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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 · 44m

She was thinking strategically, which is always a relief, and asking me questions instead of giving me stupid orders. I didn’t have to obey orders anymore, but that doesn’t make them any less annoying.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2h

It was a data vacuum big enough for us all to fall in and die, including ART.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 3h

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.”

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 3h

I just realized I don’t like the phrase “as far as I knew” because it implies how much you actually don’t know. I’m not going to stop using it, but. I don’t like it as much anymore.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 6h

Aylen looked me over again in that way humans do when they’re trying to intimidate you and they fail to understand you’ve spent the entire length of your previous existence being treated like a thing

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 9h

Whatever was going on, there was nothing I could do about it now, and that just made me more furious. So I watched five minutes of episode 174 of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. Did that work? No, no, it didn’t.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 12h

(I know that’s actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 13h

I suspected it was a bad idea to have a meeting when all the humans were running out of brain capacity.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 13h

It waited thirty whole seconds, then it said, The systems of constructs are inherently inferior to advanced bots, but you aren’t stupid.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 15h

On the feed it was clear that the others had reviewed Volescu’s field camera video. They were saying things like I didn’t even know it had a face.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 18h

But I suddenly had 86.3 percent of its attention. (For ART, that was a lot.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 21h

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

ART put the contact on hold and said, Clear. And then it did one of my what-the-hell-have-the-humans-done-now sighs.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t know how long it would take to do this, so I had to ditch the humans quickly.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

But it said, There are no humans here now.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

ART was a big transport with a lot of interactive processes and systems working in concert, which meant there were a lot of storage spaces that would not be obvious to human intruders.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

(Yes, it had actually left out the whole part about telling the Targets that I was a weapon they could use and bringing them to where they could attack our baseship, and using the comm code to locate me. That was fucking incredible.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

What did Miki have that I wanted? I had no idea. I didn’t know what I wanted. And yes, I know that was probably a big part of the problem right there.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

The message packets echo that moment when SecUnit pinged her feed and she knew rescue was possible.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

This being Preservation, there was a nice waiting area to one side of the transit ring’s entry hall for humans to sit and figure out what they were doing, with couches and chairs and a mosaic floor with tiled images of the planet’s flora and fauna

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to get off this mine only slightly less than I had probably wanted to get off it the first time I was here.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

Preservation has to make everything complicated. And that’s not a metaphor for my experience here. Okay, yes, it is a metaphor.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

“Before your second mother, I had never been an actual member of a team before. Just an…”
Amena finished, “An appliance for a team.”
That was it. “Yes.”

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