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widowsNorphans
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Words, Art, and Literally Letters | Ponies, Hunter Fat or Racing Fit | "I've lived in London...Kentucky, that is." | Possibly the first person to live skeet a Kentucky Derby draw | Whatever you may've heard, it was an Akzidenz.
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Well, that was demoralizing. #maclayfinals flat phase ... Group C. No stirrups. Ring being set for the top 25 o/f.
Close up lower leg of hunt seat rider on a bay horse during the 2025 Maclay Finals Flat Phase, Group C.
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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It’s been a day and I nearly forgot opening day! And after making sure I had my trees from the turn done in time, too. They’re going to need a bit of rail, I think. #keenelandfallmeet
October 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Did you just get one like this, too? WTAF.
Screenshot of email reading: You can use widowsnorphans again Hi widowsnorphans, Thanks for taking the time to request a review. We reviewed your account and found that the activity on it does follow our Community Standards on account integrity, so you can use Instagram again. We're sorry we got this wrong and that you weren't able to use Instagram, for a while. Sometimes we need to take action to help keep our community safe.
October 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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This is some Kafkaesque sh't ... all the means of communicating I can find require you to be able to be logged into an account 😂 Also, they disappeared two other accounts I had but rarely use, one an account for freelance work that was basically dormant.
Screenshot of email from Meta reading " Take action or lose access to widowsnorphans Hi widowsnorphans, Your Instagram account has been suspended. This is because your account, or activity on it, doesn't follow our Community Standards on account integrity. If you think we made a mistake, you have until March 31, 2026 to appeal." Screenshot of email from Meta reading " We disabled your account, widowsnorphans Hi widowsnorphans, We reviewed your account and found that it still doesn’t follow our Community Standards. As a result, your account has been permanently disabled. Learn how our Community Standards help keep the Instagram community an authentic and respectful place for people to express themselves." Screenshot of email in-box showing emails from Meta received at 12:46 p.m. (initial suspension) and 1:55 p.m. (permanently disabled Instagram account)
October 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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@jennydemilo.bsky.social @shlynhorsestuff.bsky.social @aphagirl.bsky.social ... and you haven't checked email yet or get the TPH stuff, this just whoosed into my in-box... We told them whut?

www.theplaidhorse.com/2025/09/24/d...
September 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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USEF fee changes announced. Failure to read the room? Discuss.
Screen shot of USEF email detailing changes to their fee structure as follows: "Noting that the membership fee structure has not changed in more than eight years, the Board reviewed and approved changes to the fee structure listed below that will support our future. These increases will allow us to continue offering existing benefits and to expand key areas of our work that members have told us they value most. These changes are not about maintaining the status quo -- they are about investing in progress. Beginning December 1, 2025, administrative fees (formerly $8) will increase to $10. Show passes (formerly $45) will increase to $85. Beginning April 1, 2026, the following fee changes will apply: • Competing Membership fee will increase from $80 to $100 • Subscriber Membership Fee will increase from $25 to $35 • Annual Horse Recording will increase from $95 to $115 • Lifetime Horse Recording will increase from $300 to $500 • Individual Lifetime Foal Recording will increase from $35 to $50 You can save on your competing membership by enrolling in a three-year membership for $285. Equestrian sport is not standing still, and neither are we. Thank you for your commitment to equestrian sport and to US Equestrian. Together, we are building a stronger, more innovative, and more compassionate future -- for horses, for athletes, and for our entire equestrian community. Thomas F. X. O’Mara President William J. Moroney Chief Executive Officer"
September 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Nope. Not Monday (or Tuesday, Wednesday, etc etc) nor today... and the message changed to a flat "no" today:
CVS Website Vaccines Unavailable message - specifies due to state restrictions or inventory CVS Website Vaccines Unavailable message - specifies due to state restrictions *period*
September 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I was in the same situation until Hitchens decided to see if his odds of getting fed were better elsewhere. Then there’s this one. She’s better at logistics.
Gray kitteh!
August 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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#caturday … I brought some work home with me for the weekend and these guys are (literally) here for it. They love themselves a little quality time at the ‘bed office’ (not chiro-approved).
Overhead view of a gray cat and black cat napping on a bed amidst paperwork and next to a laptop computer.
