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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing)

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · Jun 26

Oh hey look at that I have a short story actually out: The Invisible Hand, an urban-fantasy story following the misdeeds of a man who stumbles his way into bringing magic back to the financial markets. Up on itch now :D

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The Invisible Hand by SJ Klapecki

A man's encounter with true Angel Investors

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 3h

honestly that sounds sick

one of my profs does a lot of work with nomadic economy and as far as ive been able to tell he just likes going to mongolia and learning about how people raise sheep so like, its not all bad but man. the stinkers really stick out

SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 3h

The political compass of anthropology is "how much do they want to go see 'exotic locales' and 'foreign people'?" and "how much do they basically want to do sociology but under a different name?"

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 4h

if i ever get a chance to go for my masters degree in this forsaken field im going to write a paper about cishetero society in all the luxuriant self-delusion on display by most anthropologists

SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 4h

I fucking despise anthropologists, so much of the field is directly rooted in ignoring what people are telling you or what the material reality in front of them is in favour of pet theories that can Explain the World or some bullshit and it's almost always about exoticizing people

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 4h

It is always right and just to loathe anthropologists, we're a wretched class of know-it-alls who refuse to take people at their word in favour of our own pet theories.

Being a trans woman in anthropology is a fucking trip every time gender comes up though man it's SO bad.

Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 5h

I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists

Muxes identify with lo femenino or
what is feminine and many dress in traditional female attire, but they are not gen-
erally seeking to be transgender, or to be accepted as women.

The gay men I interviewed were even more emphatic and quick to differentiate
themselves from muxes. Mario, an articulate twenty-four-year-old gay man, for
example, said that
For me a muxe is a man who identifies as a woman and likes to dress like a woman. I
am not muxe. I am gay because I have never wanted to dress like a woman or to be one.
They work in female trades. I know I am a man.

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Jemmargh! Topaz (halloween edition) @jemma.bsky.social · 4h

Anthropologist: Hmm, these people seem to know what they are. People near them also seem to know what they are.
Anthropologist: But none of them are anthropologists; so I had better make up what I think they really are.
Anthropologist: I'm doing science!

Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 5h

I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 9h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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ScaryAlu @scaryalu.bsky.social · 1d

My Paldadin who's been through ALOT. Lady Marta the Risen, Adjunct of Kelemvor.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 21h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · Aug 2

So fun fact, but bishops in the Catholic Church have a special vestment they wear, a large, ornate cape with a prominent clasp in the front. Typically, this is only worn in the VERY solemn processions and in one's home diocese.

It is called the Cope. Here is a picture of a Pope coping hard.

A picture of Pope Benedict XVI in full papal garments, sitting on a grand white and gold throne with two angel statues to his sides. He is wearing a grand, red, cape known as a "cope."

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · Aug 5

My parents, taking an infant to Paris during one of the few vacations they've ever taken in their life: waow surely an archbishop's blessing will help our child grow up faithfully catholic and happy

Me, 24 years later: tranny

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · Aug 5

Excuse you Wages of Sin is in fact entirely sanctioned under the seal of Archbishop Jean-Marie Lustiger: the fucker blessed me and my "whole life" when I was like 1 year old and no takesies-backsies!!!

Jane (JRG) @janereplygirl.bsky.social · Aug 5

of course you would never do that!

implying that Wages of Sin is published by the Catholic Church, on the other hand...
/j

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 23h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i can’t believe we got another woke pope after all

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 1d

but consider that i am an anthropologist and seeing the letters go in the numbers makes me scared

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 1d

godspeed friend thats the Activation Phrase

how many mg

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

And you might then ask "What the fuck does biological name mean then?"

It means, quite literally, "As a fascist I consider my ability to say crazy-sounding shit without pushback a demonstration of my dominance over all out-groups, and it's my duty to demean and dehumanize trans people at all times"

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 1d

the closest we can get to a modern-day priestly caste with secret hieroglyphic knowledge is "doing the sort of shit kurzgesagt makes videos about" but instead of worshiping them we're making them fill out grant applications and do gladiatorial fights over who can use the giant mercury telescopes

SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 1d

it must be so fun to be a theoretical astrophysicist, it seems like 95% of the job is just "we don't know shit for fuck but maybe there's multiple infinities and they keep getting bigger and there used to be stars made out of black holes and here's a bunch of numbers only i can read proving it'

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN LOGIC
1. A male is defined by having a penis and testicles
2. God is a male.

Therefore
3. God has balls and a wang.

Ask a fundamentalist how big god’s hog is. No matter how big he says it is, it will be a limit to the infinite size of god and therefore a blasphemy.

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Jemmargh! Topaz (halloween edition) @jemma.bsky.social · 1d

Writers, ever feel your made-up corporation names are a bit obvious or too on-the-nose?

Well, worry not! Guess what the name of the company that makes the popular plastic explosive / unpopular car part Semtex is called?

Wikipedia clip: "According to the manufacturer, Explosia..."

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - “The people who built this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side.” (Tap on the tape recorder.)