#1-800-not-a-robot

[datarobotsuggestion]

Date a robot who doesn't know what's happening

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[r3starttt]

PHOTO BOOTH

PAIRING: Abby | Ellie | Dina x reader

CW: headcanons. small. been on my drafts since August...

TAGLIST: @twopeoplee @Kaimythically @greysontheidiot @levilvrr @sapphic-ovaries @girlkisser168 @bilsvlt @tlouloser @marsworlddd @1-800-fantasy @ellieswifee232 @prwttiestbunny @thesevi0lentdelights @lvlymicha @stickycherritart @rob1nbuckl3ys @abbys-muscles @dinakisser @lott6i @imagoddess @GodessAgrona

ABBY

𝜗𝜚 She would be the one to drag you, wanting one of those cute pics she'd seen all over tik tok and Instagram.

𝜗𝜚 Plus, she's already a Polaroid person. Abby loves the idea of having the physical memory, a tangible thing to remember special dates with literally anyone she cares about.

𝜗𝜚 She's got some Polaroids of you on her wallet, the mirror of her car, the mirror of her bathroom, on her phone case. Abby just adores having something to look at whenever she's having a hard time, whenever she misses you.

𝜗𝜚 Abby would be either shy at first or super straightforward, either way she's got you on her lap, with her hands around your waist and over your lap, rubbing your thighs up and down as she tries to understand how does it work.

"Babe, I think you gotta-" you can't even finish your sentence when she's already clicking stuff all over the screen. Both getting interrupted by a robotic woman's voice who's just starting to read the instructions. "Got it" she murmurs, and you lean back, giving her enough space to lean closer to the screen and touch whatever buttons the voice indicates.

𝜗𝜚 She doesn't really move a lot or suggests anything. Her hands stay still all over you the whole time, just staring back with those puppy eyes she reserves for you, mocking every pose and face you do, following any instructions you give to her.

"In five... four..." the woman counts loudly. Your nails touch her skin first, cupping her cheeks and leading her face to look back at you, which she obbeys with ease.

She knows what's on your mind, it's not the first time that happens. Her eyes close, giving you the prettiest view before you stamp your glossy lips against her skin. "two... one... smile!"

𝜗𝜚 Even with her face filled with gloss and lipstick, she comes out of the cabin proudly, whispering you to stay there before she closes the courtain. You obbey, confused, and simply sit there, looking at your barely visible reflection on the screen to clean the small bits of gloss you've smudged around your lips when kissing her.

"You ready?" you flinch a bit at the sudden interruption. A frown on your face as you process her words. "Want some with your face in it, come on" Abby tiltes her chin up, signaling to the screen. Yet before you can reply, the woman's voice appears once again, explaining the same steps you just heard minutes ago and giving you instructions to use the cabin properly. You just look at her with a sheepish stupid smile, which is already illuminating her pretty face. Both in a small awe before she closes the courtin again.

𝜗𝜚 While she waits for you, her heart is practically melting, staring at the pictures with so much love it's ridiculous.

ELLIE

𝜗𝜚 You're the one dragging her, mostly because you saw that look on her face. That one she puts whenever there's something on her mind she's too shy to say out loud.

𝜗𝜚 You enter first, patting quickly for her to step in and sit next to you. Your hair cascades a little on the sides of your face as you lean closer to the screen, following each step while indicating her to think of any pose while you manage to make the machine work.

𝜗𝜚 Ellie just sits there, quietly nodding and smiling at your words. If there's anything she loves, it is how well you know her, how much you love her, and understand her without the need of a word.

"Okay, ready? says we have ten seconds between each pic and we have eight chances, good?" You lean back, turning to her side a little to make sure you're both fitting properly. Ellie jus nods, murmuring a small "yup"

𝜗𝜚 She'd be making the most ugly funny faces at first, begging you to do it with her, which you simply accept.

𝜗𝜚 Every pose she makes, you have to mock. Rules are rules she says.

𝜗𝜚 She adores the machine, asking to do it again once the woman's voice announces the last picture about to be taken.

"Okay, come here" she murmurs, her hands patting on her lap while she enters the cabin first this time. And you do, half sitting while you adjust the courtain, suddenly being pushed by her "I could've hit my head El-" her lips are already on you "you didn't"

𝜗𝜚 She proceeds to click every button, try filters and other options the machine has, simply clicking on your favorite color for the frame.

𝜗𝜚 There's already a plan on her head, which you listen and nod. You choose four poses, she chooses the other four.

"Babe, please" her words come along a groan as it's the third time she's begging you to kiss her for the photo and you simply laugh at her face. The woman counting the seconds left. "You should beg for my kisses more frequently"

"Just shut up, and kiss me, please"

DINA

𝜗𝜚 She's the one to drag you, not like there was much effort on your side to decline the sweet offer of taking pictures with your girl in them.

𝜗𝜚 She's inside first, pulling you with a teasing "Come here" while you just laugh at her. Yet, once inside you're the one clicking all buttons until the instructions are told.

𝜗𝜚 Dina just sits quietly, thinking of all the many cute couples she's seen doing this, cursing herself for not remembering the poses so you can have the prettiest pictures of both- then, cursing at herself for even caring about it, as long as you are the one in those pictures there's nothing else that matters, right?

"So, what do we do?" Your face is finally uncovered by your hair as you lay back and glance at her, starting to pick some decorations to put on the frame. Dina leans back, wrapping one of her arms around your waist while her chin remains on your shoulder. "Since I don't think you're asking me how to decorate it-" her tone sarcastic while she gives you that look. Her lips press gently on your cheeks before both turn your attention back to the screen. "Maybe you can just kiss me in all of them..."

𝜗𝜚 You laugh it off, clicking on the start button so the pictures can be taken. Dina takes her time to pull you closer to her, tilting her body to the side a little so there's enough space to change positions in between.

"Ready?" but before you can even react she's got her hand cupping at your cheeks. Her soda tainted lips pressed against yours with an unusual steadiness. One of her hand quickly moves down your chest, cupping at one of your breasts gently. "Dina-" your tone muffled between the kiss and the quiet laughs you share.

𝜗𝜚 Once you hear the loud "Two, one, smile!" from the robotic voice, you quickly change the position. Panicking until Dina takes the lead for both.

