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Annalee Newitz: Automatic Noodle (AudiobookFormat, 2025, Macmillan Audio)

A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle …

Adorable People Taking Care of Each Other

On the surface, this is a story about a diverse group of adorable people (most of whom happen to be robots) taking care of each other while starting a hand-pulled #noodle shop. Slightly below the surface, and done with a lot of #kindness, Annalee Newitz does a wonderful job of putting the reader in a perspective to see how various kinds of #discrimination and #unskillful action make things unpleasant for everyone while at the same time showing that #handicraft, #compassion, and community-building have lovely results across the board.

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On November 30, 2022, I tooted for the first time on Mastodon.

“Hello world!”

Then I began tooting my and a ton of , and . Everyone here responded so genuinely, and with such positivity, that I was very quickly made to feel at home.

My deepest gratitude goes out to the community, a that has literally improved the quality of my time on this spinning rock as it hurtles through space, towards a future that seems more uncertain every day. You have been my friends, my therapists, my critics and fans, as well as an inspiration and reliable sounding board. Mastodon really is unlike any other “social media platform” out there.

Today, I celebrate the arbitrary milestone of twelve thousand followers, and I wanted to say thank you.

Thank you for …

You could not pay me to give a fuck what someone spends their SNAP/EBT benefits on. There is a giant list of things that my tax dollars go toward that piss me off, but that's certainly not one of them.

Funding genocide and building concentration camps in our country are certainly at the top of my list. But someone in the throes of poverty buying themselves some Reese's cups and a Dr Pepper so they have something to look forward to in an otherwise cold and uncaring world somehow just doesn't bother me.

Maybe it's that "empathy" thing we were all warned about.