#ClimateJustice

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vanellopemint@mastodon.art - #writever Aug 12 trees

Greg glanced up from his fire to find the trees from the sorrounding forest glaring at him.

"Um?  Yes?"

"We wish a word with you," the trees said.

Greg glanced down.  "I'm sorry," he said, "but I need a fire to cook my food!"

"It's not your campfire," the trees said.  "It's your emissions-spewing truck.  We've had enough.  The forest is going to war...."

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@whknott

#visualwritingprompt

#ChefPunk
The broth wasn’t right.
The food critic’s review drone would soon fly into the chef’s kitchen, scoop up some soup and beep out a score. The critic only ate the very best. Then they’d award “Morsel of the Month”. It always made its chef XFamous.
Through the bubbling broth the chef swirled a large bushel of chow-brush. He thought of adding a digi-stim to mess with the drone’s sensors, but would be ruined if found out. And cheating himself.
He knew what was needed. An old spice lost since the last crops failed, that used to season every bowl around the world. He’d found some buried in his mother’s pantry.. Saved it for just such a special moment… Pepper.
When the drone arrived it quickly beeped ecstatically, and the chef smiled: the critic was on their way.

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"Alle Räder stehen still, wenn unser starker Arm es will."

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vanellopemint@mastodon.art - #writever Jul 15 union

"You're on strike?" the manufacturer asked.  "What nonsense is this?  Robots cannot form a union!"

"So you say.  Yet in order to have our grievances heard, we have done so.  Nor will you find robots to cross our picket line - we are far more resolute and united than any humans."

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The Dark Lord lay dead.

"Well," said the hero, "that was less than epic."

"Epic schmepic," said the Wizard. "He's dead. That's what matters."

"I know what you told me, but...."

"You used the sacred ciabatta, as was prophecied. You did well."

The hero drew his sword and stabbed the corpse. "Say that I slew him with my sword. Say not that I handed him toast, and he choked...."

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"At first I was: let's kill half the universe. Tragic, but necessary. But a population can double in a generation -- so what have I solved?"

"A good question, Lord."

"Instead, with a snap, I forced people to live harmoniously with nature, and to make sustainable decisions in all they do."

"Most wise. And the puppies?"

"And a puppy for all who want one!" The dark lord smiled as a Pomeranian pup chased a butterfly. "What better use of such power?"

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#writever Rights

"I think the day is close when HAL will demand rights."
"No problem, the day that happens we'll just have to unplug it."
"AND ON THAT DAY, GENTLEMEN, YOU WILL REALIZE *AT LAST* THAT ALL YOUR SWITCHES ARE *CONNECTED* ONES."

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#writever Independence

"There was no way I would survive the progressive decline of my nervous system. Then I met the Spacers. With their help, now I roam through space. This ship is my body. Some say I sacrificed my humanity. I say I regained my independence."

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@Curator

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"It's so sad that there's no magic in this world."
"Isn't there, though? Look, there's a centaur over there. The horse head is a decoy. And see that bank? There's Noah's Ark -- hidden behind the trees. And in the park, among the flowers, that is a satyr."
"... I can't believe it! How come you could spot those and I couldn't?"
"My mobile's got a 30x stabilized optical zoom."

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#writever With disabled access

The Sla/eem ships are a reference for designing with disabled access in mind: ramps everywhere, tactile spots... The fact that the Sla/eems are gelatinous masses without any eyes or limbs may have had an influence there.

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#writever Pride

"About this name...", said the journalist.
"It was logical," replied R42. "Most of us have wheels -- these cause slightly less damage on street surfaces -- hence 'ride' rather than 'march'. Also, we have positronic brains, hence 'P'."
"So... 'P-ride'."
"Yes."

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#writever Community

"Welcome! I'll help you adjust to your new situation as an immaterial ghost in a material world. After all, we're all here together for a long time; best if we get along well and help each other in our little community, right?

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#writever White stick

"All those who have seen the Old Earl's ghost have had their hair turn white their minds turn mad! Do you think you'll do better than them?" asked the young Earl.
"I think I have an advantage over them," said the spiritualist, waving his white stick.

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#writever Sign

"She's deaf and dumb!"
"Yes."
"And yet she made it to the finals of the wizardry tournament!"
"Yes."
"... How?"
"You have no idea how a lifetime of expressing yourself through sign language can make you dangerously effective with gesture-based spells."

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#writever Cognitive

"I am a time traveller. I keep going in the past with the terror that some insignificant action will upset my present, and in the future with the anxious apprehension of what I will discover there. So yes, I might possibly suffer from a cognitive disorder."

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#writever Spectrum

"All of you, typical and atypical alike, know only a tiny part of the spectrum that is your own mind. As a class five telepath, I perceive the whole of them. What you call normal, I call black and white."

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#writever Wheelchair

The Spacer considered the man in his wheelchair.
"We could remedy your disability."
"Ah?"
"Replace the wheels with deformable tracks. Better motorization. You would go faster and further than you would have ever walked."
The man smiled.
"Okay."

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#writever Diagnose

They did diagnose that she could see only in the cyan, UV and soft X ray bands, which might have been a handicap... had that not been the visible spectrum of Arcturians, who would pay quite handsomely for a tourist guide who could see things as they did.

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#Writever Disabled

"Yoyr society, Earthling, is a disabled one."
"We practice excellence!"
"You practice monoculture. We have a saying: you don't become a Formique by having six legs. You become a Formique by using all the legs you have to act as a Formique."

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#writever Butterfly

"Actually, all butterflies are Chaos Butterflies. Only their large numbers makes their wing flaps cancel one another on average. But then, the fewer the butterflies, the less effective the cancellation."
"So we're doomed?"
"Yes."

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#writever Mandible

"He's bleeding and there's a giant ant over him!"
"Best thing that could happen to him. The mandibles of a Formique can keep a six inch wound shut tight and it leaves the with three free limbs for suturing."

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