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Victrix causa deis placuit sed Victa Catoni.
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"the tyrant set upon [Aratus] on all hands, whilst the Argives, as if it had not been their liberty that was contended for, but some Nemean game going on for which it was their privilege to assign the prize, like fair and impartial judges, sat looking on in great quietness." #Plutarch
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"the tyrant set upon [Aratus] on all hands, whilst the Argives, as if it had not been their liberty that was contended for, but some Nemean game going on for which it was their privilege to assign the prize, like fair and impartial judges, sat looking on in great quietness." #Plutarch
"there are all those which only a bad character would choose, and which are implicitly opposed to men's wishes, e.g. that pleasure is the good, and that to do injustice is better than to suffer it. For people then hate him, supposing ... he really thinks them."
-Aristotle 'Topics'
-Aristotle 'Topics'
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"there are all those which only a bad character would choose, and which are implicitly opposed to men's wishes, e.g. that pleasure is the good, and that to do injustice is better than to suffer it. For people then hate him, supposing ... he really thinks them."
-Aristotle 'Topics'
-Aristotle 'Topics'
I am having the most wonderful midlife crisis
October 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I am having the most wonderful midlife crisis
While Leo Strauss is usually read as emphasizing esoteric interpretations, we should consider that he might have felt a need to hide his true intent.
October 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
While Leo Strauss is usually read as emphasizing esoteric interpretations, we should consider that he might have felt a need to hide his true intent.
I'm worried about ingesting microplastics so I'm sticking to macro
September 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm worried about ingesting microplastics so I'm sticking to macro
[Cato the Elder] would also tell you, that he had rather be deprived of the reward for doing well, than not to suffer the punishment for doing ill; and that he could pardon all offenders but himself.
#Plutarch
#Plutarch
August 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
[Cato the Elder] would also tell you, that he had rather be deprived of the reward for doing well, than not to suffer the punishment for doing ill; and that he could pardon all offenders but himself.
#Plutarch
#Plutarch
"an illiterate clownish fellow, giving Aristides his [ballot for ostracism]... begged him to write Aristides... "I am tired of hearing him everywhere called the Just." Aristides, hearing this, is said to have made no reply, but returned the sherd with his own name inscribed."
#Plutarch
#Plutarch
August 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"an illiterate clownish fellow, giving Aristides his [ballot for ostracism]... begged him to write Aristides... "I am tired of hearing him everywhere called the Just." Aristides, hearing this, is said to have made no reply, but returned the sherd with his own name inscribed."
#Plutarch
#Plutarch
Fellow NYCers - we might have to hand it to the spotted lantern flies. They might be authentic new yorkers.
August 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Fellow NYCers - we might have to hand it to the spotted lantern flies. They might be authentic new yorkers.
And Polycratidas, being sent with some others ambassador ... being asked by them whether they came in a private or in a public character, answered, "In a public, if we succeed; if not, in a private character." -Plutarch
July 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
And Polycratidas, being sent with some others ambassador ... being asked by them whether they came in a private or in a public character, answered, "In a public, if we succeed; if not, in a private character." -Plutarch
Maybe it's nostalgia, but I liked it better when elected officials weren't assaulted by the secret police.
June 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Maybe it's nostalgia, but I liked it better when elected officials weren't assaulted by the secret police.
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We ❤️ NYC! Turned up and turned out for blocks and blocks.
The power of the people don’t stop!
#NoKings #NoKingsNYC
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The power of the people don’t stop!
#NoKings #NoKingsNYC
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We ❤️ NYC! Turned up and turned out for blocks and blocks.
The power of the people don’t stop!
#NoKings #NoKingsNYC
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
The power of the people don’t stop!
#NoKings #NoKingsNYC
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
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June 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I use my clock to tell time unless it's wrong and I need to tell it the time.
June 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I use my clock to tell time unless it's wrong and I need to tell it the time.
"Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately." Montaigne Iii.13
June 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately." Montaigne Iii.13
What are we supposed to do with all these rocks?
June 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
What are we supposed to do with all these rocks?
"Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing."
Steinbeck, 'Cannery Row'
Steinbeck, 'Cannery Row'
May 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing."
Steinbeck, 'Cannery Row'
Steinbeck, 'Cannery Row'
"The profound threat of death for #Kant is not to be found in... the melancholy thought that in death we will cease to be able to do and experience all those things which give life meaning and enjoyment. All this might well be borne without difficulty by any courageous person. 1/2
May 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"The profound threat of death for #Kant is not to be found in... the melancholy thought that in death we will cease to be able to do and experience all those things which give life meaning and enjoyment. All this might well be borne without difficulty by any courageous person. 1/2
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NYC turned OUT for May Day. We are the many.
May 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
NYC turned OUT for May Day. We are the many.
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Don't let the adequate be the enemy of the slapdash
April 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Don't let the adequate be the enemy of the slapdash
I told myself I was investing for the long term and not day trading. But I find I've reached the end of a very long day.
April 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I told myself I was investing for the long term and not day trading. But I find I've reached the end of a very long day.
"one of the members stood up and said that he had read that in former times Tarquin and Julius had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he did not doubt but some good American would stand up, in favour of his country"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick...
April 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"one of the members stood up and said that he had read that in former times Tarquin and Julius had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he did not doubt but some good American would stand up, in favour of his country"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick...