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Demand-Side Sheepdog

@writing.dog
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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!

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 24/09/2026
I feel like Gebel’s team went to the designer, the brief said “we’re the Greens—make us a poster” and nothing else, and everyone involved already pictured a coloring book where a bear in a cargo bike and his polycule cycle back from the farmer's market past a rainbow flag and some wind turbines :P
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 15/09/2026
Good morning, fuzzies and fuzzy associates. I think it is important to bring to your attention: a Blessed Dog. The dog’s mood is basically my own mood, but it seems I don’t have a choice about getting through Tuesday so here we are. I hope you are all doing well, though <3
Shiba inu resting on the tile floor of a supermarket. It is staring tiredly off towards the left of the image
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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp...
A screenshot of the fake forum page
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SpotGideon @shepf.art · 12/09/2026
thought I was the coolest dog at this farmer’s market, but I stand corrected
A very cool dog laying on the ground wearing sunglasses and a bandana
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 09/09/2026
his greed sickens me
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 06/09/2026
If I am not supposed to befriend and anthropomorphize the local crows and magpies, then please explain the way my camera auto-classifies them. That’s right, you can’t >:3
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 06/09/2026
The intended strategy is to pull the string, upending the cylinder. I have redesigned this several times now. Anyway it turns out you can also just flip it violently enough with your beak to fling some nuts out :P (Hooded crow: “we call this ‘beak skip’”)
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 05/09/2026
gardening is hard when you are short >.>
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/09/2026
Welcome to Bluesky.
Thanks for being patient. A team member is coming to cancel you.
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 01/09/2026
hildegard of bingen: as you know, magpies are not unlike satan also hildegard of bingen: the parrot is not useful, “and is defective because of its diverse nature” like idk lady maybe calm down a bit before boycotting parrots for being too woke
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 30/08/2026
However old you are is a good age to learn—if needed—that maps are not objective. Like dictionaries or encyclopedias, they wrap the creative process in a cloak of impartiality, but mapping is inherently political and contextual. *All* maps tell one story or another. *All* maps have a point of view.
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 29/08/2026
—but do they call us “FBI the Wife Murderer”? No! Or how about that time we tried to blackmail Martin Luther King, Jr. into killing himself? Do they call us “FBI the Civil Rights Opponent”? No! But you let in one guy who screws goats………
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 28/08/2026
What the Python 3 docs mean when they say this, is “%Z” matches the string literals ”GMT” and ”UTC,” and whatever the name of *your current time zone* is. So “MDT” worked fine when I was in Denver, and throws a “does not match format” error now that I’m home in CEST. *Why does this even exist*.
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 28/08/2026
Try these German immigration lifehacks! 1. Book an early appointment! 2. Show up on time! 3. Have your papers in order! 4. Get assigned the cute twinky guy who probably doesn't remember 9/11 and is in training and too nervous about making mistakes himself to yell at you! 5. A smile always helps!
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 28/08/2026
Back at immigration for an appointment that will either take 5 minutes or I will be arrested XD Either way, looking forward to being condescendingly gaslit about how something the Polizei told me to do, and that others have said they do, is in fact “never” done and completely unacceptable here :'3
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 26/08/2026
I think the best part of being my friend is that I am a very normal person and we can have very normal conversations about very normal things to do in the bedroom
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Dognito Hazard @d6016.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
she learned something new
post it note drawing, a wolf in glasses looking at us , and there are people in shadow in the background. "everyone is full of bones?"post it note drawing of the wolf looking a the crowd of friends in the shadows, with an ominous red aura around her
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janm (commissions open) @jankapnoc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Commission for @zoeyeen.bsky.social
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 23/08/2026
The older I get the more hardline I become on “I may not want to see it, but I do not care what art you make.” At 41, you’d really need to be drawing some basilisk of a comic that turns readers into catatonic eels, and even then I really just want you to tag it “coghazard, forced eel tf” or w/e
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 22/08/2026
Unrelated to any discourse, the thing about callouts is that 6 years of seeing them in support tickets—often from users who registered *just* to “helpfully” (let’s face it) share their hot gossip—taught me the balance of - thanks for the warning to - please, for the love of god, find a new hobby
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 20/08/2026
…If I was writing fake headlines for a dysyopian cyberpunk satire I could not do better than this.
cbsnews.com
Army unit offers 4-day pass to play Grand Theft Auto VI as reenlistment incentive
Eligible soldiers must reenlist for a minimum of two years and up to six years.
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Kane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
yeah this is definitely the thing you say when you support Ukraine and do not deny the Holodomor
From Artdecade: “muh holodomor lol which I also didn’t even deny! I denied the framing that it was an intentional famine bc there’s no evidence of that and also millions of non-Ukrainians in other regions died too but I guess who cares bc those ppl aren’t important for rallying NATO treatlerites in the imperial core
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 20/08/2026
This is fantastic, for the record. The art is charming, the writing is polished, and the VN medium is either really effective at close, intimate character studies or @toledo.bsky.social is uniquely good at writing close, intimate studies of his characters. Or both? Hey I bet it’s both!
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chmron @chmron.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The one good thing about the Campo Largo drama is that it got me to finally play Campo Largo after putting it off for a long time. I've only finished Route 1 so far, but it's a fantastic VN and this whole situation does it such a disservice - please check it out. toledo-art.itch.io/campo-largo
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Campo Largo by Toledo
Elder Hartley is fine.
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 19/08/2026
…I feel like if I had got myself in a hole, and spent most of a day there, I would not consider it virtuous or proper or even reasonable to continue frantically digging. This is gross, and is the poster’s unchecked behavior. Why is anyone doing this?
