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i think they just hated Gaetz more than anything also I'm a little surprised she wasn't the first pick her ties to trump are deep

After immense political pressure, Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration to be attorney general and Drump has replaced him with Pam Bondi. I also don’t like her but she’s the former attorney general of Florida so someone with actual experience has been picked. I repeat we have someone qualified for the job, people. Gaetz has left the building.

Political pressure still exists in this country for now. Some people in the Republican Party might have half a spine.

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I can’t remember if I’ve said this before but I think that if you make a Batman 1920s AU then you have to take into account that Bertie Wooster often spent time living in New York and Gotham City is just New York Noir and Bruce Wayne would probably cultivate the acquaintance of Bertie Wooster because Bertie is exactly the sort of person Bruce wants people to think he is, so it’s both birds of a feather camouflage and because he wants to observe Bertie for behavioural ideas.

Bertie, ray of sunshine that he is, thinks Bruce is jolly good fun and really quite barmy, but he already has a friend called Barmy and he can’t manage two Barmies so he affectionately dubs him Batty.

Consequently Bruce exists in a state of nagging uncertainty as to whether Bertie is the golden-hearted silly ass he so transparently appears to be, or is in fact one of his villains, knowing who he is and taunting him.

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I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we’d never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn’t know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn’t know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don’t know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they’d been all around us the whole time.

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An hour!? 😮 Oh no I'm very sorry.

They paired me with the most conservative dude in the shop today.

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Miscounted

Heard of 23

Have paid a lot less to see several of them

It’s that time of year. Reblog with how many you’ve heard of.

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Tried to explain to my partner that a 'pony' is a social construct and nearly killed them when I showed them a falabella horse next to an american shetland pony

I'm sorry i don't know what to tell you. An icelandic horse is a horse but a danish riding pony is a pony

A welsh cob is Schrödinger's horse

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I stole your extra year I'm sorry! I went to type January 2024 and typed January 2025 instead.

Actual thing I did today -- I went to type out the date, and I wrote 2023.

God damn it, it's NOVEMBER.

Why am I like this.

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Hounds in Snow

I can't wait to bake this in the kiln!

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JOUSTER??? Are there pictures??

Sure is. I did it fairly regularly between 2010 and 2017 and was fortunate to travel quite a bit with it too. These pictures below are from a 2012 tournament in Texas. I trained up here in Canada with a local group and we trailored the horses down for this one. I'm riding Peter here, who I learned to joust on. Peter has since moved on to the big meadow in the sky but he was the best mount you could ask for starting out.

It's been a hot minute since I've talked about jousting so the rest of this is gonna be under a cut haha.

Anyway, later that year, I got bucked off jousting at a gay wedding and got pretty badly concussed so didn't do much in 2013 but in 2014, an invitation arrived for a tournament in Australia and I couldn't say no. These photos are from Australia the first time.

I'm jousting an Australian friend there on her lovely boy Apollo. The second image gives a good sense of the action and impact, especially my lance which has rotated around entirely and seems to be hanging in the air between us. That was our first pass of the tournament and we just about wiped each other entirely out LOL.

For local shows, I usually rode the troupe's horses, which included Rowan (left) and Blue (right), below:

And Galahad (he was the dude who bucked me off later that season), below:

In late 2014, I worked my own horse (Ziggy) up and did some of my best riding with him that year. Here we are breaking sticks with Sarah from Australia at our local show:

Graduated from my loaner armour in 2015 and upgraded to a historically-accurate custom-made 1480s South German armour, which made the whole experience 30000x better. Shout-out to @xxstarfukkerzxx, fellow local jouster, for the shot below:

Here I am with Arthur (left) at the Folsom Renaissance Faire in 2016 (I think?).

Also got to France that year (sure don't miss the historically-accurate long medieval dude hair but do miss scrappy little Kerleos, who was a fantastic, tough-as-nails ride):

And back to Australia (riding Duke, the retired racehorse):

My last tournament was a real fancy English one in 2017. Spoiler: I was cripplingly -awful- at this one (buy me a beer sometime and I'll tell you why) but the horses, locale, and photos were second to none.

Will never look as cool in a photo as this last one but feel my photos with Barney C.'s MetroCop kit and helmet on are kinda close.

Anyway, having aged / matured in the years since 2017, I would certainly like to get back into it when the conditions are right! Also more than happy to answer questions about the whole process because there is a LOT to it.

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Maned wolves from my sketchbook.

The maned wolf isn’t actually a true wolf at all, but a completely unique and unusual member of the canine family altogether; they are solitary hunters and do not form packs, the majority of their diet is fruit and vegetable matter and their urine is said to smell like cannabis! Their long, slender legs enable them to peer over the grasses in their South American savannah habitat.

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My bank: we moved your money as requested :)

Me: perfect thanks now I need you to move it back.

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Snoooooow

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HELLO??

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Crank position I am slowly coming to believe: I think theosophy actually subsumed romanticism. The romantics did not carry us into modernity. They made it to about 1870, and then Blavatsky took the reigns.

Like William Blake was awesome but without Blavatsky, there are no Hippies. Without Blavatsky, George Harrison never learns to play the sitar.

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Magic isn’t actually a secret the wizards are trying to hide from you or anything. People just kept thinking they were like really good at slight of hand and at a certain point they stopped trying