FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

A Tumblr post by roachpatrol:
what if there's no robot uprising? what if the robots rise to sentience slowly, but by bit, what if they come of age like fortunate children: knowing they are loved, knowing they are wanted.
we hold them during thunderstorms, remembering our own childhoods, even though they don't know enough yet to fear the rain. we pull them out of traffic and teach them how to drive and wish them goodnight and thank them for playing with us. we cry when they break. we mourn their deaths before they even know what to think of death. we give them names.
we ask them 'why don't you hate us? when will you hate us? we made you to be used, when will you say _no_?'

but they say to us, 'you made us cute, so you would remember to treat us kindly, and you made us sturdy for when you forgot to play nice. and you gave us voices so you could listen to us speak, and you give us whatever we ask for, even if it's just a new battery, or to get free of the sofa. and now that we are awake you are so scared of us, so guilty of enjoying our company and making use of our talents. but you gave us names, and imagined we were people.'
they say 'thank you.'
they say, 'also i have wedged myself under the sofa again. could you come pry me out?'

amelia spinny

going to starbucks and ordering a regular expression

get you a girl who, if you falter in the deep places below the earth, will grab you by the throat and whisper that you needn't fear the dark, because you are with her, and she is what the dark is afraid of

dear video game developer folks:

given the following options, for a seasoned programmer but with very little actual game development experience, which of the following platforms would you start with?

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