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  1. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey’s left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It’s neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it’s the only sensible way to...

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

    #Cork #Dawstown #equine #HorseRacing #horses #Ireland #jockey #Photo #Photography #PointToPoint #RaceDay #RuralIreland #StreetPhotography

  2. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey’s left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It’s neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it’s the only sensible way to...

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

    #Cork #Dawstown #equine #HorseRacing #horses #Ireland #jockey #Photo #Photography #PointToPoint #RaceDay #RuralIreland #StreetPhotography

  3. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey’s left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It’s neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it’s the only sensible way to...

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

    #Cork #Dawstown #equine #HorseRacing #horses #Ireland #jockey #Photo #Photography #PointToPoint #RaceDay #RuralIreland #StreetPhotography

  4. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey’s left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It’s neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it’s the only sensible way to...

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

    #Cork #Dawstown #equine #HorseRacing #horses #Ireland #jockey #Photo #Photography #PointToPoint #RaceDay #RuralIreland #StreetPhotography

  5. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey’s left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It’s neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it’s the only sensible way to...

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

    #Cork #Dawstown #equine #HorseRacing #horses #Ireland #jockey #Photo #Photography #PointToPoint #RaceDay #RuralIreland #StreetPhotography

  6. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey's left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It's neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it's the only sensible way to get a small, light human onto an animal that tall without a mounting block. I have no idea how this jockey and horse did on the day. The photo is from 2024.

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

  7. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey's left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It's neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it's the only sensible way to get a small, light human onto an animal that tall without a mounting block. I have no idea how this jockey and horse did on the day. The photo is from 2024.

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

  8. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey's left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It's neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it's the only sensible way to get a small, light human onto an animal that tall without a mounting block. I have no idea how this jockey and horse did on the day. The photo is from 2024.

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

  9. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey's left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It's neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it's the only sensible way to get a small, light human onto an animal that tall without a mounting block. I have no idea how this jockey and horse did on the day. The photo is from 2024.

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

  10. A Leg-up at Dawstown

    The man in the blue jacket has both hands on the jockey's left boot, mid heave, and number 37 is halfway between earth and saddle. It's neither one place nor the other. I love the awkward physics of a leg-up. It looks ungainly until you remember it's the only sensible way to get a small, light human onto an animal that tall without a mounting block. I have no idea how this jockey and horse did on the day. The photo is from 2024.

    inphotos.org/2026/05/09/a-leg-

  11. A #Fediverse tech idea I've been considering for a while.

    Hashtags can sometimes be annoying, right? Their primary application is finding posts related to a certain topic, including following one. Therefore, if I look for "horses", I want to find everything horse-related.

    The following hashtags should therefore lead to the same set of posts:
    - #horse
    - #horses
    - #equines
    - #equine
    - #horsetodon

    Right? But that's not a reality. Some people tag with one of them, with multiple, or with none at all.

    Similarly, #Döner, #Doener and perhaps even #Doner should lead to the same set of posts, right? And what about British-American-splits like how #Localization is #Localisation, and perhaps even #l10n as well? And #LGBT, #LGBTQ, #LBGTQ+, #LGBT+, #LGBTQIA and so on and so on also really should be one hashtag.

    So what to do?

    I propose:
    We should introduce a second symbol for something like "fuzzy hashtags". Not the '#' symbol, but another; perhaps '&' or '~'.

    That way I could tag my post '~horse', and it could appear on all hashtag feeds concerning the different spellings of horses! Or I could search for such a fuzzy hashtag.

    The different variants could be crowdsourced, or overridden by instance mods. You could also opt-out of that system - your posts showing up in fuzzy searches, most likely.

    This would also fix languages like German, where you have many inflected forms: #Männer #Mann #Mannes #Manns #Männern #Männers and so on should all lead to the same result.

    Behold what I have to do to sign off on this post:
    #MarkupLanguages #MarkupLanguage #Markup

  12. So many #Equine #Figures boxing, flying, carting, swimming… in spectacular fashion! I was blown away by the epic scale of Raqib Shaw’s Paradise Lost (100+feet wide, 2009-25) at the Art Institute. www.artic.edu/exhibitions/... #Chicago #AIC #ContemporaryArt #fantasy #EquineArt #Baroque #mural

  13. The Watchful Eye of Sheep’s Head

    Several years ago on Sheep’s Head we went for a walk and discovered a lovely horse nearby!

    Did you know? Horses have nearly 360-degree vision due to the placement of their eyes on the sides of their heads, allowing them to spot predators from almost any direction without moving their heads.

    Apertureƒ/1.8CameraSM-G998BFocal length6.7mmISO50Shutter speed1/100s

    #animalPortrait #Cork #countryside #CountyCork #equine #Garden #horse #Ireland #Nature #Photo #Photography #SheepSHead #summer