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Sure would be a shame if thousands of people saw this...

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I kinda feel like the biggest difference between book!Gurathin and show!Gurathin in how he relates to Murderbot is show Gurathin's complete and utter lack of chill. 😂

Book Gurathin is absolutely MADE of chill about Murderbot. He plainly doesn't care that it vocally doesn't like him. He finds the whole situation funny, he enjoys hanging around it and poking at it or showing up to watch it commit minor property crimes or whatever, and he might worry about it if it's getting itself into trouble, but I don't think he's that invested. Murderbot is having a whole entire one-sided haterdom and meanwhile he just finds it amusing and lets whatever it says roll off him. The most thought he's ever invested in Murderbot was in the first book when he was trying to figure out if it was going to kill them or not, and once he settled that to his satisfaction, he basically just settled back and let it think whatever it wants about him and do whatever it wants about that. He's one of its people kind of in general, he cares about it, he would definitely help it if it's in trouble, but I think he's mostly just busy living his life and Murderbot only tangentially interacts with that.

(Also, I feel that the idea in some fanfic that Murderbot simply never updated its tags on him and has him tagged "disliked" and has absolutely no plans to ever spend a single iota of introspection on whether or not that situation has changed is completely plausible.)

Show Gurathin, however, has exactly ZERO chill about Murderbot. He also needs to know if it's going to murder them; however, he will also poke it gratuitously, bicker with it, project onto it, and then towards the end of the season clearly decides that it is One Of His People and at that point will download the entire thing into his brain and project on it in a whole new way and cry when it leaves. NO CHILL. NONE. I don't know what kind of relationship they're going to have when/if it gets back, but I really can't see him suddenly developing the ability to be fine with it mostly ignoring him - as book!Gura is - when he's never previously had that ability in the entire time he's been interacting with it.

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walkable cities are such a terrible idea when you think about them for literally any longer than a single second. more steps = more cracks = more mothers’ backs broken. simple fucking math. if you wanted your mom’s back blown out so bad you could’ve just called me

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i've said it before and i'll say it again: calling someone an "israel supporter" or "palestine supporter" or anything of the like has always seemed weird to me. i don't support the entirety of the country of israel nor do i support the entirety of the palestinian territories; i support safety, security, and peace for all innocent people and oppose all unnecessary death caused by both governments and militaries.

framing this as team israel vs team palestine just proves that you guys view this like a sports rivalry instead of a real conflict that affects the lives of real people.

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So, the disposable assassins that came up briefly in the Murderbot books. The ones that were described as effectively subsentient, augmented, drugged, minds hollowed out and remote operated by a handler.

And TV Murderbot's Gurathin backstory, an augmented corporate spy kept on the leash of designer drugs, closer and closer to the suicide that's the only escape he sees until Mensah offers him another way out.

Is the first the failure state of the second? What was waiting for him at the end of the line, when he was too far gone to do his job but the equipment in his head too valuable for his employers to throw away? Did he feel himself slipping, look at them, and think, that's you, the moment you stop being useful?

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Describing Judaism as "the Jewish faith" has become a dog whistle to me, 99% of the time when someone says you know an absolutely rancid take about Jews is going to follow, regardless of whether they're coming from the Right or the Left

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The thing about wanting to write smart essays is you truly do have to read books to do that, and the thing about reading books is that it is way harder now that I am not 17 and smartphoneless

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Entitled white women I swear to God

People have been doing book clubs since forever. They do not put George RR Martin on the phone so he can join the chat.

Oh, thank you, kindly court jester jingling into my life under the brave banner of anonymity, for illustrating the exact problem of current fandom.

(This ask is about this post about private fanfiction "book clubs," for those of you who are not following my jester's ire.)

The bedrock of the problem entrenched fandom is having with the newer "TikTok fandom" element is that we have a fundamental disagreement about what fandom is, and what is the social relationship between the people who write fanfiction, make fanart, etc, and the people who read that fanfiction and enjoy that fanart.

(I am not going to use the term "content creator." Because that term is not applicable to fandom, fanfiction authors, or fan artist. Kill the capitalist in your brain. Content is hummingbird nectar made with artificial sweeteners. It resembles the real thing at a distance, but it is devoid of nutrients. It will fill you up so you're not hungry while starving you. Generative AI can produce content because it's empty; it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't even want to engage with you. The sole purpose of content is to get you to sit still long enough for the people who own the platform to squeeze whatever it is they want from you out of you and then abandon your malnourished husk until the next time they can get something from you.)

George RR Martin is not a member of fandom, and the relationship he has with his readers is fundamentally different, because his relationship as an author is explicitly a professional one. When George RR Martin sells a book—not to his readers, but to a publisher who acts as intermediary—he is given a lengthy contract outlining the terms of the sale. How much he will be paid, what can be done with his work by who, etc. George RR Martin is not your peer.

Fanfiction authors are your peers. They're your next door neighbors. They write fanfiction to connect to other fans in celebration of a canon everyone involved loves. Nobody makes a single red cent from writing or sharing their fanfiction. George RR Martin has sold 90 million copies of his books, and he gets money for every one. Because TikTok has trained you that people who are putting their creations out there are monetizing the experience of you reading or watching their art, the "TikTok fandom" element has you sorting your peer posting fanfiction on AO3 into the same category as George RR Martin. But your relationship with George RR Martin is a professional one, and the expectation from fanfiction authors and artists is a social relationship.

