#Stream of Consciousness Saturday

[johnwhowell]

Stream of Consciousness Saturday - Prompt -

  The coffee machine detects the reality of being away for a while. She asks about the nature of my coffee drinking for the past week. Hemming and hawing did not forestall the answer long. The confession of drinking coffee brewed elsewhere brings a silent rebuke from the machine. “I hope you have a doctor visit on your calendar soon,” is the message scrolling across the touch screen. Confirming…

[authormarialberg]

Swamp Creatures

[dartumbles]

Stream of Consciousness, Shake

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “shake.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy! It’s time to teach more new tricks to the yearling pup. We’ve finally let him leashless around inside the house. He’s barking is less. We’re getting better sleeping at night. Four adults make sure rain or shine that Milo gets lots of walks leashed in the yard. Still, we’re working on him not…

[kayespencer]

4/26/2025 Stream of Consciousness Saturday - Shake #socs

Shake is an applicable stream of consciousness word to describe my life the past three days. Wednesday evening (23rd) my 72-yr-old husband who is in really good health (we’ll call him Hubs), was diagnosed via CT scan and blood work with an unhappy appendix. Things got all shaken up after that. First of all, let me explain that I live in a small rural town in a small rural county in the far…

[athoughtfullyautomaticcollection]

Shake, Rattle and Roll

[lakshmibhat]

Away from Home-40

[twistedroadsofmadness]

A Degree Not Schooled #Debut #ShortStory #SoCS

A Degree Not Schooled - A man reveals dark secrets, confronting a former schoolmate. #SoCS #ShortStory #Debut #Microfiction #TwistedRoads #IndieAuthor #HorrorCommunity #HorrorFiction #SciFiHorror #DaretoShare #IndieHorror #HorrorWriters #ScaryStories

Today’s story is brought to life by the following prompt… The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS August 31, 2024  Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “school.’” Use it as a noun or a verb; use it any way you’d like. Have fun! A Degree Not Schooled Keith smiles as he playfully grips a handful of his hair, then tosses it back. “I was schooled by the best of the best,…

[momoetry-blog]

SOCS-Spruce

This morning I spruced up the house a bit when I woke up. I folded all the couch blankets. I did up the dishes in the sink, wiped down the counters, and straightened up my desk. I nagged the girls until they cleaned their crap off of my dining room table.  In Pittsburgh we don’t say spruce, we say ”rid up.” Right now, Danielle is ridding up her room because she has a friend coming over. I need…

[creatediana]

Oh, man, am I obsessed with you— strawberry soda in a dream, I want to give your coffee cream, I want to toast to you and do a little movie scene. You don't know what I mean— I mutter to you all the time beneath my breath pathetically. I speak to you in reverie, I'm animated and sublime, and you are laughing, too. The corner of my view, the window into joy, you are— you're all things pleasant, interesting, worthwhile. I yammer, draw, and sing and explicate serene, bizarre things freely as they come. I ask you where you're from and where your home is, really, now— still here? You're one thrill-seeking man, experienced traveler. How can the universe I know allow you really to exist? In truth, you're made of mist and I am only on cloud nine. I decorate it like my room and spray the couches with perfume I really don't wear, but it's mine— and you, beloved guest, you know I am obsessed but you approve it. I'm no threat— I love, and I am right to love. I'm caught in the illusions of embarrassments comfortably set on trays for me to eat. You're simply just too sweet.

"Musings" - a poem written 5/18/2024

[sinkingtime]

So, Questionable Content

Last week I started it from the start for what has to be the first time since I first discovered, several years ago? Probably?

And now I want to rant. About one specific point: we saw the robot liberation.

Not on-screen or anything, but there's definitely a "before" and "after" to robots having rights, in this universe, and we've been privy to it. And most characters also remember the time before. And I think that's nice.

Story-wise, obviously I don't expect it to be nice for them. Though nobody seems too traumatized either, but that's just in the nature of a light-hearted slice-of-life.

Actually we don't know exactly what the timeline is, that I can tell. I doubt it's the 20+ real-life years the comic has existed, is it? But it's probably been a few. There is at least one explicit timeskip, right after the Marigold-Aurelia joint stream, we see a bit of the immediate aftermath and then the very next page is Clinton complaining that it's been "months" but he still sees that stuff going around online.

There may be other timeskips that I'm not remembering.

If it has been approximately real-time in-universe, then I guess Sam didn't witness the change. But even if that's a stretch, I would guess it's probably it was when she was too small to remember, so it's effectively still been "always", as far as she cares. So, a decade?

