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Bay Area philosopher and general weirdo. My hobby is creepily monitoring birds. I consider a trailside vulture carcass a "buddy." I have a blog https://dog-envier.bearblog.dev/blog/

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Ruggable the Dog Whose Humans Mysteriously Died

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I disagree. However, it is time for them to finally implement Phase 2.

tweet by @__frye showing a picture of a dyson airblade db air-blowing hand dryer (the kind with a little hole you stick your hands in and they allegedly get dried).

November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM

Ruggable the Dog Whose Humans Mysteriously Died

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Can check

Metal bottle of Sangaria Melon Soda, which has illustrations of those Japanese melons with the handles 🍈🍈 and says "Gettin' Cool!!"

November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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credit to u/auburnattack21 on reddit

a map of eastern Europe, showing a complicated travel route back and forth. one end is minsk -> pinsk -> omsk -> tomsk -> .... the other is dnepropetrovsk -> petropavlovsk -> alexandrovsk (by way of Iliysk and Novorossiykh) -> ....

November 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM

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Someone posted this

Iguana head from previous post has been pasted on top of a political candidate ad that says "TOTALLY EXONERATED, NO WRONGDOING". The word "Iguana" has been added right above "TOTALLY."

November 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM

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i've never listened to The Daily but i recently had cause to look at michael barbaro's wiki page so i caught this rather extravagant praise

Awards and honors
In 2018, Barbaro won a duPont-Columbia University Award, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, for his work on The Daily.[37] Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, which administers the award, called The Daily "one of the signature achievements in podcasting this year," and said that the podcast is "raising the journalistic bar and inspiring a wave of imitators."[38]

November 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM

Ruggable the Dog Whose Humans Mysteriously Died

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I think this is a red shouldered hawk. (Doesn't have the characteristic hat or mean face of Cooper's.) Phone photo taken through my binoculars.

They were hanging out above my car. I'm not sure if they're the same hawk I saw circling earlier or not. 🪶

Photo of bird perched among leafless tree branches, framed in a circular binocular view. It's a hawk and we're looking at it from below-front. Its front is orange-red, white at the bottom. It has brown and white tail feathers. What are can see of the wings are brown. It's facing towards us. Its head is light brown.

November 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM

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They're giving Ruggable a friend 🥰 Meet Plush, Ruggable's Friend

-- Ruggable

Portrait of a dog in a doorway. Text overlaid reads:

Ruggable
RIP to Boring Doormats

Ruggable is the dog's name. It appears on the photo as a kind of signature to show the message is from him.

Screenshot showing a reddit post by Ruggable. It shows a corgi lying on a soft-looking grey rug. Overlaid text says:
Ruggable
Meet Plush All-in-One
Ruggable

Plush is the name of the corgi. He is Ruggable the dog's new friend. The post is by Ruggable (the dog) which is why the image is signed Ruggable.

Another Reddit post "Introducing Plush." It is a video showing Plush, the corgi, trotting across a grey rug. Again the video is signed "Ruggable" with overlay text. Ruggable is the original dog and he is introducing his new friend, the dog, the corgi Plush.

November 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM

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Genuinely had forgotten about this dude

Google result showing Mark Sanford extramarital affair wiki page

Snippet:
As a result, "hiking the Appalachian Trail" or "hiking the Appalachians" became a euphemism for a sexual scandal in American English.

November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM

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Saw this absolutely satanic ad out the other night in (you guessed it) SF

Slightly rumpled bus stop ad. The main scene has a youngish dad, a black man, in the foreground looking at his phone and smiling. In my background, his toddler is standing in his crib, wailing. A little orange "!" floats near the toddler. A little text bubble says, "Delay response for optimal resilience training."

The tagline at center top is,
"You're a Bad Parent.
Let's Fix That."

November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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ad for calpis soda "calpis now comes with a fizz"

showing a white can of the product against blue and white

November 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM

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hm actually the way it happened was i posted an interview where lessig made these claims, and he came into my mentions to get on my case for characterizing him as "defending" nowak and ito to begin with.

Interview with Lessig as reported in the Crimson:

Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig said in an interview he felt Nowak was “scapegoated” by the report, which he said omitted the involvement of Summers, the “most important actor in the whole story.”

Lessig said Summers was crucial in developing Epstein’s ties with the University.

Nowak’s “institution had a relationship to Epstein because the administration told him he had to have one and he had to maintain it and he had to support it,” Lessig said.

“Martin is recruited to run the center, and it’s made clear from the very beginning Martin’s job in running the center is to continue to encourage the funding of its chief funder, which was Epstein,” he added.

“But for Larry Summers, it’s not even clear any of it would have happened,” Lessig said.

A spokesperson for Summers wrote that his involvement with the PED was entirely during his presidency and prior to Epstein’s arrest, and that Harvard’s gift procedures were followed.

November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM

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look at the huge interactions on this bizarre reply

from twitter, circa now. post by @jarvis_best with reply by Nate Silver. Nate's reply has 194 RTs and 4k likes, far exceeding the original post.

@jarvis_best
What's the mood on Bluesky?

@NateSilver538
They're too busy burning American Eagle jeans at socially distanced bonfires to have noticed that the shutdown ended.

November 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM

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2022 tweet by me:
Reports say the suspect, who was unemployed and had dropped out of school, had trained in an ancient art that allowed him to focus his qi into a single point, tragically allowing him to kill by a single touch

November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM

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"Did you find your butt memory?" www.mk.co.kr/en/culture/1...

When Kim Jae-joong asked, "Who has Dead Butt Syndrome?" Sunday
responded, "It's me. It's a real condition."
Sunday explained that Dead Butt
Syndrome is a condition where the gluteal
muscles lose their memory. "My muscles
don't function properly, so I always walk
with a waddle. I've struggled a lot because
of this," she confessed.
She added, "Whenever people meet me,
they ask, 'Did you find your butt memory?
Has it come back yet?' I don't think it has
returned yet."

November 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM

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Thank you for sharing this i love it. I do still enjoy my alternative answer though.

Tweet by my with text:

Ruth's Chris Steak House (Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists Steak House)

November 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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I get this point, but $260k plus free rent on Gracie Mansion is much more than a mayor needs for any conceivable expenses while in office. Saying they should be paid $5MM is saying that they should be permanently made into a member of the upper classes.

I see an argument for that of course!...

November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM

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ben horne from twin peaks the return, making a kind of mischievous face. subtitle: "this truth business is clearly at the forefront of goodness."

November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM

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october. doesn't really feel accurate 🧐

grid of most listened music from october by me:
Top Row (L-R): Symbol (Skintone Series) by Susumu Yokota, Temple of the Dog by Temple of the Dog, Highway Rider by Brad Mehldau, and Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.
Second Row (L-R): Nah und Fern by Gas, Princess Mononoke by Joe Hisaishi, Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine, and Obsidian by Kit Downes.
Third Row (L-R): Night Ripper by Girl Talk, Cendre by Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Akira by Geinoh Yamashirogumi, and Low Roar by Low Roar.
Bottom Row (L-R): Ten by Pearl Jam, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco, mbv by My Bloody Valentine, and The Moon and the Melodies by Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd.

November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM

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i've never been very into Early Moderns or even English poetry in general, but I find it bizarre that I ever even heard about Edmund Spenser without knowing about his career as a genocidaire and genocide propagandist in Ireland