Today's Random Stuff: Horses, Dogs. and Turning Points

First, here is an amazing photo "Slam on the Brakes" from The Atlantic. It is © Steven Zhou and was taken in Ontario in August 2022. It won the 2023 Sony World Photography Award, in the Motion category. The Atlantic writes "Barrel racing is a competition where cowgirls ride quickly around barrels; the one that does this in the shortest time wins. Every time a horse reaches a barrel it needs to brake sharply, turn around the barrel and then race to the next one." 

Next, some other animal crackers:

Pretty good frens pic.twitter.com/8hNw7nH0qj

— Madeyousmile (@Thund3rB0lt) March 18, 2023

Dalton, the storytelling dragon, has these puppies mesmerized
(jukin media) pic.twitter.com/GAtD30XyzR

— theworldofdog (@theworldofdog) March 24, 2023

pic.twitter.com/UTFoXgTrwT

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) March 25, 2023

I hope your week has been as enjoyable as this little one is having in this puddle.

Nature is amazing. Protect it.#ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity #rewilding #SDGs pic.twitter.com/wjTMStrwJB

— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) March 24, 2023

My Uber Eats guy is here. pic.twitter.com/Vc34S1eUsn

— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) March 24, 2023

"Why's the service here so slow?" https://t.co/XpbLgVIWNg

— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) March 22, 2023

This is how a Python climbs a tree pic.twitter.com/UqPdRqfIj2

— How Things Actually Work (@tech9icaIs) September 18, 2022

PHEW: This footage captured the dramatic moment a lone penguin almost got separated from its flock as a piece of ice broke and drifted off to sea.

The footage was recorded by a U.S. Coast Guard member deployed at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. pic.twitter.com/yVGIZMfyzf

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 19, 2023

Moving on, history really is just one damn thing after another -- an historian on Twitter asked "what is the dumbest way a huge turning point in history began?" and here are some great replies:

Gotta be Gavrilo Princip getting plastered at a random bar after failing to assassinate Franz Ferdinand, and then Ferdinand's driver pulls up outside the bar and stalls the car trying to go into reverse, drawing out Princip, who opens fire and starts the Short 20th Century https://t.co/908qYGNQVd

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) March 21, 2023

Saul of Tarsus fell off his horse.

— Liz (@ClinicalLiz) March 21, 2023

Gloria Vanderbilt's paternal family didn't want her widowed mother having access to little Gloria's $$. Started a custody battle that drove her aunt, the mistress of the Prince of Wales, to come to the US and ask Wallis Simpson to "take care of the little man" while she was gone.

— William F Tulloch 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 (@CPTDoomDC) March 21, 2023

The Secret Service agent at Love Field who shrugged and decided to leave the bubble top off of the limo

— Ⓐⓝⓓⓡⓔⓦ Ⓜⓘⓛⓝⓔⓡ (@Andrew_Milner) March 21, 2023

Nine year old Elvis Presley survives one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history.

— 🌻Wotan, but from Texas. 🦥🏘️😷🦠🏜️ 🔨 (@WotanTX) March 20, 2023

Nixon was advised to record his Oval Office meetings by outgoing president LBJ, so that people couldn’t misrepresent what was said in meetings, and he could more easily write a memoir later.

— RegularSizedRuthie (@Never_Ruthless) March 22, 2023

Not the biggest but still a fun one: An Illinois Congressman who was married to the actress who played Seven of Nine on a Star Trek show tried to bring her to a sex party. She didn’t want to go and divorced him. Yada yada yada, Barack Obama was elected president.

— Bret Hyde 🐀 (@BretHyde) March 19, 2023

Ruth Bader Ginsburg refusing to step down and be replaced by someone appointed by Obama when she had the chance.

— jeff scheiner (@joschein) March 19, 2023

“It’s not airborne.”

— MoeBerg (@MoeBerg) March 20, 2023

Finally, this:

I feel seen. pic.twitter.com/Z6mz74tjSj

— TG (@TG22110) March 25, 2023