Windy McHindenburg

Windy McHindenburg

@oldtrout.bsky.social

Old. Gassy. Community Knitter. Pro-democracy.

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Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen Live The Beach Boys The Rolling Stones Taj Mahal Eddie Money Huey Lewis and The News Santana Tom Jones Elton John Sha Na Na Jimmy Buffet

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Poor man with three daughters likes his home, but has to move.

Dan Hon@danhon.com

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

It seems I only use yellow as an accent color, but this project has four different yellow yarns in it - it's a pocket scarf, sized for a child: #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitsky This one is for Ukrainian orphans living in Romania. Link to the motif pattern in ALT Text.

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In America, we can't eradicate racism with law or policy. But we can make racism shameful again. Doing so is ultimately a political and cultural act, and it must be a conscious one. And it is an important part to restore some semblance of our liberal democracy. /fin

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Stat wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who" or "Transformers".

Ragnarok Lobster@eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Stat wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who" or "Transformers".

Here's a top-down garter stitch hat I designed that is made up of mitered squares. No seaming, contiguous construction (provisional cast on and picking up stitches, and mitered square w/short rows for the triangle portions). #showmeyourknits #knitsky

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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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James Baldwin: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

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Your to-do list for 2026 1) Pick a Campaign in your corner of the country. Pick a Democrat you like no matter what the level. 2) Staff or Volunteer for that Campaign. 3) Vote in that Primary and General for your Democrat or another Democrat. 4) Get that Democrat and other Democrats elected.

A holiday knit from a long time ago - I knit this Tiny Window Cat for my son to take on a train trip at Christmas. You can also see, if you look closely, that there are knitted Christmas lights on the miniature tree. That's the entirety of my holiday knitting! #showmeyourknits #Knitsky #knitting

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"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.