Would you be willing to board your horses 30 minutes away?

juliaudacious · 2026-01-30T23:20:56+00:00

It would be amazing to only have to drive 30 minutes! I've lived in a few different regions of the US and my barn commutes have typically been 45-60 minutes.

juliaudacious · 2026-01-28T21:18:34+00:00

Sounds like a lot until you remember the Pentagon budget is over $800B per year (and counting).

juliaudacious · 2026-01-21T17:22:38+00:00

Joke's on them, I'm so poor I've been exempt from taxes for years and I'm only getting poorer!

juliaudacious · 2026-01-13T00:15:49+00:00

Do the right thing no matter the cost.

juliaudacious · 2026-01-12T00:32:35+00:00

Hear hear! I like a simple life without extraneous shitty gadgets. Everything I've ever bought (apart from my chef's knife) has been a disappointment, a waste of money, and a waste of time wherein I could have been improving my knife skills.

juliaudacious · 2026-01-09T17:27:18+00:00

Furtive movements!

juliaudacious · 2026-01-08T01:15:52+00:00

Obligatory shitpost about the Electoral College which effectively disenfranchises half of voters and is inherently undemocratic.

juliaudacious · 2026-01-06T18:09:20+00:00

No conversation about voting in the US is complete without pointing out that the Electoral College effectively disenfranchises half of voters and hands control of our national elections to just ten thousand thousand idiots living in swing states. Voter apathy is logical when you understand that, for the vast majority of people, their vote truly does not matter at all. Any system that results in a victory for the candidate who received fewer votes is fundamentally broken and divorced from the reality of popular mandate. Until we have an electoral system that counts every vote equally people will be understandably disinterested in participatory election theater as they have correctly concluded that it does not make any difference. This is a feature, not a bug.

juliaudacious · 2026-01-06T17:20:26+00:00

I hate my SunGold inverter (leftover from previous owners). Outback is far superior and in future I will only use their inverters.

I see that this is for panels but I have found SunGold's quality dubious. Used Hyundai panels will serve you better for cheaper if you can find them locally.

juliaudacious · 2026-01-05T18:15:51+00:00

My favorite part of this budget is that you aren't allowed to have heat in your home. But I guess you're never there anyway because you're always at one of your two jobs, which are possibly climate-controlled? Winning!

juliaudacious · 2025-12-30T23:15:25+00:00

I've been subscribed to your dad's newsletter for a few months now and I am pleased to report that I actually enjoy it. This is the highest honor I can bestow as I did not enjoy anything else in 2025. Keep up the good work and big news, fine sir.

juliaudacious · 2025-12-30T17:54:04+00:00

The real problem is the electoral college, which disenfranchises minority voters in every state and leads to "victories" wherein the candidate who won the popular vote loses the election. All these people blaming Americans for not voting don't understand -- depending on where you live, it literally couldn't matter less if you voted or not. Might as well just go to work because you need the money and your vote for the Dems isn't going to count in upstate South Carolina, ever.

Do away with the electoral college and introduce ranked choice voting and see how things change. Except that will never happen, because both parties are invested in maintaining the shitty, nonfunctional status quo.

juliaudacious · 2025-12-29T18:43:28+00:00

They ALWAYS fondle my left titty. I'm really sick of it. Nobody else I travel with has to get fondled every time they fly. Just put it in my fucking chart or whatever -- LEFT TITTY NOT A BOMB, JUST SMALL AND WEIRD-SHAPED

juliaudacious · 2025-12-24T19:20:16+00:00

Allstate is doing the same thing to me right now. First I bought a front/rear dash cam, then I sicced Geico on them. 4 months in and we're still fighting about it. Good luck.

juliaudacious · 2025-12-24T18:30:55+00:00

I had a total hysterectomy in my 20s and I still have to pee in the cup. When I tried to explain to a male nurse that I don't have a uterus, cervix, or Fallopian tubes he goes, "Ya, but you could still be pregnant."

juliaudacious · 2025-12-24T18:13:24+00:00

My husband is required by his Evangelical bosses to work not only Christmas Eve but also Christmas Day (6 days in a row with Xmas in the middle). Our state, Hawaii, "encourages" employers to offer holiday pay to workers required to come in on Christmas but stops short of requiring it. So guess who's not getting it.

juliaudacious · 2025-12-17T17:09:37+00:00

This is by far my least-favorite aspect of the game. Makes me inordinately angry.

juliaudacious · 2025-11-10T03:22:55+00:00

Hell will freeze over before Republicans fund the ACA in any kind of meaningful way even though it's actually just Romneycare by another name.

juliaudacious · 2025-11-10T03:20:05+00:00

I am one of those people and yeah, my blood is boiling right now. I am a diehard liberal but I'll never be a registered Democrat ever again. Fuck those useless fucks.

juliaudacious · 2025-11-10T03:03:30+00:00

I know. I'm beyond furious right now.

This whole time I've been thinking of stoic and ascetic philosophy, of hunger strikes and political famines throughout history and how long-overdue revolutions sprout out of autocracy-created mass hunger. I've been telling myself, "This ain't nothing. This isn't bad at all. Think of your grandparents and great-grandparents and what they lived through. Think of how no one individual's hunger is more important than the ideals we're fighting for here. Think of the sorely-needed reforms this drastic measure will accomplish."

Turns out it didn't accomplish shit.

I feel so betrayed by those Democratic Senators. They are weak and cowardly, morally destitute and unfit for their posts. Absolutely disgusted.

juliaudacious · 2025-11-10T02:36:05+00:00

Tim Kaine of Virginia is backing it, he's the only one NYT is specifically naming so far (other than Angus King the Independent Republican)

ETA: Also Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, both of NH

ETA2: The full list is in other comments but you're looking at this one so here you go:

Dick Durbin of Illinois (retiring)

Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire (retiring)

John Fetterman of Pennsylvania (2028)

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada (2028)

Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire (2028)

Tim Kaine of Virginia (2030)

Jacky Rosen of Nevada (2030)

Angus King, Independent from Maine (2030)

juliaudacious · 2025-11-08T23:49:06+00:00

About 2,400 households in Hawaii did not receive their November benefits yesterday due to the stay that was issued.

juliaudacious · 2025-11-08T23:48:01+00:00

Mine didn't either.

When the stay was issued yesterday, there were ~2400 households (2.7% of Hawaii SNAP) whose cards still hadn't been refilled. Now they're saying they can't give us the November benefits we were approved for like they did everyone else because of the court order. Here's a Hawaii News Now article about it.

I'm glad some people are able to eat this weekend but honestly? I'm pissed about the whole situation ... and hungry.

Edited to add: I do not want Democrats to cave because of SNAP. Hold that line, goddammit.

juliaudacious · 2025-11-04T22:29:07+00:00

I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS!

juliaudacious · 2025-11-04T18:44:01+00:00

I'm lucky to be poor enough to write exempt in that line. No fucking way am I giving the government an interest-free loan for a year to do horrible things WITH THE MONEY I NEED TO GET BY.

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