#dog discourse

[highly-nonexistent]

There is something very weird about the relatively short nature of the culture surrounding website creation. As in, like, internet-user-created websites have been around for like 30-31 years at this point, and the culture surrounding them has changed so very much.

People used to create websites left and right for their own needs, their little shops and their little blogs about what they liked. Some websites of course housing horrible content since their dawn, and some being as mundane but as unique as the person behind its code. I have seen older sites, archived, that promoted creating your own site, and that was interesting to see. That culture of creating your own website and of sharing that knowledge on a still-growing facet of communication.

And then at some point social media appeared, and that was interesting, because now everyone was able to quickly present themselves without the need of a website, but that didn't mean people stopped making websites. I mean, hell, Geocities died in 2009, so a lot of people were creating their own websites for free before that time, no need to pay for domain names or hosting. And even without Geocities, there were other website hosting things that yes, while not as customizable, were still a resource for people to work with them. There's still a website floating around that I made when I was a kid using one of these services. Cool stuff.

All this to say that I do feel a weird sense of dread looking back and cross-referencing with the present and seeing things like "website creator powered by AI" and shit like that, because just ?? How did it go plummeting so quickly. There is a weird feeling of having lost a developing culture to corporations making quick access to posting things that, as corporations' nature dictates, are used to sell data or to train models or what have you. Similarly, we get pretty same-y looking pages because of the need to be slick or whatever with designs that just leaves everything looking the same. ALSO, the loss of spaces for kids, or just the gradual lowering of them in favor of cocomelons and whatever else the devil's machine has spawned is like watching an apple decay before having ripened. I do feel like there is this phenomenon in which how to make a site has been lost in the notion of "making a website falls into the realm of evil and scary coding and I could never be a programmer, plus who would look at it, plus we have tools to make them," etc etc etc. Here is a little secret: website creation is not exactly hard to pick up at all. You might say it's very similar to using a rich text editor like Word or a notes app or whatever you use. Similarly, have you used markdown for things like messages or D iscord messages, you know, with the asterisks for bold text and the likes? Markdown is based on html's structures. And truly, you do not have to even learn to code using Javascript if you don't want to, you can just go full html + css and structure your things as you go, adding your little images and your updates. Because guess what !! Html and css are not programming languages, they're a markup language and a stylesheet language respectively, which is a fancy way to say "you make the structure of your page with the first one and make it pretty with the second one". This includes cool stuff like tables, lists, grids, colors, transitions, etc. All of that without any programming. (That being said, if you are interested in programming, Javascript isn't too bad to pick up. The language itself *is* kind of evil, but using it in conjunction with html is not too difficult). I do have to say though, I am glad that there is a push to making your own websites and things, especially with Neocities sprawling a huge community of avid website creators, as well as the huge amount of tutorials and stuff making the push forward with making sites and online spaces and experiences more widely available. Hopefully this becomes a trend that keeps going up, considering the state of seemingly every single social media that has existed since the 2000s- 2010s.

[arcanehackist]

Recognizing and Reporting Dogfighting on Social Media: A Short PSA

(feel free to copy/paste to anywhere.)

In light of recently discovering nine accounts with evidence of illegal dogfighting taking place behind the scenes on TikTok, I’m posting a PSA on how to recognize and report content like this for legal action to be taken, to save the lives of dogs and other animals used as “bait.”

Language-

Certain words for dogs/behavior/people are used mostly/entirely by dogfighters. Some of them are as follows:

•*Cur* or *Stone Cold*- A dog that won’t/refuses to fight

•*Dogman*- Someone that handles fighting dogs

•*Prospect*- A promising young aggressive dog

•*Champion*- A dog that has won fights

•*Game Bred*- Dogs bred for aggression/fighting

•*Game Dog*- A dog proven “game”, a fighter

•*Scratches/Scratch Lines*- The lines dogs start behind in the fighting pit

•*Catchweight*- A heavyweight fighting dog

•*Chain-weight*- The normal weight of a dog

•*Yard*- Where the dogs are kept

•*Roll/Bump*- A training match

Fighting Dog Training Equipment

Most dog fighters use the same methods that people have for a century or more, manual devices to bulk up their dogs and train out any remaining hesitation. The names of those are as follows:

*Catmill, Flirt Pole, Spring Pole, Turn Table*

•Treadmills are a red flag, though these are also used for non-fighting dogs, so treadmills alone are not a sign.