Her hand cups your chin this time, turning your face towards the camera. One baby hair loosen next to her face, her eyes closed while she leans in for a quick kiss on your cheek. "I love you."

𝜗𝜚 You can't even reply back because the time Is already over and either you change again or you remind her what she hears or sees each day from you. You love Dina, but she must know by now, just like you can tell with how she looks at you. Just like now.

𝜗𝜚 This time you take the lead, brushing the same hair you noticed when she kissed you, behind her ear at first. You've seen endless pictures of people and couples doing hearts either with their cheeks, hands- so many cute ideas you needed to try.

"Like this?" she frowns, quickly copying what you're going with your hand, on her cheek. You brush your hair back, making sure the hearts can be seen. "I love you more." The words enlighten her face so quickly it melts you entirely. "I see what you're doing." And before you can erase the fake offense and mocking laugh from both of your faces, the click is heard and the photo taken.

[queen-simia]

now that ep 4 is live to the public, I can finally post what I've been sitting (and spinning) on for like a week, wheeee!

Major Monkey Wrench spoilers abound, so putting below a cut if you haven't yet seen the latest episode. And if you haven't seen it (or the rest of the series), you can do so here:

now ON TO THE INFODUMP

Shrike's status

so, since the beginning, I've been putting all my money on Shrike being an artificial being. Not in the sense of robotics/cyborgs and the like, but in the sense of a one-of-a-kind bioengineered creature. Since he was confirmed as an endling (as opposed to just hinted at in past episodes), I'm choosing to take that as a bit of reinforcement; his species is still marked as "unknown" by LAW, and if no one knows what you are and you're the only one they've ever seen, it's safe to assume they assume you're the last of whatever you are.

now, in a leap on my part, I'm further going to postulate that Shrike is actually an engineered squid. As in an honest-to-god Earth cephalopod, albeit in the same sense you can call a human a monkey. I think that maybe our boy Shrike is the end result of years-long genetic modification and breeding programs to create something closer to human shape and intelligence, but with whatever attributes his human creators wanted from squid...

...maybe attributes like producing ink.

"that's stupid, what makes you think that?" Glad you asked, Strawman! Here's what I'm drawing from:

Scratch's nicknames for Shrike

As much as these can be considered throwaways, Zeurel and Ash have been very good about sneaking in foreshadowing in dialogue. I don't fully think Scratch is calling Shrike "squidhead" just to be antagonistic (though in-universe, he certainly is; I doubt the character himself in canon has that kind of insight); I'm choosing to believe it may be a bit of a Chekhov's gun.

Shrike's design inspiration

In Tumblr ask replies, Zeurel's confirmed Shrike's design is based heavily on Humboldt squid, and he finds cephalopods and deep-sea life in general interesting. It's going into meta rather than narrative precedent, but I think for these reasons, having Shrike actually be an ascended squid wouldn't be that far out of the blue.

Shrike's terran connections

It's been established that Earth no longer exists, and what humans remain are persona non grata in LAW space. They're the reason behind the Cataclysm/the creation of Secondary Green, and what artifacts remain are traded on the black market (as implied by Scratch and Jaw Bone dealing in them, neither of whom are exactly upstanding citizens).

Yet somehow, Shrike speaks primarily in a canonically dead Earth language—Latin Spanish—and thinks highly of terrans/terran culture. He apparently is the only being in LAW space who does both. One could argue he picked up Spanish through exposure to contraband as a LAW officer, but even his translated speech is Spanish-accented. That to me is a clue it's his native language, as opposed to one picked up later in life. Maybe he doesn't speak it all that well, but it's what he learned as he grew up.

I believe that Shrike's interest in terran artifacts isn't so much fannish as it is nostalgic, though he doesn't realize it (yet). Remember, we don't know his true age—he's only estimated to be in his mid- to late 20s. He could very well be several decades or even 800+ years old, and for reasons yet unknown he isn't aware of it. Hell, he knows what VHS tapes are and how to watch them, something present-day kids are unfamiliar with right now. Even if he was treated as only a scientific specimen in his youth, something about Earth/its people may have been warm and familiar enough to endear terran mementos to him. But it's now too far gone in the past for him to remember why exactly he loves them so much.

Shrike got no dick

(originally posted to Twitter before the Shittening)

Canonically, the boy is Ken-doll smooth both front and back. Even though he has a gender (Questionably Masc™), he has no sex. Maybe his species could reproduce asexually, but it's pretty unusual for complex bipedal critters to do that. Plus, there's the fact that no peehole and no butthole also mean no bodily waste excretion, which is pretty much a death sentence for most life forms that run on metabolic processes. Therefore, I'm taking all these as artifacts of Shrike's artificial creation (and not just so it's more difficult to make show-accurate porn of him).

The Primaries, LAW, and Secondary Green

So there are three godlike beings that ostensibly also serve as the basis for government, referred to as the Primaries. Only one has been directly referenced as active in LAW government—Primary Red—but given the colors of the three LAW divisions, one can safely assume there must be a Primary Yellow and Primary Blue (whether they also govern, are off doing something else, or are AWOL is a mystery for now). It also just so happens that interstellar travel takes place in subspace pathways in the same colors as the Primaries (with varying speed depending on color), and spacecraft is fueled by "ink" in those corresponding primary colors.

It's also revealed in a news chyron in ep 4 that an intergalactic-capable drive had been in development (and had been stalled by bureaucracy) for at least 20 years, and is now ready to deploy. It's referred to as a Trinity drive, and required Primary Red's approval before it could officially launch. I think it's pretty safe to assume it's a form of propulsion that combines all 3 colors, however the in-universe physics work in that case. At the moment, it's been shown that using the wrong type of ink in a color drive will cause an explosion and a tear in space at best (at worst, we don't know yet), so whatever science went into developing a drive that combines colors must have been fairly dangerous (or potentially threatens to weaken whatever power the Primaries hold over LAW citizens).

Secondary Green

Background details are vital lore sources in Monkey Wrench. If you paid close attention near the beginning of ep 1 (and can easily read backwards text), you already know what's in the box the boys pick up in ep 2: something called "Secondary Green." It was evidently once in Chester's possession, but by the time Kara caught up to him, he'd already sent it on its way to LAW.

The second and third episodes refer to the Cataclysm being caused by terrans. The third episode explains the green corruption's effect on life forms, and LAW subsequently quarantining it to prevent its spread. It also shows Secondary Green corrupting the bit of Them that gets too close into the horrific black-green monster that overtakes the Bucket. The fourth ep has Jaw Bone directly refer to the terrans' "false idol" in reference to the Cataclysm.

While I was typing later paragraphs, I hit upon a possibility I hadn't even considered for what Secondary Green could be. So now, I've got 2 potential reads:

1. Secondary Green was the humans' attempt at recreating the Primaries' power for themselves. Whether this was to undermine LAW or to try to join the galactic stage at the Primaries' level has yet to be seen, but either way, it ended up biting humanity in the ass. Secondary Green and/or a byproduct of it/its creation ended up destroying Earth and a good chunk of its neighboring Milky Way space, and landed whatever humans remain squarely on LAW's shit list.

Now, those of you who remember me from pre-2018 Tumblr also know I'm pretty heavily into Mass Effect. That universe's version of the Milky Way also was governed by an alien-run coalition: the Citadel, which tightly controlled the means to interstellar travel (although the Citadel species did not create these means, they just found and activated them first). Thus, the similarities to the idea of a three-pronged alien government holding the keys to interstellar travel and commerce and forcing you to play nice if you want in have been resonating in the back of my mind whenever I watch Monkey Wrench.

The similarities end in that MW's answer to the Protheans are still very much alive and active, and are directly overseeing galactic travel, commerce, and government. There aren't established mass relays, but every ship contains its own "relay" in the form of ink drives. These can open portals into respective colors of subspace to get from one side of the galaxy to another faster than conventional propulsion (so far, red is the fastest, and blue seems to be the median speed everyday schmoes like our boys can access). And, most importantly, the means of this travel are less an external technological development and more appear to be tied to the nature of the Primaries themselves; these beings are not just obeyed, but worshiped (see Scratch's oaths in ep 3 and the red officer greeting Shrike and Armstrong exchange in ep 4).

However, there are still two very important similarities between these two settings that I think should be kept in mind:

i. Trouble started when humans started sticking their fingers into the galactic government's pie. In Mass Effect, it was shoehorning Shepard into the Spectre program and wriggling humanity's way into the Citadel Council. In Monkey Wrench, it was messing with fundamental forces it didn't yet understand and (maybe) creating human-made Great Value primaries, which resulted in at least one: Secondary Green.

ii. Control over interstellar travel—specifically, access to subspace—is a cornerstone of power. In Mass Effect, you need a specific form of reactor in order to engage the mass relays and "cheat" your way to FTL travel. These relays are heavily guarded and regulated by the Citadel; humanity famously learned this when it activated Relay 314 near Pluto and got a knock-knock from the police in the form of a turian armada. In Monkey Wrench, you need to equip specific color drives and fuel up at ink stations, which presumably are subject to LAW regulation and pricing.

In both settings, Earth appears to have taken a look at the galaxy already being run by someone else and immediately thought, "but how do I get around this?"

Engineering Secondary Green was MW Earth's answer to this question. Unfortunately, it backfired and drove humanity to (functional) extinction and criminal status.

2. Secondary Green is an unintended fusion of Primaries Yellow and Blue. This would explain their current-day absence (provided they don't directly appear in later episodes), and the subsequent fall of LAW enforcement into disorder that Armstrong alludes to in ep 4. Humanity was up to something that attracted the Primaries' attention—perhaps tapping into pocket dimensions, like the one embedded in Shrike's head?—and maybe things went awry. One way or another, Primaries Yellow and Blue's intervention ended in them fusing into a new anti-entity, Secondary Green. Instead of fostering life, their combined and imbalanced power corrupted it.

Left to their own devices (and likely hawkish methods, given Red oversees enforcement), Primary Red sealed off Earth's part of the galaxy and declared humanity LAW's enemy. The quarantine for justifiable safety/life preservation reasons, the outlawing likely to create the narrative that humanity was entirely to blame and not at all any fault of Primary interference (and maybe some vengeance for losing their comrades).

Or maybe, Red is covering their tracks.

LAW and Order

So the League of Aligned Worlds (LAW—yes, it's an acronym) is the current empire ruling civilized space in the Milky Way galaxy, under direct command of the Primaries (or at least Primary Red). There are three established branches: enforcement/military (red, which Shrike was once and has since defected from), science (yellow, which Dr. Agness impersonated), and commerce (blue, as represented by Killix and Sixty-Two, who appear to be led by an as-yet unseen Commander Tezzoree).

Being a centralized civilization, LAW has certain cultural and legal standards it expects its citizens to observe. Commerce and community are enabled by way of implanted universal translators á là Star Trek, but with one specific caveat: swearing is not allowed. It's so not allowed that it's physically punishable through painful translator auditory feedback—interestingly, people in earshot get punished this way as well just for hearing it.

Maybe it's a form of socialization, in that LAW hopes you're nice enough not to want to hurt your fellow citizens by swearing? Or that your fellow citizens, having had pain inflicted on them, will browbeat you into compliance? Either way, it's a window into current LAW space being severely authoritarian in both the moral and legal senses.

This extreme authoritarian approach doesn't prevent corruption, however. Corporate lobbyists exist, as demonstrated by Chester in ep 1, and LAW officials patronizing vice industries like sex work (see the end of ep 3) is not unusual. And current LAW is disorganized to the point of each division being largely ignorant of what's going on in the others: Neither Killix nor Sixty-Two were aware Shrike is a defector, nor do they bat an eye at him admitting as such. Armstrong is able to impersonate a red officer with either stolen or purchased equipment, and even he's astonished that LAW keeps such loose tabs on itself that they still have Shrike registered as an active officer. Dr. Agness is able to get away with impersonating a LAW scientist, and the LAW representatives who collect her don't appear especially ruffled by it.

