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[uss-edsall]

yes we are all very impressed with the depth of your research. Your 27 citations in two sentences, however, goes past ‘impressive’ and becomes ‘your historical article looks like the goddamn warrior cats wiki page for firestar’

[uss-edsall]

Genuinely what this article looks like

[hidden-but]

Than there is the other option:

which makes one grateful for citation styles that contracts the 90 references into one, instead of doing stuff like

this.

because yes, we are really very impressed with the depth of your research, but come on

[marlinspirkhall]

#1 reads like you're stopping to take a breath in between every second of your presentation.

#2 reads like a pause to slap a 5-meter-thick pile of files onto the table.

[cedar-scars]

[marshcarcass]

[wolvesandcomputers]

I think it is crucial to Mensah's character that she is the mother of teenagers. I think if she didn't have that experience then none of them would have survived the first book. She knows how to talk to a person who is adult sized but doesn't have a lot of life experience. A person who is angry and confused and has problems with authority. When she asks Murderbot nicely to not hurt Gurathin you can tell this isn't her first rodeo.

If she hadn't been able to defuse that situation and get everyone on the same team, GreyChris would have won. Her leadership skills and ability to read people are impressive but so is her ability to be 'The Mom' even to a person who never had one and has no reason to want one. That's what makes her such a great character.

[penig]

Murderbot did not kill 57 clients.

According to ART's research in Artificial Condition, the Ganaka Pit incident resulted in 57 casualties, total.

Ten SecUnits deployed and an unknown number of hauler bots and other independently mobile pieces of mining equipment ran amok, crashing recklessly into anything in their paths. The number noted in Murderbot's logs was not its personal kill count. It can't be.

Maybe it controlled itself enough to attack primarily other SecUnits and equipment and didn't kill any humans. Maybe it attacked to wound. Maybe it killed one client, or two, or three, or maybe any kills it made were made in conjunction with other SecUnits and bots through the accumulation of damage. Maybe it killed all four ComfortUnits. We don't know. It doesn't know.

But it blames itself for 57 client deaths.

Because it's supposed to save them. All of them. All the time. If a human dies anywhere near it, that death is its fault for not being fast enough, smart enough, strong enough, deadly enough, good enough at its job. If it doesn't save you, in Murderbot's ruthless self-reckoning, that's the same as if it killed you itself.

Somebody needs to make that Unit lay its burden down.

[beakerhoneydew]

I do think it’s kind of iconic for Volescu to immediately disappear after the first Murderbot book. He plays a vital part in setting everything in motion, gets traumatized as fuck, and then goes “well actually I’m not dealing with this again” and leaves. And he’s real for that

[marshcarcass]

Episode 1151 was so good! It was definitely worth the wait. I especially loved all the fun transitions during Bonney's segment with Kuma.

Also, the fact that the Nika dance has been passed down as a festival dance? That's so neat!

Also also, can we talk about the robot? Is its name Emet? And I assume that the voice speaking is Nika, right?

[anonymous-robot]

[britomartis]

Since there’s OP didn’t include a caption, here are some links to fundraisers to help our tribe! Thank you!

Navajo Relief Fund: http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nrf_index

Navajo Water Project: https://www.navajowaterproject.org/

NavajoYES (youth organization): http://www.navajoyes.org/donate/

[marshcarcass]

I'm going to try to watch the Murderbot TV series, wish me luck lol

[dreamofbecoming]

book 4 vs. book 7

i am once again crying in the club

[marshcarcass]

[chocolateinthelibrary]

Here’s some Murderbot Diaries memes I made. Undoubtedly some of these have been made already

[roguebots]

@elite-systems-effect thank you for the post

[meaninglessmonicker]

‘Jesus’ comes from a shortening of the Hebrew version of the name Joshua, while ‘Christ’ simply means ‘the anointed one.’ To make this clearer to modern Christians, I propose a new Bible translation where Jesus is referred to only as “oily Josh”

[vashti-lives]

There’s something really unsavory about oily Josh and his 12 teenage friends.

