Kai Gottschalk

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I'm Kai! They/them. Library worker, writer in progress. Here be books and creatures and brainweirds and queerness.

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Freeze some water to help your neighbors out. Minneapolis- donate to Anonymous Yurt Union who are $250 away from funding a truck for water & supply distro linktr.ee/ayumpls

heads up twin cities people, i looked at the forecast & they're saying it's gonna be in the 90's by saturday

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PLS REPOST! Are YOU a TRANS🏳️‍⚧️ author OR reviewer who writes about books with trans characters or a trans focus? PLEASE REPLY!!! I am looking for trans reviewers to feature when promoting and discussing a variety of trans lit. All I need is where you post your reviews.

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OPEN! Submit your poems!

Just a reminder that poetry subs are opening up soon for Uncanny Magazine!

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Heck, I might as well yank this out to ask. Anyone know of a church in the MSP area (and accessible by public transport) with non-vile politics that does this kind of thing in, I don't know, adult Sunday school sessions or the like? Or a Bible study group full of scholar-nerds? Similar?

I would really intensely enjoy a church that did deep-dive analysis of the texts in small groups, with reference to the original language(s)! Give me some nuanced historical context and discussion of cultural effects on our interpretation! Most... most of them do not, I think.

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🚨time sensitive emergency🚨 My bank account is almost overdrawn, and I need gas to work this weekend & to pay my auto insurance asap. $160 will get me a full tank ($40) & insurance ($120) but ANYTHING would help. Thank you! 💕 💸 #helpsky paypal.me/rookkilljoy CA/VM: foxrook

Pay Brandi Michelle Burnett using PayPal.Mepaypal.me Go to paypal.me/rookkilljoy and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

WITCH HAT WITCH HAT WITCH HAT

Here's the first trailer and visual for Witch Hat Atelier!

Witch Hat Atelier Anime Reveals Trailer, Main Staff, 2025 Premiere (Updated)www.animenewsnetwork.com Ayumu Watanabe to direct, Hiroaki Kojima to produce anime at Bug Films

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omg, grocery store, children go here

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✨️Introducing "Griffin's Glory✨️ This is a limited stock cotton run inspired by a medieval mythical griffin, so you can add this glorious organic yarn to your stashes. These always go fast, so dont wait too long. 10% is still going to Gazan Relief. 🧶 www.republicofyarnia.com/product-page...

Is this the real thing? Is this just fantasy? Well one thing's for certain, it's not AI. What do you see here? I hope you see a medieval griffin bc that's what this is inspired by, you know. This limited edition cotton run is coming soon! Stay tuned!! 🧶

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So, ran into the piece of shit this is about through an ex-friend. I'm not super surprised about the rabid attacks, but am a little surprised she went so mask off based on a Wikipedia article... Anyway, if you're looking for someone to block and report...

48-year-old fellow writer Leigh Dragoon is obsessed with me on a frightening level. She's incriminating me based on the WIKIPEDIA PAGE FOR MY WHOLE ETHNIC GROUP, dug up my personal Facebook, harassed and ranted about me on multiple platforms (including here), and trying to get others to do so too

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can we get a thread of sci-fi writers going? BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and disabled authors to the front! we all need new reading material!! please alt text images and add links so we can buy from you

Fireworks :(

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Me, this summer and every summer.

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Next submission period begins on July 15! There is NO THEME this time, so send in any of your favourite pieces of writing. We offer $0.10/word! And as a reminder, we now accept translations and flash fiction! More details on what we accept and how to submit: www.khoreomag.com/submissions/

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Sudan is going through a humanitarian crisis. Millions of people have been displaced and thousands of people are going hungry. We put together 41 TTRPGs, Supplements, Zines and adventures from incredible game designers and writers raising money for Sudan Emergency Appeal.

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I was going to keep my great aunt Leona’s cedar chest but didn’t know where we would put it or how to move it. I’m a bit heartbroken to see they’re selling it for $75 with a suggestion of that people COULD PAINT IT NO WTF. (Someone please rescue this.) minneapolis.craigslist.org/ram/fuo/d/mo...

