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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚

@karin.kallmaker.com

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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Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 3w ago

Only somewhat relevant to writing scams, but this site looks to me like a very helpful general knowledge resource on a variety of common scams, including phishing scams, romance scams, AI voice scams, and more www.tuteladigitalis.com

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Expert guides on phishing, investment fraud, romance scams, and AI threats — free education and confidential help from someone who studied scammers.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚@karin.kallmaker.com · 4w ago

Remember, there's no money for health care or disaster relief or adequate food inspection and weather prediction, but plenty of money to support something that already has billions and billions in investment helping it along. (And plenty of money for war and spoiling the people's landmarks.)

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 4w ago

Oh yeah, and if Kratsios gets his way the US government won't fund life science research or universities anyway. Nature story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

Sapphic peeps: authors writers publishers book people who joined the Bartz v. Anthropic class action - the court has filed the final settlement. READ THIS THREAD. Partial payouts as soon as September as possible IF NO ONE FILES AN APPEAL. All credit to Milan for crunching the numbers and details.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last mo.

Timing thread. I was going to do this "later tonight" and apparently "later tonight" means "immediately, right now" because my brain also wants to know the answer.

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

That a novel written for lesbians by a lesbian marketed as lesbian romance and about lesbian community, lesbian love, lesbian hopes and dreams, lesbian families, and lesbian spicy activity was TOO lesbian.

S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.

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

The architect of breaking the judiciary as well. He was so intent on winning the courts by any means that he didn't care who received the resulting power, including a madman intent on breaking the country itself. May fire ants be the last thing he sees. ALL of this is on him.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant. In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚@karin.kallmaker.com · 2mo ago

Yes, and TFG wanted to GIVE the entire taxpayer funded apparatus to a corporation who would then sell us what we already paid for. Because it's not a good government program if one of them isn't getting a cut off the top.

kottke.org@kottke.org · 2mo ago

As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and now weather forecasts are less accurate. An atmospheric scientist: “The forecasts I’m able to offer you are less accurate than they would otherwise be.” [gizmodo.com]

Claes Holtzmann@claeshs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚@karin.kallmaker.com · 3mo ago

How about this Pride month, reading lists focus on the businesses and writers who don't run away when there's a "chill" in the air? SMALL PRESSES and INDIE WRITERS are *right here*. In plain sight. And. Always. Have. Been. #sapphicbooks #queerreading 🌈📚

Freedom to Read Project@freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...