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Kalpar

@thekalpar.bsky.social
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Writer| Historian | Ferroequinologist | Award-winning Miniature Painter | &c. &c. | They/Them | www.thekalpar.com

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 23h
every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check"
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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 20h
Hey, everyone, I've had a few people ask how they can help after I announced I had to cancel my attendance at #ConOnTheCob. Honestly? Buy stuff. If you were looking for an excuse to buy physical copies of my book you can buy directly from my website and I get more royalties. www.thekalpar.com/home
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The Kalpar
Welcome to the website for Kalpar, independent author of science-fiction and fantasy stories. Stickers are now available in the Etsy shop! https://ironhammerpublishing.etsy.com
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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This. More of this. We need people who fight.
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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@marthawells.com for sure 🤣
"ugh maybe should just change my pronouns"
even other nonbinary people won't use my preferred ones so what's the point"
"No.
it/its
pronouns are cool and you should keep them."
"MARTHA WELLS??????"
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🖖🏳️‍⚧️T'Lynn 🦇David🦇 Cooper🏳️‍⚧️🖖 @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
75 years ago today, the single greatest comic ever published appeared in the world. Peanuts never topped their very first strip. lollllllllll
That mother fucker hates Charlie Brown.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Oh hey look: exactly what a bunch of us said was already and would keep happening— data centers being placed in spaces where their harms will fall on those already most marginalized— is, in fact, happening.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
which one are you?
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So excited to unbox my new novel that all I can do is babble "this is great!" And "this is awesome!" LOL
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People like to talk up how complicated and twisty the ending of American Psycho is, but the message is very simple and clear: real estate agents will gladly help you cover up a murder.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026
This is part of a series of terrible arguments that people make that they think are real gotchas. Yesterday, someone said "I get why women would choose the bear, but then why haven't they? Why haven't all women walked into the woods?"
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely incredible. I love to see this digital art history being preserved.
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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. Paging @leannareneehieber.bsky.social 😉
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Audible listeners! No Friend to This House is on offer for £4.99. Meet Medea, victim of the original witch hunt… A Best Book of the Year from The Observer A Marie Claire Best Book of 2026 'An illuminating and often thrilling work of feminist reclamation' – The Guardian
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Brooklyn Rousseau (Spooky 365, not just October) 🎃 @glamgothcollective.mu.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
AND
ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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VeritasKnight @veritasknight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"so in regards to super intelligence" "Oh so you're like...a super loser"
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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CANCELLATION: It is with a very heavy heart I must announce I am unable to attend #ConOnTheCob next week due to a family emergency. I am needed at home and am unable to travel. Hopefully I can join everyone next year.
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
COOL THING I GET TO DO TODAY: LISTEN TO AUDIOBOOK AUDITIONS! My lovely Hachette team, including the audiobook folks, have been so supportive of this title! You can pre-order RAVENFIELD HALL's audiobook now to be sure it lands in your ears as a spooky Valentine on 2/16/27! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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VeritasKnight @veritasknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One might suggest that the president is actively senile and just makes things up
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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finished some more Death Korps troops from Games Workshop. Since they're combat engineers I gave them hazard stripe bases.
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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! GET HIM, SHERROD!
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Pheasants Wake digital painting
of a dead pheasant in the road
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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot.
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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 27/09/2026
Be patient and kind to those who are making art right now. We're all self-funded and the richest, worst people in the world are trying to plaster over and erase our hard work.
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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still deep in editing trenches for this sweet book! Truth is, I won't see $ from it 'til '27. If you'd like to help my found-family tales of ghosts, historical truths + dashing romances, snag a goodie @ Torch & Arrow to keep our lights on: torchandarrow.etsy.com, the shop I run in lieu of a Patreon.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#booksky
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026
Wishing the diamond cartel a very pleasant fuck you youtu.be/xrg6QCGzQGc
youtu.be
Why Diamond Prices Are Falling So Fast
YouTube video by CNBC
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naye🕸️ @naye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com is so extremely my jam I'm torn between not being able to stop listening and needing to immediately go back to my favorite bits so I can properly kick my feet and make delighted dolphin noises as I bask in the feels. The characters! They're so...!! And THE SHIP?? !!!!
Daggerbound by T Kingfisher, narrated by Jesse Vilinsky. Chapter 11 - track 13 of 44, 11 hours 30 minutes left.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No kink shaming except for Roko's basilisk weirdos.
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G.Face @damdonjulio.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#Sinners
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Fish” can be both singular (one individual fish) or plural (multiple fish of the same species.) “Fishes” refers to individuals of different species. 🐟 Fish 🐟🐟🐟 Fish 🐠🐟🐡 Fishes Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Took a break today and got a B&O railroad lantern from an antique shop. It's got B&O both on the lantern and on the glass which I thought was cool.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026
I have decided that if I will be hated, it will be for a GOOD reason, dammit! *clears throat* I don’t care that Pluto isn’t a planet. It was always Charon erasure anyway.
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Tiger (He/They) @tigerknight957.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Boomers as a generation loooove denying the younger generations anything they had and forcing them to endure hardships for their own comfort
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Planning to finally do a convention or two next year and I think I've got our booth design figured out...
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Cosmic Lighthouse Comics @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Coming to Kickstarter! ALL SYSTEMS RED — the official Graphic Novel adaptation of Book 1 in The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com. Click here to sign up for exclusive discounts and content! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When you know you're really seen for your true self in this business:
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey, you are enough. Don't believe anything contrary to that.
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Kalpar @thekalpar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finished Lord Marshal Dreir from Games Workshop. I will say I'm not a huge fan of the greebling that GW has done with a lot of their newer miniatures.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is solarpunk art
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026
Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City
Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up
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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
May the memory of the 146 dead in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire speed this valiant whistleblower into successful action: Every fire alarm, every exit sign, every metal stairwell has been forged in blood, never forget, never relax.
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