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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 50m

I know I’m a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 3h

Humans do the “make it a question so it doesn’t sound so bad” thing and it still sounds bad.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 6h

I forgot where I was going with this, except that ART apparently has no concept of fairness, or minimum level of response, because the sense of ART’s almost full attention was overwhelming.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 9h

Another one of those “oh shit” moments.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 12h

Transports don’t communicate in words (most transports don’t; ART did, but ART was ART)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 15h

(Mensah said, “People, please. I’m scheduled to mediate arguments between teenagers on my next commcall home and I need all my patience for that.”)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 18h

When I was owned by the company, I wasn’t allowed to sit down. Now humans keep wanting me to sit down.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, Murderbot, what did you do?

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wanted to be in a physically private space instead of just a closed channel on the feed. It was a weird thing I was going to ask ART to do, and I didn’t want humans staring at my face while I did it, even if they couldn’t hear what I was saying.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You made a mistake, Murderbot, a really bad mistake. How the hell was I supposed to know there were transports sentient enough to be mean?

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Couldn’t anything be simple, just for once?

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She wasn’t there, obviously, being busy betraying her clients. (When I said I didn’t like humans working security you thought I was just being an asshole, right?)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have extracted living clients from situations that were less than nine percent survivable. I’m more than qualified to make that call.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My performance reliability hit 60 percent and I could talk again. I said, “Fuck you, ART.”

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Nobody grabs SecUnits. I hadn’t realized this was a perk until now.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ART hadn’t said anything, and that was beginning to worry me. ART likes to give its opinion and I’m not even sure “likes” is the right word there, but basically, ART gives its opinion whether you like it or not.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another one of those “oh shit” moments.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mensah’s expression was not critical, but I can tell you the face she was making did not indicate that she thought Tural or Indah or anybody in the immediate area was doing a great job.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If I was spotted by anyone who had ever worked a long-term contract with SecUnits, there was a good chance they would realize what I was.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Human dominance posturing was not something Arada did, at all. (And yeah, not something I could help with, either.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ART paused for 8.3 seconds for no reason I could think of except to make the humans think it wasn’t going to answer the question.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(I knew by this time that on Preservation, dismissal isn’t as bad as it is in the Corporation Rim, so it’s not like she would get killed or starve or anything.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guess hiring human security guards is what you do when you can’t afford real security.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There was a big huge deal about it, and Security was all “but what if it takes over the station’s systems and kills everybody” and Pin-Lee told them “if it wanted to do that it would have done it by now,” which in hindsight was probably not the best response.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In human terms, it was like trying to ignore someone large and breathing heavily while they watched your personal display surface over your shoulder.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MedSystem helpfully informed me that my performance reliability was now at 58 percent and dropping, which was not a surprise.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I felt a little guilty, sort of, almost. Something was wrong, and I hoped it wasn’t about me.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I said, “You need to sleep.” She yawned. “Okay, third mom.”

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Thank you,” she said. It was like she could see me through my visor, which was a terrifying enough thought that my performance reliability dropped 3 percent.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(Well, that was a waste of a good cover story about SecUnits produced for academic expeditions. I filed it in case I ever needed it again.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I used drones to record the performances that were overlapping or scheduled against each other. They were all being recorded for the local planetary entertainment feed, and the popular ones would be reconfigured as video productions

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been hit by projectile and energy weapons a lot more times than I can remember (literally, because of the memory wipes) and it’s not that it doesn’t hurt.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s always nice when a human looks relieved to see you.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“It’s the … the transport,” Ratthi told her, watching the ceiling warily. “I don’t suppose you could call it a bot pilot.” I don’t suppose you could, ART said.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(SecUnits make humans and augmented humans uncomfortable and on my contracts, my clients had acted in a variety of nervous and inconsistent ways when I was around. (No matter how nervous they were, just assume I was more nervous.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“All right,” she said, and looked at me for what objectively I knew was 2.4 seconds and subjectively about twenty excruciating minutes.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She turned to the display surface and made the completely unnecessary gesture that some humans can’t help doing when they send something from their feed to display.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(I knew of forty-seven ways that ART could kill a human, augmented human, or bot intruder, and the only reason I didn’t know more is because I got bored and stopped counting.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(Mensah said, “People, please. I’m scheduled to mediate arguments between teenagers on my next commcall home and I need all my patience for that.”)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wondered if ART had thought I was this stupid when it had been riding around in my head. Maybe, but the chances were good that if that had been the case, ART would have said so.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I didn’t care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn’t have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ART hesitated, though not long enough for the humans to notice.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the Corporation Rim, it would have meant the survey had rented me from an owner, the same way you’d rent your habitat or your terrain vehicle, except humans usually had warm feelings toward their habitats and terrain vehicles.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dr. Bharadwaj was easy to talk to, for a human. On the first visit, after the photo of me was in the newsstream, we had talked about why humans and augmented humans are afraid of constructs, which I hadn’t meant to talk about and somehow ended up talking about anyway.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interacting meant talking, and eye contact. I could already feel my performance capacity dropping.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Obviously, there was a big human argument.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And now I knew why I hadn’t wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the feed, Amena said, Sorry, ART. Apology accepted, ART said. I felt its attention shift in the feed. (Imagine it staring meaningfully at me.) (It could stare all it wanted, I’m not apologizing.)

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