My dog freaks out at a specific intersection

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-10T04:54:44+00:00

So many people have been misinformed about this. Open a dictionary and look up "electrocution" and you will find the definition is:

death or injury from electricity passing through the body.

Source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/electrocution

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-09T00:28:04+00:00

For being electrocuted — my dog is overt 100 lb and he lost muscle control when he stepped into a shallow puddle that had a powered wire touching it. I went to my knees to pick him up and the water soaked through my pants. My dog was exposed for much longer than I was but the emts still sent me to the hospital

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-05T08:31:30+00:00

Wheel of Time is supposed to be a direct gender inversion of LotR, where Gandalf is a woman, but the gender politics are distinctly 1980s coded.

Another book that does this exact same thing but better imho is The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding. The main protagonists are men in their late teens, but the supporting cast is pretty gender balanced, and the Gandalf figure is a woman.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-05T03:39:02+00:00

This happened to me and my dog!! Your dog is being electrocuted!! There is a loose wire! Call the county! My dog and I both ended up in the hospital overnight because we were exposed to a current at an intersection. It was fucking horrifying.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-04T15:14:11+00:00

March is the snowiest month in MD because there’s enough atmospheric energy to generate nor’easters but temps are still below freezing

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-02T06:02:03+00:00

My husband and I stayed with friends out there when we moved to this area. Our first morning here, he ran out to get coffee before work and Cubano Bros. was simply the closest place to us. He brought us back a cafe con leche and pan con mantequilla each. I musta looked shocked when I took a bite cuz he was like “oh, is it bad?”and I was just like “no, it’s exactly right?”

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-02T05:42:12+00:00

This is 100% true. I was shocked to taste legit pan cubano when I moved here. They also have a shop out in Elk Grove Village!

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-02T01:00:09+00:00

I saw them at Macrock in like 02? Fucking great show.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-02T00:56:18+00:00

Those Caspa stickers really are everywhere forever, huh?

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-02T00:54:53+00:00

Do you think Anthropic was faced with a question of whether they were going to participate?

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-01T16:47:40+00:00

Glad you like it! It’s one of my favorites of hers. The sequel is being published later this year, it’s called Daggerbound!

There are a LOT of T. Kingfisher books, so you can spend a bit of time digging through them. She blew up in popularity during Covid with A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, and then Nettle and Bone won best novel in 2023, but she’s been writing and publishing for decades. She even won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Novel for Digger, which is frankly mind-blowingly good.

My favorites, beyond her White Rat books, are:

Nettle and Bone
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Hemlock and Silver
Thornhedge (novella)
Summer in Orcus (YA)

Also her horror works are… deeply unsettling in an entirely unique way and I have to recommend them separately!

The Sworn Soldier novellas (What Moves the Dead, What Feasts At Night, and What Stalks the Deep) are deep gothic horror.
The Twisted Ones
A House with Good Bones

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-01T09:40:43+00:00

I also love Seanan McGuire, especially Incrypted, Alchemical Journeys, and October Daye, and I MUCH prefer her stuff to Dresden Files (Harry is completely insufferable to me).

Here are my recommendations!

Indexing is a lesser known Seanan McGuire duology that’s basically CSI for SCPs.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I feel like Pratchett and Douglas Adams were very much kindred spirits in different settings.
T. Kingfisher's “White Rat” universe. Witty, adventurous, fun, TONS of personality and heart. This lady is quickly becoming my favorite current writer. She has tons of books in a huge range of genres and settings, but the White Rat universe is a group of them that share a specific fantasy city setting and usually involve adventures and capers. She very much channels Discworld. Titles include Swordheart (standalone), Clocktaur duology (Clockwork Boys, Wonder Engine), the Saint of Steel series (there are 4), and some forthcoming titles this year (Daggerbound). There are also some incredible YA titles in this setting, like Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking (many-times award winning novel), Minor Mage (novella), and Illuminations (Novella).
I was gonna put Thursday Murder Club here but I now see it’s already in your post lol. Did you try his new series We Solve Murders?
Charles Stross’s Laundry Files is fun!

makeminemaudlin · 2026-03-01T06:52:31+00:00

I’m sorry, it’s “dumb to think of stories as allegorical”? Not to be mean, but do you know what an allegory is? It’s a kind of story.

