いろんなファンアートや各国語版の表紙を見るうちに気が付いたことがあるのですが、どうやら私の頭の中で最初に想像されていたmurderbotはずいぶん小柄なようです。

As I looked at a lot of fan art and the covers of the various language editions, I noticed that the murderbot I had first imagined in my mind seems to be much smaller.

数字で言うとたぶん150cm～160cm？そこらくらいしかないんじゃないかと思います。

If I were to describe it numerically, it would probably be 150 cm to 160 cm? I think it is only about there.

強化人間相手にステゴロしたりgurathinの胸倉を掴んだり、コンバットするならもっとずっとタッパは必要だろうと思うんですけど…人の想像力は不思議ですね？

I think it would take a much bigger physique if it was going to get into a tussle with a combat robot or grab Gurathin by the chest...but one wonders about human imagination, doesn't one?

ちっちゃいmurderbotを想像した理由(予想)①：

Why I imagined a tiny murderbot (maybe) ①:

特にストーリー序盤のmurderbotは人間の接触に怯え、コミュニケーションも最小限に抑えようとしています。

だから、「たくさんの人間に見下ろされるmurderbot」というイメージが頭の中で生じたのかもしれません。

Especially early in the story, murderbot is frightened of human contact and tries to keep communication to a minimum.

Maybe that is why the image of "murderbot being looked down upon by many humans" arose in my mind.

理由②：

そもそもARTの言う通りmurderbotはしばしば子供っぽいです。私のmurderbotに対する第一印象は(こじれた十代みたいだなあ)でした。

Reason ②:

To begin with, ART is right, murderbot is often childish. My first impression of murderbot was that it was a misanthropic teenager.

理由③：

これが一番英語で説明することに困難を感じます。

Reason ③:

This is the most difficult to explain in English.

日本語版のmurderbot diariesにおいて、murderbotの地の文ではしばしば漢字で記述できる単語もひらがなのまま書かれていることがあります。

In the Japanese version of the murderbot diaries, words that could be written in kanji are often written in hiragana in murderbot's inner descriptions.

漢字は表意文字で論理的な硬い印象が、ひらがなは表音文字でやわらかい/やさしい/幼い印象があります。

Kanji characters are ideograms and give a logical, hard impression, while hiragana characters are phonograms and give a soft/gentle/childlike impression.

幼い子供はまずひらがなでことばを覚え、それからその単語をどう漢字で記述するかを学んでいきます。(漢字にできないことばも沢山あります)

Young children first learn words in hiragana, and then learn how to write those words in kanji. (There are many words that cannot be written in kanji.)

これだけでは漢字で書くこととひらがなで書くことの違いを説明しきれていない気がするんですけど、そういう……温度感？の違いっぽいものから幼さを感じているように思います。

I don't think this alone fully explains the difference between writing in kanji and writing in hiragana, but I think it's that ... sense of temperature? I think I'm feeling childish from the difference between the two.

小さいほうが輸送のコストもきっと安上がりですしね。

And the smaller the product, the cheaper it will be to transport.

でも155cmは自分でもあんまりに小さいと思います。日本における12-3歳の平均身長。Amenaよりちっちゃい可能性まである。アーマー着ても160cmないかもしれない。

But I think 155cm is too small even for me.

The average height of 12-3 year olds in Japan.

It is even possible that it is smaller than Amena.

Even if it wears armor, it might not be 160cm.

アーマーを着ているmurderbotのアートワークを見ると、ああ多分本当はもっとでかいんだな……と思います。

(日本語版のmurderbotのアートワークは……フルフェイスのアーマーを着ているものが……ひとつも……ない！)

(私はあのアートワークが大好きです。結局本編では着なかったカフタンもよく似合っている。)

When I see the artwork of the murderbot in armor, I think, oh maybe it's really bigger .......

(The Japanese version of murderbot's artwork is ...... not ...... a single one of them wearing full face armor!)

(I love that artwork. The caftan that it didn't wear in the book fits well too).

自由に想像できるのがあのお話のいいところなんですけどね！

The very good thing about that story is that we can imagine it freely!

Behold. My new favorite reaction image.

WHY THEY STRIKE: Sean Astin (SAG), Member of the SAG-AFTRA Negotiating Committee & Actor on Lord of the Rings

With the knowledge that Vulcan has regularly high winds & subsequent sandstorms I propose a type of guy: midwestern dads watching tornadoes but for Vulcans. Somebody's uncle Sovar standing outside with his hands on his hips watching a massive cloud roll closer. Unconcerned because this happens, like, every couple of weeks. He's like "this one is large, is it not" yes it is go back inside Sovar

The one Vulcan aspect Kirk can excel at.

Kirk: “Oh yeah I’m from Iowa. It’s part of something called tornado alley.”

Spock: “Where’s the captain? The storm is getting worse.”

