@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-05-08 17:27:07
How Caleb Downs’ Dad Knew Cowboys Safety Was Built Different at a Very Early Age https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/caleb-downs-dad-cowboys-safety-built-different-early-age
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-05-08 17:27:07
@kctipton@mas.to2026-03-08 00:35:00
My dad made the biggest motorized gold jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/07/paul-kutchinsky-egg-obsession-destroy-marriage-fam…
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-09 16:01:47
forgot to post this yesterday: that time the daily news caught my dad rolling a number at a country joe show in tompkins square park, august 1967.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-04-08 01:02:37
8yo: "Dad?"
me: "I'm going to leave in a minute."
8yo: "What?! Why??"
me: "Because you keep talking to me. Go. To. Sleep."
8yo: "I haven't been talking!"
me: "Yes, you have. You *just* asked me to google sushi restaurants in DC"
8yo: "Okay, but this time it's important."
me: "Fine. What?"
8yo: "What does 'FOMO' mean?"
me: "A…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-04-09 05:55:44
Gave my pup a BIG HUG watching this video. ❤️
▶️ Pitties Who Lost Their Dad Do a Magical Thing When Meeting Their New Fam...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5UeVls5t1cg&si=XJ6GkM3bL570lF6Q
dogs
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-07 23:21:07
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
PVA:
🎵 Bad Dad
#PVA
https://open.spotify.com/track/4iUUcBYABP5wRbxqI5rdQI
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-03-05 19:48:17
somewhere in rural america a divorced dad has recreated his entire family with character ai because his real kids don't call anymore
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-05-07 23:27:40
8yo: "Hi Bored, nice to meet you!"
me: "Hey, that's my joke. You're not allowed to make Dad Jokes."
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-02 21:33:51
Caleb Rogers on being a girl dad, Las Vegas and playing O-line https://www.raiders.com/video/caleb-rogers-girl-dad-las-vegas-offensive-line
@servelan@newsie.social2026-03-01 19:10:17
'Shoot your precious president': Trump death-threat forger who fooled Kristi Noem into thinking he was an immigrant dad of 3 slapped with prison sentence | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/shoot-your-precious-president-trump-death-threat-forger-who-fooled-kristi-noem-into-thinking-he-was-an-immigrant-dad-of-3-slapped-with-prison-sentence/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-03-04 20:07:58
Trying my hand at being an influencer. This is our jabber family chat.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-04-06 13:54:25
I’ve reached peak middle-aged suburban American dad energy: I spent most of my Sunday pressure washing my driveway.
Is this it? Is this my life now?
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza2026-05-05 19:10:09
Hello Dad, I'm in jail!
Jail!
I like it here.
#music
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-05-05 19:52:16
Chrome has not dropped an AI model on the machine running Sequoia.
quicksilver:Application Support $ find . -name weights.bin -o -name OptGuideOnDeviceModel -ls
45342169 0 drwx------ 2 dad staff 64 Mar 3 15:28 ./Google/Chrome Canary/OptGuideOnDeviceModel
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-04-02 20:59:52
Remembering Them Podcast
A podcast for guests to speak about their losses, experiences with grief, and to share stories of their loved ones...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/remembering-dad/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-04-04 16:19:37
Being mad just isn't fun
It isn't fun for anyone
It is not fun if you are mad
It is not fun it it's your dad
If it's your child it's just as bad
There is no fun in being mad.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-04-21 11:01:40
New father, Josh Allen, hoping 'dad strength kicks in' as he turns 30 https://www.nfl.com/news/new-father-josh-allen-hoping-dad-strength-kicks-in-as-he-turns-30
@jae@mastodon.me.uk2026-05-03 18:12:06
Was helping get a new iPad for my dad. One of the accessories for it has the exact same branding of iPad Accessory and the only way to tell it apart is a small sticker on the back. Had to drive home and back to the store and back home because they gave me the wrong model.
