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For those interested, all the animation news from the middle of this year, and everything coming up - so much good! https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/mid-to-end-of-20…

Mid to end of 2026 animation news roundup – American Dad, Kevin, Alley Cats, King of the Hill, Futurama, Breaking Bear, Conan
Lots of animation things happening lately! American Dad! has been airing new episodes here and there– the show is back on FOX, and then of course the episodes air the next day on Hulu. Here&#…

my dad and lil bro have been fantasizing about hosting a bbq with all our immigrant friends at once, and yesterday we tried to make it happen.
first the ukranian refugees arrived, their dad a shashlik master. he got to grilling, demanding very particular things of lil bro. he talked abt brushing with ukranian nightlife and underworld before a group of christians were nice to him and therefore completely changed him. their son in a shadow the hedgehog tee lit twigs on fire and chased a…

Well well, a power cut. I've been out but my dad tells me it's been 90 mins so far. It's been ages since we had one but this one is badly timed as I have lots of computer work to do. Ho well.

RE: https://metalhead.club/@Dad_Wood/117292121586507723
The correct way to answer is, have ya got four hours or four days, lad?

Middle Aged Dad Record Club
A podcast where two mates, Matthew and Ash, dig through the record crates of their lives — from the 90s albums that shaped them to whatever is spinning on their turntables right now...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/middl…

#Zeteo #AbdulElSayed

Abdul El-Sayed Hits Back Against His Critics
In a no-holds-barred interview with Mehdi, the Senate candidate talks about not sending money to Israel, being a girl-dad, and the never-ending questions about Hasan Piker.

@… I’m not your dad

Numismatist alert!
I just found this very old penny in my pocket because it *stuck to my headphone case's magnetic clasp*
Wait, you say. Isn't ol' Abe supposed to be copper (or copper and zinc)?
Apparently not in 1943!

Andy Reid laughs off Travis Kelce 'dad bod' talk, says Chiefs TE looks as good as ever

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/andy-reid-travis-kelce-dad-bod-chiefs/

The Later Dad
All about real-life parenting, honest reflections, expert advice, and conversations with dads from all walks of life. Whether you became a dad at 25 or 45, we're all figuring it out as we go...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-la

If names have power, then it makes sense why my kids' friends refer to me as "hey [my kid's name]'s dad!"

A full-circle Texans-Raiders joint practice as Ryans reunites with Gary and Klint Kubiak https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/a-fullcircle-texansraiders-joint-practice-as-ryans-reunites-with-gary-and-klint-kubiak

Leveled up. New dad powers unlocked: relacing a baseball mitt.

got into my dad's mini-stash of 3D #comics (plus his homemade 3D glasses) last night. ludicrous writing but grand ol' eyeball kicks. could get way into this format with better titles. the one on the left is from 1953, the middle is an '80s reprint, & "merlin realm" is from '85 (with the best art).

I just cleaned my gutters, and in my head the entire time I kept hearing that commercial for gutter guards where the woman yells at her father "Dad! Don't climb a ladder!"

My dad, brother, mom, and me at the US bicentennial. I vaguely remember this was some celebration at Valley Forge National Park in PA. We were living in NJ at the time, so we're posed in front of the NJ wagon.
As a kid who was not allowed to have internet, I didn't know much about the world back then. but I'm quite sure the world is a better place today, despite all the fuckery going on right now.
I mean, we were breathing leaded gasoline, among other things.

Platner never seemed to grasp that even for comfortably middle-class folks,
having dad buy you a home, no matter how modest, just isn’t an option.
There was a similar tone-deafness in discussions about his wife’s fertility treatments.
There’s no doubt that it was indeed cheaper for Platner and his wife to go to Norway for a couple of weeks and pay out of pocket for IVF there,
versus the catastrophic cost to do so in America.
But while Platner correctly framed…

A sentient collection of red flags
Graham Platner's campaign should never have gotten this far.

