If you had told me 30 years ago that most kids had a gps in their pockets (after you told me what gps was) I would have assumed kids could roam four or five miles from home on a summer day while their parents worked. I was only allowed 2 miles and my folks couldn’t find me on a bet.
Do you think you can remove yourself from the dirt pile so I can finish sweeping?
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Why are you standing there getting smacked in the face with her tail?
ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday
Designers: Please be aware that if you are printing anything involving furniture and you use a sans serif font so I can’t tell an I from an L I am going to hunt you down and beat you with a stick. #ux
When my dad was a kid he had an erector set. When I was a kid we had k’nex.
This was all to prep us for building flat pack furniture, it turns out.
[No actual violence will occur because I love my dogs] Me: Mei, you let your daddy sleep or I am going to kill you dead. Mei: EAR SPLITTING BARK Me, going to collect the dog: I am going to kill you so dead you swing all the way back around and I kill you again. #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday
[at least 8 times a day] Myka: Woof! Me: Whaddaya mean, ‘woof?’ ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday
The problem as I see it is that we took all the sadists in grocery store parking lot design and we taught them how to code
Me: my favorite black sweatshirt is clean! The tan and white dog: oh look a new bed!
#ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday
“If your standards are high and the bar is low, and you connect with the people who champion [accessibility] they will advocate for this shit.”
– Lucy Bellwood
“Don’t walk into someone else’s space and tell them what to do, and you will be much, much better off.”
– Mike Montiero
Mei: EARSPLITTING BARK Me: Mei, settle. That is not how we behave. How do we ask to get out of our crate? Mei: EARSPLITTING BARK Me: Ok that’s on me, wrong question. How should we ask to get out of our crate?
#ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday
Mei is attempting to see how far under the recliner she can stuff her ball under the recliner so she can make one of us pry it out. #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday
Oh gee. I refilled the feeder. And now the squirrels are back. Who would have ever guessed that would happen. [dogs go crazy at the door at my feet] OK out you go.
#ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday #TerrierExerciseProgram
How far across the house are you going to walk that spoon?
Look I don’t mind if you lick my face but you’re not allowed to stand on my throat.
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This poem, Training, really hit me today. By Diannely Antigua
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymag…
The PT’s office billboard: Trivia time! What type of star is the Sun?
Me, a geek, approaching it as a trap: … how much detail do you want in the answer?
I have many powers but I can’t make it stop raining. In or out? #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday
🎶John Henry said i feed four little brothers, and my baby sister’s walking on her knees. Did the Lord say that machines outta take the place of living? And what’s a substitute for bread and beans? I ain’t seen it. Do engines get rewarded for their steam?
#ai #llm
I love you too! Thank you for the kisses. You’re still not getting my pizza. #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday
new terminology just dropped: transfem.social/notes/ap4…
can someone please explain to me why i’ve got the bonnie bonnie banks of loch lomen stuck in my head?
Me, reading: Kuroda-Grauer was injured last night after fouling off a pitch in the fifth inning. He underwent emergency surgery to repair a ruptured testicle last night at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix and is resting comfortably. N: No he’s not.
(Food) regulations are written in blood.
www.consumerreports.org/health/fo…
If I get one more goddamned error message on the web because someone else made a mistake today, I am going to burn the entire goddamned internet down. *