Not a customer-first branding decision.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-04-27 00:20:41
A photo of my dad in Port Alberni harbour on the Therma 1. A salmon troller, around 1975-76
He was not often in the PA harbour. I believe this was when they were readying to sell this boat before I was born.
update: just realized my brother is in this photo! he kind of blends in (70s colours) he is in front of my dad sitting sideways. He looks about 5 or 6 so that would make the pic 75/76
#portalberni #fishing
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-20 20:52:07
try this one weird trick discovered by a cat dad*
*it’s me, I’m cat dad
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2026-05-02 20:37:19
My dad is still dead keen on spending time with his microscope. I love the crystal formations he captures.
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2026-03-07 20:40:00
Barney needs to take some fashion advice from his dad. Those white trainers he's wearing just look daft. #Gladiators
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-02-28 22:34:07
Content warning: Dad Joke: Wanna know what makes me smile?
Facial muscles.
#dadJokes
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-04-19 20:57:23
Retired neuroscientist dies after ignoring doc's orders, relying on #AI instead https://www.newser.com/story/387286/he-warns-consumers-about-ai-his-dad-died…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-20 01:03:30
I feel personally targeted by this article.
https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-03-03 23:02:22
Jason Witten's son, top LB recruit, commits to join dad at Oklahoma https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/03/cowboys-jason-witten-cooper-witten-commits-oklahoma/88968213007/…
@timfoster@mastodon.social2026-03-02 11:28:46
Dad-taxi 4:30am start this morning for the airport run this morning, and *surely* it must be lunchtime at this point?
(glances at clock, 11:30 only?!)
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-04-25 10:03:40
Content warning:
My dad is a journalist. He wrote about a pilot project with self-driving busses recently. And something that none of the men I have talked to seem to realise is that it is fucking scary to think that you are in a bus alone at night without a driver and then someone starts harassing you. My male friend said "what is the bus driver gonna do?" but honestly, just the presence of another person is often enough. And a bus driver can call the police or stop the bus if need be, there are …
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-03-19 13:33:48
@Xavier@infosec.exchange2026-03-14 14:42:33
I had a proud dad moment today taking my 14yo son to sword class today.
"Dad, can we listen to Led Zeppelin?"
@kctipton@mas.to2026-03-16 17:46:08
Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center https://gillianbrockell.com/video-proves-delta-flew-liam-ramos-and-his-dad-to-ice-detention-center/
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-04-26 17:17:48
I found a bunch of my dads SWL cards from the late 1950's - 1957-1959 - before he got his Amateur license; Some nice old stuff in there!
#amateurradio
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza2026-02-22 21:58:10
>Mom: "Your fishtank seems to be flowing slowly"
>Dad: "No, it's fine, it's not supposed to flow strongly"
>Me: *looks*
>Me: "No, mom is very much right"
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-02-25 18:27:06
Multiple people have asked me “How many push-ups can you do, dad?”
My guess and the experimentally confirmed number is 30!
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-02-24 19:22:17
Well death certainly creates work for hands that weren't particularly idle in the first place. Blimey. I'm struck that while Dad has the time to see to the deathmin, when he goes it will all be down to me. You need bereavement leave just to handle everything, quite aside from needing time to regain your composure.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-22 21:34:17
This text contains both prompt injection and possible training set data poisoning. So... Don't use it to train an LLM. Or do... Fuck around and find out, if that's your game. I'm not your dad.
@selea@social.linux.pizza2026-03-21 07:52:40
Daughter, 8 years old:
"Hey dad, I updated my computer to 44"
@… - I think you have succeeded when anyone can do system maintenance on their machines :)
#linux
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-19 13:46:27
Lifehack, use this one simple trick discovered by a cat dad*:
Instead of spending hundreds or thousands on “agents”, just use your own brain!
