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Anti-Vaxxers Are Targeting a Vaccine for a Virus Deadlier Than Ebola

gaymilesedgeworth:

gaymilesedgeworth:

my favorite part of this article is where a human unironically named Lyndell Abercrombie complains about a horse event requiring participating horses to be vaccinated against Hendra, going, ““We respect their right to vaccinate, but they don’t respect our right not to vaccinate!!”

it’s because your decision not to vaccinate could fucking kill them, Lyndell

side note: Lyndell Abercrombie sounds like what you would name a caricature of a wealthy horse owner who is an outspoken anti-vaxxer, for horses, in her spare time

@drferox Don’t know if you’d seen this yet. Side note: I learned from the aforementioned blog that vets in Australia who treat Hendra horses are liable if something happens to a stupid owner who won’t follow rules about PPE, so fuck anti-vaxxers.

Anti-Vaxxers Are Targeting a Vaccine for a Virus Deadlier Than Ebola

Listening to Lore today made me wonder: Do you have any thoughts on why horses seem so commonly associated with water in mythology? Poseidon’s horses, the kelpies, the phouka, the miscellaneous other lake monsters (like Champ) often described as “horse-like”…horses and water wouldn’t be my first mental connection, but it seems common across several cultures. If there IS really a lake monster species out there that’s “horse-like,” any conjecture what sort of creature it might be?

drferox:

I think horses are monster enough, but I think their consistent association with water and the ocean is because their sweat foams with friction.

Ancient people didn’t exactly have bubble baths and dishwashing detergent to compare to, so the thing that looks most like these foaming, wet, working horses is probably just sea foam.

So logically, that must be what these creatures are made from. And then the story just gets adapted to the local landscape over time.

horseoverheart:

redheadedxqh:

horseoverheart:

horsesthatmakeuss:

horseoverheart:

Same

what happened here?

Jack (the horse) is 28 years old and instead of putting him in a turnout pen during the day we just let him roam the property. He usually sticks around the barn, grazing or just standing around. But his favorite thing to do is lay down in various random spots that he feels are comfortable. Every morning after they drag the arena footing he goes and flops down in the soft dirt. Whenever we get a new shipment of shavings you better believe Jack is right there rolling in them once the truck leaves.

This was one of his ground-softness-testings. The aisle is all rubber so it’s not hard but I doubt it was very comfortable. Jack would beg to differ.

this makes the picture 100x better. what a happy old man.

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This post has by far the highest amount of notes out of all my posts so I figured it would be something that I should post a follow up on. My trainer, Jack’s owner, posted this on Facebook today and I wanted to share it with you all.  

owligator:

If theres one thing I crave whenever I play New vegas it’s.. horses.. So i MADE MY OWN 

They’re called sleipnir for pretty self explanatory reasons, plus I thought being named after something mythological fits pretty well with some of the other mutant animals in the wastes. The run cycle is mostly rotoscoped

+some bonus babies ft. my big ol courier gal

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owligator:

If theres one thing I crave whenever I play New vegas it’s.. horses.. So i MADE MY OWN 

They’re called sleipnir for pretty self explanatory reasons, plus I thought being named after something mythological fits pretty well with some of the other mutant animals in the wastes. The run cycle is mostly rotoscoped

+some bonus babies ft. my big ol courier gal

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