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✨kris✨ @kamielke.bsky.social · May 28

hey, I’m Kris and I write about queer teens falling in love and learning from their mistakes, and also goblins

now that I have 4 books out, here’s a new pinned post to find them all in one spot:

linktr.ee/KAMielke

my self-pubbed books are available digitally on itch for free or pwyc

#BookSky

The cover of my queer young adult coming-of-age novel, Victory Lap, co-written with my pal Riley Alexis Wood. The cover is illustrated by my other pal Ursula Gray.

The main characters, Josh, Kiki, and Mel, lie on the grass. The grass and general colour palette is yellow. Josh is a white guy who looks kinda sad, with short rust-colour hair and a blue hoodie with a horizontal pink stripe. Kiki is a white girl who has long pink hair, a little grin, and a blue blouse. Mel is Vietnamese and has a darker skin tone, smirking confidently, and has dark greenish hair and matching lipstick, has a choker around her neck, and wears a pink jacket.

The cover of my young adult romance novella, Losing Hit Points. Illustrated by Kate Phillips. The hands of the main characters, Journey and Rumour, cup an assortment of dice together. They hold their hands above a dungeon grid and mini-figures.

The cover of my middle grade epic fantasy, Goblin Girl. Illustrated by @underpalewater. The four main characters stand on a grassy field in front of a cloud-obscured castle, around which airships sail. Gertrude is a 12yo goblin holding a sword. Beatrix is a 12yo Black human wearing a tiara, who has magic purple sparkles around her hand. Edwin is a 17yo salamander knight in a sword of armour, holding a two-handed sword. Leaf is a tree and also a 10yo boy, a tree boy if you will.

The cover of my book, Lonely in Happy Town. Designed by Tyler Cleroux. The font is reminiscent of Animal Crossing and there are two gaming controllers with hearts on them, on a pink backdrop. E.M. Anderson, author of The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher and The Keeper of Lonely Spirits says it’s “[A] cozy but cathartic read about love, anxiety, and rebuilding community.”

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 8d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 8d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 10d

CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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scott daGHOSTino @scottdagostino.ca · 14d

Mark Carney put hack journalist and art fraudster Evan Solomon in charge of facilitating this scam here, putting our economy in the same jeopardy as the US and UK 😡

OpenAI wants to be part of Canada’s sovereign AI play - The Logic

The U.S. tech giant says it can be a “constructive partner” in building the country’s digital infrastructure and kickstarting economic growth

thelogic.co

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 22d

My splendid translator in France, Mikael Cabon, asked me to support an urgent campaign, launching today, opposing AI being used instead of people. I do so willingly, and feel same on behalf of audiobook readers and bookworld artists. I hope readers worldwide will show their agreement.

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Jesse Goes to Hell @killgoldfish.bsky.social · Jun 2

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

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🔞teobutt💕 @smutteo.bsky.social · Sep 20

womp womp.

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DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · Sep 20

'Thank you for your feedback we're going to listen to absolutely none of it and we're going to keep banning Palestinians and trans people whenever we feel like it and we're keeping the vague rules that will let us ban artists with impunity.'

Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 19

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Building Healthier Social Media: Updated Guidelines and New Features - Bluesky

Public discourse on social media has grown toxic and divisive, but unlike other platforms, Bluesky is building a social web that empowers people instead of exploiting them.

bsky.social

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Aviv Or @avivor.com · Jul 30

The Zephyr crew engaging in swift tactical repositioning (specifically away from Tabira City, episode #5)

#CloudwardHo #Dimension20
Original character designs by the wonderful Cait May

The Intrepid Heroes of the Zephyr from Dimension 20's Cloudward Ho! (6 people in various adventuring clothes ranging from steampunk pilot to gentleman fister). There is a hazy town in the background and they are running towards the viewer with some haste, as can be gleaned by the many motion lines around them. Original character designs by Cait May!

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✨kris✨ @kamielke.bsky.social · Sep 19

I love Dan Da Dan and I yearn for more Dungeon Meshi

✨kris✨ @kamielke.bsky.social · Sep 19

Netflix really came after me last year by making two highly stylized anime about autistic guys hyper focused on monsters, gotta be my favourite genre

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Scarena @gbaspgamer.bsky.social · Sep 19

Berdly Deltarune holds a green pie and says "I've baked you a Gamer's Delight!"

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Sep 17

You can still buy all their work. Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Sep 17

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 18

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

www.nytimes.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Sep 17

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read

And incredibly damning

Huge recommendation

House Arab

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

bidoun.org

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · Sep 17

In fact, many transphobic assaults are attacks on cis women who simply didn’t look “feminine” enough, and most of those women were women of colour.

This isn’t “well they’re a tiny minority” that’s not what’s happening.

This is only step one, so you better step the fuck up right now.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · Sep 17

I just want to remind every cis person:

You cannot prove that you aren’t trans, except by following your assigned gender role to the letter. It’s an unfalsifiable claim.

They are doing this to us today so that YOU will feel compelled to fall in line tomorrow.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Sep 17

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Sep 15

News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that.

LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.

(XII) Any other pornographic material.
(B) Is a depiction, description, or simulation, whether real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory, that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex by means of a combination of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics, or as having a reproductive

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Sep 15

Charlie Kirk was a bad person and his death is cause for celebration, writes journalist Evan Urquhart.

Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Charlie Kirk is Dead. Here’s Why I’m Celebrating! — Assigned

It’s a wonderful thing to outlive a someone who spent his life working for your elimination. That's why I'm celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.

www.assignedmedia.org

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✨kris✨ @kamielke.bsky.social · Sep 14

my friends and I typically share the cost of expensive tables or whole weekend events, but otherwise I prefer free events

✨kris✨ @kamielke.bsky.social · Sep 14

I tend to bring my whole stock of 20 copies per book but I very rarely need it--unless it's a Pride specific event, but even then my record is 23 books total between 4 books

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Sep 14

Called this years ago.

If you don't think cis people will catch strays from unchecked, institutionalized transphobia, 1) you haven't been paying attention, and 2) you have a very limited understanding of how bigotry works.

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · Sep 13

Another cis woman harmed by #LaboursTransBan and the Prime Minister’s weaponised transphobia

Told to use the men's toilets bcos strangers refuse to believe she's a woman - she’s just tall

A direct result of the government legitimising narrow, sexist beauty standards and giving cover to harassment

Cornish model, 6ft 3in, 'told to use men's toilets'

Lizzy Groombridge, 30, says people assume she is male

www.cornwalllive.com

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it's MARCY BONES @marcybones64.bsky.social · Sep 13

"kirk was an interesting man and he was growing" dog he said the civil rights act was a mistake and that black women specifically have inferior brainpower

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Sep 13

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you

"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

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