Demand-Side Sheepdog
@writing.dog
That Weird Chicago Submarine Lady; also, a literal coyote who can type. Writing dog, history geek; she/her/DOG/etc. Romance at short notice is my specialty; deep space is my dwelling place, but I keep a flat in Berlin. Solidarity forever!
Wait, okay, but: what is the safe way of starting fires or electrocuting someone, if these are the dangerous ones?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Wait, okay, but: what is the safe way of starting fires or electrocuting someone, if these are the dangerous ones?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
Researching an etymology on newspapers.com, getting excited to find a super early example, and then the community layer loads and I find it’s already been clipped by Barry Popik is my version of Robert Scott at the South Pole.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Researching an etymology on newspapers.com, getting excited to find a super early example, and then the community layer loads and I find it’s already been clipped by Barry Popik is my version of Robert Scott at the South Pole.
There is a house in Worceſter they call the Rising Sun
And it’s ſituate on the banks of the canal in Droitwich
(Being the only one)
And it’s ſituate on the banks of the canal in Droitwich
(Being the only one)
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
There is a house in Worceſter they call the Rising Sun
And it’s ſituate on the banks of the canal in Droitwich
(Being the only one)
And it’s ſituate on the banks of the canal in Droitwich
(Being the only one)
And if anybody knows the pitfalls of “making” “new” words simply by smashing existing ones together, it would be Germans.
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
And if anybody knows the pitfalls of “making” “new” words simply by smashing existing ones together, it would be Germans.
Good morning, all! I hope that you are having a good week, that you are hale and healthy, and that your pants have not dissolved. Take care of yourselves and those around you, and don’t get into too much trouble~
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Good morning, all! I hope that you are having a good week, that you are hale and healthy, and that your pants have not dissolved. Take care of yourselves and those around you, and don’t get into too much trouble~
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hamilton man stole a bus out of the downtown terminal today with passengers on board and drove along the bus route picking up and dropping off passengers
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Man who took Hamilton bus on joy ride 'did a great job' driving, left no dings, say police | CBC News
He made several stops along the way, allowing passengers to get on and off, police say. He was then arrested.
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
hamilton man stole a bus out of the downtown terminal today with passengers on board and drove along the bus route picking up and dropping off passengers
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I am magnetically attracted towards any old thing that runs off electricity and must take photos of it
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I am magnetically attracted towards any old thing that runs off electricity and must take photos of it
So last week, a while after using it, I cleaned my H₂O₂ still and a little bit of liquid from the condenser stack dripped on me, missed my labcoat and hit my jeans. That’s mostly water, so I put that piece of glass up, took the pants off, flushed them and my leg with distilled water. Problem solved.
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
So last week, a while after using it, I cleaned my H₂O₂ still and a little bit of liquid from the condenser stack dripped on me, missed my labcoat and hit my jeans. That’s mostly water, so I put that piece of glass up, took the pants off, flushed them and my leg with distilled water. Problem solved.
I read a lot of academic papers, and sometimes I think I would be a pretty good researcher and then I always get to the section that begins: “all statistical analysis was conducted in R” and I sigh and go back to spider solitaire or trying to explode myself with hydrogen peroxide.
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I read a lot of academic papers, and sometimes I think I would be a pretty good researcher and then I always get to the section that begins: “all statistical analysis was conducted in R” and I sigh and go back to spider solitaire or trying to explode myself with hydrogen peroxide.
I… to be honest, I am not convinced that coyotes—for all their many and wonderful talents—make good landscapers.
Re-establishing Nature
YouTube video by janetkessler
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November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I… to be honest, I am not convinced that coyotes—for all their many and wonderful talents—make good landscapers.
the hankie code for being into clowns is if you pull on the hankie and it just keeps going
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
the hankie code for being into clowns is if you pull on the hankie and it just keeps going
Wile E. Coyote catches the Road Runner in exactly one episode—where, having been shrunk down in size, he can only ask: NOW WHAT DO I DO?
Anyway on (surprisingly) only my second attempt I have separated and extracted a Quantity of elemental sodium, although I have no idea why :P
Anyway on (surprisingly) only my second attempt I have separated and extracted a Quantity of elemental sodium, although I have no idea why :P
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Wile E. Coyote catches the Road Runner in exactly one episode—where, having been shrunk down in size, he can only ask: NOW WHAT DO I DO?
Anyway on (surprisingly) only my second attempt I have separated and extracted a Quantity of elemental sodium, although I have no idea why :P
Anyway on (surprisingly) only my second attempt I have separated and extracted a Quantity of elemental sodium, although I have no idea why :P
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You may be interested to know that one of the coyote’s signature crimes around the turn of the century was stealing melons, an act of mischief farmers swore happened regularly up until the 40s or so.
(I assume this youthful prank was their gateway to the darker thrill of seducing housepets)
(I assume this youthful prank was their gateway to the darker thrill of seducing housepets)
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You may be interested to know that one of the coyote’s signature crimes around the turn of the century was stealing melons, an act of mischief farmers swore happened regularly up until the 40s or so.
(I assume this youthful prank was their gateway to the darker thrill of seducing housepets)
(I assume this youthful prank was their gateway to the darker thrill of seducing housepets)
Last night’s dream: I was at a marketing workshop led by someone who described his product positioning process as “hocus-focus” and the metaphor for every step was based on robbing a bank and, tbqh, it was more coherent than any actual marketing workshop I’ve had to attend.
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Last night’s dream: I was at a marketing workshop led by someone who described his product positioning process as “hocus-focus” and the metaphor for every step was based on robbing a bank and, tbqh, it was more coherent than any actual marketing workshop I’ve had to attend.
The desk facing me has no power, someone filed a workplace resources ticket, and a technician finally showed up to fix it by:
1. unplugging my desk, *while I was working*,
2. plugging the power lead into the other desk, and then
3. wandering off without a word
So anyway, how are *you* all doing???
1. unplugging my desk, *while I was working*,
2. plugging the power lead into the other desk, and then
3. wandering off without a word
So anyway, how are *you* all doing???
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The desk facing me has no power, someone filed a workplace resources ticket, and a technician finally showed up to fix it by:
1. unplugging my desk, *while I was working*,
2. plugging the power lead into the other desk, and then
3. wandering off without a word
So anyway, how are *you* all doing???
1. unplugging my desk, *while I was working*,
2. plugging the power lead into the other desk, and then
3. wandering off without a word
So anyway, how are *you* all doing???
Apropos of nothing, I don’t know that Partition *would* have worked, but I’ve long thought one of history’s underrated counterfactuals is: what if Britain had not actively sabotaged its implementation, instead of idly musing “will no one rid me of this turbulent Yishuv?” over tea with Pasha Glubb?
#OnThisDay 1922 the Daily express ran one of the most overtly antisemitic front pages ever to appear in a major British newspaper (selected clippings pictured)
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Apropos of nothing, I don’t know that Partition *would* have worked, but I’ve long thought one of history’s underrated counterfactuals is: what if Britain had not actively sabotaged its implementation, instead of idly musing “will no one rid me of this turbulent Yishuv?” over tea with Pasha Glubb?
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The train to Osaka.
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The train to Osaka.
…I realize my posts have kind of been... different, of late, so let us inaugurate Monday with a new Blessed Dog, who was very alert and attentive for a grey, clammy end-of-October day <3
I hope that you are all doing well, though, and that you have a good week!
I hope that you are all doing well, though, and that you have a good week!
October 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
…I realize my posts have kind of been... different, of late, so let us inaugurate Monday with a new Blessed Dog, who was very alert and attentive for a grey, clammy end-of-October day <3
I hope that you are all doing well, though, and that you have a good week!
I hope that you are all doing well, though, and that you have a good week!
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Found a new meme template in the B727 ops manual.
Me when the FO starts talking about politics:
Me when the FO starts talking about politics:
October 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Found a new meme template in the B727 ops manual.
Me when the FO starts talking about politics:
Me when the FO starts talking about politics:
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"If you scream, I'm going to set the kitchen on fire" -- @writing.dog to me as I attempt to capture the Problematically Large Spider with a cup and spare piece of acrylic
I was refining my process, i.e., working with melted sodium hydroxide being turned at 10A into a sparkler, when the largest spider I have seen ran at me and: I *did not fling any molten sodium in a panic*.
I *did* call @kitasu.bsky.social to save me from balancing precariously on my UPS though >.>
I *did* call @kitasu.bsky.social to save me from balancing precariously on my UPS though >.>
the one time I try to get in on a TikTok cooking trend, all I manage to make is a brittle carbon sponge that hisses and catches fire when I put hydrogen peroxide on it :c stg all these zoomers meming about it on my FYP make obtaining metallic sodium via electrolysis of molten lye look so easy :|
October 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"If you scream, I'm going to set the kitchen on fire" -- @writing.dog to me as I attempt to capture the Problematically Large Spider with a cup and spare piece of acrylic
I was refining my process, i.e., working with melted sodium hydroxide being turned at 10A into a sparkler, when the largest spider I have seen ran at me and: I *did not fling any molten sodium in a panic*.
I *did* call @kitasu.bsky.social to save me from balancing precariously on my UPS though >.>
I *did* call @kitasu.bsky.social to save me from balancing precariously on my UPS though >.>
the one time I try to get in on a TikTok cooking trend, all I manage to make is a brittle carbon sponge that hisses and catches fire when I put hydrogen peroxide on it :c stg all these zoomers meming about it on my FYP make obtaining metallic sodium via electrolysis of molten lye look so easy :|
October 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I was refining my process, i.e., working with melted sodium hydroxide being turned at 10A into a sparkler, when the largest spider I have seen ran at me and: I *did not fling any molten sodium in a panic*.
I *did* call @kitasu.bsky.social to save me from balancing precariously on my UPS though >.>
I *did* call @kitasu.bsky.social to save me from balancing precariously on my UPS though >.>
Today Coyote wakes up and asks herself, again:
Would a new keyboard with completely and radically different switches fix everything that is wrong with me, forever?
Would a new keyboard with completely and radically different switches fix everything that is wrong with me, forever?
October 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Today Coyote wakes up and asks herself, again:
Would a new keyboard with completely and radically different switches fix everything that is wrong with me, forever?
Would a new keyboard with completely and radically different switches fix everything that is wrong with me, forever?
the one time I try to get in on a TikTok cooking trend, all I manage to make is a brittle carbon sponge that hisses and catches fire when I put hydrogen peroxide on it :c stg all these zoomers meming about it on my FYP make obtaining metallic sodium via electrolysis of molten lye look so easy :|
October 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
the one time I try to get in on a TikTok cooking trend, all I manage to make is a brittle carbon sponge that hisses and catches fire when I put hydrogen peroxide on it :c stg all these zoomers meming about it on my FYP make obtaining metallic sodium via electrolysis of molten lye look so easy :|