"Two of Africa's rarest birds broke a dry spell after the dad finally stepped in to raise his eggs, a first in 95 years"
#Africa #Birds #Animals

Two endangered 'lovebirds' just broke a dry spell for their species, a first in 95 years
Two secretarybirds, John and Jolene, have welcomed five chicks for the first time in the zoo’s 95-year history.

"The boy said, "Dad they're going to take me to task
But I'll be back by Christmas"
It's just a rumor that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding"
https://c.im/@msbellows/116904…

Dad Toolbox
I know so many good men who want to show up for their children but don't have the tools, and are held back by unrealistic expectations, conflicting advice and an isolating societal structure...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/dad-to

Ooh, found my dad's slide rule; I guess I have to learn how to use it now!
#retrocomputing

I drove out to the hospital to see my Dad tonight. I stopped here to get him a soda along the way. It's a lovely evening out here.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Holy Fuck:
🎵 Neon Dad
#HolyFuck
https://holyfuck.bandcamp.com/track/neon-dad
https://open.spotify.com/track/2NUdvRM3VXZLkdRbGBn6QU

- Membership not associated with any other church or denomination
I'm just gonna throw this one away. Distinct membership in only one religious organization is a distinct property of western Christianity. It is not impossible within "Eastern" belief systems, for example, to simultaneously be a member of multiple faiths, and as such one could be a member of one or multiple other churches or denominations. Being both Buddhist and Christian, for example, is not necessarily strange *outside* of Christian supremacist societies.
But if you want your membership to be distinct, you do you. I'm not your dad. Probably. I mean, my kids aren't on social media yet and I don't know if they'll ever read this. But maybe I am your dad. I'm still not telling you what to do. Also, in that case, I love you.
Anyway, moving on.

“We’ve always been at war with the Gotoro Empire.”
#StardewValley #GotoroEmpire #AltText

Apparently, my dad has been using his phone in this condition for quite a while. He told me today he might need to get a new one.

Oh yeah potus? Well, Kim Jong-il (current leader of North Korea’s dad) “‘scored 11 holes-in-one in his first-ever and only ever round’” of golf. 🤦‍♂️
Your reality distortion abilities are lacking, but your dementia isn’t. ⛳️
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/golf/golf-c

Uncanny. a few weeks ago, I found a manuscript of my Dad's from 1991. A sci fi allegory, a warning about ecosystem destruction. In it, aliens from another planet are intelligent kangaroo-like beings that have retractable wings. The wings allow them to photosynthesise. And in 1993, a sea slug was discovered that also does photosynthesis, although in its case by sequestering chloroplasts from algae. It's the Guardian's invertebrate of the year.

‘You’d want one as a pet’: the irresistibly cute solar-powered sea slug
The beady-eyed, Pokémon-like leaf sheep is far more ingenious than us land mammals

My dad's just back from an afternoon out and checked the Scottish football results. He thumped his desk so hard at a certain 3-0 scoreline - I'm not going to say whether in joy or pain, I'm not that stupid - that he dislodged something in his computer and @… had to ride to the rescue 😄

Really enjoyed TONY (Anthony Bourdain movie)! The 1975 setting was evocative for us.
(Local connection, the dad (not shown here) was played by Rich Sommer, who attended Concordia College in Moorhead #Minnesota and also Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis.)

Still one of my all time favorite Father’s Day gifts. Still not sure if she didn’t know she was supposed to put my picture in the frame or that there is something about Michael Buble that I need to try to live up to as a parent. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #parenting

“#Tradition is peer pressure from dead people.” A trite enough joke, but true. I’m reading “The Last Neanderthal” by Ludovic Slimak. He thinks he’s found small bits—some teeth and some finger bones—of what may be, if not the last, then one of the last, of the Neanderthal peoples. He has a hell of a time pinning it down. Flint stone blade techniques had discernible styles and progressions that lasted 10s of 1000s of years, because “that’s the way dear departed dad & grampa did it.”

