Windhorse
@windhorse.bsky.social
Conservation, democracy, human rights, anti-fascism. Democrat living in the beautiful Great Lakes State. Corporate escapee turned one-time butterfly farmer, full-time cat butler. Education is key to our survival but beauty will save the world.
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Windhorse
@windhorse.bsky.social
· Sep 26
"Two duties belong to our souls. One is to reverently marvel. The other is humbly to endure...."
- Julian of Norwich
- Julian of Norwich
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My aviation fun fact of the day is the F-16 EPU runs on hydrazine so if one crashes and you’re not dressed like this you should run away instead of taking pictures
September 17, 2026 at 7:51 PM
My aviation fun fact of the day is the F-16 EPU runs on hydrazine so if one crashes and you’re not dressed like this you should run away instead of taking pictures
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Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’
It’s our duty to know.
It’s our duty to know.
July 21, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’
It’s our duty to know.
It’s our duty to know.
An incomplete list of industries that might just take issue with this Trump mouthpiece telling us to drive less. Also, gas was under $4 when he made his Labor Day prediction: it's $5 now.
Gas stations
Hotels
Small business
Resorts
Restaurants
Retail
www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-l...
Gas stations
Hotels
Small business
Resorts
Restaurants
Retail
www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-l...
September 17, 2026 at 9:02 PM
An incomplete list of industries that might just take issue with this Trump mouthpiece telling us to drive less. Also, gas was under $4 when he made his Labor Day prediction: it's $5 now.
Gas stations
Hotels
Small business
Resorts
Restaurants
Retail
www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-l...
Gas stations
Hotels
Small business
Resorts
Restaurants
Retail
www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-l...
Locals on FB were claiming that ordnance was exploding, may have just been secondary fuel explosions.
britbrief.co.uk/weather/air/...
britbrief.co.uk/weather/air/...
F-16 fighter jet crashes in Michigan during training mission; pilot stable
An F-16 fighter jet crashed in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, during a joint training mission. The pilot ejected and is in stable condition.
britbrief.co.uk
September 17, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Locals on FB were claiming that ordnance was exploding, may have just been secondary fuel explosions.
britbrief.co.uk/weather/air/...
britbrief.co.uk/weather/air/...
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I don't want us influencing the future; we have done a really shitty job.
I'd rather be part of a world influenced by Indigenous groups and rural farm women in the Global South.
I'd rather be part of a world influenced by Indigenous groups and rural farm women in the Global South.
Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it:
"But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
"But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
September 17, 2026 at 2:28 PM
I don't want us influencing the future; we have done a really shitty job.
I'd rather be part of a world influenced by Indigenous groups and rural farm women in the Global South.
I'd rather be part of a world influenced by Indigenous groups and rural farm women in the Global South.
Axiomatic to this, as we're seeing, is that the people who wish to live as machines will prefer the creaturely wilderness and its inhabitants to be destroyed for ground into parking lots, oil change places, and plasma TVs.
September 17, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Axiomatic to this, as we're seeing, is that the people who wish to live as machines will prefer the creaturely wilderness and its inhabitants to be destroyed for ground into parking lots, oil change places, and plasma TVs.
Also: a functionally illiterate media and a morally bankrupt electorate.
So things aren’t looking great.
So things aren’t looking great.
The problems are twofold: a functionally illiterate electorate and a morally bankrupt media.
September 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Also: a functionally illiterate media and a morally bankrupt electorate.
So things aren’t looking great.
So things aren’t looking great.
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“This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence, a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.” (Plato, Timaeus). #wholeness #soul #ecology
Sahalie Waterfall
ALT: Sahalie Waterfall
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September 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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A dbl rainbow outside my house, gold in every end 😊
September 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
A dbl rainbow outside my house, gold in every end 😊
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Somewhere in DC, a ketchup bottle laughs nervously
September 16, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Somewhere in DC, a ketchup bottle laughs nervously
There is no such thing as self-policing. Or self-regulating. There's no such thing in any society or any system, natural or man-made. That's why we have police. And regulators. Without them systems either grow out of control or implode and collapse. This is the talk of make-believe. From adults.
Mike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."
September 16, 2026 at 5:50 PM
There is no such thing as self-policing. Or self-regulating. There's no such thing in any society or any system, natural or man-made. That's why we have police. And regulators. Without them systems either grow out of control or implode and collapse. This is the talk of make-believe. From adults.
Fascism fills its ranks with inept, unqualified loyalists who are both unable to perform at high levels & intelligently defend their positions- b/c fascism is intentionally a mockery of both excellence & intelligence. Therefore these guys have to hide &:depend on tribalism to get them over the line.
He skipped a debate hosted by Fox, which is roughly a home game. He has spent the race attacking his opponent over 9/11 while having voted nine separate times against health care for the first responders. That is what he would have had to defend on stage.
‘Scared’ MAGA Senate nominee ridiculed as Dem opponent debates empty podium
Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers was widely ridiculed after dodging a Fox News debate with his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed.“It tells you who he is,” El-Sayed told reporters after he was f...
www.rawstory.com
September 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Fascism fills its ranks with inept, unqualified loyalists who are both unable to perform at high levels & intelligently defend their positions- b/c fascism is intentionally a mockery of both excellence & intelligence. Therefore these guys have to hide &:depend on tribalism to get them over the line.
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No shit, 100% agree here.
September 15, 2026 at 10:07 PM
No shit, 100% agree here.
This bill is a Trojan Horse.
The Russia-sanctions bill looks like a no-brainer for lawmakers calling on Trump to get tougher with Russia—but it isn't what it seems, Thomas Wright argues:
Congress Might Be About to Hand Trump Sweeping Tariff Powers
The Russian-sanctions bill isn’t what it seems.
bit.ly
September 15, 2026 at 9:55 PM
This bill is a Trojan Horse.
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Liar. They're lowering the standards so they can hire sick abusers who will do their bidding and revel in cruelty.
September 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Liar. They're lowering the standards so they can hire sick abusers who will do their bidding and revel in cruelty.
This is barbarian shit to please Cletuses and wealthy ranchers.
🚨 Montana admits it overestimated its wolf population by hundreds, yet still proposes allowing up to 250 wolves to be killed during the 2026–27 hunting season. There's no scientific or ethical justification for killing wolves for sport. 📣Submit comments by Aug. 12: https://bit.ly/4xbRFwi
September 15, 2026 at 1:13 PM
This is barbarian shit to please Cletuses and wealthy ranchers.
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the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
September 15, 2026 at 12:07 AM
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
And this gets to the thrust of the argument. If the smug Chancellor and Board of Regents at the University of Michigan think this data center will not have a negative impact upon the poor residents of Ypsilanti Township at all - then they should be forced to move there and live next door to it.
September 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
And this gets to the thrust of the argument. If the smug Chancellor and Board of Regents at the University of Michigan think this data center will not have a negative impact upon the poor residents of Ypsilanti Township at all - then they should be forced to move there and live next door to it.
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So when Democrats say "Well, just a wee bit of bigotry to make the bigots that watch Fox News who will never vote for me happy." you can see why some might view that as unacceptable.
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years.
5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions.
19 states banned legal recognition
21 states have bathroom bans
8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs
25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions.
19 states banned legal recognition
21 states have bathroom bans
8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs
25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
September 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
So when Democrats say "Well, just a wee bit of bigotry to make the bigots that watch Fox News who will never vote for me happy." you can see why some might view that as unacceptable.
Fuck Line 5 & its supporters. The idiots who support endangering the largest bodies of freshwater in the US with a leaky pipeline run by corrupt, inept oligarchs support it reflexively - b/c the smart people who are wisely against it tend to also care about the environment & civil rights. Tribalism.
Oh so Line 5 just had a major spill in Wisconsin and the media doesn't really want to be covering it. #Line5 nativenewsonline.net/environment/...
Wisconsin Groups Call on Evers to Halt Enbridge Line 5 Following Major Spill
Overview: Tribes and other Wisconsin organizations are urging Gov. Tony Evers to halt Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute project following a major natural gas liquids spill, citing the company’s history of pip...
nativenewsonline.net
September 14, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Fuck Line 5 & its supporters. The idiots who support endangering the largest bodies of freshwater in the US with a leaky pipeline run by corrupt, inept oligarchs support it reflexively - b/c the smart people who are wisely against it tend to also care about the environment & civil rights. Tribalism.