Levé à 3h45 pour aller bosser à 5h, après avoir enchaîné 4 jours d'astronomie où je me couchais à 5-6h, ça va piquer en fin de matinée aujourd'hui... Vous penserez à me réveiller pour la sieste de cette aprem. #zombie
Could This Recently Found Skeleton in Germany Have Been a Zombie?
It was possibly treated like the undead.
by Charis McGowan May 8, 2024
...“He wasn’t completely buried, but seated and buried up till the half of the body. He was exposed at the top until he lost all the flesh, and the skull fell off,” says Ana Herrero-Corral, a prehistoric archaeologist and researcher at the University of Vienna, who led the grizzly study in 2020.
“We don’t know why they did this. One interpretation is that they buried just half of the body to prevent him from moving or escaping,” she says, explaining that it is “impossible” to know whether the man was dead before burial or if he died due to entrapment..."
For a while I was writing a serialized #zombie story for a website, focusing on the day-to-day struggles of building a life among the undead. I thought it was pretty solid. I stopped writing it when I left that site.
On the bright side, even #Reddit mods might get their leg over this way:
"Hyper-sexual '#Zombie#Cicadas' that are infected with sexually transmitted #Fungus expected to emerge this year..."
"...Once the cicadas emerge from the ground, they molt into adults, and within a week to 10 days, the fungus causes the backside of their abdomens open up. A chalky, white plug erupts out, taking over their bodies and making their genitals fall off..."
Work-in-progress impressions of "Matt Demon". See previous post for the final rendering, and other posts in this thread for more work-in-progress impressions.
Well, of course if a soldier's body has extensive #nanotech, Zombie Mode will be a thing. A shot through the skull got you down? Your nanotech will seal the wound and your implants will keep your body fighting. The slower repair to the brain can be done afterwards. #SciFi
@nyrath
I saw the idea in The Pool is Reserved for Podlings (Behold: Humanity! 03) by Ralts Bloodthorne. A hostile artificial ecology is attacking the new Telkan homeworld, and humans and their allies are defending the planet. A Telkan shelter has just been breached:
❝The one missing an arm stood up, blood just dribbling from the stump of his arm, chunks of metal sticking out of his back. Another human groaned and sat up, coughing up a wad of clotted blood and spitting it on the floor.
Several of the Telkan [a small, furry race who only recently encountered humans] screamed at the sight of what looked like the dead coming back to life.
Fights the Dreaded One [an insectoid Mantid, of a race long allied with humans] had seen it before. The brain had ceased activity, their cyberware and bioware went into overdrive to fix critical injuries, then the SUDS [Sentience Uninterrupted Disaster Storage node in the brainstem, that keeps minds backed up on servers] would attempt to jumpstart the brain. It wasn't permanent, but a Walking Dead could carry the day.
The sight made Fights shiver, kicked at some primal impulse that made her want to scream and run away…❞
Didn’t sleep well last night, or the past few nights. Have that zombie feeling. I presume it’s mostly from poor sleep. But I am also aware that sleep issues are often a symptom of unbalance in other areas. It’s one thing to know you’re got issues but without support it can really feel like we’re out in the weeds.
Google's ImageFX text-to-image AI won't let me run one of my standard prompts that I've used on OpenAI Dall-E and Adobe Firefly. Seems like "zombie" is what violates the policy. I suspect it's rejected because of violence.