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SJ Klapecki (should be writing)
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Head writer at @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social

Trans woman, Canadian

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I swear to God I misclicked
Screenshot from the game "Unreal World" To fill that pot you need water or an animal to milk (blue text) Milk the bull? Nay, think again. (Red text)
January 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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man even cops are saying that ICE fucked up bad lol

how obviously evil do you have to be for that to happen
from CNN ICE agent should have de-escalated the situation, former Minneapolis police chief says Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo has described to CNN ways in which an ICE agent who fatally shot a woman in the city could have de-escalated the situation.
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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Hannibal saying "you did it! You broke catholicism down to its bare essentials!"
January 6, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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post from @mysti_mole on twitter (i know, i got this screenshot from elsewhere) "I know its scary outside of the trench but right now mommy needs you to affix your bayonet and charge, puppy"
January 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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wait this is even funnier, technically you don't actually need to be Catholic to baptize someone as a Catholic, it just needs to be an extreme enough situation
CHAPTER II : THE MINISTER OF BAPTISM Can. 861 §1 The ordinary minister of baptism is a Bishop, a priest or a deacon, without prejudice to the provision of can. 530, n. 1. §2 If the ordinary minister is absent or impeded, a catechist or some other person deputed to this office by the local Ordinary, may lawfully confer baptism; indeed, in a case of necessity, HIGHLIGHTED TEXT [any person who has the requisite intention may do so.] Pastors of souls, especially parish priests, are to be diligent in ensuring that Christ's faithful are taught the correct way to baptise. Can. 862 Except in a case of necessity, it is unlawful for anyone without due permission to confer baptism outside his own territory, not even upon his own subjects. Can. 863 The baptism of adults, at least of those who have completed their fourteenth year, is to be referred to the Bishop, so that he himself may confer it if he judges this appropriate.
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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bro if i die my family is suing merriam-webster
"Your 2026 word" "MORIBUND" - it means about to die
January 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Frostpunk's plague mission is exceptionally funny because when you're about halfway done vaccinating everyone...they all decide it's over and they don't need to do anti-plague stuff anymore and you just gotta be like "WAIT WAIT WAIT"
January 1, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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this is so much more than i thought 9 pounds would be i dont know what i was thinking

i went shopping before my ADHD meds kicked in so this was pure impulse
a mountainous vat of white yogurt sitting upon a counter. a large butcher's knife is next to it, the pail wider than it is long and taller than the blade standing upright
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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hehehehe time to write the most fun chapter of this book
The sky was golden and beautiful as wires spread throughout in Lichtenberg staccato and the clouds hung static in the air and the wind died and the forest stilled as though the world itself had inhaled and would not let go of the breath in awful understanding of what tore itself free from the base air and perfection imposed itself upon that which could never be and upon those who aspired towards that which could not be emulated and she heard the voice — voices, voices, voices — ring out in blessed triphonia inseparable yet distinct. (centred, bolded text) Be Not Afraid.
December 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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No seriously this pisses me the fuck off. You just explained it perfectly in a way we understand like three different times. Just because we don't have a singular word that captures it doesn't mean we can't understand and empathize and explain it.

