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!

Screenshot of a Cohost.org post, reading: Put another way: nothing but respect for Alan Turing, but the idea of a “Turing test” as it is generally defined is pointless and silly given how good human beings are at finding patterns where none exist. It’s absolutely buck wild that anyone ever thought: “how would we know if a machine was intelligent?” and concluded any meaningful answer could come from: “is it perceived to display intelligence by a member of the same species that, on the regular, also perceives the face of religious figures in toast?”
Screenshot from the video game Cold Waters, showing the track of two antisubmarine rockets, circling around a Whiskey-class submarine, before one breaks off in a straight line and heads for a humpback whale.
Screenshot from the submarine simulation Cold Waters, showing a tactical plot of four Soviet landing ships, two destroyers and a frigate. A fishing trawler is crossing through the fleet as it heads southward.
Screenshot from the game Cold Waters, showing a fishing ship, with a waterfall display in the bottom right identifying the hydrophone lines as matching a fishing trawler in the recognition database.
Screenshot of a post from Twitter user @OSINTTechnical, with an arrow pointing to Jam, Iran, and the caption "Reportedly launched from the Jam area"
Screenshot of Wikipedia article "List of animals ground through a sieve," which notes "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it"
Photograph of a tattooed arm. The primary tattoo is a representation of the solar system map from the Pioneer probe, with the planet’s distance encoded in binary.
Badge of a coyote lady with red hair and glassed. The badge is labeled “Taisiya” in Cyrillic
Excerpt from “Old Man Coyote Understands,” by Thornton W. Burgess (1927)
Excerpt from “Getting Acquainted," by Thornton W. Burgess (1927)
Newspaper clipping: DEATH OF AN AGED LADY.— Mrs. Barbara Fritchie, a highly esteemed lady, died at her residence in this city on last Friday night at the advanced age of 96 years and 15 days. She was a native of Lancaster City, Pa, and was born a British subject, and lived through all the gloriy and prosperity of her country and died when traitors are seeking to destroy its Government.
Photo of a blue merle Australian Shepherd dog sitting on the tile floor of a store. Their head is raised, and their expression is very stoic.
Screenshot of Wikipedia, with “Pride of the American Side” highlighted: Fitzgerald was a record-setting workhorse, often beating her own milestones.[5] The vessel's record load for a single trip was 27,402 long tons (30,690 short tons; 27,842 t) in 1969.[5] For 17 years, Fitzgerald carried taconite from Minnesota's Iron Range mines near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Toledo, and other ports. She set seasonal haul records six different times.[6] Her nicknames included "Fitz", "Pride of the American Side",[24] "Mighty Fitz", "Toledo Express",[25] "Big Fitz",[26] and the "Titanic of the Great Lakes".[27] Loading Fitzgerald with taconite pellets took about four and a half hours while unloading took around 14 hours. A round trip between Superior, Wisconsin, and Detroit, Michigan, usually took her five days and she averaged 47 similar trips per season.[28] The vessel's usual route was between Superior, Wisconsin, and Toledo, Ohio, although her port of
Gif of someone grabbing a coyote by putting their hand in its muzzle and shaking it back and forth.
Gif of a coyote crossing a street. It looks both ways, then steps off, trips, and faceplants before picking itself up and trotting off.
Google Street View screenshot of a long, straight road with a turnoff towards the left. A brown sign marks “Combo Waterhole Conservation Park"
James Spellsey stated: I am a Iabouring man, at present residing in the Kynuna Union Camp: I have been there since last Monday: I came from a camp three miles down the river; was there Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: I came from Lucknow by Llanrheidol; I camped above the town through the fence; Crimmins went with me to the the three-mile camp; I have a horse; when we went to the camp Highland was there, and five or six or eight others; I know Frenchy by sight; I saw him come from the direction of Kynuna on Saturday evening: he was riding: I comped in a fly with Crimmins; I went to bed not later then nine; when I went to bed there was somebody at the fire; I do not know who nor how many; Crimmins was in the fly when I went to bed; I went to sleep: I woke up during the night: I did not see anyone; it was not raining: my mate was in bed; I went to sleep and woke up at daylight; Crimmins was there and no one else; I got up and went to the fire; a few moments after I saw Frenchy coming towards the fire; it had been raining before and did so afterwards; I had breakfast and remained in the camp till dinner; I left immediately after dinner; I do not know of anyone calling at the camp between sundown on Saturday and sunrise on Sunday; I had no quarrel with Frenchy, nor do I know of anyone else having any: I believe Frenchy committed suicide; I do not know if he was despondent; I have no settled home.
A man was found dead at the union camp, twenty-five miles from Dagworth, yesterday, death having been caused by a bullet wound. The unionists assert that he committed suicide. The Police Magistrate and a doctor have gone to Kynuna to investigate the matter, and Inspector Dillon and the police have also gone out. Mr. R. Macpherson and others are endeavouring to track the men. The shed was only partially burnt. HUGHENDEN, September 3. The police are patrolling the roads towards Winton in search of the Dagworth incendiaries.
THE SHEARING DISPUTE ATTEMPTED BURNING OF DAGWORTH SHED Sixteen Armed Men. Forty Shots Exchanged. Affairs in the Weet have taken a serious turn—so serious in fact as to justify the statement recently made in the House by the Calonial Secretary bao the strike had developed into an insurrection. At about 8 o'clock last night Mr. Tozer received a wire from the Police Magistrate at Winton stating that Dagworth sbed bad been burnt down by about sixteen armed men. Forty shots were fired. One constable was present at the time, as well as the three brothers Macpherson (owners) and three station hands. Later information was received by Mr. Tozer at 9.30 last night giving details of the affair. This wire stated that at about 12.30 a.m. on Sunday the constable and a station hand named Tomlin were on duty guarding the shed. The first intimation they had of any attack was about a docen shots fired through the shed. This woke the Macphersons and the others. The firing then continued, both sides engaging in it for about tweaty minutes. While this was going on oue of the unionists sneaked up under cover of the fire of his comrades and set fire to the shed. The constable and the station hands kept firing at the party, and when this ceased it was not known whether any one was wounded.
Sign in the stairwell of a German immigration office directing people: Übergang zu M1/A4 Transition to M1/A4 Übergang zu F1/A2 Transition to F1/A2
Photograph of a blue merle tricolor Australian Shepherd, walking on a sidewalk made of paving stones