Crewman: “He’s out there with the other Vulcans. He told us to wait in the shuttle.”

based on salamatullah's post 100% but like sometimes the whole "people aren't actually looking at you!" or "people arent judging you in public!" shit is just straight up not true LMAO like me and salams are niqabis, you think we're not getting stared at in public?? you think people arent judging us? saying shit to and about us??? like when youre not white, fat, using mobility aids, wearing religious garments or Ethnic clothing, visibly disabled, gender noncomforming, or just anything outside the cishet skinny white abled christian norm....people are looking at you in public! so as well meaning as "dont worry no one is judging you" is, the reality for a lot of us is learning to cope while knowing we are actively and sometimes violently judged

like imo its better to acknowledge that there are people who will judge you than to comfort yourself with the (oftentimes) lie of "no one is looking at you!" because when you get confronted with someone who is staring and judging what protections or coping skills have you built up by saying "No One Judges Me, No One Looks At Me"? your sense of self and mental health is better when you interrogate the thoughts and feelings that arise when you feel you're being judged and have protective factors and coping skills to keep you stable as you navigate public spaces. yall get what i mean?

New sleep style: hitting the snooze button so many times that you sleep two additional hours in ten minute intervals. I call this Horse Sleep

Worse sleep. That was meant to say worse sleep

I Am So Fucking Tired

Literally immediately after reblogging this to correct it I went "wow, it has a reblog already?" And got all the way to checking my notifs before I realized. That it was me.

I actually wasn't that far off you guys

HOLY SHIT THE POST IS SAVED

Anyway horse sleep: sleep, but horse. Worse. Sleep but worse. Definitely one of the two.

whoops

#when you set out for revenge dig two graves#unless you’re hamlet#in which case you’re going to want to rent a backhoe (x) YOU’RE NOT LEAVING THAT IN THE TAGS BUDDY

The Caturday herald of the Spooky Season.

this is my cat lyra, she is obsessed with my brother's leather boots. she has what we call "boot time" which is when my brother leaves them out so she can rub her face all over them and drool because she's a weirdo. as you can see in the picture she really loves these specific boots.

[ID: a photo of a white cat laying with its head on a brown boot. End ID]

So I’m in desperate need of some help here as I had to pay out of pocket for some psych meds because my dr is an asshole and refuses all prior auths and fuck I need some help here

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Hey girl is that a knife that just fell through a hole in your pocket down your pant leg or is your penis very sharp and by your ankle

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shout out people who need speciality wheelchair/wheelchair parts/ways propel not often talk about or even other wheelchair users not even know exist!!

manual wheelchair people who can only use one arm propel!! (upper limb difference, other hand hold white cane, etc)

manual wheelchair people who use leg propel!

powerchair people who cannot use typical hand joystick! who need alternative access!

mini joysticks! or who use parts that not hand, like head chin tongue knee legs etc! who use sip & puff, touch pads, switch trays, multi switch access, single switch access, eye gaze! whose control not proportional (only on/off & not like, more stronger press equal faster)!

& other types of chair like adaptive stroller, activity chairs, non powered chairs w tilt in space, etc!

and to all types & all users who use stuff not listed here!

I was stepdad to both my sons, starting when they were 5 and 7. I never pushed "call me dad" on them, because I knew their biodad did that to them and it made them feel caught in the middle of something. Shortly after their 18th birthdays, each of my boys asked me to adopt them. They changed their names, and made it clear to me that I was and always had been their dad. But I've been Wil to them for 27 years, so calling me "dad" is weird. But I've heard them refer to me as their dad when they talk to other people, and I've been introduced as their dad a few times. Each time, it feels like I'm mainlining pure joy and love. I was and would always be their dad, whether it was official or not, in every way that mattered. That they chose to ask me to adopt them and make it official is something I will cherish for the rest of my life.

Tesla's Dieselgate

Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a “utopian socialist.” He lies about being a “free speech absolutist.” He lies about which companies he founded:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 He lies about being the “chief engineer” of those companies:

https://www.quora.com/Was-Elon-Musk-the-actual-engineer-behind-SpaceX-and-Tesla

He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who each get a narrower slice of that spectrum:

https://www.eff.org/wp/case-fiber-home-today-why-fiber-superior-medium-21st-century-broadband

The fundamental laws of physics don’t care about this bullshit, but people do. The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes is literally impossible — as though the electrical and phone lines that come to our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. Pulling new cabling isn’t a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. We do it all the time. One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a mule named “Ole Bub”:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

Previous tech barons had “reality distortion fields,” but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn’t doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. There’s an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk’s public lies:

https://elonmusk.today/

Keep reading

(*400dB Crunch noise*)

Fun fact! Decibel is a logarithmic scale. This means an increase of 10 dB is a doubling in strength.

It's impossible to get a sound louder than about 200 dB on Earth: this is because a soundwave is a series of peaks and troughs of air compression, and around 200 dB you hit COMPLETE VACUUM in the troughs.

So, decibels are a measure of energy.. 400 dB is around 10^28. By the Atomic Rockets Boom Table, the dinosaur-killer impact was merely 10^23.