But Momo mentions being about four years old at some point, and I'm pretty sure she also precedes liberation, so probably not a decade, no.

On the lower end of my guesses, I'd peg it at two years-ish, minimum, specifically because of the Singularity.

Oh yeah that is also a thing that happened basically off-screen but definitely in the timeline. It was before robot rights, and they are presumably related to it, but how and precisely when we cannot say for sure.

The only real, almost explicit acknowledgment of it, other than Pintsize and Winslow reacting to the announcement on the day it (officially?) happened, is when Clinton remarks that humans don't know how battery technology works. He doesn't explicitly say it, but it's in a way that implies they cannot know; his main concern is that regular people seem to not care about things like that.

If I had to guess, Yay has to be a post-singularity development. They'd be one of my main suspects of being the singularity, except their existence was highly secretive so it cannot be behind the announcement. Anyways, they claim to be two years and change, so I feel pretty confident in saying the singularity cannot have been after that, unless they really are an alien who came here unrelatedly.

Back to robot rights, that also had to have happened before May's crimes, because they landed her in robot jail, rather than a factory reset or something.

I wonder about the robot rights organization. They're not quite the same definition of "rights", clearly they're concerned with stomping abuse and bigotry, not with making rights exist in the first place. But maybe they were, back in the day? Beepatrice probably didn't, she seems way too innocent. I guess that may be trauma but that would seem too dark for this story's tone.

But how about her predecesor at the nonprofit's leadership? The one that ran away to become modern art. That sounds like it could be a retirement, after the big fight was done and by any reasonable definition they won.

Also their original founder, the unnamed wealthy sci-fi author. She was human, therefore already around before robot liberation. We know she was sympathetic to that cause, at least at the end of her life. Did she provide funding, or advocacy, or something?

But what I really want to talk is Bubbles, naturally. One of the few things she says in defense of her choice to be a soldier is that she's legally a citizen, and therefore should be allowed to enlist. But of course she wasn't always. Whether she specifically existed before robot liberation, we definitely were already watching this world before she and her team deployed.

She seems to believe her team was betrayed by the global robot community, presumably with the intent of discouraging the world's governments from allowing their people to be welcomed into armies. Which, would seem to have worked, mostly, kinda.

So now I can't stop wondering what exactly we were looking at, while those soldiers died. Was it while during Emily's birthday? Before Marten became a librarian? Was Faye dating Angus? Not yet? Not anymore? Etc etc etc.

Also, unrelated to all of that, there's a Greg who is Clinton's online nemesis, and also a Greg who is a bus driver who Willow tried to befriend. Until proven otherwise, I will assume they are the same Greg.

[johnwhowell]

Stream of Consciousness Saturday - Prompt - "Shake."

The coffee machine required a shake to allow the beans to enter the hopper. Sometimes they get hung up at the opening, and the grinder goes nuts trying to figure out where the beans have been hiding. This is knowledge obtained by having a heart-to-heart talk with the AI in charge. The AI explained that a shake wasn’t necessary and that simply pushing the beans into the hopper was sufficient. Of…

[aboutmercy]

reading 4 books at once, soon it will be 5 if i don’t finish one of them by this week.

[dartumbles]

Stream of Consciousness Saturday, Exclamation

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “exclamation.’” Add an exclamation mark to your title or the first word/sentence of your post and just keep writing. Have fun! We spent the day bingeing Jurassic Parks. One of my favorite explanations is in the second movie. When Doctor Malcolm says, “Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. But then later there’s running and…

[kayespencer]

3/22/2025 Stream of Consciousness Saturday - Calendar #socs #movies

The 1989 film, The January Man, is a comedy / neo-noir thriller starring Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Alan Rickman. Kevin Kline’s character, Nick Starkey, is a former police detective who left the force under less than admirable circumstances. He’s asked to return to active work when women in a particular apartment building are strangled with a blue ribbon in…

[athoughtfullyautomaticcollection]

Stream of Consciousness Saturday -Jam Session

At Bob and Chris’s place Saturday was a get together jam session featuring whoever showed up. Bob and Chris’ repertoire featured many Irish, Scottish and folk pieces which they sang to Bob’s guitar accompaniment. I can still see them gazing loveingly into each other’s eyes as they sang. Bob ultra serious and Chris with a radiant look on her lovely face. The jam, included our friend Billy, me,…

[lakshmibhat]

Away from Home -38