. The front page of del.icio.us would feature hour by hour the most bookmarked links and was, as well, an incredible source of new trends.As I’m writing this, I realize people will say this looks like their experience of social media today. And they’d be right. For me, this experience first materialized in del.icio.us. And it’s “social media” that somehow killed del.icio.us and bookmarking altogether. I’m making shortcuts here. I don’t think it’s social media that killed del.icio.us, since del.icio.us was social media itself, but the constant change of corporate ownership and competition that killed it.
The incredible value of the service was obvious, to individuals and businesses. But steering a social media website is hard. Small changes can improve it or destroy it. We’ve seen this happen a lot since these early days of Web 2.0. And, I could be wrong, but quick changes in ownership are probably not the best thing for a service like this. Today, we’d say the enshitification of del.icio.us came quickly. At every merge and acquisition, the new owner wanted to squeeze more out of it. And other social media platforms, with their own value propositions, imposed their way of social sharing.
That’s when I decided to move all my personal stuff from del.icio.us to Shaarli, an open source self-hosted bookmarking service. And I’ve been hosting it like this ever since. You can find all my bookmarks on my server at https://b.xuv.be ( /b is for bookmarks. xuv.be is my domain name. You might find a similar look between that version of Shaarli and the del.icio.us look of 2004). While self-hosting is great, it allows me to check my bookmarks from anywhere and allows others to follow them too, it does not offer any of the added value of sharing bookmarks with millions of people at-once, like del.icio.us did. And I dearly miss that aspect.
Now, are people still bookmarking? I know some of my friends do and I follow their self-hosted Shaarli. But I think the practice has mostly vanished. Or we’re mostly back to saving a few links in our browsers for immediate and temporary access. Social organization of bookmark seems pretty dead too. When people find an interesting webpage now, they micro-blog it on Mastodon, LinkedIn or whatever social media you are using. But that’s not close to the social organization of bookmarks del.icio.us was offering. It’s even quite hard these days to make sense of what are the most popular links around a topic.
I hope I don’t sound too old or too bitter when I say that all this human organization of the web has been replaced by “algorithms”. Whether it’s PageRank from Google (or whatever the enshitificated evolution of it is called now), Reddit’s social recommendation or FaceTube engagement algorithms, all these seem to drive what surfaces as most popular things people look at online.
I, myself, have (mostly) stopped bookmarking also. Doing a data analysis of my Shaarli would probably surface that I’ve been bookmarking much less in the recent years. Maybe because websearch has replaced the need for it. Or because the web changed and keeping a curated list of individual pages isn’t needed anymore.
We haven’t talked about link rot yet. Funny or not, that bookmark I made in February 2006 is still working. I don’t remember why I saved that Internet Anagram Server. But I’m glad I did because to this day it’s still a useful tool. It could be fun to look at the 3000+ links I saved over the years and see which ones are still working.
To close this reflection, I think there still is a lot of value in making human curated shared lists of interesting things, as the “awesome list” movement on Github shows. It’s unfortunate that it seems there is no good tool today to do this and that it might require some centralized corporate service to work.
Shaarli is great, and you should use it, even if it will never offer that super-crowd-sourced-power thing that makes social bookmarking so awesome. It’s probably the closest feeling you’ll get to del.icio.us.
https://p.xuv.be/20-years-after-del-icio-us #bookmarks #shaarli -
So I'm still looking for the ideal #bookmark manager and reading list. I really like #goodlinks on #IOS: it's #accessible, does a perfect job at getting website titles and descriptions, and is easy to get stuff into. I can even put stuff into it from the Browser extensions on Windows. However, I can't view my goodlinks bookmarks on #Windows. Safari's reading list has the same problem, of course. I tried #Pocket from Mozilla, but the #a11y of the app on all platforms is kind of a bit janky. I tried hoard, and it was fine on Desktop, but the IOS app is completely inaccessible. I tried grimoire, but it has no import function, and no apps. I looked at Raindrop, but I really don't want to pay for a bookmark manager. I wonder if I can automate goodlinks export to iCloud, and then I guess write something on Windows to consume the json file it spits out? I really just want Goodlinks to have a windows app because it's otherwise perfect.