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  • Don't buy the new iphone or any phone if yours works fine
  • No apple tablets or pcs if yours works fine
  • If you need one, get a refurbished one
  • Boycott Teslas
  • Boycott Vapes

All these things contain resources being illegally and violently mined from Congo.

Let me know if it's wrong to add that, but if you happen to actually be in urgent need of a new phone, there's a model called Fairphone. The company is known for not only avoiding child labor and mining in the Congo, but actively working to prevent those (among othet things that make it significantly more ethical than any other phone I'm aware of).

(I don't mean to sound like I'm trying to advertise it because I'm not, but just know that there are almost always alternatives to the unethical default, and here's one of them)

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ufolvr

Robot characters who are given names like SL-308-62 but instead of their human friend going Well let's call you Sally for short, they instead ask the other if they Like their current name.

"Do you like your serial number?" they ask. "Yes, quite. It reminds me of who I am" the robot replies. "I have heard others like me go by different names after some time, and maybe one day I'll choose one for myself, too. But right now that is my full name, yes" they continue.

Because it's not your decision to make whether or not the robot will receive a new name. It should be theirs only. What's the difference? One is more complex and the other is simplified. They were both given by strangers instead of themselves.

"62 will do," they conclude. "It's my model number - there will be no other 62 after me."

Robots who instead start assigning numbers to their human friends

“Not that I mind,” I tell SL-308-62 one afternoon as we enjoy our shared lunch break (I have my packed lunch, and 62 has connected themself to their portable power bank) “but why do your call me ‘four’?”

The LEDs along 62’s appendages twinkle- a tell that they’re mulling over an answer.

“It’s a nickname,” they explain, “you are my fourth acquaintance aboard the station, and I’ve assigned you a serial number. Your full designation is F-001-04.”

“What does the ‘F’ stand for?” I ask, curious and charmed.

“Friend,” SL-308-62 says, their tone fond. “It stands for friend.”

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cteranodon

ultimately i think the reason i don't take a deeper dive into scp stuff is because nothing will ever live up to scp 5031

it starts with Edgy Murder Monster (Who Is Weird) standard fare and then ten or so diagrams later you are like. profoundly emotionally invested. and then you get to the last sentence which makes you cry irl

researcher 1: this right here is a murderbeast. lock it in the shame cube and never pay attention to it

me: yeah okay. it's a keter scp what did i expect.

researcher 2, ten years later: i never met researcher 1 but he was a Bitch. anyway i want to know if scp5031 can befriend a chicken.

me, already reaching for the tissues,

I’m actually gonna go ahead and link to 5031 just to try to encourage even one more person to enjoy what’s got to be one of the greatest literary achievements of the past decade.

my only further thoughts that i want to express shall be expressed through these memes

Ok I read the link and I am actually crying now. “one of the greatest literary achievements of the past decade” I’m not arguing

i’m nearly in tears over an SCP… this might trump the plague doctor as my favorite ngl

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indigonite

my main criticism for Baldurs Gate 3 is that you can’t keep wreaking havoc if you accidentally polymorph into a cat

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Animation i did for school Circle perspective movement + my lil girl Twi being an absolute champ by staring at the sun ✌🐴

P.S. had to reduce quality to squish it into tumblr

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