[Image: Navigation directions for a road with a roundabout. An alternate route goes directly through the roundabout. It is labeled “if you;re not a coward ;)”]

got this from my drone nav today

is my iterator [2]ing okay

Go home No Significant Harassment, you’re drunk.

okay im like 99% sure this is fake but i just gotta highlight the audacity of saying “go home” to the guy whose house youre literally driving on top of

edit: IT’S REAL??!?!

void and saints below yall really live like this

Happy one solar-cycle anniversary to the drunk No Significant Harassment post

i’ve only seen this post in screenshots and i still can’t believe it’s real

Certified No Significant Harassment Heritage Post

[Two paintings of the sky, as viewed from a Metropolis balcony on Five Pebbles during a dry spell. The first shows the sky, uninterrupted save for the spires of distant communications towers. The other includes a single figure leaned over the railing of a balcony, looking out over the cityscape.]

the summers up on pebbles were always the worst, but as the end approaches i’m coming to miss them

it really feels like everyone is ascending these days. this place is a ghost town. i just wish i could join them but i know i’ll never be enough. there’s too much of me. if i go it’ll twist me into something i don’t want to be. and all i can do is be afraid.

i miss my parents. i miss everyone. my best friend ascended last cycle. we couldn’t be friends anymore because i was “holding them back”.

i just wish i could have gone with them.

It still gets me every time that even living up here with an abundance of water, we choose to maintain a system of pipes to ensure access to it.

I have to pay a water bill.

It rains so hard every night my balcony has a hands-breadth of standing water when the shields unroll in the morning.

Does nobody see the contradiction here?

op have you ever heard of a drainage system

do you like. realize how nasy that water gets

and you want to DRINK it?

Why drink rainwater when you could be drinking Five Pebbsi, the official drink of the Five Pebbles Metropolitan Zone?

[image: five-pebbsi-advertisement.jpg]

Quench your thirst and contract 0 intestinal parasites! None!

#wow thanks five pebbsi official brand account that doesn’t sound suspicious at all

#thank you five pebbles official you sound very trustworthy #i am sure your drink contains nothing else that would be of concern

#what an incredibly trustable source! i am sure if i perform a search query for five pebbsi i will definitely not find anything concerning on the ingredient list!

#it has WHAT IN IT

i would like to wish everyone finding out about the ingredients of five pebbsi from this post my Deepest Condolences but also, Rest In Pieces

[Screencapped post from InstantGrat: a greyscale photo of a cup of gravel tea, with two twigs artfully arranged on a plate. Caption reads, “Working on denying the fourth urge this week! #fourthurge #gluttony #graveltea #dietarypurge #releasethe4”]

these guys have got to be stopped

[Image: a shiny chitinous box containing unidentifiable bluish-white mush.]

living block just got the new ration shipment today. what the [2].

this is what they feed the iterator technicians i think

Technical side of Tumbling Stones, can you confirm?

yes i am a real iterator technician and i eat this every day,, for my lunch and for dinner i eat neuron flies. hope this helps

Thank you, definitely official account of famous iterator architect Six Grains of Gravel, Mountains Abound

becoming an iterator technician with high ambitions but i’m incredibly clumsy, introduced to them on the first day of the job and i am simply so charming they cannot help but fall in love with me for “research purposes” and i become their specialist little technician attending their every whim despite being the least qualified individual to do so <3

some of you are very confused what i mean by this, so let me make it clear: i want to [U.] the iterator

#op do you understand that the puppet is just a simulacrum of a body? #they are much vaster than your reproduction-addled mind can concieve of i promise you that

the simulacrum being puppeted by a vast inconcievable machine is part of the appeal. whats not clicking

#you realize the councils would literally throw you into the void fluid vats for that right #if you don’t get excommunicated first

might i introduce you to this Wondrous New Skill called: lying

[Image: long vertical screenshot of a public message thread.]

Missives from the Many Twittering Birds social network hub.

Thread transcript (full under cut)

