#article quote

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #typography #essays and articles #id included #ismatu gwendolyn #youve been traumatized into hating reading and it makes you easier to oppress #threadings #m #x

[buttersteps]

the baseball players are about to mount a coup and i’m here for it

#incredible quotes in this article #and good for them #baseball #mlb

[dance-in-my-storm]

“These feelings will always be yours. They belong to you. This love doesn’t hurt you or make you smaller or weaker. This love, this sadness, this pain, this regret, this passion is here to remind you that you will always care more than you can stand. You will always feel more than you can tolerate. Your love is a renewable resource. Live at the center of that abundance. Feel everything.”

-Heather Havrilesky, Love Doesn’t Evaporate

#personal #relationships #love #life #quotes #quote #article #article quote #heather havrilesky #love doesn’t evaporate #passion #regret #sad #heartbreak #loss #feelings #care

[charliejaneanders]

The United States has always been a terrible place to be sick and disabled. Ableism is baked into our myths of bootstrapping and self-reliance, in which health is virtue and illness is degeneracy. It is long past time for a bedrock shift, for all of us.

Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too.

#covid #quotes #writing #long covid #madeline miller #holy shit this article is devastating #please keep masking and testing

[elitheaceofalltrades]

"I’m not a child anymore who can be shattered by the smallest rejections — or maybe I am, but I am also an adult who knows how to glue things back together." -Miranda Osmelak, Why Being Broke Makes It Harder To Negotiate

#ace of all trades #hobby blog #hobbies #aoat's weekly quote #quote #quote of the week #quotation #quotations #quotes #tfd #the financial diet #article quote #article #link

[serialunaliver]

That year, a Hoover Institution economist who advised both Nixon and Reagan named Roger Freeman said the quiet part out loud when he told the San Francisco Chronicle, “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education.”

#article #I actually double fact checked the proletariat quote because it was so brazen

[exhaled-spirals]

« To mention the global loss of biodiversity, that is to say, the disappearance of life on our planet, as one of our problems, along with air pollution or ocean acidification, is absurd—like a doctor listing the death of his patient as one symptom among others.

The ecological catastrophe cannot be reduced to the climate crisis. We must think about the disappearance of life in a global way. About two-thirds of insects, wild mammals and trees disappeared in a few years, a few decades and a few millennia, respectively. This mass extinction is not mainly caused by rising temperatures, but by the devastation of natural habitats.

Suppose we managed to invent clean and unlimited energy. This technological feat would be feted by the vast majority of scientists, synonymous in their eyes with a drastic reduction in CO2 emissions. In my opinion, it would lead to an even worse disaster. I am deeply convinced that, given the current state of our appetites and values, this energy would be used to intensify our gigantic project of systemic destruction of planetary life. Isn't that what we've set out to do—replace forests with supermarket parking lots, turn the planet into a landfill? What if, to cap it all, energy was free?

[...C]limate change has emerged as our most important ecological battle [...] because it is one that can perpetuate the delusional idea that we are faced with an engineering problem, in need of technological solutions. At the heart of current political and economic thought lies the idea that an ideal world would be a world in which we could continue to live in the same way, with fewer negative externalities. This is insane on several levels. Firstly because it is impossible. We can't have infinite growth in a finite world. We won't. But also, and more importantly, it is not desirable. Even if it were sustainable, the reality we construct is hell. [...]

It is often said that our Western world is desacralised. In reality, our civilisation treats the technosphere with almost devout reverence. And that's worse. We perceive the totality of reality through the prism of a hegemonic science, convinced that it “says” the only truth.

The problem is that technology is based on a very strange principle, so deeply ingrained in us that it remains unexpressed: no brakes are acceptable, what can be done must be done. We don't even bother to seriously and collectively debate the advisability of such "advances". We are under a spell. And we are avoiding the essential question: is this world in the making, standardised and computed, overbuilt and predictable, stripped of stars and birds, desirable?

To confine science to the search for "solutions" so we can continue down the same path is to lack both imagination and ambition. Because the “problem” we face doesn't seem to me, at this point, to be understood. No hope is possible if we don't start by questioning our assumptions, our values, our appetites, our symbols... [...] Let's stop pretending that the numerous and diverse human societies that have populated this planet did not exist. Certainly, some of them have taken the wrong route. But ours is the first to forge ahead towards guaranteed failure. »

— Aurélien Barrau, particle physicist and philosopher, in an interview in Télérama about his book L'Hypothèse K

#quote #article #aurélien barrau #ecology #science #english #translation mine

[soracities]

Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981)

#q #quotes #essays and articles #audre lorde #the uses of anger #id included #echoes of the other #on culture #typography #m #x

[bonolewis]

Maybe a trip to Lourdes will help him

#is this anything??? i genuinely can't tell FJLKFJL it came to me while i was doing the dishes #cross-referenced via an encyclopedia and various wikipedia articles but don't quote me on anything #i learnt so much the world of catholic saints truly is a rich and complex tapestry #charles leclerc #sammy's stuff #charles

[necr0mancers]

star wars journalism

#star wars #andor #mon mothma #cassian andor #dedra meero #based on those articles with out of pocket quotes from celebrities

[zvaigzdelasas]

#the 'better ways' they mention are basically 'move to the city & learn to code' #tho they dont even have enough guts to say the 'learn to code' part #literally just one paragraph abt moving to the city & 'finding' (?) better jobs #here ill just paste the whole paragraph #'The grim truth is that small farmers will never grow rich selling unprocessed beans. #In most countries where rural folk have dramatically improved their lives - they have done so by moving to cities #and finding better-paid jobs there. #end quote. #thats the only mention of 'better ways' in the article #almost like finding 'better ways' isnt the intention behind the article

[iamenits]

Screenshots of McCoy smiling (and a few where he isn't) from every Star Trek episode in production order.

#happy birthday de!!! #this was finished weeks ago but i decided i should upload it today :) #leonard mccoy #star trek #star trek tos #deforest kelley #my posts #my screenshots #smiley mccoy #the idea was one smile from each episode #there was an article once that mentioned mccoy seemingly being 'unable to smile' #so whenever he does #which is very often #i always quote that #i feel like i could have chosen 'better' smiles for a lot of these but it just proves my point that he smiles a lot :) #long post #ish