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January 2 - February 2, 2024
Did robots run from danger? Did they know to? Did they need to?
A huge bramble bear
the last thing you want to do is look a bear in the eye
Is that true? Question
The wagon, praise Chal, was bear-proof.
the brief intersection of their lives complete.
the pectin-printed pendant
Bears, all of it. Bears, bears, bears.
Haha
Haha
Haha - why not ask Mosscap to push? Question
mildly miserable.
Haha
A chatterbird
famous staccato song.
creepily good,”
“Two Foxes
It
“We don’t have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
Haha more assumptions that robots are computers.
Fire Nettle,
Haha
Black Marbled Frostfrog.
and for variety, stalactites
Haha
Not all of us want the company of others, and none of us keep schedules that humans would find comfortable.
“You don’t think we’re networked, do you?”
Haha
Would you want even one other person’s thoughts in your head?”
The whole plot engine of Crosstalk, by Connie Willis.
Haha
Dex thought and thought.
That’s what one should do on hearing something surprising, upsetting, frightening, or angering.
settlements serve us no purpose.
“Should it be more complicated than that?”
Milton’s Millipede
Pollen Cloud.
“Milton’s Millipede became distinctly interested in fish spawning,
Note individual tastes and interests, as well as as personality types, like introversion, etc.
Mosscap smiled cheekily
Haha
machines only work because of numbers and logic.”
“That’s how we function, not how we perceive.”
Haha
But can an ant perceive beauty? Does an ant reflect on being an ant? Unlikely, but maybe.
Haha
“Happy,” they said. “Cheerful. Welcoming.”
“I am made of metal and numbers; you are made of water and genes. But we are each something more than that.
trying to make more of you is an ethical mess.
a disciple of Samafar,”
“Insects!”
arachnids,
invertebrates,
I like everything. Everything is interesting.
freshwater tank
greywater tank.”
