@RedKahina Rabelais, Gargantua, Book 1 Chapter XVII. I will now give them their wine, but it shall be only in sport. Then smiling, he untied his fair braguette, and drawing out his mentul into the open air, he so bitterly all-to-bepissed them, that he drowned two hundred and sixty thousand
There may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.
@TheAtlasSociety Ayn Rand tried to sell us her worthless, empty, long books arguing that socialism is evil while she herself was dying of cancer and collecting Social Security.
@LauraMiers "I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?" - Frank Herbert (Dune)
@IsraelPersian That air quality looks terrible! Maybe it's the dust of the bones of the hundreds of thousands of people that you've killed. Or maybe it's the olive tree pollen that most of are allergic to.
@HavryshkoMarta Don't be too hard on yourself—it was a total bait-and-switch fraud, the Zelensky administration. You do great work showing the daily busification videos and documenting Ukraine's dire situation.
@AmericanGwyn They speak about abstruse or technical things (V-2 rockets, metempsychosis, cetaceans...) with no introduction or warning or excuses, giving readers not just something new to learn but also a feeling of being welcomed "in" on advanced discussions.