[quaadude]

Oily Josh and the Greasy boys

[snatch-daddy]

Oily Josh seems like exactly the kind of guy to get a death sentence after a life of hanging around with hookers and bums

[ladepanda]

Reasons why I like tumblr

1. None of my family is on here

[keep-chasing-rainbows-deactivat]

2. Barely anyone in my life knows the website even exists.

[celestialdeth]

3. employers won’t ask for my tumblr handle

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

4. Website doesn’t post a “timeline” with laser-targeted ads about me.

[markingatlightspeed]

5. Non-algorythmic feed. It lets me read shit in the order it was posted.

[itistimetodisappear]

6. Can’t see other people’s follower counts. Big and small blogs interact/mix better, no one is idolized.

[dammitradar]

7. No one, absolutely no one, can manage to make money off us little shits

[alithographica]

Museum SOS

I just saw the news that the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY is facing foreclosure after a group of donors failed to produce about $30 million USD that they had promised.

The museum is run by the Paleontological Research Institution, whose collection has about 7 million fossil specimens—one of the largest in the US—and is one of only a few natural history museums in upstate NY. PRI runs both the Museum and the Cayuga Nature Center, which is also dealing with the budget shortfall.

The organization is working on restructuring (namely downsizing) to improve their financial sustainability but they still need funds, and one thing they've said could help is if people shop at their store!

The foreclosure news broke like two days ago and their shop is already selling fast (testament to how many people want them to survive!) but there are a few items left in stock, including some prehistoric plushies. If you want to make a purchase to help maybe keep them afloat, their online gift shop is here and is honestly extremely reasonably priced.

so how about a FOOT LONG TULLY MONSTER

OR A DUNKLEOSTEUS

OR SOME

TRILOBITE SLIPPERS

They've also got some books, shirts, toys, etc. and I'm sure those sales numbers will help the authors/artists as well.

(Regular donations are also welcomed)

[pahvl]

Don't forget a 5-foot-long bodypillow of a Giant Eurypterid!

[buzzcutssn]

[bred-by-insanity]

[onion-souls]

$10 budget Raiders of the Lost Ark

[king-moogle]

I looked for the original tweet and found more

[gascreates]

when aang doesn't explain everything

[prokopetz]

I feel like the legal institution of adoption is unreasonably limited by restricting it to parent-child relationships. If me and some random asshole want to legally be second cousins, I think we should just be able to do that.

[taciturn-nerd]

This concept is hilarious. Yes we're now cousins but there's no aunts/uncles/parents connecting us. Cut out the middle man completely. We're just family but not directly related ya know?

[prokopetz]

You understand me precisely.

[prokopetz]

For everybody saying "well ACTUALLY you can just decide to call whoever you want your uncle/cousin/whatever", this isn't about kinship – it's about bureaucracy. I want to cause problems on purpose.

[im--never--happy]

@muffinlance did sokka ghostwrite this?

[whomeidontknowthem]

I'm listening to all systems red (yes, again) and I am once again struck by just how uncomfortable the phrase "I'm your SecUnit" makes me.

It states what it is -- the function its supposed to serve. It states the fact that it's theirs, that it's meant to serve them, owned by them if only for the remainder of the contract -- that it's owned at all. It feel like "I'm your smart fridge". This "I" feels like mockery together with the words that identify it as an appliance, as their appliance. "I" is supposed to mean the person speaking, but these aren't the words of the person saying them.

Everyone's uncomfortable after that, which yeah, no shit, I AM TOO. Not because terrifying murderbot or corporate surveillance or anything but because this is obviously a living breathing thinking person bringing up with just a few words how it's never been treated as a person, how it has never been a person to the world at large. Just your SecUnit. Have you noticed that your SecUnit has been a person this whole time?