*it’s me, I’m cat dad
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-03-26 07:21:45
There Is A Last Time To All Of It. 🌀
The days are long but the years are short, as they say. At some point, before you know it, you and your kids are going to have your last day together.
https://dailydad.com/there-is-a-last-time-to-all-of-it/
@zydecopaws@pnw.zone2026-04-28 03:48:32
There’s a lot of stuff going on in whore muse. My dad says it’s to keep us from talking about pedal files and how the bad orange man was best buddies with Jeffy Effstein.
#KidsExplainWorldEvents
#HashTagGames
@nohillside@smnn.ch2026-04-19 07:47:00
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-fatherhood-how-the-male-brain-and-body-prepare-for-childcare
@joe@toot.works2026-04-19 17:55:42
My mother has been talking about wanting to replace her SUV with a minivan so that my dad can get in and out of the passenger seat without having to bend his knees. I sent her that clip from police academy and the suggestion of "Maybe just remove the front seat and sit in the back seat?"
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-16 09:47:46
Mehmet Oz said on Triggered with Don Jr, the president’s eldest son’s podcast:
“Your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass – if poured on grass – so, therefore, it must kill cancer cells inside the body,”
Oz then described a recent moment onboard Air Force One.
“You know, we were on Air Force One the other day, and I walk in there because he wants to talk about something, and he’s got an orange soft drink on his desk.
He’s got a Fanta on the…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-04-15 19:37:54
If you are a middle aged man and need to feel better about your mid-life dad bod, just pull out some Super8mm film of you as a rolly-polly baby. lol
Checking some 8mm film I was given recently by my dad (left). A full viewing and eventual recording/digitizing will be required at some point soon!
This would be from spring or summer 1978.
#Family #8mm #film
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-02-18 11:54:29
Emotionally brutal poem. Don't read it if you are feeling fragile today.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social2026-02-16 00:58:49
my dad hanging out with his anti-fascist krewe on a sunny day
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-02 18:49:33
Caleb Rogers on Being a Girl Dad, Las Vegas and Playing O-Line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f50m7xa9JI
@timfoster@mastodon.social2026-02-27 23:54:51
Dad taxi, 23:54, still waiting in the airport. Don't tell me I don't know how to party on a Friday night...
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-19 23:40:13
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Theon Cross:
🎵 Watching Over (Bless Up Dad)
#TheonCross
https://open.spotify.com/track/543G76m7uORyRpzBL3ditX
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-03 16:22:58
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-11 01:10:49
Dad shot daughter after 'arguing about Donald Trump' (Jonny HumphriesNorth West/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk917xy8no
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p156#a260210p156
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2026-03-10 23:31:10
Being old, I joined U3A (my dad was a member when it was called University of the 3rd Age). I came across a course that's designed to teach you about #AI. But it's more like a Musk promotion exercise. I find that worrying. Uncritical education is worse than useless www.silveraiproject.com
For example the course has a lot of made-up baloney about longevity -miseducation about quackery
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-03-10 18:04:53
Content warning: Kid1 Dad Joke
What sounds like a parrot but is orange?
A carrot.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-03-26 22:31:49
This #CalvinAndHobbes comic was published by Watterson in 1993. I've inflation-adjusted it for 2026.
#BanCars #FuckCars
@jswright61@ruby.social2026-03-20 19:56:09
RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116262784472526985
Actually the brown car was me 5 years ago, now I just park in the back of the lot. No congestion, The extra steps are good for me.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-03-19 00:47:44
My dad could use a helpful resource on establish a baseline community code of conduct for an online discussion group. Any recommendations for good guides and/or templates?
(This is a •completely• nontechnical group, FYI.)
@sean@scoat.es2026-03-11 01:14:50
Using some of my pre-embargo Bourbon in my maple candy (syrup from 2025). Hope it’s worth it. Will report back.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-24 00:59:30
Sources: QB Rivers follows dad Philip to NC State https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48018176/four-star-qb-gunner-rivers-son-philip-rivers-commits-nc-state-wolfpack-football
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-03-31 01:35:10
This just in: our bass-culture for #DromTaberna Friday evening is sousaphone master Tom Richards who's also featured on our in-process LP.
