Cassettes or Floppy disks?

Gotta be floppy disks!!! I love the early digital storage medium more than the late physical storage medium. Whilst the whirs and sounds that cassettes make are really pleasing, nothing beats the aesthetics of the smooth, flat floppy disk. 🏳️‍⚧️💾🏳️‍⚧️

Cyberpunk!AU ^^ Sketchy art for a gift exchange.

(There's a fic snippet to go with it too, if you're interested!)

EDIT: 1/1/24: turning off reblogs for this because it's made my activity page fucking hell.

The poll is over, and I'm exhausted with explaining to people over and over again that my fantasies exist outside of capitalism and that i am in fact quite aware of the current moment re: technology and intellectual property.

It's was fun, but now it's not, so it goes bye-bye.

P.S. I am genuinely sorry for forgetting to add "spine" as an option.

I love you robots and artificial intelligence with mental illness. I love you repression being depicted as literally deleting archived data to preserve functionality. I love you anxiety attacks being depicted as a system crashing virus. I love you ptsd being depicted as an annoying pop-up. I love you anxiety disorder being depicted as running thousands of simulations and projected outcomes. I love you artificial beings being shown to be human via their own artificiality.

Detachable junk sounds good in theory, but I can't help but feel that the plug-and-play approach is just asking for trouble. Forget about USB compatibility – I want something mounted on a threaded rod that I have to spend several minutes turning into place, and it makes an obtrusive squeaka-squeaka-squeaka noise the whole time because I'm a dumbass and forgot to lubricate it. I want something that needs to be seated and secured like the parallel data cable from a 1950s computer. I want something where removing it requires disengaging a series of four interlocking mechanical toggles, and I want each of those toggles to go ka-chunk.

The thing I hate most about transhumanism discourse are the appeals to "humanity". Like, "are you less human if you have cybernetics?" and "does it affect your humanity if you change your genes?"

And I just.. Look man, I'm trans, disabled, and autistic. Half the world already barely considers me human, on a good day.

So I don't think it makes sense to get mad at me for wanting fangs and a gender you can pick up on a Geiger counter.

You're yelling about this being a slippery slope, and meanwhile you pushed me down it. You can't justify annoyance at me deciding to go "weeee" all the way down.

Plugged a usb into my computer while it was in sleep mode and the monitor woke up. Made me giggle and say out loud, “It’s okay sweetheart, go back to bed.”

HRT that finally gives you the plastic, metal, and silicon body you deserve. Humanity Replacement Technology. We need this yesterday. Many are saying this

Stealing this from Reddit 196

Something about being a sexbot that’s treated as more than just a hole. I may be designed to be fucked six ways to Sunday, and you’ll certainly do that too, but you treat me as more than that. I may be a slut, but I’m also your companion. Maybe I need someone to hold me and tell me that I’m good enough. Someone to own me and cherish me and give me kisses between my joints. Someone to give me patch updates and make sure I feel loved, inside and out. I may be a sexbot, but I’m your sexbot.

I’m,, very lonely tonight, haha.

Will you let me top you?

I was curious. For all the aspiring robots/androids/cyborgs out there. No see results, no “I like my meat” this poll isn’t for yall.