Liz McFie
@lizmcfie.bsky.social
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi
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Liz McFie
@lizmcfie.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Earth has now, collectively, gone mad. I think I mean that literally. - Eric Weinstein
It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.
PS. - Jim Butcher, Storm Front
PS. - Jim Butcher, Storm Front
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 AM
It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.
PS. - Jim Butcher, Storm Front
PS. - Jim Butcher, Storm Front
He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing...Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.
PS. - King, The Dark Half
PS. - King, The Dark Half
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing...Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.
PS. - King, The Dark Half
PS. - King, The Dark Half
The braver, wiser act is to stop counting blessings on command, to resist the soft tyranny of enforced gratitude, and to reclaim our right to anger, dissatisfaction, and honesty. Gratitude should serve us—not the agendas of others.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/grat...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/grat...
The Dark Side of Gratitude: When Thankfulness Becomes a Tool of Control | Common Dreams
Gratitude is celebrated as a virtue, but coerced thankfulness can reinforce inequality, stifle emotions, and keep us complacent.
www.commondreams.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The braver, wiser act is to stop counting blessings on command, to resist the soft tyranny of enforced gratitude, and to reclaim our right to anger, dissatisfaction, and honesty. Gratitude should serve us—not the agendas of others.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/grat...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/grat...
Bowden: Comes a time
when you have to abandon principles and do what's right.
PS. - Southern Comfort
when you have to abandon principles and do what's right.
PS. - Southern Comfort
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Bowden: Comes a time
when you have to abandon principles and do what's right.
PS. - Southern Comfort
when you have to abandon principles and do what's right.
PS. - Southern Comfort
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
PS. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
PS. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
PS. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
PS. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
When is he going to die?
PS. - Rango
PS. - Rango
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When is he going to die?
PS. - Rango
PS. - Rango
"I know Marshal Kee, he want to have LIQUOR STORE in America. I’m not going from general to LIQUOR STORE OWNER."
"Why don’t you tell the senator what you really want, General?"
"Holiday Inn, Southern California, own and operate!"
PS. - Air America
"Why don’t you tell the senator what you really want, General?"
"Holiday Inn, Southern California, own and operate!"
PS. - Air America
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"I know Marshal Kee, he want to have LIQUOR STORE in America. I’m not going from general to LIQUOR STORE OWNER."
"Why don’t you tell the senator what you really want, General?"
"Holiday Inn, Southern California, own and operate!"
PS. - Air America
"Why don’t you tell the senator what you really want, General?"
"Holiday Inn, Southern California, own and operate!"
PS. - Air America
Bill? Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
PS. - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
PS. - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Bill? Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
PS. - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
PS. - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. - Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. - Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.”
PS. - Werner Heisenberg
PS. - Werner Heisenberg
November 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.”
PS. - Werner Heisenberg
PS. - Werner Heisenberg
There is reason that all things are as they are.
PS. – Bram Stoker, Dracula
PS. – Bram Stoker, Dracula
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is reason that all things are as they are.
PS. – Bram Stoker, Dracula
PS. – Bram Stoker, Dracula
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
PS. - Paul Wellstone
PS. - Paul Wellstone
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
PS. - Paul Wellstone
PS. - Paul Wellstone
In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors...
PS. - Justice Hugo Black
PS. - Justice Hugo Black
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors...
PS. - Justice Hugo Black
PS. - Justice Hugo Black
Fritz: If the government wins and we're convicted, the Washington Post as we know it will cease to exist.
Ben: Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.
PS. - The Post
Ben: Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.
PS. - The Post
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Fritz: If the government wins and we're convicted, the Washington Post as we know it will cease to exist.
Ben: Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.
PS. - The Post
Ben: Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.
PS. - The Post
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
PS. - Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
PS. - Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
PS. - Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
PS. - Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
PS. - George Orwell
PS. - George Orwell
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
PS. - George Orwell
PS. - George Orwell
Bleeding someone dry. To take all of the resources that another person or thing has available. This phrase is often applied to money.
PS. - The Free Dictionary
PS. - The Free Dictionary
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Bleeding someone dry. To take all of the resources that another person or thing has available. This phrase is often applied to money.
PS. - The Free Dictionary
PS. - The Free Dictionary
Narrator: She said no.
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Narrator: She said no.
In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.
PS. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
PS. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.
PS. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
PS. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
