Metal and glass feel quite nice

010101, she/it, personal blog

[wrigglenightbugdotcom]

1 reblog to turn prev into a robot

[ashes2caches]

we’re turning you into the plushie that a quiet trans girl always likes to carry around and hug.

[ozzni]

crazy how an alter can just, like, not want a name. It just doesnt have one. Of course, its already kinda hard to figure out which one I am at any moment given the lack of a clear, hard boundary between the two and the united self, which is certainly not helped by the nameless robogirl also being in third person a lot. cant even figure it out from typing this out. fucked up... of course now that I think about it, she doesn't use this kind of language. so.

it scares us sometimes. occasionally turning into someone else without noticing it. of course we know that noone in here is nefarious or whatever but like. conceptually its kinda freaky.

[ozzni]

okay so if I had the ability to focus on writing I'd make this myself however I kinda don't so here's a concept if anyone else wants to try it out (or if you just wanna rotate it in your head). Despite this being a Worm Parahumand fanfiction idea, you will need to know about Stellaris' "Horizon Signal" event chain for the idea to make sense, which you can learn more about here:

So the idea goes like this: While the Chicago Wards are battling Jack Slash and his Slaghterhouse 9000, Scion never shows up for Gold Morning to happen. Instead, Broadcast acreams in desperation, and something out there hears it's plea. Jack Slash, however, begins to babble nonsense before being trapped in a short time loop.

Gray Boy is nowhere to be seen, and Jack begins to smile, finally happy. He has found love.

Soon after, while Weaver is thinking back to the prediction Dinah gave her all that time ago, in which her powers seemed unable to see anything after Jack Slash escaped from her city, she receives news that Scion has dissapeared. She's not really sure what to do now. Did they save the world? Is that why Scion left?

Then as the months go by... there's nothing. The Endbringers seem to be off schedule? They had picked up pace over the past few years, and now have suddenly gone silent, why?

The Worm! The Worm! The Worm! The Worm! The Worm!

Weaver (and a select few others, basically the exact same people pulled in for the Gold Morning meeting) then sees a portal open. Cauldron reveals itself, it's original mission, and just what happened to Scion. It saw something approaching from the stars, and went to fight it off, but before he even got past the moon, he was swallowed up by something. All that is known about whatever swallowed Scion is that any Thinkers deployed to investigate it directly can only answer one thing.

And too, Cauldron and Watchdog have both begun to notice strnage things happening, temporal anomalies. Of those currently assembled, volunteers are taken to assemble the Worm Squad (name subject to change), tasked with investigating these strange events and the Worm.

Cue the rest of the story.

[kaaaaaaarf]

is there anything worse than accidentally putting on the non-explicit version of an album? where is my beloved wife fuck and my beautiful daughter cunt?

[foone]

I've been saying for a long time that music streaming services need a "never show me radio/walmart edits" option. I never, EVER want to hear a censored version, that's 1000 times more offensive to me than the worst swearwords

[forthegothicheroine]

Behold: Calvin's dad's villain origin story

[sleepymccoy]

[apolladay]

You gain access to a button that would allow you to permanently alter your height to whatever you desire, but it will only work once. Are you...

... making yourself taller or shorter?

taller

shorter

neither. I am satisfied with my height.

I will look at the results.

Voting ended onMay 18

[zealotarchaeologist]

i stepped on the scale today and it said “bat”

it took me a few seconds to realize it meant the battery was out, but before i realized that i just said “i am not a bat” out loud

[mousegirlheart]

[cpericardium]

[mioxenoblade]

@ people with memory issues

You’re not lesser or worthless for your memory. It’s ok if you can’t remember everything. You’re still deserving of respect, dignity and love.

[foone]

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

[foone]

having looked into tumblr's age verification closer (thanks, proxies), lemme add:

3. if you do tumblr's age verification, do the webcam-face version. It doesn't send the image back to them (it "just" sends the metadata, which may still be enough to uniquely identify you), but that's way better than showing them your ID (especially since you have to do it on a phone. Do things on desktop, not on phones: you'll be more secure)

[foone]

what are other indicators of late-irc-english?

I wrote this up once before but it was for a fictional setting so it had a little bit of elaboration (it was "what if late-irc-english evolved for another 70 years in a world where the soviet union never collapsed?"), so here's the redacted version that's closer to real late-irc-english:

beginnings of sentences are not capitalized. proper nouns are not capitalized. capitalization is solely for emphasis and acronyms/initialisms

contractions have (often) lost their apostrophe. "i cant do that" or "youre joking!". "it's" and "its" have merged into "its"

periods don't end sentences, they separate them. you never need to end a sentence with a period unless you have another sentence on the same line without an linebreak

compound words are now nearly all closed, instead of open or hyphenated. the desert is called "icecream", people are "middleaged", and the beatles are an example of a "20thcentury" rock group. the exceptions are words that be offensive or misunderstood when made into a closed compound. they still say "trans woman" and not "transwoman"

speaking of gender stuff: the default pronoun is "they/them"

punctuation doesn't go inside quotes unless the quoted text has punctuation. periods or commas go after quotes: '"hello", they said to us both' and not '"hello," they said to us both"

they prefer emoticons to emoji. :) not 😊

flat what: you can end a short sentence that's clearly a question with no questionmark to imply its being asked with a flat affect. the lack of periods makes this one a little harder to determine when its being used, but it should be hopefully easy to tell. usually its just "what" or "how" or "why", 1 word sentences

[probabilitydirigible]

what

this is just how people talk? :/ i feel like youre doing something bad

[foone]

no, it's not how everyone talks. it's just a particular internet-dialect.

I called it "late IRC english" because that's where I got it, but tumblr has something similar as the common "tumblr voice".

[cpericardium]

Yeah well can a master cape do THIS?

*phases into semi-gaseous cloud and gets blown away by enormous industrial fan*

[foone]

transition timeline

[lumsel]

Normally I dislike theories about the world that are predicated on the moral failings of entire professions. These things are more complicated than that, right? Incentives create patterns of behaviour.

However: I was out getting ramen with a buddy of mine, guy who works at one of those huge-big software companies in a senior position. This restaurant had one of those digital menus, where you scan a QR code and have to order your food on their website. And the website they had... christ almighty! It took a full 10 seconds to respond to any of my inputs!! If I was booting up fuckin noclip dot website here I might understand, but this was literally a list of meals and a button to check out. What in god's name could this website be doing behind the scenes that was causing such latency???

I complain about this to my buddy, how absurd it is that their website was lagging this bad, and what this extremely skilled, senior software developer at a billion dollar company said in response was "ah, but it's a pain in the arse to support older phone models, so really this one is one you".

So I think one of two things is going on here. It's either modern app designers really are just pod people from mars, or they put a special slug in your brain when you get the job. Still figuring out which.

[wordcubed]

Getting conflicting reports here.

[sniffanimal]

how am I gonna be an optometrist about this

[abalidoth]

and if you close one eye

can you tell me what's the symbol on row four

and if you close one eye

I prescribe you one diopter more

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know