Gary Larson, The Far Side. It portrays a character named Professor Schwartzman testing his newest invention, a "canine decoder" helmet, which translates what dog barks into English.
Several dogs are visible speaking in the panel, and all of their barks translate to the same word: "Hey.โ
I think about this one pretty much every afternoon
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They should do MyChart Wrapped
03.12.2025 22:13 โ ๐ 4496 ๐ 1108 ๐ฌ 60 ๐ 108
hard time buying it from the route today, but that is an excellent point! rescue is very much a valid use case for helicopters, and one i never realized the county sheriff department engaged in
04.12.2025 02:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
03.12.2025 19:36 โ ๐ 1480 ๐ 318 ๐ฌ 20 ๐ 15
a flightradar24 screen capture with a helicopter trace looping wildly over renton and bellevue
king county sheriff out for a helicopter joyride today. this stupid shit costs a fortune and burns tons of fossil fuel. plus, having cop helicopters ~at all~ is ridiculous in the drone era!
03.12.2025 20:30 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.
A plate of the same cookies.
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
29.11.2025 04:50 โ ๐ 15409 ๐ 4182 ๐ฌ 149 ๐ 107
Now that the penny's dead we should replace Jackson with Lincoln on the $20
24.11.2025 23:16 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2
i use the time to read long-form journalism; atlantic and the like. that and some background music works wonders for the boredom
23.11.2025 03:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
a package of macarons in the freezer case with the front plastic broken and three missing
someone got peckish at the grocery store. (not me, promise)
21.11.2025 00:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
for real. i honestly might see a legitimate llm application here -- blocking a whole-ass subject post by post. though of course that would be fraught in the usual ways ๐
18.11.2025 05:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
pro tip! you too can mute her name and never again (hopefully) see another terribly written excerpt or tedious opinion on the matter, etc etc
18.11.2025 04:58 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
i just in the last ten minutes figured out i could simply mute the person's fairly uncommon surname, and i gotta tell you i am stoked
18.11.2025 04:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
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really enjoyed this review! i've seen people refer to this film as a straightforward parody of fascism for years and never quite bought in, and i feel like you nailed the reasons why
17.11.2025 08:59 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
that is absolutely the first thing i thought of as well!
14.11.2025 21:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
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screenshot of a headline from the BBC: Biologist bitten in head by shark hopes to meet animal again
he'll show it what he learned, in his shark jujitsu class
13.11.2025 02:28 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
more numbing, i think. i am deuteranomolous
11.11.2025 09:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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Gentlemen: thank you for your service.
05.11.2025 02:42 โ ๐ 7646 ๐ 788 ๐ฌ 50 ๐ 11
see? john darnielle gets it bsky.app/profile/them...
04.11.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Me and my boys went to a strange LAND
The sun beat down on the desert SAND
My man Ad-rock turned to us and said
Yo, you two see that BIG-ASS HEAD?
We approached this ancient, beat up MASS
We learned his name was OZYMANDIAS
A sign said take a look AND DESPAIR
But we saw no works, nothing was THERE
30.10.2025 17:52 โ ๐ 253 ๐ 77 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 7
seriously though they need to bring back the awesome A-frame buildings. and pizza hut needs to bring back the iconic hut. i mean, just as purely a business decision! genx and millennials would love this and probably even boomers would not kvetch
30.10.2025 18:27 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
its breakfast dogg. scrambled eggs, hashers, ham, snausage, bacon, and pumpkin spice pancakes. plus hot sauce on the side
IHOP is just dOHI spelled upside-down
30.10.2025 18:27 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
ha, right on! there was a shot of the 740 emblem as it drove away too. and yeah, i drove a couple different 240s in my teens and they were built like tanks
30.10.2025 01:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
oh my god, yes. any day now! here's hoping ๐ค๐ค๐ค
30.10.2025 00:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
also if your video generator is so good, why did that commercial have real actors and sets in it? haha nobody knows. except, well
30.10.2025 00:50 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
just saw an "ask chatgippity" ad with teenagers in a volvo wagon that would have been a teenager car when i was one a zillion years ago. haha i see what you are doing, openai marketing consultants. get bent
30.10.2025 00:50 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
a grey hand towel with white text that says "be nice, jesus"
here's another winner from that store. i think it really said "be nice, jesus is watching" or some other creepy bullshit? but someone had folded it into this much funnier message instead
29.10.2025 16:26 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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