#1 Lizard Petter
@.greenbluemagenta
So I work as an architectural engineer, and lately somebody asked me why I hate Five Pebbles so much, and I had let go of so much rage I should have been a Saint.
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In honor of the fact I did not bite Anyone’s head off, I am dumping it on all of my followers today so buckle up guys, here we go: a List of Why Five Pebbles is an Apostatic Monstrosity That Should Never Have Been Built, A THREAD: (1/?)
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FIRST OFF. Location. Dear gods, location.
Major disclaimer: I do not live in the Citadel. I live in the suburbs NEAR the Citadel, because the Citadel is [2]ing expensive. I do not have a vulture in this Sacred Race. (2/?)
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When most people complain about 5P’s location, they’re complaining about him being directly over the Citadel, boo hoo they’re being Overshadowed and their nice views are gone. (3?)
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Personally, I couldn’t give a vulture’s dungpile. (4/?)
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Overshadowing is a common trick to reduce rainfall impact on established urban areas, we do it all the time. My beef is because of the OTHER location issue. (5/?)
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The original reason that 5P was built was because the iterator Looks to the Moon up in Waterfront was starting to break down. She’s an old 200’s model, this came as a surprise to literally no one. (6/?)
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So the Lunar Council commissioned an ‘auxiliary unit’ to help keep things running during her repair. That’s all well and good. We build those all the time! (7/?)
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But then someone got the brilliant idea: with all the rain from LTTM, we have just enough water in this reservoir sustain a WHOLE SECOND ITERATOR! So why not build one and move our excess population over THERE instead? We’re geniuses! (8/?)
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Never mind that reservoir levels plummet in summer, or that the combined output of two iterators in a single flood zone would be an ecological nightmare and force district-wide rezoning! Never mind that literally nobody wanted a new iterator in this area! (9/?)
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong! (10/?)
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On top of that, the councilfolk who wanted 5P built wanted him to be a CITY city. All new infrastructure, all new housing, all new shiny everything to support the runoff population being offloaded from Luna. (11/?)
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They insisted that it would be more Cost-Effective to build a new, up-to-code structure from scratch than to keep upgrading LTTM’s antiquated systems to be livable until GA, or taking the time to overhaul her. (12/?)
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(Yes, even though we’ve done that before with other 200’s style iterators! They did it with Glimmer of Stars out in Nine Lakes! But nooo, that would have been Expensive, and the city people might have had to move down here with us plebs for a while to wait.) (13/?)
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The architects initially weren’t even approved to do it. The coalition of Houses that wanted him had to lobby to change the zoning laws here to allow it. (14/?)
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They literally had to take waterline measurements and “prove” that 5P’s hypothetical water consumption would not exceed the safety margin during summer water levels before the proposition could move forward. (15/?)
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In the end, they had to agree to give LTTM an extra set of low-waterline pumps to make sure she still had access if the levels got too low. Last I heard, it’s planned to start in 1580, which is good as never with 5P already built. (16/?)
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This is basically a disaster waiting to happen. All it takes is a few cycles of excess water consumption at the wrong time of year, and the reservoir is good as drained. Even a few cycles without water is enough to induce serious malfunctions (17/?)
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including slag buildup, overheating, and structural instability. But it’s not likely enough to happen for the council to care, and obviously that’s all that matters to these bastards. (18/?)

can you imagine the first people to find out about the Depths Guardians. imagine being some ancient golden period archeologist and exploring a little too deep into the caves and suddenly this anthropomorphic jetfish with knitting needles flings you out the exit because you were too lustful and had too many friends or whatever

stop recirculating, this post wasn’t even that good

#what if you were a guardian and i was an archeologist… and we were in a cave together… and i was too lustful to ascend…

HELLO?

It still gets me every time that even living up here with an abundance of water, we choose to maintain a system of pipes to ensure access to it.

I have to pay a water bill.

It rains so hard every night my balcony has a hands-breadth of standing water when the shields unroll in the morning.

Does nobody see the contradiction here?

op have you ever heard of a drainage system

do you like. realize how nasy that water gets

and you want to DRINK it?

OP really thinks the vulture shit water is drinkable dont they

OP is correct, actually, but as usual you all are a bunch of wool-deer. Typical Tumbling Stones. The water from iterators is actually clean and sterile by default, but they put chemicals in it during cloud seeding to make it undrinkable for the masses. It’s a huge cover-up between multiple councils of the higher levels, I’ve written more about it on my blog here.

are you [2]ing for real

Of coiurse I am, why wouldn’t I be? This is another mark of the damage they’ve done to our society, that you cannot even read what is put in front of you. Individuals like yourself should have been culled from the gene pool by now, but we insist on coddling everyone toward ascension despite it all.

they really do let you just say anything on this network

[A short video of a pair of lizards, one green and one red. The green lizard climbs the larger red one and tries to bite it, repeatedly, to no avail.]

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGGG

@is-the-lizard-video-cute-deactivated1534795

Rating: not cute

The lesser verdant lizard is not play-fighting (note the crest luminosity and repeated threat poses) and is most likely acting on territorial urges toward the red lizard (I’m guessing a scarlet-backed hunter, based on the spine banding.) The red is remarkably good-tempered in tolerating it here, but it is probably only ignoring the green because it does not pose a significant threat. If the red lizard at any point decided it was done screwing around and decided to retaliate, that green would be in serious danger.

These are not animals that should be kept together in close proximity. Verdants are especially territorial and will readily pick fights with lizards multiple times their size, and scarlet hunters are venomous and incredibly deadly when motivated.