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Just saved a friend $500 by referring her to this program; please refer to it if you get prescribed Paxlovid and get quoted a crazy price! www.paxlovid.com/paxcess?cmp=...

PAXCESS™ | PAXLOVID™ (nirmatrelvir tablets; ritonavir tablets)www.paxlovid.com The PAXCESS™ Patient Support Program may help eligible patients lower the cost of PAXLOVID™ and access savings, with or without insurance. T&Cs apply.

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introducing my Shop BIPOC feed!! if u want to make an effort to support BIPOC-owned shops, following this feed is a good start 💞 to post to the feed add #ShopBIPOC or #BIPOCShop to ur post or alt text! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Shop BIPOC 🛒

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I stopped masking at work and now I have covid, so 🙃 Anyway here's my favorite place to get masks. For me they are the right balance of comfy, pretty, and effective: enro.com/collections/...

i want to add: if you’ve stopped masking for whatever reason, you can start again. it makes spaces more accessible, it helps preserve your health and the health of the people around you. it’s a tiny action you can take to make the world safer.

Shop All Mask & Accessoriesenro.com Help prevent the spread of illness with Enro's face masks for adults and kids. Our advanced PM0.1 filter and lightweight material allow you to breathe easy. The Enro mask offers enhanced filtration ca...

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Smashwords is having their 16th annual Summer/Winter Sale, and they're running a 50% off discount on all of my gryphon books, including the boxed sets! Catch up on the series called "Wings of Fire for adults - with gryphons!" www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Some libraries (not all, it's dying out there too, but some) let you fax for free

Ppl are retweeting this and I just want to add that faxing is THE most annoying thing to do to your representatives. There are websites where you can fax for a small fee and those machines are LOUD and then at the very least they have to deal with all the print outs.

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Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what

I hope we all enjoyed our last Pride month in the US. Project 2025 will put an end to it

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Shark! book! shark! book!!!

If you don’t yet have a copy of my book Why Sharks Matter, or if for some weird reason you want another one, my publisher is running a 40% off sale with code H4JUL24 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Woooo I forgot it's July! But that means all my books are 50% off (or free) for the @Smashwords Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my books and many more at www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... all month! #SWSale2024 #Smashwords (I promise to have a prettier promo for this later)

Smashwords – Sitewide Salewww.smashwords.com

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Kaleidotrope is now open again to fiction and poetry submissions.

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If you want to hold this gorgeous art by @lyssmenold.bsky.social in your hands, pre-orders are now open for EMBODIED EXEGESIS! This anthology includes: - incredibly weird cyber bodies - weaponized cringe posting - a transgender coffee maker - literary explorations of trans motherhood - & more!

The pre-order kickstarter for EMBODIED EXEGESIS: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures is now ALIVE!! Get some weird transhuman transfem cyberpunk!!! Seventeen stories, two poems, and the most beautiful cyborg cover in cyberspace!

Three Queer Speculative Anthologies from Neon Hemlockwww.kickstarter.com We're Here 2023, Baffling Year Three & Embodied Exegesis

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Remember, friends: sometimes it works. It's often the only thing that does.

Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen

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All of Lower Decks season one is up for free on the P+ YouTube for a limited time (USA). A great way to intro a friend to the Cerritos! youtu.be/jTQnkijDtRQ?...

Star Trek: Lower Decks | Season 1, Episode 1 | Full Episode | Paramount+youtu.be Second Contact - Ensign Tendi has her first day of work on Starfleet's U.S.S. Cerritos, where she meets fellow support crew members, Ensigns Mariner, Boimler...

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You should probably go ahead and make your art, because you're the only one that can do it. Frankly, someone's gonna need it someday

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LAST WEEK to get one (or more!) of my many many queer books on sale for #PrideMonth ! I write tons of aro and ace queer fantasy :D The itchio sale is right here! itch.io/s/123930/pri... And the free CITY OF STRIFE is here: dashboard.bookfunnel.com/bundles/boar... 🌈📚 💙📚

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It's the last day of Pride Month. Tomorrow is the first day of Wrath Month! My Queer Wrath design is up and available now in stickers, pins, t-shirts, what ever you like. #Pride2024 #Wrath2024 Manigarm.redbubble.com