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Tiny Little Hippo
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Upside-down dog sends his love and suggests cuddling a furry creature for comfort
A white-bodied dog with a brown and white face is laying on his back, looking at the camera. Only his face and part of his chest are in shot. The camera has focused on his nose so everything else is slightly blurred.
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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This guy headbutted me in the face yesterday*, split my lip open and I can't even be mad, look at him 🥺 never committed a crime in his life!

*I dared try to dry him off after a walk in the rain, because he hates being wet, but apparently hates the towel more 🤷🏼‍♀️
A small white dog with brown patches over his eyes and ears is lying, partly on a fluffy grey dog bed, on a faux-leather conference room chair. He is lying donw leaning against one of the arms of the chair, with his front paws crossed on the bed (which he has mostly pushed off the chair) while his rear end is curled up on a red-and-white scandi-patterned blanket. He is looking very seriously at the camera.
September 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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If you like piña coladas
And drinking rum on the train 🎶
A can of Morrisons 'mixed to perfection' piña colada on a fold-down train seat-back table. The can is a golden orange, with white and turquoise text, set against the light grey table and mid-grey seat back. The can has a design behind the drink name, which looks like a floral table centrepiece but made up of of turquoise surboards, blue palm fronds, dark pink pineapples, and brown-shelled coconuts with golden flesh.
August 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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It's more that by boiling (and creating limescale) you're pulling some of the dissolved minerals out of the water - they have a tendency to react with flavours in tea, coffee etc. Welsh water is generally a lot softer than English so has less of the minerals that bork the coffee flavour!
A map of England and Wales, coloured to show the water "hardness" (no units are included in the key, so it can only be taken as relative "hardness" between areas). East Anglia and the East Midlands both have a lot of dark pink, the "hardest" water (highest dissolved mineral content). Wales, Cornwall, and the North-West of England are largely pale green, the "softest" water (lowest dissolved mineral content). The rest of England is pale pink and lilac/mauve, i.e. various middling hardnesses.
August 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Happy Birthday! I hope you have a better day than the bear at Cardiff Castle 😅
A stone wall topped with a stone carving of a bear that appears to be climbing over it from the far side. The bear's head, shoulders, and front paws are visible. It is looking directly at the viewer with orange glass eyes. With its wide open eyes and pinned-back ears, it looks like something unexpected and not entirely pleasant may have happened to the part of the bear obscured by the wall. Or perhaps he was not expecting to see you here, and you have scuppered his escape plan. I don't suppose we will ever know.
August 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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A friend shared this with me earlier and I feel like the artist had my actual dog in mind when she painted this 😅🤣
A meme with black text above an image on a white background. "You share food with your dog?" My dog: The image is a cropped portrait of a dog from a painting by Alison Friend. A white terrier-type dog with black ears and eye patches looks at the artist with its face and body angled slightly towards the left of the frame. The dog appears to be standing upright, though the portrait ends just below the dog's forelegs. It has a slight smile, obscured by a digestive biscuit held up to its mouth by its right paw. Its left paw holds two more biscuits (a jam sandwich cream and a pink wafer) against its chest, for later.
July 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Ahh I have one of these! And also impressions trauma! It was like having one of those thin silver microphones waggled inside your mouth for a bit and they also let me keep my 3D-printed teeth (which I then hid in Vis's house to scare him 🤣)
Photo CW: disembodied teeth
A 3D scan image of disembodied teeth and gums, floating in a pale blue void. The teeth look incredibly realistic, which is particularly jarring given that the gums are not connected to anything. Pale pink 3D-printed dental impressions on top of blue paper on a stainless steel tray. The top set of teeth has a translucent blue hard plastic mouthguard clipped on to the teeth.
July 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Didn't sleep enough last night, haven't drunk enough water today, digestive system's acting up and I haven't made it out of my pyjamas at 4pm. But sitting in the warm shade is still pretty nice
A striped pararol, the sun behind it, framed by the blue sky. The parasol's stripes run in concentric octagons, from dark green to light green to light blue to dark blue, back to dark green and so on, from the centre to the outer edge. Around the bottom edge of the picture are some shrubs, the top of a wood panel fence, and the corner of a shed in the bottom left. Most of the left side is the silhouette of the side of a house.
May 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Dog had to be washed twice in three days - initially because he was *yellow* from frolicking in the dandelions, and then due to a fox poo incident - and was incredibly put out that we had washed off all of his stink, so he needed to replenish it ASAP. I hope your cramps pass soon!
May 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Happy Birthday from a small silly man who really doesn't trust the possessed ball (to which I say: fair. Also, he's not allowed to play with it without close supervision, for anyone worried about that). You've already had a photo of this little guy so I thought a video might be nice too 😊
May 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Ooh! Ooh! I don't know if these will fit your needs exactly but I found this fudge in Asda today (£2) and immediately ate enough to feel sick, it was so delicious 😅
A turquoise box of "Handmade salted maple flavour fudge" which is "Plant Based by Asda". The box has the brand "OMV!" written on it in large pink letters, and descriptive text in white in between several blocks of caramel-coloured fudge.
April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I believe all has been forgiven
An incredibly fluffy brown-and-white dog lying on an outdoor sofa made of woven plastic (to look like rattan) in the sunshine. He is looking somewhere to the left of the photographer. His mouth is open and his tongue out slightly, like he is smiling. You can see that his chest is pure white and no longer covered in fox excrement.
March 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
A small brown-and-white dog sat in a white bathtub, looking slightly beyond the camera. His normally-white chest has a large, wet, brown stain on it. There is also some unspeakable gunge on his left cheek. He looks unrepentant. The same dog, in a photo taken from above. He is standing in the same bathtub, actively being showered. He is soaking wet and looks much thinner than in the previous picture. His tail is down and he looks miserable. His eyes are pleading with the photographer to please make the water stop.
March 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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This is the life 🥰
A fluffy white dog with a grey-brown chin is sleeping upside-down on the sofa with his paws in the air. His left side is pressed against his human's thigh. His head is tilted back so only his nose and chin are visible. He is snoring loudly (though you cannot tell this from the picture).
February 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Bless the customer service agent who is clearly having a worse day than I am 😅 we worked it out together in the end!
A gray chat bubble reading "Please ignore my previous responses."
December 5, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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After buying several soft fruit plants this year I have managed to grow one (1) raspberry. Thankfully (being the most expensive berry I've eaten...) it was the most raspberry raspberry I've ever tasted ❤️
A small ripe raspberry still attached to a raspberry plant with yellowy-green leaves, being lifted towards the camera on a white hand.
August 10, 2024 at 7:22 PM