Proud owner of Miez (born 2013)

and previous owner of Koda and Lilly (2013&2021)

M&K ended up fighting all the time. I then took in L as a new playmate for Koda. Luckily K&L found a new home with friends

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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Nah it’s the other way around. Tge Ai powered enshittification of the site lead me to nuke all my posts. Don’t want to give them any traffic anymore.

    I don’t want to upload pics to a site where I have zero control though. I noticed that when I upload a pic here and delete it, it is just “hidden” but still fully accessible via the direct url.

    I honestly don’t know if I’ll continue posting at all anywhere, as it is quite the effort doing dual language posts, and all sites are sold off or go to shit otherwise.



  • I almost forgot: They also made extremely shitty decisions like not allowing custom tags anymore and a combination of shitty content moderation and people refusing to tag politic posts as such plus everything without any messages from the non existent dev team lead to a mass exodus. Even their discord server shut down where they organized community events like secret santa and live get togethers. They then had to lower the threshold for posts to reach the front page to 50 points. Posts there now get a few hundred upvotes, highlighting the downsizing from tens of thousands of points.












  • Phonetic is [ˈpʏŋktçən]. It consists of two parts Pünkt-chen.

    The “ü” sound really doesn’t exist in English. If you know any french, the u in ‘tu’ (french for ‘you’) is pronounced similarily.

    I’m guessing the ‘nkt’ is the hardest part to pronounce since you really have to have each letter audible.

    ‘ch’ is like a cats hissing sound.

    ‘en’ is pronounced the same way as ending without the ding.

    Translation: Little dot/dots due to her face markings. ‘Punkt’ means ‘dot’, and if we wanna make a smaller version of a word (and/or cuter), a ‘u’ becomes an ‘ü’ (‘a’ becomes ‘ä’, ‘o’ becomes ‘ö’), and the ending -chen is added.

    E.g. Haar (hair) becomes Härchen, the ä is pronounced the same as the a in man, but long. In contrast, Herrchen (as in owner of a pet) is pronounced basically the same but with a small short vocal and a sharply pronounced r.

    Hope that helps.

    Edit: If you know how to pronounce a/o/u, you already know what your lips must do for ä/ö/ü. However the tongue and lower jar make for a different sound.