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Ben Birdsall
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Mookie has been an Oregon dog for nine if his eleven years but still cannot believe it's allowed to rain on him
A scruffy black and white dog, visibly damp, lies on a grey rug and gives the camera a haunted stare
October 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Greetings from war-torn Portland, where it's the last farmers' market for heirloom tomatoes, the salsa lady now has sopes, and the mushroom people have lobster & chantrelle
The seat of a car laden with a bouquet of flowers, a cardboard tray of colorful heirloom tomatoes, and a red fabric bag holding a brown paper bag (of mushrooms), a plastic bag of sopes, and sundry veg below them
September 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Who in turn seems to be Cliff Clavin
Cliff Clavin from Cheers grinning in his US Mail jacket with a mustache and smile much like Monterey Jack's
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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This is mad stuff from Rob Gale, the peak towards which he's been climbing all season
The lineup diagram for the Thorns, with Arnold at keeper, Reyes/Perry/Hiatt/Obaze/McKenzie as the defensitve line, Moultrie/Sugita/Coffey/Fleming as the midfield line, and Castellanos alone up top.
September 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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I blame you for this (🙏)
A low black bowl holding a corn/chicken/pepper/carrot stew and a big, fluffy buckwheat dumpling
September 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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My guy Mookie has been in a cone this week and I feel bad for how funny I find the cone sway when he trots with it on
August 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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What movie do you consider perfect?
Yang Yang from Yi Yi glances past the camera, and then turns away to face the balloons and lit sign from the opening marriage scene/movie poster.
August 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Turtle says hi
A brindle dog looks pretty the camera, tongue lolling and eyes nearly closed in comfort
August 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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What eldritch power has taken over West Virginia?
West Virginia but instead of its name there is two long words of Cyrillic-looking gobbledygook
August 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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This tweet lives in my head as a useful distillation of an important moral principle to me. Life, human and in nature, is mutualistic and zero sum achievement is a sad, narrow goal that inevitably shortchanges everyone in various ways.
A tweet from @profeshkitten saying simply "If you're so smart, why aren't you kind?"
August 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Turtle has claimed my foot so I guess I'll be sitting on the deck for a while
A brindle dog with very upright ears less with her paw possessively resting on a green sock-clad foot and her head against the calf of the same leg
July 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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It kills me when Mookie is gently snoring while I work 😭
A scruffy black and white dog snoozes blissfully on a grey dig need, his head resting on one of his front paws
July 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Lay my head on the hood of your car, I take it too far
Val Kilmer's character in Heat shooting an assault rifle while leaning against a car
July 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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This is a hilarious list, good grief
Complete match list 1. Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation): 83% 2. Remy. (Ratatouille): 83% 3. Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender): 82% 4. Sallah (Raiders of the Lost Ark): 81% 5. Hernando Fuentes (Sense8): 81% 6. Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter): 80% 7. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter): 80% 8. Alice Cullen (Twilight): 80% 9. Bumblebee (Transformers): 80% 10. Dr. Sean Maguire (Good Will Hunting): 80% 11. Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button): 80% 12. Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso): 80% 13. Austin Miller (Ginny & Georgia): 80% 14. Gandalf (Lord of the Rings): 79% 15. Abby Sciuto (NCIS): 79% 16. William H. 'Shakespeare' Hill (This Is Us): 79% 17. Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation): 79% 18. Ambrose Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina): 79% 19. Han Lue (Fast & Furious): 79% 20. Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time): 79% 21. Maurice (Beauty and the Beast): 79% 22. Lumiere (Beauty and the Beast): 79% 23. Ally Maine (A Star Is Born): 79% 24. Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso): 79% 25. Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter): 78% 26. Arthur Weasley. (Harry Potter): 78% 27. Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 78% 28. Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity): 78% 29. Glenn Rhee (The Walking Dead): 78% 30. The Oracle (The Matrix): 78%
July 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I mean come on!
June 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A black and white shot of Anna Karina from Godard's Masculin Feminin with the phrase "Les enfants de Marx et de Coca-Cola" in white text
May 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Share a bad guy from the 80s!
It's that ghoul Margaret Thatcher!
April 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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4-1 Thorns, you love to see it
A red smoke flare goes off on front of a grandstand of cheering Portland Thorns fans at the stadium
April 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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The four words everyone longs to read
Screenshot of an email from Williams Sonoma with the title "Your perfect waffle awaits"
April 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Even putting aside the name "Unwell FC", the idea of a league supporter group is Rob Lowe NFL hat energy
Rob Lowe wearing the NFL logo hat at a football game
April 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Mookie has been napping on the sofa in my office today and it's been hard to deal with how cute the old guy is
A scruffy black dog with a white muzzle snoozes blissfully, his head perched on a yellow throw pillow
March 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I'm here you fuckaas bitch
The neighborhood of Make-Believe with Mr. Rogers standing by it, elbow on the trolley tracks
March 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Hard to beat LUMPIA in my book.
A white car, brake lights aglow at a red light, with the license plate "LUMPIA"
January 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Happy new year from Issa
A haiku: "New Year's Day— everything is in blossom! I feel about average."
January 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Bringing this energy into 2025
NJ from Yi Yi saying "I wake up feeling unsure about almost everything"
January 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM