New Comic Strip Found: Pearls Before Swine - 2026-08-05 https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/08/05 #comicstrip #pearlsbeforeswine

13000 steps today, and I didnt have any dinner. so my weight loss plan seems to be working?

Neurodiverse teen is swinging in the swings at victory park while listening to some kind of rage punk or death metal or something. Meanwhile a 6 year old girl is kicking her ball with her brother and swearing so strongly the marines at the local marine reserve facility next door are blushing […]

This article likens cities to feedlots for cattle. the analogy is pretty sound. (slightly too long form substack 🙄) https://adrianlambert.substack.com/p/cities-are-intensive-livestock-systems

Cities are Intensive Livestock Systems, and Humans are the Cattle

You are more dependent than you think.

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Pepper appears to have the occasional reverse sneeze. Probably has some mild allergies. welcome to the club pupper.

Its overcast, 65F and 100% humidity. dogs have been playing almost continuously for 2 hours, ive been up 3 hrs and I'm tired.

Today we get my kids schedules for the upcoming school year, and take the new dog to a vet appointment. Resident dog will have to stay home and chill by herself for a while, which she'll probably enjoy. I'm planning to trick her by setting up the barrier to the back room, then having the boys […]

Whoo, after a long walk up and down the hills of Oxy, my sons soccer ended and we drove home. cocoa was well exercised (ive done 14400 steps today, so 7 miles). Anyway I get home and apparently pepper had an excellent walk with my wife and Alex, but once she got home, she went to the backyard […]

El Niño must be hitting pretty hard, its like Hawaii in LA county. must be 85% humidity right now, now that its cooled down after sunset. I'm drenched.

There are worse places for a dog walk than Occidental college.

Dog report: Big walk this morning followed by sleeping until noon or so, then some calm behavior with treats in the living/dining area, then outside with new pup on leash resident dog off... some wandering around and some "find it" and then resident dog initiated play. a bunch of wrestling […]

Both boys have been helping with the dog, but are a bit exhausted by it. i took the dog out back and got her settled down. now shes in the back. My younger son is making fish and chips for us. Hes listening to a playlist and singing along. So far Ive heard Isaac Hayes "Theme From Shaft", Roberta […]

I am leashed to a pepper pup in the back yard. she has been getting treats for calm behavior. She has been very calm. This is only possible because of shady tree and it hasn't gotten fully hot yet. after another 10 mins I think I'll try to get her to sleep on her bed in the back room. my poor […]

https://youtu.be/-dAIJRjb-Bw?si=o3eGjZTAbnBzvOgk John Stewart interviews Cory Doctorow, probably most of the Fedi already knows what Cory is saying, but this video is what you send to your normie friends and your mother and your coworker to get them to peek behind the curtain... because they […]

If I search for the famous 3-3-3 rule for dogs, Pasadena Humane comes up as the first link https://pasadenahumane.org/3-3-3-rule-of-adopting-a-dog/ by these metrics we are WAY ahead of the curve. Pepper is responding to cues, not hiding, engaging in play, full appetite, no accidents in the […]

My wife and I are having a long signal chat about the logistics of the remaining portion of the day... theres my older son who wants to go to the climbing gym and my younger son who is going to dinner and then hanging out with his friends for movie... then theres the dog walk, and picking […]

New dog day 3 going reasonably well. Mid day puppy got antsy, so I took cocoa for a ride in car while my wife handled new pup... a series of text messages followed... quite humorous but also a little concerning... anyway the result was pup needed to potty and then do zoomies and things, and then […]

Me (to my resident dog): You're a good dog... and thorough. #thebiglebowski #biglebowski

I'm tired y'all, doggie daddy is exhausting. A 9mo old puppy is a lot like a toddler. Finally had to take her in the car and drive the neighborhood again to get her relaxed for bed time. The family tried to watch one piece. now I have transfered care of the pup to the rest of the family and I'm […]

Yes, #history do be like that sometimes

If you are thinking of getting a dog or have a new dog and need to teach the dog things you should know that there are two "styles" of dog training. one of them is like Anarchy and the other is like Patriarchy. i mean this absolutely seriously. Cesar Milan is like the patriarchy, he will tell […]

I got up early to walk the resident dog, then did all the dog training and things, then a big walk with the two dogs, then trying to settle them for tonight... finally separated the new dog into the boys room for the night... at 16500 steps (8miles) I'm exhausted mate.

You degenerates have got my younger son wanting a Mastodon account now. Hes 15 and a budding anarchist. what do I do?

Dog training works y'all

Making a well deserved Calzone. I had a PBJ for breakfast at 6am and a bowl of cereal for second breakfast at 8am, nothing since.

Today is the day! we picked up the new dog this morning at 11am, picked up my younger son from a camp he was helping out at, and then went to the park. It's a HOT day today, but we spent a few hours introducing the dogs, and it had only minor issues. we spent a lot of time at a distance, getting […]

@dlakelan the amount of pendulum swings it takes for one star to raise from a fixed point on the horizon and a second. It'd take a bunch of trial and error, but you could get it down to "pendulum length of exactly 100 swings between these two stars is the unit of length"

Suppose you have only sort of 1200s technology or so, but modern knowledge of physics and math. You want to make a system of measurements that is reasonably repeatable without reference to a physical prototype. What physical properties do you rely on to define length, mass, and time units?

Ok, #guix friends. I set up an initrd like the suggested one here and it complains about /dev/btrfs-control being missing The / directory is a btrfs. It does NOT complain if I use the standard initrd... any easy way to make a custom initrd set up the btrfs stuff right? […]

Exciting times in our neck of the woods. We have an appointment tomorrow morning to pick up and adopt a second dog. Just got back from the pet store where I stocked up on a wide variety of treats, a medium harness, a nice looking reflective collar, a pair of identical plushy toys a second […]