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My pony wears a muzzle. He hates it, but it’s super effective!

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i wish there was an easier way to tell the difference between an "if it sucks hit da bricks" situation and a "sometimes being an adult means doing things that you dont wanna" situation

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A little watercolour sketch of a Przewalski.

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Uran, Rheinisch-Deutschen Kaltblut stallion.

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"Kiamichi and Stillwater" McCullough Peaks, Wyoming

Photo by Wild At Heart Images

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🔥 The beacons are lit; the library calls for aid

The Trump administration has issued an executive order aimed at dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services - the ONLY federal agency for America's libraries.

Using just 0.003% of the federal budget, the IMLS funds services at libraries across the country; services like Braille and talking books for the visually impaired, high-speed internet access, and early literacy programs.

Libraries are known for doing more with less, but even we can't work with nothing.

How You Can Help:

🔥 Call your congressperson!

Use the app of your choice or look 'em up here: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Pro tip: If your phone anxiety is high, call at night and leave a voicemail. You can even write yourself a script in advance and read it off. Heck, read them this post if you want to.

Phones a total no-go? The American Library Association has a form for you: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577

🔥Tell your friends!

Tell strangers, for that matter. People in line at the check out, your elderly neighbor, the mail carrier - no one is safe from your library advocacy. Libraries are for everyone and we need all the help we can get.

...Wait, why do we need this IMLS thing again?

The ALA says it best in their official statement and lists some ways libraries across the country use IMLS funding:

But if you want a really specific answer, here at LCPL we use IMLS funding to provide our amazing interlibrary loan service. If we can't purchase an item you request (out of print books, for example) this service lets us borrow it from another library and check it out to you.

IMLS also funds the statewide Indiana Digital Library and Evergreen Indiana, which gives patrons of smaller Indiana libraries access to collections just as large and varied as the big libraries' collections.

As usual, cutting this funding will hurt rural communities the most - but every library user will feel it one way or another. Let's let Congress know that's unacceptable.

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Amba went into the puddle much more confidently than usual, but still had to do some aggressive stomping to bash in the head of the alligator that ate the DeLuca boy should he still be there.

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interesting horsie things :)

explanation from top right to bottom left!

1 - fillies shedding out their winter coats

2 - sectoral heterchromia

3 - chestnut horse coat clipped to reveal future greying out

4 - bridle markings

5 - mottling around the eyes

6 - scars on a feral horse due to forest fires

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I know it's hard to do so when you've dedicated so much time to leftist movements and found a community that's helped you and some others thrive, but you HAVE to criticize the left when it is failing groups of people. And it is 100000000% failing Jews.

Almost every single non-Jewish activist who usually posts about tragedies when they happen to numerous other marginalized groups has remained silent about the recent news about the Bibas family. Most have been entirely silent about October 7th. Even this post will likely be reblogged/liked by 95% Jews.

All your Jewish friends could have been born Israeli. It's entirely dependent on where their ancestors fled to. Half of the world's ENTIRE Jewish population lives in Israel. And you- no matter what group you belong to- could have been born Israeli. You might be in denial about it, but it's true. Anyone of us could have been born anywhere.

I roll my eyes when "I'd totally punch a nazi!" activists complain about Elon Musk maybe doing a nazi salute, yet never post about what Jews have been mourning for over a year now. Their words are empty. Elon is easy to criticize because he is a douchebag who is rightfully hated by the left. You risk no real social consequences for your posts about him. You are not a social justice advocate- you are a coward.

But what kind of world are we living in where anyone in any movement claiming to be about "justice" feels they are risking social consequences for posting about Jews who were murdered due to being Jews? Fearing your "comrades" scolding you for posting against antisemitism? They have some big antisemitism problems to deal with. Are you willing to confront them about it?

Fearing social consequences for speaking up about suffering Palestinians and suffering Israelis are two sides of the same coin of extremism. I always wonder if my posts really get through to anyone, or if I'm mostly screaming into the void. Will this post affect you? Or will you just go "ah that's kinda sad idk" and move on?

It's time to have some tough conversations with people you might be afraid to get into them with. Are you going to be a true ally to Jews or not? Are you going to fix your activist spaces to be ones centered around the principles of justice and equality? Or are you going to ignore it and claim you're not antisemitic? Because Jews have seen where indifference and denial leads to before. Spoiler alert: it's horrific.

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Laying in some local color.

I haven’t been doing much oil painting.

#art #horses #equestrian #animals #painting #oilpainting

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I need to do this with Chico. He’s been afraid of needles (and vets) for as long as I’ve owned him and it’s gotten worse lately.

Cooperative care training with Rudi today!

She has a bit of a needle phobia that we are working with currently. At the moment we are working with two different behaviours that i can hopefully combine down the road.

First is the chin target. I want to give her a clear indication of what is about to happen, meaning chin on the taget and head still = needle prick is coming.

This is something we will need to work up lots of positive history with, and have a second person to help us when we start combining everything. (looking at u Roan)

Second behaviour is basically just getting pricked with the 'needle.' Starting with just touching her neck, then pinching the skin, and lastly 'poking' her.

I also did the same this but on the vein in her lower neck where they get sedated for routine checks. This is where most of her trauma comes from, so this session was a big improvement from last time! She was much less tense and didnt step backwards.

Very proud of her.

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snow day

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Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899), "The Horse Fair" (details), 1852–55

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DSC_2883 by Olgait on Flickr.

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Chico decided to search through his grooming bag for treats.