AgnesOfTheDogs

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Dogs, Human-Computer Interaction, New Mexico, food, dogs, rewilding, gridiron football, German shepherds. Agnes was my Irish ☘️ grandmother. Did I mention dogs? #GoPackGo. Men go crazy in congregations/They only get better one by one - Sting

Taken from Reddit, screenshot of a post in which Trump takes credit for a routine grocery store sale.
A perfect kouign amman, a half of a perfect croissant, mandarin orange juice and a cappuccino on a small outdoor table in front of a tiny French bakery in Lafayette, CA.
Photo of the counter area, including, lioe, 7 large cases packed with amazing baked goods, at Arizmendi bakery in Oakland, CA.
A relaxed Sonoran gopher snake, maybe 24-30 inches? S/he is meandering away from the house, up the steps leading from our hilly yard toward the sagebrush. These snakes are good mousers!
Scott Yenor, right wing conservative creep.
List of this morning's birds: broad tailed hummingbird, juniper titmouse, bewick's wren, northern mockingbird, spotted towhee, lesser goldfinch, black-headed grosbeak, common raven (I have four juveniles and they're hilarious), lark sparrows - many at the feeder today! - and tiny bushtits in flocks.
Bear, a fluffy white malamute-husky mix, is lying on the cool tile with his chin resting on the swamp cooler floor vent.
Theee wild mustangs, two dark brown and one gray, grazing in high desert juniper grasslands near our NM home. It's very brown now; we await the monsoon.
Ryan Grim, a progressive journalist and co-founder of Drop Site News, tried to undermine the allegations because one of the women from the story, Lyndsey Fifield, is a Republican. He then went on the progressive podcast Breaking Points and said the Platner situation was good because it was forcing Democrats to confront bigotry against white men. “The current cultural divorce between progressives and white men is so, like, stark that it is—it's just culturally, morally, ethically wrong,” Grim said. “But also just pragmatically, from a political perspective, you can't build a national party if you assume every white guy or every white guy with a deep voice who is a combat vet or whatever is, like, out to get you.”
I support the Office of Management and Budget's proposed reforms to strengthen oversight of federal grant and assistance programs and improve protections against waste, fraud, and abuse. American taxpayers deserve confidence that federal funds are being spent responsibly and for their intended purposes. Recent reports of improper payments, fraudulent claims, and inadequate oversight have highlighted weaknesses in the current system that must be addressed. Strengthening verification requirements, improving recipient vetting, and providing agencies with greater authority to suspend or terminate funding when fraud or misuse is identified are reasonable and necessary steps. I particularly support efforts to improve identity verification for grant applicants, increase accountability for recipients of federal funds, and ensure that agencies can regularly review ongoing awards to determine whether taxpayer dollars are being used effectively. Federal agencies should have the tools necessary to prevent fraud before it occurs rather than attempting to recover funds after they have already been lost. The federal government has a responsibility to safeguard taxpayer resources and ensure that assistance programs operate with transparency, integrity, and accountability. These proposed reforms will help restore public trust in the grant-making process and improve stewardship of public funds. I encourage OMB to finalize these reforms and continue pursuing measures that strengthen oversight, reduce fraud, and ensure that federal funding serves the interests of the American people. Thank you for considering my comments.
A picture of a straw tote from the online Lands End catalog
A bright pink, 32 ounce insulated water bottle with a purple octopus sticker on it.
My political leanings quiz results. I am more woke than chud, a Neo-Luddite, both hopepilled and doomer, and waaay more Davos than Dubai.
A freshly-groomed blonde dog with a large head and an adorable watermelon bandanna looks into the far distance, flattened ears,hollow-eyed, haunted
Screen capture of a horizontal bar chart showing relative approval/disapproval levels for the Trump administration for 16 types of religious affiliation;disapproval levels are highest for agnostics (75%) and atheists (84%)
A quart mason jar filled with salty-sweet sour plum limeade! And colorful silicone ice cubes.
Box of Eden brand umeboshi paste
Our large white Samoyed-husky cross, Bear, continues chewing on the dachshund toy, though he's now moved to a napping spot on the cool tile under the fan.
Our large white husky-Samoyed cross, Bear, is lying on his hammock and ripping the stuffing out of the 18 inch dachshund toy. It lasted about 7 minutes.