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 19/08/2026
As long as we agree the only reason it’s okay to have a deeply problematic and traumatizing line like “from my point of view, the Jedi are evil” is that another character immediately and clearly tells Anakin (and by extension us) how wrong he is. Otherwise, how could I know *what* Lucas thinks?
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Rain Dog @brushwolf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract.
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 19/08/2026
“The lds are not a regular faith” what an extremely Normal person thing to say lmfao
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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A rant: in the 21st century, translation has been one of the industries where executives have been the most open and the most eager about vampirizing human labor to train the mediocre machines meant to replace it, so it irks me to no ends when I hear people say “this is where I’m okay with AI”.
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 15/08/2026
“called for”? is that something you can just do???
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 15/08/2026
“We’re still doing pilot things up here. The computer tends to go a bit crazy when we have to divert so we’re busy arguing it into submission.” I do appreciate the flight crew handling UA2424 on its “DEN ➡️ (almost LAS ➡️ PSP ➡️ hopefully) LAS” journey <3
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 12/08/2026
Just saw the Odyssey and it was amazing except there was no brass mechanical owl???? I guess the pet crow that Cersei (sp?) had was supposed to be an homage, but come on ._. real unforced error from Nolan adapting it out of the myth Otherwise it was a great time! 9/10 (with one poured out for Bubo)
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 12/08/2026
Glen Phillips was the first concert I ever went to and I am happy to report that they are also very good as a full group! Good setlist, good energy, Glen is still a delight, and also so is Augustana, who opened for them. <3 <3 <3, is what I am saying here Good morning! :D
Grey baseball cap with an embroidered patch reading "TOAD THE WET SPROCKET" in the center, "40th Anniversary 1986" in the top left corner, and "Santa Barbara California" in the bottom right corner
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 11/08/2026
…is it “Gort: Klaatu barada nikto”?
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Indiana Coyote Rescue Center @indianacoyoterescue.org · 09/08/2026
Volunteer Nick Spends time w our famous Morty. Hasn't he grown to be the most confident boy?!? Confident enough to be a sneaky little thief 😅🤣😂 Your donations helped buy his special treats (canned cat/dog food,sardines, and canned salmon). Look at that happy boyo 😍
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 09/08/2026
Long-haul flight, which I would *normally* use for writing smut, but somehow (?) I got upgraded to business class (???) at the back of the cabin where nobody can keep glancing at my screen and what is even the point without the awkward looks :( But anyway hi everyone I hope you’re doing well :P
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 06/08/2026
…Also: between 1979 and 1981 (the birth years where one calls one’s self a liminal Non-Millennial), thunderstorms, turbulence, microbursts, etc. brought down 15 commercial airliners, killing 789 people. Seven airliners were hijacked, 5 in 1981 alone. So, you know. There is that :P
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 06/08/2026
air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime o.o and also the 59 years before it …Anyway, have this photo from the August 6th, 1926 Boston Globe. And a lovely day! Have one of those, too~
Newspaper clipping with a photograph of the US Navy airship Los Angeles, flying over a lighthouse in Boston with some houses visible in the foreground. The clipping is dated: THE BOSTON GLOBE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1926
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 04/08/2026
Captivated by this story from January 21st, 1884 (about a year before the fall of Khartoum to the Mahdi) that is written exactly like flavor text for one of those random event popups in a turn-based strategy game. “Some strong influence is at work.”
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 01/08/2026
Oh, hey. Apparently today is Colorado’s 150th birthday. Happy birthday, Colorado! I love you and the idiot dogs with which you regularly present me when I visit <3
Photograph of two coyotes standing in a colorful field of grass and flowers in Colorado.
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愛竜 (Ai-Ryu) or LD @airyu.cat · 31/07/2026
Cosplays I did at San Diego Comic-Con 2026! (not including fursuit) 1. Ellen Ripley 2. Cartoon collage w/ @relaxingdragon.bsky.social (RD) 3. Captain Quint w/ @ratpats.bsky.social as Jaws and RD as Martin Brody 4. Niffty 5. Ulala 6. Heather Mason 7. Abstracting Pomni w/ RD as Jax 8. Lily Lovebraids
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 28/07/2026
waiting for the pair of SSKs to get picked up by hydrophones in the GIUK gap so I can designate the new so sus contacts as sierra 6………7
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 25/07/2026
Cats are too obvious. I want furries to show me the dog masseur who stands on your boob and wobbles unsteadily to *really* dig their claws in before maybe fleabiting your neck for a good five or ten minutes.
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 25/07/2026
The only *possible* consent is between author and reader. Works of fiction, and characters in them, cannot do so, because *they cannot think*. A half-gnoll pirate has the exact capacity to enter contracts as the meat pie I wrote them eating for breakfast, or the tiller I wrote them holding: none.
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 25/07/2026
There are a bunch of herons out in the fields this morning and then I saw two huge ones out with the others and I am so tired my thought process went: “Are those… boss herons..?” “…Oh right, emus.”
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 25/07/2026
Helpful tip if it’s your first time traveling in Germany or—apparently—being in public and encountering The Wonder of Stairs That Move By Magic: if you get to the bottom and stop dead with your luggage in front of an actively boarding long-distance train, I am allowed to push you onto the tracks :)
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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 23/07/2026
PM is in my news recs a lot—because I’m a sucker—and now it’s *always* a two-sentence headline about a mystery they’ve “just” solved. “1500 people died when Titanic sank. New research shows what killed them.” “In 1934, William Carlos Williams ate some plums. Scientists now say they know why.” &c
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