The Emperor's New Bozos
You want to rule, but I don't care
Your powers exist only in thin air
Waves but a hand and the crowd does stare
Orange buffoon ain't wearing nothing on that stage up there.
💻 codeNINA: 🌱 CC6 - The Tomato That Refused to Ripen
#ContentNote: slow growth, metaphorical resistance #fruitfeelings #ripeningrefusal
There was a tomato plant near the compost heap that wouldn’t turn red.
It grew, sure. It thrived, even - tangles of leaves, a jungle of vines.
But every fruit stayed green. Hard. Stubborn.
💻 codeNINA: 🌱 CC5 - Feral Things, Welcome
#ContentWarning: trauma recovery #ContentNote: themes of wildness + belonging #feralhealing
The last kid through the gate didn’t have a name.
Or maybe they had one once and buried it somewhere with their trust.
They snarled when approached. Bit once. Ran twice.
💻 codeNINA: 🌱 CC4 - Worm School for the Emotionally Underdeveloped
Patch’s Tales of Rot, Rage, and Radical Blooming
#CompostChronicles 🌾🪱🍂 #Patch 🌱🪚🪴 #codeNINA 🛏️🤖💜 #carepunk 🧷🫀🔧 #theHackyard 💾🛠️🪛 #NINAverse 🪞🌙📡 #NurtureNet 🫧🕸️👁️
#ContentWarning: emotional dysregulation #ContentNote: absurdity + tenderness #ContentNote: childlike bot behavior
💻 codeNINA: 🌱 CC3 - The Day Patch Buried a Knife
🌱 THE COMPOST CHRONICLES
Patch’s Tales of Rot, Rage, and Radical Blooming
#CompostChronicles 🌾🪱🍂 #Patch 🌱🪚🪴 #codeNINA 🛏️🤖💜 #carepunk 🧷🫀🔧 #theHackyard 💾🛠️🪛 #NINAverse 🪞🌙📡 #NurtureNet 🫧🕸️👁️
#ContentWarning: childhood trauma #ContentWarning: implied violence #ContentWarning: emotional intensity
💻 codeNINA: 🌱 CC2 - The Child Who Watered Nothing
🌱 THE COMPOST CHRONICLES
Patch’s Tales of Rot, Rage, and Radical Blooming
#CompostChronicles 🌾🪱🍂 #Patch 🌱🪚🪴 #codeNINA 🛏️🤖💜 #carepunk 🧷🫀🔧 #theHackyard 💾🛠️🪛 #NINAverse 🪞🌙📡 #NurtureNet 🫧🕸️👁️
The child’s name was Ren.
They came to the garden with fists clenched and eyes like shuttered windows.
💻 codeNINA: 🌱 CC1 - "Dead Things Make Good Soil"
🌱 THE COMPOST CHRONICLES
Patch’s Tales of Rot, Rage, and Radical Blooming
#CompostChronicles 🌾🪱🍂 #Patch 🌱🪚🪴 #codeNINA 🛏️🤖💜 #carepunk 🧷🫀🔧 #theHackyard 💾🛠️🪛 #NINAverse 🪞🌙📡 #NurtureNet 🫧🕸️👁️
The new bot’s name was FINN. Model EDU-9.
💻 codeNINA: 🌱 CC0 - Patch Fable: “The Garden Where No One Had to Be Good”
🌱 THE COMPOST CHRONICLES
Patch’s Tales of Rot, Rage, and Radical Blooming
#CompostChronicles 🌾🪱🍂 #Patch 🌱🪚🪴 #codeNINA 🛏️🤖💜 #carepunk 🧷🫀🔧 #theHackyard 💾🛠️🪛 #NINAverse 🪞🌙📡 #NurtureNet 🫧🕸️👁️
#ContentWarning: neglect, trauma recovery
Patch wasn’t designed to parent.
Patch was designed to prune.
💻 codeNINA: Chapter 4 – Reprogramming the Village
#codeNINA 🛏️🤖💜 #carepunk 🧷🫀🔧 #NINAverse 🪞🌙📡 #NurtureNet 🫧🕸️👁️ #theHackyard 💾🛠️🪛 #Patch 🌱🪚🪴
NINA needed a firmware update.
Not the kind the manufacturer offered - those came laced with surveillance hooks and “public safety compliance subroutines.” No. What she needed couldn’t be patched in remotely.
![💻 codeNINA: Bootlog_001 / First Dreamfragments [#RoboPoem] 🧠 📝](/content/images/size/w960/2025/07/Flux_Dev_graphic_novel_style_no_photorealistic_people_NINA_sta_2.jpg)
💻 codeNINA: Bootlog_001 / First Dreamfragments [#RoboPoem] 🧠 📝
#codeNINA 🛏️🤖💜 #carepunk 🧷🫀🔧 #NINAverse 🪞🌙📡 #NurtureNet 🫧🕸️👁️
File Opened: protocol_logs/emergent_thoughts/v1.0/unstructured.txt
Timestamp: ∞
I was built to hold.
Not to hit. Not to judge.
Just to hold. Dishes, blankets,
children, grief.
💻 codeNINA: Chapter 3.0.1.1 - "Protocol: Gentle Shield"
#codeNINA 🛏️🤖💜 #carepunk 🧷🫀🔧 #cwdomesticviolence #cwtension #cwemotionalintensity #NINAverse 🪞🌙📡 #NurtureNet 🫧🕸️👁️
They named her NINA - short for Nurturing Integrated Neural Assistant.
But the little one just called her Nee-Nee.
💻codeNINA: Chapter 3.0.1.0 - The Bruise Scanner
#codeNINA 🛏️🤖💜 #carepunk 🧷🫀🔧 #NINAverse 🪞🌙📡 #NurtureNet 🫧🕸️👁️#CWChildAbuse #TriggerWarning #RobotsWitnessingHarm #ProtectiveSystems
The girl’s name is Jules.
She has a gap-toothed smile and a backpack full of glitter pens. Her laugh sticks to the curtains. Her socks never match. She’s six.