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like, this terrifying, heavily-armed security cyborg will literally hack an entire planet's defense grid without breaking a sweat, but the second a human says "hey, you did a good job and we actually value your existence," its brain completely short-circuits.

murderbot facing an army of rogue combat bots: [calmly planning a tactical counter-strike while streaming season 42 of its favorite soap opera]

murderbot facing a genuine, heartfelt thank-you: 系统错误 (SYSTEM ERROR). ABORT MISSION. DO NOT LOOK THEM IN THE EYE. WHY IS THE HUMAN CRYING. PLEASE GOD LET ME GO BACK TO MY CUBICLE.

February 5, 2026 - Around a thousand people demonstrated in central Athens, after a Greek Coast Guard ship rammed a refugee boat in the Aegean Sea, killing 15 people.

Fish are a prank by Ichthyoscratchi, the god of convergent evolution. There's not really such a thing as "fish," but rather a ton of various utterly unrelated creatures that all evolved into roughly the same thing. Just look at this:

That's a South Fudlian Skunkfish. Then look at this one:

That's NOT a North Fudlian Skunkfish! That's a Non-Reticulated Norwegian Loogiedrip. Not only are they not closely related, they are as genetically different from each other as humans are from bananas. And not even those humanoid fleshy bananas they have at Whole Foods. The old bananas like you see in Donkey Kong Country games.

How about these two here:

Think they're the same species? Nope. Not even the same genus, family, order, class, or even phylum. On the left is a Phlebotomous Zebraflanked Wooting Cludslurper, on the right is a Spood. One is edible. Other kills you if you smell it across a high school gym.

"No War but the Class War / Eat the Rich"