love is stored in the machine

local access to Cassie, she/it robogirl, and headmates Zofie (she/her cute yokai) and Ivy (it/she internal librarian), the Ai System! (32 y/o, will be spicy, 18+ follows only thx) Also check out our cute gfs over at guitargentlysweeps

[ai-sys]

System Cheatsheet!

Provided with visual reference, an introduction to the three of us -

Cassie: she/it!  Social management and day to day fronting - For the most part, other people get to talk to me.  Very sex- and kink-positive asexual, love to explore the space but don’t have much in the way of active drive!  Also a big time tabletop game nerd - I have playtesting credits on a bunch of really cool games!  Being synthetic is no reason not to be soft and warm - it’s important to be a good hugger, hehe.  I’m the fluffy brown-haired one, since I spend the most time with our physical body.

Ivy:

it, sometimes she for convenience.  Our internal record-keeper, historian, and special interest keeper.  Absolute chocolate fiend, aroace but not above teasing for the sake of observing reactions, most interested in girls if they have a soft lap it can lay in while it reads and drinks cocoa.  The cool silver-haired one.

Zofie:

she/her.  Bisexual but taken.  The dark haired ghostie girl - share your favorite kuchisake-onna for brownie points.  Strictly nonverbal, so don’t expect a lot of commentary from her.  She’s been through a lot and we’re very protective of her, but I promise she’s sweet behind the mask.

[mikufanclub]

north african elf ladies

[hangsawoman]

it’s so evil when you have a beverage and you drink it and then there’s no beverage anymore

[foone]

ask your doctor if being frozen until medical science has advanced is right for you

[miseria-fortes-viros]

ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

[combustable-head]

Gothic literature must be cursed to forever be misinterpreted by mainstream public because how did this happen

Dracula book: an evil count who only sees the world as a resource to be drained for his own pleasure is stopped by the group of people who deeply care for each other

Dracula in media: a tragic romantic hero, main love interest of one of the protagonists who must be liberated from her dull little life

Frankenstein book: any human has capacity for evil when completely abandoned and shunned by the world and the people who brought him into it

Frankenstein in media: don't play God because it's against nature's laws

Jekyll and Hyde book: repression and only caring about external appearances can cause your worst impulses to indulge themselves in dangerous ways if ignored for too long

Jekyll and Hyde in media: what if there was two of the same guy but one of them was evil and gross?

[unyieldingsilence]

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[depsidase]

[monarcho-mysticism]

An er doctor that wants to just lounge around does not make me feel confident as a patient

[prussianmemes]

how long and how many days a week do you think ER doctors work. i think they're right to want to just fucking chill. i want a well rested doctor treating me and not one who just pulled a 24 hour shift and then a 12 and another 12 before another 24, with only a few hours of legally mandated breaks inbetween.

[crazy-pages]

Yeah some of us want a 30-hour work week because we've read the experimental research trials. People aren't any less productive and they are happier and less stressed and feel less leisure time pressure.

It turns out that working 40 hours a week is just too much. Full stop, no ifs ands or buts. The tiredness and loss of focus it induces is enough that you're about 25% less productive per hour when you're on a 40-hour work week, and so the extra 10 hours a week cancels out. This effect is a little bit more pronounced for white collar work and a little bit less pronounced for blue collar work, but there's functionally not enough of a difference to care. And people who are working more than that actually become less productive in total.

The thing is that you don't immediately gain the benefits of being fully rested and focused by working less on just one day, or even one week. It can even take months to settle into the pattern of higher productivity per working hour, and that's frankly miraculously quick given that full burnout can take years to recover from. And during that transition you will be less immediately productive. Particularly for people who pride themselves on being hard workers and how much overtime they put in, the notion that working less can get just as much done can feel absurd and even insulting. Because it seems so painfully obvious that you get less done when you do less, and any experiences of being invited to do so feel like they back that up.

But it's true. We are all simply working more than we need to, pointlessly, to no benefit at all. It is an appallingly pointless waste of human life.

Shortened Work Weeks: What Studies Show

The results of several workplace surveys may defy expectations, but the data is clear: shortened work weeks can work for businesses and empl

[addamatic]

Also, I don’t actually care if someone is less productive working 30 hours a week or 20 hours a week. We do not need endless productivity and it’s bad for the earth and bad for people. We would be completely fine if everyone was half as productive. Literally we would be better off. It does not matter that a 30 hour work week is as productive as a 40 hour work week. Reject that framing!

[pathwaytovenusv]

I am 💯 with @addamatic on this!

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[catherinebunnington]

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

[yume-fanfare]

i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book

[paperjoshi]

what the fuck is a time knife

[bramblepatch]

[strawberrylovely]

[demento-mori]

eating would be fine if it was only a recreational activity. instead, its a horrible sisiphean nightmare and you need to do it every day without fail on threat of pain and death

[genericpuff]

public service announcement to every plus-sized person in the chat:

you don't owe anyone an explanation for your body or your health

being fat isn't a moral failing deserving of judgment

you don't owe anyone self-shame or weight loss just to be loved and accepted

your health isn't solely defined by your weight

you deserve proper healthcare that doesn't reduce you to a number on a scale

you deserve to take care of your health in whatever way you need without being judged for trying

life is too short to not enjoy good food

life is WAY too short to care what other people think

just because other people want you to feel bad for being fat doesn't mean you should

you deserve to feel sexy and beautiful in your body without being reduced to a fetish or told that you're fetishizing fatness

you deserve to take pride in your body without being accused of 'promoting unhealthy lifestyles'

you deserve to date whoever the hell you want without judgment

you deserve to love yourself and your body without being called vain

you deserve to take selfies and share pictures of yourself without people commenting on your body

you deserve to have standards for yourself and how you're treated

you deserve to do what makes you happy and healthy without others turning you into a political statement or a social martyr

you're allowed to have flaws and quirks and personality traits that aren't attributed to your weight

there is no such thing as a "perfect fat person" and you certainly aren't responsible for setting that example

you are loved and you deserve to exist without apology or explanation

the world is better with you in it and that is not up for debate

[the-haiku-bot]

the world is better

with you in it and that is

not up for debate

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mecha-girlie]

gundam witch from mercury really said that a disabled queer woman of color ends up happily married to her wife at the end. it had women and motherhood and daughters and femininity front and center the entire run. also it was gorgeously animated and composited and those detailed ass mechs were 2D ANIMATED. despite my issues with pacing etc it really was a genuinely special show to experience as it came out and i don’t know if we’ll ever get something like it again, and the hot dog shit that was gqux really drove that sentiment home. i miss suletta sundays so fucking much give me back my precious babygirl

[tpwrtrmnky]

Being asked to do small favors while having adhd task-switching and executive dysfunction issues is such a shit situation cause it's like

Switching Tasks: This costs 10 Executive Function Points

Doing the Task: This costs 5 Executive Function Points

Resuming the Task you were doing before: This now costs 15 points for some reason???

Saying "no I can't because I need to save my Executive Function Points right now, I want to complete my current Task but only have like 20 points left": This costs 25 points.

Meanwhile, for the person asking, every bullet point here costs like. 0-2 points.

[tpwrtrmnky]

In practice, having no opportunity to deny the task that doesn't spend more EFP than you have, you end up spending 15 points on the "small favor" and then just sit there doing Nothing because you only have 5 points left.

The person asking thinks they were being completely reasonable, it was only a tiny thing after all, but in practice you've completely derailed the thing you were trying to do for the sake of making someone else's day marginally easier.

[caitrtot]

And this is just with the task switching & executive dysfunction issues. If your adhd comes with the Can't Remember Shit addon, switching tasks can mean Negative Progress on the current task. And if you have other ND stuff going on that makes social interaction A Big Deal? Well, that's a "Fun Time!"

Being asked by a person I never talk to if I can do them a favor: This conversation already costs 5 points. 10 if it takes more than a couple messages. 20 if they're one of those deranged people who only uses voice calls.

Remembering where you were at before Resuming the Task you were doing before: Anywhere from 2-5 points. It's not much, but it takes several actual human minutes, which is plenty of time for someone else to initiate bullet point one.

I don't really think I have the language to describe to someone without ADHD what it's like to be sitting at my desk in the afternoon with the mental equivalent of television static because I spent the day getting my brain deep fried by task switching.

[hawk-rose]

My hard learned hack for this is these scripts (since scripts take way less executive function for me):

Coworker: "I am working on an urgent task for my supervisor that will take me until X time, send me an email and I'll reply after X."

Boss or higher: "Is this more urgent than [current task]?" (Prioritization takes So Much ExFunc, offload to people paid more than you) If yes, yay static time. If no, send BRIEF email reminder to self, resume task.

If it is legit urgent but can wait 5 minutes, write yourself an email with what you were working on, what program it's in, and attach/link/screenshot EVERYTHING you need to jump back in.

ALSO, if you do need to drop everything and work on the new task, make sure to ask When is This Due and anything else that coworkers forget to tell you or that trips you up and takes more ExFunc.

Not perfect, but helps me a lot.

[hellenhighwater]

I have never understood people who understand what's happening with their bodies. Like, I was talking to a friend once and she was explaining that she'd swapped the salad greens in her usual lunch from like a romaine mix to kale and "could really feel the difference it was making" ??

and meanwhile I am over here with the logic puzzle of: yesterday I drank eight cups of coffee and fell asleep at one am (normal) and today I drank two cups of coffee but it is now three am and I am still awake" and let me tell you. whatever the little machines inside my body are doing, I do not understand it

[hellenhighwater]

Yes of course I have adhd why do you ask

[simplyfurnituredirect]

Saw this funny post and wanted to draw something w it

[prokopetz]

Reasons why computer problems seem to mysteriously vanish as soon as a technician shows up:

You were spacing out and skipping a step somewhere without realising it, and you can’t reproduce it when you try to demonstrate it because now you’re paying attention to what you’re doing

It’s an intermittent electrical connection fault that’s being aggravated by movement/vibrations in your desk; you need to check your cables

The act of explaining the problem to someone caused you to figure out what you were doing wrong

The real cause of the problem was somewhere upstream of your terminal device – for example, at the network service provider – and it got fixed at the source while you were waiting

Your computer is in a location with poor airflow and is overheating; waiting for the technician to arrive gave it a chance to cool off

Despite all appearances to the contrary, modern computers actually have very good fault recovery, and most minor problems will sort themselves out on their own if you give it a minute

Magic

[bookshelfdreams]

the computer doesn’t respect you. next time, try firm eye contact to establish dominance.

[dreamlogic]

latin american sinistea/polchageist variant called yerbamuerte that hangs out in a mate gourd & brandishes a tiny bombilla at you send post