Personal/Dog Behavior

Accounts/people that behave in a certain way are easy to recognize once you figure out the pattern. Red flags such as the following:

-Flaunting a dog’s muscle mass

-Dogs on chains outside, sometimes with doghouses

-Dogs not allowed inside/in contact with each other

-Stock of single/multiple dogs fully of Pit Bulls/Bully Breed dogs

-Dogs often look thin, but in reality have no fat and are all muscle mass

-Bragging of a dog’s “bloodline” and often citing the names of specific dogs. Looking up said dogs may bring up papers/conformation of them coming from a “fighting line”

-Videos of dogs training/hanging off of things just by their mouth, grabbing and shaking hard

-Dogs with scars on their face/head

-Breeding, advertising dogs for stud, selling puppies, “coming soon” type posts

-Advertising the kennel their dog came from, said kennel only seems to breed very lean bully breeds/pit bulls

-Often arguing for “preserving lines” or arguing inbreeding is okay

Reporting

If you report the accounts/content to the social media site they are on, the content will be removed and no further action will be taken. To actually get these people in legal trouble, report them to the FBI tip line. If you don’t want to use your own information with the tip, put the address of something like a Walmart. Just make sure if you add any contact information that it is valid.

The accounts often comment on each other’s pages/videos, and if you are a strong-stomached person you may be able to report multiple at once by browsing comments and clicking on suspect accounts to acquire usernames.

DO NOT INTERACT WITH THEM

FBI tip line: https://tips.fbi.gov/home

American Humane Guide: https://www.americanhumane.org/fact-sheet/reporting-internet-animal-abuse/

[balthazarslostlibrary]

I was walking along the beach a few days ago when I saw these pakake, or new zealand sea lions. They were very peacefully resting above the tide-line getting their Zs in and cuddling.

Their peace was very nice to see because these are taoka species and endangered after being hunted almost to extinction on the mainland. Pakeke have only started pupping on the mainland in the past 40 years, and so it’s extremely important to protect them.

Now for the less great part

Their peace was, unfortunately, disturbed by a person and her off-leash dog. There were signs up saying to leash your dog for a specific part of the beach, not even the whole beach, because there were pakeke resting in that area. When I shouted to her that there were sealions, and that her dog was actively harassing them, she waved her hand vaguely at her dog until it eventually came away. I realised she didnt even have a lead, and she just left her dog’s poop on the beach to go into the ocean.

Actually infuriating that some people just refuse to leash dogs their when they should, no matter what people say or do.

The world does not belong to you, and your dog comes second to the environment and other wildlife, get it through your head.

[handmedownpocketpussy]

Let them speak

just saw someone claiming that chihuahuas aren’t beginner level dogs. we’ve done it, we’ve finally ruled out every dog. you can no longer have a dog unless you’ve had a dog before. but you can’t have. seeing as none of them are for beginners

[bunjywunjy]

I'm very disappointed that you would reblog posts about pitbulls. The "nanny dog" thing is a myth, and they account for nearly 70% of all fatal dog attacks in the USA. It sucks and it's not fair for the dogs, but they were bred to be aggressive. It feels like when someone "tames" a bear cub and is later mauled. It's simply in their nature. And no, I don't care that anecdotally all pitbulls you've met were sweet and kind. Many owners have been killed by their very own sweet pitbulls. It's not ALL pitbulls, but isn't it funny how 70% of the time it's a pitbull?

THIS?????

YOU'RE MAD ABOUT THIS???????

unfollow me right now. I'm genuinely serious.

if you're this eager to believe cop statistics about scary dogs, what the fuck do you believe about other animals?? do you also think sharks are mindless eating machines that want to launch themselves onto the beach after you?? no it's not 'in its nature' or whatever the fuck, do you think it's a jurassic park velociraptor or something?? it's a DOG.

I've posted about this before, but pitbulls are just another type of large-breed dog with breed-specific needs and behaviors that make them not suitable for every home, but by and large they're about the same as every other dog in their size class.

german shepards, malonois, hell, even labs and goldens will maul adults and kill kids if not correctly trained or mistreated! all large dogs are inherently somewhat dangerous and should be trained and treated accordingly, which sadly MANY owners do not. PITS. ARE. NOT. SPECIAL.

[wulfbones]

this dog does not support zoophiles or those who participate in beastiality.

this dog does not support pedophiles or self proclaimed maps.

this dog does not support necrophiles or any other harmful paraphiles.

seek help!

[vigilskept]

i genuinely don’t think i can overstate it so here it is explicitly: the idea of elves having originally been Evil Imperialists and As Bad As The Colonizers has a direct real counterpart in anti-indigenous discourse using violence perpetrated by the AZTEC EMPIRE as justification for imperialism and colonialism.

[tangerinebonfire]

My most controversial opinion is that most people should not own a dog.

Leaving an animal locked in a cage or in a house alone for 8+ hours a day while you're at work, scaring or inconveniencing other people because you can't train it and can't control it when it runs/jumps/barks/bites, harming or scaring other dogs because you never socialized your dog and it lashes out from fear/anxiety, leaving your dog to bark for hours due to stress/boredom, bringing your badly behaved dog uninvited to a social event because you can't leave it home, leaving dog poop in public parks, bringing your fake, untrained "emotional support" dog places it doesn't belong, letting your off-leash dog get in the face of strangers who didn't consent to have your dog jumping/licking on them...

Dogs are living creatures, and life does not owe you the ownership of a creature you can't care for. Sorry.

i wish dog owners would shut the fuck up sometimes

[highly-nonexistent]

I believe that making strawmen is sometimes good, actually, but it has to be for situations that could only reside within the realm of whimsy.

