DrLith

This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #InternationalCatDay

A photograph of the head of a black German shephard-type dog swimming through the water to grab a suspended foam retrieving toy. He is wearing a collar with banded red and blue blanket motif overlayed with sunflowers, and the colors from his collar reflect in a surging wave of water that rolls off his shoulder. The water under his chin is smooth and unripped and reflects the strings of droplets streaming off his chin. One canine is sunk into the foam of the toy as he grabs it.

Incredible capture of Spork doing Speed Retrieve a couple weeks ago. Incredible play of reflection and refraction--the reflection water dripping off his chin...you can even see his two little chin whiskers and their reflection!

a fluffy black orb like a soot sprite is sitting on a white floor. there’s a small crescent shape of white right in the middle, with a black round spot centered within it. at first glance, it has the appearance of a single eyeball floating in the middle of the void. at second glance, it still looks like that. but maybe on third examination, it’s clearer that the white is from a dog’s little snout, and the black in the middle is the dog’s nose, and any other distinguishing feature like eyes, ears, and paws are absorbed into the black void.

an exceedingly fluffy black dog stands expectantly on the floor and looks up at a little kid in a high chair who presumably has snacks to share. the little bit of white on the dog’s nose and their pink tongue is the only interruption in the otherwise endless sea of darkness. but at least from this angle, they have a more defined body and tiny feet, so she’s a little less “orb” and a little more “dog.”

We only rate dogs. This is the goth cousin of Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. Please understand it's not just a phase, and only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (credit u/vincidelaunc)

Can people still win the internet these days?

A selfie with the head of a reclining person and a dog laying on a cushion inside an old truck bed camper cap.

A dog sleeping in a crate inside a truck camper cap

Another Sunday chilling in the splorshmobile between rounds at a dock diving event with my ride-or-dies. Clear skies, low humidity and 78 degrees, couldn't ask for better weather in early August in the mid-Atlantic

How scary and unnerving! I hope that's the end of it.

THE GRAMMAR POLICE ARE REAL

I honestly don't think I could walk down them facing out, I'd have to face into the treads like backing down a ladder.

The Death Stairs are going to be one of the things that is going to be redone...I really do want the larger bedroom on the 2nd floor to be the primary bedroom because of the nice view and balcony, but the dogs are certainly not going to be able to navigate that! Also I don't want to die!

12424 506th St E, Eatonville, WA 98328 - 4 beds/2 baths (NWMLS as Distributed by MLS Grid) For Sale: 4 beds, 2 baths ∙ 2296 sq. ft. ∙ 12424 506th St E, Eatonville, WA 98328 ∙ $575,000 ∙ MLS# 2363187 ∙ * * * NEW PRICE * * * Escape to the tranquility of...

The ADU is in the back part of the detached garage, separated from the main house by a covered breezeway. I will bring the horses--about 1/3 of the land was cleared of trees in the recent past but it needs fencing, shelter, brush-hogging/seeding and all that good stuff www.redfin.com/WA/Eatonvill...

Please do! It's not as remote as as a lot of the properties that otherwise checked my boxes in that region, but it's still smaller town/more remote than my current living arrangements and one of my bigger fears is feeling isolated after a while.

I am cashing out some NVIDIA stock that's overweight in my portfolio to pay for it and will probably hang onto the Bee & Rose in MD for a few years, maybe indefinitely, as an income property, and will be doing some work on both properties first with a tentative move-in timeframe of next June.

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Big news for your pal DrLith: after 10+ years of perusing real estate listings in WA/OR, I happened upon the right property/right price/roughly the right time and am flying out next week to close on this diamond in the rough 20 minutes from Mt. Ranier Natl. Park. vimeo.com/1078558982?s...

Very biblical.

A medieval painting of a dragon swallowing a person with the legs still hanging out of its mouth, a knight stabbing it with a pike and another aiming a crossbow, while a female figure stands to the side holding it by a leash

Getting my dog to give up the chicken bone she stole from the trash

I don't have pep in my step I have dread in my tread, a grudge in my trudge, woe in my go

Look for the helpers

Photo of two border collies on a dirt track, one is looking back obediently towards their person, the other is leaping several feet in the air like a complete spanner. (No my photo, found elsenet, no credit I’m afraid.)

Inside you, there are two wolves.

Plus I got kisses from a 10 week old corgi. And people paid me for this! Woo-hoo!

Two people with golden retrievers on leashes

I've started offering beginning dock diving lessons at the pool I practice at, and Wednesday I had back-to-back Winstons during the Golden hour and then a pair of Westies, one of whom actually kind of liked the game and the other of whom was pretty unsure about the situation.

"You have one job..."

Obviously the puffy pillow kind and not the hard crunchy ones.

Tired: maligator
Wired: petabytes

at localhuman industries we pride ourselves in asking the big questions

Change is possible

An overhead view of a toilet bowl, dimly light, with a ray of sunlight from one side and a bright illuminated spot in the middle of the center drain

Its the Summer Bowlstice

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" I asked your parents and they swear they raised you better, what a disappointment you are

A landscape shot of a gently rolling green mown field with a couple of plastic wrapped large round hay bales that look like giant marshmallows

Drought conditions have been tough for the marshmallow farmers, but with all the rain we've been getting this year, the farmer across the road has already gotten his second harvest of marshmallows and will be able to put away a third harvest by fall.

A white duck is inside a small animal-control cage in an institutional-looking room with linoleum flooring, with a sign that reads "Stray, Date 6-16-25" with an intake number

Do the crime, do the time