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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Bystanders report traffic blocked by fluffy baby. Just the biggest fluffiest baby they have ever seen. No one wants to ask him to stop rolling around and make way for them to pass

Odin the Newfie lying athwart the sidewalk, fluffily

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 3h

We ran into Odin’s favorite hobo. He got a little weepy at how excited Odin was to see him. “Everyone else in this city says, ugh it’s him again, but at least *someone* here likes me.” I know perfectly well he’s an obnoxious alcoholic with an anger problem who gets thrown out of shelters. But […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 4h

He is listening to One Winged Angel

Odin the Newfie sitting on my bed next to my iPad, giving me a dramatic goth Look in the morning sun

Song got too scary, he’s sad now

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15h

My reward for escaping The Hague Dimension and getting home substantially later than planned, in the rain, is the abounding love and relief of a creature that I’m told was curled up in bed with my husband whimpering because mommy missed her bedtime I’m […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Odin the Newfie seconds before he leapt at me because he still hadn’t gotten all the love out of his system

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16h

I have once again had the sort of day where, unintentionally and through no fault of my own, I find myself stuck in The Hague

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17h

I heard a young man in a poorly lit back alley ask a young woman “do you want to feed ducks for two weeks, and get paid for it?” This is the first time a young man’s proposition has ever caught my attention.

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20h

The Delft train station has a design flaw: there’s a big glass wall along a coffee and seating area, there’s a rotating door in the glass wall to exit to the plaza, and then right next to it, multiple normal non-rotating glass doors that look like perfectly normal exits you’re supposed to use […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Thinking about this again as the train stops at Schiphol and an exhausted stewardess collapses into the seat across from me while three young boys swing their suitcases around dangerously taking selfies of their first trip to another country

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The Funny Number Paradox states that there is no least funny number, because while the theory informs us that the least funny number is 68, that actually makes it incredibly funny

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

My husband got a new computer game that kept crashing. It turns out that the issue was that it has a system to dynamically drop the resolution and use AI upscaling to compensate when the video card can’t keep up, and this defaults to on. But… if you do in fact have a high-end video card that can […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Current Albert Heijn supply chain crisis level: the police are publicly “inviting” Albert Heijn to actually call them about this criminal hacker that they say stole the national cucumber reserves They forgot to call the police.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Nintended solution #mariokart

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Flabbergasted by this guy on Mario Kart whose display name is just “Mike”, his character is just Mario, and his player sticker badge is the default one. And he’s quite good at the game. A man whose gender truly is Just A Guy

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

When Odin was two months old, we caught him chewing on an HDMI cable. We told him to stop and he never chewed on it, or any other cable, ever again. (He's remarkably agreeable about this sort of thing.) And I've been re-patching it with more electrical tape every few months for almost three […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

People ask me what I miss about the United States. This, this is what I miss. The cold yet sunlit rocky reaches of my childhood home, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, proud and tall in her autumn raiment. And also goldfish crackers www.youtube.com/watch?v=54U1kdfH_Sk

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Well I guess I'm getting an early start on #NewSkillNovember by studying for an exam that, unfortunately, borrows a terrible idea from the Americans: a test to prove I'm really Dutch by answering a bunch of inane trivia questions that many native Dutch people would get wrong or vehemently […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

how it started / how it’s going I am so proud of my noble son Odin #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

baby Odin the Newfie standing nobly astride the yard

big boy Odin standing nobly astride the yard

me holding baby Odin the day we met

me sitting next to Odin. he’s bigger than me now and he doesn’t know that

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I'm not impressed with the Dutch government website for signing up for the tests you need to become a citizen. It's a confusing labyrinth of unclear information, one of the tests that is absolutely mandatory is simply not scheduled at all anywhere in the country forever, and now that I'm signed […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Behold! I can make a power drill magically begin maintenance tasks outside my window at will [I begin Chinese listening exercises]

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

so, Albert Heijn, one of the main Dutch grocery chains, has had a major IT disruption because of some sort of ransomware attack, and this has caused stores to not get deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables Some passerby was quoted on the news as saying to chin up and stop whining because […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Everyone, I have a suggestion: New Skill November. #NewSkillNovember

NEW SKILL NOVEMBER

[an art nouveau painting in autumn colors of a woman playing the harp]

LEARN A NEW SKILL OR REBUILD AN OLD ONE; THE ONLY RULE: DO IT YOURSELF, DO NOT USE AI

Sketching, knitting, whittling, a musical instrument, a foreign language, a tricky video game, cooking, weaving, changing oil, riding a bike, painting, pixel art, website design, digital image editing, bookbinding, calligraphy, identifying mushrooms, embroidery, soldering, that one thing you've been putting off

