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Elias bouchard??? (cluedo is now added to the long list of 'things that remind me of tma ™️')

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cant stop thinking about Mensah like

Her and secunit are the only ones who really get each other, or rather, the only ones who understand each other's trauma in the slightest, and understand how corporates work without being shocked by things like medical care requiring funds

It sees through her lies and notices her emotions better than a lot of her friends and family based on what we see

And she is the person secunit has consistently been least uncomfortable with touching. But she still doesn't touch it when she's at all in her right mind because even though its Incredibly comforting and grounding for her she knows it doesn't like it

Murderbot Wants to spend it's time protecting its friends. Mensah is aware that it's not healthy for them to be tied at the hip forever, that she is relying on it to avoid processing her own hypervigilance due to some trauma so she wants it to take other jobs

She does action hero shit to protect it too, even when it's trying to not be protected

She gets secunit's jokes and doesn't take its threats seriously because she trusts that if it wanted to be violent it wouldnt need to threaten first

It sees her as a rare human who can actually be trusted to plan and strategize with

She'd go through the same series of events that led to her kidnapping and being held hostage again given the chance because changing it would mean not saving murderbot

It Chose to hold her hand, it has to stop itself from telling her how it feels, when it was taken off inventory one of the first thoughts it had was being her bodyguard on preservation, there was a chance she Might be being held hostage and it immediately hopped on a transport to go save her, shes its favorite human

Like it's been all day and their friendship is all I've got going on up here

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owning these mixes should require a license like owning a gun requires a license, I think

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thread count is a lie perpetrated by Big Bedsheets. what really matters is the material.

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One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

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Indie horror games are either like "You're on a submarine because you were sent to explore a mysterious pit in the ocean floor and you slowly realize you weren't meant to resurface" or "Mr. Scrubkus is gonna get you!!!!! Don't let him get you!!!!" And Mr. Scrubkus is the one everyone talks about

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Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

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A quick summary of the last 16 months

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The post I just reblogged made me think about "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" and how, now, in our time of dramatically reduced infant and child mortality and increased abundance, the more statistically likely interpretation of that six-word story is this:

"Extended family and friends have gifted us too much stuff for our kid. They didn't even get a chance to wear these shoes before they outgrew them." And if that's not an indication of amazing progress, I don't know what is.

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

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Finally.

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I find it so fascinating that some job applications are just "please submit your resume, cover letter and email address" and others make you go through the twelve labors of Hercules, for practically the same job

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the line between vengeful brutal catharsis and gay sex is very thin so be careful out there

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About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

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