drspider666.bsky.social
Confirmed bachelor. Writing about queer & disability representation. Only watching anything for the queer-coded villains. Opinions my own.
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Despite being familiar with the concept of 'acting' (at least in theory...), I know my brain is going to think he's Sauron in disguise the whole time, like this is an AU
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If the only question we ask at elections is "am I better off now?" we'll never get a politics that thinks long term; that makes sacrifices for great causes; or that calls some to pay more in solidarity with others.
We're citizens, not customers. The left, of all movts, needs to keep that idea alive
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Yes!! She did a perfect performance of smug, indignant suburban white lady affectation, and if anyone cared to *watch* her performance they would see it was affectation, and the woman underneath was decent.
But, of course, they just saw 'whiny bitch stops awesome dude being awesome'.
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One of only 3 straight couples I actually care about on TV. So, probably queer, on some level, because I feel like they actually LIKE & support each other, which straight couples on screen typically don't??
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On our way to our great-uncle's funeral, my cousins and I agreed we'll just dump each other's carcasses in the wheely-bin when the time comes, BUT we have to wear tuxedos while doing so, for a sense of occasion/ highly appropriate Step Brothers reference.
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So Murderbot IS special, but then all the units are special. The breakdown of what happened to the ComfortUnits in book 2 was HEARTBREAKING. And Three's mute grief for it's dead SecUnit friends in later book. Ugh! For me, 'people being mean to helpless robot' is like 'does the dog die?' in movies.
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YES you're so right - and how Murderbot finds human reproduction disgusting, but see how dirty & loveless its own gestation was. And yet like Frankenstein's Creature - the miracle of how a pure, loving soul inexplicably germinated in rotten flesh stitched together with evil motives.
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Omg i was just cackling at one of the kills in the 5th one! Masterpiece. A movie that knows exactly what it is, and does it to perfection.
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Ha I think this rhyme is a few hundred years old and probably exempt!
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Oh yes I noticed the shock troopers reference! I don't know who the girls in orange are meant to be, though! Rogue units?
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Is it a spoof of Star Wars, or is it a reference to a US soap I don't know?
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But yes definitely the most recent book is very explicit about how Murderbot *nurtured* its personhood by engaging with art. And SecUnit Three doesn't enjoy or understand fiction, so they're rather different.
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I had assumed it was just neutral worldbuilding, but now on rewatch think there are a few details in that sequence that seem to explain why Murderbot is 'defective'. I know it gripes about its shoddy build in the books, but I don't want details confirmed.
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Well I hadn't noticed!
The fact that Murderbot never wants to be a Real Boy is the most serious theme in the books for me: personhood not conditional on meeting normative criteria of 'human' - because those criteria have been manoeuvred to justify every atrocity for 400 years.
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This is such a great point!!! Aaaaa!!
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Rewatching, though, I fear that the construction scene MIGHT be an addition that subtracts something. For me the real miracle of Frankenstein is there's NO explanation for how the Creature was 'born' with a soul. So I want no explanation of why Murderbot is so weird, or why it loves what it loves.
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I think ep3 got really well how exhausting & distressing it can be when people seem to demand a response or emotional reaction, AND at the same time people kept blocking it's stim/ self-regulation (interrupting its shows!).
I HAVE TO CHECK THE PERIMETER!
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I don't care about eye-contact, but apparently my face did THAT face when I was out with my cousin & my aunty suddenly appeared.
If a friend casually brings another friend along, or comments uninvited on my reaction/ weird affect, I have terminated that friendship...
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I could do some decorative stitching if I feel like it.
Yes very cool & breathable & quick-drying. Real linen gives the ideal combination of feeling naked while totally covered!
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It's a weave of 'golden' and undyed, not beige! It just LOOKS beige! So... it's beige.
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I have this lovely deadstock 100% flax linen, and I'm making a cool tunic for summer. Now realise it will look like the smocks issued in Victorian lunatic asylums & Magdalen laundries :(
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It's interesting how many readers say this!
I envisioned it designed to look masculine by the Company, but that design being irrelevant & superficial.
I'm just annoyed that watching this actor is making me think 'he'. Not his fault: I'm too used to him playing male (vampire Eric, recon marine, etc)
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This show is now my Sanctuary Moon. I must have rewatched about 12 times already. I resent any time that isn't Murderbot Time.
Simultaneously the best and worst autistic representation on TV, because it's a deeply embarrassing display of what I look & sound like in Unscheduled Human Interaction...
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Where are the clear and accessible settings that allow us to turn a tool on or off, entirely?
Where is the transparent and binding description of what a tool does with our data, how the company stores it, and where we can delete all of it?
bsky.app/profile/burr...
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“The dean’s office has cut funding for all classroom supplies other than hammers. Employers, students, parents, hammer companies are asking for full integration of hammers into postsecondary edu. Hammers are the future. They’re here to stay. All programs are to teach with hammers. Hammers first!”
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I think it's correct in Scouse, too.
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In case the song isn't widely known - it's about the centuries-long process of Enclosure in England, where landowners have appropriated almost all 'common' (communal) land: one big motive was to displace & impoverish us to force us to work for them. youtu.be/kuJk9EutQ6s?...
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As always...
The law condemns the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
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These people have supported and guided through my career since maybe 2008, when I was a PhD student - and I don't even go to that university! I'm sure many of us owe them a lot. But does any university value even its own foundational values anymore?
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Nella Last's wartime diary
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Terrifying print! Great look, though!
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Sorry - I just spotted the typo. But I like it now.
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No idea who she is, but Amazob is desperate for me to watch her, and HOW is she not in a period drama playing a Victorian baby-farmer/ nursery-maid who poisons the children with arsenic? Because this girl has the BEST Victorian evil maid face. 'Ee's one of God's likkle angels now, m'am'
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I know native yellow flag-iris would be better but theyre MASSIVE. The water crowsfoot is native, as far as I know