@… that’s because I am your dad

Steve Wright's dad dancing is going to haunt my dreams tonight. And not in an erotic way. #TOTP

I found another bunch of SWL cards from the 1950s from before my dad got his license and added them to the page:
#hamradio

The hallway started the day this meh grey-lilac colour, which had become very grubby and marked, and has ended it a nice invisible shade of mangolia. Next step is the stairwell and upstairs landing, maybe tomorrow otherwise next weekend. We'll be changing the pictures to show a few that have been in storage for years. All this because we needed to make good after having the new radiators fitted as part of the #HeatPump

As I always say to my dad, "it beats the alternative"

My parents are in a Renaissance music ensemble
My dad was telling me about Der Hundt by Heinrich Isaac
"A secular song about going to run with the hounds"; his sackbut (~ Renaissance trombone) line imitates the baying of the dogs
*****
I am pretty sure that this is the 16th century pre-make of "Who Let The Dogs Out"
Time is a flat circle

200 mile day on the Super Meteor. Down to Coshocton to close my dad's bank account, pretty much all back roads. Here's my one stopover at Dover Dam on the way down.
Central Ohio has some fantastic roads for motorcycling once you get off the highway. You just have to watch for farm vehicles and Amish buggies from time to time. But you get lots of curves and rolling hills through some really beautiful farmland and forests.

9yo: "your name is Andres? I thought your name is dad!"
🙄

As Alex Freeman emerges for the USMNT, his Super Bowl-winning dad is a joyous wreck https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7384514/2026/06/23/antonio-super-bowl-alex-freeman-usmnt-world-cup/

special day! A paella made by my dad. He's a stickler for authenticity and didn't disappoint! 🥘
The pan is 28" I believe (70cm). easily fed 9 of us.

Cool Dad Collective.
A place for real, relatable stories and experiences around fatherhood to so you know that you are not alone...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/cool-dad-collective/

Here's an article about #BarronTrump from yahoo news.
Poor boy is pretty much a recluse, shunning the trappings his siblings and dad shag after, yadda yadda.
Seems there are rumors of Iranian plots involving him.
It seems like an obvious opportunity for a huge sympathy boost for daddy trump, and for the right wing and MAGA, if something were to happen to Barron. Dozer Don wou…

Barron Trump Forced To Live ‘Reclusive’ Life As He Faces Rising Threats After Being Rattled By Death Of Charlie Kirk
Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, is reportedly maintaining a “reclusive” life The Barron Trump Forced T...

He saw a video of a Mexican man shot by ICE. It was his father. (Arelis R. Hernšndez/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/08/son-mexican-immigrant-shot-by-ice-describes-anguished-search-his-dad/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzgzNDgzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg0ODY1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODM0ODMyMDAsImp0aSI6IjliOGM1M2JhLWE5NWEtNDgyMi05Mjg0LTI4Y2UyOTMwY2JjNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8yMDI2LzA3LzA4L3Nvbi1tZXhpY2FuLWltbWlncmFudC1zaG90LWJ5LWljZS1kZXNjcmliZXMtYW5ndWlzaGVkLXNlYXJjaC1oaXMtZGFkLyJ9.z2eaZjkYolHvk2zVYg40BilgXOWlk-sDv0SqJKOaVlc&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260709/p104#a260709p104

...spent an hour writing an email "this is AI slop, and here are some indicators", in response to a half-hour documentary on Taiwan that my dad forwarded to me. *sigh*
(the narration is only slightly related to the video, and sometimes outright wrong. the narration has bland cliches and overuse of "not X but Y" contrast patterns. no video segment is longer than ~5 seconds. it's possibly AI-selected snippets of real video, but no video credits, and some video doe…

Trump's sons orchestrate secret $3 billion payday thanks to dad's policies: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sons-2677214442/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Lightnin’ Hopkins:
🎵 Shaggy Dad
#LightninHopkins
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YY9ndcUtM0W7tyQ7Cf3gz
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2nycjqXrmy3ewC8bBsSReC
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