400 dB is "all the oceans flash boil off the planet and then the crust melts". This rabbit just destroyed all life on earth with a noise equivalent to an exaton of TNT. Aliens on pluto are getting woken up going "what the fuck was that light?"

I think one reason Goncharov worked so well is that on tumblr you’re regularly being subjected to fandoms you’re not in and media you’ve never seen. I assumed my mutuals all just got really into some movie that I had no interest in and scrolled right past for a solid week before realizing it wasn’t real.

For those following the SAG and WGA strikes there’s new shit a-brewing, this time targeting background actors (aka extras).

Some may know that one of the issues SAG is fighting is that studios want to take virtual scans of background actors and use them in perpetuity (meaning forever) without any additional compensation to those background actors. So you would just see a bunch of AI generated humans in future movies based off of a background actor that worked one day.

This is already shitty because working as an extra for 3 days on a union set (if you receive a union voucher each day) is one of the main ways to qualify for SAG eligibility. This means that a lot of actors working background do not yet have union protection and likely do not have an agent or manager to protect them. Disney has already allegedly told background actors to do this on the set of Wanda Vision: https://www.avclub.com/wandavision-background-actors-say-disney-scanned-them-1850709900

Here’s where it's worse.

There is one main company that supplies background actors for major union and non union productions. Central Casting. They love to brag about their very long influence in the industry - in old movies dating back to the 40s you can hear jokes about hiring extras from Central Casting.

Central Casting has been including an electronic document for all actors in their database to sign as part of onboarding. Signing it gives Central Casting the right to use your images, your videos, and YOUR LIKENESS in perpetuity, forever. They would OWN your likeness. Instead of it being a studio supplying the AI background actors, it would be Central Casting instead.

Receiving any work from Central Casting in the future is conditional upon signing it. No signature = no extra work = no extra income for union actors trying to make health insurance minimums, no union extra work for pre-SAG members.

SAG already reached out to Central Casting to tell them to stop. Central Casting refused.

Edit to say: this is not new. It’s part of actors onboarding and is called the Photo, Image, and Video Release. It’s phrased to sound like you are just giving them permission to use your image and video for CC’s website and promotional purposes. But the actual language is much broader. It's only recently being brought up as a point for discussion because some casting directors (who are generally supportive of the strike) started pointing it out.

Central Casting is owned by Entertainment Partners which is also a giant software conglomerate and owns a lot of the software used to organize background casting and pay actors. https://www.ep.com/company/about-us/

Crap.

This is bad for representation for marginalized groups. Since studios only want to hire "Big name" actors for their main characters (read: white, straight, normate), being able to get a job as an extra has been a way for actors of color and disabled actors to get a foot in the door. Use of AI like this would lock that door.

i just want an AU where the justice league figure out there is SOME sort of connection between Captain Marvel/Shazam and this one 10 year old and someone starts getting a little too close to the truth (or a particularly outrageous falsehood) for comfort so Shazam just kind of...

"oh yeah I'm actually Billy's imaginary friend."

"what."

"Yeah, the kid's lined up to be a super powerful wizard and all that someday, but in the meantime all that 'magical potential' has to go somewhere, or something, y'know?"

"wait. wait. oh my god. this is why you just disappear when you're off duty and batman hasn't been able to find your secret identity????"

"haha yeah for sure. no secret identity i totally just stop existing entirely. yup."

"doesn't that bother you?"

"no? why would it?"

cuz like ''the manifestation of a particularly magical 10 year old's idea of a perfect hero'' isn't unbelievable in universe and anyone ever thinks to accuse him of being a child he can just be like ''yall we've BEEN OVER THIS.'' yeah of course he's a lil childish a child came up with him why would it be unethical to go into battle with him he's an imaginary friend not a real kid No Billies Were Harmed In The Making Of This Superhero 

The tags are better, honestly

One, I really love this. The idea that Shazam just doesn’t exist sometimes would horrify the league wouldn’t it. Then you get into issues of free will and choice, identity issues of what is a real person, then what will happen when Billy grows up... lots of ethical and moral issues to freak out about while Shazam is being totally chill and doesn’t get the problem.

Two, this works really well with my headcanon that Shazam is a magically constructed body that means he is sometimes just slightly off...

Since the original intent of the Bechdel Test was more like “can I pretend these women are lesbians for five seconds,” I think it’d be funny to write a scene of two women graphically fucking while talking about men the whole time

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Thin privilege is your body size not being thrown under the bus for half-assed class conscious activism.

I'm sure many people have heard of the song "Rich Men North of Richmond", and it sounds like a very nice class conscious piece of art, can be used for good workers' solidarity. And then the "And the o-word milkin' welfare" and then "Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds" landed. Brilliant writing my man, I'm sure the fat people living off welfare are your enemy. It is not that hard to build workers' solidarity without throwing them fat people under the bus, but he did it, and people even on the left doesn't seem to mind about it.

His response to that is also another half-assed defense, that he got it from an article and just the classic rich = fatness. I really need to criticize the left on their fatphobia, because it's so painfully obvious. Leftism fatphobia: an infantile disorder.