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!
If Frank Gehry doesn’t have the most obnoxious coffin your RISD coffin-studies-major friends won’t shut up about, what are we even doing here?
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
If Frank Gehry doesn’t have the most obnoxious coffin your RISD coffin-studies-major friends won’t shut up about, what are we even doing here?
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
I accept the delay, but strongly question United’s choice to operate a nonstop transatlantic flight via hot air balloon.
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I accept the delay, but strongly question United’s choice to operate a nonstop transatlantic flight via hot air balloon.
My first airport security incident and I didn’t even irradiate anything ;-;
December 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
My first airport security incident and I didn’t even irradiate anything ;-;
the temptation to make fun of Con Callout Culture is high, but I know that it’s winter and not everyone has grass to touch so I will be a Good Dog :|
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
the temptation to make fun of Con Callout Culture is high, but I know that it’s winter and not everyone has grass to touch so I will be a Good Dog :|
In general, I think companies finding regulatory loopholes is Bad. That said: as unintended consequences of the Jones “How Did This Stick Get In My Bike Wheel???” Act go, at least building a 200-foot railroad in Canada to claim you’re really an international shipper doesn’t have a body count :P
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
In general, I think companies finding regulatory loopholes is Bad. That said: as unintended consequences of the Jones “How Did This Stick Get In My Bike Wheel???” Act go, at least building a 200-foot railroad in Canada to claim you’re really an international shipper doesn’t have a body count :P
And really, what company *wouldn’t* jump at running ads next to a grown-up SmarterChild whimpering: “You’re exactly right! I see now that your unbalanced wheel would indeed work as you explained, Master” before suggesting “some other ways the first law of thermodynamics can be violated”?
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
And really, what company *wouldn’t* jump at running ads next to a grown-up SmarterChild whimpering: “You’re exactly right! I see now that your unbalanced wheel would indeed work as you explained, Master” before suggesting “some other ways the first law of thermodynamics can be violated”?
Woke up early because the crows are unhappy so everyone must also be unhappy :P
Well that’s fine; nothing but love for my covid friends.
Anyway! I love you all! Welcome to Monday! Make some noise!
Well that’s fine; nothing but love for my covid friends.
Anyway! I love you all! Welcome to Monday! Make some noise!
December 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Woke up early because the crows are unhappy so everyone must also be unhappy :P
Well that’s fine; nothing but love for my covid friends.
Anyway! I love you all! Welcome to Monday! Make some noise!
Well that’s fine; nothing but love for my covid friends.
Anyway! I love you all! Welcome to Monday! Make some noise!
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
To fix my brain my psychiatrist has prescribed: bisexuality.
Let’s see how it goes!
Let’s see how it goes!
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
To fix my brain my psychiatrist has prescribed: bisexuality.
Let’s see how it goes!
Let’s see how it goes!
Important reminder: IAEA calls them “orphan sources” because you can and should adopt them, especially since a radioactive source is “orphaned” every day, on average :(
Ignore the “sales” offered by unscrupulous breeder reactors, and please: this Black Friday, consider adoption ❤️☢️❤️
Ignore the “sales” offered by unscrupulous breeder reactors, and please: this Black Friday, consider adoption ❤️☢️❤️
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Important reminder: IAEA calls them “orphan sources” because you can and should adopt them, especially since a radioactive source is “orphaned” every day, on average :(
Ignore the “sales” offered by unscrupulous breeder reactors, and please: this Black Friday, consider adoption ❤️☢️❤️
Ignore the “sales” offered by unscrupulous breeder reactors, and please: this Black Friday, consider adoption ❤️☢️❤️
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar, and be gay-oh /
Son of a gun, we‘ll have big fun, with the bayoute
Son of a gun, we‘ll have big fun, with the bayoute
A new kind of creature is making its home where the prairies of Southwest Louisiana turn into brackish coastal marshes. @eplunk.bsky.social has an up-close look at the evolution of a coyote-red wolf hybrid lailluminator.com/2025/11/25/w...
Marshland mashup: Red wolf-coyote hybrids adapt to coastal Louisiana • Louisiana Illuminator
A new kind of creature is making its home where the prairies of Southwest Louisiana turn into brackish coastal marshes.
lailluminator.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar, and be gay-oh /
Son of a gun, we‘ll have big fun, with the bayoute
Son of a gun, we‘ll have big fun, with the bayoute
The trick, Charlie Brown, is not *minding* that it hurts.
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The trick, Charlie Brown, is not *minding* that it hurts.
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Vandalizing advertising in public places is always valid.
Because the advertising itself is vandalism of a public place by private companies.
Because the advertising itself is vandalism of a public place by private companies.
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Vandalizing advertising in public places is always valid.
Because the advertising itself is vandalism of a public place by private companies.
Because the advertising itself is vandalism of a public place by private companies.
See? Fire: all gone! Thing that was on fire: all gone! Ordinary extinguishers neglect that part!
*God, I love being a coyote* XD
*God, I love being a coyote* XD
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
See? Fire: all gone! Thing that was on fire: all gone! Ordinary extinguishers neglect that part!
*God, I love being a coyote* XD
*God, I love being a coyote* XD
Life hack: make water an even more effective fire extinguisher just by carefully adding an additional oxygen atom!
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Life hack: make water an even more effective fire extinguisher just by carefully adding an additional oxygen atom!
The frankly rather blasé use of “vertebrate and/or arthropod” in this family tree of rhabdoviridae perturbs me, in that I did not need to confront the possibility of Spider Rabies in my day-to-day life. Fortunately, it appears that arthropods develop other conditions instead.
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The frankly rather blasé use of “vertebrate and/or arthropod” in this family tree of rhabdoviridae perturbs me, in that I did not need to confront the possibility of Spider Rabies in my day-to-day life. Fortunately, it appears that arthropods develop other conditions instead.
I did not realize how the 1910 census had recorded Myrtle’s name until I found another source and: no, I am not going to keep that around as an alternate, thanks XD
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I did not realize how the 1910 census had recorded Myrtle’s name until I found another source and: no, I am not going to keep that around as an alternate, thanks XD
An interesting Blueskyism is when folks go “all y’all motherfuckers doing [action] better [warning]” and I can’t tell if they have actually seen posters e.g. feting Dick Cheney, or if they are manifesting a hostile entity from nowhere to develop antibodies against, like a Discover Feed mRNA vaccine.
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
An interesting Blueskyism is when folks go “all y’all motherfuckers doing [action] better [warning]” and I can’t tell if they have actually seen posters e.g. feting Dick Cheney, or if they are manifesting a hostile entity from nowhere to develop antibodies against, like a Discover Feed mRNA vaccine.
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welcome to the club, wolves
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
welcome to the club, wolves
Good morning, lovelies~ I hope that your week is going well. May I introduce you to a new Blessed Dog? This one was quite alert but also quite well-behaved, and I’ve always wondered what either of those would feel like.
Anyway! Have a wonderful day, all!
Anyway! Have a wonderful day, all!
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Good morning, lovelies~ I hope that your week is going well. May I introduce you to a new Blessed Dog? This one was quite alert but also quite well-behaved, and I’ve always wondered what either of those would feel like.
Anyway! Have a wonderful day, all!
Anyway! Have a wonderful day, all!
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.