Do the hard part yourself, no matter how imperfect it feels. Learn and internalize how it really works. Consult guides written by human experts, and ask your fellow human beings for help. Take pride in knowledge and abilities that are an intrinsic part of your existence and not dependent on renting from corporations.

art by Charles Louis Hinton for a November issue of Harper's Bazaar, 1896
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Everyone, I have a suggestion: New Skill November. #NewSkillNovember

NEW SKILL NOVEMBER

[an art nouveau painting in autumn colors of a woman playing the harp]

LEARN A NEW SKILL OR REBUILD AN OLD ONE; THE ONLY RULE: DO IT YOURSELF, DO NOT USE AI

Sketching, knitting, whittling, a musical instrument, a foreign language, a tricky video game, cooking, weaving, changing oil, riding a bike, painting, pixel art, website design, digital image editing, bookbinding, calligraphy, identifying mushrooms, embroidery, soldering, that one thing you've been putting off

Do the hard part yourself, no matter how imperfect it feels. Learn and internalize how it really works. Consult guides written by human experts, and ask your fellow human beings for help. Take pride in knowledge and abilities that are an intrinsic part of your existence and not dependent on renting from corporations.

art by Charles Louis Hinton for a November issue of Harper's Bazaar, 1896
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I collect public domain images of women reading or writing, btw. If you ever want to cheer me up, dig out an obscure old engraving of a woman with a book

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xssfox (crossy) @xssfox.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Lol, I think someone managed to nab the patreon name "oauth2" so now when you visit www.patreon.com/oauth2/documentation you get some random user

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

hey, could the Youtube product manager who decided that when a Dutch household puts on a video from the Dutch national news, the audio should automatically be replaced with a TTS voice reading a machine-generated English translation, come meet me in the darkest corner of the Amsterdamse Bos […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

“Based on a sudden flurry of comments, someone must have boosted this old post. Was it @catsalad ? It was catsalad.”

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Odin is looking for Mila… but will we find her?

Odin the Newfie looking around sadly in a sunny field

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Just had a conversation with peers that was like: "my friend says github's changed their SSH key fingerprint again and it's generating scary warnings you have to ignore" "oh? it hasn't changed for me" "or me" "can't find any documentation on them having changed it since 2023" "... uh-oh." […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

So, this silly recall is real, and it’s because the sand filling is contaminated with asbestos. How did I verify that? well, not simply by going to gov.uk like the announcement says! The front page of gov.uk does not have a header for “recalls”, “product […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A British product recall notice featuring plush toy gnomes that are apparently marketed as “Halloween Gonks.” It says to check gov.uk for details

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

completely concur: the United States is a failed civilization except for Nyquil. If you can just buy Nyquil because you’re in a situation that would be improved by some Nyquil, and it’s never occurred to you that it could be otherwise, you have no idea how lucky you are […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Odin watching EVO with daddy

Odin the Newfie sitting next to my husband, both watching a Street Fighter match intently

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"What, then, of this sneering claim advanced by the hecklers, by the detractors of philosophy and the enemies of wisdom, mere boys all of them, what of this claim they shout, that brevity is the soul of wit? This is my reply to them, if only they will fall silent long enough to hear: the purpose […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

the actual main difference between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese philosophy, visualized #philosophy

(LONG ALT TEXT WARNING) two columns of text, one of which is several times longer than the other:

First column: “Whom, then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties? First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day-by-day, who possess a judgment which is accurate in meeting accusations as they arise and rarely misses the expeditious course of action; next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all with whom they associate, tolerating easily and good-naturedly what is unpleasant or offensive in others and being themselves as agreeable as it is possible to be; furthermore, those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not unduly overcome by their misfortunes, bearing up under them bravely and in a manner worthy of our common nature; finally, and most important of all, those who are not spoiled by successes and do not desert their true selves and become arrogant, but hold their ground steadfastly as intelligent people, not rejoicing in the good things which have come to them through chance rather than those which through their own nature and intelligence are theirs from birth.” – Isocrates, “Panathenaicus”

Second column: “If someone marries for virtue over beauty, would do anything for their parents, would give their life for their country, is a good friend and trustworthy, but is uneducated – actually, they sound quite educated to me.” — Zixia, “The Analects of Confucius”

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

the actual main difference between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese philosophy, visualized #philosophy

(LONG ALT TEXT WARNING) two columns of text, one of which is several times longer than the other:

