Annie

stuff and things
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[Annie @Redwinged78]

@Mares4Life Yes, so cute!

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@Mares4Life Hey, I have the XL version!

[Louis Staples @LouisStaples]

Strangely, it's moments like this that I feel most lucky to be queer. I think about our elders. How hopeless they must have felt. How easy it would have been to give up. But they fought for the life I get to live today. What an insult it would be, to them, to succumb to despair

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@Robin0751602 @SwiftHitter Joni Mitchell was garbage?

[Annie @Redwinged78]

I don't really do resolutions, but I'm hoping in this next year to build community. To find purpose and joy. To get better at gratitude and forgiveness and connection, even, or especially, when it's hard. To keep opening my heart, for myself and for others.

[Annie @Redwinged78]

This has been a fucking weird and rough year.
I lost my dad a month ago, and it feels hard to enter a year in which he won't be alive.
But this year was such a heart opener, too. I'm grateful for that, for the ways I was torn open and shifted, for the ways I stretched and grew.

[Andrea Gibson @andreagibson]

Those who do the most
growing in this life
are those who offer
the most compassion
to the parts of themselves
that have not yet grown.

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@ask_aubry You don't get to be mad you're out of the picture when you put yourself there.

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@ask_aubry That's like my sister being mad I didn't "keep her in the loop" when I was caregiving for our dad, alone, when she lived in an hour away and hadn't seen him in years and went months without reaching out to ask how he was doing.

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@SwiftHitter Go to any auction or killpen, and you'll see a large proportion of ex racehorses, many of them young and racing fit.

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@SwiftHitter It's not even just that horses get injured.The industry churns out horses, is done with them before they're 25 % thru their lifespan with no safety net or plan for aftercare/retirement.There simply isn't enough demand in the larger horse community for the # of TBs being produced.

[Eman Basher @SometimesPooh]

I wanna hug the people who lost their loved ones. I wanna mourn the loved ones I have lost. But I have no time. Water queues. Bread queues. 3 kids. If I have not got up earlier than the others, this mean no water or food today. Have you ever thought their would be a time when you don’t have the luxury of mourning your losses?

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@oldenoughtosay If you're going to breed your Corgi, please do hips and elbow x-rays, have eyes checked, and do genetic testing. And require the same of the stud. Anything less is irresponsible. If you have any doubt, look up videos of dogs with DM or hip dysplasia.

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@hollystortholme My dad just went onto Hospice. They don't mask. 🤦‍♀️ The home health staff all did.

[Morgan Godvin @MorganGodvin]

Portland has an overall case clearance rate of 4%.

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@AdrianCJax My dad once told a bunch of people my birthday, off by several weeks.
On that day I started getting birthday wishes and had to explain over and over to different people that my dad apparently didn't know my birthday. Awkward for everyone, except, somehow, my dad. 🤦‍♀️

[Annie @Redwinged78]

@OTTBMare On and off for weeks. My mom's Cushings mare would get better over the course of a week, then pop up dead lame again. Went on for close to a month, even with soaking, keeping it wrapped and vet out to drain it.