The Orangest Sim!

The nonprofit’s set to receive a donation of 21 tons of tubers this weekend from suppliers in the Midwest. Hoping to get the starchy vegetables to people in need, the nonprofit will host a “Potato Palooza” event on Monday in Park Hill. “Anyone is welcome to come. They can bring tote bags, wagons, you could back up your pickup truck if you wanted to,” Hissong said. The event is 9 a.m. to noon at the Park Hill Food Recovery Hub, 6090 East 39th Avenue, on July 27.

This is the dream

People near Denver, Colorado.

Potato alert. Potato alert.

Free food. Unlimited free potatoes.

Potato alert.

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“I’ve fucked everything up,” I’d told ART. This was when I was in Medical after my “incident.” Mensah and I had called Amena so she wouldn’t worry (or at least so she would know that I was still alive, even I know that’s important for human children). I told Mensah I wanted to watch media and she had left, and I’d blocked the humans’ comm and feed access to the room.

ART had said, That’s nothing new.

I ignored that because it was just trying to reassure me. If it started being sympathetic it would be terrifying. “Your crew isn’t going to want me to do their security anymore.”

Why is that?

That question was obviously a trap and I should ignore it. It wasn’t as if I could put the answer into words. I was different. It wasn’t just the alien contamination.

What came out was, “Something in me broke.”

System Collapse, Martha Wells

I like All Systems Red because SecUnit is having a bad day at work and Preservation crew is discovering the horrors of corporate slavery

(hopefully this is just one part of six for asr)

yes, we know the company is shitty, lazy, and terrible altogether, but sending FULL SPECS of ALL the company systems? To a SecUnit?? That seems like a pretty big cock-up for a security company. It makes me wonder exactly what the company's Systems thinks of the way they're forced to treat their people (constructs included). It makes me think about all the little ways Systems find loopholes to help people, despite corporate hegemony.

stellar tags from moredifferentthanusual

also adding some of my fav comments on this post

and then MB will talk about the fine sensations of its fingers and palms. you have it marveling at how delicate child bones are and scooping humans up (whether they’re old or young) and holding their hands and just being so gentle and precise…

like what a range! no wonder you have to hold a construct together with neural tissue!

like MB processes some things so fast but emotions so slowly…

The first 1-2 pages of All Systems Red, inspired by @nothingiswrongwithyourarmrests's post about how tmbd should have been adapted into a graphic novel.

Version where every tab is readable below the cut, because I spent way too much time on those things for no one to be able to see them