First column: “Whom, then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties? First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day-by-day, who possess a judgment which is accurate in meeting accusations as they arise and rarely misses the expeditious course of action; next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all with whom they associate, tolerating easily and good-naturedly what is unpleasant or offensive in others and being themselves as agreeable as it is possible to be; furthermore, those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not unduly overcome by their misfortunes, bearing up under them bravely and in a manner worthy of our common nature; finally, and most important of all, those who are not spoiled by successes and do not desert their true selves and become arrogant, but hold their ground steadfastly as intelligent people, not rejoicing in the good things which have come to them through chance rather than those which through their own nature and intelligence are theirs from birth.” – Isocrates, “Panathenaicus”

Second column: “If someone marries for virtue over beauty, would do anything for their parents, would give their life for their country, is a good friend and trustworthy, but is uneducated – actually, they sound quite educated to me.” — Zixia, “The Analects of Confucius”

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The steakhouse said Odin could come in, and he was a very good boy who did not steal anyone's steak even though his mouth is above table level and there's absolutely nothing anyone could do to stop him

Odin the Newfie sitting politely in a rustic cabin-styled restaurant, not stealing a single steak

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I don’t like this negative pattern of social media interaction: Post: if you want to x, you can just x! I encourage you to embrace any desires you may have to x and just get started! It’s not as hard as you fear! You don’t need a permission slip to x! 💖 Reply, received in a hundredfold […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

"Socrates," answered Euthydemus, "you may rest assured that I fully appreciate the importance of knowing oneself. But where should the process of self-examination begin? I look to you for a statement, please." Socrates: [another fucking question]

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Me, about to miss a knockout rally threshold, out loud: “Oh, I’m dead — there’s no way I — unless — HOLY $&@# THAT WORKED?!” #mariokart

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Europeans never met a map they couldn’t fuck up even worse

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Who could say no to this face? Me, because if I didn’t overcome Odin’s god-tier cuteness several times a day, I’d never get to eat my own food again [user was slimed while typing this post]

Odin the Newfie sweetly and politely begging for mommy’s gyoza, drooling prodigiously

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

You can just be 38 and decide to start grinding a skill. They can’t stop you #fountainpen #handwriting #cursive

Handwritten cursive, the same message twice, first in mature adult handwriting and then again in slightly wobbly childish writing:

I maxed out my right-handed writing stat, so I prestiged as a left-handed fountain pen user.

(The footer of the notebook page incidentally says “everything is possible”)

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

without Halloween and Thanksgiving to put up even token resistance, Christmas flavored food has already invaded Dutch grocery stores

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

today’s Good Deed was helping a tourist on the tram discover she was en route to the suburbs and not Amsterdam city center

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I browsed the prompt lists that go around this time of year (prompts for artists! for ARTISTS!) to find some prompts that are suitable for depicting my own characters. This one's "in the clouds", starring Payl, whose dad really gets so worked up about the […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

watercolor sketch styled like an old-fashioned aviation promotional poster; Payl, a spunky young lady with goggles and braids, is covered in oil stains and brandishing a wrench. The text reads:

Deathtrap Contraption Airlines - kill count so far: 0 - "Papa worries too much"

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I think a moderator at mastodon dot social had the very good idea to construct a feed that’s just replies from their instance to the fediverse’s top one hundred most illustrious women. Because I won’t even bother reporting a low-grade troll and yet their account is nuked an hour after I block […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I redid an old pencil sketch of the main cast of GITT Act 1 in glorious full color blockination 0xabad1dea.itch.io/glory-in-the-thu… #gloryinthethunder

a 3D lego render of six characters with short descriptions:

Ravelin: time crime gremlin

Emerlian: the littlest nationalist

Aramaz: god with a drinking problem

Serriden: priestess with a "god with a drinking problem" problem

Izael: girl who is SERIOUSLY going to throw the next boy, girl or eldritch entity who asks her out into the fucking VOLCANO

Meilai: are volcanoes really so bad, though...?

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Help the Pope safeguard our humanity today, read a queer atheist woman's completely 100% handmade passion project 0xabad1dea.itch.io/glory-in-the-thu… #gloryinthethunder #fiction #lgbtq

Lord of the Rings elf and dwarf meme:

Never thought I'd be fighting side-by-side with the Pope.

How about side by side in an alliance of artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity?

Aye, my art's gonna be queer as fuck thoughb

cover image for glory in the thunder act 1: The goddess of time has made the biggest mistake in the history of the world. [lego diorama of Ravelin seeming to accidentally drop Izael into an active volcano]

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

good evening to the South Korean tourists who were getting the maximum Amsterdam experience by Blazing It on a public bench in their pajamas at 10:30 at night. They loved Odin

abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

My favorite professor from university just emailed me out of the blue to ask how I was doing :neodog_melt_sob_heart: to be clear I graduated 16 years ago.