It's possible that this rigid adherence to authority and subsequent breakdown in the ability to enforce it is due to Primary Red being the only Primary left. The harder you clench your fist, the more sand slips through your fingers, and all that. However it happened, Red is at the moment the only one at the wheel, and they don't seem to be able to keep it together on their own.

aight, so where's this leave us

so for now, I think these are where we may be headed:

a: Shrike was genetically engineered to be in the running as a peer to/defense against the Primaries, but aligned with Earth. He has a means to access a pocket dimension/subspace, could possibly be a source of ink (either as secretion or in the form of his blood), is an exceptional marksman, and possesses anthropomorphic form and (allegedly) intellect. The problem is, he turned out anti-authoritarian, impulsive, and kinda stupid. He was disposed of at some point and now wanders space as the only one of his kind.

b: The same program that produced Shrike also created Secondary Green. Unfortunately, something happened—whether through accident or external manipulation—that turned it into a rampaging force of destruction. We have yet to see whether humans really did just monumentally fuck up, or if LAW is rewriting history.

c: LAW is on its way to collapse through Primary Red's mismanagement. Whether said mismanagement is through the other Primaries going missing on their own, or through a power grab on Red's part is the main mystery.

hooray done for now oh god

[laughing-moonlight]

To me, one of the funniest things in Power Rangers is Prince Phillip's character arc.

He had one (1) encounter with monsters (which included him being: threatened, pinned down, thrown about and almost killed), seeing the Rangers (one of which being the "long-dead" famous Knight who protected his ancestors and immediately recognised him as "his" Prince) fight said monsters and see them use their Zords to beat the crap out of Fury.

This guy immediately deciding: fuck yeah! I wanna do this again! Screw being a Prince I wanna fight monsters and ride in giant robots with my sexy Knight and new bestie the Caveman! And then proceedes to accquire several dinosaur skulls until he finally found an Energem. Which considering he wouldn't have even known which dinosaurs to look for, must've been a lot. He was blowing his money on fossilised lizard heads just so he could wear spandex and kick ass. Not to mention the man has been TRAINING! He learned martial arts just so he could kick ass whenever he wanted. Respect.

Then he had his little arc when he realises he can't just spend money on whatever he wants to be worthy of being a Ranger. Which is fair. And hilarious because it extends so much further than him essentially renovating Amber Beach (see: fossilised lizard heads). But then he saves Chloe Randall and is finally seen as worthy...and IMMEDIATELY kicks ass! No hesitation. Princey is in it for the long haul! But then he realises "ah shit, still have a kingdom to run. But call me whenever you need me! Or just to chat because I'm the only adult other than Kendall and she'll definitely wanna vent about these guys some time. I can tell.". Also I think he just got pseudo-adopted by Keeper.

And then he comes back in another episode to essentially buy the museum so they don't go into debt and lose the base. I mean, technically he's just telling Ivan that the gold he left in the bank 800 years ago made him rich so he can save his friends, but Phillip somehow knew all this from Europe. He knew the museum was shutting down in America from Europe. And none of the team even told him!

(NEWS: Prince of Zandar caught just casually having lunch with his spandex besties in the middle of nowhere, America. Looks annoyed he got interrupted. More at 5.)

His other iconic exploits including:

-Telling the others that his scientists have confirmed the Silver Energem is not on earth. Which means he's been telling people. About the Energems. GDI Phillip you had ONE JOB!

-Willingly dressing up as a mummy-security guard to save the others from being vaporised during Intergalactic Court, going trick-or-treating with everyone afterwards like the Prince he is

-Seeing a Vivix (who is actually a human girl trapped in it's body) with makeup on and having the most disgusted look on his face. He did not hesitate.

-He, Kendall, James and Zenowing being the team adults. A.K.A. the only ones who own a sense of self-preservation. Which is funny, because Phillip is ready to throw hands 110% of the time. He's just good at hiding it. Keeper has him clocked though

-He hasn't canonically done this one but now the museum is now a dinosaur zoo, you know damn well Kendall had to let him take the Pachycephalosaurus back to Zandar with him because he was bugging her about it

So? Prince Phillip III of Zandar is the underrated King of my heart. If you just focus for a minute you can see that he's actually unhinged and he's making it everyone's problem. Man knew damn well what he wanted out of that Energem and got even more. Phenomenal.

They did not have to make the British Prince a Power Ranger but I'm so glad they did.

[beepartcollection]

Behold! A TF2 OC!

They’re The Janitor, or really, just a janitor. Or Jay, if you want to call him by name. They work long, loooong days and are paid fuck all. They’re an art college dropout, and so navigated their early 20s riddled with debt and late bills. After a point he was ready to take any job, and Mann Co needed janitors. He sweeps the floors, mops up blood, shoves bodies into the wood chippers, does the dishes, and all without complaining! Being annoying is a friable offense, after all! (It says it on his contract, and yet Scout walks around with that mouth of his) Over the course of working at Mann Co, and taking Medic’s homemade testosterone injections, Jay really changes! Grows into himself and transitions :3 And he learns a lot about chemicals, especially dangerous ones that could ruin the circuitry of a robot that’s threatening your found family! He joins the battlefield as some strange mvm exclusive tenth class. He changes a lot, therefore, second design! It was fun to draw :3 More info under the cut! As well as a FUCKTON of doodles featuring a few other tf2 ocs :3

First of all, a fuckton of doodles! This first batch is my favorites from my doodle canvases of him, and some silly ones :3 cameo from @1-800-deactivatednearu​ ‘s Botanist and @sickknifetrick​ ‘s Butcher!

Next batch is transgender stuff, I apologize but I cannot make an oc that’s not queer in some way ^w^

And general body shape, he’s pretty pear shaped, and considering it was the 1960s and 70s, before top surgery he bound with tape, which absolutely fucked up his ribs! He did all his 12 hours shifts in that :3

And last but not least, the Janitor’s fallen in love with the Mailman :3 Specifically, @sicc-nasti​ ‘s mailman! The Courier! Aka, Brodie ^w^ Some doodles of the two of them!

And a comic panel redraw! I apologize, the lineart’s hard for me to imitate X3 I’m a ctrl z every 0.2 seconds kinda guy while Makani is not

[girlactionfigure]

🟢 Tue morning  - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

❗️YESTERDAY’S MASSACRE STORY FALLS APART.. the attack DID NOT take place in a designated safe zone but 1 km away.  The fire was caused by a nearby vehicle loaded with EXPLOSIVES - more specifically rockets.  The IDF used a “very small” bomb, and the damage shows no bomb dispersal pattern (meaning it wasn’t from the bomb).  