14yo: "Dad, I think it's time to finally retire this [tube of] toothpaste."
14yo: *hands me a completely deflated tube*
me: *squeezes out a pea-sized amount of toothpaste*
14yo: "Are you fucking kidding me? Oh. My. God."
me: "Still good!"

the guy who killed inigo montoya's dad was actually just an ariral send post

the guy who killed inigo montoya's dad was actually just an ariral send post

Had a chat with a young lad (~10?) on the ViaRail home yesterday. Talking to his dad, he used the word 'Chaos' a lot, so I asked him …
Are you going to study chaos theory when you grow up?
No, I want to study how to prevent wars.
Is it possible chaos theory could help in sensing when diplomacy is in danger of breaking down?
We talked about schoolyard swings and ocean waves and Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety until we rolled into Union Station. They were on their way to Niagara Falls, a very good illustration of Ashby's Law …
I expect his PhD thesis in about 15 years 😅

This Friday at DEF CON I host the @… Poker Tournament, and novices are especially welcome.
We play Fri Aug 7, noon to 3, at the Horseshoe Poker Room in Vegas, with my dad running a beginner clinic at 11. This is not the ESPN boys' club version of poker. The room is safe, surveilled, and respectful, and the dealers are briefed to teach, not judge.
Your buy-in donation is also a full year of EFF membership. Send eff.org/poker to one curious friend.
#DEFCON #EFF #Poker

This is lovely 💙
A moment that changed me: A telegram arrived – and I had to choose between my head and my heart | Education | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jun/24/moment-changed-me-telegram-arrived-…

A moment that changed me: A telegram arrived – and I had to choose between my head and my heart
Should I follow the man of my dreams to work in a club in Tehran? Or take up a place at an elite university? Thankfully, my dad gave me advice I’ve lived by ever since

Pffff. I'm at the stage of decorating where I'm three hours in, two coats down except on that awkward bit of the stairwell I'm going to tackle separately, I'm knackered and it still looks shit! I had this with downstairs last week. The paint isn't the best (let's just say it's not the one I asked for and Dad reckoned he'd got a bargain, hmm) and I know that after a third coat it will look dramatically better, even though it may need a fourth. I'm letting i…

Urgent breaking news from the BBC as they breathlessly tell us that a man is going to visit his dad.

the beauty of small town life is the friends you make and that at any moment you might get a text that says, "Hey Chris! I have a bunch of fresh sockeye! Want a couple!?"
YES!!
Now it's been a minute since my salmon trolling days on dad's boat, but when your hands have gone through 1000s of them, there is still a bit of motor memory to draw on. 😂
I can still do a decent job cleaning and filleting a fish.
This is a good size sockeye, our run are generally under 10lbs (head and guts included). This one was about 7lbs. Plenty to feed 4!
#portalberni #hupacasath #salmon #sockeye

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
George Dillon:
🎵 Mum Dad
#GeorgeDillon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Brown Spirits:
🎵 Out Out Out
#BrownSpirits
https://uncleanus.bandcamp.com/track/thinking-about-buying-eggnog-from-the-old-guy-with-the-shitty-blown-out-dad-tattoo-at-top-shelf-wine-spirits
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YiECB6JUqxLEjJhYlAfkl

my grandfather was imprisoned by Franco’s regime because he was on the Republican side and was accused of being Communist though there was never any evidence he was a member of the Communist party. He was just a democrat, who saw Franco for the dictator that he was.
So ya… when people start to make excuses for Mark Carney allowing Canadian participation in a conference whose sole purpose is to drum up fake fear over “leftist extremism”, I take it a little personally.
Fuck Carney’s appeasement.
Attached is a photo of the bombing of Valencia’s northern train station by Italian forces in 1937, near the current stadium of Valencia CF. My grandfather lived in a village on the outskirts of Valencia and participated in resistance within the city. He and his family, including my dad, lived in Valencia throughout WWII. My grandmother eventually took the kids to France in the 50s, and my grandfather joined them after being released (?) from prison. They came to Canada in ‘52 and didn’t return to visit family and friends left behind until after Franco’s death.
This is where appeasement of fascism leads.
#punchNazis #TheAmericanFascist #canpoli #cdnpoli #usapoli #altright #neonazi #trump #stephenMiller #spanishcivilwar

