Idk What I’m Doing But That Won’t Stop Me

I do love the one and a half ducks, but I wonder if it’s time I try something new. Maybe find a way to get the gif in my banner to work?

To the seldom few who follow here then:

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The robot was sitting motionless on the curb cut on the other side of Forbes Avenue. It wasn’t crossing with the rest of the pedestrians, and when I reached the curb, it didn’t move as the walk signal was ending. I found myself sitting in the street as the traffic light turned green, blocked by a non-sentient being incapable of understanding the consequences of its actions.”

The second screenshot is a tweeted picture by an unknown user of six sidewalk robots going down the side of the street, with a car trying to pull between two of them. There are two replies below it, the first reply is by Adrian Lopez @PaladinZilch and reads “Wow. Imagine being in a wheelchair and seeing that.” The second reply is by I [flaming heart emoji] You @IAm444x and reads “oh god the tech bros made car traffic for sidewalks [crying emoji].”

Motorized vehicles aren't allowed on the sidewalk. The sidewalk is for pedestrians. Power chair users are considered pedestrians by specific exemption (and for good reason - that is a single human, using the most minimally disruptive means of locomotion available to them.)

Pedestrian traffic lights

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

Especially not with Robert.

They’re not particularly skilled at having friends to begin with, let alone the kind who make out in dusty file rooms.

“OH MY GOD! BOB-BOB, THIS IS TERRIBLE!”

Robert’s hands immediately leave Flambae’s thighs, checking him over instead, touching vitals like he’s been built to.

“What?! What, what’s wrong?!”

“Sorry, I was looking at my file,” His lips curl in a displeased arch. “Why is my fucking curl doing that?”

“God, you’re so—,”

Robert buries his nose in the curve of his shoulders and laughs.

Which is weird, because he’s been doing it a lot more since they started this thing.

Flambae doesn’t have a problem with it, — Robert laughs like someone who finally can— but he isn’t sure if that’s the main objective here.

Neither Is making him lunch and labelling it, but here he is.

But the truly bizarre part happens in the morning.

Always his place, because he refuses to ride Robert on the bare ground.

It’s when Flambae’s eyes flutter open, rested, warmth spreading from scalp to chest, Robert’s handprints still pulsing on his waist—

A waist still being hugged by two arms.

But the morning’s still pale, so all Flambae can do is fake a displeased sound, voice still buzzing with sleep, turning so his arms wrap around Robert, too.

“Bob Bob, wake up,” he mumbles into sweet brown hair, catching notes of mint. A shampoo he recommended. “You forgot to leave. Again.”

He gets unintelligible gibberish in return. Which isn’t surprising. His bed must be paradise for the guy.

“And you forgot to kick me out. Again.”

And yeah. Flambae did.

They both agreed to it. In by night. Out by day.

It’s not until they have this conversation on comms do they consider it’s worth having a talk:

“Flambae, that’s the third time this week you skipped R&R. Babe, your heart is gonna collapse.”

“Azizam, is this OUR heart attack?!”

…Neither of them were supposed to say that.

Copied from the doc by bubblesartcraft:

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