2025-10-11 09:38:00
Be careful out there... It's #Caturday
Be careful out there... It's #Caturday
Tim Dowling: our dog is bottom of the class at dog school https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/06/tim-dowling-our-disobedient-dog-is-failing-out-of-dog-school?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Kills:
🎵 Heart of a Dog
#TheKills
https://volcanoclub.bandcamp.com/track/cover-the-kills-heart-of-a-dog
https://open.spotify.com/track/1MweULEzWWg5WTlBWMZosS
Remember the stray dog that we adopted a few weeks ago, after park rangers cared for her in a natural reserve but without them being able to find anyone who would claim her as a lost/runaway dog?
Today we took her to be spayed. It was a short surgery, as the vet quickly noticed that she was already spayed. Seems she's at least a year older than initially estimated – which means that it's likely that someone abandoned the poor thing in the reserve.
#dogsofmastodon
This is a tricky balance. Some level of skepticism and counter-culture is good and healthy, both for people and society. But when it goes too far, it always seems to end up in the same place.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2
Color me confused - I see that el cheeto's dog, Lindsey Halligan, is listed as a lawyer in Virginia.
Yet, when go to the Virginia bar website and search for her in their lists of Virginia attorneys I get zero hits.
Huh?
The page below says that she is a member of the Virginia Bar, but the Virginia Bar seems not to know who she is?
Am I fat fingering something on the Virginia bar's attorney search site?
from my link log —
The birth of the internet troll.
https://gizmodo.com/the-first-internet-troll-1652485292
saved 2025-12-08 https://
Tom Brady says dog Junie is a clone of family's previous dog https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6777780/2025/11/04/tom-brady-dog-junie-clone/
It’s weird that the dog can tell when I’m doing (failing at) a boss fight in #silksong
Baghed may be breaking up, but from that has spawned new Philly band Dasgüt, and this is their first single. Major Baghed vibes. Dig it.
#NowPlaying
The cheese in the stuffed #sourdough pretzel dogs was inside the dough, not the dog, btw
Stray Dog Saved From ‘Death Row’ Turns into Brilliant Detective, Sniffing out Lost Animals https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/stray-dog-saved-from-death-row-turns-into-brilliant-detective-sniffing-out-lost-animals/
George "Gilti Sam" 21 September 2017 – 7 November 2025
George's humans wrote to let me know that they had to let him go on Friday. His epilepsy got worse and after a few days of specialist care they made the difficult decision.
All dogs are their own unique people but I can honestly say that George was the most memorable dog I've ever known. For almost 3 years he was my most frequent dog sitting client.
petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
”Når modargumenter er respektfulde, bygger på fakta og signalerer åbenhed for kompromis, fordobles sandsynligheden for, at modparten svarer med et hŸjkvalitetsindlæg,” #netiquette #debat #soMe
Tom Brady reveals his dog is a clone of his late pet https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/tom-brady-reveals-his-dog-is-a-clone-of-his-late-pet-3533271/
I'm getting myself so annoyed by something that really shouldn't get to me. Lost story short: a neighbour passed away a few months ago - a really lovely guy.
Whenever we spoke, he didn't really talk about his family, although we knew he was divorced and had children, one of which very occasionally visited. He talked about his hobbies, his previous work, and his dog, who had also passed a few months before him.
So, what's grating me? His children are now sorting out his house and possessions and they've parked their massive 4x4s on the front lawn he took so much pride in. Like, not just clipping it at the edge with their wheels, but properly parked over the grass. He didn't have much of a garden, but it was always taken care of. I've also noticed how his Mercedes was the first thing that got the most attention. It just feels so disrespectful it's kinda upsetting.
TIL my beloved `dog` DNS client has been unmaintained for a few years and there's a community-based fork called `doge` (the name was chosen before it became a synonym for chainsaw politics): https://dog.ramfield.net
Democratic senator Patty Murray of Washington state has condemned the Trump administration
after she alleged that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “attack dog” mauled one of her constituents.
Senator Murray said Wilmer Toledo-Martinez suffered “horrific” injuries while ICE agents detained him in November.
“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses,
posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to s…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Cosey Mueller:
🎵 Dog Salon
#CoseyMueller
https://coseymueller.bandcamp.com/track/dog-salon
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GuJsckMchpB0uyGkf6rY6
Coming to Stores Near You:
101 Grammatically Correct Popular Tunes Featuring:
(You Aren't Anything but a) Hound Dog
It Doesn't Mean a Thing If It Hasn't Got That Swing
I'm Not Misbehaving
And A Whole Lot More...
Attention dog lovers: The audiobook for "Arthur" is available for the next 2 days for FREE for Audible members!
