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  • Hey, uh, if you vape or know someone who does, you should probably read this study on heavy metal poisoning in vapes. Lead poisoning is nothing to screw around with. www.ucdavis.edu/news/disp…

    → 9:19 PM, Jun 29
  • You took the elephant’s nose off! Rude.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 6:42 PM, Jun 29
  • Why are you giving the cat a dirty look? He didn’t do anything to you.

    The cat:

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    A round stuffed animal pillow resembling a Pallas cat. Tan. Nose sticks out slightly. Two front feet. Eyes are drawn on. Realistic-ish but not a threat to terrier-kind.
    → 10:28 PM, Jun 28
  • I have successfully moved a load of laundry to the dryer the same day it was washed.

    You may send my Nobel to my address of record.

    → 7:51 PM, Jun 28
  • You’re nesting on my pajamas. Could you NOT nest on my pajamas? I need those [tug tug] thank [tug] you.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 1:09 AM, Jun 28
  • Zoë is terrified of June bugs which keep buzzing her and landing on her back.

    Myka thinks they are delicious crunchy sky raisins.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 8:25 PM, Jun 27
  • Could you please stop eating the crunchy sky raisins?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 10:53 PM, Jun 26
  • every time a website has the “remember me” checkbox on it i get earwormed. and then i get sad. life is weird that way.

    youtu.be/A0azOIk0K…

    → 9:13 AM, Jun 20
  • OH: If you win your round you can take anything off the prize table except the menu and the napkins

    #pinball #tournament

    → 6:18 PM, Jun 18
  • Dear MLB: we have a solution for “did it hit him?” over in cricket. How about adding SNICKO and a hotspot camera to baseball? It’s awesome to watch

    → 8:21 PM, Jun 16
  • I am covered in so. much. pee.

    Zoë has a bladder infection and insisted on sitting in my lap the entire 4 hours we were at the urgent care.

    Please excuse me I have to go launder myself and a dog.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 4:17 PM, Jun 8
  • Two things to add to this video by Hank Green:

    1. This is why I worked for a company in CA living in PA
    2. The social model of disability: if your body is a mismatch to your environment, you’re disabled.

    youtu.be/JcwO11MQ5…

    #disability #accessibility #vlog brothers

    → 6:25 PM, Jun 7
  • Calendar entry: Sun’s out. Buns fucking out —- Show me your rabbits

    → 12:18 PM, Jun 5
  • Me, chasing Myka around the back yard so I can put her harness on: I am a persistence predator! You are not! I will wear you down!

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 10:06 AM, Jun 2
  • Do not lick the fork in the parking lot! #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 10:05 AM, Jun 2
  • Did you just bark at my pillow?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 8:11 AM, Jun 2
  • Where’s Zoë? Did you stuff her in her locker?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 8:22 PM, May 31
  • Clothes pins are not for eating

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 8:21 PM, May 31
  • Hypothesis: if I drink a coke while eating the mint Oreos, I won’t eat as many because the two tastes clash like toothpaste and OJ. Test: open package of Oreos, eat with coke. Result: I have developed a taste for mint Oreos and coke. 🤦🏻‍♀️

    → 3:08 PM, May 29
  • Why can’t the trash be proactive and take itself out for a change?

    → 9:31 PM, May 28
  • You stink to high hell


    I’m not giving you a treat for ringing to doorbell to come in when the door is open and you’ve been in the whole time. No.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 3:36 PM, May 24
  • Those are clean dishes in the dishwasher. There’s no point in licking them.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 5:42 PM, May 23
  • Sassing me? I will turn you into a pizza #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 12:11 AM, May 16
  • OH: once upon a time there was a pony with a really cool haircut. The end. Go to sleep.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 12:10 AM, May 16
  • Stop eating the tree

    ** You are not an electrical plug. You can’t go behind the TV.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 8:56 PM, May 10
  • Are you done shopping? Can I close the fridge door now?


    It’s dirt. Mommy’s got to make sure the dirt on your fur doesn’t have legs. That’s what I’m for.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 12:34 AM, May 8
  • How much bellyaching do you think people would do if around age 30 we got a 3rd set of teeth? Just pushed those worn out adult teeth out of your skull for a bright shiny, and incredibly sharp set of new senior teeth?

