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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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Reblogging this for the mention of possible Murderbot new content. Signed up for the newsletter!

that post earlier got me thinking about how i'm subbed to a few poem of the day newsletters and dracula daily and all that, but i haven't seen, like. a short story of the day newsletter. like a fiction magazine but if you subscribe you get curated short-enough-for-email stories in your inbox on the reg. it feels like somewhere out there someone must already be doing this. but whomst.

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20 examples of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

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mmm a leaf. hwuaefgh!

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Cocaine Slug (poster, 2025, unreleased)

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🐟🐟🐟

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more interesting horse coats with explanations starting from top left to bottom right

1) dappled sooty chestnut

2) varnish roan leg markings

3) bend-or spotting

4) extensive grullo markings

5) bider shoulder markings

6) silver dapple

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The thing that I think really sets Murderbot apart from a lot of other robot media (particularly mainstream entries like the I, Robot movie) is that bots and constructs aren't a uniquely oppressed class, and humans aren't a uniquely privileged one. A lot of robot media rings a bit hollow because it portrays humans as all living a lavish, comfortable lifestyle, free from the burden of physical labor or control by their corporate overlords, and it's like. I think if the rise of generative AI has proven anything, it's that corporations and billionaires have absolutely no interest in making life easier for anybody, but will gleefully use new technology to make life infinitely worse if it means an extra buck in their pocket.

We are shown over and over again throughout the Murderbot Diaries that humans are mistreated just as badly as (or sometimes, in MB's own opinion, even worse than) bots and constructs. We see humans stripped of their rights, reduced to corporate assets to be bought and sold, sent into suicidal situations, abandoned and discarded as things. We see humans trapped in multigenerational labor contracts -- people born into an indentured servitude that requires them to pay back their food and lodging to the same company that will not let them leave.

None of these are hypothetical scenarios. These are all things that happen to real people in our world today.

And that is a huge part of why it resonates so much. The overarching theme of "capitalism is hell" actually means something because it isn't only applied to the fictional dynamic of bots vs humans. The theme is constantly reiterated through the humans themselves.

And that's also why it's so important that MB demonstrates empathy for and solidarity with humans who are themselves victims of the system. Because ultimately, that's one of the main things the series is about. It's about what it's like to be simultaneously a product, and victim, of a corporate hellscape.

That theme simply can't work if the humans aren't also forced to navigate that issue. If the story can't acknowledge that right now, in our own world, there are humans facing these same problems, and that these human rights matter quite a bit.

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bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

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This gotta be the funniest Enterprise-Klingon exchange ever:

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See You! Spring 2024. A new short comic. : ) Debuted at TCAF 2024.

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for working in the most hilariously unrelated field (tech) I know a lot of vets (and one vet tech)...

Friend's sister (started out small animal but retrained to become zoo vet)

Other friend's mom (small animal vet)

Other other friend (small animal, and a consultant for film and tv productions)

Vet tech

3/4 I met through animals :)

Actually, the number of people I know through horses that also work directly with animals.... It's a lot of them!

*For the purposes of this poll, the professional relationship you have with your animal’s vet doesn’t count.

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-devin kelly