Notices tagged with q
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Some day someone will decipher the #Q posts (that the #QAnon folks follow). I predict the true meaning will be "Q-ack Q-ack" and the author will turn out to be a duck that escaped from the zoo.
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“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” #q Marilyn Monroe https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/36297
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Sherlock Holmes was a punk! "To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived." #q The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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"Mistakes have been made in the handling of the crisis. Like flying the Buckingham Palace flag at half mast when the Queen’s not in, which is just an advert for burglars. In my local park, someone has tried to cheer people up by chalking “You Got This!” on the ground. Literally the last thing you want to hear in a pandemic." #q Frankie Boyle https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/35638
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"[Classical economists] were still dealing with a system in which the amount of the factors employed was given and the other relevant facts were known more or less for certain. […] The calculus of probability, tho mention of it was kept in the background, was supposed to be capable of reducing uncertainty to the same calculable status as that of certainty itself […] By "u…
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"Think of it: 151 countries. Somebody said to me today — that wasn’t in this particular world — they didn’t know that we had that many countries. A hundred and fifty-one countries. That’s something." #q #Trump https://digbysblog.net/2020/04/look-at-all-the-countries/
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#q "They were men that had not learned the art of submission, nor had they been trained to the art of war. But our astonishing success taught the enemies of liberty that undisciplined freemen are superior to veteran slaves."
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"You might assume that those who use the phrase “evidence-based practice” (EBP) are offering a testable claim, asserting that the practices in question are supported by good data. In reality, the phrase is more of an all-purpose honorific, wielded to silence dissent, intimidate critics, and imply that anyone who criticizes what they’re doing is rejecting science itself.…
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"I live a lot of my professional life puzzling over social class and what-not. I can tell you this with the confidence of one thousand ancestors: almost all white elites think phrenology and race science are legitimate ideas. And by almost all I mean all. #lrt" #q Tressie McMillan Cottom (via Atrios) https://www.eschatonblog.com/2019/12/truth.html
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"I have had moments in the last few days which led me to feel pretty hopeless. Perhaps the worst was in the ITV debate when #Corbyn was roundly jeered by a substantial section of the audience for stating that climate change impacted hardest on the poorest people in the poorest countries. […] the growl of that studio audience, infuriated that Corbyn cared about the foreign p…
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"Anybody can have a rumpled suit, but there is a real art to the rumple." #q #Bernie Sanders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5avtfMXeh40
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"#Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton." #q Alexei Sayle https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/31967
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How did I miss this when it happened? Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic #2020 front runner: "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." #q Joe Biden https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/10/biden-poor-kids-bright-white-kids-1456296 #US
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The power to define the conventional wisdom is awesome and terrible. "I don’t care who writes the nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treaties — if I can write its economic textbooks." #q Paul Samuelson https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29766 #economics #notetoself
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of wine grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." #q #Galileo https://drunkard.com/june-22/
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#q «It’s basically like having all of the letters in the English alphabet, but getting rid of random ones. Like, “Let’s take out ‘B’ because ‘B’ kind of offends me.”» https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18772 #emoji
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