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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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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 15/09/2026

The nice thing about Fulcrum pilots, is you will never be the worst Fulcrum pilot while the VVS is still around.

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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...

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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 · 13/09/2026

…You are replying to my post that linked to the a video of the artist—a graphic designer with twenty years of experience and a LinkedIn profile with multiple quote-posts disparaging AI—working on the Illustrator file though?

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 12/09/2026

Well, it is Adobe Illustrator...

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 12/09/2026

See also: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=147... And www.emnrd.nm.gov/spd/ranger-r... for all you could ever want to know about Rio.

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LP Platow on Reels

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 10/09/2026

I was going to say something snarky but have become distracted by: I went looking for an actual answer and there are multiple competing theories expressed very confidently :'3 So perhaps nobody knows??

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 06/09/2026

I find birds (corvids in particular, although also the various parrot-shapes) really interesting in that they seem uniquely suited for anthropomorphization. Like, something about them to me *feels* expressive/inquisitive/etc. even though it is not really “human” behavior, as such.

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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

Pulling the game camera footage, it seems that earlier—before learning the new technique—we got a bit frustrated, and I love how the crow then seems to stop and look around to see if anyone noticed them crashing out. Corvids are so cool <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

Yeah. In mapping, this has been a topic for 10+ years in that i.e. Russia and China make their own maps for political reasons (as do South Korea and Japan, for data ownership ones) but I think it is assumed one reason German OEMs bought HERE Technologies was the risk of maps becoming 100% American.

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 30/08/2026

Well. A huge investment if you want to do it right, e.g. back when Mapbox inadvertently let the wisdom of crowds rename New York “Jewtropolis.” (This is at least one area where “can’t you just use AI?” is a hard sell; at the moment EMS dispatchers still have zero tolerance for hallucinated roads)

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 30/08/2026

(Mapping, as in collecting+processing+publishing your own data is a huge investment, and there are very few map companies. Mapquest was one, though as far as I know they are now an OpenStreetMap skin with a cool marketing team and without $100s of millions of capex at risk if they get sanctioned)

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 30/08/2026

This is not to say I think idiotic stunts like “Mount McKinley” or “Lake America” are clever, or adopting trolling misnomers is a “good idea.” Just that it is nothing new, surprising, or unique, although USians are perhaps only now realizing that different countries have always had different maps.

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 30/08/2026

Yes: pavement, as a physical object, has objective bounds. But what paths are mapped? Which are shown? Named? Colored to stand out? Why does a map have low-functional-class roads but not pedestrian desire paths? What landmarks appear first as you zoom in? Cartography is design, and design is human.

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 30/08/2026

Borders and names are only the most obvious example. Part of my job was user research, and I remember vividly seeing a sharp drop in net promoter score, looking into it, and seeing that it was entirely due to our maps being “wrong”—Crimea was not listed as being part of Russia.

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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 · 30/08/2026

For any mapping company that wants to internationally. At my company (I work in mapping) we have dozens of these “political views.” Being able to doublethink about Kashmir, Crimea, Cyprus, (…the Falklands, Taiwan, Kosovo, Palestine, Sahrawi, Georgia, the Spratlys…) etc. is a cost of doing business.

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 29/08/2026

Oh but fortunately it’s the British media, famously lauded for their impartial and well-reasoned reporting, particularly where anything or anyone transgressive is concerned :D

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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

Yeah there was an issue filed about this in 2014, which noted that the example given for %Z in the documentation is “(empty), UTC, EST, CST” This was solved by: deleting “EST, CST” from the example.

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 28/08/2026

Always using "%z,” which expects a number (like “+0800”) instead of a name, solves this. The truly baffling thing, really, is why Python bothers to include the option for “%Z,” which *should* do something useful but instead is a waste of your time.

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 28/08/2026

There is no list of time zone “names” Python believes in. For me, calling time.tzname returns “CEST,” Central European Standard Time. If you’re in Seattle, it returns “PST”: Pacific Standard Time, or GMT-8. If you’re in Manila, however, time.tzname returns “PST”—Philippine Standard Time, or GMT+8.

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 28/08/2026

I mean, I understand why this exists. But I need you Python people to know that the next time you make fun of Javascript truth tables, I will *slap you*.

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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

My omnipresent, slightly shabby Jack Wolfskin jacket says I’ve lived in Germany long enough for one of those But have I not replaced it because I can’t afford to or because I don’t have to care??? Am I a traveler or a traveleress??????? Better play it safe and wave me through without conversation!

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 28/08/2026

I get a lot of mileage out of being American, and also the precise kind of nonthreatening and nonconfrontational Queer where they clearly think “this person will not do crimes against citizens, and if I accidentally say something offensive I can’t tell if they might turn out to have Lawyer Money :C”

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 28/08/2026

Yeah I've had friends and coworkers who have gotten the „why have you not initialed pages 4, 8, and 37? in Germany is it completely unacceptable to make an appointment without having all pages legibly and in blue or esp. black ink geinitialt. You know I could have you deported“ treatment >.>

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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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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 26/08/2026

Oh that’s a good point too!

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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

(it’s important and healthy to set boundaries over how far you want to take things!)

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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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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 24/08/2026

What an interesting and inquisitive squirrel!

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 24/08/2026

To be clear: this “doxxing” did not happen and nobody learned about anyone’s “main account” via secret message. I blocked them for a dogshit take—posted under this “main account”—which they’ve since deleted, in order to gaslight... some audience??? I guess????? Absurd behavior, frankly >.>

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Demand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 23/08/2026

Nor do I know how to square the circle wherein while I’m not persuaded that we need to put people on blast for the content of their art, let alone enjoin them from platforms, I think it’s reasonable to not feel kinship, or want to engage, with them for doing so. But I think that of many things.

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