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Smallish brindle hound lying on her back on the couch, front paws in the air mantis-style, blissed out.

Meanwhile, this one stole one of Silas's Rimadyl pills and had a nice day being on drugs. She too is the best and we love her all to pieces.

Close up photo of the face of a large-noggined dopey mastiff/Pyrenees mix, what a good dog.

We had a scare this week with Silas while he was away at dog camp. He seems to be on the mend thanks to some great vets in Plains PA and here at home. It's the first time @ruinista.bsky.social and I truly thought we could lose him and it was devastating. One of the best, he is.

How does someone with negative charisma and nothing interesting to say get... oh right, never mind! Perhaps he is the Joe Rogan of the "left."

Sign reading: PLEASE THROW EMPTY BOTTLES OF VANILLA EXTRACT INTO THE TRASH, NOT INTO THE TOILET THANK YOU! -STORE MANAGEMENT

New winner in the ongoing ""This sign exists for a reason" competition.

Medium brindle hound and large beige mastiff mix, photographed from behind, standing in a field and looking off at something in the middle distance. They could also be making plans for middle of the night dead drops.

Photos of Silas and Hennie at dog camp really make our hearts swell. They are best buds, even far away from their humans' eyes.

Wonderful race, brilliant riding by PFP, great performances from Le Court, Squiban. Chapeau!

YouTube video by Lanterne Rouge Ferrand-Prevot SCARY Performance on Col du Madeleine | Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2025 Stage 8

Tour de France Femmes so much more exciting and emotionally engaging than the men’s race yet again, wider field of competition and more ‘combative’ as the French say, another nailbiter final stage. Wonderful to see giant crowds this year. youtu.be/D90TbFap57g?...

Little Gray Books!

The Historico-Anthropological Museum of Orbis Tertius

I sort of? liked? Gravity's Rainbow but hated and did not finish M & D back in my hubristic 20s. It's torture. Save yourself, man!

Or go ahead and do yourself in and read Mason & Dixon.

2666 by Roberto Bolaño is big and perhaps approaching Big. Or: Bleak House and tell me how it is so I can stop telling people I'm about to read it.

Deadwood
Fleabag
Station Eleven
Ted Lasso (imperfect but trying to something shows don't usually try: model kindness)

That would be the most pedantic bot indeed. Auto-generated "AC-tually what you're describing is a typeface not a font" for every mispeak.

Amen! (I am astounded at your memory, Joshua!)

How is it that the richest man on earth can share this kind of openly white supremacist and misogynistic trash and it be met with a shrug by the entire US elite?

This is a 🧵of things that feel awesome. Add your own.

The pleasure of taking off constricting shoes & clothing at the end of a day.

When the cat falls asleep in a bagel on your hip and you can feel the moment it goes completely boneless.

When a toddler uses you as trusted steadying furniture.

Queen of the harvest!

It's the cutest thing.

This is a dog who made a bed for herself in the flowers of the first apartment we brought her home to, just a wiry all-legs pup.

Small brindle hound lying in a garden in the sunshine living her best life.

We've got one too!

Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.

In Bikecentennial year 1976, Connie Carpenter-Phinney won US cycling championship, repeated in 1977 & 1979, & won first Olympic gold medal 1984:
In 1977, she declared: "“More women should get into bicycle racing”
#tdff #bikesky #bicycle
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This is what I remember summer nights in the East Village be like in my early 20s. Just the best, hanging out.

I love that it was too hard to draw stereoscopic cartoon images, so the people behind the Viewmaster just commissioned little hand-sculpted dioramas of Disney/Looney Tunes/Hanna-Barbera cartoon scenes instead.

Franceso Moser and Eddy Mercxk racing in a distorted image that makes their bikes look tiny.

He looks like this!

What's up with Campanearts's bike setup? His frame looks too small, or at least his saddle is too low. It's odd, right? #tdf2025

A red tomato with many little curves, atop a wooden post, daintily nibbled down by a rogue squirrel.

Squirrels have been plucking tomatoes off their vines in our home garden, but this one takes the cake: a plucked tomato, brought up a 4 ft post and nibbled on in plain sight.

Haha!

Squirrels are bastards.