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Rereading the Murderbot short stories, I found this:

OMG Murderbot wants to buy its humans coyote vests:

(Maybe then it would be safer for Ratthi to leave the shuttle.)

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I get to be more free as an adult than I ever did as a child and I think more kids need to know that. as a high schooler part of what made my depression so bad was being told over and over again that it was the most carefree time of my life. while I was trapped in an abusive home + amongst bullies at school + in a body that wasn’t right for me. opportunities to be carefree don’t end when you turn 18. you can be more you than ever as an adult and that’s such a gift. I know ‘it can get better’ is an annoying thing to see over and over when you’re as trapped as I was back then. and I know that if you’re still a kid you deserve to be free right this second. but it can and will get better and this is not where life stops being interesting. promise

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PSA (public sippy announcement)

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ok mouse.

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System Collapse, Martha Wells

I think this is the moment I completely fell in love with Iris - I mean, we already know her to be smart, and competent, and brave, and cool under pressure, and very believably ART's sister, but this. This is the passage that truly highlights her emotional depth and how much she loves ART.

And also, this is what made the concept of ART and other ships like it grounded in reality for me. Because, how do you make sure that an almost god-like machine intelligence with free will also has good will toward the humans it's surrounded by and has the power to annihilite on a whim? How do you prevent it from becoming the terryfying, murderous AI overlord we like to imagine when talking about non-organic intelligences?

And this is an answer I'm willing to buy - you love it. You don't just develop it in a lab, you give it a family. You give it loving parents, you make it someone's sibling, and you raise it, and let it grow and mature like you would a human child. You don't just value its utility, you cherish its personhood.

I just have a lot of feelings about ART and Iris's relationship, okay?

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Amena in the first half of Network Effect: Escaping Targets with Third Mom

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the bots are fightingggg

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every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year

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So, fun fact about the skinned FurReal pony - I got the ID wrong, but only because Smores and Butterscotch's necks are semi-fixed in position, and I didn't think to google if the image I had of Butterscotch was mirrored.

The skinned horse IS Butterscotch, not Smores, but all of that's besides the point.

The reason I'm making this post is that y'all need to know that they skinned Butterscotch to turn her into a flamethrower

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whatever. go, my scarab

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I... I don't think the patient's weight got entered correctly. Just a hunch

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i’m starting a collection of things insane people do in animal crossing

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spent my day off drawing scenes from network effect

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ALSO can confirm.

I was on the jury for a case involving a prison fight. I believe they were trying to charge the defendant, a black man, with pre-meditated violence or something along those lines (it’s been a few years).

the very first thing they show us is video evidence. there were two videos taken with security cameras. one immediately preceding the fight, and then a second video showing the fight itself.

the two lawyers then spend several hours showing us a powerpoint presentation with their “evidence” for why he’s guilty. every single part of it is BS, like a screenshot from the first video that’s supposed to show that he had “aggressive body language,” and stuff like that. they also had a guard testify that the defendant and the victim didn’t get along. the lawyers do NOT show us the actual videos again. then we’re told to go deliberate and decide on a verdict.

I argued that we should see the videos one more time just to be sure, and most of the jury agreed with me. when we make the request to the judge, I specifically write on the paper that we would like to see both videos. the judge accepts our request, and the lawyers agree, but then they ONLY show us the second video. I said, nuh uh, we specifically asked to see both videos. so the judge makes them show us the first video again. and guess fucking what:

Video 1: the defendant walking down the stairs is facing the camera and is wearing a white shirt and blue pants

Video 2: the attacker is facing away from the camera and is wearing a blue shirt and white pants

THEY HAVE THE WRONG FUCKING GUY ON TRIAL.

and beside the fact that they were OBVIOUSLY obfuscating evidence, they were basically trying to get us to convict this man of a crime based solely on racist stereotypes. it still pisses me off when I think about it.

for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!

don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!

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when you cook for everyone and they tell you how much they like the food