My dogs are lovely and talented and have never done anything wrong in their lives and also are driving me nuts right now.

How can I be expected to finish up this syllabus for tomorrow morning when there's a tiny dog demanding at least 4000 minutes of uninterrupted attention?

Timeline cleanse: Should this guy start modeling or what?

it's gotta be this one. i think about getting a mushroom tattoo that says "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" all the time

Hey guess what I discovered the kitchen table and it’s fun to walk and sit on! Who wants to join me?

Cats all rolled up like delicious pastries

See this smile? 😃 My ice-cream is almost here. 🍦 Have a nice day, BlueSky! #DogsOfBlueSky #Pets #petlovers #havanese #dogs #dogwalk #Frenchton

logging on

Cancer: New year. New you? Let’s hope so.

To be clear my colleagues and immediate supervisors (weird way to talk about my job) were incredibly kind and supportive, but i was also told (by others! Not here!) that I shouldn't be allowed in academia because I take meds for my mental health.

I want to throw out my entire online class and start over again. What are your great online assignments for the history classroom? #academicsky #history

Oh to be a cat curled up on a heating pad with a space heater on one side and a hooman on the other

Everything is stupid but there's a stinkbug on the ceiling

In the wake of all the news coming out of the US and the amount of shouting at the TV I've done, I thought everyone else might benefit from one of my favourite photos from 2017 to break up the doom scrolling. I cannot fix the big things, so here's a small thing.

⛓️‍💥💓⛓️‍💥

Ich hatte die schönste Überraschung im Briefkasten 🥹 - @neocortex.bsky.social hat mir ein Jette Portrait geschickt 🥲💚. Ich hab mich so gefreut - Danke nochmal!!! #kleineKunstklasse

Depression is craving over me like large waves and it all feels so stupid. I was still awake at 7 am and I've been up since 11 am which is no doubt contributing. Gonna make myself get up. I did walk the dogs at 5:30 this morning.

INNOCENT

Footnote has no idea what's happening.

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I'm sad. Does anyone have some photos of plants to share? I'll start. This is a tree I walk by every day. I like it.

I had a really nice coffee with one of my colleagues and we talked a lot about how we want to engaged educators but the boom in AI is making it hard.

Good afternoon! Index decided to join team give up and Lie on the ground during our early morning walk. I'm sorry about the weather, my wee angel.

Footnote is following me around the apartment looking concerned so I think I'm dying.

JESUS CHRIST THAT THING IS BIGGER THAN THE MOON

I'M UPSET AT COMPUTERS THEY USED TO BE COOL NOW THEY JUST MAKE ME MAD ALL THE TIME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Please tell me the knitters are going to yell at Google until the company has to apologize the way the US Olympic Committee did.

Having a tasty cup of tea and enjoying a tasty breakfast and wondering if the actual fog will lift. #TeaUp

A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this

It’s New Years Eve. I did enough this year. YOU did enough this year. Bring on 2026 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Good morning! Footnote decided to wake me by banging her empty bowl with her giant puppy paws. She was Displeased. (She is now pleased.) #AcademicsWithDogs #DogsOfBluesky

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

One of the things that happened in 2024 was I stopped taking many photos of the dogs and in 2019 I stopped taking many photos of my cute face (and in all the ones I did I wasn't smiling). So in 2026 I want to take and share photos of the dogs and try to smile like I mean it. It's been a hard year.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Best returning from business trips pic of 2025

Best judgmental Kell pic of 2025

Yay! My copy of Decoding the Hand by Alison Bashford finally came in! Gonna learn about the History of Science, Medicine, and Magic in 2026!!

Y'all, I thought I'd buy some duotangs for a project I want to do this term and when did they get so damned expensive?!

Good morning! I've reached the stage of horrific depression where I'm just annoyed with the whole thing. Yes yes I want to die possibly by turning into moss, but until that happens I have stuff to do so could you take a break, demon that lives in my head and is trying to kill me? It's tedious.

It’s 2026 in Sydney, Australia. It’s 2025 in Sydney, Canada. What a time to be alive.

FIC: Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death (fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the organizer of the annual Lottery as described by Shirley Jackson)

Hey you know what this year fucking sucked.

I just want you all to know that despite the horrors I am making soup.

what happens when a microscope crashes into a telescope? they kaleidescope

happy New Year to my fellow vaccinated people about to make it to 2026

it's a harsh world out there and not everyone is going to give you credit for all the great stuff you do. but Sandal thinks you have done awesome this year. he doesn't know how you do it. he also doesn't even know how to open the refrigerator but that isn't important rn

My brain is back to trying to kill me after a nice little break and I'm like "come on, it's not fair. Can't someone more deserving of this feel like dying for a while? I have a list!"

A reminder to vote here on Bluesky using likes, and I'll add up the votes across four platforms. Bluesky and Mastodon have provided most of the votes this year. This round will likely see the 325,000th vote cast in this contest over the years, which is very silly. Voting open for 24 hours.