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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻

@tidypony.bsky.social

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Anti-capitalist; pro-Houyhnhnm. Career HS humanities teacher; servant to other people's horses. My only cult is the horse cult. Yes, that is hay in my hair. Love my n95 & libraries. Flogging AI, crypto? Expect a 🚫. #deleteZuck #banbillionaires

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 19d

How to Triumph Like a Girl
#AdaLimon

I like the lady horses best,
how they make it all look easy,
like running 40 miles per hour
is as fun as taking a nap, or grass.
I like their lady horse swagger,
after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!
But mainly, let’s be honest, I like
that they’re ladies. As if this big
dangerous animal is also a part of me,
that somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart,
giant with power, heavy with blood.
Don’t you want to believe it?
Don’t you want to lift my shirt and see
the huge beating genius machine
that thinks, no, it knows,
it’s going to come in first.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 2h

Same, baybeee. 🗽💙🗽🌀🗽💙🗽

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

Republicans are beginning to realize there is a possibility Democrats take both houses. This is a potential smash and grab by the Republicans.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 4h

I am less offended at the money to Argentina to bail out their terrible, corrupt government than by the fact that there’s no public argument about sending money to Argentina, the pros and cons of it, and what exactly it’s supposed to do for US interests. Congress exists for a goddamn reason!

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 4h

Am in a dispute w/ KeyBank over a lost bill pay check. They’ve had my $5000 for 20+ days while my roofer waits for the mail to start roofing.
The mail is not mailing & Key wants to keep my $$ for another 10 business days rather than canceling payment today so I can pay him electronically.
So mad!

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 4h

This is a terrible idea. Who wants to hand banks MORE power?
Gah!

Reuters @reuters.com · 13h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe longe her first.

#horsesky
#wedsneigh

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Make the logo bigger"

Or, scarier:

"That shouldn't take long"

Harbinger of Doom @brandesstoddard.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

The editor won’t mind if I go over word count a little bit.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 4h

So, maybe business is not really the priority.

Hmmm.

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 4h

Hear me out on this one, but maybe this really means that we're not "post-pandemic"

Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

Well after the United States government declared the pandemic emergency over, COVID-19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences

ysph.yale.edu

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 4h

Isn’t is all about the hundredth meridian, a la Marc Reisner’s “Cadillac Desert”?
Half of NE needs not worry too much about water; the other half might as well be Nevada.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 4h

Hi, county chair of a Democratic Party here.

This is a sign of a weak party. I am in a county of 750k and we're lucky to get a few hundred dollars a month.

The DNC and state party shift costs and burdens to us.

Donate to your local party, not just candidates.

Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 5h

Meanwhile the Dem taking on Boebert in CO04

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schweg @schwegler.lol · 14h

IDK why more people who are in to AI aren't also into UBI; the future they envision really doesn't work without UBI

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 9h

Sshhh! Timing will matter.

The oligarchs fear a New New Deal, truly progressive taxation, functional courts, and anti-trust law far more than war, civil unrest or revolution.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 9h

@sandibachom.bsky.social made this goddess famous on IG.
If you’re not following Bachom, do. She’s doing good work all over.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 10h

My fave online horse forum posted this YT and I was like, Squee! Sarah Taber has been awesome for ages.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d

If you've been thinking "How are they gonna run their farms after Trump arrests their workers?"

don't worry, they planned ahead for that 💀

youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-c0

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 10h

Except, the WWII generation, i.e. my parents, were playing the tainted cards that Never Holding the Confederacy Accountable dealt them by their parents/grandparents.

Voting Rights was a start. We know how that’s going.

It could be tricky to hold much ground until we face our whole history.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 10h

Pfft.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 10h

Until we face our limits to growth, billionaires are absolutely “taking.”

Tho’ Adam Smith, OG economist, father of the Free Hand of the Market™️, couldn’t have described the precise limits we face now, he wrote clearly that extreme inequality was immoral & he would rail against our current system.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 15h

Signs point to, yes.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 16h

To put Edison, w/ nearly 1100 patents in his name alone, & 1000s more in colleagues' & proteges', in the same category as VC predators & sociopathic billionaires stretches false equivalence to its breaking point.

Half of Elmo's don't work & Bezos's would've been illegal w/ decent antitrust laws.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 16h

If only everyone, me included, could find the crisp But Actually™️ tone of @notpodium.bsky.social.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 17h

The existence of thousands of billionaires threatens the planet’s inhabitants of all species as much if not more than the currently stalling human population.
If you won’t read Becker, read Donella Meadows’ Limits to Growth.

donellameadows.org/the-limits-t...

The Limits to Growth–Now Available to Read Online!

donellameadows.org

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

It's "far left" to think that billionaires should pay taxes and everyone deserves healthcare.

IDK what it would take to be considered far right anymore, other than saying you love Hitler.🤷‍♀️

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1d

…and read not nearly enough Dickens.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 2d

As antibiotic resistance continues to rise, we’re running out of treatment options. This has been accelerated by the massive use of antibiotics to treat humans, animals and food.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Spread of drug-resistant superbugs surging, WHO warns

he World Health Organization sounded the alarm Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering minor injuries...

www.ctvnews.ca

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