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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm applying for a doctorate position (mostly just for fun, I'm not gonna get it), and it's equally energy draining as fun to write the forskningsplan (disposition?). Makes me realise I've missed writing academic papers!

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I'm seriously thinking about starting writing a book on technosexual representation, just for fun and to keep by brain active #soontobeunemployedthoughts

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 31/10/2025

I wrote a book, "The Naked Android," about why robots keep getting gendered, by design or “by accident," and how that shapes trust & ideas of what kind of labor or use we imagine they’re for. Form, like voice/language and context of use, sets expectations. www.routledge.com/The-Naked-An...

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The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze

The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze illuminates the connection between the stories people tell, their expectations of what a robot is, and how these beliefs and values manifest ...

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Currently watching "Companion" (40 min in) and it's... A take. But so far it somewhat differs from the tropes I've seen before, like this 🤏 much.

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

@davecat.bsky.social I now realize I may have pronounced "cheap" as "sheep".. But I was dumsnål not to buy fresh numbing cream and instead though that my several year old one would still do the job (it didn't, who would have thought)

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Does anyone know of a tool that reads texts aloud to you? It'd be extremely helpful to me when reading academic papers.

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The English translation of my thesis is available for download now! 🎉 You can find it here: liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record... (it's called "Thesis translated to English 2025").

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It took me a billion years, but NOW I've sent my translated thesis for publication, and it's finally actually done for real!!

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cam @littlegoodfrog.online · 02/12/2024

Since I haven't been able to make anything recently due to health stuff, I thought I'd share some old work now that this website has more people on it!! This is Ethernet Cable Girlfriend, a short comic I made last year! Robot yuri 💕 (1/7)

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I am this close 🤏 to finalizing the thesis. OF COURSE the formation of the whole thing started to act up out of nowhere and I can't figure out why or how to fix it. Genuinely close to tears from frustration.

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I maybe have a thing for Devin Townsend's music... Maybe...

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Just finished reading Klara and the Sun. I'll give it a soft 4 out of 5. (If you're a person who enjoys eventful and "intense" books however, this will probably be a rather boring read.)

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've gotten a confirmation that I'm allowed to do as I please with my thesis, so I'll public it at my blog (that's not yet existing) at some point 🎉 I've also asked my university's library if it's possible to have it added to DIvA, alongside the Swedish version.

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A very negative thing about translating the thesis three years later is that I can no longer access some of the material I used, as I'm no longer a registered student at my university; so I can't make certain that I use the same terms as the researches does in their original works.

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

One behaviour I had forgot comes alive during the writing of academic texts: "I'll juuust edit this one thing, and I'll juuust add this one other thing..."

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I am about 99% finished with the translation of the complete thesis 🥳 (Once again, the hyperfocus got me, and the last time I ate anything was 9 hours ago, oops. I also need to go to bed asap. Oops again.)

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

EVERYTHING (BUT THE FOOTNOTES) IS TRANSLATED NOW

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Well shit, ChatGPT refuses to translate one paragraph of my thesis as it deems it breaks their rules... That's what you get for writing about sex haha. (To be fair, I think ChatGPT believes that I want to write something sexual about a little girl, but I'm only quoting a person.)

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Oops hyperfocus stuck and now I've been sitting on my ass translating this thesis for about 6-7 hours 💀 Off to bed I go, night night.

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I've been TERRIFED to re-read my own thesis since it got publiced three years ago. It was during that writing process that I developed my exhaustion depression, so I've imagined it to be painfully obvious that my writing would deteriorate as one reads the thesis.. But so far it actually holds up!

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I'm in the process of translating my thesis from Swedish to English. Are there some rules that differ that I should know about regarding academic texts written in English?

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"Oh, what a pretty do- that's a human." - Me just now.

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hi Bluesky! 👋 I'm putting together a list of movies, series, and anime in which technosexuality/robosexuality (or your preferred term) is the subject. Help me add to it, please! www.imdb.com/list/ls50064...

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Fictional examples showcasing robosexuality

Visual media (movies/tv series/anime) that in some form showcase the subject of robosexuality (romantic love and/or sex) between humans and artificial individuals. I'll add movies/series even if the...

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I tested if ChatGPT would do a good job translating my thesis from Swedish to English. It honestly did a great job, so all of you English speakers will get to read it soon! (Hopefully, I need to speak with my university first.)

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just had the thought that being in a relationship with a doll maaay be a bit connected to the therapy form IFS.

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Watched "After Yang" yesterday. I really enjoyed it, and I'd say it's a new favorite of mine. A very sweet take on the emotional life of, as they were called, techno sapiens.

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Here, have a Swedish sketch from 2000 about a old lady choosing between the nazis and the liberals: t.co/cwS0EZeIT1

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https://youtu.be/r0y9Nm62_JE?si=bdbZWGTRgz4DdWd_

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Me trying to remember the word for thigh = "the big part of the leg" Wardrobe = "the place where you have clothes"

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Updates: 1. I got a job back in February at 50%. 2. I've beat the severe depressive episode I was going through!

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

It JUST NOW struck me that there has to be some robosexual representation going on in Black Mirror???

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Elia @futurestudier.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

To the people who know, does "Humans" (from 2015) have any romantic and/or sexual representation occuring between human and an artificial individual? I was looking through my IMDb list and realized that that series wasn't there. As I havn't watched it myself (yet) I don't want to throw it in there.

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