▶️ "Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed a Jungle to Find a Home" by Mikael Lindnord on Audible https://www.audible.com/pd/B078251LNZ?source_code=AS…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Getdown Services:
🎵 Dog Dribble
#GetdownServices
https://getdownservices.bandcamp.com/track/dog-dribble-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6skfouZ5bFFU3vxWaBla3B
The dog at work saw the tennis ball I have to sit on for my PT an now my like is ruined and I may need to work from home or work nights when the dog isn't there or just find a new job. 😩
Randomly reminded of the time as a kid that my brother invented a dish known as the "pizza hot dog" with his toy food. It consisted of a slice of pizza served in a hot dog roll.
Then decided to be a pizza hot dog vendor as his Halloween costume that year.
#MusicWomenWednesday this week is Portland, Oregon's HERR GOD. They have a couple EPs, one even from May, before the two songs they put out in June here. Some of it's fairly sad.. kind of a bedroom lofi slowcore shoegaze kinda thing. Nice simple songs, catchy as hell. Like a sadder, slower That Dog. Love that tape hiss!
So much happened over the weekend, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Hackers who stole trove of sensitive UPenn data derides 'dog**** elitist institution',
--LLM giants are trying to stop indirect prompt injection attacks,
--Oz government warns of Cisco IOS XE flaws,
--Polish authorities probe cyberattack on online loan platform,
--Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about smar…
look who visited marquette yesterday!
#wienermobile #oscarmayerwienermobile
Appreciate the sentiment, but ewww:
Woman caught on camera smearing poop on Trump-themed Cybertruck | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/dog-poop-trump-tesla-cybertruck-b2839780.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Temple of the Dog:
🎵 Say Hello 2 Heaven
#TempleoftheDog
https://timmaeder.bandcamp.com/track/say-hello-to-heaven-temple-of-the-dog
https://open.spotify.com/track/4L2S9GbwEgwfSbHjTCvNQX
Reagan's "Welfare Queen" rhetoric was a dog whistle. The whole "southern strategy" was full of dog whistles. Every time Republicans talked about gay marriage as a "states rights" issue, those were dog whistles. Naming a government agency "the Department of Homeland Security" was a dog whistle. Trump's speeches leading up to his first term were full of dog whistles.
Nazis have total control of all branches of government. They've cut off funding to all but the most oppressive elements of the government. There are concentration camps, both in client states (CECOT, among others) and in the US (Alligator Auschwitz, among others). They're actively carrying out ethnic cleansing.
When DHS puts out some Nazi shit, it's not a dog whistle. It's a vuvuzela. They're not trying to signal their intent without any of the "normies" noticing. They actively doing what they wanted to do. It's not a signal because there's nothing to signal. It's a celebration.
#USPol
The dog really seems to hate the dishwasher.
pibertdey to me :)
nothing special today, just me and #dogNamedBana
why tf do you look like a white hotdog tho
The Turkey Trot was a dog-positive and even zany event this year with runners coming and going
#photo #photography #running
Tonight I woke up from a noise in the living room - I thought it sounded like the creepy whisper of a little girl 😱
It took me a few moments until I realised that the dog was snoring! 😴 #dogsofmastodon
Disappointment as local lion turns out to be a mutt (not surprise, though)
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41736558.html
Please enjoy this random golden retriever dressed up as a chef that we saw tonight while trick-or-treating. #DogsOfMastodon
Datadog's stock jumps 20% after reporting Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $885.7M, above $852.8M est., and forecasting Q4 revenue at $912M-$916M, above $877M est. (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/datadogs-ddog-stock-earnings.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Jerks:
🎵 Get Your Woofing Dog Off Me
#Jerks
https://xylitolband.bandcamp.com/track/get-your-woofin-dog-off-me-the-jerks
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ceIzwX2OoCMrteduEXmsg
Did the cram in too many features over time?
Perhaps, but that didn’t really affect the basic functionality.
Calling it “bloatware” is funny when in our current era of personal computing everyone and their dog ships Electron apps.
@… I never heard of TERF, seeking the word in connection with Mastodon found this (top match):
<https://aria.dog/barks/mastodon-trust-
Ex-Raider Henry Ruggs transferred to another Nevada prison https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/ex-raider-henry-ruggs-transferred-to-another-nevada-prison-3592739/
I met a new #dog yesterday named Tucker. He’s a bit shy but decided to risk it and say hello in exchange for pats. #dogsofmastodon
The English words nobody can explain - RobWords
"dog", "big", "bird", "donkey", "boy", "girl" and "puzzle"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHiMg-DLick
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Getdown Services:
🎵 Dog Dribble
#GetdownServices
https://getdownservices.bandcamp.com/track/dog-dribble-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6skfouZ5bFFU3vxWaBla3B
Today's gonna be rough. Samson, my dog, had stomach issues all night, so I slept on the couch with him.
