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Tag: horses

  • A brown horse with a white forehead star, wearing a blue jacket, walks in a circular pen in which arms encourage it to continue moving.

    Horse Gym

    My current temporary home - and, necessarily, office - is directly next door to some kind of "horse gym": a contraption a little like a huge revolving door to encourage one or more horses to exercise by walking around it.

    Every now and then my peripheral vision registers that there's a horse outside the window and, for the dozenth time, I look up from my work and glance around to barely catch it vanishing off on yet another lap.

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    • posted 9 March, 2026
  • A collection of badly-drawn horses run across a gradient background.

    gradient.horse

    Michail Rybakov's gradient.horse might be the second most-amusing use of a .horse domain name I've yet seen. Draw a horse and let it run wild and free with its friends in the gradient plains of your browser window!

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 18 January, 2026
  • Looking forward to the school run starting again next week... so I get a bonus excuses for walks around our beautiful village!

    Full image of Paddock with horses under a sky of mixed clouds and an arching rainbow.
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    Paddock with horses under a sky of mixed clouds and an arching rainbow.

    • Note
    • posted 29 August, 2025
  • A locomotive featuring four horses climbing an inclined conveyor belt under the supervision of two humans.

    Horse-Powered Locomotives

    You probably know the story of George Stephenson's Rocket beating its competitors and going to to influence steam locomotive design for generations. But did you know that one of its competitors... was a horse in a carriage?

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    • posted 20 November, 2024
  • Image representing post: Bisexuality Mythbusters

    Bisexuality Mythbusters

    Stephanie Beatriz busts some of the... less-common myths about bisexuality.

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    • posted 1 November, 2021
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    The next time we want to import a horse to Russia it will be a doddle

    Sergey Radchenko shares a diplomatic report recounting the story of trying to get through the bureaucracy moving horses across the Russian border in 1992.

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    • posted 7 May, 2020
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    AltGeegee!

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    • posted 29 May, 2012
  • Equilibre - Theatre For Horse-Lovers And Other Wierdos

    Just got back from seeing Equilibre (horse theatre thingy) with Claire. What can I say? Great music, brilliant dancing, some very impressive singing, the second best use of stagecraft (circumstances given) that I've ever seen, the work of a director with great imagination, impressive horseplay...

    ...but I can't help but feel that I've come away from โ€ฆ

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    • posted 9 August, 2003
  • Fucking Flaming Brands

    Last night Kit, Claire, Paul, Bryn and I acquired a huge wooden desk and other burnables and went and started an enormous fire on the beach, having just finished a most fantastic curry at Cafe All Spice. Big fire!

    Later, we were joined by a man with some juggling batons and a woman with some flags โ€ฆ

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    • posted 9 July, 2003

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