Kai Gottschalk
@kybrarian.bsky.social
I'm Kai! They/them. Library worker, writer in progress. Here be books and creatures and brainweirds and queerness.
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The annual Smashwords sale has begun, and my ebooks are all 75% off - meaning dozens of them are completely FREE, with longer novels only a dollar or so apiece. And Smashwords makes it very easy to send gift copies, too, so send away!
Browse here:
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#BookSky
Browse here:
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#BookSky
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The annual Smashwords sale has begun, and my ebooks are all 75% off - meaning dozens of them are completely FREE, with longer novels only a dollar or so apiece. And Smashwords makes it very easy to send gift copies, too, so send away!
Browse here:
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#BookSky
Browse here:
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#BookSky
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For everyone who've recently come to Romance, MM Romance, & Hockey, via Heated Rivalry, there are 2 documentaries I know highlighting the history of Black hockey players.
Soul on Ice: www.imdb.com/title/tt5255...
Black Ice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yitZ...
#HeatedRivalry #HockeySky #Romancelandia
Soul on Ice: www.imdb.com/title/tt5255...
Black Ice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yitZ...
#HeatedRivalry #HockeySky #Romancelandia
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
For everyone who've recently come to Romance, MM Romance, & Hockey, via Heated Rivalry, there are 2 documentaries I know highlighting the history of Black hockey players.
Soul on Ice: www.imdb.com/title/tt5255...
Black Ice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yitZ...
#HeatedRivalry #HockeySky #Romancelandia
Soul on Ice: www.imdb.com/title/tt5255...
Black Ice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yitZ...
#HeatedRivalry #HockeySky #Romancelandia
Trying to reset my password: "We could not found your email in our system."
Trying to make a new account: "That email already exists in our system."
So which one is it???
Trying to make a new account: "That email already exists in our system."
So which one is it???
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Trying to reset my password: "We could not found your email in our system."
Trying to make a new account: "That email already exists in our system."
So which one is it???
Trying to make a new account: "That email already exists in our system."
So which one is it???
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You should write weird, human stuff as a fuck-you to AI and the awful world we live in, yes, but also because you will be changed and your life will be changed through allowing yourself to be vulnerable and uncomfortable in your art.
December 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
You should write weird, human stuff as a fuck-you to AI and the awful world we live in, yes, but also because you will be changed and your life will be changed through allowing yourself to be vulnerable and uncomfortable in your art.
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"trans rights are human rights" is less a plea for trans rights to be included as human rights than a reminder that the set of human rights already includes all the rights needed for trans people to be included and thrive in a society that truly applies those rights universally
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"trans rights are human rights" is less a plea for trans rights to be included as human rights than a reminder that the set of human rights already includes all the rights needed for trans people to be included and thrive in a society that truly applies those rights universally
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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Friends! First three Rachel Reid game changers series, including Heated Rivalry, bundled for 1.99
THREE BOOKS, 1.99
It's 2.99 alone for Heated Rivalry lol
Get it a.co/d/758a4Io
THREE BOOKS, 1.99
It's 2.99 alone for Heated Rivalry lol
Get it a.co/d/758a4Io
Game Changers Collection: A Spicy Gay Hockey Romance - Kindle edition by Reid, Rachel. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Game Changers Collection: A Spicy Gay Hockey Romance - Kindle edition by Reid, Rachel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taki...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Friends! First three Rachel Reid game changers series, including Heated Rivalry, bundled for 1.99
THREE BOOKS, 1.99
It's 2.99 alone for Heated Rivalry lol
Get it a.co/d/758a4Io
THREE BOOKS, 1.99
It's 2.99 alone for Heated Rivalry lol
Get it a.co/d/758a4Io
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libraries are for everyone and i mean *everyone* 📚
“Satan is in Libraries”
Well if he can provide photo ID with his current address then he is entitled to sign up for a library card. We also have other ways he can sign up if he is currently without identification
Well if he can provide photo ID with his current address then he is entitled to sign up for a library card. We also have other ways he can sign up if he is currently without identification
December 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
libraries are for everyone and i mean *everyone* 📚
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Well I guess I am no longer upgrading Calibre
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Well I guess I am no longer upgrading Calibre
Late night thoughts: thinking about the "unalive" linguistic debate and an article I read once (it was like, a paper newspaper in the 00's so there's no chance of tracking it down) about cursing and taboo language. And how OG swears are about things we Don't Talk About such as:
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Late night thoughts: thinking about the "unalive" linguistic debate and an article I read once (it was like, a paper newspaper in the 00's so there's no chance of tracking it down) about cursing and taboo language. And how OG swears are about things we Don't Talk About such as:
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Internet.
My wife needs a good sapphic Christmas movie.
Halp.
My wife needs a good sapphic Christmas movie.
Halp.
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Internet.
My wife needs a good sapphic Christmas movie.
Halp.
My wife needs a good sapphic Christmas movie.
Halp.
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Want a Xmas romance? This is not that. RIDING NICK is a very silly and slightly sexy 99-cent short story in which a burned-out, 40-something, Bengali atheist gets her bells jingled by Santa Claus.
books2read.com/u/mgeOWX
books2read.com/u/mgeOWX
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Riding Nick by Suleikha Snyder
books2read.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Want a Xmas romance? This is not that. RIDING NICK is a very silly and slightly sexy 99-cent short story in which a burned-out, 40-something, Bengali atheist gets her bells jingled by Santa Claus.
books2read.com/u/mgeOWX
books2read.com/u/mgeOWX
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✨Happy book birthday to me! ✨
Tales of Lunis Aquaria Volume II ebook is out now wherever you can buy or borrow (Kobo Plus, Everand, Overdrive, Hoopla) ebooks!
Retailers: books2read.com/talesv2
Itch: narratess.itch.io/tales-of-lun...
#booksky 💙📚
Tales of Lunis Aquaria Volume II ebook is out now wherever you can buy or borrow (Kobo Plus, Everand, Overdrive, Hoopla) ebooks!
Retailers: books2read.com/talesv2
Itch: narratess.itch.io/tales-of-lun...
#booksky 💙📚
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
✨Happy book birthday to me! ✨
Tales of Lunis Aquaria Volume II ebook is out now wherever you can buy or borrow (Kobo Plus, Everand, Overdrive, Hoopla) ebooks!
Retailers: books2read.com/talesv2
Itch: narratess.itch.io/tales-of-lun...
#booksky 💙📚
Tales of Lunis Aquaria Volume II ebook is out now wherever you can buy or borrow (Kobo Plus, Everand, Overdrive, Hoopla) ebooks!
Retailers: books2read.com/talesv2
Itch: narratess.itch.io/tales-of-lun...
#booksky 💙📚
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Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social's Rivers of London, the first book in the urban fantasy series, and which I not only have, but have read and enjoyed! You MUST have an amazon.co.uk account to claim these!
#UKKindleBookGiveaway
#UKKindleBookGiveaway
December 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social's Rivers of London, the first book in the urban fantasy series, and which I not only have, but have read and enjoyed! You MUST have an amazon.co.uk account to claim these!
#UKKindleBookGiveaway
#UKKindleBookGiveaway
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Boosting for those who have read the gay hockey books in question (iykyk) because I haven't and Ash really needs to know.
I'm reading the first of those gay hockey books and I don't hate it (I am mostly ambivalent at best) but can someone please tell me if all of them feature the whole "we gotta stay secret,no one is queer in professional hockey" thing because I don't know if I want 5 books of that
December 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Boosting for those who have read the gay hockey books in question (iykyk) because I haven't and Ash really needs to know.
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I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
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Since I've been organizing some whistles getting to folks who need them today, a reminder that if you have a 3D printer and want to be part of this effort, reach out to me. (If I missed you before, sorry, getting sick knocked me off my feet!)
And if you see anyone who needs whistles, tag me!
And if you see anyone who needs whistles, tag me!
December 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Since I've been organizing some whistles getting to folks who need them today, a reminder that if you have a 3D printer and want to be part of this effort, reach out to me. (If I missed you before, sorry, getting sick knocked me off my feet!)
And if you see anyone who needs whistles, tag me!
And if you see anyone who needs whistles, tag me!
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YO.
Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?"
Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉
Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there!
artisans.coop/pages/seller...
Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?"
Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉
Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there!
artisans.coop/pages/seller...
Seller Profile
We are building a better handmade marketplace. We are a member-owned, member-run and member-benefiting co-op. We promote creativity, support artist livelihoods, and connect people through an equitable...
artisans.coop
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
YO.
Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?"
Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉
Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there!
artisans.coop/pages/seller...
Remember what I said about how the internet needs "Etsy, but not flooded with drop-shipper and AI trash?"
Good news! ✨It already exists✨! AND it's a CO-OP. 🎉
Check out @3psboyd.bsky.social's dice shop on there!
artisans.coop/pages/seller...
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hoopla is amazing. it also isn’t cheap. but the best argument we librarians can make to the purse string holders for keeping it is that people actually use it, so please use it! 📚 📺
The positive outcome of this story is that in frantically googling around trying to figure out what happened and how I could at least see the end of the episode, I discovered that the show is available at my local library and actually can be streamed thence via Hoopla 🎉
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
hoopla is amazing. it also isn’t cheap. but the best argument we librarians can make to the purse string holders for keeping it is that people actually use it, so please use it! 📚 📺
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I sent this to @foobly.bsky.social, and within 10 seconds I heard LOUD SHRIEKS OF LAUGHTER.
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I sent this to @foobly.bsky.social, and within 10 seconds I heard LOUD SHRIEKS OF LAUGHTER.
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Does anyone have access to "The Saint Between Manuscript and Print: Italy 1400-1600" (ed Alison Frazier) in their library? I'm trying to access a chapter in there about St Roch's hagiography and I'm running into a lot of dead ends. A PDF would help immensely. Chapter author is dead, so no go there.
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Does anyone have access to "The Saint Between Manuscript and Print: Italy 1400-1600" (ed Alison Frazier) in their library? I'm trying to access a chapter in there about St Roch's hagiography and I'm running into a lot of dead ends. A PDF would help immensely. Chapter author is dead, so no go there.
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i fucking love my country of MPLS
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
i fucking love my country of MPLS
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🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
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I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
I can't decide what to read next, so: Give me a number between 1 and 700 and I'll pick the corresponding ebook from my list. We'll see how long it takes to get to one I haven't read yet.
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I can't decide what to read next, so: Give me a number between 1 and 700 and I'll pick the corresponding ebook from my list. We'll see how long it takes to get to one I haven't read yet.
It is very cold right now, and my friend Rook needs to be warm! Please help if you are able!
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It is very cold right now, and my friend Rook needs to be warm! Please help if you are able!