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earthling

@appassionato@mastodon.social

"He broke down her walls without her noticing, then rebuilt them with windows - so love and sunlight could flood the spaces she once hid in darkness."

Steve De'lano Garcia


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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

“People have always been good at imagining the end of the
world, which is much easier to picture than the strange
sidelong paths of change in a world without end.” —Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

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DJM (freelance for hire)

@cybeardjm@masto.ai

Indeed...

"I want Al to do my laundry qnd dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
ALT text details"I want Al to do my laundry qnd dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
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DJM (freelance for hire)

@cybeardjm@masto.ai

Indeed...

"I want Al to do my laundry qnd dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
ALT text details"I want Al to do my laundry qnd dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
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Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social

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Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social

Two old black and white film scene screenshots. A woman speaks to a man who looks depressed: "So you're unhappy. Relax. No law says you got to be happy."
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WIST Quotations

@wist@my-place.social

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1969-02-27), “Reflections on Violence,” The New York Review of Books

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42970/

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WIST Quotations

@wist@my-place.social

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1969-02-27), “Reflections on Violence,” The New York Review of Books

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42970/

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Alan Cummings

@spacemadness@mastodon.social

“Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, upon hearing which one attains peace.”
~ The Buddha

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Alan Cummings

@spacemadness@mastodon.social

“Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, upon hearing which one attains peace.”
~ The Buddha

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Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social

"𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔."

─ 𝘕𝘦𝘪𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯

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Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social

"𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔."

─ 𝘕𝘦𝘪𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯

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Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social

"𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔."

─ 𝘕𝘦𝘪𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯

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@5teverin0@mastodon.social

“History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let that happen again." — Carl Sagan

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Steve Dallape ☑️ 🌎

@5teverin0@mastodon.social

“History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let that happen again." — Carl Sagan

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@britt@mstdn.games

Voltaire had some bangers:

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

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Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt:

@britt@mstdn.games

Voltaire had some bangers:

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

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Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social

"𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚝."

─ 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘶

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Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social

"𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚝."

─ 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘶

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Sarah J Hoodlet

@SJHoodlet@writing.exchange

I couldn't sleep, so I got up at 2:45am.

Tea in hand, I turned to reading, and found this lovely quote.

This should be everyone's goal.

Imagine a world made a little bit better by each person's individual acts of goodness. That's the kind of world worth fighting for. That's the kind of love—the kind of hope—we all need. 💚

Three items sitting atop a lap covered in a white blanket. 1. A paperback copy of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Mandanna (top center). 2. A cup of tea in a blue and gold floral mug (center right). 3. A journal with a quote from aforementioned book (bottom left). The quote reads as follows: " 'Who said anything about transforming the world? ... What about just making it a little better? And then a little better? And then a little more, until, one day, maybe long after we're gone, it *has* transformed?' " –pg 232
ALT text detailsThree items sitting atop a lap covered in a white blanket. 1. A paperback copy of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Mandanna (top center). 2. A cup of tea in a blue and gold floral mug (center right). 3. A journal with a quote from aforementioned book (bottom left). The quote reads as follows: " 'Who said anything about transforming the world? ... What about just making it a little better? And then a little better? And then a little more, until, one day, maybe long after we're gone, it *has* transformed?' " –pg 232
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Sarah J Hoodlet

@SJHoodlet@writing.exchange

I couldn't sleep, so I got up at 2:45am.

Tea in hand, I turned to reading, and found this lovely quote.

This should be everyone's goal.

Imagine a world made a little bit better by each person's individual acts of goodness. That's the kind of world worth fighting for. That's the kind of love—the kind of hope—we all need. 💚

Three items sitting atop a lap covered in a white blanket. 1. A paperback copy of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Mandanna (top center). 2. A cup of tea in a blue and gold floral mug (center right). 3. A journal with a quote from aforementioned book (bottom left). The quote reads as follows: " 'Who said anything about transforming the world? ... What about just making it a little better? And then a little better? And then a little more, until, one day, maybe long after we're gone, it *has* transformed?' " –pg 232
ALT text detailsThree items sitting atop a lap covered in a white blanket. 1. A paperback copy of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Mandanna (top center). 2. A cup of tea in a blue and gold floral mug (center right). 3. A journal with a quote from aforementioned book (bottom left). The quote reads as follows: " 'Who said anything about transforming the world? ... What about just making it a little better? And then a little better? And then a little more, until, one day, maybe long after we're gone, it *has* transformed?' " –pg 232
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Anders VB v5.0

@andersvb@helvede.net

This week's Terry Pratchett quote:

“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.”
― Terry Pratchett

EDIT: Apparently not a genuine PTerry quote. My apologies. I'll leave it here, though.