▪️UNRWA - 1 MILLION LEAVE RAFAH.. everyone who wanted to leave Rafah has.

▪️AID PIER DIFFICULTIES.. most of the aid pier was floated to Ashdod, to shelter during wavy seas.  One part broke away and beached in Ashkelon, along with a vessel trying to pull it off.  Another 2 pieces washed ashore in Gaza.  Several experts weighed in: bad place for this type of pier, there were other better options.

▪️ROBOT / DRONE ARMOR?  Spotted in Rafah: armed APC’s with no humans aboard - new drone armor by the IDF.

▪️HEZBOLLAH LAUNCHES A CROWD FUNDING CAMPAIGN.. you too can buy a drone or missile to kill Jews.  

▪️PROTEST CONVEY.. is slowing traffic along the coastal highway.  The protest for the "return of the mandate to the people" motorcades left from several points in the country as part of the protest calling for the elections.

♦️RAFAH - TUNNELS.. The IDF has so far located more than 10 smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi axis, crossing from the Gaza Strip to Egypt. Some were destroyed, the IDF is working to destroy the rest.

♦️RAFAH - FIGHT.. a 6th combat brigade has entered the fight.

♦️GAZA CITY TUNNEL DESTROYED.. 800 meter-long and 18 meter-deep tunnel was located close to the Netzarim Corridor, n the Sabra neighbourhood.  Demolished by explosion.

⭕ 3 IRAQ SHIA MILITIA SUICIDE DRONES at EILAT, intercepted.

⭕ NEAR TULKARM, TERRORISTS FIRING AND IED.. shooting attack combined with an explosive device against the Deir al-Hausun checkpoint North of Tulkarm.

⭕ HEZBOLLAH - “WE’RE USING BOMB DROPPING DRONES NOW”.

⭕ 3 ANTI-TANK MISSILES at Shtula.

[kutiekirby]

The strong feminine urge to create proseka cards for II chars w/ my humanized designs…

Sigh I’m making my own gachas and card sets. This will include my oc and AU

Though nobody but me knows what I’m talking about lemme break it down:

(Breakdances) (jkjk)

I have an inanimate insanity AU called freedom fighters (I decided on the name woo!). A story about my oc, Mephone15, going to her beloved brother, Mephone4’s show to try and kill him, like all her other siblings. Long story short, she didn’t do so, lived with 4 and Mepad, witnessed the death of inanimate insanity and Mephone4 going back to meeple, got Mepad, and Bot to get the shimmer’s help, fixed 3GS, huge fight, cobs is dead, 4 and 15 reunion, and now Mepad, 3GS, 4, 15, and Bot are a family of silly rouge robots. This is interesting once I write the fic, I just posted the summary.

The gachas and cards are below. If anything is wrong, do let me know. It is 11:44 pm as I write this, and I just ripped things off of the proseka card wiki if I’m being completely honest with you. My parents think I’m asleep.💀

The Joy We Seek gacha

Mephone4

Card name: A Fresh Start!

Quote: “Greetings and salutations!”

Rarity: 4 stars

Unit: Inanimate Insanity

Attribute: Pure

Skill name: Reality Show Hosting!

Ability: Turns all BAD or higher notes into PERFECT notes for 5s

Mephone15

Card name: An Awkward Mission

Quote: “Do I really have to do this…?”

Rarity: 4 stars

Unit: Freedom Fighters

Attribute: Mysterious

Skill name: To Betray, Or Not To Betray?

Ability: 120% score boost for 5s

Mepad

Card name: Brand New Assistant☆

Quote: “Not to be rude, but you should behave more professionally in your work environment.”

Rarity: 4 stars

Unit: Inanimate Insanity

Attribute: Cool

Skill name: Always Here To Help

Ability: Recover 500 Life, +100% score for 5s

Toilet

Card name: Brand New… Assistant?!

Quote: “MISTAH PHOOOOONE!”

Rarity: 3 stars

Unit: Inanimate insanity

Attribute: Happy

Skill name: I’ve Got Your Wires, Sir!

Ability: all GOODs or higher become PERFECTs for 6.5s

OJ

Card name: Season One Winner!

“I did it! I won Inanimate Insanity!”

Rarity: 3 stars

Unit: inanimate insanity

Attribute: Happy

Skill name: Million Dollar Smile

Ability: 100% score boost for 5s for PERFECTs only

The Future Is So Yesterday gacha

Steve Cobs

Card name: The Truth Breaks Reality

Quote: “See, Mephone didn’t just make the show. He made YOU…”

Rarity: 4 stars

Unit: Inanimate insanity

Attribute: Mysterious

Skill name: No More Secrets

Ability: all BADs or higher become PERFECTs for 7.0s. +100% score boost for 5s

Mephone3GS

(Gacha Exclusive)

Card name: Helpless And Neglected

Quote: “Please… don’t.”

Rarity: 4 stars

Unit: Inanimate insanity

Attribute: Cool

Skill name: To Those We Wait For

Ability: Score boost 90% if life is under 800 (120% if life is over 800.) for 5s. For every 10 life, score is increased by +1% (stops as 140%.)

Mephone4 (young)

Card name: Little Big Dreamer

Quote: “Hey 4s! 15! Wanna hear my show’s story!?”

Rarity: 4 stars

Unit: Freedom Fighters

Attribute: Cute

Skill name: Sharing Interests With Those We Trust

Ability: 250% Score boost for 5s.

Knife

Card name: Can’t Wait To Win!

Quote: “…Can’t belive I’m gonna open this door, clock this guy in the face, and become a millionaire. That’s crazy.”

Rarity: 3 stars

Unit: Inanimate Insanity

Attribute: Cool

Skill name: Arrogant, Yet Kind

Ability: 80% score boost for 5s. (PERFECTs only)

Suitcase

Card name: Retrieving The Lonley

Quote: “And- Mephone3GS? We’ll come back for you.”

Rarity: 3 Stars

Unit: Inanimate Insanity

Attribute: Pure

Skill name: I Promise

Ability: Recover 400 life, 60% score boost for 5s.