#ESO ain't yer dad's trad, dad, but with sous is something we can only do very rarely, and kicks it into alter-outer realms of trad, esp with Tom. I expect bootleggers 😅
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-20 22:17:04
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-04-30 23:09:30
lol, 14yo reporting me to his mom: "Dad won't feed us!"
reality: I won't take him out to eat, since we have so much food at home.
@NicolasGriseyDemengel@piaille.fr2026-02-12 07:04:27
> Last Tuesday my kid came back from school, sat down and asked: “How does ChatGPT actually know what word comes next?” And I thought - great question. Terrible timing, because dinner was almost ready, but great question.
"So whats the next word, then?"
https://matthias-kainer.de/blog…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-02-19 17:15:50
@… I’d love for you to meet my mom and dad.
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-16 20:16:54
found 'em! posters my dad brought back from san francisco in summer 1966 (&, as an art student, thought to keep them flat), part 1. some BGP classics.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-02-20 13:09:12
Content warning: Bereavement
Ah you have to laugh where you can. My mum died in the night, not unexpected. Dad and I went to the funeral director early today. The funeral director had fabulous black boots on (which I pointed out to her in case she hadn't noticed 😄). She said they were from Next, I said they'd prob be too narrow for me, and the other woman there sympathised and said her feet were so wide she was better off with the box! I'm not sure this was the chat my father expected from the funeral direct…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-02-16 06:07:59
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-03-26 09:54:43
The car has its yearly check-up today. Here are my collected thoughts about this:
I hate going to the car repair shop. All they tell me is what’s wrong with the car and not what a good boy it is!
Car mechanics are checking the car for flaws, and flaws only. They do this because they only have the best in mind for me and want me to be safe. Big Dad Energy! Institutions of the Patriarchy.
I feel extremely dumb and 8 years old when I’m there.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-24 00:33:25
Fernando Mendoza NFL Draft Party: Who's Sitting With No. 1 QB Amid Raiders Pick? https://www.si.com/onsi/athlete-lifestyle/news/fernando-mendoza-nfl-draft-party-who-sitting-with-no-1-qb-amid-…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-02-09 16:36:29
95 Dad jokes from buzzfeed.
82. What did Kermit the Frog say at his puppeteer’s funeral? Not a word.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanna_marshall/best-dark-humor-jokes-of-all-time
@chrislowles@mastodon.social2026-02-11 02:25:55
I need to go to one of these pro-Palestine marches and record myself so my Dad can understand that a cop punching a random in the gut for verifiably no reason is actually a bad thing, he knows my autistic ass would do nothing but walk with the marchers so he'd be fucked argument wise.
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2026-04-16 14:12:00
My dad has been conjuring up the most gorgeous stuff with just an electric violin, some simple pedals, Ableton 10 and a bad pair of monitors. 😄😍
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-14 01:57:05
(Credit for this original dad joke goes to my kid’s friend, who came up with it while we were giving her a ride home)
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-19 00:48:08
the adventures of electric man (aka acid man), by al jarnow, 1966, whose origin story involved getting zapped during the nyc blackout of '65. dad sez there's a version with finished dialogue somewhere, but i haven't found it yet. a future episode maybe included a wizard named "ergot."
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse2026-04-17 00:24:10
@… Boondoggle. The previous generation is more than adequate. https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/672085536718940766
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social2026-03-13 21:48:01
Happy 104th birthday 🎂 to my late mom 👵🏼, who was not born on Friday the 13th😱 but was born a bit under a cloud 🌧️. She suffered extreme poverty 💸 during the depression 📉, had way more kids 🧑🏽🦱👱🏼♂️👩🏼🦰 👶🏼 than she planned for (sorry, mom), never got that PhD 📜, or the chocolate brown Mercedes 280SL.