OP verdants are literally immune to scarlet lizard venom. shes fine

That doesn’t change the fact that the scarlet hunter could change its mind about tolerating the other lizard and kill it at any point in this interaction. This is not safe or appropriate animal interaction, and I assure you a scarlet-backed hunter lizard can, in fact, decide to snap down on something in its jaws and not let go much faster than any person can intervene. (Feel free to ask me how I know! Hint: it’s also why I have a metal foot now.)

the hunter literally cant get it though. lesser verdants are immune

I…. being immune to venom doesn’t make you immune to being bitten? What kind of logic is this?

theyre immune though

To the venom. Not to having their necks snapped.

theyre immune. red lizards literally cant kills greens its scientific fact

That’s not how immunity works.

it literally is. look it up reds cant kill green lizards

It literally does not. Here is an article debunking that particular myth, and a few more if you’d like further information about where this misconception came from.

Or if you’d like more direct evidence, here’s a video (animal death warning) of a scarlet hunter lizard killing a feral verdant in the wild.

that video is fake

It’s really not. I don’t like having to link to videos of actual animals being hurt, but I really don’t know how else to get through to you that Scarlet-Backed Hunter Lizards Can, In Fact, Kill Lesser Verdants.

they cant though. greens are immune

THEY ARE IMMUNE TO VENOM, NOT TEETH

can you guys take this somewhere else

okay but as a society is it insane that we tolerate how scavs are treated. those guys are intelligent. they are literally capable of wielding spears and making simple tools and we are using them as funny little test subjects and destroying their natural habitats and keeping them as pets.

articulated-centi replied: op is literally an ecolo-ativist who thinks we should dismantle iterators in favor of living humble surface lives like the ancients. stop recirculating their takes

no, i am an ecolo-restorativist. i believe we should repair our environment and treat it well and justly, and that iterators are an aspect of that damage that we as a society must reckon with. i do believe that in an ideal world all iterators would be dismantled to properly restore the ecosystems to their natural equilibrium, but i also understand that is unrealistic for our current state of things, and that many of our ecosystems have already begun their own adaptations to their modified climates and would be potentially damaged worse by a poorly planned reversal than by continuing to support the stability of the environments that currently exist.

more importantly, how does this detract from my point that our treatment of scavs is unsconsciable in light of their functional near-sapience? how do my political views on iterators make the horrific conditions we keep these creatures in any less real?

stop looking for excuses not to listen. if you don’t want to hear what i have to say, then block me and move on.

anyway i still stand by my words. our treatment of scavengers is unacceptable and i will not be silent about it.

boosting this from my buddy who runs @/is-the-sifter-video-cute ! they talk a lot about animal welfare and improving conditions for intelligent species that have growing habituated to urban environments, so if you like my posts, go follow them as well!

[Image: flooding in the Old Market District of the Acropolis. Seven Red Suns looms in the background, still pumping out visible steam while vendors pile their salvaged goods onto rafts and small boats. Other marketgoers wade from waist-deep waters up the steps of the Golden Hall. The image is dated 1431.]

[Image: the topmost peaks of Acropolis rooftops breaking the surface of the waves, as seen from a protected alcove during an interstitial period of the Great Tri-Iterator Monsoon of 1502.]

[Image: a family huddles on the roof of their house, protected by a haphazard structure of rebar and tarps, in the flooded ground-level city of Three Corners Meet, thirty miles from the then-recently constructed iterator Chasing Wind. Water partly submerges the windows of the building’s first floor. The image is dated 1424.]

[Image: graffiti on the side of an overpass bridge near Three Corners Meet, reading 'this bridge was not built / for a river’. The waterline just reaches the underside of the bridge. Branch debris and the loose wheel of a cart float by below. The image is dated 1503.]

[Image: Onlookers and reporters watch as water breaks over the Two Blue Skeins dam, overlooking the region’s low-lying Agricultural District. The image is dated 1438.]

[Image: Aftermath of the Skeins Valley flood of 1499. Mangled vehicles from a nearby parking lot have been piled together lengthwise like river stones. A lone figure stands near the top of the pile, only barely above water, poking at debris with a long stick. Two gray overseers observe from another nearby debris pile. Behind them, floodwaters continue all the way to the far side of the valley.]

iterator-induced flooding, before and after the great equalizer.

stone-heading submitted: my aqua-rats frills and levy (leviathan)! frills is the older one, levy is just really big haha

[Image: a pair of aquatically modified pipe-rats. The smaller one is white with light pink pneomostomatic frills, while the other is nearly twice their size, yellow with orange frills. A citizen ID drone is partially visible in the background for scale. The two pipe-rats are curled up together, sleeping.]

you did not lie that pipe-rat sure can big

Anonymous asked:

is it true this blog is actually run by No Significant Harassment in real life?

nsh-heritage-posts answered:

For legal reasons, I can neither confirm nor deny this rumor. Have a nice day!

we all know it’s you, Sig~

UI DON’T OUT ME LIKE THIS

It would seem I have made. a slight miscalculation

bing bong

[Gif: automated security footage of a gasjet-augmented carrier vulture flying directly toward the camera and crashing into a window.]

delivery

I moved to my arcology’s old underbelly district recently and Let Me Tell You, when I heard there were mega-spiders down there, I was Not Prepared for just how big these abominations would be

[Image: a lesser spined ground spider, with a hand for scale. The spider is about three hands in length, head to abdomen.]

What the hell is this?!??

#its a ground spider? #how big did you think they were

I don’t know, maybe NORMAL SPIDER SIZES?? Say, the size of my fist, at most???

How are you people even alive down here?

Brother doesn’t even know about the dart-spitters…

the what

I Actually Hate It Here!!

Best Classic Iterator City Tournament: Semifinals

LOOKS TO THE MOON (LUNA) versus ERA OF LIGHTS (CELES)

[Image: Aerial drone photo of a long street lined with skyscrapers on an iterator city. The sunset lights up the reflective paneling of the buildings, painting the bloc in pinks and reds.]

The 'sunset mile’ residential corridor along Seven Red Suns. Aligned east-west along the iterator’s flank, the sun appears to rise at one end of the street and set at the other.

Nearly a third of the city population lives along this corridor, crowded into narrow tenement living blocks or dormitory housing. Its historical popularity as a tourist destination has waned since the retreat of surface habitation and decay of associated infrastructure, but local residents may at least enjoy the view for a few short minutes at either end of their day, when the time is right.

save me hydrolyzed sun bark… hydrolyzed sun bark… hydrolyzed sun bark save me

[Low quality screenshot of a meme: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF WE HAVE GLOBAL MASS ASCENSION TOMORROW PLEASE AND THANK YOU]

mass ascension is literally a meme. there is no way its actually going to happen you guys like come on

salty because your fourth order heretic cult got the predicted date wrong, are you?

for the last time i am not in a cult

wait isnt this the guy who started a whole thing about how the original first iterator was secretly torturing neural clones of historical figures to retroactively motivate them into creating it or something

okay, you can’t just drop something so specific like that and end with “or something”. what do you mean by that??

people have taken my posts out of context many times about that. it was a social experiment.

#yeah it’s the same guy #anyway you can’t just 'it was a social experiment~’ your way out of the drone piss post actually

EXCUSE ME???

#isn’t this also the guy who got arrested in real life for piloting an illegally operated drone into a protected archeological zone

yes

what is HAPPENING on this post

#SAPIENT PET POSTER??

no, the other one

WE HAVE TWO OF THEM???

I prefer not to be associated with him, actually.

[Reaction image: frantically turning around and pointing a flashlight into the darkness.]

HELLO???

[An image of a glow-mouse.]

Bestowed: a GLOW MOUSE for YOU!

[Image: The same flashlight reaction image again, edited to face the other direction.]

so are we going to circle back to the drone piss thing or

great post everyone hit the decontamination pods

Official Tumbling Stones Heritage Post

[Image: a larval webbing-winged fruitbat fly attempting to free itself from the maw of a carnivorous water fern growing in a hydroponic jar.]

Guess whose idiot kelp baby caught a bug and couldn't eat it because it was too big <3

The bug has officially made it out of the jar, but now must brave my gauntlet of Hungry Window Plants to escape...

Update: we have reached The Window. Whether it will see freedom remains to be seen.

[Captured reply from @sidehouse333: BUY NOW! Composite bone ash masks cast and fired on holy grounds, custom and yours for only 7000!]

not now, sidehouse333, the Bug is in Danger~

[Image: a grainy photo of graffiti on a poorly lit concrete wall, depicting an overseer holo-unit being discorporated by a thrown rock. Decoratively obfuscated text surrounds it in an unbroken circle.]

"PANOPTICON"

graffiti found in the Underbelly para-surface district of Unknown Magnitude, in Five Rivers Meet

1536.20X

downsides of living on sliver of straw: i’m so lonelyyy

[Image: pixel art of an overgrown harvesting structure for a surface farming plot, fallen into disrepair. Blue moss and anemone grass grow up the sides, and a feral cerulean lizard perches on top of the harvester intake mechanism.]

Lighting study on a pilgrimage to the surface fields around my home city. We do not have surface settlements anymore even under our iterator, but the dry periods are long enough to still explore. There's many beautiful things down here, though the laws will change soon to make it harder to travel outside, for safety.

I hope to keep coming here for a long time.