@wintersong.bsky.social
Queer, gender-complicated guy, kink/sex educator, polytheistic-pagan, intactivist/foreskin restoration advocate, photographer, lapsed EV journalist, living with Tourette Syndrome. He/They. Born at 339ppm http://wintertashlin.com
You can’t convince me economics is real when the president can just say “oh it will be fine” and that has a significant, measurable impact on the global markets somewhere in the vicinity of a trillion dollars.
A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.
On today’s episode of Cartoonishly Overt Sign We’re the Baddies: they’re taking the olive branch off the dime because it presents peace
These are the type of people you can imagine nuking China and then later saying they didn’t think of China retaliating with nuclear weapons.
Like, this is a degree of detachment from reality & motivated thinking that reminds me of Hitler in WWII ffs, except w/an incomparable war machine
2% OF THE POPULATION ARE REPRESENTED IN 50% OF BROADCAST NETWORK DRAMAS
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It was an an “accident,” but functionally on purpose because Hegseth literally got rid of the make sure that’s not a school unit then bragged about it.
Relatable as fuck
so, next time they are in power, i think democrats should ask themselves real serious questions about whether they want to continue considering bids and accepting contracts from an organization that has made eradicating half the country an explicit political goal
It’s still unbelievable,even after watching for the last five years as someone who wears a mask every time they leave their apartment to see the amount of vitriol those of us who wear masks still sometimes receive
Necropolitics and eugenics sold as personal freedom really did a number on people
Fucking treason.
When your corgi is buffering
"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."
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www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
That's Bea in the corner
This is SO relatable.
I'm still creating, but it's a harder lift than it used to be, and I've pretty much given up on photography, which was my primary creative outlet (and even my profession for bit) for a long time.
The Mayor of Dearborn
It’s helps to have a basic grasp of the Haber-Bosch process for making ammonia from methane to appreciate how US farming rides a tandem bicycle with Middle East oil.
We’ve had a 100 years to figure out some better way to get nitrogen to corn roots, but the fossil fuel industry keeps us all stuck.
These companies are now in the end game of the bubble where they are appealing directly to the people in power who want more. They are past the fake message of being a benefit to people and now selling it as tools for control as it was always intended.
Read this entire piece. Garrett Graff says what needs saying & does so as clearly & powerfully as anyone could.
Another coffee shop drawing.
The wife is asleep listening to a podcast.... I mean...
*Learning French* so I practiced my Rutherford. ✌🏻
I know that in the long run, being in PDX won't protect my queer, trans, polyam, family from the onrushing horrors.
But against a steady stream of national & global hate, along with the steady erosion of our freedoms, this bit of welcome from the place we've chosen to call home means a lot today.
A civil rights package passed by the Portland city council also protects transgender people who travel from out of state to seek health care.
Hell, if you refuse to call someone by their correct name and/or pronoun, I'm pretty comfortable saying that you don't really care about them at all.
Sure, everyone slips up now and again, but we all know the difference between outright refusal, not putting in the effort, and an occasional slip up.
(explaining race on star trek to someone who just woke up from a coma) okay so chakotay was native american in the same way that chekov was russian
heartwarming, really, that this tragically bereaved person somehow forced himself to keep functioning in a world that gave him no space for mourning
They'll call it tradition but this is what they mean
WIRED named the DOGE operative accused here of planning to take Social Security data to his new job. It's John Solly, and he works for the government contractor Leidos, a company that has millions in contracts with SSA.
read more here:
Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case
oh no the thing that has happened to every single world power in every single major conflict since the advent of modern artillery is happening again