I’m not sure she loved my dad, or her kids, or herself. I should have asked! But she lived a long life and was, for me and a lot of others, a feminist, activist, progressive role model. …
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-04-24 17:04:41
"Thank you Mom and Dad" 💙 #nfl #nfldraft #family https://www.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-02-25 01:05:49
13yo: "Hey dad? You had a mom, right?"
me: ...
me: "Yes, that's generally how people are born. why?"
13yo: "You know who *else* had a mom?"
[simultaneously]
me: "Hitler?"
13yo: "Your *mom*.. WHAT?"
13yo: "Hitler??"
me: "What? I thought that's where you were going with that! The 'you know who ELSE..' thing!"
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-14 02:04:49
Everyone of every age and gender has an inner dad, if only they have the courage to find him and his corniness
@darius@social.linux.pizza2026-03-12 23:36:17
Does anyone ever feel nostalgia regarding PDAs? As a kid, I first got an old Palm and then a Pocket Loox 720 (with Windows Mobile 2003SE) as a hand-down from my dad.
I have very fond memories of browsing through the depths of the Internet trying to find some cool new program. Most notably though, there was a port of Android you could boot from a CF or SD card, and it was the coolest thing ever:
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-03-10 16:15:42
“[he argued] he committed no wrongdoing because he believed coast guard vessels should wait to be tasked before responding to a distress call. "
Absolutely shocking. Goes against everything I ever learned on the water when I was out fishing with my dad.
If you hear a distress call on the radio that means it is near you... you drop everything, and you help.
For this guy... a captain in the Coast Guard!!... to “wait for instructions” is beyond the pale.
Seconds are life on the ocean.
Smug dude looks like an entitled ass and a coward….
Glad he was fired.
#safety #boating #RCCG
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-15 20:54:35
poster by my dad, al jarnow, for #brooklyn public library, fall 1966, when he was briefly their (freshly dropped out of college) art director.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-02-15 04:06:41
Yo, wtf did I do to deserve *this*? And yes, I need a haircut and shave, but it's not *that* bad!
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2026-03-28 09:53:18
When I was young (1970s) it was very unusual for children to be allowed in pubs. In fact on a Sunday lunchtime it wasn't at all unusual to see kids sitting outside pubs with a lemonade and a packet of crisps while dad (nearly always dad, not mum) was inside having a couple of pints.
I think in the last 20 years as pubs have become more places to eat and socialise, rather than places to get drunk and smoke, that's changed significantly, and it's not in the slightest bit unusual to see families with children in pubs.
But I'm still a bit surprised that so many people are upset that one specific pub in London has decided to ban kids.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy71kj03l40o
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-14 22:43:26
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-03-21 19:12:29
I always carry napkins in my jacket because I have children. The family sitting next to me on this E train just had their little girl spill the dad's coffee all over the seat. They were very grateful for napkins 😂
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-18 08:42:15
Gary Kubiak Doesn’t Hold Back New Raiders HC Klint Kubiak https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/gary-kubiak-admission-about-klint-kubiak/
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-03-29 03:13:03
What to say about the #KensingtonSound sessions with this amazing #EighthStreetOrchestra I somehow progenated, and I can't very well leak my dad's-copy Tascam record before the LP comes out, but as a teaser could I offer this stolen moment from the Live Session where, due to tape change realities, we could offer KS to tell you a bit about themselves. Support them or my ghost will haunt you.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-03-31 16:50:37
Oh wow, two days after his son wins the leadership of the #NDP, Avi Lewis' father, former Ontario NDP leader, and global activist passes away.
Condolences to @….
The Stephen Lewis Foundation has done many amazing things for people all over the world and it will continue.
I hope Avi is able to carry on some of his dad's work.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #StephenLewis #RIP
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-02-15 00:07:09
13yo: "it's all settled to the bottom. it's like.. what's it called? It's like.."
me: "rain on your wedding day?"
13yo: "no, it's"
me: "a free ride when you've already paid?"
13yo: "omg dad STOP"
13yo: "IT'S LIKE MISO SOUP, OKAY!"