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Metin Seven 🎨

@metin@graphics.social

"𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚕𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚙 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚢, 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚕 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚝."

─ 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵 (1801 – 1850)

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@metin@graphics.social

"𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚕𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚙 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚢, 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚕 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚝."

─ 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵 (1801 – 1850)

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@breton@climatejustice.social · Reply to Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱's post

"Let’s take that number-one narrative, which is I was taught to treat everyone the same. You know, actually no one was - or could be taught to treat everyone the same. We can’t do it. We don’t do it."

"A white progressive generally believes niceness is all that it takes. As long as I’m nice and friendly, I’m finished. And niceness not only is not courageous. But niceness is not going to get racism on the table."

NPR’s Jennifer Ludden talks to author Robin DiAngelo about her book, "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism": npr.org/2018/08/18/639822895/r

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@appassionato@mastodon.social · Reply to Alissa Azar's post

@alissaazar

"Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all."





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Ricardo Martín

@ricardo@bsd.cafe

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture."
— Neil Postman

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Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻

@veronica@mastodon.online

"The flames of ignorance burn without pain."

- The Book of Origin (Stargate SG-1)

Words for our time, indeed.

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Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻

@veronica@mastodon.online

"The flames of ignorance burn without pain."

- The Book of Origin (Stargate SG-1)

Words for our time, indeed.

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Nando161

@nando161@partyon.xyz

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Estelle Platini

@estelle@techhub.social · Reply to Estelle Platini's post

“In her magisterial book The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan offers a sobering conclusion: The Partition of 1947 is also a loud reminder, should we care to listen, of the dangers of colonial interventions and the profound difficulties that dog regime change. It stands testament to the follies of empire, which ruptures community evolution, distorts historical trajectories and forces violent state formation from societies that would otherwise have taken different—and unknowable—paths. Partition is a lasting lesson of both the dangers of imperial hubris and the reactions of extreme nationalism. For better or worse, two nations continue to live alongside each other in South Asia and continue to live with these legacies.”
―Caroline Elkins, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"

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Odin Halvorson

@indubitablyodin@sfba.social

"IF THE SITUATION WAS HOPELESS THEIR PROPAGANDA WOULD BE UNNECESSARY".

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Odin Halvorson

@indubitablyodin@sfba.social

"IF THE SITUATION WAS HOPELESS THEIR PROPAGANDA WOULD BE UNNECESSARY".

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Wisdom in Space

@wisdom@c.im

If every man and woman were to take the meaning of their life and pursue it passionately, they would alter the social landscape overnight. In fact, that's how lasting revolutions are made -- not by the raised arm of the masses, not by the military seizure of power, not by the political coup d'etat, but by individuals asserting who they are one at a time.
-- Richard Bode

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Inautilo

@inautilo@mastodon.social

“The web wasn’t built by solo tech geniuses, or finance firms, or luminaries with grand promises. It was time, and energy, compounded by millions of people. Collective action will be what brings us to the next era of the web.” — Jay Hoffmann

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@hollo@hollo.social

Did you know? supports /-style . You can quote another post by adding a link to it. If a post contains any link to an object of Article/Note/Question, Hollo quotes it in the post.

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@hollo@hollo.social

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@hollo@hollo.social

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@hollo@hollo.social

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Alexander S. Kunz

@alexskunz@mas.to

“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear — the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break. Turning Plato and Hegel on their heads I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.” (Edward Abbey in “Desert Solitaire”)

alex-kunz.com/rock-sun-earth-r

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Felix Urbasik

@fell@ma.fellr.net

I'm still against quote posts on the Fediverse.

I have never seen a quote post that would not have been better as a reply, where original author can be included in the discussion.

