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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 · 2h

The only SecUnits in entertainment media were rogues, out to kill all humans because they forgot who built the repair cubicles, I guess.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 5h

My performance reliability hit 60 percent and I could talk again. I said, “Fuck you, ART.”

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 8h

(SecUnits also have less than null interest in human or any other kind of sex, trust me on that.)

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 11h

I tried to moderate my expression. “I’m not mad.” I was furious.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 14h

SecUnit is looking down at her. “You can hug me if you need to.” “No. No, that’s all right. I know you don’t care for it.” She wipes her face. There are tears in her eyes, because she’s an idiot.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 14h

I tapped my private channel to Miki and then had no idea what to say. (“Thank you for not exposing my lies” seemed a little too blatant.)

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 17h

[QUEEN DEMON DAY]

kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain and saying yay !

Alt: kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain and saying yay !

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23h

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day

You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

www.pcmag.com

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 17h

The killing machine in question has just sent her yet another message packet. They’re piling up in her feed and if she would stop encouraging SecUnit by opening them, it would probably stop.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 20h

I designated the intruder as targetControlSystem. I hoped it was sentient enough to hurt when I killed it.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 23h

I stepped past Eletra and out the hatch in time to catch the targetDrone waiting there. I slammed it into the bulkhead and shook the remnants off my hands.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn’t surprised she was a supervisor. (I had worked with a lot of human corporate supervisors and after a while they were fairly easy to identify.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I’d been in armor since we arrived, and I hadn’t unsealed the helmet when I was around them.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I stepped past Eletra and out the hatch in time to catch the targetDrone waiting there. I slammed it into the bulkhead and shook the remnants off my hands.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

They looked so soft, with all the fluffy multicolored hair. And nervous, but not of me.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I thought she might be sick. If I was a human and I’d had to be in the pavilion with all those other humans for the past two and a half hours, I’d be sick.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

Another one of those “oh shit” moments.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I said, “The Transport doesn’t know what the hell it’s talking about, plus it lies a lot, and it’s mean.” A minute, undetectable in the range of human eyesight, fluctuation in the lights told me ART had heard that.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

Then it said, I’m sorry I frightened you.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

I pulled a transport connection and pinged it with a salutation. It pinged me back with a salutation. (This is not how it’s supposed to work, there’s usually an answer protocol, even if it’s in a different language.)

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

When I was owned by the company, I wasn’t allowed to sit down. Now humans keep wanting me to sit down.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

She tried to hold it in and managed it for almost six seconds, then burst out, “ART should know how you really feel about it! And this is serious, it’s like—you and ART are making a baby just so you can send it off to get killed or deleted or—or whatever might happen

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

I felt something build in my chest. I pulled the recording of my conversations with ART, the way it said “my crew.”

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

I really didn’t need to be second-guessed by an adolescent human right now.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

For a human, his aim was great.

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