Demand-Side Sheepdog
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!
- The worst invention in history is the one where you can be on a redeye and watch your ability to get any sleep before work in the morning slowly evaporate on a moving map. After that, I think maybe atomic weapons. Oh and the Boston Dynamic cop robots, them too. Please tranquilize me >.>
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- On a plane now! I am as-ever impressed by the ability of the staff and volunteers to pull off an experience like this. Full credit to them for all their hard work <3 it is such a good con and I’m so glad I could make it!
- The thing about public spaces in conventions is they’re good for only two things, people-watching and writing absolute filth while looking Respectable, and since most folks at FWA seem to be in the dance comp I think it must be time to craft some otter smut.
- …On reflection, Star Trek was prescient, too, in how you have to talk to the computer like a person. Who often has the wrong answer. And how whenever it tells you it’s not allowed to do something—which is also common—everyone knows an extremely trivial trick to make it do that thing anyway.
- Lifehack from someone who was working on a German history degree: if you need a conversation topic, take the opportunity to dunk on Nazis, because you will never be wrong.
- Shout-out to the deer suiter who announced his floor on the packed elevator by saying “let me out, I’m gay” because: 1. It worked—we let you out!—but also 2. You didn’t have to tell us you were gay. You’re a deer; we know :p
- B-17 pilot, tucking a photo of the Eagle Dynamics logo into a cockpit gauge before taking off on their 25th sortie over the Ruhr with the 8th Air Force: “if I don’t make it back, I want my gal to have these limited-time discounts on DCS’s Cold War modules”
- …If I got knocked up at the first FWA I attended, my kid would be able to drive now.
- truly, sheps are The Most Dog
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- [conclave] Me: [chanting] pope, pope— Other cardinals: pope, POPE Robert Prevost: [appearing on balcony] POPE, POPE, POPE!
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- I appreciate Wikipedia clarifying that this is not normal for airplanes.
- I love how coyotes look and sound absolutely ridiculous when they howl, but have zero self-consciousness about throwing their heads back and yelling at the top of their lungs because it’s so fun. Crows may use tools, but songdogs invented “embarrassing yourself with your friends at karaoke night.”
- My Star Wars take is it’s wild how literally the one Prequels Criticism everyone shared was midichlorians explaining something that did not need it, and then Disney bought the IP only to keep going “bet u wondered where ‘death star’ comes from well its named for commandant glabulus death :) :) :)”
- Every ~5 years I try using a tablet as my portable computer and I have to say, this time it almost feels doable. I was not expecting the docked iPad experience to feel as complete or as seamless as it does but I have yet to find *any* rough edges, let alone deal-breaking ones. Genuinely impressive!
- (to my Israeli friends: I also missed Independence Day by a day, but in fairness I would like you to understand how much trouble I have keeping track of just the one calendar that is literally in my damn phone >.>)
- Now that it is no longer the 1st of May, I feel obligated to note that, like Earth Day, there is no reason that every day should not be Labor Day >:3 but in any case, happy Friday, and I hope that you have had a decent week!
- Find someone who will laugh and go “okay, enjoy” when your best friend carries you off with a bottle of liquor to start fires together <3
- “Baden-Württemberg,” since I am guessing the rest of you also immediately wondered: “ah, so where exactly in Germany is this person from?”
- idea: a service where if there is a loud pigeon outside you open an “App” and a guy cycles over but instead of giving you takeout they punch the pigeon as hard as they can in its smug little face i would pay upwards of €29+tip Per Pigeon and no: i dont care if this makes me a “bad Environmetallist”
- Back of the napkin, now with 9 polls left, I think Poilievre would need to pull like 85% of the remaining to make up the difference and this seems... Unlikely. Comme c’est triste, ça :P oh le pauvre.
- Coyotes have two kinds of friends. I say I made an old vacuum tube produce x-rays with my spark-gap generator and you: Go “SANDY, NO!”, or Recommend I heat the filament to increase emissions, find an intensifier tube for me on eBay, and then ask if I’d be interested in a “huge xenon arc lamp” :P
- www.youtube.com/shorts/_hh_v... “Jesus Christ, c’mon.” On this Monday, I am reminded that Tim and Weave give me strength. Go boop a coyote for me, please :3 and have a good week!
