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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚

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Ice cream. Tim Tams. Coffee. Lesbian writer of sapphic books. Loves her library card. Free reads and more at https://kallmaker.com Cis She/Her

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 30

When the small business shipping pros can't keep up with this nonsense, how am I supposed to? Truly sorry to have to do this. I voted for the rational woman.

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Temporary Discontinuation of All International Shipping

Due to the chaos unleashed by the US Government on worldwide trade and small business, I temporarily discontinuing shipping paperbacks outside of the United States.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 20d

Check out Sapphic Book Bingo this week - feature on Books with Epilogues! Frosting on the Cake 3 is included in @jaeauthor.bsky.social list of suggestions. Not only is it a book of epilogues (stories inspired by a novel) it also has its own epilogue! jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...

Sapphic books that include an epilogue (Sapphic Book Bingo #20) - Jae

Check out these 15 recommended sapphic books that include an epilogue

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 23d

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 23d

In the non-dumpster fire part of the world, Tantor Audio will be releasing Lucy River's narration of CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY at the end of the month! vimeo.com/1119126113

Captain of Industry by Karin Kallmaker

Available 09/30/2025 https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9798331945121/ The world is at Jennifer Lamont's feet—right where she wants…

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 28d

And now a moment of zen.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29d

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 28d

What was "interesting" about the lists he published of ordinary people to watch for their woke politics that created endless streams of violent threats toward those people?

How did his lists "bridge disagreements"?

Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 28d

How did his calls for violence against marginalized people, made up grievances against not white men, and smirking threats of white male coups "bridge disagreements"?

There was nothing "interesting" about how he referred to me and mine. Lucky you to think no one you love was at risk because of him.

Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 28d

You cannot reason with or appease people when their end game is "my way or I burn you to the ground."

Spider. @vaspider.gay · 29d

So, y'all. Whatever you choose to do, please do it conscious of the fact that RW folx are *definitely* hunting for ppl who say anything "out of line" about That Guy exiting stage left.

My recent experience attached. I'm just some rando who owns a small business.

People rushed to send me screenshots of one of my employees, off the clock, saying essentially that they're not sorry he died & that the world is better off without Kirk in it. Within 5 minutes of their FB comment, *multiple* people sent us screenshots like ARE YOU GONNA FIRE THIS PERSON???

The response "I don't own my employees and when they're not at work, they're representing themselves, and I don't endorse what that person said but you aren't gonna get them fired, man," made one of them *freak the fuck out.* He has spent the last couple of days looking for new places to message us as we patiently block his various accounts.

Even if I *had* been inclined to pay attention to what he had to say, within 5 minutes of me saying, "I don't own my employees, dude," he was back on the original thread referring to us as a "gayjew company who wishes death on people who disagree with them," and encouraging people to review bomb and comment spam us to make it impossible for us to do business, so... yeah, lol. It didn't matter that as a company, our only statement had been, "We don't own our emoloyees," the minute I didn't say, "oh no, we'll definitely fire that person!" we might as well have led a conga line around the funeral home.

They're *definitely* out for blood.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Sep 6

I support you utterly and completely in this necessary endeavor.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Sep 2

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

small very serious kitten with paws folded together announces
I WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD
AFTER MY NAP

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Sep 1

Maybe because freaking people out about crime is a way to make money. Unless we take the $$$ out of lies and misinformation "entertainment," we're not going to get anywhere with facts.

This is the legacy of Rush Limbaugh, who lied for 4 hours/day nonstop on public airwaves as "entertainment."

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · Sep 1

The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Sep 1

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September. At the very least you will smile.

Don't step on my purple suede shoes that I of course can't wear anymore but will never part with.

Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Sep 1

I adore the Patrick & David romance episodes. They're a balm to my soul.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Sep 1

Thank you Carol!
The Sprinkles section is meant to cover all the books published since the last volume, even if there's no short story from that book. That way all the "Sprinkles" sections from each volume cumulatively cover every novel.
If that makes sense.
I may have completist tendencies. 😀

Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 31

Which TV series have you rewatched more than once? 📺🖤

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 31

It's reckless and thoughtless - and serves no one's interest except the mega corporations. And here we are, books taxed to the point they're too expensive to cross a national border.

It used to be the cost of paper. Then the costs of basic postage. Now it's all that PLUS excessive taxation.

Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 30

When the small business shipping pros can't keep up with this nonsense, how am I supposed to? Truly sorry to have to do this. I voted for the rational woman.

www.kallmaker.com/temporary-di...

Temporary Discontinuation of All International Shipping

Due to the chaos unleashed by the US Government on worldwide trade and small business, I temporarily discontinuing shipping paperbacks outside of the United States.

www.kallmaker.com

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Aug 30

I can

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 30

Every time I see this headline I legit belly laugh.

Greg Michaelson @gjmichaelson.bsky.social · Aug 29

BBC News - Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
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Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.

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Greg Michaelson @gjmichaelson.bsky.social · Aug 29

BBC News - Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.

www.bbc.com

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 28

Working on it. I realized I have never gotten around to making an easy to copy-paste list with title / pub date / publisher / copyright number / ISBN.
In the article there's a link to check if your work is in the cache of stolen work.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 28

Everything I've ever published and the translations are in LibGen. EVERYTHING.

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 17

Posting to put a pin in a thought over the past week: the end game is to buy up real estate and make a Trump monument / hotel / shrine for the perpetual benefit of the Trump wallet. All with government money.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · Aug 17

WUSA-TV - DC restaurants saw a more than 25% drop in diners in the days following President Trump’s takeover of the city’s police department. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Reservations plunge across DC restaurants after Trump's police takeover

Online reservations dropped more than 25% in the days following President Trump's announcement that he was federalizing DC Police, according to OpenTable data.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Aug 13

BREAKING: Federal court blocks and limits most of Florida law targeting school library books.

The only constitutional application is its "harmful to minors" provision, which limits obscene material that had already been banned from school libraries.

More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 13

Tagging the author invites them into the space, IMHO.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · Aug 13

A 13-year-old meme. Still true. Especially the "serious" critics.