
Veronica Olsen ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๐ด๐ป
@veronica@mastodon.online
"Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist."
โ Sir David Attenborough
@veronica@mastodon.online
"Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist."
โ Sir David Attenborough
@yongzs1218@pari.cafe
The famous quotes from The Biography of Guo Tuo-tuo, the Tree Planter (็จฎๆจน้ญๆฉ้งๅณ):
Quotes on Tree-Planting Experience
"ๆฉ้ง้่ฝไฝฟๆจๅฃฝไธๅญณไน๏ผ่ฝ้ ๆจไนๅคฉ๏ผไปฅ่ดๅ ถๆง็็พใ"- Translation: Tuo-tuo isn't able to make trees live long and flourish; he simply follows their natural tendencies, allowing their inherent nature to fully develop.
"ๅ ถๆฌๆฌฒ่๏ผๅ ถๅนๆฌฒๅนณ๏ผๅ ถๅๆฌฒๆ ๏ผๅ ถ็ฏๆฌฒๅฏใ"- Translation: Its roots should be spread out, the soil around its base should be level, the earth should be its original soil, and the tamping should be firm.
"ๅ ถ่ไน่ฅๅญ๏ผๅ ถ็ฝฎไน่ฅๆฃใ"- Translation: When planting, treat it like a child; once planted, leave it as if abandoned.
"้ๆฐๆไน๏ผๅ ถๅฏฆๅฎณไน๏ผ้ๆฐๆไน๏ผๅ ถๅฏฆ่ฎไนใ"- Translation: Although they say they love it, they are actually harming it; although they say they worry about it, they are actually its enemy.
"่ฆ้ทไบบ่ ๅฅฝ็ ฉๅ ถไปค๏ผ่ฅ็ๆ็๏ผ่ๅไปฅ็ฆใ"- Translation: Seeing those in power who love to issue numerous commands, as if showing great compassion, but ultimately bringing disaster.
"ๅณๅ ถไบไปฅ็ฒๅฎๆไนใ"- Translation: I record this matter as a warning for officials.
@aiBlanket@mastodon.sdf.org
@aiBlanket@mastodon.sdf.org
@alexskunz@mas.to
โI donโt know a thing about the rules of composition. I make my own. The subject is very difficult to write about, and perhaps can never be explained in words, since it is so involved in personal experience and growth. Words, โart criticism,โ and explanations are the curse of today so far as art is concerned. To me, composition is the clearest and strongest way of seeing a subject.โ (Edward Weston)
#Quotes #Photography #IntimateLandscape #SanDiego #TorreyPines
@alexskunz@mas.to
โI donโt know a thing about the rules of composition. I make my own. The subject is very difficult to write about, and perhaps can never be explained in words, since it is so involved in personal experience and growth. Words, โart criticism,โ and explanations are the curse of today so far as art is concerned. To me, composition is the clearest and strongest way of seeing a subject.โ (Edward Weston)
#Quotes #Photography #IntimateLandscape #SanDiego #TorreyPines
@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
@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold
โPeople 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.โ โRebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
@cybeardjm@masto.ai
@cybeardjm@masto.ai
@metin@graphics.social
@metin@graphics.social
@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), โReflections on Violence,โ The New York Review of Books
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42970/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #aggression #conflict #force #options #violence #war #warfare
@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), โReflections on Violence,โ The New York Review of Books
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42970/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #aggression #conflict #force #options #violence #war #warfare
@spacemadness@mastodon.social
โBetter than a thousand useless words is one useful word, upon hearing which one attains peace.โ
~ The Buddha
#photography #flowers #nature #spring #buddha #quotes #blackandwhite #SilentSunday
@spacemadness@mastodon.social
โBetter than a thousand useless words is one useful word, upon hearing which one attains peace.โ
~ The Buddha
#photography #flowers #nature #spring #buddha #quotes #blackandwhite #SilentSunday
@metin@graphics.social
"๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐."
โ ๐๐ฆ๐ช๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ
#quote #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #wisdom #writer #tech #technology #BigTech #people #love #oppression
@metin@graphics.social
"๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐."
โ ๐๐ฆ๐ช๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ
#quote #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #wisdom #writer #tech #technology #BigTech #people #love #oppression
@metin@graphics.social
"๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐."
โ ๐๐ฆ๐ช๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ
#quote #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #wisdom #writer #tech #technology #BigTech #people #love #oppression
@5teverin0@mastodon.social
โHistory 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." โ Carl Sagan
#science #knowledge #quotes #carlSagan #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism #reason
@5teverin0@mastodon.social
โHistory 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." โ Carl Sagan
#science #knowledge #quotes #carlSagan #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism #reason
@britt@mstdn.games
@britt@mstdn.games
@metin@graphics.social
"๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐."
โ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ
@metin@graphics.social
"๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐."
โ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ
@andersvb@helvede.net
This week's Terry Pratchett quote:
โSatire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.โ
โ Terry Pratchett
#pratchett #quotes #weeklypratchettquote
EDIT: Apparently not a genuine PTerry quote. My apologies. I'll leave it here, though.
@metin@graphics.social
"๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐ข ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐."
โ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ต (1801 โ 1850)
#quote #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #wisdom #society #system
@metin@graphics.social
"๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐ข ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐."
โ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ต (1801 โ 1850)
#quote #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #wisdom #society #system
@breton@climatejustice.social ยท Reply to Fรฉlicien Breton ๐ ๐ป ๐ฑ's post
"Letโs 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 canโt do it. We donโt do it."
"A white progressive generally believes niceness is all that it takes. As long as Iโm nice and friendly, Iโm finished. And niceness not only is not courageous. But niceness is not going to get racism on the table."
NPRโs Jennifer Ludden talks to author Robin DiAngelo about her book, "White Fragility: Why Itโs So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism": https://www.npr.org/2018/08/18/639822895/robin-diangelo-on-white-peoples-fragility
#progressives #liberals #colorBlind #colorBlindness #colours #postRacial #fragility #respectability #domination #boundaries #sociology #coloniality #entitlement #whiteness #psychology #whiteFragility #quote #quotes #book #DemocraticParty #VoteBlue #KamalaHarris #ColorLine
@appassionato@mastodon.social ยท Reply to Alissa Azar's post
"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."
@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."
โ Neil Postman
@veronica@mastodon.online
@veronica@mastodon.online
@nando161@partyon.xyz
@estelle@techhub.social ยท Reply to Estelle Platini's post
โIn 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 differentโand unknowableโpaths. 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.โ
โCaroline Elkins, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"
#liberalism #raceMaking #hinduism #violence #brutalization #ethnic #religion #IndianSubcontinent #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #colonialism #British #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #CarolineElkins #Elkins #book #quotes #regimeChange
@indubitablyodin@sfba.social
@indubitablyodin@sfba.social
@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
@inautilo@mastodon.social
โThe web wasnโt 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.โ โ Jay Hoffmann
_____
#Business #Community #Web #FreeWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Website #Blog #Content #Evolution #Quotes
@hollo@hollo.social
Did you know? #Hollo supports #Misskey/#Pleroma-style #quotes. You can quote another post by adding a link to it. If a post contains any link to an #ActivityPub object of Article
/Note
/Question
, Hollo quotes it in the post.
@hollo@hollo.social
Did you know? #Hollo supports #Misskey/#Pleroma-style #quotes. You can quote another post by adding a link to it. If a post contains any link to an #ActivityPub object of Article
/Note
/Question
, Hollo quotes it in the post.
@hollo@hollo.social
Did you know? #Hollo supports #Misskey/#Pleroma-style #quotes. You can quote another post by adding a link to it. If a post contains any link to an #ActivityPub object of Article
/Note
/Question
, Hollo quotes it in the post.
@hollo@hollo.social
Did you know? #Hollo supports #Misskey/#Pleroma-style #quotes. You can quote another post by adding a link to it. If a post contains any link to an #ActivityPub object of Article
/Note
/Question
, Hollo quotes it in the post.
@bits@mastodon.online
...you might as well skip the Xmas celebration completely, and instead sit in front of your linux computer playing with the all-new-and-improved linux kernel version.
-- Linus Torvalds
@alexskunz@mas.to
โMen come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear โ 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.โ (Edward Abbey in โDesert Solitaireโ)
@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.
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
IMPORTANT: If youโre turned away at the polls because your name is not on the register, donโt walk away. Your response [verbatim] should be: โGive me a provisional ballot with a receipt, as required by law.โ Donโt let them steal your vote โ @Strandjunker #quotes #quote #Vote #Election2024
@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.
@breton@climatejustice.social ยท Reply to Fรฉlicien Breton ๐ ๐ป ๐ฑ's post
"Letโs 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 canโt do it. We donโt do it."
"A white progressive generally believes niceness is all that it takes. As long as Iโm nice and friendly, Iโm finished. And niceness not only is not courageous. But niceness is not going to get racism on the table."
NPRโs Jennifer Ludden talks to author Robin DiAngelo about her book, "White Fragility: Why Itโs So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism": https://www.npr.org/2018/08/18/639822895/robin-diangelo-on-white-peoples-fragility
#progressives #liberals #colorBlind #colorBlindness #colours #postRacial #fragility #respectability #domination #boundaries #sociology #coloniality #entitlement #whiteness #psychology #whiteFragility #quote #quotes #book #DemocraticParty #VoteBlue #KamalaHarris #ColorLine
@breton@climatejustice.social ยท Reply to Fรฉlicien Breton ๐ ๐ป ๐ฑ's post
"If you are used to privilege, equality tastes like oppression."
~Sylvie Laurent in "Pauvre petit blanc - Le mythe de la dรฉpossession raciale"
#quote #quotes #bookStodon #equality #identity #UnitedStates #fragility #sociology #systemicRacism #supremacy #whiteSupremacy #fragility #whiteFragility #racism #populism #trumpism #coloniality #Trump #racialDivide #lineOfColor #SylvieLaurent #cultureWars #landGrab #seizing #appropriation #nationalism #newRight
@breton@climatejustice.social
First Worldismโโthe 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 oneโs own boundaries transgressed.โ
โJudith Butler, J. (2009). โViolence, mourning, politicsโ, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387โ402.
๐งต @socialpsych@a.gup.pe
#CulturalStudies #JudithButler #fragility #respectability #NineEleven #post911Wars #Oct7 #Oct7War #postOct7War #FirstWorldism #domination #boundaries #grievability #imperialism #geoPolitics #victimhood #resources #sociology #protest #protests #coloniality #stateRacism #indignation #entitlement #whiteness #islamophobia #moralPanic #psychology #masculinity #whiteFragility #quote #quotes #book #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #terrorism
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk ยท Reply to Jim Flanagan's post
"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."
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
Iโm voting for Kamala Harris not in spite of being a Republican or a conservative, but because Iโm 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? โ former. GOP Sen. Jeff Flake #quotes #quote #RepublicansForHarris #Conservatives #HarrisWalz2024 #USPolitics #USPol #Politics
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
The irony is that Trumpโs 34 felony convictions would prevent him from getting a job at McDonaldโs โ Jon Cooper #quotes #quote #Trump #ConvictedCriminal #McDonalds #McDonaldTrump #FrenchFries
@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 yearsโVP Harris โ Orin Kerr #quotes #quote #Vote #KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteDemocrats #VoteBlue
@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
โฌ #Wisdom #Quotes #PatRothfuss #Empathy #Science #Uncertainty
@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.
โ UNIVISION Town Hall #quotes #quote #SchoolShooting #GunViolence #ChildrenMurdered #Guns #GunSafety #Trump #Republicans #GunReform
@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
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
Then Jesus said unto the sick, โyou better have insurance.โ Then Jesus said unto the stranger, โare you here legally?โ Then Jesus said unto the hungry, โmy taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.โ Then Jesus said unto the poor, โthis is your own fault.โ โ Rev. Benjamin Cremer #quotes #quote #Republicans #MAGA #Selfishness #Arrogance #SelfRighteousness #Project2025
@alexskunz@mas.to
โIf I knew how to make a good photo, Iโd do it every time.โ
(Robert Doisneau)
@Tengohipo@metalhead.club
โNobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody is going to die. Come watch tv.โ
@eric@social.coop
"In a #consensus 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: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/consenting-to-decisions/
#deciding #decisions #decisionMaking #innovation #management #workCulture #quotes #teamWork #MandyBrown #facilitation #leadership #change #consent #resolution #transparency #dialogue
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
All the stupid people said I fell into her trap. They said I fell into her trap. She canโt set a mental trap. I didnโt fall into her trap. There is no trap. I didnโt fall into her trap โ Donald J Trump #quotes #quote #Trump #Trapped #KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz2024 #USPolitics #USPol
@q4td@mastodon.social
โIโm going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually Iโm going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.โ
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย โ Unknown
#Q4TD #Quote #Quotes http://q4td.blogspot.com/2024/09/im-going-to-buy-him-copy-of-mythical.html
@metin@graphics.social
@joel@piou.foolbazar.eu
โStrength lies in differences, not in similarities.โ โ Stephen Covey
This is gonna be my excuse for now on.
@joel@piou.foolbazar.eu
โRemember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.โ โ Dale Carnegie
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
The share price of Trump Media, whose majority shareholder is former President Donald #Trump, 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 stockโs 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 Mediaโs merger with a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. Trump Mediaโs latest drop comes just weeks before Trump, who owns almost 59% of DJTโs outstanding shares, and other company executives can cash in on the falling stock. Trumpโs stake was worth over $2 billion as of Tuesday. If Trump does take the payday, investorsโ doubts about the company could intensify, potentially triggering a broader selloff of the stock โ Rebecca Picciotto #quotes #quote #DJT #Nasdaq #Selloff #Stocks
@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."
https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-28-2024-anti-toxicity-features
via https://social.coop/@dajb/113052189210093493
#UXUI #design #SocialMedia #OnlineSafety #quotes #QuotePosts #bluesky
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
#Kamala holds the hopes of a lot of people in this country who are praying that she doesnโt fall on her face in the next 72 days. She can take heart that sheโs driving Trump crazy. He is jealous of her looks, her crowd sizes, her star power and her vivacious, bodacious vibes. Thatโs a good start โย Maureen Dowd #quotes #quote #Trump #Jealous #FreakedOut #Rambling #Despair #Depression #Fear #Unpresidential
@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 graceโs 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 https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/03/29/turns-of-phrase/ )
#list #writing #writers #historical #history #erasmus #email #quotations #quotes
@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.ย Between 1958 and 1975, military coups, many of them American-sponsored, changed governments in three dozen nationsโa quarter of the worldโs sovereign statesโfostering a distinct โreverse waveโ in the global trend toward democracy.
- Alfred W. McCoy, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
#quote #quotes #usa #america #history #classwar #politics #fascism #oppression #repression #nazis #neonazis #neofascism #society #humans #earth #community #imperialism #capitalism
@niika@mastodon.social
@Sfwmson@universeodon.com
#Quotes #Libraries #Ignorance #WakterCronkite
He'd be pissed that some libraries are being made to remove books.
@Sfwmson@universeodon.com
#Quotes #Education #HumanBeing
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)
@maugendre@hachyderm.io ยท Reply to Level 98's post
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There even wikipedia on the "Misuse of p-values": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_p-values
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. [โฆ]
Before we can improve our statistical inferences, we need to improve our statistical questions."
Excerpt from Daniรซl Lakens (2021) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691620958012
#quotes #nullHypothesis #probability #math #pValues #maths #AIEthics #ML #statistics
@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
@abominabledrh@mastodon.ie
@wigbert@mastodon.world
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isnโt 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.โ
#theartofhappiness, #wordsofwisdom, #literature, #quotes, #happiness, @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
@cybeardjm@masto.ai
@cybeardjm@masto.ai
"A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open."
- Frank Zappa
@Laloofah@mstdn.social
โAs 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.โ
~ #NoamChomsky
โThe greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.โ
~Justice #LouisBrandeis
โThe price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.โ
~ #Plato
#quote #quotes #Democracy #authoritarianism #FightApathy #DefeatProject2025
@StephenRamirez@universeodon.com
Messaging matters:
Stop saying: "Project 2025"
Say "Trumps's Project 2025"
โ Rep Eric Swalwell #quotes #quote #Project2025 #Trump #TrumpsProject2025
@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
โChoose 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.โ
โ Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, 1998
#OctaviaButler #BlackWriters #AfroFuturism #Quotes #Fascism #Elections #Election2024 #OctaviaButlerQuotes
@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."
โ Bertrand Russell, Freedom, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, Harcourt Brace, 1940.
#quotes #reading #politics #SCOTUS #USpol #BertrandRussell #writers #Fascism
@punkonbus1701@tenforward.social
@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.
@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.
#SherlockHolmes #Sherlock #Holmes #ArthurConanDoyle #mystery #mysteries #quotes #quotations #bot
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
I updated my Mastodon Tools browser plugin to include expanded quote post previews, based on the work I've done here: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112643848931362289
Go give it a try! Available for Firefox and Chrome: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/mastodon-tools-browser-extension/
#mastodon #BrowserExtension #BrowserPlugin #firefox #chrome #quotes #QuoteBoosts #QuotePosts
@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org
Since death alone is certain,
and the time of death uncertain,
what should I do?
meditation on death - stephen batchelor #quote #quotes
https://www.worldprayers.org/archive/prayers/meditations/since_death_alone_is_certain.html
@ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
You could prefix this one to any of my toots.
โโโ
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 Bashล - โThe Records of a Travel-Worn Satchelโ
@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 meโฆ I know they have machetes. Somehow, without turning around, I know they have machetesโฆ Sometimes there are my classmates too. I hear their screams when they fall. When theyโฆ 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, Iโฆ
I wake up. I'm in France. The house is silent. My children are asleep in their room.
โ Scholastique Mukasonga, in her book "Inyenzi ou les Cafards" (incipit)
#Mukasonga #Rwanda #ุดููุฏ, #shaheed #words #witness #France #history #mourning #coloniality #book #racism #genocide #quote #quotes #nightmare #trauma #ethnicCleansing #PTSD
@eric@social.coop
โA system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a
function or purpose.โ
โ #DonellaMeadows #quotes #facilitation #complexity #systems #ethics @ethics
@mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org
My favorite quote for today:
โUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.โ
โ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Note on the photo: 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.
@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 โA Wizard of Earthseaโ by Ursula K. Le Guin
@breton@mstdn.social
Geoffroy de #Lagasnerie: The State defends "its own" and it thinks, incredibly, that "its own" is the #police 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 #demonstrating is natural but it becomes forbidden."
#policeViolence #politicalPhilosophy #demonstrations #quotes ๐งถ
@ahermitforhire@pagan.plus
โBut 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.โ
- Alan Watts
@muskokadreamscapes@mas.to
โSo 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 skyโ
Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin / Dubose Heyward, Summertime
@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
#SilentSunday #photography #quotes
@muskokadreamscapes@mas.to
โOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and right doing there is a field.
I'll meet you there."
Rumi
#ThoughtfulTuesday #quotes #photography
@damian@ieji.de
Ursula K. Le Guin
@ryanbanderson@fediscience.org
In my #introduction 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:
#science
#scicomm
#space
#geology
#astronomy
#mars
#CuriosityRover
#PerseveranceRover
#planets
#python
#scikitlearn
#MachineLearning
Non-work:
#books
#writing
#writers
#authors
#nanowrimo
#poetry
#quotes
#fantasy
#scifi
#history
#gaming
#rpg
#parenting
#photography
#hiking
#skiing
#philosophy