Marching From Omelas
@leavingomelas.bsky.social
“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist.”
Does anyone really think Trump would hesitate to put Iranian Americans into internment camps the next time a car backfires?
June 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Does anyone really think Trump would hesitate to put Iranian Americans into internment camps the next time a car backfires?
Devils hands... yada yada.
March 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Devils hands... yada yada.
If education is a prerequisite to intelligence, what happens to education when intelligence becomes a synthetic, manufactured, self replicating commodity?
January 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If education is a prerequisite to intelligence, what happens to education when intelligence becomes a synthetic, manufactured, self replicating commodity?
Danielle Smith, Donald Trump, and Kevin O’Leary pictured at Mar-a-Lago this morning
January 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Danielle Smith, Donald Trump, and Kevin O’Leary pictured at Mar-a-Lago this morning
“Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields” ~ Thomas Sowell
December 30, 2024 at 7:39 PM
“Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields” ~ Thomas Sowell
The dumbest word ever?
December 29, 2024 at 12:10 AM
The dumbest word ever?
“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.” - R. Scott Bakker
December 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM
“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.” - R. Scott Bakker
Mugshot of CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson for his DUI arrest in 2017
December 21, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Mugshot of CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson for his DUI arrest in 2017
"Every one but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious... they must be (like all mankind) in poverty, or they will not work."-Arthur Young (1771), The Farmer's Tour through the East of England
December 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
"Every one but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious... they must be (like all mankind) in poverty, or they will not work."-Arthur Young (1771), The Farmer's Tour through the East of England
This will now be my first response to any troll.
December 21, 2024 at 12:07 AM
This will now be my first response to any troll.