steveknapp.bsky.social
Technology writer and part-time bonsai artist and gardener
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"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"A jester, a bad character." ~ Blaise Pascal
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"Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness." ~ William Arthur Ward
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"The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated." ~ Pramila Jayapal
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"They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it." ~ Jay Carr
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"A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved." ~ Mark Twain
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It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.
Jeff Cooper
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"Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane." ~ Mark Twain
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Funny stuff. 👍
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"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence." ~ George Orwell
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"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force." ~ George Orwell
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"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." ~ George Orwell
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"Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch." ~ Catherynne M. Valente
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"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in." ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
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If Scott Jennings was being honest...
"I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo." ~ Thom Yorke
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"Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express." ~ Zadie Smith
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Was this guy in the prayer circle?
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"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing." ~ William Shakespeare
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This is pretty much Miller's game plan.
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Kinda looks like Russia. 🤮
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Retaliate by putting on Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy." Play it LOUD!
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"Life it too short to deal with crazy people." ~ Karen E. Quinones Miller
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"The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy." ~ Jim Jefferies
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Putin is popping the champagne.
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This meetup is an example of why Democrats are so feckless and ineffective. It's sad.
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I'm starting to think that all headline writers are MAGA or stupid. But I repeat myself.
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"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." ~ William Shakespeare
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"Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment." ~ Ambrose Bierce
Is it time yet? Asking for a friend.
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"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." ~ Oscar Wilde
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"But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all." ~ Susan Sontag
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"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies" ~ Francois Fenelon
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It's a fact: America is 48.9% dumbass.
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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." ~ Albert Camus
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"The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world." ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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"Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart..." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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"The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country." ~ Barbra Streisand
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"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?" ~ John Milton
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"War is the ultimate tool of politics." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." ~ George Orwell
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"I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it." ~ Harry Patch
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"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." ~ Guy de Maupassant
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"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." ~ Howard Zinn
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"Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy." ~ David Harsanyi
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"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?" ~ Dorothy Parker
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"Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely." ~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." ~ Sigmund Freud
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"The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." ~ H. L. Mencken
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"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say" ~ Martin Luther
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