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Kaia Ball (They/Them)

@kaiaballwrites.bsky.social

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Writer? I hardly- Check out my soup history blog: https://soupapalooza.wordpress.com/ There's a professional website too with essays and poetry and stuff but I really really wanted you to read the soup one first: https://kaia-ball.com/

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wherever you buy books 😍

Check out my essay "In My Worst Nightmares, My Father Transitions" in Both/And !

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Aug 12

Now on shelves wherever you buy books, Both/And is edited by Electric Lit’s own Denne Michele Norris, and features 17 eclectic essays by trans and gender non-conforming writers of color from all walks of life, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery.

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 3d

to be clear, i stay bumping the black eyed peas. But "Over My Head" has had a lasting legacy that's a little different than most of BEPeas tracks a couple decades later... (don't get ME started on Let's Get it Started...)

Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 3d

hmm. institutional recognition truly is farcical

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12d

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 12d

Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 12d

no, im not removing Venmo from the "Social Media Proficiencies" part of my resume. its valuable experience

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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 14d

Via garyseconomics
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Here's a short animated video about how wealth inequality affects us. Share it with a friend who might not understand it yet.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14d

"Now what do you have? You've been imprisoned in the fuckin' moon!" --me, to an opponent who can't hear me, after I cast Imprisoned in the Moon

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 14d

this is the proletariat discourse im hankering for

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Jul 31

The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 22d

Do you want to be a famous writer? You just have to vomit that book up babe

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 21d

Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 22d

(nineties surfer dude "bodacious babe" voice) salient points

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 24d

this close to getting an ipod nano

Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 24d

neeeed tech companies to test products on women/people with different bodies. I am over six feet tall and am begging for smaller phones and smaller earbuds and smaller laptops and

Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Sep 5

Trans+ folks! Take this survey, great org looking to collate data

www.pointofpride.org/trans-health...

Welcome to the Trans Health Survey!

Thank you for taking the Trans Health Survey. Your voice matters and is vital to creating resources and support systems that reflect the real needs of our community.

www.pointofpride.org

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · Sep 3

im glad everyone’s registering their opinion on a famous guy being transphobic by each and every one of us quote tweeting it to say “i don’t like this”, that’s good

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

Check out Alphanumeric, a speculative fiction literary podcast edited by yours truly! (with the help of many incredible people at Zoetic Press)

Episode 3 is coming out soon, keep an eye out for it!

www.zoeticpress.com/an-02-surrea...

AN 02 Surreality Check — Zoetic Press

www.zoeticpress.com

Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Sep 2

hey writers & specfic creators!

I'll be interviewed during a virtual showcase at the 2025 Flights of Foundry conference! It's a free, virtual, weekend-long con centered on speculative fiction. Hope to "see" you there!

flights-of-foundry.org

Flights of Foundry – For Speculative Creators and their Fans

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Aug 27

femme/butch relations

izydor 𐂂 @nazohato.bsky.social · Aug 26

doing this to yall

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 21

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

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I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time
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RookaTX
This is the way

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Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Aug 19

oh so its just. bad all the way down (up?)

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Aug 18

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

A transcription of a conversation between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and podcast host Theo Von on Von's podcast, in an excerpt from the Atlantic article "AI is a mass-delusion event" by Charlie Warzel:

"Sam Altman: I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time.

Theo Von: Do you really?

Altman: But I don’t know, because maybe we put them in space. Like, maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system and say, “Hey, it actually makes no sense to put these on Earth.”

Von: Yeah.

Altman: I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but, like, we’re stumbling through this."

Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Aug 18

needed to hear this

Kami Anya (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @kamianya.bsky.social · Aug 18

Had a friend apologize for “flaking on me again” late last night, after having to cancel our plans for a second time due to flares.

Y’all, especially abled folk reading this, please remember that it’s not flaking for someone to cancel plans because of our bodies.
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#NEISVoid #DisabledSky

Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Aug 18

Call for pieces on:
-Disabilities & Chronic Illnesses
-Homelessness & the Unhoused

Pay is $25-$40

#workingwriters #writingopportunities

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IHRAF Publishes — International Human Rights Art Movement

The submission window for IHRAF Publishes 2022 remains open. We publish an ever-expanding collection of original works from up-and-coming writers who bring attention to social justice issues around th...

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

love love love reading! but ai work is BAD sldkfjsf and reading one after another is DEMORALIZING as fuck

Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

can attest it is exhausting to parse an entry, working to give an author your compassion...only to realize they have submitted plagiarized work and that your kindness has not been reciprocated by basic courtesy.