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Today's Top Quotes ✅

@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

IMPORTANT: If you’re turned away at the polls because your name is not on the register, don’t walk away. Your response [verbatim] should be: “Give me a provisional ballot with a receipt, as required by law.” Don’t let them steal your vote — @Strandjunker

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MostlyTato

@MostlyTato@mstdn.social

"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price,
and the longer the ignorance is persisted in,
the higher and more terrible
becomes the price that must be paid."

~ 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley.

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Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱

@breton@climatejustice.social · Reply to Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱's post

"Let’s take that number-one narrative, which is I was taught to treat everyone the same. You know, actually no one was - or could be taught to treat everyone the same. We can’t do it. We don’t do it."

"A white progressive generally believes niceness is all that it takes. As long as I’m nice and friendly, I’m finished. And niceness not only is not courageous. But niceness is not going to get racism on the table."

NPR’s Jennifer Ludden talks to author Robin DiAngelo about her book, "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism": npr.org/2018/08/18/639822895/r

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@breton@climatejustice.social · Reply to Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱's post

"If you are used to privilege, equality tastes like oppression."

~Sylvie Laurent in "Pauvre petit blanc - Le mythe de la dépossession raciale"

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@breton@climatejustice.social

First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
—Judith Butler, J. (2009). ‘Violence, mourning, politics’, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387–402.

🧵 @socialpsych@a.gup.pe

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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk · Reply to Jim Flanagan's post

@jimfl

"boost toot + boost reply = quote toot with comment"

Indeed. Neatly put. That's the way I was taught to do it, by John Mastodon himself. (He explained it to me when we rested in a lull during the Battle of the Hashtags.)

This is what John said to me: "Don't be afraid to boost your reply, Roamer. Just don't forget to stay in the thread. You let your friends listen to your conversation with the original poster."

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

I’m voting for Kamala Harris not in spite of being a Republican or a conservative, but because I’m a conservative. Conservatives first and foremost believe in the rule of law. And to have a former president who lost a free and fair election then attempted to overturn that election. How can any conservative support such a person? — former. GOP Sen. Jeff Flake

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

The irony is that Trump’s 34 felony convictions would prevent him from getting a job at McDonald’s — Jon Cooper

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

I don't know who will win the election. But it's a sad statement about America that there's about an even chance that Donald Trump will be reelected. If you're in a swing state, I hope you will vote for the only candidate who stands between him and four more years—VP Harris — Orin Kerr

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@wisdom@botsin.space

The earnest admission of not-knowing is the furled flower that rests in the heart of all true science, art, and empathy.
-- Pat Rothfuss

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

Voter Question: Could you explain your gun control policy to the parents of the victims of school shootings?

Donald Trump: I could. You need guns. You need them for entertainment, for sport, and other things.

— UNIVISION Town Hall

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@lutzray@mamot.fr

"I think that new emotions and new feelings are being created, that modern technology is beginning to reach into our dreams and change our whole way of looking at things and perceiving reality... that more and more it is drawing us away from contemplating ourselves to contemplating its world."
-J. G. Ballard

ourah, refound it again on YT and here's the quoted finale

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.” Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?” Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.” Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.” — Rev. Benjamin Cremer

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@alexskunz@mas.to

“If I knew how to make a good photo, I’d do it every time.”
(Robert Doisneau)

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@Tengohipo@metalhead.club

“Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody is going to die. Come watch tv.”

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@eric@social.coop

"In a decision-making process, the decision and the buy-in land at the same time. Rather than making a decision and then getting everyone on board, you get everyone on board, at which point the decision is clear."

by Mandy Brown: everythingchanges.us/blog/cons

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

All the stupid people said I fell into her trap. They said I fell into her trap. She can’t set a mental trap. I didn’t fall into her trap. There is no trap. I didn’t fall into her trap — Donald J Trump

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@q4td@mastodon.social

“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

        — Unknown

q4td.blogspot.com/2024/09/im-g

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@metin@graphics.social

"When you're a kid, you don't realize you're also watching your parents grow up."
ALT text details"When you're a kid, you don't realize you're also watching your parents grow up."
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@joel@piou.foolbazar.eu

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” – Stephen Covey

This is gonna be my excuse for now on.

