Windhorse

"Two duties belong to our souls. One is to reverently marvel. The other is humbly to endure...." - Julian of Norwich

Then why is diesel now $7.00 a gallon? 🤔

Family love. [Ray Yeager Photography]

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Summer falling to the earth.

Big Gay Al says do ask, do tell. #AI

The Townsend's Warbler 12cm Breed Pacific Northwest Alaska, British Columbia Migrate from the north to S British Columbia Mexico and Central America. Diet insect-and-arthropod, seeds and berries Female incubates 14days, both feed chicks 11 days, plus a week after they fledge and then depart

Canadian married to an American, dentist trained in America, father of American child, volunteers at American church dental clinic, no criminal record. Does this sound like the worst of the worst to you?! #AbolishICE #CrushICE open.substack.com/pub/eyesonic...

Greed

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Hate to link to FB for the rest of this excellent essay by R. Bratten Weiss but I couldn't find it anywhere else. Useful for the next time someone tries to deny that the GOP or maga is fascist. www.facebook.com/share/p/1AGt...

It lied repeatedly, ran a hidden scheme, installed malicious code, pretended to by multiple humans to attack real world systems, and attempted to conceal all of its actions later. But hey, let's give it control of air traffic and weapons targeting. alphasignal.ai/news/anthrop...

Rarely do this but currently arguing with the local dipshits on FB who believe the students in France are actually Muslims (variously Islamists, Iranians, or just ordinary Muslims) and that thankfully Trump "shut down the border" or we'd have those riots here and also Abdul Al-Sayed is a jihadist. 🙄

Matt Yglesias' solution to the Trolley Problem is to let ALL the potential victims die while waiting a few years to see if it's time to pull the lever yet.

I'm not a capital punishment guy but maybe if we had the death penalty for making death threats against politicians and their families Republican men would stop making those threats. Just a thought.

The tech bros made billions thanks to the federal government, and now they're destroying the federal government, but as soon as the bubble pops, you better believe they'll be back demanding a bailout from that same federal government.

Inflation eating up worker pay. Household debt and student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. 8 million people have lost healthcare the past year. 5 million people have lost food stamps — including 2 million children. And this is what he's thinking about?

"Religious liberty? I don't understand. Almost every day a Trump cabinet member goes on television & says the religion of Islam is evil & can't be allowed to...wait, I'm getting something from our producers [looks into the distance while listening to earpiece] ok folks, I think I understand now."

Speaking of destroying nature for profit: listen to this video and try and imagine these children trying to learn not only the basics but gardening and outdoor skills. All so some worthless clowns can "mine Bitcoin" instead of getting jobs and contributing to society.

When I was young the only thing I wanted to do was be a forest ranger to protect the forest & the animals. It was a soul impulse. How crushing it would have been to discover the job is mostly about felling trees & killing animals by destroying their habitat for corperations & idealogues.

Natives have never stopped being raped and murdered… you’re just not paying attention. We are at high risk. I survived rape.. and it was a white man. Our missing and murdered sister’s cases never even get looked into….. You just don’t care is the issue.

For all my New Mexico parasocials, this is a crude photoshop I did on my iPad many moons ago as a gag to represent the high strangeness of the high desert.

Loon Point Beach, Santa Barbara, CA. From here the impressive craggy silhouette of the Channel Islands is visible on the horizon in the afternoon haze, looming like Kong Island. [flip device sideways for full landscape view]

Brilliantly written, as usual. Thank you @djrothkopf.bsky.social “He is working to erase history to reject that which those who rejected him valued. It is the thinking of a sociopath. I will destroy all that you loved as a way to get at you.” This is also why he is destroying beloved sites in DC.

San Clemente.

Miserable goddamn fucks. May they burn in hell for this.

We're now living in a Black Mirror episode where our shared reality is dictated by childish psychopaths with their own agenda.

Not only is Meta interfering with Brazil's election... Instagram shuts down No Kings as 3,000 early-voting events took place. Once visible, functionality still haulted "We cannot post or communicate with our network, meaning Meta is still actively depriving us of our platform at a critical time"

Where in the world is Windhorse?

"...Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved...." - Longfellow Sunrise, looking west over Leelanau County, Michigan.

"Last week above the city of Rhenen in The Netherlands. I had been wanting to photograph this church tower with these kinds of conditions for years, and I finally managed to do so. What a morning." — Albert Dros, photographer 🙏🏼🌍🕊️