    → 12:33 AM, May 8
  • That is not your refrigerator! Stop licking it!

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 5:34 PM, May 6
  • You have done a great job of guarding the house today. You’ve given 110%. I need you to give like 90%. Maybe 85%. We already know the neighbors live here

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 7:24 PM, May 2
  • Check your tuna folks. Botulism kills fast. And painfully. www.fda.gov/safety/re…

    → 12:33 AM, Apr 25
  • Wait if you’re behind me, who’s digging?

    No, we’re not digging up the drainage pipes, baby, it’s 11pm.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:59 PM, Apr 24
  • Got 25 minutes of fiction writing done today which is more than I’ve done in over a year. Only stopped because they were closing the arcade. (Noise blocking headphones are a godsend.)

    → 9:57 PM, Apr 24
  • Have you heard about our lord and savior “outside”? I need you to go do your preaching about him OUTSIDE.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:53 PM, Apr 24
  • I thought I was having a good game of Mando until the other player showed up.

    Photo of the mandolorian pinball machine. Player 1 has 70,000+ points and player 2 has 468,000+ points
    → 7:26 PM, Apr 23
  • The Bally drop target gods giveth, the Bally gods taketh away #pinball

    → 7:21 PM, Apr 23
  • The dogs are at home sleeping off 4 vaccines and we are at a flip frenzy tournament at the bar.

    → 7:19 PM, Apr 23
  • Me, looking down the center drain of Batman 66 pinball machine: GET OUT HERE AND FIGHT ME YOU ASSHOLE

    → 7:14 PM, Apr 23
  • It is Big Feels day since all 3 dogs are getting their physicals and all their shots today.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 1:22 PM, Apr 23
  • Enjoy a montage of photos I call “trying to do the laundry” #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    A white and brown jack Russel lying in the middle of an unfolded mattress cover The white and brown jack again, only now she’s made herself comfortable on the mostly-folded mattress cover The same jack, only now she’s stretched across a dark red fitted sheet in a crumpled unfolded state A tan and white jack Russel lying on top of ALL the piles of folded sheets and pillow cases to prove she can be as annoying as her sister

    → 11:15 PM, Apr 16
  • Are you yelling at your butt?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 11:12 PM, Apr 16
  • I don’t think you need three bones, little dragon

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:08 PM, Apr 11
  • Would you please stop trying to fall off the couch?

    —- Yes. I pet another dog. I know it was a crime and I did it anyway.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 8:03 PM, Apr 11
  • Are you done snorting my sofa? #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 10:52 PM, Apr 9
  • You are standing on my liver.


    Yeah I see you giving her the evil eye. They can see you giving her the eye from space.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 8:34 PM, Apr 9
  • Are you comfy? Is that your personal bath mat now?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 7:05 PM, Apr 3
  • New Zealand is playing Pakistan on ESPN+ and it’s too cold for me to do stuff outside so if you need me I’ll be knitting and watching cricket

    → 5:17 PM, Apr 1
  • If you have experienced the road in Pennsylvania, that is not under construction please report it to PennDOT

    → 12:31 PM, Apr 1
  • Go chase the train

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:30 PM, Mar 29
  • Did you just bark at the weather?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 4:02 PM, Mar 29
  • What the heck is going on over there?


    Look princess there is no need to be so loud when i’m RIGHT HERE

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 7:40 PM, Mar 24
  • Lord, we thank you for wild rabbits and their life-sustaining meat. We thank you for dogs, who have helped us catch rabbits for 30,000 years. We thank you for Cabot extra sharp pre-sliced cheddar cheese, which separated Myka from her quarry, eventually.

    Lord, we thank you for whiskey…

    → 10:37 PM, Mar 22
  • when I can say “hey siri, show me the apple pencils compatible with the ipad you’re running on” and get the damn apple store already filtered to the ones that work on my ipad, then we’ll be getting somewhere.

    → 9:48 PM, Mar 21
  • If you don’t keep your car in a garage, ESPECIALLY HONDAS, you may need to keep your keys in a faraday box.