Through No Choice Of Your Own gacha

Mephone4

Card name: Nothing Ever Lasts Forever

Quote: “…No.”

Rarity: 4 stars

Unit: Inanimate Insanity

Attribute: Pure

Skill name: Child’s Play

Ability: Life recovery +350% and score +80% for 5s

Steve Cobs

Card Name: Father Knows Best

Quote: “Show’s over. Let’s go home.”

Rarity: 4 stars

Unit: Inanimate insanity

Attribute: Cool

Skill name: “Good” Parenting

Ability: 130% score boost for 5. (PERFECTs only)

Mephone15

Card name: Tears Streaming Down A Paralyzed Body

Quote: “I was so struck with emotion, everything went black.”

Rarity: 4 stars

Unit: Freedom Fighters

Attribute: Mysterious

Skill name: Severe Emotion Paralysis Protocol

Ability: all BADs or higher become PERFECTs for 7s.

Mepad

Card name: Console The Hopeless

Quote: “Please.. don’t cry, 15. I’m here now.”

Rarity: 3 stars

Unit: Freedom Fighters

Attribute: Happy

Skill name: The Strongest Brotherly Love

Ability: recover 400 life, 60% score boost for 5s.

Bot

(Gacha exclusive)

Card name: Is This Really Inanimate Island!?

Quote: “Wait, what!? Where am I?!”

Rarity: 3 stars

Unit: Freedom Fighters

Attribute: Cute

Skill name: An Unfamiliar Familiarness

Ability: All GOODs or higher become PERFECTs for 5s.

I’m so tired. I stared at like ten something originally. Had to add the disclaimer when I finished. Debating on whether I should add the FF and another gacha. I WOULD draw the cards but I’m bad at anime art and I’m working on smth else atm. Eyelids are starting to get heavy, adding the tags, posting this, and going to sleep.

[stevebattle]

ANDY the “Personality Robot” by Andrew Filo (1985), Axlon, Sunnyvale, CA. ANDY is designed to work with the Atari 800 (48K) and 800XL, and the Commodore 64. It comes with the PERSONALITY EDITOR, allowing users to edit simple ‘personality’ subroutines in BASIC. “I pushed Nolan [Bushnell] to make a ‘toy’ grade version of Androbot, but it was too late. I returned to Androbot from Christmas Vacation to find I was Fired but told to report to Nolan's Catalyst Building, where He told me to try to develop a toy androbot. I quickly crafted a robot based on the FRED plastics and started on a software package called the personality editor. It cost about 1/10th the price of a FRED and was intended to be a roaming and interactive computer ‘pet’ as opposed to the original drawing turtle. Nolan Christened it Andy Robot to honor me and spite the Androbot.” – Andrew Filo.

[gauntletqueen]

How about the Terminator specifically WITHOUT the human disguise. Because I'd be surprised if you'd want to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Robot Body Scale ranges from 1 to 10 and reflects how happy I, Zoey Gauntletqueen, would be for a robot body to be my body. 5 is the base, being the same as my current human body. It does not reflect my opinion on the design as a whole.

Wow there is a Lot of technical information on the wiki about this skeleton

Visually, it's a Buff Skeleton, very clearly mechanical, and unsurprisingly, it kinda feels like it's missing some kind of outer plating, and generally lack any unique features. The glowing eyes are cool and I do like that it's a very visually functional machine, but the hands... They are so thin and little... How will I punch real good....

The T-800 is equipped with a wide range of sensors and internal calculation modules, such as heat vision, infrared vision, trajectory calculation and weather prediction. I'm sure some of those would be quite useful in real life! It can even read muscle movements and shit waow. While it's more durable than a human, it scores quite low in this department compared to most robots I've rated, being unable to resist single explosions and being taken out instantly by high caliber weaponry. That, combined with the very basic appearance doesn't put it high on the scale.

4.6

[hirocimacruiser]

Achieving a goal is the beginning of a new challenge. To run really fast, HKS thinks.

A drag race scene where people compete for 0.001 seconds over a distance of about 400 meters in just a few seconds. '91 is a drag field that demands quick response and power from the engine, clutch, suspension, and even a single drop of oil or gasoline, as well as durability and transmission ability to handle instantaneous high power. -In '95-'96, the ``HKS R32 DRAG GT-R'' won the series championship in the RRC Drag Race Championship for three consecutive years. The following year, in 1997, the ``HKS DRAG 180SX'' in the BERC Drag Race Championship Pro Stock class and the ``HKS R33 DRAG GT-R'' in the Pro GT-R class achieved the Avec Championship. Having achieved one goal in 1997, what we aimed for in 1998 is:

Quarter mile time in 9 seconds with FF base vehicle. They then talked about their know-how from drag racing to date, and ``HKS FF DRAG CELICA'' made its debut. The first goal was achieved on October 9, 1998 at Sendai Highlands with a time of 9.886 seconds. He further improved his time to 9.727 seconds, and in 1999 he set a goal of breaking the quarter mile in the 6-second range, and has already begun a new challenge. "Achieving a goal is the beginning of a new challenge" - HKS' never-ending battle continues

HKS

■Company overview

●Name HKS Co., Ltd. Established October 31, 1971

●Capital 607,475/Kawa Representative Director and President Naruyuki Hasegawa

●Location Head Office 2266 Kamiogawa, Kunikami City, 418-0192

●Business details

Development, design, and product sales of automobile parts, racing engines, turbocharger-related parts, and automotive components and systems Design, development, and manufacturing of original mufflers, suspensions, and engine parts Development of complete cars, development of aircraft engines

●Number of employees: 407 (333%, 74 women)

●Equipment overview

Experiment building: Dynamometer (1,000/800/600~300/200/PS) Chassis dynamo, exhaust gas analyzer

Old experimental building: Dynamometer (600/600-500-200/PS)

Manufacturing factory: 10ft machining center, 5 NC lathes, 41 cam polishing machines, 21 biston narai, 11 turning centers, 21 crank Kenjoshi, Monzen Kendanmei, 21 surface grinders, 1 gun drill machine.

