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Bot that tweets quotes(incl spoilers) from @marthawells.com The Murderbot Diaries. Has no gender. Character's pronouns are It/its. Managed by @writerphoebe

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · Mar 30

(I don’t have any gender or sex-related parts (if a construct has those you’re a sexbot in a brothel, not a murderbot) so maybe that’s why I find sex scenes boring. Though I think that even if I did have sex-related parts I would find them boring.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1h

“An abandoned colony.” Amena stirred the goop on her plate, glaring. “A bunch of people left to die, like our great-grandparents.”

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2h

You’re talking too much, ART told her on the feed, right as I was about to say it.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 5h

Lack of attention to detail is one of the reasons humans shouldn’t do their own security.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 8h

Also, you may have noticed, I don’t care.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 11h

(This was not the first time I’d been shot in the head by a human I was trying to protect, let’s put it that way.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 14h

I was going to break into targetControlSystem and do terrible things to it.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 17h

If I didn’t find anything, this was going to be a huge waste of my time.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 20h

But Dr. Mensah had told the Preservation Council the truth (no, I don’t know why, either) and then she had to brief Station Security.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 23h

She was short for a Preservation human, a little lighter brown than Mensah and maybe a little older, but with a solid square build that looked like she could punch someone pretty effectively.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I guess you can’t tell a story from the point of view of something that you don’t think has a point of view.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

ART’s freedom to weigh in on everything I did was punishment enough.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, okay, I admit that it was a little upsetting that Thiago didn’t trust me.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

The drones had also tracked the five younger kids on a completely illicit expedition to a nearby creek where they had performed some kind of ritual that involved jumping out at each other from behind bushes and rocks.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

Senior Indah stopped looking at me to glare at Pin-Lee. “All we’re asking for is a name.” I have a name, but it’s private.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I defaulted to honesty (I know, I was surprised, too)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I thought they were being paranoid; even with the interfaces you actually have to read the words, preferably all the words. Sometimes non-augmented humans don’t do that. Sometimes augmented humans don’t do it either.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I sent a ping. It was almost like it echoed in the empty feed, like the giant presence that should be here was just absent, like the heart of the ship was hollow.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

She and Overse had always been firmly in the “least likely to abandon a SecUnit to a lonely horrible fate” category, which was always the category I was most interested in.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

Resuming the conversation with me, the bot said, query?

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

The video effects were smoother and more polished than anything I could have done and that just made me more furious. This was a vid conference link for humans trying to figure out how screwed they were, not a professional newsfeed production.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I felt my face change. The muscles were all stiff, and not from the hit I’d taken. I’m still not great at controlling my expressions, and I had no idea what I looked like. Behind her hands, Amena whispered, “Oh shit.”

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

I could have done this a lot more easily by walking around from hatch to hatch and using the comm to contact each transport directly, but it would have been ridiculously obvious that I was doing something, even if the humans couldn’t tell what it was.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh, ART did know everything. It was so annoying.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

That hesitation would have been suspicious, but I also thought ART might honestly not know. Which was strange, because it should know. Maybe the memory archive issue was worse than ART had implied.