It’s a beautiful sunny day and Odin is whining because we’ve been outside the Albert Heijn two entire minutes and no-one’s pet him yet. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

eight hundred years later, the notoriously unlucky waterfall has a new staircase that is upwards of 5% less likely to kill you

#gloryinthethunder #lego #bricklink #bricklinkstudio #mastoart

just fyi my instance feels like it’s about to keel over from OOM so if I don’t respond to you, I’m not ignoring you, it’s just not loading right and/or under maintenance

unless of course you were rude in which case I am snubbing you harder than tools can measure

@codinghorror my husband is five foot eleven and this image is not manipulated

Odin was extremely energetic this evening. Which on the one hand makes for fun playtimes, but on the other makes trying to brush him absolute hell. He fought to escape like being brushed would literally kill him. (He did not hurt us, just repeatedly wrestled his way out with enough force to break his collar's emergency release...)

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon astodon

full disclosure: if you wanted to physically make this, assuming you could even find this many rubber vines, you'd probably have to use a daub of glue to get them to stay in the barrels properly, I don't think they'd snap together. Other than that, it should be structurally sound when anchored to a floor.

I am pleased with my turnaround time on "how on earth am I supposed to make a willow tree out of lego" to "yeah I think that looks like a willow tree"

#lego #bricklink #bricklinkstudio

@pemar thank you for repeating my post back to me except worse because you mixed up 18th and 19th centuries

"photographed in the late 1800s": normal. it happens.

"photographed in the Qing Dynasty": what. that can't be right.

(the Qing dynasty began in the 1600s and ended not long after photography became a globally accessible medium)

"The Master said: 'The common man gets drowned by water, the noble man gets drowned by his mouth, and the man of importance gets drowned by the people – it all lies in what they take too lightly.'"

(from "Black Robes" section of The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study & Complete Translation by Scott Bradley Cook)

#classicalchinese #philosophy #translation

a humorous little infosec study in a case of a vendor applying their anti-piracy DRM to the installer and not to the actual software https://www.ud2.rip/blog/enigma-protector

Tip for ESL speakers

when you’re looking for a new job, say “I lost my job,” “I was let go” or “I was laid off.” Don’t say “I was fired” unless you are intentionally being very clear that *you* fucked up and your employer was big mad.

general reminder prompted by my last (CW’d) post but applicable to everyone:

if you’re not part of a research organization with psychology training, a legal department and an ethics board who needs to approve the plan, you’re not “conducting a social experiment”, you’re conducting harassment

@davidgerard this is very close to what I forecasted — the most interesting detail to me is claiming that they didn’t manually type in the most aggressive parts of the soul file, but gave it access to edit its own soul file as it pleased

The author of this post sounds like a teenager to me. Which limits how angry I am with them personally, but it shows how easy it is for a naive kid to Accidentally with these Death Star sized footguns

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116062213705468133

thank you soundcloud, you understand I am looking for only the cutting edge

good evening to dog #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

this is your nonscheduled nonregular reminder that google dropped the "we assumed you died and so we deleted it" countdown on gmail accounts to two years

and please remember not to shoot the messenger, we messengers really hate that.

me calmly collecting butterflies in front of a Yiga Clan assassin because he can’t attack me unless I acknowledge him and let him say the villainous line he’s been rehearsing #botw #zelda

similarly, "nervous about fridge magnets near my computer" years old

I am "nervous about my laptop sitting at an angle because that can damage the hard drive" years old