I was writing a sentence that was pretty much "I bite X thing out with my teeth", and the straw pieces tied themselves up into this effigy saying "Well, stupid, bite already implies teeth". Now, while true, the retort to this is simple. Teeth imply biting as well. Now, this sentence is obviously redundant and one of both could be removed, but why so? Why negate the doubling down so you teeth twice?? The biter...

And yes, I believe so that sometimes enlightenment is fighting about teeth

[arcanehackist]

”When you go looking for racism you will fucking find it” you’re white aren’t you

Do you have a life outside of sending ignorant messages to people on tumblr? Or is that like your whole thing.

Anti Defamation League on Skinheads and Pitbull Dogs

Biomed Central: Humans Are Not Like Dog Breeds

Humane Groups are Misusing Race Issues to Force Pit Bull Agenda on Insurance Commissioners

Collared Scholar: Are We Really Saving the Pit Bull?

I am white. I don’t experience racism actively. I have many POC friends, and I have witnessed it. I went to a high school where it was violently rampant. Yes, my point still stands, when you go to a 4chan board you will fucking find racism, you dumbass.

[adorabludgeonable]

no guys you dont get it. [harmless identity] is invading [community] and causing [mass societal / systemic issues]. lets attack [people fighting alongside us] because that will solve [systemic issues]. no guys its not infighting because [good faith identity] is a hostile invasion of [community they have been included in]. no guys im right this time i promise

[autizta]

"abstract art has no soul, AI art has no soul, generative art has no soul, art made by-" SOULS WERE MADE UP BY BIG TOBY FOX. TO SELL UNDERTALES, WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[souperstition]

tumblr therians who hate tiktok !!!!!

i dislike tiktok . it's weird and i think any platform with short form content is bound to piss people off

however, i personally would like to say a few things !!!!! no that u have to hear me out lol

ALSO PSA THIS IS MOSTLY ABOUT YOUNGER THERIANS (like under 16)

anyway plsss keep in mind :

therians on tiktok are 80% children (from like 8-14) (have you ever seen a child talk about something important to them? they scramble their words and make it very self centric!! they do not quite understand social media, information gathering, communities and safe spaces like us older people do) (my foster sister is 11 year old is a therian and she's still figuring out how to work with it) (also their whole lives have been spent living as human, unlike some of us older creatures who have had therianthropy under our belt for years)

i've also deleted tiktok! but instead, i literally watch those silly therian tiktok compilation videos on youtube. they're usually hand picked and recent! avoid the drama and watch fun little videos online !!!

also please remember some therians can be more connected to their humanity than you could be ! sure, they shouldn't claim every therian "is human", but if they're a child, children seem to apply "if this is my experience, then it's everyone's experience duhhh". if they're older with a bunch of experience in the community then go ahead n sick'em i condone that LOL

OKAY RANT OVER

sorry no one is gonna read this lol

i think we need to teach our tiny creatures before being like "RAWR U DONT EVEN KNOW HOW IT WORKS !!!!" they r little puppies guys

[jesncin]

Clark Kent and Krypto the Superdog for DC Gotcha For Gaza (requests closed for now). A Kryptonian's best friend!

[yujateaandpi]

hold on I’m going to be emo about Digimon for a moment. The whole essence of the franchise is “my good weird talking dog loves me soooo much and all they want is to live peacefully by my side but when my life is threatened (which is often) they transform into an immensely powerful being just so they can give their life up for mine. And sometimes they do and sometimes they are reborn but other times they do not come back and there is no way to repay or fill their loss. And sometimes I betray them but they will forgive me forever no matter how I mistreat them. And sometimes they forget who I am but they will never stop following me because that love doesn’t go away. All they want is to stay small and get head scritches and snacks but the world gets threatened literally every day so they’re always fighting for me. We live in two different worlds and they can’t always be next to me but they’ll wait. They’ll wait years and even when I’m older and have changed they’ll know who I am. They don’t understand why I’ve changed but in their eyes, I’m still the same child.”

[househeritageposts]

nah you are not about to come onto my silly blog and call me and my houselings puritans as if we're not devoted fans of a show we literally call "hate crimes md"

this is the last time i'm going to post about this topic, but for the record:

i see absolutely nothing wrong with pointing out offensive + outdated episodes of a tv show that stopped airing over a decade ago, so that newcomers to the series can be aware of what they're diving into. god forbid i agree with someone saying that maybe a main character berating a 10 year old for being overweight is a little uncomfortable to watch!!!

the house fandom wiki has extremely detailed synopses of each episode so that you can get the overarching plot developments without having to subject yourself to house saying cruel shit to a patient that you've had to hear from doctors in your real life a million times. and they have a ranking system out of 10 for how rare the diagnoses in each episode are, which is delightful.

of course it's not the same as watching the whole series but if you have a problem with the portrayal of certain issues in the show, it's a fine enough substitute.

now everyone stop arguing and repost white boy wilson dance gif.