Reality Checks: Giant Robots, Giant Robot Spiders, No Fucks in Washington DC, and Drunk Hobbits

Elizabeth — August 8, 2017

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Cathedral puts a GIANT ROBOT SPIDER on their roof and can’t understand why people object. You want a robot apocalypse? This is how you get a robot apocalypse. (via NCRonline)
The giant robot duel I have been waiting for my whole life is delayed. Again. (via engadget)
People tweeting in the Washington, DC area use the word fuck less frequently than the rest of the US. (via Medium)
The amount of alcohol it takes to get a hobbit drunk. (via Tor)

Featured image credit: La Tete Krancien via flickr

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Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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