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Carter Kalchik

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Typically terrific. 🏳️‍🌈 Books, the gayer the better Politics, the gayer the better Political books, the gayer the better All the links: https://linktr.ee/carterkalchik

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · Nov 27

This was a fun time! I got to 25 pieces of lore and that feels good. Take a look to get to know me a little bit and find out exactly how many times I’ve turned yellow! (Hint, it’s more than 1…)

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · Nov 27

One like = one piece of lore. Lore about me, to be clear. I’ve included a photo for reference.

How about up to 25 or until we all get bored?

White dude, middle aged, Q Anon Anonymous hoodie, in front of a shit ton of very cool and interesting books on shelves with many cool and interesting Lego sets on top of the shelves. He definitely looks very cool and interesting.

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 11d

“If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleed from the ball.”

- Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 14d

A hit skeet!!

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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 14d

Chotiner interviews Janeway

A back and forth between Isaac Chotiner and Captain Janeway made to look like a screenshot from The New Yorker.

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 14d

Are you an MM romance author and have a book coming out next year that you’d be willing to share with an MM romance community to read as an ARC (and get paid for it) sometime between Jan-Mar next year? Let me know!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20d

the idea that anything other than the most transient organizing is dangerous is corrosive to the type of civil society resistance which is necessary now but not occurring

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 20d

What's the obsession w registration? Ppl have organized & protested w/o registration for centuries.

Why are so many ppl adamant that ppl must not only protest, but register in advance?

If you protest w/o registering, what do you lose out on?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21d

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 20d

If you find this out let me know too pls thx

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 20d

If you need a break from… all of this… boy can I recommend Breakout Year by KD Casey. I’m about 60% through and it’s a treat. Highly recommend even if you’re not super into baseball or sports romance, it’s more of a fake dating and gay awakening story anyway.

The cover of Breakout Year by KD Casey. Yellow text on a green background with kitschy baseball and Judaism artwork

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 21d

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 21d

We must support our colleagues working in autocratic regimes

Reuters @reuters.com · 21d

German journalists' union criticises decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off air reut.rs/41WavKK

German journalists' union criticises decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off air

Germany's main journalists' union urged major U.S. media to support journalists after Walt Disney-owned broadcaster ABC pulled 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' in a row over comments by the show's host about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 21d

👋

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Moskowitz: "We just heard there were no riots on the right. We're literally sitting in a building where there was a giant riot by supporters of POTUS. We also heard only leftists have said Trump is a Nazi. In 2016, the current VP said 'Trump is either a cynical asshole or he's America's Hitler'"

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 21d

Folks are having critically important discourse in the fantasy football Reddit

what would you do as a fantasy football commissioner in the Dark Knight universe after Bane's attack on Gotham Stadium?

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 21d

My apartment hallway was lit by an Italian giallo cinematographer

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 21d

Orly?? I didn’t know. Although it’s almost like the whole world is sliding to the right…

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 21d

It’s also The Bad Place. Everywhere is kinda The Bad Place but it felt like TikTok was becoming that too. Not as bad as Threads, but up there…

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah, wild cope to think this is fabricated. Especially since it exonerates the girlfriend. If the anti-trans fascists were going to make this up, why wouldn’t they implicate her too?

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 21d

Reminder that this is my view every morning when I leave my apartment to go to the gym 🫨

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 21d

Not really “left” I just barely open it anymore. More on Insta these days. Bit in also in my busy season so I’m less online in general rn.

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 22d

If only I TikTok’d anymore…

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 22d

I totally forgot I even had a Bluesky there for a few months. In the meantime, I started a small community of queer romance lovers and we’ve spent most of our time discussing what words for penis are bouba or kiki. My mental health has never been better! 😊

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 22d

You are a menace to society (lovingly)

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · Sep 6

At Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport. The Friends of Desoto seem to run maintenance here? @greatesttrek.com @benjaminahr.mobi

A yellow trash can with the letters FOD on it

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · Aug 25

The Khan declares, in honor of its 10th anniversary, that all tracks from Carly Rae Jepsen’s EMOTION are the 2025 songs of the summer

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · Aug 25

Need someone besides Obama to act presidential right now, JB Pritzker, we are demanding you release a top ten songs of the summer list if you want to win 2028

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 21

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

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