Just finished "Rialto" by Kate Milford. A wonderful book with a *lot* of things to like but also a few I wish had been done differently.
Starting with the good stuff, an #OwnVoices portrayal of anxiety depression is always welcome, *especially* one that portrays positive coping strategies, including active therapy, and complex but ultimately supportive family dynamics. Dad & daughter each reminding each other to use calming strategies at different points in the book was lovely, and getting to see the complexities of the trying to be a supportive sibling was great! Larger than that aspect, portraying a YA adventure in which the parents are actively involved but don't spoil things is so great and must have been difficult to pull off. Most YA stuff quickly ushers the parents out of the picture, and this fails to provide any kind of positive or negative role model for parent/child interaction. This book had ample examples of the former, *and* let the kids have plenty of agency too. Excellent stuff that I absolutely want to see more of.
So what didn't I like?
First, as an anarchist, I always hate to see unapologetically positive (and thus drastically unrealistic) portrayals of the police. Without getting into spoilers, even the stuff about the Piepowder court bothered me. It's presented here as a cutesy alternate court tradition, but I can't help but speculate that these courts were likely not always fair in practice, and the whole "single person makes immediate judgments model" from this book is terrible in general. I just don't like positive portrayals of terrible systems that happen to be good because the people involved are good people, since they reinforce harmful positive mental models of "justice" that don't apply to the real world. This element wasn't enough to totally spoil the book for me (the plot could have mostly functioned without it) but it's a downside to me.
Second, the book is set in rural Missouri, and has plenty of Black characters. Yay for representation? Certainly better than the cast being all-white given the setting. But the book doesn't have any Black *culture* that I picked up on, and it chooses to try to completely sidestep the relevant history. Maybe I'm just not attuned to elements that were there; if anyone who read this did see them feel free to point them out. The history definitely isn't there though... for example, was the park segregated, or not? During the time it was active one imagines most parks would have been, and that if it hadn't been that would have been a very important difference, which would even have been relevant to the plot and themes of the book as written.
Now perhaps this critique is unfair because Black children and young adults *should* get to see themselves portrayed in cozy fantasies without things always having to be about racism... In a choice between erasing Black characters and erasing racism (and especially racist histories) maybe there's no right answer here and this is fine, actually. My instinct tells me that there are ways to do better, though, and that presenting a history with all the racism carefully elided isn't the greatest compromise to make here.
A while ago I read "Under the Heron's Light" by Randi Pink. It also has mythical animal guides, a Southern setting, helpful family members, a multi-generational mystery to solve, and a (slightly older) teen protagonist who is up to the task. In contrast, it is all about racist history, and takes us through multiple extremely harrowing scenes from the past.
In any case, this discomfort also wasn't a deal-breaker for me, in part because, as I said, I think it's probably good for Black children to see uncomplicatedly positive representations of people like them alongside the plenty of stuff out there that does get deep into the racism and history. I also don't have the best perspective to judge this stuff, although that doesn't mean I should default to "it's probably fine" (I'd be happy to hear from anyone who feels they have a better perspective on this, about this book or the trend in general...).
Overall, I enjoyed Rialto quite a lot. I don't think it quite makes it into my top tier of recommendations for my kids, but I think it does make the list somewhere.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Folks ask if the #EighthStreetOrchestra play #tradjazz — It's Trad, Dad, just not yer dad's Trad 😊
One more from #VogelsangGreen
an #ArcticMonkeys #hotjazz cover