I think you should look at this

There’s so much to read and so little time. At least, that’s what I thought, and then I realized all I needed to do was make that time. So I removed the things that took my time. Now I have more time to read. So I read these.

Come follow me to the colony
Let’s make the fat cats rich
What’s yours and ours is theirs to mine
We’ll help em dig the ditch

My feelings about Australia are rather complicated lately. I might speak to it some day, but not now. I’m still reconciling it in my own head. Instead, I’d like you to look at this post by Alex J.

And if you don’t feel like reading, never fear there’s also music here.

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Equinox ran an ad with a sexualized Asian cyborg’s head mounted on a pole, “QUESTION EVERYTHING” over her face, next to a White woman flexing with “BUT YOURSELF.” It’s since been pulled.

On the harm, Ho quotes UBC researchers Illes and Udwadia:

“Sex robots have no likes or dislikes, no strong opinions, are unable to refuse or revoke consent and always submit to their users. This distorts ideas of what a female companion’s role ought to be and could influence the expectations of male users in real life.”

What really stands out in media is Ex Machina. Ava, the White robot, has intelligence and agency and ultimately escapes. Kyoko, the Asian robot, can’t speak, does domestic labor and sex work, and is left behind.

In Ken Liu’s episode of Love, Death & Robots, huli jing (nine-tailed fox spirit) in British-occupied Hong Kong loses her magic as colonial technology spreads. She becomes a courtesan, and then the British Governor forcibly replaces her flesh body with a metal one to serve as his sex slave because that’s what gets him off.

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Flash horror, dreamt during a nap and published without edits.

He’s mad again. He wakes up every other day in the worst mood, and we get the brunt of it. I told Lori to stay in the playroom today and try not to shout. She gets it. I hate that she’s only six, and she gets it.

I don’t know why, but that felt like the most chilling part. There’s an obvious trigger warning here for those of you who have experienced this form of abuse. It’s probably a story being told amongst many, not as a form of fiction.

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