When you have a private book club reading and discussing fanfiction without ever telling the author or, God forbid, leaving a comment about how much you enjoyed the story—which is the expectation entrenched fandom authors and artists who view fandom as a social relationship—you think you're reading a mass produced novel from someone who has already been paid for it several times over, but this isn't even Walmart vs. local mom and pop. What are you actually doing is going to your neighborhood block party, picking up the cake someone made and brought to share, and taking it back to your house to eat with friends.

We are your peers. We are your neighbors. We are doing this for free because we want to talk to you about our common interest. No, it's not "payment." We offer our work for free, and you have the option of treating us like vending machines or ChatGPT or Walmart. This is a social relationship; you have this option just as you have the option of leaving your shopping cart in the middle of the parking lot instead of walking it to the cart return. You have that option just as you have the option to stick your chewed gum on a park bench or park your car across three handicap spaces or take a shit on the floor of a public bathroom. How you treat your peers and neighbors, how you treat the people in your community, is up to you.

You can keep stealing cakes from block parties. But don't be surprised when people get fed up with it and stop having block parties. Then you'll be stuck buying cake from Walmart or consuming artificially sweetened hummingbird nectar from ChatGPT while vultures raid your corpse for data.

Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk, court jester. Now get the fuck off my lawn.

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"Jews are good at math because they need to count money!"

False. Unoriginal. Boring. Jews are good at math because so much of our lives requires math. A non exhaustive list of things that require math in Judaism that isn't counting money:

-Machzor Math- calculating how many more pages and time there is left in High Holiday services

-Batul B'Shishim- calculating how much is less than a 60th for the case of food contamination that could affect it's Kosher status

-Intercalating the Calendar and determining the Zmanim- thankfully this one was already done for us, but someone did it a long time ago to calculate when our leap years are, how long each month is, and what the halachic times of each day are

-Gematria- the numerical value of different words which is used in all sorts of esoteric practice and understanding

-Fasting math- calculating how much time is left in a fast

-Kashrut math- calculating how much time is left until one can eat meat or dairy

-Candle math- calculating how many candles one needs for their household for Chanukah, especially if there are more than one menorah

-Wine and matzah math- calculating how much wine and matzah one needs to buy for their Seder. We go through a lot.

Bonus, one that actually involves money but isn't the tired "Jews are greedy":

-Figuring out a good multiple of 18 to give as a monetary gift to someone

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I've been thinking that the show will remove/change the stuff with ART doing experimental surgery on Murderbot because while those things would register on a subconscious level in real life they won't on tv, but it occurs to me they could get a lot of humor out of having this big fight about it and Murderbot keeps saying it doesn't want to look more human and then it gives in and then we have this big epic surgery montage of ART's medical drones doing all this work, and when Murderbot wakes up it looks in the mirror like "oh my gosh... I look so different... I barely recognize myself..." and then we the audience finally get a decent look and its like. Gotten a haircut.

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“On the night of 2–3 August 1944, more than 3,000 Roma men, women and children were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This atrocity marked one of the darkest chapters of the Roma Holocaust, in which up to 500,000 Roma were persecuted and killed by the Nazi regime.

This year also marks the 10th anniversary since 2 August was officially recognised as European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. This long-overdue recognition was a crucial step toward acknowledging the suffering of Roma communities and confronting decades of silence and denial.

Today, we honour the victims and reaffirm our commitment to remembrance, truth and justice.

Through initiatives like the “RomaMemory” joint EU/CoE programme and our Strategic Action Plan for Roma and Traveller Inclusion, the Council of Europe continues to promote education, awareness and inclusion.

But remembrance must lead to action. Anti-Roma racism remains a deeply rooted and persistent form of racism in Europe. We must confront it – by strengthening protections against hate speech and hate crime, by fostering inclusive education, and by supporting Roma communities in claiming their rights and dignity.

As we mark this sombre anniversary, let us confront the rise of hate speech, racism and the growing disregard for the international legal order forged after the Second World War and the Holocaust.

To honour the Roma victims is to defend truth over denial, dignity over dehumanisation and justice over impunity.

This is what we stand for – and this is what Europe needs”.

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Hey guys something fucking bad happened

KOSA/the kids online safety act has been reintroduced into legislature after it passed Senate last year and then got snubbed. It is not unlike the bill that just passed in the UK a few weeks ago. If you don't want what happened in the UK to happen here, now would be a good time to vocally oppose it.

Here is a petition that can be signed by Americans. Attached to the petition is an easy tool that allows you to call and leave messages for your representatives. I have already done so. You can also email your representatives by searching for their name, most have message submission boards as well. This thing died once, it can die again.

Please sign/share the petition and contact your representatives.

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Mine was Oddballz, a deeply strange desktop pet game I played on Windows 95 in 1996, and which you can still play through a browser-based emulator here: https://classicreload.com/play/win3x-oddballz.html

whats everyones first video game (criteria can be whatever you want but im going for the first game i remember playing as a kid) mine's harvest moon friends of mineral town

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my only murderbot show take is that i think if gurathin found out that mensah had to split secunit open like a hot dog bun he would be, in some deeply buried part of his psyche, UNFATHOMABLY jealous of it

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gurathin and murderbot have such a dynamic where later after trust is fully formed it'll say to him "I'm giving you precise instructions on how to kill me if I ever harm you or others because I know you have your priorities straight" and when the time comes he'll be unable to do it and will actually try to save it and maybe even kill himself trying

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shes singing pictures ;_;

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There is literally no circumstance where I support age verification to access a website. As I've said before I'm very much the "there's nuance here" person on almost everything but on this issue there's no nuance for me, it's awful and horrible in and of itself and it also sets an awful and horrible precedent