KalicoKobold
@kalicokobold.bsky.social
Reader, writer, newbie streamer and gamer! They/Them
You can see me live every Tuesday from 10am-2pm central timezone.
Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🦄
https://www.twitch.tv/kalicokobold
You can see me live every Tuesday from 10am-2pm central timezone.
Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🦄
https://www.twitch.tv/kalicokobold
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Don’t want people to cheer when you die?
Don’t be a shit while alive.
Don’t be a shit while alive.
GAH didn’t even make it to December before we heard the Mariah Carey Christmas song. 😹
Still haven’t gotten whamageddoned though!
Still haven’t gotten whamageddoned though!
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
GAH didn’t even make it to December before we heard the Mariah Carey Christmas song. 😹
Still haven’t gotten whamageddoned though!
Still haven’t gotten whamageddoned though!
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On the way to Missouri!
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
On the way to Missouri!
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We have to buy a $210 radiator. We have help tomorrow to work on installing it when we can get it. Still have stuff to finish on base orders and worried they won’t be complete in time. This is a miscast foam msm base. Make any offer
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We have to buy a $210 radiator. We have help tomorrow to work on installing it when we can get it. Still have stuff to finish on base orders and worried they won’t be complete in time. This is a miscast foam msm base. Make any offer
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A drawing from 2016 which feels relevant for my American friends today
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A drawing from 2016 which feels relevant for my American friends today
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#FrogFriday > BlackFriday - Here's a male Uakari Poison Frog (Ranitomeya uakarii) hauling two of its tadpoles to a location with permanent water, where they can continue development. Rainforest in the Rio Tahuayo drainage north of Iquitos, Peru. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
#FrogFriday > BlackFriday - Here's a male Uakari Poison Frog (Ranitomeya uakarii) hauling two of its tadpoles to a location with permanent water, where they can continue development. Rainforest in the Rio Tahuayo drainage north of Iquitos, Peru. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿
Brain is still mush. I already hate this time of year for what it does to my mental health, and it’s harder than ever to celebrate anything this year.
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Brain is still mush. I already hate this time of year for what it does to my mental health, and it’s harder than ever to celebrate anything this year.
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SHOP SMALL this holiday season and support local artisans!
All art on my Ko-Fi shop is currently 20% off with code “SHOPSMALL” ! Just add this code in checkout to receive a discount. Sale runs until midnight CST on December 2, 2025.
ko-fi.com/pailbn
#art #merch #bsnm #shopsmall #blackfriday
All art on my Ko-Fi shop is currently 20% off with code “SHOPSMALL” ! Just add this code in checkout to receive a discount. Sale runs until midnight CST on December 2, 2025.
ko-fi.com/pailbn
#art #merch #bsnm #shopsmall #blackfriday
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
SHOP SMALL this holiday season and support local artisans!
All art on my Ko-Fi shop is currently 20% off with code “SHOPSMALL” ! Just add this code in checkout to receive a discount. Sale runs until midnight CST on December 2, 2025.
ko-fi.com/pailbn
#art #merch #bsnm #shopsmall #blackfriday
All art on my Ko-Fi shop is currently 20% off with code “SHOPSMALL” ! Just add this code in checkout to receive a discount. Sale runs until midnight CST on December 2, 2025.
ko-fi.com/pailbn
#art #merch #bsnm #shopsmall #blackfriday
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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My hottest of hot takes that I fervently believe is that the endeavor to replace animal husbandry entirely with cultured meat is a eugenicist project.
Logs on, checks discourse: “Hey let’s make humanity’s protein source something that can become the intellectual property of billionaires”
Some of the worst people on Bluesky: “how about not”
Poasters: “wow, fascists want to do an animal cruelty”
Some of the worst people on Bluesky: “how about not”
Poasters: “wow, fascists want to do an animal cruelty”
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My hottest of hot takes that I fervently believe is that the endeavor to replace animal husbandry entirely with cultured meat is a eugenicist project.
