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- Odin is our Newfoundlander. He was born in January 2024 in the Netherlands; he is nine months old in the attached photos.
- Yes, he is very, very, very big. He grew indescribably quickly and yes, he is still growing. We expect him to top out around 80kg.
- He is incredibly sweet, loving, and kind. He has never once shown aggression towards another dog, even though many have tried to preemptively fight him off. He rarely barks. On the other hand, he has no social graces and cannot take a hint when another dog tries to tell him to leave them alone.
- He's an enormous cuddlebug and I have the scars and bruises to prove it.
- We live on the edge of an enormous park, he gets plenty of time to go outside. Newfies are not very high-energy, we don't need some sort of mansion with a private meadow to accommodate his movement needs.
- What he does need is thorough grooming every single day. Yes, he sheds absolute mountains of hair.
- Yes, he inhales thousands of calories of food a day. It will decrease when he's no longer growing like a black hole.
- The drool. You cannot imagine the drool.
- My husband and I love this dog with all our heart and soul. We're often asked "did you realize he'd get this big?", and trust us, it was the most intentional decision of our lives
#dogs #dogsofmastodon #newfie
psychology literature on autism is all so cringe.
"90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks.
"a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a job" we are holding down the entire science and tech economy, Clarence.
"a defining characteristic of autism is a lack of desire to share interests with others and a deficiency in theory of mind" I think the issue might be that you have never once spoken to a single autistic person as if YOU possess theory of mind, Karen. Now, the doors have been locked for your convenience, and my six hour presentation on obscure writing systems may commence.
Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion β enough money to revitalize entire countries β on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.
The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.
AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches before blaming the site! https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/
with or without AI, A/B testing as practiced by Silicon Valley is unethical. It ranges from quiet gaslighting to full-on Stanford prison experiments with no ethics board or informed consent.
AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches before blaming the site! https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/
Since I've been having a lot of fun adapting classical music to chiptune style, I thought maybe I should follow all the way through and make an entire asset pack for RPG-type games...? Since I'm not composing everything from scratch, it could be very affordable relative to the amount of music. This is "Torrent" by Chopin, which I think sounds very Boss Music...
#music #classicalmusic #chiptune #gamedev #rpgmaker #jrpg
sigh... Odin has once again ignored that the other dog wasn't cuddling him back until a fight broke out. This time it was 2v1 because the offended dog had a brother. (No-one was hurt.)
the face of a sweet gentle dumbass who loves everyone whether they want to be crushed and smothered by his love or not #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
sigh... Odin has once again ignored that the other dog wasn't cuddling him back until a fight broke out. This time it was 2v1 because the offended dog had a brother. (No-one was hurt.)
I bought cheap tortellini that says "Based on italian recipe. Made in Germany" capitalized exactly like that and I feel like that's a legally load-bearing lowercase i
someone asked if I'm a cryptid, haha of course not
(my gender is: "a cis woman, but no-one believes that could possibly be the case")
by the way, my discord is always receptive to new people, I just don't tend to leave the invite link lying around. https://discord.gg/sPkXrrud3K
Blue Shell Strike Force is just a random assortment of mostly-queer nerds that I started during covid lockdown in 2020 and we are still nerding at each other to this day. It is not required to be queer to join, but it is required that you be 100% chill about queerness. The average member age is higher than most discords, there is a lot of adulting going on. (I mean jobs, taxes and kids. We actually don't allow pure NSFW)
someone asked if I'm a cryptid, haha of course not
(my gender is: "a cis woman, but no-one believes that could possibly be the case")
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