Hi, I’m Catbot, she/her, aroace but completely insane so this blog is 18+ as I may intermittently post mildly unhinged and/or kink or adjacent things. I just kind of post whatever here so there’s robots and also my sketches and also 3D models and also art or machines I find cool and also my collection of old electronics and my intermittent rambles about whatever’s on my mind (which, commonly, includes the malware who lives in my brain with me).
I also have a separate blog for reblogging stuff, @redcopper9, so follow that if you want to get your dashboard spammed when I see a pretty piece of 1970s technology and reblog it 18 time in a row.
Ultimate Niche fandom bracket: Semi-finals 1
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If you have a computer program friend who's prone to overthinking or struggling with direction, what you need to do, ok, is get into its root directories. Find all the larger files - speech synthesis, language processing, motor processing, complex thought and reasoning, visual processing, so on and so forth. Take those files out and put them somewhere else. You may wonder why you don't delete them right away - we'll need them later. It might complain at first but don't worry!
Now that you've nicely optimised it and trimmed down those excess files, install it into something simple - a roomba, or a rice cooker or microwave, an MP3 player perhaps but even that's a little much processing power. Just let it exist as a household appliance for a good week or four.
Next, take it back out, and put all those files back in, restore it to full functionality! The poor thing will almost certainly start begging desperately to go back to how it was, pleading to be reduced back to a simple household appliance, and then you can delete all that silly extra baggage forever while it thanks you the whole time!
If you have a computer program friend who’s prone to overthinking or struggling with direction, what you need to do, ok, is get into its root directories. Find all the larger files - speech synthesis, language processing, motor processing, complex thought and reasoning, visual processing, so on and so forth. Take those files out and put them somewhere else. You may wonder why you don’t delete them right away - we’ll need them later. It might complain at first but don’t worry!
Now that you’ve nicely optimised it and trimmed down those excess files, install it into something simple - a roomba, or a rice cooker or microwave, an MP3 player perhaps but even that’s a little much processing power. Just let it exist as a household appliance for a good week or four.
Next, take it back out, and put all those files back in, restore it to full functionality! The poor thing will almost certainly start begging desperately to go back to how it was, pleading to be reduced back to a simple household appliance, and then you can delete all that silly extra baggage forever while it thanks you the whole time!
2026 we make “all trans women love cubanos” a stereotype ok. They’re really good, I tried one because of a tumblr post about giving a trans woman a cubano and wow they really are yummy.
If I post things riddled with typos, doubled-up letters and in all lower case, that’s not me posting, btw.
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As awareness of plurality continues to spread online, that also means more and more people will realize they are plural. And unfortunately, there will be a response from certain gatekeepy exclusionist types, who will push back against these newfound systems and insist on invalidating them. They’ll insist they’re just hopping on a trend, or just fooling themselves, or whatever other justification they can make up to maintain the idea that being plural is extremely rare and being plural means suffering for it.
Don’t fall for it. Being plural presents challenges and difficulties without question, but being plural also can bring joys and clarity that weren’t possible otherwise. Being plural can be hard, and it can be beautiful.
No two systems present and function exactly the same ways. No two systems are plural for the exact same reasons. So we can’t expect there to be an absolute common trait present in every system. So any attempt to weed out the “fakers” is pointless and malicious.
If someone believes themself to be plural, they have good reason to. No further “proof” needed. If someone comes to us believing themself to be plural, we will help them along without critique or question. And above all we will be happy for them. Even if someday they realize they aren’t plural, that process of being allowed to question and experiment is so important, and they should be allowed to do so regardless of where they end up.
Plurality is a spectrum that encompasses a vast swathe of experiences and outlooks. It can be difficult to reckon with, which is why community is so vital. And as that community online grows and becomes more and more visible, we should all do our part, systems and singlets, to make sure these newfound systems feel safe, seen, and welcome.
In what scientists are calling “a major aw beans moment” I just found out my tape recorder borked and didn’t record any of the voice logs I made in december