    6abc.com/post/thie…

    → 5:33 PM, Mar 21
  • I know, I know, nobody expects the Velcro inquisition

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 10:13 PM, Mar 20
  • Don’t bark with your mouth full

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 8:55 PM, Mar 18
  • Smells like raccoon farts out here. What is your sister chasing? Raccoon farts?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 11:28 PM, Mar 5
  • me [taps dog on shoulder]: could you not do that maybe? dog: smacks me with her nose, continues to bark


    are you guarding your puke?


    [after I got lightly nipped during play] if you can’t keep track of where your teeth are, keep them in your mouth

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 6:32 PM, Mar 3
  • Dog: [drops a bone off the couch with a bang] Me: you’re very good at that

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:58 PM, Mar 1
  • militant decency homework assignment: find one tiktok, youtube short, meme, what-have-you that makes you laugh out loud or go HUH, that ISN’T about politics, and post it on all your socials. Today. It’s friday, y’all, we’ve got to relax

    → 6:06 PM, Feb 28
  • Missed the magic window of perfect bath temperature, again

    → 1:25 AM, Feb 26
  • still waiting for Vicks to come out with bath bombs named Vicks Vapo Tub

    → 3:00 PM, Feb 25
  • Are you eating a rock? No wonder you’re so confused. That’s a rock. Spit it out.


    …And that’s why we don’t have card catalogs anymore. The end.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:59 PM, Feb 23
  • “Somebody is going to get something out of [your prejudices] and it isn’t going to be you.”

    youtu.be/8K6-cEAJZ…

    → 10:37 PM, Feb 21
  • cross-posting in case micro.blog doesn’t pick it up: Your Militant Decency Update for the Weekend

    kirabug.com/wordpress…

    → 5:18 PM, Feb 21
  • Current status: job hunting for my dog.

    → 8:02 PM, Feb 20
  • Did you just lick the remote?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 11:30 PM, Feb 19
  • Barkopedia here is reading off her table of contents

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:54 PM, Feb 18
  • Me: I am going to bed early tonight! The dogs: the heck you are!


    Back up, I have to let Groucho Barks out past you.


    How many times do I have to tell you to stop hiding bones in the bed frame?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 12:39 AM, Feb 18
  • My dog believes her full name is “mei mei puppy treats” and she’s not coming inside for anything less.

    #ThingsISaidAboutTheDogsToday

    → 8:14 PM, Feb 14
  • Has anyone ever figured out how the characters in Cars could see in their own mirrors? I can’t see my own ears and they’re placed similarly.

    → 9:24 PM, Feb 13
  • Well that didn’t work according to your nefarious plans, did it?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 10:46 PM, Feb 12
  • I know. You were almost asleep when your sister decided to parkour all over the furniture. I’m sorry.


    Would you make up your mind about that bone and go to bed?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 1:53 AM, Feb 11
  • Fine. Once upon a time there were two princesses and they were very tired so they went to sleep. The end. Now go to sleep.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 1:45 AM, Feb 11
  • Do you want me to read you a bedtime story? Ok. Once upon a time there were two princesses. The end. Now go to sleep.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 1:43 AM, Feb 11
  • Myka! Mykes! Get in here. It’s time for bed. Stop eating all the ice. Honey we had an ice storm, there’s too much ice to eat. No, get in here you’ll [brain fritzes out] drown…

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 11:57 PM, Feb 9
  • Every night about a half hour after lights go out Zoë needs to go pee. Every. Night. Yes, I’ve tried that. And that too.

    People tell me I’ll never know what it’s like to have kids & that’s true because Zoë should live to about 16 and she will never grow out of this.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 2:12 AM, Feb 8
  • Girls, where’s the General? Did you stuff her in her locker?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 11:15 PM, Feb 3
  • Don’t stick your head in my slipper and then grunt about it!


    What’s up, General? Driving all the troops out of the kitchen so you can keep all the scraps to yourself?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:43 PM, Feb 3
  • honest to god people i promise you that just providing a text field that accepts mm/dd/yyyy format is enough to capture a birth date. i don’t want a calendar i have to flip back [mumble] many years. i don’t want a select menu to choose the month. just give me the format everyone’s used for forever!

    → 3:11 PM, Feb 3
  • Yeah? You need something from the fridge? I have doubts.