August 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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That's like, shopping on a budget the way this night is going 😆
Screen shot of Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale Live coverage. Split screen with America's Best Racing panel and Walker Hancock of Claiborne Farm on the left and a view of Hip 38, a dark bay horse, in the sales ring on the right. A viewer question on the bottom of the screen reads "why wouldn't you just buy 12 horses for that money"
August 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#notesfromthesundaypapers // OMFG Edition … I read so you don’t have to, but this time I’m taking you all down with me. Let’s all sleep well tonight
Newspaper clipping with headline “‘Hordes’ of tarantulas set to emerge in United States.”
August 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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In other, lighter news... Got Clip My Horse on while making Sunday breakfast. Ammys are carrying nice pace this morning at Blowing Rock. I also spy a wine/plum-ish jacket...
Adult amateur hunter rider (English-style) and horse on course, seen cantering along the rail, at Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show in the outside ring. Rider is wearing a wine-colored jacket. Horse's mane and tail are braided.
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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@goonrgrrl.bsky.social @gloomylawyer.bsky.social so, the Baran? Makes me miss olde olde really olde Twitter and uh, Diva 😭 And I’m less than three minutes in on today’s events. Sweet Jesus. (Was traveling to visit fam today so just catching up now).
July 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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How’s that super rank horse laundry going?
It’s not. This one needed to take her turn.
A gray cat is sitting possessively on a white quilted saddle pad.
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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I think there used to be a barn cat account at the “old place.” Hitchens thinks he would like to be a barn cat but I keep telling him the lifestyle isn’t what he thinks it is. These guys aren’t getting $36 crunchies and Cosequin treats in climate-controlled comfort 😂
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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It’s not Bodega Cats but here’s His Hitchens-y Awesomeness hoarding the absolutely rancid-smelling saddle pad I blessedly remembered to pull out of my EZ Bake car during this 99-degree weather (I exaggerate but only by about 4 degrees).
A black cat crouches on a folded, dirty white quilted saddle pad with gray binding and orange piping.
June 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Indiana, Pa. (western part of the state; Jimmy Stewart's hometown) ... there was a concurrent Pride celebration down the street, that's an annual event.
Flag and sign-waving crowd on a sidewalk in downtown Indiana, Pa. Lots of American flags and red, white, and blue attire! A view of a line of peaceful protesters across a downtown street, seen between two people, a woman at right with streamers and a paper plate fashioned into a sign, and a man. The back of his sign is visible and you can see the word "Can't" (in full, it read 'Can't intimidate me")
June 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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You can also bring snacks ... at ours today (her sign referenced tacos):
close up of large bag of Cheetos carried by a woman, whose lower leg and shirttail are seen from behind, against a rainy brick and concrete sidewalk.
June 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Indiana, Pa. ... concurrent with the community's annual Pride celebration. #NoKings
Flag and sign-waving crowd on a sidewalk in downtown Indiana, Pa. Lots of American flags and red, white, and blue attire! A view of a line of peaceful protesters across a downtown street, seen between two people, a woman at right with streamers and a paper plate fashioned into a sign, and a man. The back of his sign is visible and you can see the word "Can't" (in full, it read 'Can't intimidate me")
June 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Let’s go, friends!
Protest sign with No Kings logo below the word “Cosign”
June 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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With Rodney Jenkins being honored at Upperville, I was super delighted to spy Phlash Phelps in the Take2 jumpers. I missed that he was an RRP horse! And at WEC Ohio last fall (I need to venture away from the hunter rings once in a while). @goonrgrrl.bsky.social @gloomylawyer.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I need a nap
Cartoon of a person on a horse with text that reads 'Welcome to the Sunday after Derby week. Yes, it DOES feel like we just finished a week in Vegas."
May 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Happy Derby Day! The curse is in:
Pool 2 KDFW > Journalism; WPS > Coal Battle; Ex Box > Journalism/Sovereignty/Coal Battle/Chunk of Gold.
(photo: CD, Thurby 2016).
May 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Playing name that tune with the instrumental covers during the Browland derby.That was Hozier's "Take Me To Church," during the cute paint horse's round. I know I know this next one; I just can't spit out the song and artist. Also, hot mic!! (2 high options and are YOU coming to the party tonight?)!
Rider and brown and white horse on course during a hunter derby.
April 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Have reached the age where I'm excited to do surveys for the chance to win fly spray.
Wait. I may've always been that age?
Screenshot of survey about horse fly sprays asking where participant purchases, what they like best about the brand, and what would make their horse's care routine easier (answer: "holding still.").
April 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM