They don’t really make off-the-shelf led collars in Odin sizes, so I’m experimenting with a very ingeburgerd approach and slapping a clip-on bike light on Odin’s collar. They sell these at Dutch grocery stores by the pencils and scissors. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

This is my view while studying the ancients. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

I continue to suffer from severe insomnia with attendant anxiety, depression, and general Cannot. However,

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

“Scottish Highlander remains alone in nature reserve after the death of their buddy”

reader, it took me entirely too long to figure out that’s a breed of cow and Dutch nature reserves aren’t being colonized by Scotsmen.

Ancient scout: reporting in, sir. We probably missed a few in the underbrush, but our army definitely killed at least 317 dudes.

Ancient general: I report to the senate that we killed roughly a thousand dudes. Give me a promotion.

Ancient cousin at the tavern: yeah I heards they killeds thousands of dudes

Ancient historian getting paid by the general’s grandson: and as everyone knows, they killed ten thousand dudes, it was glorious.

Modern historian: ancient peoples had no concept of numbers beyond ten thousand, it’s like saying infinity. I ran some simulations in Total War Rome and I conclude they killed at least a hundred thousand dudes, three times the estimated population of the province

I feel terrible but a very special boy came to visit. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

On the one hand, I am having a very bad day and week due to critical insomnia. On the other, I have Odin and Halloween kruidnoten #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

You can fascinate an Odin by slowly munching a bag of carrots while you play Mario Kart #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

this guy's siblings must be so mad

I'm repeatedly struck by how clearly Odin seems to have a sense of gratitude. When I give him his meals, he very often makes a point of jumping up on me for a quick hug before eating it – I did not teach him to do this. Just now, I put my own leftovers in his bowl, and after he ate them, he absolutely stormed across the house at full power to leap at me and flatten me with cuddles.

This is local Amsterdam news (in Dutch) about the library putting on a display of books banned from American schools and libraries, in little stars-and-stripes coffins. They say it’s because whatever nonsense America gets up to, the Dutch need to be ready to guard against it being pushed here a few years later. https://www.at5.nl/nieuws/234309/wat-je-in-florida-niet-mag-lezen-wordt-nu-tentoongesteld-in-de-oba

#uspol #censorship #bannedbooks

The stop announcement on our metro got desynced (announcing station n+1) and now I’m wondering how it’s implemented that this could happen

Jogging group who saw Odin: “is he part of the challenge?” “Yeah, if you fall too hard behind he’ll hunt you down.”

Yes but only because he wants to love you and can’t run very fast.

Odin has learned the Dutch words for “do you want to pet him?” which is a problem because he thinks I’m asking *him* if he wants to pet the humans and the answer is always yes

My husband is showing his Dutch bloed: he’s stuck at a Silksong boss and he’s put the epic cathedral rendition of Dutch People’s Darkest Hour on loop to grind it out https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl5yRIfNuWQ

In the seconds between these shots, Odin tried to catch his tail in his teeth to groom it and slipped off the couch. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

An interesting case of managing to encode misogyny directly into the writing system — if you look up 妖 in the dictionary, the first sense given will be “demon”, but note the female (女) radical. Said of a beautiful woman, 妖 implies there’s something fundamentally deceitful and wicked about her attractiveness.

How I’d translate an ode to lotuses that says a lotus is not “妖” if I’m trying to respect the fact it’s being serious: a lotus is not gilded by pretentions

What my notes actually say: a lotus is not tarted up like a slutty, slutty rose

it has been 0️⃣ days since someone with a "please be patient, I have autism 🥺" avatar said something very annoying, got blocked, and then hopped on their alt (that I assume they have because people keep blocking them) to cuss me out for blocking them

ONE HOUR AGO:
my husband: do you think the Steam servers will survive the Silksong launch?

me: of course, they've handled tons of very big launches for games that are much larger downloads, they'll be able to handle it

ONE MINUTE AGO: my husband starts screaming

#steam #silksong