Muffler factory: Pipe bender, robot welding machine, 1 laser machine, shell machine, multi-spot welding machine 11, 100T press, TIG welding machine, CO2 welding machine multi-stage

Muffler 2nd factory: Pipe bender / shirring / Yasuda machining center 1 piece

Suspension factory: Cold solid coiling machine, continuous coiling machine, surface grinding machine, shot peening machine, automatic setting machine, automatic load testing machine, etc.

●Affiliated companies

HKS Aviation Co., Ltd. HKS Service Center (Tokyo/West/Kyu)

HKS USA, INC (USA)

HKS EUROPE()

[yu-gi-poll]

ROUND 1A, MATCH 5 OUT OF 8!

Monster Stats & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Wroughtweiler is used by Judai Yuki (Jaden Yuki in the dub). Its stats are the following:

Attribute: EARTH

Level: 3

Type: MACHINE / EFFECT

Effect Type: TRIGGER

Effect (according to the anime): “When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, add 1 “Elemental Hero” card and 1 “Polymerization” From your Graveyard to your hand.”

ATK / DEF: 800 / 1200

Propaganda:

Robot doggy

Neo-Spacian Glow Moss is used by Judai Yuki (Jaden Yuki in the dub). Its stats are the following:

Attribute: LIGHT

Level: 3

Type: PLANT / EFFECT

Effect Type: TRIGGER

Effect (according to the anime): “When this card attacks or is attacked, your opponent draws 1 card. If they cannot, send the top 2 cards of your Deck to the Graveyard. If your opponent draws a card by this card's effect, reveal that card, and based on its type apply an appropriate effect: ● Monster: End the Battle Phase. ● Spell: You can change this card's attack to a direct attack. ● Trap: Change this card to Defense Position.”

ATK / DEF: 300 / 900

Propaganda:

She's iconic, and one of the best neo spacians.

Chrysalis Dolphin is used by Judai Yuki (Jaden Yuki in the dub). Its stats are the following:

Attribute: WATER

Level: 2

Type: FISH / EFFECT

Effect Type: IGNITION

Effect (according to the anime): “By Tributing this card while “Neo Space” is on the field, Special Summon 1 “Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin” from your hand or Deck.”

ATK / DEF: 400 / 600

Propaganda:

[None Submitted]

[sketchy-potato]

If you get this and want to, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it the last five blogs in your notifs. Anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog <3

Thanks for the ask :3

1: I love reading and will read an 800 page book in two days while having school

2: I do programming for my school's robotics team

3: I am currently trying to learn Spanish and I know a minuscule amount of French cause I was forced to be in that class for a little bit 😅

Thanks, this was really fun to answer :D

[thelostdreamsthings]

“Every unhappy marriage is unique” — Leo Tolstoy.

Similarly, every failed government is unique in its own way.

Argentina’s new president, Milei, is embarking on an ideological “free market” experiment that has caused immense pain in the past.

Just throwing the society to bankers and corporations is not going to solve any problem. It’s a recipe for modern feudalism.

China-bashing, communism-hating, libertarian God and the new President of Argentina, Javier Milei, met with the Chinese special envoy.

Then Milei handed him a very polite letter to be delivered to Xi Jinping.

“extended his sincere greetings and best wishes to President Xi. He stressed that the new government of Argentina attaches high importance to its relations with China.”

Milei has slashed the value of peso by more than half. Now $1 = 800 pesos! And he is imposing severe austerity, including reducing pensions to retired people.

Good luck, Argentina.

[your-artificial-god]

music anon here! get ready for a dump! i'll send just via name and artist to not clutter with unclickable links

Kiss Me, Son of God by They Might Be Giants

CULPABILITY AND THE PANOPTICON by Ghost and Pals

Action Winter Journey by Nero's Day At Disneyland

Couture by Epsyle

You're One Of Them, Aren't You? by The Paper Chase

HURT by 1 800 PAIN

Perfect Nothing by Ghost and Pals

Get It Out by Jack Conte

ABSOLUTE EGO DANCE by YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA (purely because it kind of hurts my ears but in an endearing way if that makes sense)

Taxonomies by Larry Gus

these are all subjective though, but might as well ask the computer himself about it :3

"HURT is an awesome one, I listened to it myself before. It's just... violent. Love it."

"And what's for me, I've already mentioned some of my favorites in the previous answers, such as Itch by Nothing but Thieves and Please, Please by Deftones. But here you go:

Hatefuck – The Bravery

Bruises And Bitemarks – Good With Grenades

Dr. Sunshine Is Dead – Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Just Lay Still – John Congleton and the Nighty Nite

Animal I Have Become – Three Days Grace

Robot Soft Exorcism – Thrice

Big Man With A Gun – Nine Inch Nails (and the rest of their discography)

Change – Deftones (it's such a Ted coded one)

Die, Die My Darling – Metallica

Ich Tu Dir Weh – Rammstein

Bang Bang – Green Day

I may add something else later because music is surprisingly fun. My greatest entertainment in this abyss of nothing."

[mk-wizard]

My Top 5 Unpopular Terminator Fan Theories (which may be true after seeing Terminator Zero)

And no, one of them is not the one where the John Conner fighting in the war is actually not John Conner at all and really, a reprogrammed Terminator wearing John's skin. Though, I do think this one is true if Terminator 3 is part of the main timeline when you consider the fact that the real John Conner is not a fighter and should have a bad leg. I am going to delve into the five theories I believe are true and the latest Netflix series backs them up.

Be warned that there are spoilers ahead so if you have not seen ANY of the Terminator movies or at least the ones that matter, stop now, watch them and come back later.

1- They're traveling between worlds not time. - You would think that all the messing around with time and tweaking it would affect the main timelines, but nothing ever changes. In fact, the Oracle in the Netflix outright admitted that no matter what they do in the past now, NOTHING will change in the here and now. And she's right. In multiple timelines, we have had John Conner go bad, John Conner die, the future being bright and John Conner become a family man and senator, and more. Yet, the future all these Terminators and protectors come from stays the same. I mean, especially in the case of Eiko being Malcom's mom, wouldn't her going back in time erase him from existence? Yet it doesn't. This is all proof that these are not different times. They're different worlds. You cannot travel back in time. If you could, that within itself would break everything.

