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Tricia Garrett
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🐴 Find yourself next to a horse.
Equine assisted professional & personal development at The Happy Hippocampus, online or near Saxapahaw, NC. Live music, soulfulness, design, and dreamwork
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Hair flip! 💅
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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This is why UBI would be such a big deal. It's an important layer in a society's immune response to authoritarianism, collectively gives us more power as individuals to push back against injustice and abuse.
daveparisi.bsky.social Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · Sep 18
There's a scene in Network where Max tells the network head "if you fire me the whole newsroom will quit in solidarity" and the network head basically says "not in this job market they won't", that moment hit a little harder on this re-watch.
September 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
happyhippocampus.bsky.social
AJ had a bath today 🛁✨
June 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Welfare looks over the shoulder of the recipient, controlling everything, treating them as a child.

Basic income creates an income floor, trusting the recipient that they know how to use it.
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well fed. Herman Melville
May 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
happyhippocampus.bsky.social
Did someone request a boop? ✋🐴 Find yourself next to a horse #friesianhorse
April 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
happyhippocampus.bsky.social
Horses often choose the haynet, even with a loose hay pile nearby. Mine do it. This is a scientifically observable natural phenomenon called contra-freeloading.

Dignity and empowerment is having a meaningful choice to work, and intrinsic value either way.
scottsantens.com Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Apr 18
Stop insisting on work requirements. Just provide cash and healthcare unconditionally. People will still work.

Stop insisting on targeting the poor. Just provide cash and healthcare universally, and tax the rich more. That way we won't exclude anyone in need.

On these core tenets, UBI + M4A rests.
"There is a constant job of explaining again and again that giving money to everyone, even the rich, is not better for the rich but it is better for the poor. That is not obvious, but it’s true. Why? Because the UBI needs to be funded, and the high earners will pay for their own UBI and more. Because the automatic nature of universal transfers increases the chance that the poor will actually get what they are entitled to. Universality makes it much harder to be excluded or to fall through the cracks. Because those just below the cut-off line won’t be trapped into poverty by the threat of losing means-tested benefits if they find a job. And because a universal transfer does not stigmatize the poor in the way a targeted transfer does. To get around this impression, however, sometimes we must realize that the best way to reach a basic income is to present it as a refundable tax credit rather than as a paycheck. As simply reducing the taxation of the rich and poor alike, with a cash transfer to those whose tax liability is less than the credit."
April 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
happyhippocampus.bsky.social
The breakfast staredown #desperate #hangry
Two black horses stare intently from behind a fence
March 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
happyhippocampus.bsky.social
Tango, sleek and shiny for a minute before lying down to enjoy a nap in the sun
Shiny black horse inside barn
January 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM