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Yowlumne

@yowlumne.bsky.social
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Wild hearts belong to wild lands. I am because you are. Compassion widens the moral circle to everyone and all life. A democracy worthy of the name protects the right to dissent.

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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Would societies govern themselves better if political institutions systematically reduced the influence of male status competition, dominance behavior and reproductive competition on the selection and behavior of leaders?
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cognitive empathy is understanding and concern for what others are thinking. But what about people who are not thinking?
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If AI had existed In 1763 it would’ve told colonists to work within the British system and avoid risk of violence. Same for France 1788, and so on!
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI is already well on its way to becoming the preeminent tool for teaching and enforcing social conformity. A big immediate bonus is that devalues labor. Devalue labor and repress dissent - a perfect combination . AI is simply being manipulated in accordance with existing incentives.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jane is right.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Homo sapiens declares that the fate of unborn generations does not matter, provided the living suffer no consequences in their own lifetimes.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The North American Model performs an old moral trick: appoint the killer as guardian, call his preference “science,” and rename domination “stewardship.” Then offer the killing itself as proof that wildlife is being saved.
rwg2056.substack.com
Unprocessed Fury”: From Psychopathology to the NAM Sheltering Wildlife Killers
by Anja Heister, PhD Co-founder & Executive Director of Footloose Montana
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Political buffoonery drives up gas and diesel prices. People drive less, burn less fuel, and emit less carbon. So the politicians calling global warming a hoax may be unintentionally fighting it after all—through sheer incompetence.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“AI May Kill Us All!” Isn’t it strange how much news coverage that gets? We never see “Climate Change May Kill Us All” or “Environmental Destruction May Kill Us All” or “Miscalculations by Lunatics May Lead To War That Kills Us All.”
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A politician who knowingly rejects facts deceives the public. More obscene is one who does so unknowingly—so captive to ideology, vanity or applause that falsehood feels like truth and incoherence like reason. The first manipulates reality; the second is unfit to govern it.
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Western Watersheds Project @westernwatersheds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A psychoanalyst answers the question: Why does anyone kill a wolf? www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/08/w...
counterpunch.org
Why Does Anyone Kill a Wolf? A Psychoanalytic Contribution
Paul Fielder, a Montana State Representative, and a promoter of the killing of wolves, has likened wolves to wasps. If wolf pups die directly or indirectly due to Fielder’s actions, he is not troubled...
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Attempting to represent unborn generations in government decision making is important.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What is the dollar value of a species, sacred landscape, human dignity, friendship, cultural continuity, or irreversible ecosystem loss?
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The genius of right-wing populism: Convince people who lost ground in the economic order that their enemy is the cultural elite, then persuade them to hand power to the economic elite who prospered from that same order. And call it a revolt against the elites.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hats off to Senator King. At least he writes it down so future generations will know of the grotesque obscenity.
king.senate.gov
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
1995, about half of Americans lived in counties with at least 25 days a year when the heat index topped 90°F. By 2025, it was roughly 70%. —NYT Editorial Board We are the frogs in the boiling water. But we lit the fire. Every other species is just trapped in the pot with us.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Meta is worth 1.43 trillion dollars. It just settled litigation arising from the lifetime harm their algorithm caused children for $17 billion payable over years. Our government let them off of the hook for 1.19% of their valuation.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Carissa Veliz is a brilliant intellect with a unique perspective on the AI narrative (and scare), as propaganda in service to big tech and illiberal government
carissaveliz.com
Prophecy - Carissa Veliz
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
People who worry about the sex characteristics of others might find this article distressing.
theconversation.com
Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional
Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The only people who apply and are hired for jobs as game wardens are avid hunters. The institutional bias toward “harvest” is immense.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In case you haven’t seen this article, it has a hopeful message. Could it really be that people who support climate action are not aware a majority of people agree?
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A wolf crosses our world like a messenger from the unnamed, revealing that beneath human meaning, existence far exceeds us.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Comments sought to help defend Yampa River wilderness. This is happening so often it feels like shoveling sand against the tide. Why is a war on wilderness a good idea?
conservationlands.org
Defend America's Wilderness | Conservation Lands Foundation
Take action today to tell the Department of the Interior to uphold wilderness policies and guidance.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Darkness is a critical ecological resource, why not destroy it too along with the climate and natural habitats ?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is on you, Jared Polis.
mediamatters.org
Tina Peters and other election deniers claim they've pitched the Trump administration on a midterm “election-security plan”
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The toll of climate change on other species (who have not contributed to it) is under studied and under reported.
bbc.com
Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soar
Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Mankind is the only species capable of understanding environmental destruction. We choose not to.
insurancebusinessmag.com
Slow-onset climate perils are outpacing the insurance market: Moody's
The firm projects physical risk losses could hit $41.4 trillion by the mid-2040s, with much of it going uninsured
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If this works, why is it only used to protect billionaires?
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A soul finds redemption. No religion needed.
substack.com
Rhett Ayers Butler (@rhettayersbutler)
Sitesh Ranjan Deb turned a hunter’s knowledge to saving wildlife The bear came out of the forest with enough force to kill him. It mauled the hunter badly and cost him an eye. During three months in ...
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The oldest friendship in human history may never have been between humans and dogs. It may have begun with wolves. New archaeological evidence suggests ancient people transported, fed, and cared for wolves thousands of years ago. Perhaps we’ve forgotten more than we’ve learned.
sciencedaily.com
5,000-year-old wolves found on remote island rewrite what we know about domestication
Scientists discovered ancient wolves on a tiny Baltic island where they could only have been brought by humans, suggesting an unexpectedly close relationship between people and wolves thousands of yea...
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
What is wealth for? Aristotle distinguished between wealth as a means and wealth as an end. Natural acquisition satisfies life. Unlimited acquisition mistakes the means for the goal.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A civilization that cannot tolerate its own ecological regulators is a civilization in denial of biological law.
Three wolves standing in a close group against a mountain backdrop and the silhouette of a man walking in the distance.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Projecting more humans in Africa
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency. Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." Harry Truman
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I hope this is a sign of things to come.
cbc.ca
Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights | CBC News
A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Universal Basic Capital is the idea that the public, through the government, should own a substantial equity stake in AI companies. The most fundamental question is not “Who owns AI?” but “What world is AI asking us to become?”
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New pole finds 47% of Americans are now less gullible.
ground.news
Americans' Pride in US History and Democracy Drops, and Fewer Are Proud to Be American, Polls Find
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Eco-Socialism: Advocating for democratic control of resources and production to prioritize people and planet over profit.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Democrats arguing about whether the party is capitalist or socialist obscures that something new is struggling to be born.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Climate change is what becomes visible when a civilization repeatedly encounters the limits of its own assumptions.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Curtailing the agricultural use of growing hay to feed cows would restore enough water to save the fish.
steamboatpilot.com
Low flows prompt voluntary fishing closure on part of Yampa River
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is issuing a voluntary closure of the Yampa River to fishing until further notice. The voluntary closure, which begins Friday, is due to extremely low flows and high water ...
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Democrats are not always progressive and greenwashing isn’t just a MAGA thing
substack.com
The Affordability Illusion: How Democrats Avoid Talking About Wages
And Betray The Environment
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The first ally came not on horseback or under a flag, but out of the darkness on four paws.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A state has a governance problem when environmental legislation must first clear an Agriculture Committee. It means the industry most likely to be affected is positioned to decide which environmental ideas even get a hearing.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
W Social, the new Euro platform, mistakes the venue for the problem. Social media’s flaw is that open discussion inevitably attracts actors willing to manipulate information, incentives, and attention to control the narrative and thereby control society.
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Europe: decades of conservation science. Also Europe: “A politician’s pony died, so let’s revisit the entire wolf policy.” That’s the world we live in.
observer.co.uk
Ursula and the wolf: doubt cast over von der Leyen’s stor...
The killing of the European Commission president’s aged pet, which has led to protected wolves being reclassified as ‘huntable’, is being questioned by experts
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“The misery of nations is caused not by particular persons, but by the particular order of Society under which the people are so bound up together that they find themselves all in the power of a few men, or more often in the power of one single man:
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Yowlumne @yowlumne.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
What if capitalism is not a human invention but an emergent property of intelligence itself? Any sufficiently advanced species may discover that the relentless conversion of matter, energy, and information into advantage becomes the dominant organizing force of its civilization.
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MidwestHedonist @midwesthedonist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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