Tangential: young people, I am pushing 40 and I am much happier with my appearance now than when I was 20. If what you see in the mirror upsets you, rest assured you haven’t missed your chance to be cute and you still have *decades* to find the right balance of self-improvement and self-acceptance to shine.

(I’m not trans but I’m aware this is very trans-adjacent, so I want to further encourage you that I’ve seen tons of people not start on that journey until later in life and the results are still magnificent)

Dog mother status: buying dog mother shirts to broadcast my dog mother status in case anyone couldn’t tell. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

My hand is under there somewhere, trapped in eternal scritchies servitude. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

me: badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom

my husband: what

me: badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom

my husband: what??

me: snaaake, snaaake, ohhh it’s a snaaake

my husband, who is several years younger than me: okay maybe I do need to go to the ER for that concussion after all, I have no idea what you’re saying

My husband got clonked on the head by a small falling branch several hours ago and (feeling very guilty, because I was the one who wanted to go to the park even though the weather was a mess) I've been anxiously monitoring him for any sign something is wrong.

He sat down to use his computer for the first time since the accident and called out from the other room "something's wrong with my monitor! it's flashing!"

My heart fucking stopped. I was terrified I'd get out there and nothing would be wrong with the monitor at all and I'd have to call the ER. But no, it really was flashing. Reseating the cable and blowing out the dust fixed it.

I think that is the happiest I have ever been about a stupid piece of tech junk not !@#$ working.

When the TV that exists for the sole purpose of displaying its HDMI inputs has the nerve to paint “WiFi not connected” over the signal

The further adventures of Odin and his hobbity mother #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

My husband said I look like a hobbit today. I have no idea what he means and neither does my dog who is bigger than me #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Odin luxuriating in the Starbucks, waiting for tourists to stumble over him and praise him for it #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon l

I had a dream that a hundred years from now, video games were built on a teetering, telescoping tower of dependencies all the way back to the engines and drivers of today, and there were century-old bugs everyone just put up with because every attempted fix had too many side effects on newer layers.

actual helpful explanation:

There once was a guy from Chu (think "Florida") who lost his sword overboard while sailing across a river. He hurriedly marked the still-sailing boat with his dagger, so he would know where to dive later to find his sword.

"Mark a boat to find a sword" = a solution that doesn't understand the problem, not responding appropriately to changing circumstances

Tonight on translations that are almost as unhelpful as the idiom itself, “mark a boat to find a sword”:

There once was a guy on a boat
Who found out that swords do not float.
He pulled out his dagger
With native Chu swagger
And said “I’ll just make me a note.”

#translation #poetry #poem #classicalchinese

Another successful day at the park calling for an immediate shower.
#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amsterdam

Odin galloping through the fields #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amsterdam

Good morning to dog #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

News you didn’t know you needed: there is a single specific seal who seems to have dedicated their life to swimming through the Netherlands’ freshwater canals to tour cities. They’ve been at least as far inland as Utrecht and were last spotted in Amsterdam https://nos.nl/artikel/2583175-zeehond-in-amsterdam-blijkt-dezelfde-als-die-in-utrecht-rondzwom