For the first time in 30 years, I'm not asking for a horse for Christmas. Because I finally bought myself one in November.

Baby horf was not thrilled to have sandhill cranes in her pasture this morning

Begging women's pro sports leagues to understand that there is demand for their merch from adults

Maybe, if you share a fenceline with a boarding stables, don't have a burn pile in your backyard? Brought to you by Eclipse freaking out in the pasture this morning.

Harold walked, with assistance, so Stacey could run

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Gorgeous most of the time, but when I'm working with her she's a complete derp

Proud and confused that Burque made this list.

Baby teef!

If you've spent significant time in five or more of these towns, you probably work in public land management

An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame. But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.

Baby girl and I went for a hike this morning, on trails she's never been on, in a city she only moved to a few days ago, and she lived up to her dam's reputation of babies who take everything in stride.

I agree that people who want to gamble should be forced to physically marinate in cigarette smoke and a lingering ambience of body odor and shame to do so

She's home! My new baby, Eclipse.

Whole lot of people were telling us feds that the RIF reversal in the CR was meaningless because Vought wouldn't comply don't seem to have acting to say about the memo that went out this morning from OPM

I largely stepped away last night but I have to say this is exactly how my feed had me feeling this morning.

It is not a coincidence that the Nevada and Virginia delegations voted for the deal. The major federal employee unions (AFGE, NFFE, NTEU) were no longer supporting the shutdown. And this bill reverses and blocks the illegal RIFs.

I'm going to say this just once and then step away: Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month. I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.

i am so very sorry but marta can never retire, 95th minute in a playoff quarterfinal clinging to a 1 goal lead and she uses every ounce of energy she had left to sprint damn near the whole pitch and win a late penalty, then gives the spot kick to luana. i'm over here just being a puddle of emotions.

It's not just that fifa do a lot of bribery or that they're good at it, though both of those things are true. It's how much they enjoy it. They like the results, of course, but they like the thing itself. Recreationally corrupt. In a kind of flow state of bentness.

Aaaaaaah it's happening! Bluesky, meet my new baby horf, Eclipse, a two year old foundation quarter house filly.

Fall in the Bosque is the best time of year

Everyone should see white sands! We don't let the general public see the trackways (sorry, but also they're ephemeral anyways), but the team down there does amazing research and sci comm, the 3d printed models of the megafauna prints ARE something visitors can see, and it's just a special place.

Why would I need a tortilla press when there is a tortilla factory in my town? And my griddle does just fine making crepes. Otherwise, yeah, I have an overflowing drawer of kitchen towels. I have a disposable pepper grinder. I have an electric kettle. But I bought all these things in the US.

Realized I have not yet introduced bsky to The Bitch yet, despite leasing her for a little bit now. She's a big mare who throws fits to hide the fact that she's a giant scaredy cat, but we are working on that with lots and lots of solo adventure trail rides.

Mother left the house for two whole hours this morning! Jail for mother! (In related news, my cat is loving the government shutdown)

...I just feel like if I had more horse accessories it would fix me

Mariners once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. This fucking team.

PTJ back!

Thank you aces, this has been much easier on my blood pressure than game 3

I don't get the insistence that he didn't make contact when his back is blocking the camera's view of his chest coming up to her shoulder/side.

The Mormon corridor could expand to encompass a bit more of both Wyoming and Arizona (should go as far south as Mesa), but otherwise, this map feels quite accurate for the west and west coast

Speaking as a furloughed fed, here's the deal: Russ Vought is gonna RIF me if Russ Vought wants to RIF me. You can't threaten me with something you were already planning on doing. If I get RIFed tomorrow, I'm owed another 30 days' pay plus 21 weeks of severance pay. Go ahead, make my day.

If U13 girls in the Pacific Northwest can regularly cope with these field conditions, so can the pros, I say

No thoughts, not even once

Really says it all about this administration that they want flags at half mast for Charlie Kirk and not for the line of duty death on the Dragon Bravo fire

As someone who took the city bus to school, not even a school bus, please let your children ride the bus. Otherwise they grow up to become the adults I know who can't comprehend getting *anywhere* without a car

Same here, I've been traveling and taking public transit alone since I was a teenager and never had problems. Have had Aunties tell me the best way to get where I wanted, have had random dudes stay awake watching out for me on the train because another passenger was drunk and disruptive.

"Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher Scores Last-Minute Equalizer for First-Ever NWSL Goal" has to be the most NWSL After Dark sentence in the history of human existence

This drives me absolutely bonkers. This is not the case of "we don't have the technology but we do have a shitty facsimile of it," the actual technology has been around and available on the web for much longer than the shitty facsimile.

Have taken to telling doctors right off the bat that I've had chronic migraines for literally my entire life, so let's keep in mind my personal pain scale is skewed, shall we? Sometimes they understand, sometimes they don't.

Took me a year of trying to get a seasonal GS-04. Took me seven years to work my way up to a permanent GS-09.

It's August 1st and I have received my third resource order of the fire season. It hasn't been a particularly bad season (we're only at PL 3 right now) but it really does feel like the DRP had a massive toll on the CIMTs.

Get you a physical therapist who only needs a second to recover when you tell them "the maneuver I use to realign my SI joint makes my unstable knee hurt."

My physical therapist: normally I recommend swimming for people with hip and knee problems, but if you go back to that as your main form of exercise you're just going to ruin your shoulders again...you can ride your bike, as long as you stop when it starts to hurt. Me: wow, it's like you know me

I would make fun of Seattle Maddies FC more often, but like, it's working. They're scoring.

At LEAST 50% of my field work is just troubleshooting, something waymos are famously good at. Oh, wait, I'm being told they're not? Guess we're just going to have a bunch of broken equipment in the woods.

the main issue with "we don't need more public parking to improve access to beaches, we need more public transit and bike lanes" is that we way too consistently end up doing none of these things