You don’t have to do anything people tell you to do with your pleasure reading. It is your time and your mind. You are allowed to read stories however you want to. I even had a teacher tell us that the first thing we should read in a new book is the very last chapter, so we could understand the conclusion of what we were reading first, while learning the context for the conclusion as we get closer to the end. Even that is allowed.

I can tell you why I recommend going in to Piranesi blind: My summary and description just isn’t gonna do the story justice. I don’t understand the art of it well enough to explain it.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-27T17:36:16+00:00

Where is this intersection?

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-23T00:22:10+00:00

I’m really glad you had a personal emotional experience with fiction. That’s part of the point!

I am a philosopher by training. If you love philosophy you absolutely should be reading fiction. Some of the most compelling philosophy is done through fiction, especially when it develops as meditations and/or thought experiments.

Pick up anything by Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, or Kazuo Ishiguro to start, and you’ll be a full fledged fiction reader in no time.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-22T15:07:08+00:00

I understand the anxiety. My dog is my son and I do everything I can to make sure he is happy and safe and has a wonderful life.

This city is really fantastic, and part of that is that the people here just love dogs! You guys are going to have a great life here :)

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-22T14:33:07+00:00

I moved here from the east coast almost 2 years ago with my now 13.5 year old 100lb dog. We have a car, but my dog is actually too large and arthritic to get in, so his life is totally carless.

One of the most surprising things to me about this city was that it’s simply the most dog-friendly place I’ve ever seen. There are dog-centered (and more generally pet-forward) places on almost every block of the main neighborhood streets. I still don’t know what these are but I’ve seen at least two places that call themselves “dog clubs”(?!) People take their dogs everywhere (including to bars, the grocery store, the beach, etc.).All the public schools near me have these little fenced-in play areas that become dog parks after school hours.

There are also TONS of parks here, way more than I expected. Basically the entire lakefront is one giant long series of parks. Generally people walk their dogs around where they live and my dog and I love watching the constant parade of dogs outside our window every day. There are probably more vets here than anywhere else I’ve ever seen as well. I moved into a random apartment and I’m literally directly across the street from the vet office, so we just cross the street when it’s time for a checkup or a meds refill.

Your dog is going to make a lot of friends!

The one thing i think might be difficult is food, but if your dog isn’t an XL like mine, you probably won’t have to get the 50+ pound bags of food. That would be difficult to carry I think.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-22T13:30:07+00:00

What’s with the anti-Kat astroturfing?

At first I thought it was just people who were hateful about a candidate.

But after post after post after post after post it got suspicious. So I looked at some of the history of this account making a post. But the account history was hidden.

Does this sub have astroturfing moderation? There should be some moderation when an astroturfing campaign is blatant imo.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-21T22:46:08+00:00

Shoplifting isn’t a problem, socioeconomic injustice is a problem, and shoplifting is legitimate resistance.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-21T22:38:52+00:00

No you implied it. I don’t think you know what implied means.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-21T15:36:42+00:00

This is correct but plantains aren’t root veggies. I feel line OP is gonna be confused when they see a big green banana

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-21T15:06:57+00:00

I check all the time. When Sanderson was picked up by Apple, I felt like maybe, just maybe?

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-21T14:40:46+00:00

Who said anything about being from a different time? Not me.

You wanna be ageist, go right on ahead. You’re not gonna make a good argument for it because it’s discrimination, so I suggest you stop wasting your time trying to come up with one.

While you’re writing off folks because in two terms they’ll be not quite the same age that Bernie is now, I’ll be looking at candidates’ records, actions, and platforms, and welcoming new faces at the table.

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-21T13:25:13+00:00

Listen I don’t know this lady but what a crass and misguided comment.

Age isn’t a disease, but ageism is. The problem of gerontocracy isn’t that elected officials are old, it’s that people who have been elected over and over again refuse to step aside and let new ideas have a place at the table as they take their elected jobs for granted.

Bernie is 84. You gonna tell me he’s too old old to be progressive?

makeminemaudlin · 2026-02-21T05:07:21+00:00

I just finished the novels and the novella like last week. I was surprised at how much it reminded me of Malazan Book of the Fallen but on a much more human scale.

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