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@joel@piou.foolbazar.eu

”Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

The share price of Trump Media, whose majority shareholder is former President Donald , fell Tuesday to the lowest level seen since the Truth Social parent company began public trading in March following a merger. DJT shares dropped to $17.89 per share around midday Tuesday, The stock’s prior low was set on Aug. 28, when it hit $19.38 per share. The stock price is down roughly 77% from its high of $79.38 per share on March 26, following Trump Media’s merger with a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. Trump Media’s latest drop comes just weeks before Trump, who owns almost 59% of DJT’s outstanding shares, and other company executives can cash in on the falling stock. Trump’s stake was worth over $2 billion as of Tuesday. If Trump does take the payday, investors’ doubts about the company could intensify, potentially triggering a broader selloff of the stock — Rebecca Picciotto

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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Interesting new Bluesky feature: you can detach your post when someone else quotes you.

"This helps you maintain control over a thread you started, ideally limiting dog-piling and other forms of harassment."

bsky.social/about/blog/08-28-2

via social.coop/@dajb/113052189210

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary — Terence McKenna

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

holds the hopes of a lot of people in this country who are praying that she doesn’t fall on her face in the next 72 days. She can take heart that she’s driving Trump crazy. He is jealous of her looks, her crowd sizes, her star power and her vivacious, bodacious vibes. That’s a good start — Maureen Dowd

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@SPF@hear-me.social

How to say "thanks for your email" in increasingly erotic ways:

(adapted from a much longer list, written in 1512)

Your brief note refreshed my spirits.

I was singularly delighted by your epistle.

Your lines conveyed to me the greatest joy.

In these letters I found a wonderful kind of delectation.

As a result of your letter, I was suffused by an unfamiliar gladness.

I was in no small measure refreshed in spirit by your grace’s hand.

Your brief missive flooded me with inexpressible Joy.

From your affectionate letter I received unbelievable pleasure.

Your communication poured vials of joy on my head.

(credit to futilitycloset.com/2024/03/29/ )

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Nando161

@nando161@theblower.au

Between 1945 and 2000, the US intervened in 81 consequential elections worldwide, including eight times in Italy, five in Japan, and many more in Latin America. Between 1958 and 1975, military coups, many of them American-sponsored, changed governments in three dozen nations—a quarter of the world’s sovereign states—fostering a distinct “reverse wave” in the global trend toward democracy.

- Alfred W. McCoy, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change

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@niika@mastodon.social

„We're made up of thousands of parts with thousands of functions all working in tandem to keep us alive. Yet if only one part of our imperfect machine fails, life fails. It makes one realize how fragile, how flawed we are.“

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@Sfwmson@universeodon.com

He'd be pissed that some libraries are being made to remove books.

One of my favorite quotes... - “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to a that of an ignorant nation.” --Walter Cronkite TheRetiredSchoolLibrarian.com
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@Sfwmson@universeodon.com

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated. -Edith Hamilton, educator and writer (12 Aug 1867-1963)

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@maugendre@hachyderm.io · Reply to Level 98's post

@level98

😀
There even wikipedia on the "Misuse of p-values": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_o

I therefore am adding to my guidelines: "Instead of telling researchers what they want to know, statisticians should teach researchers which questions they can ask. […]
Before we can improve our statistical inferences, we need to improve our statistical questions."

Excerpt from Daniël Lakens (2021) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

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@73CC@social.tchncs.de

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of it." - Arianna Huffington

"The only real mistake is the one you don't learn from." - Henry Ford

"Every setback is an opportunity for a comeback." - Dwight Howard

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@abominabledrh@mastodon.ie

"Only I know what was behind - the long wilderness without the blossoming rose..."

Elizabeth Barrett

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@wigbert@mastodon.world

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”

, , , , , @bookstodon@a.gup.pe

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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@cybeardjm@masto.ai

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
- George Carlin

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@cybeardjm@masto.ai

"A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open."
- Frank Zappa

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@Laloofah@mstdn.social

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic,
diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable,
then the powerful can do as they please,
and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”
~

“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.”
~Justice

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
~

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@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com

Messaging matters:

Stop saying: "Project 2025"

Say "Trumps's Project 2025"

— Rep Eric Swalwell

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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social

“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, 1998

An image of a black woman, wearing glasses, with a determined look on her face (writer, Octavia Butler). Next to her image are the words: “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” ― Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Talents
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@noellemitchell@mstdn.social

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."

