Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

Cicero, Orator, 120

when a MF cuts down all the laws to get to the devil

Popper describing the modern rightoids 80 years ago

“For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.”

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

James Russell Lowell knew: www.theotherpages.org/poems/lowell...

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

Started using this account to follow artists fleeing the hellsite, you have no idea how angry I am that I have to talk about the end of democracy instead

Biggest difference between bluesky and twitter that I haven't seen anyone talk about yet is that the algorithm for the discovery tab is "worse" in that it shows you normal people living their lives instead of being a livefeed of the worst things ever

finally deleted my twitter account, good lord that place got really bad

Any problem you have, odds are some exiled Chinese bureaucrat wrote a poem about it 3,000 years ago