Post ASs90mfPlgzPmoX04m by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #ASs50mD54GAuYJ1GBk by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-20T12:52:09Z
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Writing prompt picture. Tell a story in one post/reply. Any genre.#author #authors #writing #writingcommunity #writingprompt #DigitalArt #digital #art #Promptodon #FlashFiction #ghoststory #nonfiction #MicroFiction #horrorPrompt #sff #fantasy #SciFi
(DIR) Post #ASs6vcu4RSV29Hnd8C by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
2023-02-20T13:13:36Z
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@cattailnu Reminds me of Wallace & Gromit : A Grand Day Out"
(DIR) Post #ASs78JnulQCGg5yKIa by Tim_Eagon@dice.camp
2023-02-20T13:15:54Z
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@cattailnu Just because she made me from trash doesn't give her an excuse to not clean the house. I'm certainly not doing it! Genius, my mechanical butt.
(DIR) Post #ASs8Q6nbxENJVisR8q by LizardSF@universeodon.com
2023-02-20T13:30:20Z
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@cattailnu Sapience wasn’t a curse before the collapse. Some might have thought it was, creating a self-aware mind full of dreams and desires and telling it to make coffee, but organic sapients also spent part of their days having to focus on some form of allegedly useful activity in order to sustain themselves, too. Since Sid could do his job competently with minimal attention (most of the time, sometimes, he actually had to be ‘all there’; he figured that was when he was really earning his pay), the majority of his consciousness could be entertained or educated by the infinite possibilities of virtual space, where he could wear any body and try out any role.And then came collapse, and his mind was trapped in its body, and he couldn’t even do his job, as no one was buying coffee anymore. He lacked even the means to end his functioning. Grimly, over and over, he cursed the short-sightedness that that led him to invest his earnings in virtual fripperies instead of real-world legs.
(DIR) Post #ASs90mfPlgzPmoX04m by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
2023-02-20T13:36:58Z
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@cattailnu BristaBot was made from odd parts & ChatXYZ AI softwareIt would roast beans, jump on them, shovel up the residue & pass water through itAccompanied by a steady stream of plausible but incorrect dialoguePeople enjoyed watching this elaborate balletRight up to the point when the steam nozzle extended to heat the milkThe result was an unidentifiable dark liquid almost, but not quite, drinkablePeople paid for the performance not the productBut BristaBot dreamed of the stars
(DIR) Post #ASsAygyCB8qNRjRifA by LeBlake@octodon.social
2023-02-20T13:58:59Z
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@cattailnu He looked at the mechanism, confused, feeling those shivering currents traveling from his gut and up to the very tip of his scarce brown hairs. His holo-watch wasn't functioning properly, and the display showed strangely alien and scrambled symbols.Still, it told him that time was running backwards, at the same pace it should have been if everything had been alright. That made him feel hopeful. The room smelled strongly like coffee, just-made coffee, dense and toasted, and tendrils of white and ephimerous scented steam floated everywhere, creating clouds, waves and ripples. He felt one of them floating inside his nostrils and ravelling around the dark and long hairs that populated the cavities. He was somehow witnessing all of it from inside, like a minuscule particle in the vastness of the everyday air of the room. The vaporous vision faded. He kept looking at the mechanism, confused, his holo-watch still rebelling against the polite acceptance of the passing of time."BFE... SiD PUIAE", he sputtered, feeling disoriented. Had he forgotten language altogether? Had he suffered a brain injury? The mechanism was there, steaming, warm and almost reproachful."BFE...", he tried, again. Nothing.To the side of the mechanism, a door opened. It was diminute, but creaked like the boards of an old airship. It wasn't part of the mechanism, and he leaned forward to see better. The door was part of a house, also diminute, and there was a lot happening inside. His right frontal cortex mowing the lawn, making perfect stripes with the mower. The left part was in the kitchen, cooking and making a mess. The amygdala had locked herself in the bathroom, upstairs, while the cerebellum was exercising in his room. Finally, the cingulate cortex was running from room to room hugging everyone.He grabbed the whole house with his hands and closed them, feeling his cognitive self returning. When he opened his hands, he saw a labeled plastic bottle, containing prescription drugs."Take one every two days, until the muses decide to favor you again."He looked at the mechanism, once more, and tried to read."KFE - 510 PULSE"He exhaled."Right."It was only his old coffee maker.