Your issue is translation, not fundamental feeling
A History of Feelings opens by looking at the first word in the Western canon, which happens to refer to an emotion. At the start of The Iliad, Achilles is described as having mênis, which is usually rendered simply as “wrath” or “anger” or “rage” by English translators. Boddice didn’t think this made sense, because, first of all, Achilles doesn’t really act enraged; he just kind of broods. It isn’t until his friend Patroclus is killed, much later in the story, that he enters battle. This might seem like pedantic textual analysis, but for Boddice it is an opening to an emotion from deep antiquity that has been lost to time. Through a close reading of ancient-Greek usages of mênis, the feeling revealed itself to Boddice as something closer to unease at cosmic disorder (or, as Boddice put it to me, a “cosmic sulk”) than anything we’d associate today with anger. If mênis wasn’t motivating Achilles after Patroclus’s death, then what was? After examining images of Achilles on Greek pottery and reading accounts of ancient funeral rites, Boddice discerned what seemed like yet another form of grief, more violent in nature, which also has no real analogue today.
December 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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--conceptions of emotions, what is right, what is wrong. Am I to believe that I do not share something fundamental with the Japanese, the Russian, the Indian, the Brazilian? Given that this man's central, bold, claim is "down with empathy," I would say that his answer is "yes."
“Down with empathy,” Boddice said when we met in Montreal, the snow falling outside the window in Mount Royal Park. “I want a T-shirt with that on it.” Boddice has a slim build and a rangy restlessness. His face is boyish despite the crow’s-feet beginning to
December 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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--and I think it's laughable, as they do in this article, to suggest that pain connected to different emotions might not be 'the same' as pain today, and that religious beliefs and experiences may render it as completely different. We know this because we still have people who self-harm for--
Let’s return to that medieval carpenter. He has banged his thumb, triggering his nociceptors, or pain receptors—which should really be called “harm receptors,” Boddice said, because all they do is send a signal up to the brain that damage has occurred. They don’t themselves cause pain. To understand what the carpenter experiences, then, we need to begin with a series of questions that might help us reconstruct the meaning produced once the signal reaches its destination. Does this happen a lot? Is the sensation of hitting his thumb a daily or weekly occurrence—something that goes with the job? And then, if religion infused every second of his life, as might very well be true for a medieval carpenter, where would his concept of suffering come from? Does he think about Christ and perhaps feel purified? If suffering, sin, and love are conjoined in an idea of the divine in the carpenter’s brain, and these are “lived connections,” Boddice said, “and you’re surrounded by them,” how might he feel when that hammer hits his thumb?
December 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Three messages all from the Discord user Serena, Antipope Frociaggine I 1: opps call me the scourge of god cuz i'll hit it hard in the back until Jesus Christ came again 2: grand inquisitor tried to call me up on charges i called his mom a witch and watched her burn by his own hand 3: I'm smoking that richard the lionheart papal conclave of 69 AD pornocratic borgia runtz this shit aint nothing to me man
December 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I think one of the most affecting poems I ever read was Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen, the description of a gas attack is something that's haunted me for over a decade since I read it
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
December 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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begging the weird liberal replyguys to understand what words mean
post from some frankly anonymous #resist account which says "Trump's new ability is plain to see"
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Reddit has discovered I am a writer and it is flashbanging me
from /r/pubtips - [Qcrit] - Ascension - adult science fantasy - 133k second attempt Thank you to those who tore apart my first attempt last week. It's so hard to see what's wrong from within. That said, don't bother commenting on my word count. I'm aware of the difficulties, but am not editing further. I've already come down from 204k so if this doesn't work, it will be set on the back burner to use when I'm no longer a debut, and that's fine. I had an agent tell me to put my business paragraph at the end so they can potentially get hooked with the story and character before immediately rejecting based on word count, so that is what I've done. Dear Agent, [Personalization] 18-year-old Liv has spent her teens on the waters, disconnected from the re
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Something I think is really funny about AI is that it's so toxic that even attempts to clarify it get backlash to the point where actual corporate founders go "holy fuck" to a public audience.

I think this is good. Fuck AI.
Update 12/16/2025 2:58 p.m. ET: Vincke followed up with a separate statement on on X rejecting the idea that the company is “pushing hard” on AI: Holy fuck guys we’re not ‘pushing hard’ for or replacing concept artists with AI.
December 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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pickling with garlic is so funny because the garlic just decides "im blue da ba dee da ba die" and you just gotta be ok with that
December 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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the hot has been sauced
a bottle of dull orange thick sauce
December 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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for some reason its an uphill challenge to explain to people that my lactofermented hotsauce is safe and delicious to eat (it will be blended tomorrow, i tasted it today and its sour enough)
a big, cloudy jar of various seeds and veggies.
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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god damn i love how catty these people can be
The praetorian prefect at that time was Ioannes the Kapodokian, and Tribonianos, a Pamphylian by origin, was counsellor to the emperor; had not even heard of a liberal education or culture. He learned nothing at grammar school except his letters, and poorly at that. But through the strength of his natural ability, he became the most powerful man of our time.
December 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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whomst does not enjoy a good mushed room from time to time tbh
Picture of a giant puffball, half sliced, on a table. a pot is behind it, holding a plant. the mushroom is bigger than the plant or pot. source: https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/comments/cqc4fk/the_insides_of_a_giant_puffball_mushroom_foraged/
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"what if you did mechsplotation but in a cafe" is now a thing my server came up with
Discord user Serena, Antipope Frociaggine I, replying to K, Miss Cannibalism Yuri 2025 K, Miss Cannibalism Yuri: putting an entire cafe inside a mech so you can cozyfic while you mechsploitation Serena, Antipope Frociaggine I: "I am not a person. I am a weapon. I am the hot steam that slices through the milk. I am agony, wreathed by exhaustion, propelled forwards by my only will: to not sleep."
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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my bread machine makes sure each loaf i make has its own bussy
load of square bread with a distinct, nearly perfectly circular hole in it
December 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Something very interesting about the Book of Revelations is that in its description of the Four Horsemen, it directly posits that Famine is not some monstrous disease that kills crops or drought or anything, but a merchant overcharging for life's necessities during crisis.
Revelations 6:5-6, New Catholic Bible version 5 When he broke open the third seal, I heard the third living creature shout, “Come!” I looked, and there was a black horse, and its rider was holding a pair of scales[d] in his hand. 6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice emanating from the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat costs a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley cost a day’s wages. But do not damage the olive oil or the wine.”
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM