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Photo of a golden retriever snuggling a pink stuffed t rex with a grumpy expression.

December 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM

I said abolish and I fucking meant it

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Look again friend.

December 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM

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Ooh also while we're at it what color should I paint a dresser with this fabric as a drawer liner.

Fabric sample of art deco style cranes in turquoise and gold on a rich burgundy background.

December 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM

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My next dresser project is this paint color with this drawer liner, please tell me this combo slaps.

Paint chip in Sherwin Williams' Moscow Midnight, which is a shade of dark blue.

Cloth sample from Spoonflower. It features peacocks in greens, oranges, and turquoise, surrounded by amber and green flowers, on a dark blue background.

December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM

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Got some great action shots of Penny playing along the river on a gorgeous fall day.

Photo of a golden retriever running along the river with two other medium sized dogs, one dark and one light, in the background. Beyond them is the river and the Portland city skyline.

Photo of the same golden retriever and the dark colored dog, this time both of them wading in the water just beyond a big log on the shore. The angle is the same so the river and cityline are also in this photo.

Photo of the golden retriever in the shallow water near the bank of the river. She is holding a tennis ball in her mouth and splashing in the water, with her tail making a magnificent plume. In the background is a line of houseboats on the far bank, and the front end of a small cruise liner.

December 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM

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This is as close to the rich cioccolata calda you can get in Italy as you can expect to find in a tin.

November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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By contrast, here's some DIY plans for storage shelving from Kreg.

Measurements, dimensions, and layout of how the pieces go together.

Kreg paid a content person to make this. Lowe's absolutely got their article out of something like ChatGPT.

Diagram of one side of a shelf, which looks broadly like a ladder with very wide, tall steps. The short rails and long side leg of the diagram are labeled, and there are measurements showing the distance between the rails and the distance from the top of the leg and the first rail.

November 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM

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We bought the puppy a bathrobe for after her baths and I have never made a better purchase.

Photo of a golden retriever wearing a blue bathrobe with cartoon sharks all over it. Her belt is tied so it has a bow over her butt and she is looking a bit dismayed.

November 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM

I said abolish and I fucking meant it

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Our pup keeps trying to hump us now that she's in her "teen" era, so we decided to get her a big stuffed animal to try to redirect the behavior.

It's a weird moment when you realize you're effectively buying a sex toy for a dog.

Anyway here's the angry t rex we'll be subjecting to her. Sorry bud.

Photo of an upright pink t-rex plush stuffed toy. He is standing upright and looks very grumpy, as if he knows what is about to befall him.

November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of WeRateDogs, let us remember one of the best Twitter exchanges of all time.

Screencap of a twitter exchange between a guy named brant (sic) and WeRateDogs. For context, WeRateDogs has at this point rated every dog above a 10/10 for months on end.

brant: @dog_rates your rating system sucks. Just change your name to "CuteDogs."

WeRateDogs: @brant Why are you so mad Bront

brant: @dog_rates Well you give every dog 11s and 12s. It doesn't even make any sense.

WeRateDogs: @brant they're good dogs Brent

I'm not going to write down all the numbers but please believe brant was thoroughly ratio'd.

November 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM

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Baffled by this. That top comment is near identical to the bottom one, but the bottom one was hidden from me. How are these filters deciding one needs to be hidden?

Screencap of two tweets. The top tweet says "Democrats, seizing defeat from the jaws of victory over and over."

The second tweet isn't relevant to my question but it reads "I keep seeing zeteo popping up. What is this group and who funds them?"

Below both tweets is the symbol of an eye with a line crossing it out and the words "Show more replies" next to it.

Screencap of the same two posts from the previous screencap, with the hidden post now revealed below them. It reads "Absolutely snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, that's so Dem."

November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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Bizarre. Okay then quick version! Menu, Settings, Moderation, and then at the bottom there is a box called Bluesky Moderation Services. Looks like an info box but it is a link. Click that and you should see all your filters. Scroll down for ones like "Rude".

November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM

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The "service" includes settings for hiding certain types of content, warning you that the skeet contains such content before you see it, or simply turning off the filter. If you've never been here before, you'll find things like "rude" or "threats" are set to "Hide".

November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM

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Next select Settings, and then Moderation on the next screen. At the bottom of the Moderation page under "Advanced" is a section called "Bluesky Moderation Service" that looks like an info box. It in fact leads to more settings.

Screencap of Bsky hamburger menu expanded, with the Settings option circled in red.

Screencap of Bsky Settings page, with the Moderation option circled in red.

Screencap of Bsky Moderation page, with the Bluesky Moderation Service option circled in red.

November 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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Did a grown up thing.

The back of a shed. The shed is painted dark blue with white trim and has a boarded-up square window in the center of it, also paintef white.

The same shedz with the damaged siding torn off to reveal truly nasty plywood behind it.

The same shed with house wrap in place over all the areas where damaged siding was removed, including the area where the boarded up window used to be.

The same shed with new siding that matches the size of the old siding. There is undamaged old siding still in place at the top of the shed, still painted dark blue. The new siding is a light grey (but won't be for long).

November 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM

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Yes? It feels pretty much like soft roasted cloves when I poke it, so I believe I've achieved ... something.

Now caramelizing onions.

Picture of the inside of a pot with twentyish garlic cloves in oil. Hopefully looking like confited garlic but who can say.

October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM

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This post was put up yesterday on Heretic's socials.

Text of Heretic's Instagram screencap: $280,503.69. Over a quarter of a million dollars.
This is a now a global movement of humanity making sure Americans are fed. Literally, thank you to humanity for taking care of us.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: when the system fails us, it’s on us to take care of each other.
It’s also not lost on me that, once again, a white man is in the national news with another movement. There are so many amazing mutual aid groups working with the most marginalized in our city that also deserve this. We will be using this attention & funding to make sure that our most at-risk families in Portland are fed. AJ McCreary at @equitablegivingcircle has been an incredible resource to help me understand the best ways to redistribute funds that are beyond what we need at Heretic Coffee. I understand that we need to take action now, but we also need to make sure we steward every single dollar given in the most responsible way. We’re doing all we can to meet this moment, and will continue to be transparent and open with where every single dollar given, used, and donated.
Again, from the bottom of my heart: thank you. Thank you to everyone who has waited for their latte, to the grandmother in Ireland who emailed me and said she’d cook me dinner if I were ever in her city, and to the thousands of you who have given your money for this cause.
Portland, please come eat. The world has you.

October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM

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I love this story for so many reasons. It starts with just a guy doing what he can to help. He owns a coffeeshop, he says he'll give free breakfast. That post goes a bit viral and tons of people ask him to set up a donation link, which he does. I believe this video was from Wednesday.

October 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM

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I didn't know this until recently, but you can now sub the Cone of Shame for an adorable soft onesie to keep dogs from licking their stitches. She looks like a high school kid wearing her boyfriend's basketball jersey.