I didn't want to share this when it happened, for a lot of reasons. Some of the reasons are related to divorcing my online persona from the real-world me. A somewhat larger part would be what you;d call tough-guy bullshit

I had the Widowmaker heart attack more-or-less two years ago.

I survived by the luck of an atypical complex of symptoms and a damned good cardiologist doing rounds in the ER when I presented.

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So, I had a silly idea involving a First Contact where Fluttershy talked Twilight into casting a spell to make our equines sapient. Someone else apparently remembered an old-school SF story about a London tailor commissioned to create proper dress for an equinoid alien, and had fun with it...

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A fellow rented a hot air balloon for the morning. He's having a wonderful time, drifting around, enjoying the beautiful scenery and the gentle spring weather, when the wind dies down, and he realizes that he's lost. He sees a guy walking across a field below, so he eases down into a hover and calls out to him.

"Excuse me?" he says. "Can you help me? I can't figure out where I am, and I'm supposed to be in town to meet some friends for lunch."

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So, we know that Sunset Shimmer, in canon, jumped through the mirror into the Equestrian Girls universe, set herself up as Queen Bee in Canterlot High's social hierarchy, et cetera, et cetera... And fandom gets rather lurid about how she got there (let's NOT go through the recitations of blackmail, extortion, and sexual favors surrounding that, mmmkay?)

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Apparently, I've reached the age where one starts indulging in nostalgia. This particular reminiscence was sparked by Pineta's short, "This Is How a Unicorn Talks", wherein Izzy, Sunny, Zipp, and Hitch must defend a high-energy particle accelerator project. (BTW, brilliant thesis, that I would sum up as, "You can hypothesize to your heart's content, but you

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I'm gratified to see that Ponyland has not blown up into acrimonious horseapples like just about every other social media platform in Western (so-called) Civilization over this one. I suspect a lot of you have already made up your minds before you ever heard the first shred of actual evidence, but I'll try to speak reasonably anyway...

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So, wandering through the depths of YouTube, I found something odd:

I'd sung a variation of this before, in the Air Force ROTC detachment, as a march. (before I dropped out of Uni and enlisted in the Corps).

Anybody got a provenance for this obscene ditty?

Just watched the Kentucky Derby, Florida-born horse called Medina Spirit won. Silly Idea involving a post-race interview with the Manehattan Times sports reporter took hold...

"Gotta tell you, you Equestrians still kinda spook me a little. You all have your eyes facing forward, just like Earthside predators, and that puts you wa-a-ay on the far side of the Uncanny Valley for me, and just about all of my stablemates..."

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So, it came out that the asshole who committed the FedEx atrocity was a brony...

Apparently, Bronies Are Murderous Right-wing Extremist Whackjobs, Now...

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Let's call him Farmer Tweak...

Farmer Tweak owned a smallish farm, with cattle. He was also a drunk and a meth addict. He apparently got drunk and high one night, stumbled outside, fell into the cesspit next to the barn, and suffocated. They were fairly sure of who he was, but they called me in to confirm the identification.

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