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propaganda i am not falling for:

always moving on. some goodbyes need to rot a little. some griefs need to be held in the mouth like a stone.

beauty defined by algorithms. beauty exists in crow feet and smile lines

pretending to be chill. i’m not chill. i care deeply and inconveniently. i read into things. i write poems about eye contact

beige apartments with no soul. give me bookshelves and incense and loud art

sneaky links and unclear intentions. i want devotion. and also clarity

treating books as decor. read them. dog-ear them. argue with them in the margins

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my partner said something that kinda rocked my world

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IT FUCKIN YURI DAAAAAAAAAAAY

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maybe, if murderbot had to be really honest, it hurt that the humans celebrated the other Security Unit's death.

it was just doing its job, after all. it didn't have a choice. Did they have to cheer so loud when it was beheaded?

would they cheer if murderbot were beheaded, too?

(I was thinking about this after SE01 EP07)

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american society has us trannies in a blue whale challenge ran on a subconscious level. the disgusted stares from strangers, unreturned emails for job applications, the constant background radiation of 'detransition and assimilate, or die". its pretty rational that we're all thinking about the big S

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I love a sentient spaceship with Absolutely Zero Chill

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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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“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

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Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

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From a comfortable and safe home to a small tent that is unable to withstand the extreme temperatures of summer or winter, you wake up to the sounds of explosions everywhere.💔😔 You try to resist the pain of hunger and cold, but it is beyond your strength. My dreams and hopes were unfortunately not realized. I studied law and had a big dream of becoming a lawyer💔, but the war unfortunately made it impossible for me to pursue that path. Now I have only one dream, which is to alleviate the pain of hunger and cold and provide a suitable shelter for my family.💔😔

I am grateful to everyone who donated to help me save my family from genocide

🙏🥺 https://gofund.me/ed6e9cb6 🥺🙏

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Urgent Appeal for Help

We are being ordered to evacuate, but there is nowhere safe to go. Bombs fall daily, and death is everywhere.

My children cry from hunger — their bodies are weak from severe malnutrition. We have no food, no clean water.

For over a year and a half, we survived on donations, but now even that lifeline has stopped.

My children’s lives are in real danger.

Please, don’t leave us alone in this nightmare. Help us before it’s too late.

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“stop traumadumping to your friends tell this to your therapist” my god they paywalled human connection

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in which mb has some wonderful complicated feelings!

and some third mom-ing :)

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I’m actually really curious about comfortunits in the world of murderbot diaries? Secunits almost make sense because they’re faster/stronger/have abilities which make them superior to humans when it comes to fighting (hello guns in arms)

But I can’t see the corporate rim not having easily available sex work, and I’d bet that humans (especially indentured or trafficked humans) are a whole lot cheaper than a comfortunit. also I would not be shocked if there are bots of all kinds to provide sexual functions as well

Which makes me wonder if it’s the customizability of comfortunits that give them a market, which is its own unique kind of horror. I would not be shocked if there’s a specific market for “your loved one died, give us their tissue and we will clone it to make a custom comfortunit to get you through your grief” or “give us a pic of your ex you’re obsessed with and we will make a version that has to obey you”

and yeah sex is probably a significant chunk of what is expected of most comfortunits. But I could also absolutely see people wanting constructs of their dead or missing kids as well and stuff like that

So there’s that horror component of like. you have been designed by someone. the face you wear might belong to someone else. you might be expected to act like someone else. you cannot acknowledge out loud that you aren’t that person. if you don’t act enough like them you will be punished. you never knew that person. you aren’t that person. you can’t be yourself when you have to be them instead.

maybe after enough time has passed people start to forget that you aren’t that person. but you can’t forget, because that person has become a prison that you aren’t allowed to escape

Which opens all sorts of doors as well! Comfortunit body doubles, for example (and how weird would it feel to know the person that your organic matter is cloned from?)

I wonder if there are laws about how visibly a construct must Be A Construct in the corporate rim. we’ve certainly met more secunits in the books than comfortunits, but is that because there are fewer because they are very expensive and there is less demand, or because it can be hard to identify a comfortunit due to the sheer variety in builds/looks and desire for a more human-passing model than secunits

Idk just

comfortunits

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this is how artificial condition went right

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Getting emotional thinking about (good) children's shows. Specifically educational shows/shows that have a lesson, Wild Kratts, Odd Squad, Word Girl, Bluey, Sesame Street, Mr Rodgers, ect.

Shows that are made just to gently hold your hand as you grow up. Shows that are made to introduce you to the world, give you a little pat on the head and some knowledge, some animal facts, some basic math to share on the playground.

Something about the thought of rooms of writers sitting down and thinking about what lesson to teach kids in the next episode, how do we word this in a way the kids would understand, how should we present this information, makes me warm.

There's just a feeling about them. Like extra care has been put into them, like they are handling the viewer gently. Not patronizingly. But gently. These shows aren't made to scare you or keep you hooked till the next episode, make sure you binge the entire season.

They feel like they would gently wipe your tears away after you scraped your knee, give you a dinosaur bandaid while telling you a cool fact about dinosaurs to cheer you up, then help you back to your friends. They just feel kind. Feel safe.

The best way I can describe it is like... Kinda parental. Like they are just shows, they can't replace a parent obviously, but they took part in raising you. In shaping you into how you are today. And no matter what, I think they would be proud.