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here are some drawings of helpful small robots for you #SmallRobotsRemastered Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16161865 Nonbinary. Pronoun agnostic. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · Oct 4

Would you like to order a little picture of a robot? I'm offering commissions of existing robots in a new style that can use as icons for stuff or whatever you like! Prices start at £20 per picture. Contact me on here if you're interested.

Teabot - a robot in the form of a mug of tea with little tracks on either side - rolling up next to a stack of books with covers in different colours. The books are The Sign of the Four, Guards! Guards!, Feet of Clay, and A Study in Scarlet. The scene is against a background of a turquoise circle.

Snakebot - a robot in the form of a snake, with a long, banded body and a little sphere on its tail - coiled up around itself, sticking out its forked tongue and looking kind of angry, against a background of a grey square.

Crabbot - a robot in the form of a little crab with banded arms and legs and mitten-like claws - rearing up and holding its arms in the air angrily. The background is a grey circle.

Bigbot, viewed from below, stomping along. The background is a pinkish rectangle and Bigbot seems to be smashing its way out, as one side of it is fragmented into pieces where it's been kicked.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

703) Midnightbot. Appears in the corner of the room at midnight and stands motionless, staring at you for exactly 47 seconds before vanishing again. We don't know why. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

A wedge-shaped robot with banded legs, standing expressionlessly in the corner of a room, dimly illuminated from the front and slightly below its eyeline.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 2d

557) Trollbot. Not the kind you find on social media (except this one time now). Instead, guards your valuable bridges from trespassing Goatbots. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

An arched, drystone bridge spanning a river, with a large round robot peering out from beneath the near end, one hand gripping the bridge's underside, the other raised into a fist (possibly being shaken). It's grimacing and showing off pointed teeth and has two little horns, banded like its arms, looking up at a Goatbot, which is returning the star from behind the wall of the bridge, frowning.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 4d

1429) Vonbot. Mysterious European aristocratbot who's very keen to have you for dinner in its unnecessarily large gothic mansion. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

An ovoid robot with banded arms and legs and an antenna. It's wearing a dark, high-collared cape with a scalloped hem, and its antenna has little bat wings on it. It's holding a Winebot filled with dark liquid, which is smiling evilly. Vonbot itself is extending one arm towards the frame, has a raised eyebrow and a crooked smile that reveals two small fangs. Vonbot isn't casting a shadow, but the Winebot is.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 5d

932) Minotaurbot. Bovine robot pal who isn't very good at finding its way out of mazes. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

An ovoid robot with banded arms and legs, hooves, horns, a little tail, and a nose ring (despite not having a nose), standing in a corridor and scratching its head as it looks down at a map of a maze with a perplexed expression on its face. Its surroundings are crumbling stonework and there is a classic flaming torch bolted to the wall beside it, casting its light over the scene.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 17h

salma kayak: thread

Salma Hayek in an orangish red and yellow dress..

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 7h

"See, this is when he encounters the sirens! He had the crew stuff their ears with..." *NT adult"s eyes glazing over*

Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 7h

This is the most autistic (complimentary) thing I've ever read.

Birdie, Boo!👻 @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 1d

Kid named the Roomba "Odysseus," because they love to say, "aw, he's going on a lil' journey!" and also because sometimes he gets lost or stuck, which is his Scylla or Charybdis moment.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8h

I was thinking of stuff like lying about having had a vasectomy or something to convince someone they can have unprotected sex with you, which I don't think would fall under the same definition, but almost certainly should.

Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8h

a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a group of people and says `` right to jail '' .

ALT: a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a group of people and says `` right to jail '' .

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8h

I didn't specifically mean that bit in the context of sex alone, though the syntax makes that a bit unclear.

Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8h

"I'd never have shagged them if I'd known that about them..." is not grounds for prosecution, and they all know that.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8h

The point I'm making is merely that this judgement is *specifically and maliciously* transphobic, because no one in history has ever been jailed for pretending to be in a band to get laid or something. If the criteria is simply deception, where do you even start?

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 8h

And the framing is deliberate, particularly the contrast in all the articles between the made-up, filtered, dating app photo and how she looks more recently. The implication is barely implicit at all there.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 9h

As I say, this thought experiment is just one of those annoying gotchas, really, because there is no chance this case informs any other kind of consent-via-deception situations. It isn't about a better, more nuanced understanding of sexual consent, it's about Ew Trans Women.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 9h

(I'm deliberately setting aside that, in this case, it isn't totally clear whether anyone was actually deceived or not.)

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 9h

"Buyer beware" and all that. You can lie about not having an STI, lie about using contraception, lie about your name, your past, your job, anything you like. Most people consider that part and parcel of interacting with others. Some people are liars; deal with it.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 9h

But should it be a *crime*? Should it be classed as *rape*? If someone pretends to be rich to seduce someone, are we calling that rape too? I don't think we should, and I think most people - including those crowing about the imprisoned trans woman - would find that laughable.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 9h

And it's not unfair to say that, well, people probably *shouldn't* be tricking anyone like that actually - everyone should go into a sexual encounter knowing all they feel they need to know and not regret sleeping with someone afterwards because of stuff that was withheld.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 9h

It won't matter and it isn't the point - transphobia is the point and that's all it is - but if we're going to define rape as gaining sexual consent by deception, that opens up an awful lot of totally normal situations to prosecution. Lots of people lie to get someone into bed.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 21h

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

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I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I actually get more annoyed when people say they “just” use AI for their emails or to check their grammar. You’re killing people. For your banal shit. Not for some great discovery or curing cancer. Because you can’t write an email.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

I think our starting point gives us more resilience, but if we met nothing but that sort day in and day out, we'd soften somewhat, yeah.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe its actual colours would destroy your mind if viewed in daylight idk. Best keep the lights off. www.patreon.com/posts/midnig...

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