@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 03 - Weapon
GAN: Is she bluffing?
AVON: She's not bluffing, is she, Travis?
TRAVIS: Do something reckless and find out.
AVON: Well now, I might just blow your head off.
BLAKE: How would you like to die, too, Supreme Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/474
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMusk Fends Off Trump Questions in Tense Interview Exchange (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-fends-off-trump-questions-in-tense-interview-exchange/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p57#a250601p57
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pageYou Sound a Little Tense: L2 Tailored Clear TTS Using Durational Vowel Properties
Paige Tutt\"os\'i, H. Henny Yeung, Yue Wang, Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Angelica Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23367
@laimis@mstdn.socialhahaha Verstappen .... the man lost it ... once he watches the replays he will realize that he lost his marbles on the restart #f1
Decent race for it being at Barcelona, Red Bull made it a bit tense there for McLaren
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: Orac has a weakness: a thirst for knowledge. Infallibility depends upon your point of view.
TARRANT: How about testing his infallibility in the recycling machine?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/31 B7B4
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Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: [Steps in front of the others] Who was the first, Dorian?
DORIAN: [Troubled] My partner. We entered this place together. Like you, he could never leave it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/511 B7B2
@cdarwin@c.imGov. Newsom asks Trump to rescind ‘unlawful deployment’ of California National Guard
Blocks from Los Angeles City Hall, protesters have started to hide behind city benches
as police work to clear streets using pepper balls and stun grenades.
https://www.wa…
@arXiv_physicshistph_bot@mastoxiv.pageEternalism and Everettian Quantum Mechanics
Matias Slavov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22160 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22160
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDHS issues new guidance for lawmakers visiting ICE facilities after tense confrontations (Shania Shelton/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/19/politics/dhs-ice-visits-congress-lawmakers
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p67#a250619p67
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeI've been playing The Last of Us Part 1. Only a few hours in, but holy hell, this is tense. I don't think I've had my heart race like that while playing video games for a long time, and I'm getting really invested in the story and the relationship with Ellie. Not to mention the absolutely haunting opening sequence. Fantastic game so far.
Also, massive props to the #Wine and
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
AVON: What do we get?
KLEGG: You'll be teleported onto the surface of the nearest planet. You can build your security into the computer program. It won't respond to me until you are safely off the ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/498
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 01 - Redemption
AVON: Don't worry. At the right time, I will remind you of it.
[Flight deck]
VILA: [Accepts cup from Jenna and swallows pill] Thanks.
JENNA: [To Blake who has just entered flight deck with Avon] You all right?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/242
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: He works in the Outer Worlds most of the time. He's in Security.
BLAKE: He's a murderer.
VARON: Then he'll come to trial like everyone else in this cover-up.
BLAKE: And what about me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/317
@frostpoem@mastodon.artToday's #MicroPrompt: Bubble
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@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: He works in the Outer Worlds most of the time. He's in Security.
BLAKE: He's a murderer.
VARON: Then he'll come to trial like everyone else in this cover-up.
BLAKE: And what about me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/317
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMultiple immigration sweeps reported across L.A., with a tense standoff downtown (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-06/immigration-sweeps-across-los-angeles
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p158#a250606p158
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Oh yes. He's also made it clear that summary execution's one of our options. We chose the other.
LEYLAN: Well if you're successful, I promise that I'll get your sentences quashed.
AVON: And if we're not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/576
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZIL: To be alone must not be feared. The Host is slow to recognize one who is alone. Though there are many, all stay alone. [Clears off a patch of ground] Do you hunger? [Tears the ground open, scoops up some of the lining of the opening and eats it.] Do you hunger?
BLAKE: What is it?
https://
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZIL: To be alone must not be feared. The Host is slow to recognize one who is alone. Though there are many, all stay alone. [Clears off a patch of ground] Do you hunger? [Tears the ground open, scoops up some of the lining of the opening and eats it.] Do you hunger?
BLAKE: What is it?
https://
@frostpoem@mastodon.artToday's #MicroPrompt: Bubble
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@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: [Whispers] Vila. [Pause, then louder] Vila. [Pause] Gan. [Pause] Gan.
GAN: [Moves to bars] Blake.
BLAKE: What is it? What's the matter with everybody?
GAN: How did you get here?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/377 …
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: I don't know. [Lauren enters]
LAUREN: [Enters] Do you hear it, Father?
AVON: Any idea where it came from?
LAUREN: There's nothing inside the ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/257 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
VILA: [Grabbing Blake's arm] You'll hit him!
BLAKE: Let go! [Shakes free, takes aim, and fires] Avon, run for your life! [Muttering] Come on, come on.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/447 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: [Restrains Blake] Blake.
BLAKE: Renounce!
AVON: Easy, easy!
BLAKE: Renounce!
AVON: [To Cally] Tranquilizer pack!
BLAKE: Renounce! [Cally administers the tranquilizer pack. Blake subsides]
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 03 - Weapon
CLONE 2: Is there anything for us here?
RASHEL: Yes. We're free.
CLONE 2: Can we survive - alone?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/532 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
GAN: As long as the door doesn't break.
VILA: Did you see? They killed Arco.
BLAKE: I don't understand. There's no response from the ship.
VILA: Perhaps these bracelets don't work any more.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/543
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