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NorcalGma2, 5 hours ago to Dog

We got my husband off to the hospital at 4:15 this morning. Because he has skin cancer on his face that has stubbornly recurred after three removal efforts, today they are trying a different strategy. Hopefully, the mohs surgery is successful.
Summer decided to spend the rest of her very early morning in his chair. She has one of his sweatshirts to cuddle while she misses him.
Hope you got more sleep than we did.
Good morning, Mastodon.
#Summer #Dog

Golden Labrador retriever laying in a brown recliner with her head resting on the arm of the chair. She is looking at the camera.

RickiTarr, 5 hours ago to random

Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

GreenFire, 5 hours ago to random

I really wonder how long Tesla shareholders are going to put up with having an immature madman as CEO?

TheBreadmonkey, 8 hours ago to random

America: let's elect a man with a tiny penis who paints himself orange, can't count, constantly commits crimes and is clearly an imbecile

DreadShips, 9 hours ago to random

Tech bros love to boast about moving fast and breaking things, so it comes as some relief to find an instance where they've moved at a more stately 17 knots and yet still utterly fucked it.

In this case the "it" being carpool vehicles. Programmed to treat movement without the engine being switched on as either theft or witchcraft, they instantly bricked themselves in response.

What happened when these vehicles travelled by ferry was perhaps predictable...

#FailureFriday

tantramar, 16 hours ago to random

Articulate, loud-mouthed assholes — even in the media — are still assholes. Having read a book or two doesn’t change that. Neither does dying.

SCampbell, 16 hours ago to random

I don’t get how asking for a billion from oil companies in exchange for giving them freebies is legal.

kdorse, 19 hours ago to random

Twenty years ago, the CBC held a contest to name the Greatest Canadian (spoiler, it was Tommy Douglas). It’s an odd thing to remember now, but advocating for Pierre Trudeau was Rex Murphy.

Ffangohr, 20 hours ago to random

However hard I try. There’s is always the devastating relapse. IKEA.

tantramar, 20 hours ago to random

THESE ARE MY HIGHEST-QUALITY TOOTS, PEOPLE

tantramar, 21 hours ago to random

When you see someone you follow mentioning DHH twice in a short time — non-disparagingly — you start to wonder.

davedelong, 21 hours ago to random

Is iMovie really not a document-based app anymore? I want to have an iMovie project with only its source files saved on an external hard drive, but I'm not finding how to do that on my Mac. I could've sworn this used to be possible.

TheBreadmonkey, 21 hours ago to random

Watching Sugar. It's a bit dry, but I think I like it. Very Sam Spade-esque. It's cliché-heavy but somehow carries it off.

steveportigal, 22 hours ago to random

I've been thinking about this old Heart video I just saw the other day.

The band seems tired and isn't really rocking out, but Ann Wilson's vocal is just unbelievable. She's kind of low key in vibe but opens her mouth and just wow.

I've heard this song a zillion and one times, and am a bit tired of it to say the least but this really moved me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKJbyK4NTek

iuculano, 23 hours ago to worldnews

Via #GlobalNews

Business groups are warning #Finance Minister #ChrystiaFreeland that increasing #Canada’s #CapitalGains inclusion rate will have “significant knock-on impacts” if implemented with possible “irreversible repercussions.”

Six of the country’s largest industry organizations wrote in an open letter to Freeland Thursday that the proposed hike will impede economic growth and come at the expense of future generations.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10485332/business-concerns-capital-gains-changes-freeland-letter/

JugglingWithEggs, 23 hours ago to apple

A tablet will never replicate the experience of playing a physical piano or ukulele for me. I still read physical books over using a kindle. When I draw and paint it’s with a real pencil and paint brush.

If that makes me a Luddite, then I’m proud to be one.

#Apple
#iPadAdvert

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

octothorpe, 23 hours ago to random

In my head, the goose’s name from ‘Untitled Goose Game’ is Stephen.

Stephen Honking.

thomasfuchs, 1 day ago to random

Gonna enjoy a bananum for breakfast

sheepfilms, 3 days ago to random

As it's been 20 years since I made the original, I thought I'd recreate my "Monitor Slapping" GIF. Except now I'm slapping myself through time....

A man sitting at a computer, being slapped by a hand coming out of the monitor. He reaches in and slaps a younger version of himself on the other side of the monitor