    Congrats on scaring away the neighbors in their own yard. They live there. They’re good puppies. [they’re humans.]

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 3:08 PM, Feb 3
  • I have reached the stage where I’m like a drug dealer but for YouTube. “Dude if you want science videos man you let me know because I can hook you up with so many channels”

    → 8:44 PM, Jan 30
  • If you would like to learn what it’s like to actually be an Air Traffic Controller, I recommend www.tiktok.com/@sigridel… by Sigrid Ellis, and her other excellent videos.

    I assure you that what you hear about ATCs today from a certain specific official is far from the reality.

    → 5:56 PM, Jan 30
  • Lord, teach me to be as easily pleased and satisfied with my life as Mei is with a squeaky ball.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 11:43 AM, Jan 29
  • General relativity at our house #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    A diagram of the fabric of spacetime being pulled down by a black hole except the fabric is labeled my queen bed and the giant cone-like dent in the center is one (1) Jack Russell terrier
    → 1:20 AM, Jan 28
  • New England folks! If you felt the earthquake, please report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak… #citizenScience

    → 10:30 AM, Jan 27
  • Ok who tracked in the bird feather I found in the hall and what else do I need to know about the yard?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 10:14 PM, Jan 26
  • Me: [opens door to fridge, stands there.] … Why am I in the fridge? [looks down at Zoe who is climbing onto the fridge floor] Why are YOU in the fridge?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:59 AM, Jan 26
  • I know you don’t have the turning radius of a human but you can do better than that.


    Did you just lie to your sister to steal the pig? Yeah, you did. No, the pig canNOT GO OUT IN THE SNOW GET BACK HERE

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 4:29 PM, Jan 25
  • What are you, my poison tester?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 9:59 PM, Jan 21
  • it seems like a good time to remind everyone of Yog’s Law: money flows toward the writer. For god’s sake don’t pay submission fees to have your stuff read.

    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Yog%…

    → 12:05 AM, Jan 19
  • so much truth in here. so much.

    youtube.com/shorts/mR…

    → 12:38 PM, Jan 17
  • website: measure the dog’s foot while they are standing me: the dog has learned to tap dance

    → 4:26 PM, Jan 16
  • Stop picking the locks

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 12:35 AM, Jan 13
  • Me: are we ready to go back inside? [Dogs sprint in every direction] Me: we are not

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 11:58 PM, Jan 11
  • Myka I love you very much but we have to have a talk about eyeballs and ears and personal space

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 10:00 AM, Jan 11
  • Poor thing, you’ve got a cowlick on your snout.

    No “woof”.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 2:07 AM, Jan 11
    • You can eat the snow after I get the door closed.
    • You can’t have the koala. They have chlamydia. That’s the last thing we need.
    • Once again I ask: why are you standing on my head?

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 5:44 PM, Jan 7
  • Things I thought would be a much bigger deal than they are in 2025, a list:

    • quicksand
    • rabid dogs in the streets. (Note: yes I know about my privilege)
    • Scarlet Fever
    • Exploding nuclear power plants (Note: I use the local power plant as a weather rock.)
    → 5:37 PM, Jan 7
  • I believe in Heaven because I can’t imagine a universe where I won’t see my dogs again.

    #grief

    → 12:54 AM, Jan 4
  • You don’t eat Italian food. You’re a dog.

    You’re English, you can’t have an Italian hoagie.

    You can sigh as dramatically as you want. It’s still my hoagie.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 12:53 AM, Jan 4
  • It’s good to see that 31 years after my last French class and 30 years after dropping Spanish in college I’m still answering Spanish language questions in French. Thanks brain.

    → 5:42 PM, Jan 3
  • If I was a good mom I’d make you all put your sweaters back on but I’m not a good mom so get out there and pee.

    Dogs who bark at the door must go out the door.

    I swear I am clean. Stop licking me.

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 10:42 PM, Jan 2
  • Meow? You’re a dog, sweetie.

    Me to Zoë an hour into playing frisbee: How are you not tired yet, asks the woman who will put a thousand hours into an RPG just to get all the characters to level 99

    #ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday

    → 7:38 PM, Jan 1
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