She really does. She’s made so much progress since we met. She went from being malnourished and nearly feral, to riding shape and one of the best behaved horses in the barn. She just needed love and TLC. ❤️

Ye! Seems like orange cats are the ones that want to help the most

They did but this winter was especially harsh and the weaker cats didn’t make it.

I’ve been trying neck reining but she hasn’t picked up on it all the way yet. She def has training in it, but she’s prolly still figuring out me as a rider. She also hasn’t been ridden in like 7 years so she’s a bit rusty

I wish they could be because their dynamic is great. The grey one has a future home though. She’s honestly far too friendly to be a barn cat. Like she’s always under foot and it’s dangerous for her because horses lol

I believe so. There’s only a few barn cats that reproduce. Some of the kittens replace any cats that passed over the winter and the rest get taken home by folks when they’re old enough.

I decided two years ago to stop playing things so safe and waiting for the “right time” for things. The right time doesn’t exist and you need to just do the things you’ve wanted to. Obv doing things should be done responsibly. I got to events that I probably shouldn’t spend money on and got back into horses when I was barely able to afford it. I can still only barely afford horse stuff but ya know lol. I make some bad financial decisions, but they aren’t any that would ruin me. My stepfather hasn’t tried doing things he’s always wanted to do and is a miserable man who works, goes home, then sleeps. He used to have many hobbies but claims money is keeping him from doing fun things… It isn’t though (in his case) and people can still do fun things on a budget.

She’s actually kinda short for a horse but average for her breed lol. Only 14.2 hands

I give him so many hugs

Yeah. He’s a barn cat, so his eyes are a lil crusty just because of his environment. I clean them up when I’m there.

I tried learning how to type properly but my hand joints have always been shitty so I do what I can. I also grew up PC gaming and that influenced how I type. My boss asked me if I learned to type after I started gaming and I was like “yeah.” And he said, “I can tell”

You have people here who care for you, bro

Thanks Mr skeletal! 💗

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I haven’t seen a downside. I think the push is because of how extreme mainstream shit is getting so rapidly

Fun fact: you can have a soul sucking office job AND do farm work! Just get a horse or two!

My phone shit the bed and I decided to just install graphene on the new one. One of the biggest hurdles in degoogling. Now I’m slowly migrating my accounts away from Google. I can’t do it all at once because that’s just too big of an endeavor.

My mom has even started to degoogle a bit and is switching to proton for email and cloud storage. She’s learning a lot about privacy and cyber security from me butching about corpos and dumb end users at work. She had her Microsoft account hacked today and she called me from the store as soon as she got an unknown MFA prompt and I helped her secure her shit immediately. So proud of her. She went home after that and immediately started resetting passwords to literally all of her accounts for different things and even appropriately prioritized them. I’ve trained her well lol

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I honestly think derealization has an impact on how we view AI. Like, AI images are almost upsetting in nature for me now because it’s just so wrong looking.

I know people who cannot tell AI images from reality anymore if they’re photorealistic. These people have never experienced dissociation or derealization before. I tried to express what I saw in the images that was so fucked and they did not see it.

This isn’t always accurate if your horse has neglected teeth. Make sure to schedule those floats, y’all.