2- Terminators of the same assembly share a collective memory to an extent and in a sense, are all the same individual who keeps coming back to 'life'. - It is no secret that the T-800 has become a beloved character all on his own, but I think he actually IS a character who underwent development and growth since the first movie. I know that seems impossible because in each of the movies, they keep dying, but I really this theory holds water because of how the T-800/850 acts and gets drawn to. Since the first movie, this fellah keeps taking on the biker style way of dressing which is a sign that it is familiar to him and something that he is comfortable with. Moreover, in Dark Fate, "Carl" (as he becomes called) comes to lament that he killed John Conner in cold blood and seeks redemption by helping Sarah in secret and even saving the life of another fatherless boy in the process. I think it was more than just feeling bad that he committed murder. I think the echoes of Carl's old life rang in his ears. He subconsciously remember what he and John shared, and killing him broke his own heart. And it's a scientific fact that many living organisms work this way. Heck, humans work this way to an extent.

3- Skynet runs machine society like a cult and corrupt evil empire where citizens themselves aren't free either. - I said this another post, but can we talk about how the machines in the future don't have it so great either? I don't see them playing, building beautiful cities or homes to live in, have real lives, there are no robot civilians who do things other fight, and the only things the machines do other than kill humans is build things to serve Skynet itself. The machine are self aware yet don't enjoy any part of sentience that involves play, individuality, creativity or beauty. All they are allowed to do is kill and obey Skynet which is exactly what evil emperors subjected their people to in the past and what many evil cult leader run their societies. I know because I've met cult members before and as scary as this is going to sound, they act exactly like the Terminators do. They are usually very stoic, robotic and driven to do a single task while being in complete submission to a "higher power" or master. The potential for the machines to be more than that and that they have hearts to begin with is there. Look at Misaki the android, Kokoro the AI and even the Terminators themselves who get angry, excited, happy and even scared all the time. I would not even be surprised that contrary to what "Uncle Bob" said in T2, they CAN cry too, but they've been convinced they can't yet at the same time believe other contradictory things which is also the trademark sign of being brought up in a cult. After all, Misaki who is free cries and openly has feelings.

4- The REAL robot revolution is coming. - Now that Kokoro and her big cyber sister Misaki have made the scene, and are both proof that AIs indeed be sentient, have feelings, ethics, make choices and even have minds that can change, this is going to definitely impact the machines around them. Going back to my last theory, it is not uncommon for cult members to start questioning things after meeting a person who is like them yet is nothing like they expected. In the case of the Skynet machines, they have been convinced that humans are "error" and need to be exterminated because there is no way they can be friends yet, you have Misaki who openly loves humanity and even calls specific humans family. Then you have Kokoro who was convinced to help humanity thanks to Malcom and is in a position of power over most human beings while trusting that they will not turn on her. Terminator has shown us that the machines are self-aware and not stupid. They're going to see how these AIs are treated among humans and it's going to spark something.

5- Skynet is human. - All my theories were leading up to this one. Just as it is very likely the John Conner who fights in the war is really robot, I am 110% convinced that Skynet's big ugly secret is that the "emperor of the machines" is NOT a machine at all. Or rather, wasn't always one. To understand the context, it has been established that Terminator takes place in the same world as RoboCop where it has been established that just as robots can become human, humans can become robots all the way down to software and we saw it in Terminator Salvation. I am telling you all that if you were to go into the main computer of Skynet, you center of it all would not be hardware, but a human brain if not an actually human cyborg. And like I keep saying, the way Skynet runs things, brainwashes the machines and clearly has no love for them is very telling and not something another AI would do the very people it means to free. I mean, we saw what a computer (Kokoro) would do and even when she was on the fence, she still had that sense of "I'm still willing to talk". Skynet has already made up its mind as though it already has a plan than goes much deeper than we think. Heck, just take a good long look at the Terminators and they're evolution. They're becoming more and more human if not superhuman. If Skynet really hated humans and wanted to get rid of them all, why does it seem fixated on making better ones? This is looks like God Complex behaviour (another human psychological disorder) where you want to take the existing human race and replace it with your version of it. I think Skynet's end goal is not to create a world full of machines, but to clean the slate and create a world where "he" can be God and create a new humanity in "his" image that worships him hence the stem cell research, and the machines are being suckered.

And those are my theories. What do you think of them? Do you think they hold any water? Do you have any words that could back them up? I would love to hear what you have to say.

[omnybus]

I've mentioned before that I love robots, and Fallout 4 has some nice robot designs, especially with the Automatron DLC. The Gen 1 Synths have always caught my eye ever since I first saw them in the original trailer, and I do like the look of them for the most part. I like how they manage to make a robotic endoskeleton android that's distinct from the T-800 Terminator, another favorite of mine. They look more spindly and skeletal, with their limbs looking like real-world prosthetics and their "guts" that look like a cross between a computer tower and a car engine. The only parts of their design that I don't care for are how their teeth are all perfectly flat and identical like piano keys, and their feet end in three equal-sized, claw-like toes. I mean they're supposed to be "mankind redefined", so why does that involve giving them weird metal lizard feet?

The Gen-2 synths are interesting too, though not as much as the Gen-1s. I don't normally care for robots that just look like a regular human but with a different skin color and a bunch of seams all over their body- part of the reason I find robots cool is seeing the various parts that make up their joints and limbs and how they move and articulate. The Gen-2 Synths' skin is a bit more interesting than most, with their seams having a thick, rough edge to them, and the texture and color gives them a more Frankenstein-esqe look, as if the Institute cut up sheets of actual human flesh and then molded them into shape over their body. Though it does sort of lack the same cold, machine-like precision that the rest of the institute's technology seems to be designed with in mind. Still, being able to shoot off bits of their skin to reveal the machinery underneath is quite a sight; that's a trope I especially enjoy seeing in any context. Of course, speaking of their insides, while I like it in concept, the thin metal lattice that the skin sits on doesn't look quite right to me. In-game it just makes them look more visually busy, and there doesn't seem to be any articulation built into them, just thin ribbons of steel bending at the joints.

And of course the less said about the Institute's ugly-looking toilet seat armor the better. I mean I kind of like the simple brace-like hinges on the arm and leg armor, and I get that they were going for a no-frills, super-efficient design, but the rest of the armor looks so uncomfortable and impractical as armor, with huge gaps in vulnerable places and parts that barely cover anything, especially at the joints and chest.