Reposted by Ni!Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 04/07/2026That was an otherworldly football game. What heart, Cape Verde. What heart. 217621
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Seems to me that he's outlining his plan to "Release the 'philes." 020
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I rarely post things that are not quotes I find inspirational. However, I feel compelled to remind anyone looking that this exists, and has existed since the 90s. 110
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 08/11/2025And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! - Mario Savio 020
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 08/11/2025There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels upon the levers upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! 110
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Shout out to the music folks at the World Series game 3. It has been pretty great! 010
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 17/10/2025-That to secure these Rights, ...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, ...in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. -Committee of Five 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 17/10/2025We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. 100
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 27/09/2025"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." Antonio Gramsci. The actual quote was written sometime between 1929-1935, specifically in Prison Notebook 3. 051
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 25/08/2025"Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” -David Mitchell 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 26/07/2025How can we support anyone remaining under the purview of the executive branch who may still be advocating for reasonable government? 010
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Nah, just another hoomaan with a somewhat dark Quark quote. 040
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 04/07/2025You're overlooking something. Humans used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi: slavery, concentration camps, interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you... we're better. 190
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I think I figured out why Humans don't like Ferengi. The way I see it, Humans used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget. 1100
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 04/07/2025"... turning Hill Valley's delapitated courthouse into a beautiful Casino/Hotel." "No, this isn't hell, but I can't imagine hell being much worse " 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 04/07/2025"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." - Herman Melville 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 03/07/2025for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." Wisdom from 1776 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Thomas Paine: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; 110
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 21/06/2025What is best thing US citizens can be focusing on right now? 833023
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 10/06/2025“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Often attributed to Edmund Burke who didn’t say it. Its earliest form was by John Stuart Mill, who said in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” 020
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Comparison is the thief of joy. At a certain point, it no longer makes any sense to try to rank them. 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025As fortold in Revelations 6 - "And lo, I beheld a pale couch, and the rider wore mascara. And he went forth conquering (but mostly by accident)" 110
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 28/02/2025"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." Antonio Gramsci The specific "monsters" phrasing is not Gramsci's. Original quote from Prison Notebook 3, sometime between 1929-1935. 1185
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 20/02/2025*You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Ode to the Oxford Comma: Oh, how refined, you floating speck of ink, Bestowing clarity that makes us think you think, Some praise your grace, your rhythmic pause divine, While others find your existence simply asinine. 040
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 01/02/2025"Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who cloak themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged. Waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness" -Jean-Luc Picard 011
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Thank you for something so light-hearted! I needed this thread tonight. For my addition: "We didn't start the starter, it was always fermenting since the dough was turning" -Billy Loaf 050
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 31/01/2025“The reason why the world lacks unity and lies broken and in heaps is because man is disunited with himself.” — Emerson 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 26/01/2025"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -Emma Lazarus 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 23/01/2025media.tenor.coma blurry picture of a man and a woman in a roomALT: a blurry picture of a man and a woman in a room 1160
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life living true to that lie. - Robert Brault 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Hitchen's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. 000
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 29/11/2024No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus 000
Reposted by Ni!Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Today I'm grateful for family, friends & loved ones. Also: pie 🙏 1777560452718
Ni! @ickyickyptang.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit; because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure - Tacitus 000
