Easily Distracted by Horses

The title sums it up, but here’s a blog about horses, art, and being a new veterinarian. I also post a lot of cat videos I think I count as a Vetblr...?

[durbikins]

[pending-trans-action-2]

[friend-crow]

BLM has published a plan to maximize logging in Oregon forests, including old growth forests, without due regard to wildlife (including endangered species) and waterways. They're claiming it will help prevent forest fires, though that seems to be contrary to current science, including that published by the forest service (you can find a list of sources here). This is in response to Trump's executive orders 14223, Addressing the Threat to National Security From Imports of Timber, Lumber, and Their Derivative Products and 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.

We have 30 days to submit comments if we want to prevent this. This article has suggestions for what you can say, and how:

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You can read more about it here:

Trump Admin Announces Old-Growth Clearcutting Plan for Western Oregon - Oregon Wild

Conservationists say proposal to “maximize” logging across nearly 2 million acres of Western Oregon BLM lands would devastate fish, wildlife

If you live in Oregon and you love our forests, please submit a comment before March 23rd.

If you don't live here, it would be super helpful if you could reblog to spread the word.

[megthemariner]

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[ashstfu]

i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

[dragonpyre]

Predators as told to you by a North American:

Foxes: pussies

Bobcats: pussies

Coyotes: pussies

Lynx: pussies

Cougars/mountain lions: pussies

Black bears: pussies (situational)

Wolverine: yikes

Grizzly bears: ruh roh

Polar bears: you’re fucked

Moose: you’ll be remembered fondly

[dragonpyre]

I'm not gonna lie, I completely forgot wolves were predators and not just Big Buppy

[doodlehorseafternoon]

Okay, but the moose being the scariest predator? SPOT ON

The fact that they eat plants? IRRELEVENT

[robin-teddybear]

it's kinda comforting to me when my friends are a little annoying or longwinded or abrasive or tired and inarticulate, or they don't do the exact politest thing in every interaction, and stuff, because I know I'm sometimes annoying, or take up a more than my share of conversational space, or forget to ask them questions, etc etc, and... like, I'm always working to be nice to my friends and to get better and better at friend-ing, but it just makes me feel more human about it :}

anyway I love you friends plz know I'm not counting, in fact I feel great affection toward you even (especially) when conversations go less than Perfectly Ideal

[saulwexler]

I'm not proud to say it but this line from a 60 year old detective novel made me re-think some things about friendship

[calligraphy-creature]

"Though my soul may set in darkness

it will rise in perfect light;

I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night."

From the poem "The Old Astronomer" (1868) by Sarah Williams.

[elodieunderglass]

Sooooo beautiful!!!!

[beatbizzle]

I overheard a woman at my job say "Your whole personality revolves around what you hate instead of what you love and thats an awful way to live." to the resident vocal Maga in the breakroom.

He was stunned into silence for at least 60 seconds so that was nice.

[brakken]

skeletons

[alinahazy]

THIS IS WHAT I WANT ON NY HALOWEEN DASH OMG

[alinahazy]

I’ll never stop reblogging this

[chiaroart]

I told myself I’d wait until October to start putting halloween stuff on my blog. I’m a dirty liar.

[red-jaebyrd]

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

queueing this up for october 1 just to deal damage to myself

[what-even-is-thiss]

One good thing about having a very large extended family is that it gives you examples of what different kinds of lives can look like.

I never thought it was weird growing up for someone to never get married or have kids because one of my uncles did that. I never thought it was weird to be vegan because one of my cousins did that. I never thought it was weird to have a mixed race family because I had cousins and aunts and uncles with mixed race families. I never thought it was weird to be divorced because several of my family members got divorced. And their ex husbands and ex wives still showed up to family gatherings. I never thought it was weird for a woman to have short hair and dress masculine because one of my aunties did that.

I kind of had to become the transgender cousin admittedly but you know what now I’m the transgender cousin and there’s an example for the younger generation that being trans is just something you can be.

[calocera]

whats the worst pain you've ever experienced?

broken/bruised/etc bone

surgery

menstrual

cut/wound

burn

digestive

joint/arthritis

muscle cramp/pull/tear

headache/migrane

sti/std

other chronic pain

something else

Voting ended onOct 2, 2025

[prokopetz]

Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[teaboot]

You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit

[myboyrozanovv]

If people knew what a fucking atom is and how molecules are defined, at least a quarter of all health related cults like movements and scams wouldn't work.

"Ohh it's a different sugar than refined sugar" it's the same molecule.

"Ohhh my water filtering apparatus making beauty water and cleaning water and alkaline water" Water is H20. What you're doing is reverse osmosis, and if it's alkaline then there is a substance that's not water in there to make it alkaline. You can't purify water to a pH of 12, because pure water molecules have, by definition of how the pH system works and several phyics rules, a pH of exactly 7.

"Ooohh it has ~different~ sodium atoms." That's called an isotope and sodium isotopes aren't created by magic woowoo, and the magical ability of most isotopes is radioactivity.

"Low toxin" what toxin. Tell me their names. What are they doing. "They are endocrine disruptors" what part of the endocrine system? How? Do you have a source that doesn't try to sell you something?

"Just mix vinegar and baking soda to cleanse all the toxins of your fruits" you just created water molecules and CO2, and some calcium and acetate which don't have much chemical property. That's a science fair vulcano. And doesn't have acidic or alkaline properties to chemically influence anything. Just use tap water at this point. "My wood cutting board soaked in an alkaline solution from baking soda to clear out the toxins leaves a nasty looking soup" yeah because you were dissolving the wood with an alkaline solution. Congratulations.

"There is effective microorganisms in this ceramic bead and it can cleanse your laundry and dishes and prevent mold in your fridge and it works for years" what microorganisms exactly? How did you discover them? What are they eating? Are they resistant to 60 degrees and steam? Do they procreate in the fridge? Are they spreading out on all surfaces to prevent the mold or is it an air filtration system that works without airflow or is it just magic? "Put them in your flowers, they can reverse cavities, put them in your walls" what are they eating in my walls? What kind of microorganisms are they? Did you test the safety of those things in human bodies? Are they native to my biotope? How do they survive in those fucking ceramic beads?

"Just use vinegar it's magic" it's a mild acid. Like, cool, sure, it works for several things, but it doesn't have magic properties. It's just a mild acid. Lemon juice is too. And once again, if you mix it with baking soda, they neutralise each other and you get water. Which cleans a lot of things but you dont need to do *all that* to get your hands on some plain water.

[holmoris]

do not get me started on how bad people are about basic electrical principles, especially this abomination

warning : that link does psychic damage

[doodlehorseafternoon]

Personal favorite is the "Liver or Kidney Detox Magical Food"

Like

No, the detox IS the liver and kidneys. That is literally their job description. The zucchini and tumeric ain't detoxing anything, that is what the ORGAN is doing. Unless you are just eating in a way to support immune health and organ function, there is no "detoxing" the liver or kidneys

I will get off my soap box now

[jetix]

2017-12-09

[pinkpondofasgard]

@doodlehorseafternoon a fishy wonderland 🐟

[doodlehorseafternoon]

This is my kind of place!!

[tiny-space-whale]

"It will [get worse], but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you... You will be warm again."

-Wit, Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson