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Writing prompt! (CW:Spiders, death) 

Each person swallows 28 spiders before they die. If you've only swallowed 3 so far, 25 show up before you die.

Hospitals make sure only non-toxic species live in the building. Families bring spiders to hospice to honor last wishes. The number of spiders that show up is taken as a sign of how open your heart and mind were in life, the lower, the better.

Just before you pass, you feel a tickle in the back of your throat, and a single spider crawls out of your mouth, sits on your lap, looks right into your eyes and says:

re: Huskyfort v2.0 

Switching from metal frame to PVC pipe for cost and weight savings. Still planning on using black fabric for the walls and ceiling.

Planned feature list: Fiber optic star field in the ceiling, mounting points for surround sound system, monitor stands for dual-triple monitor setup, wide mousepad, mount points for joystick setup, shallow depth desk so I don't make a mess on the surface, under desk mounting for accessories and hardware, cable pass-throughs for usb hubs, environment controls inside. headroom for my chair. footrest panel.

Next steps: Architectural sketches!

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Oh! I've been at my job for five months. No wonder I've been kinda done with it. Felt this way at my last few long-term jobs too.

I'm tired, I'm falling behind, and I don't have my mawr around to keep me in check. This is going to be a very unenjoyable week. But i'll get through it like I always do.

Somehow. With a lot of inertia. Sometimes I feel like a true Newtonian object. The only reason I'm still moving is cause i've been moving.

So many stories to write, so little time, so little confidence, so very, very tired of being and adult and being responsible.

I.. I think I might've pinged too deep. I think I woke up something in the depths.

A voice is answering back. A voice with lots of teeth.

"The name's Benthos. Sarah Benthos. We'll be speaking again later. When I feel like it"

HRT, words of encouragement 

@mawr : "Because you have tits on top, the whole thing is tits"

Huskyfort v2.0 

I've had my current desk setup more or less the same for 2 years, and the same desk for 9. I want to update my battlestation. And since I loved being under the bed when it was lofted, I will make the next uplink cradle inside a box. This allows me a more tightly controlled environment. My first thought was to have it be a literal wooden box, but I believe I can do better with a metal tube frame and lots of thick black curtains.

RPish 

"This is such a novel request, but the pack really appreciates your offer."

A Beta leads you through security doors into H-Deck and to the repair bay. A reclining uplink chair, with a line of other social-mod Beta platforms waiting their turn. In front of the station is a kneeling chair and a basket full of polishing cloths. A waiting platform sits front of you, extending a leg with a soft whirr of motors while their composite plated paw wiggles its toe stabilizers in front of your snout.

CW: Orthocosm advice request 

Since my team and I routinely work in environments with dangerous levels of noise, the River Tribe is requiring that I have a mandatory hearing screening. They are paying the cost of the screening and the location is right by my work place. It has to be done by the end of the month. Since it's mandatory, should I stay clocked in while I'm getting it done?

HRT, Boobs 

Today’s boob weather: Good morning. Your nipples are now in HD resolution. No warning or testing. We just switched that on for you. You’ll be thinking about that all day. You’re welcome. Back to you, Chuck.

Oh my gosh. I have done so much writing today and yesterday! It has been fucking great! I 'm barely getting any work done, but This has been so much more fun.

re: Character descriptions, Asking for help 

This was a lot of fun! Thank you @orrery, @IrisKalmia, @zetasyanthis, @troodon, and @tastymochafox for asking awesome questions!

I want to keep this going for , so please keep them coming!

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Character descriptions, Asking for help 

Can someone please just ask me specific questions about how the huskybot platforms look? Anything you're curious about, or think should be detailed. Apparently my brain only works when it has details to focus on.

MH (~, --, 0) 

Walking back from lunch today, and I got hit with a feeling I can best describe as "Is this it? Is this all my life is ever going to be about? Is this all I get to do and feel and bed? That fucking sucks!" I get thoughts like that more often when its wet, cold, and grey outside.

Posting this again in honor of the InSight landing today on Mars.

It is important, little robots. Thank you, and godspeed.

So, about last night… (CW: Bandaza 2018) 

Funny part of last night: Getting asked unprompted: "Du you like dark meat?"

Lovely part of last night: So many snuggles with so many awesome and wonderful people.

Needed part of last night: Unburdening and voicing things that have been stored locally for FAR too long.

Unwanted part of last night: still feeling like an imposter when getting compliments on my appearance. I really hope that goes away soon.

Tonight was good, and hard. For different reasons. All of them live inside my head. This is not on anyone I know, and certainly not anyone who can read this. It's all just bad, un-labled wiring, stale data that won't get flushed from cache, and old, poorly trained machine learning algorithms that have been production so long that all the documentation is out of date, unreliable, and rotted.

I have 34 years of technical debt, and the new TPM with her buzzwords only got on-boarded a month ago.

Can this day be over so I can hang out with my friends and cry cause I don't feel cool and wanted?

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