Our 80 pound white Samoyed-Husky cross, Bear, has received a gift in the form of a stuffed squeaky dachshund toy, about 18" long. He is gleefully chewing on it and tossing it around.
A white woman with blonde hair, dressed all in black, sits on a red couch rapped with a blanket that has the presidential seal of the United States woven into it. The woman is holding a phone and looking up at the camera, smiling, clearly in the midst of a conversation. Trump posted this on Father's Day with the caption, "Great daughter. My honor. President DJT." However, this woman is clearly not one of his children.
An impressionist painting of a golden-brown tree trunk, illuminated on the right by morning sun, reaching up from a riot of green. Anton Faistauer, "Waldinneres" (Inner Woods), 1914; Leopold Museum, Vienna.
A 60 pound blonde pitbull/supermutt mix lying on his back with his snout in the air and paws flopped over his belly, snoring.
Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.
A picture of the cover of the cookbook, "Pie in the Sky," by Susan Purdy. The cookbook has a pie hanging in the sky.
Two (reasonably sized) wedges of Trader Joe's cheesecake with homemade cherry preserves on top.
A large German shepherd reclining in a couch covered with a black and white Mexican blanket looks at me with disappointment, having just been through a de-shedding session.
Quotation from article: Those sentiments came with an attendant resentment of corporate America—both for the obvious reasons (privileging the career ladder over motherhood) and the less obvious (Big Ag for poisoning their food, Big Pharma for poisoning their bodies). Among the best-selling swag: a T-shirt declaring “Big Tech Has No Soul” and hats proclaiming “Farmland Not Data Centers.” Madilynne Machovsky, a 19-year-old from Tennessee, told me she’d been working with college classmates to fight a data center planned for near the Nashville Zoo. “Among my peers on campus, that’s something, right or left, that we’re all very unified on,” she said.
A black and white soup bowl, containing a very pretty yellow-orange gazpacho and three olive oil French bread croutons. And a spoon!
A Pyrex container of refrigerator cherry jam... which will be gone in a week.
A pint of McConnell's banana cream and toffee-ettes ice cream resting on a butcher block countertop.
Photo of our well-used hoist half-cage in a dark corner our garage. With TRX straps and kettlebells ready for squats, lunges, etc.; also one of two very 1980s Nagel aerobicized models images, because husband was and remains a huge Duran Duran fan (so am I but the Nagels are a bit much).
An ungraceful, blocky, rundown 10 story dormitory Hall at Georgetown.
Picture of a Trader Joe's yellow mini sheet cake with a fairly large chunk taken out of it.
A blue red and white striped linen towel, which sits a pile of rhubarb, ready to be rinsed, sliced, and turned into a crisp!
Red glass hummingbird feeder with dark brown base, upon which a northern flicker is perched, beak in the air, having just enjoyed a sugary drink.
Bear, a large white husky cross, plants his face in a shopping bag full of stuffed dog toys, pulls out a bear, and discovers it has a squeaker. The squeaker lasted approximately 30 seconds.
Our older German Shepherd, Anderson, is more quietly persistent
A 20 second video of a Bear, a large white husky cross, talking and talking and talking at me because he wants to play and he wants his supper; Sancho, our pitbull/GSD supermutt, is picking up on the energy and agrees with Bear.
Cover of Suzanne Vega's 99.9F
Fresh out of the oven, a pan of granola with pumpkin seeds, dried cherries, oats, walnuts, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, maple syrup, vanilla, olive oil, cinnamon, and ginger.
A large white husky cross in regal repose on the landing, perfect for requesting treats and pets from anyone trying to get upstairs
Tess Thompson as Valkyrie licking her sword.
Black Butte beer can resting on a blue and white coaster
Dining room floor, large fluffy white dog lying partially under table with head resting on a plush goose toy. The toy was shredded soon after photo was taken.
German Shepherd on bed, looking skeptically into camera
Short video of two dogs, a German Shepherd named Anderson and a blonde haired, floppy-eared, black-nosed pitbull cross named Sancho, wandering through the kitchen to pester me for treats while I make my tea.
Two dogs, a blonde short-haired pit bull cross and a German shepherd in need of a good brushing, both dozing on their humans’ bed.
A small band of four wild mustangs grazing on high desert winter forage. Mountains in the background.
A sleepy, short haired blonde Matt with a black nose and floppy ears dozing off
Warren Zevon, hands up in a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ shrugging gesture