just as a little pro-tip for being a considerate help recipient, I’ve found that IT service people are quite happy when you use the exact words “resolved, you can close the ticket”
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Access to Odin photos is a privilege contingent on not being the reason I’m regretting the internet today.
English: native; Nederlands: nog niet helemaal vloeiend; 中文:我是宝宝
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when Odin doesn’t want to get up and go outside, he’ll half heartedly brace his paws against me like “nooo”… we really had to harass him into getting up tonight, and then once the walk was over he didn’t want to come back inside. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon


just as a general interest fyi, some of the NIST timeservers have failed due to an extended power outage in Boulder, Colorado. Someone here probably has an interesting enough job to suffer knock-on effects. https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I
interestingly, the outages reported this year, or indeed the last two or three years, on that mailing list are heavily clustered in the last few weeks.
when your foul smell is an inalienable possession #linguistics


new level of A/B Hell: we watched an English-language video on youtube, and at the end, when it showed thumbnails of two of the guy's other recent videos, one had a forcibly auto-translated "Dutch" title and the other had the real title.