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three black dogs with glowing eyes are standing next to each other with their mouths open Alt: A three-headed hell-hound growling. The insides of their mouths are glowing like fire. I imagine when they lift a leg they're pissing acid, or napalm or something hellish like that.

They're all good dogs, SM!

Wow! Look at that green shoot! Will the government take credit for this growth industry?

Our old cat used to do that - of course he'd pop outside and walk across the dewy lawn before he put his cold, wet feet on my snoozing face.

I actually don't think there's anything more beautiful than a group of dorks with varying flavors of neurodivergence pretending to be a group of equally varied little freaks who wander the countryside seeking adventure and justice for a few hours a week.

Australia: let’s roll out so much rooftop solar you can have free power during the day
NZ: businesses are closing down because they can’t afford power so we’re building a one billion dollar fossil fuel terminal so we can keep not having free power

Traditional Danish sewing kit box. True story: this one time, I opened the sewing kit, and some weirdo had left it full of butter cookies!

Traditionally, crafting materials are stored in a large pile of these

Ohm y gosh!

Especially once the dementia kicks in...

Sovereign objects have to be removed under Admiralty Law - in the sickbay of a naval vessel outside the 12 mile limit...

Such a rort! I've had three dogs, one cat, two boys and one mother-in-law over the past 24 years in our house. The pets combined did less damage over the years than any of the others alone!
Nobody give the landlords the idea of charging a sprog bond!

Peter Jackson and the Three Investigators. Three feisty tweens (all mo-capped by Andy Serkis) work their way through the first half of a 120-page kids mystery novel over the course of three 290-minute movies. The director's cut takes these to 340 minutes each.

Just so we're all totally clear here. Everyone has to pay more because this government scrapped projects for electrification, ignored advice from the sector on transitioning off gas, and wants to build a terminal that is unlikely to be usable for $1 billion plus - money they said we didn't have.

<Extreme Michael Stipe voice>
🎶If you believe
Elon will get to the moon
(get to the moon)
I've got a bridge
That I can sell you real soon
(Sell to you soon)

"Your pets may not necessarily love it when you kiss and hug them"

Yeah well I may not necessarily love picking up poop so I guess we're all gonna have to make some sacrifices.

An unseasonably foggy morning at the park

This is the middle of summer?

Two small dogs on a double-headed leash

But mine weigh 15kg together, sopping wet, so...

I used to use a retractable lead for my beasties, but they just spent all the time at max stretch so I switched back to a normal one.

word of the day for February 8, 2026 by Oxford English Dictionary Polydoggery noun The keeping of a number of dogs

some of you on here

The whole entire point of a hamburger is that it doesn't have bones in it! Let alone an entire femur.

A pizza with pulled pork, chorizo, pepperoni, and bacon on it.

The Ankh-Fourpork Pizza (pulled pork, chorizo, pepperoni, and bacon) 🍕🍽️🍜

Don’t anyone show this to Susan or I’m never gonna be allowed to get an outdoor wok burner

My Ex-Husband's Landlady This is one of my favourite bits of short fiction I wrote last year. I'm posting it here, unpaywalled, for 24 hours, in an effort to lure a few people into subscribing and as a taster for the collecti...

I've taken the paywall off this piece, just for today, in case anybody would like a read. It's one of my favourite things I've written lately. www.tom-cox.com/my-ex-husban...

Oh, wow, that's amazing, the way that turning it off and turning it back on again fixed even though you swore to me that you'd already done that. No, there's no way I'm calling you a liar, it must be just that I was looking at it..."

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Have you tried turning if off and turning it back on again? OK, now how about we try turning it off and turning it back on again...

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Polecats!

If you're not a coward...

In theory, a bunch of parents could run for the Board of Trustees on a no-uniform platform, and, if elected, ditch the uniforms.

If she sees her shadow, it's another six weeks of zoomies