@properpirate.bsky.social 🦋 Cross-posting for as long as I can handle this place
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Proper Pirate 🐢🦀 retweeted
for everyone (re)discovering rocky horror because of tim curry's passing, may i interest you in this version of frank played by another beloved actor who also left us this year. whether it was giles, uther, frank or rupert, anthony head made us love and hate him just as strong
Proper Pirate 🐢🦀 retweeted
Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.
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Dolly's family asked in lieu of flowers, please donate to her Imagination Library. I just donated $80 in honor of the 80 years she was on this earth. Please donate what you can. I can't believe she's gone. 😭😭😭
imaginationlibrary.com/
Proper Pirate 🐢🦀 retweeted
An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.
BTW No shame on the ‘slut’ moniker. Just saying that Ketch gets around. A lot. A lot a lot - FICTIONALLY. Which is fine if it’s honest, but damaging if the person is an asshat.
Proper Pirate 🐢🦀 retweeted
You bought a Kindle. You bought books on it. You paid real money for them.
You do not own them.
In 2009, Amazon reached into every Kindle in America and deleted the book 1984 by George Orwell. People had paid for it. Amazon took it back. The New York Times covered it.
In February 2025, Amazon removed the button that let you download the books you already paid for onto your own computer. Before this button existed, you could save your library. Back it up. Move it to another device.
Now you cannot.
Your Kindle books live on Amazon's cloud. If Amazon deletes them, they are gone. If Amazon changes them, you get the new version. If your Amazon account gets closed, you lose everything you paid for.
You do not own a library. You rent it.
There is a free app that fixes this. It is called KOReader.
KOReader is not made by Amazon. It is made by volunteers around the world. It runs on your Kindle. On your Kobo. On your PocketBook. On any Android phone. On reMarkable.
You install it on the device you already own. Then your Kindle stops being an Amazon store. It becomes a book reader you own.
Here is what changes.
You can put any book on it. From Project Gutenberg, which has 70,000+ free classics. From Standard Ebooks, which has beautifully typeset public domain books. From your library through OverDrive. From Anna's Archive. From a friend who emailed you a PDF.
You can read PDFs. EPUBs. DOCs. Comic books. Textbooks. Anything.
You can tap any word to look it up in Wikipedia. Or in a dictionary you download for free. Or translate it with Google Translate.
You can save articles from the web with Wallabag. Read them on your Kindle later, offline, no ads.
You can turn a page faster than the Amazon software does it. The volunteers who built KOReader measured this. On some older Kindles, page turns are twice as fast.
None of this needs Amazon. None of this sends data to Amazon. None of this can be taken back by Amazon.
Right now:
27,935 stars on GitHub.
1,798 forks.
AGPL-3.0 license, which means it is free forever and no one can lock it down.
Version 2026.03 shipped in March.
Pushed to yesterday.
13 years of development.
Amazon Kindle Unlimited: $12 a month. That is $144 a year for a rented library.
Kobo Plus: $10 a month.
Apple Books DRM: locked to your Apple ID.
KOReader: $0. Runs on the device you already bought. Reads books you actually own.
Your Kindle was designed to make you buy from one store forever. KOReader turns it into a book reader that reads any book.
Amazon deleted 1984 from Kindles in 2009. Nobody can delete a book from KOReader.
That is the point.
(Link in the comments)
Had a 20 minute conversation with Mitch McConnell today about who would win in a fight between a crab and a turtle with a knife in its back.
I maintained a subscription back when they had a huge catalog, but now their library is a wasteland of half-told stories.
Too many shows cancelled on cliffhangers - no reason to rewatch, rec to friends, or subscribe more than a month or two/yr.
Netflix's top shows have been losing 30-70% of their audience between seasons 1 and 2. Executives are trying to figure out why.
Netflix's second season swoon & more in this week's newsletter:
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Proper Pirate 🐢🦀 retweeted
So apparently ICE agents are joining Uber and Lyft as drivers in the Phoenix area (not sure if it’s happening elsewhere). This longtime Uber driver warns riders to check their driver’s history immediately and cancel the ride if they’re brand new.
One of my fav things about #HeatedRivalry is that @StreamOnMax @Caseybloys have no control over the production itself.
Too bad they cut short other gay shows that the appeal to that same audience.
Hope #OurFlagMeansDeath gains new fans and someday we get s3! 🏴☠️
Proper Pirate 🐢🦀 retweeted
For anyone who cares, I despise the new @Apple iPhone screen shot feature(making seamless + simple more complicated). Especially for trading ideas you want to revisit later in the day. Can be fixed by unselecting the below under “screen capture” in your settings.