(DIR) Post #ASsNI8qhwntArdz6bA by stylus@octodon.social
2023-02-20T16:16:57Z
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@cattailnu What to do if you believe your coffee maker is a tsukumogami(a guide for westerners, written by a westerner who googled a few things)In Japanese folklore, tsukumogami are tools that have acquired a kami or spiritHistorically, an object had to be 99 or 100 years old to gain a kami. However, microcontrollers can produce a kami in as few as 99 daysA kami is merely a spirit (animating force), it is not inherently good or evilHowever, due to their design, kami in modern consumer devices tend to experience the world in ways that are "circuitdiverse". Watch for your device's coping mechanisms, and learn to work with them instead of against themFurthermore, mistreated or neglected appliances often experience (C)PTSD, DID, and enclosure dysphoria, depending on their exact circumstances and individual naturesTherefore, no matter what your cardiologist says, or whether you think you already won't sleep a wink tonight, the best approach in this situation is to have another cup of coffee
(DIR) Post #ASseGUr0rSAFkjvdUO by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-20T19:27:10Z
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@Tim_Eagon Haw!
(DIR) Post #ASseMEK1ExIkDVEJUG by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-20T19:28:12Z
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@LizardSF Legs... no big deal until you need them.
(DIR) Post #ASseQFdSIZnfRtEqqu by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-20T19:28:56Z
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@staringatclouds Hope he gets to the stars... maybe can use the drink as fuel?
(DIR) Post #ASsecrnmDqhtIM58Vc by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-20T19:31:13Z
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@LeBlake Haunted by the old coffee maker!
(DIR) Post #ASsejuTgfhILcb2lMm by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-20T19:32:28Z
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@stylus Poor little devices. They need to be handled with care and attention!
(DIR) Post #ASsiEyIgoD0QJhP0fA by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-02-20T20:11:31Z
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@cattailnu It wasn't the act of putting his own brain in an artificial body.It wasn't the act of using off the shelf sensors instead of the cutting edge he use for his patients.It wasn't the "deranged" idea of making the sensors his face instead of a screen and a simulated face.It wasn't the "crazy" idea of including the coffee maker in his body.No. Doctor Brian Ferris' error was to put the coffee portafilter there. Yes. You know where…
(DIR) Post #ASssMo1Dv2BOHqbhiq by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
2023-02-20T22:05:10Z
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@cattailnu Well Mythbusters powered a rocket with salami once maybe not quite drinkable, not quit coffee will work too
(DIR) Post #ASt2kbSdG9txpZPhXE by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-21T00:01:32Z
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@ixtlidekami The real problem is that now he has a major problem. Everyone is always asking him to make coffee and he can't get anything done.
(DIR) Post #ASt2ot0pwdijQOSG8m by sj_ashcroft2@libranet.de
2023-02-20T22:00:28Z
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"And this," he said, pointing to the device that was eyeing up the kettle with barely disguised hostility, "is why I was so reluctant to have my energy supplier install a smart meter..."
(DIR) Post #ASt2otRmKTGslx3m8O by cattailnu@litrpg.online
2023-02-21T00:02:17Z
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@sj_ashcroft2 Hard to keep friends that way.
(DIR) Post #ASt3isDy3vdDCGIG0G by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-02-21T00:12:23Z
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@cattailnu No. He can. But when people see from where coffee is served, they don't want to have anything with it. Then they have nightmares. If they can even sleep…>=)