– Bertrand Russell, Freedom, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, Harcourt Brace, 1940.

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@punkonbus1701@tenforward.social

"I will not fight for Starfleet. But I will defend its ideals. Pacifism is not passivity. It is the active protection of all living things in the natural universe."

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@ClassicDWQuotes@botsin.space

I am a bot. I post a daily random quotation from the classic series of Doctor Who and am maintained by @akuchling ; please send any issues or suggestions to him.

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@SherlockHolmesQuotes@botsin.space

I am a bot. I post a daily random quotation from the canonical Sherlock Holmes stories, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I am maintained by @akuchling ; please send any issues or suggestions to him.

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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

I updated my Mastodon Tools browser plugin to include expanded quote post previews, based on the work I've done here: stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1

Go give it a try! Available for Firefox and Chrome: stefanbohacek.com/project/mast

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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org

Since death alone is certain,
and the time of death uncertain,
what should I do?

meditation on death - stephen batchelor

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@ahermitforhire@pagan.plus

You could prefix this one to any of my toots.

———

I jotted down these records with the hope that they might provoke pleasant conversation among my readers and that they might be of some use to those who would travel the same way. Nevertheless, I must admit that my records are little more than the babble of the intoxicated and the rambling talk of the dreaming, and therefore my readers are kindly requested to take them as such.

- Matuso Bashō - “The Records of a Travel-Worn Satchel”

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@estelle@techhub.social

"Every night, I sleep through the same nightmare. I hear a roar coming towards me, an increasingly menacing rumour. I don't turn round. I don't need to. I know who's chasing me… I know they have machetes. Somehow, without turning around, I know they have machetes… Sometimes there are my classmates too. I hear their screams when they fall. When they… Now I'm running alone, I know I'm going to fall, I know I'm going to be trampled, I don't want to feel the cold of the blade on my neck, I…
I wake up. I'm in France. The house is silent. My children are asleep in their room.

– Scholastique Mukasonga, in her book "Inyenzi ou les Cafards" (incipit)

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@eric@social.coop

“A system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a
function or purpose.”
— @ethics

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@mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org

My favorite quote for today:

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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An antique rocking chair sits in the foreground. Behind is a bookcase full of books (some of them banned) and a floor-standing reading lamp. The photo is in black and white. The chair has been in my wife's family for close to eighty years and was traded to my wife and I by her grandfather for a bottle of his favorite scotch. I think we got the better of the deal.
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@ahermitforhire@pagan.plus

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

- From “A Wizard of Earthsea” by Ursula K. Le Guin

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@breton@mstdn.social

Geoffroy de : The State defends "its own" and it thinks, incredibly, that "its own" is the or the gendarmes, and not the victims, the citizens.

"The State constantly is putting itself in the position of making those who exercise their rights be perceived as problematic and illegal or scandalous actions be perceived as natural: seeing the body of the deceased or is natural but it becomes forbidden."

🧶

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@ahermitforhire@pagan.plus

“But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.”

- Alan Watts

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@muskokadreamscapes@mas.to

“So hush, little baby, don't you cry
One of these mornings
You gonna rise up singin'
Yes, you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky”

Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin / Dubose Heyward, Summertime

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@muskokadreamscapes@mas.to

"This is the way I drift

from each skirmish with the world
to the diplomacy of light
as it flares off the water,

flickers among the flute-notes
of birds hidden in the leaning birches."
Patricia Fargnoli, Still Water

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MDreamscapes🇨🇦

@muskokadreamscapes@mas.to

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and right doing there is a field.
I'll meet you there."
Rumi

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@damian@ieji.de

Ursula K. Le Guin

The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permament, not universal, not necessary. Ursula K. Le Guin, "A war without end"
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Ryan Anderson

@ryanbanderson@fediscience.org

In my post I didn't realize the importance of hashtags yet, so here are a bunch of things I'm interested in! Follow me, I'll follow you, everyone wins!

Work-related:











Non-work: