A young boy that I suspect was probably a Ukrainian refugee came up and asked in English if he could pet Odin "because this is my favorite breed of dog," and then clearly began arguing with his mother in their native language that see, it's fine, he's ready for the responsibility of a dog over twice his size

then we ran into Ace; despite living in the same building, we hadn't seen him in weeks. He's grown enough to be more of a fun playmate for Odin, shown here being very Normal about it

If you'd like a small little thing to try for #NewSkillNovember , how about this tutorial for how to sew-bind a small book https://www.baum-kuchen.net/blogs/analogue-stories/how-to-make-a-simple-hand-sewn-book-a-c

my husband's at a local fighting game tournament and he's beating the guys that a year ago were his personal Red on the Mountain

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/112263723495320401

Thinking about when Odin was such a baby, even more baby than now, that he had not yet grasped the causal relationship between walking towards the park and being in the park

He HATED walkies the first several months of his life. He didn’t want to go anywhere and got scared if he lost sight of the house. I literally cried with joy the first time we took him out for a few hours without him getting upset, I think he was 9 months old

He’s completely fearless about new places now, he trusts us that everything will be okay

I have long noticed that the ancient Greeks had a compulsion to attribute everything to an inventor, often implausibly so to someone very famous; I think I have found the apotheosis of this tendency in Aristotle attributing the invention of the baby rattle to "mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist" Archytas.

I just wrote this in my own notes about Greek philosophers taking the slave underclass for granted, and I invite you to weaponize it against the deserving: "He sounds like the kind of man who expects his mother to come do his laundry at Walden Pond."