Never been as scared watching a movie as I was in the final 10min of "Arthur the King".
Dog lovers, this was a great dog movie... but terrifying.
▶️ Arthur the King (2024) Official Trailer - Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Julie Rylance, Nathalie Emmanuel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjDJNEPg…
The Dog Nerd Diaries By A Bark Above
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
The FCC's Brendan Carr says "local TV stations" "stood up" to a national programmer by preempting Kimmel and that "we need to keep empowering local TV stations" (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-tv-at
Since I have cats, every time I see a sandbox I'm thinking "what a huge litter box!"
This got me thinking about the sandbox I used to have as a kid. But I guess neighborhood cats couldn't use it comfortably, since we had a dog.
"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."
https://aria.dog/barks/forklift…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Arlo Parks:
🎵 Black Dog
#NowPlaying #ArloParks
https://denseboy.bandcamp.com/track/black-dog-arlo-parks-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/37pShAS4iuRXJeRAa9k6xw
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Led Zeppelin:
🎵 Black Dog
#LedZeppelin
https://djaf.bandcamp.com/track/led-zeppelin-blackdog-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qT4bUD1MaWpGrTwcvguhb
Today I learned about Kukur Tihar, a festival day in Nepal where dogs are honored for their loyalty and honesty.
This year it falls on October 19 - I don't have a dog, but I think it is the kind of festival we should adopt.
Be kind to all dogs, and especially on Kukur Tihar!
https://himalayan-masters.co…
Taking the dog outside to use the bathroom, I found a pile of dog poop frozen to the concrete.
#Drumpf begins mass layoffs of US #Federal workforce and barks like confused chained up old dog about increasing tariffs on #China who've further sealed off US #industrial
Was Flash from "The Dukes of Hazzard" non-binary?
"Initially referred to as a boy, Flash is later regularly a girl (despite an occasional male reference afterwards)."
https://dukesofhazzard.fandom.com/wiki/Flash
For my birthday today… I deleted the Facebook account I created in September to access Marketplace. It served its purpose. I was going to sell other things but never got around to it. Then friends started requesting to be friends. It was awkward. I didn’t accept any requests and even made one post on my profile that I wouldn’t be friending anyone.. that it was only for Marketplace. People still requested…
Then a colleague/friend passed away and I missed an RSVP because someone sent me the message on FB rather than real life even though we weren’t FB connected and hadn’t communicated on there for years. This is what happens when people treat FB like the entirety of “the internet” and “communication”. I have a website with my name and phone! My address is not hard to search. Email!?
I was angry and sad about that. 😢
So ya… if I do the Marketplace thing again I’ll just make a temp account and delete it after use, like a single use plastic bag to pick up dog poop. 💩 🤣
In the meantime I’ll keep focusing on good people here on the #opensocialweb… and also connecting with people in real life.
Most of the 48 years I have spent on this earth have been without Facebook. I’ll manage :)
#toxicsocialmedia #facebook #deleteyouraccount #mastodonMigration #dumpzuck
#NowPlaying - bootleg bonzo dog band? #bootleg bonzo dog band! bbc sessions from '68, mostly, but almost feels like a proper album with interstitial dialogue. @…@…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
The Knife:
🎵 Heartbeats (Rex the Dog remix)
#TheKnife
https://krackills.bandcamp.com/track/the-knife-heartbeats-krackill-block-party-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5P2hEcHjoNMh33EsFPPOJE
Getting older is like a walk in the park.....where nobody has bothered to pick up after their dog.
#oldFolksOfMastodon
petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
It is clear that El Cheeto has "lost it". What I wonder is "who is running things?"
My guess is that we have a clown-car battle that, at a minimum, is between Stephen "Eichmann" Miller, Christi "dog killer" Noem, unknown DOG-E children. Who else?
In other words, our Federal Goverment seems to be running on the same lines as Weekend At Bernies.
By-the-way, if we are going to have a synthetic President, can I get President Bartlet (fr…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Temple of the Dog:
🎵 Hunger Strike
#TempleoftheDog
https://trxppyxtrxll.bandcamp.com/track/temple-of-the-dog-hunger-strike-trxppxd
https://open.spotify.com/track/0W7AbEauB7cP4pidLclApe
Video shows Russian drone killing white flag-waving civilians and dog, Ukraine opens war crimes investigation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/video-shows-russian-drone-killing.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 Two Legged Dog (feat. Abigail Morris)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/two-legged-dog
https://open.spotify.com/track/45Lp8xeVl1UpEeKWDAWtar
Good morning, Fediverse!
#Dog #DogsOfMastodon
I saw a video yesterday where an older white lady walking her dog threw a bag of dog shit at ICE/CBP agents (I couldn't tell where it landed), and that was incredibly heartwarming. They tried to grab her, but there were too many other people around and federal agents gave up.
Shirtless Ben Johnson gets Chicago fans free hot dogs following Bears win vs. Eagles https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6846119/2025/11/28/ben-johnson-shirt-off-bears-chicago-hot-dog/
PSA about food labeling in the US
We have a gluten detection service dog because many things that should be gluten free/say they’re gluten free are not actually gluten free.
Stuff gets contaminated when growing (e.g. next to wheat field), by shared equipment, in factories, from packaging, during transport and in-store.
Every US consumer should know:
1. The list of ingredients on food isn't exhaustive
2. Allergen labeling:
a) limited to just some allergens
b) manufacturers don't actually have to test
c) "certified" foods are tested—but not continuously
d) testing only works with enough contamination
Some certifications may require batch-testing, but usually they don't.
A "certified gluten free" product may e.g. contain oats which sometimes are contaminated with gluten—but as not every batch is tested it's impossible to know unless you test yourself (hence the service dog).
Even if the product is properly batch-tested, you might get a part of the product that has the allergen in it, whereas the tested part didn't.
Or the threshold was too low (our dog can detect gluten better than any available lab testing equipment; yes, dogs are amazing).
Food products also contain ingredients that do not have to be included on the label when they're "incidental" (included in an another ingredient) or if they're considered part of the manufacturing process but not of the final product (e.g. various coatings on factory equipment).
Don't need to list flavors or specific spices either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As for allergens, only those responsible for ~90% of food allergies* have to be specifically declared, and they're not tested for as it's simply based on the ingredients list.
Good luck if you have other allergies.
*milk, egg, egg, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans
petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
In Argentina there's a brand of pet accessories (think dog collars, harnesses etc) that's named "Blondi", and boy would I have gone for a different name. IYKYK
Woman walking a dog near the high point of Shindagin Hollow State Forest this weekend
#photo #photography #dog #forest
Typical way of playing with a #dog: You throw a ball. The dog runs to catch it. It brings it back and asks you to throw again.
Typical way of playing with a #cat: The cat drops the ball of the cat tree. It looks at the human. The human runs to catch it, then brings it back, so the cat can drop it again.
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Arlo Parks:
🎵 Black Dog
#NowPlaying #ArloParks
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
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Kelsey Grammar was notoriously jealous of Moose, the dog on NBC's "Frasier", because people liked it more than him...
...which is possibly the most #Republican thing ever.
▶️ Trump's Pet Name for Stephen Miller? #KelseyGrammer's Dog Rivalry? | HIGNFYUS
I featured That Dog's 1997 masterpiece 'Retreat from the Sun' a year ago for #MusicWomenWednesday, but since I determined yesterday thanks to @…'s album of year posts that it's my favorite record of 1997, I'm re-upping it. I have it …
petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
that dog.:
🎵 Minneapolis
#thatdog
https://robertjawnwilcox.bandcamp.com/track/minneapolis-that-dog
https://open.spotify.com/track/3vZR5moYtrBx2fBoH1rHYa
Walking one dog at a time is hard. Walking 2 dogs at the time is harder.
Superman (2025): I unequivocally, emotionally approve.
The cast is dead on perfect, the themes of hope & humanity are 100% on point & that 'kid with the flag' scene got me all choked me up.
And I said outloud, "If you hurt the dog, by God, you f'ing die."
Bravo, James Gunn. Bravo.
#superman
petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Rufus Thomas:
🎵 Stop Kicking My Dog Around
#RufusThomas
https://open.spotify.com/track/7w8LwDnkhxvscw73b9N5hK
petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dr. Dog:
🎵 Where'd All the Time Go?
#DrDog
https://iloveconsumingplastic.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-is-mine-dr-dog-whered-all-the-time-go-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UV5zxRMz6AO4ZwUOZNIKI
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Detroit Cobras:
🎵 Hot Dog (Watch Me Eat)
#TheDetroitCobras
https://thedetroitcobras.bandcamp.com/track/hot-dog-watch-me-eat
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ac58X6AHn2LRfs1hpTKcZ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Slaughter Beach, Dog:
🎵 Friend Song
#SlaughterBeach #Dog
https://slaughterbeach.bandcamp.com/track/friend-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mhnOemWCVOiT8kL5eL8ds