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If you want all writers to be rich dorks born rich who don’t need the money this is how you get all writers to be rich dorks born rich
If you want writers who were poor dorks born poor because maybe just maybe they have something different to say, this ain’t it
If you want writers who were poor dorks born poor because maybe just maybe they have something different to say, this ain’t it
Using the belief that creators are the "petite bourgeoisie" to justify pirating books/stealing art is EXACTLY what makes it so hard for anyone who isn't rich to pursue their creative dreams
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you want all writers to be rich dorks born rich who don’t need the money this is how you get all writers to be rich dorks born rich
If you want writers who were poor dorks born poor because maybe just maybe they have something different to say, this ain’t it
If you want writers who were poor dorks born poor because maybe just maybe they have something different to say, this ain’t it
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It feels like some sort of rite of passage for a fantasy illustrator to design a skywhale so here's mine :D based on a humpback and filled with buoyancy! 🎈🐋 #BearHybridArt
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It feels like some sort of rite of passage for a fantasy illustrator to design a skywhale so here's mine :D based on a humpback and filled with buoyancy! 🎈🐋 #BearHybridArt
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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"I watch all videos at 2x speed." And this is why you're incapable of understanding art and will only be able to consume "content" with a hunger that can never be satiated. People spend hours/days/weeks making videos and you can't even bother to actually watch them at normal speed?
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"I watch all videos at 2x speed." And this is why you're incapable of understanding art and will only be able to consume "content" with a hunger that can never be satiated. People spend hours/days/weeks making videos and you can't even bother to actually watch them at normal speed?
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There's a lot of angst around the fact that many trans people don't have the ability to move.
From the start my view has simply been that I'd rather see as many of us make it as possible. That means I want to see as many of us make it to safety as possible.
From the start my view has simply been that I'd rather see as many of us make it as possible. That means I want to see as many of us make it to safety as possible.
This is a really good New Republic article about trans people leaving the country. Do some research about getting visas. Start now. It is harder and slower than you think, and there are no opportunities for asylum right now. It also is entirely doable.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
There's a lot of angst around the fact that many trans people don't have the ability to move.
From the start my view has simply been that I'd rather see as many of us make it as possible. That means I want to see as many of us make it to safety as possible.
From the start my view has simply been that I'd rather see as many of us make it as possible. That means I want to see as many of us make it to safety as possible.
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
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"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
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Treating vaginas and people who have them like they’re icky is asinine. Vaginas are rad, some of the studliest guys I’ve ever met have em.
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Treating vaginas and people who have them like they’re icky is asinine. Vaginas are rad, some of the studliest guys I’ve ever met have em.
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I mean I have been enraged about this topic for a while, but I had also never actually figured out how they calculate the poverty line.
I am legitimately speechless.
I am legitimately speechless.
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I mean I have been enraged about this topic for a while, but I had also never actually figured out how they calculate the poverty line.
I am legitimately speechless.
I am legitimately speechless.
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
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This is a lovely interview with one of the Top Gobblers in Turkey Studies.
However I OBJECT to the idea that turkeys are humble.
Because lemme tell you if you ever get in a fight with one you will learn they are CHARISMATIC AS HELL.
And come up to your hip. With their CHARISMA.
However I OBJECT to the idea that turkeys are humble.
Because lemme tell you if you ever get in a fight with one you will learn they are CHARISMATIC AS HELL.
And come up to your hip. With their CHARISMA.
We talk wild turkey (their decline, and resurgence) on today's episode of science quickly.
Reminder wild turkeys, like pumpkins (squash), potatoes, and cranberries are indigenous to the Americas (turkey and cranberries from north America specifically).
Reminder wild turkeys, like pumpkins (squash), potatoes, and cranberries are indigenous to the Americas (turkey and cranberries from north America specifically).
Wild Turkeys Went from Almost Gone to Millions Strong
Wild turkeys once nearly disappeared, but today they’re thriving.
www.scientificamerican.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is a lovely interview with one of the Top Gobblers in Turkey Studies.
However I OBJECT to the idea that turkeys are humble.
Because lemme tell you if you ever get in a fight with one you will learn they are CHARISMATIC AS HELL.
And come up to your hip. With their CHARISMA.
However I OBJECT to the idea that turkeys are humble.
Because lemme tell you if you ever get in a fight with one you will learn they are CHARISMATIC AS HELL.
And come up to your hip. With their CHARISMA.