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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing)

@sjklapecki.itch.io

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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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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 3m

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.)

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5h

war, war never changes.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 7h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Legendarium @legendarium.bsky.social · 3h

This is a top 5 Simpsons joke

Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 16h

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 7h

I can't even imagine how disconcerting the mechanical soulless slop machines must be if you're an organic soulless slop machine.

MrBeast: AI means it's 'scary times' for YouTube creators

He says he's worried about what will happen to millions of creators when AI videos are as good as normal ones.

www.bbc.com

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 19h

Why would I, a person who cannot in any way directly interact with the American political system but whose loved ones are now having to flee their homes because of it, criticise those who are responsible?

It is a mystery.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

One of the underrated funniest demographics is “people who aren’t going to vote for the Democrat regardless but for some reason think their views on Democratic politicking should be valued”

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 6h

communication from the other side

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 12h

girl who can only get off if you have the right music playing

call that a choral fixation

Fanged Cutie @fangedcutie.bsky.social · 12h

girl who's a little too into praise

call that a moral fixation

Jane (JRG) @janereplygirl.bsky.social · 13h

girl who gets off on eating flowers—the more yonic the better

call that a floral fixation

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 11h

this is what happens when school maps in the 90s have the united states in the center

conor smith: Joined Sep '23
Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

nyc nafo fella: How has he shown himself to be unfit?

conor smith: By failing to return €3,300 paid to him in error by a former tenant, going as far as to ignore solicitor's letters

nyc nafo fella: 3,300 Euros? What the fuck are you talking about?

banjo gall: Think.

nyc nafo fella: Well normally since Gavin Newsom is in America he would be paid in dollars, not Euros. Maybe you should take your suggestion? You filthy motherfucking Russian troll.

banjo gal: You seem upset. Who's Gavin Newsom? We're discussing Jim Gavin.

nyc nafo fella: Looks like this fight against international Putin loving fascists is going international. And who the fuck is Jim Gavin?

banjo gal: Jim Gavin was a nominee in the Irish presidential race, until he pulled out at the weekend due to a scandal whereby he owed a former tenant
€3,300.
Not sure what Putin and fascists have to do with this.

nyc nafo fella: When your other nation is Russia or Serbia that is very true, fuck you and your nation.

banjo gal: But it's not. It's Ireland.
Thanks though.

nyc nafo fella: Why are dumb fuck anglos showing up on my timeline?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah I think Gen AI should be dismantled and never be allowed to be constructed again actually.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 13h

Picture of text on top and image meme on bottom.

Top: "Hey man, you wanna eat 6 boiled eggs in a row?"

"Nah, I'm good."

"We'll mix the yolks with mayo and mustard and put them back into the boiled egg whites and then cover it with paprika."

Bottom: Image of animated cartoon character in yellow shirt. He's saying, "You son of a bitch. I'm in."

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 12h

i mean they're already spawn broadcasters and filter-feeders im sure a bit more won't hurt them

SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 12h

girl who can only get off if you have the right music playing

call that a choral fixation

Fanged Cutie @fangedcutie.bsky.social · 12h

girl who's a little too into praise

call that a moral fixation

Jane (JRG) @janereplygirl.bsky.social · 13h

girl who gets off on eating flowers—the more yonic the better

call that a floral fixation

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 14h

i hate how my impulse is to try and find the take in question

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h

Bluesky deliberately has no ability to make private accounts.

When it started, it had no ability to *block* accounts.

Zero privacy was baked in at the architectural level, here.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h

The firehose is public, any jackass with an AI to train already has access to every single image. This is intentional, same reason why your list of people you block is public, built right into the system.

It's the "we have no input" part that's the problem.

Your images are already stolen.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16h

The thing with bluesky using AI to moderate images isn't that it's training on them, think for 10 fucking seconds about it, but that they are saying "yeah we outsourced that shit entirely, we got no control over it. It says label, we label" etc

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 16h

Oh this is so cursed I love it

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demon core vidal (halloween style. bc demons are SPOOKY) @regretagarbo.rip · 16h

“finish adding a feature” we literally all thought was there from the get go. “finish adding a feature” when jay yelled at all of us to shut the fuck up and federate if we wanted change.

unbelievable

Asked about why Link had to contact Bluesky to ask what had happened to his account rather than receiving a notice, Paul Frazee, the service's CTO, said that it was "unfortunate," and that Bluesky needed to finish adding a feature to let users of external PDSes know if they have been banned by Bluesky labelers.

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 19h

I feel like a definite "yes, and" is worth assuming here yeah

SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 19h

See that makes sense, but I'm also having flashbacks to like, when tumblr tried to do their porn ban and people found it was so unreliable it'd ping off of deserts and stuff. I think that automation in moderation should be much more conservative, if we MUST have it

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 19h

I'm willing to say this is just unfortunate and incidental, automated systems having the bias of our society, but this is a deeply ableist-in-outcome error.

SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 19h

I would like an explanation as to why a system designed to detect 'adult content' pings off of prosthetics. Like I'm not being hostile here, but the technology making this error "surprisingly often" points to some connection the tech is making between visibility disability and 'adult' content

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

It's an automated system, so unfortunately this is an error that gets made surprisingly often with prosthetics.

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should go buy trans books before I get disappeared for bringing up the Trust and Safety gooning incident.

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 21h

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