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Liz McFie

@lizmcfie.bsky.social
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi

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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 21h
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. PS. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.” - Theodore Kaczynski
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. PS. - Adlai E. Stevenson
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance. PS. - Robert Green Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"We live in a culture that doesn’t really understand or respect burnout. We all soak in this belief that exhaustion is weak and that we all need to just buck up and be a little bit less lazy." PS. – Caroline Dooner
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out. PS. - Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. PS. - China Miéville, Perdido Street Station
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Le sigh. PS. - Pepé Le Pew
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Treating truth as a bargainable commodity is much like planting a time bomb that immediately resets itself after every explosion. PS. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Common sense - so rare it's a godd*mn superpower. - PZ Meyers
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ripley: Do we have the capacity to make fire? Most humans have enjoyed that privilege since the stone age. - Alien³
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. PS. - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.” PS. – Ex Machina
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself. PS. - Sheever's Journal: Diary of a Poison Master
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Their cruelty made them feel good, it made them feel proud, it made them feel happy. And it made them feel closer to one another…Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump. PS. - Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...  PS. - Wm Gibson
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well. PS. - William Gibson,  Neuromancer
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing. PS. - Joe Frazier
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
...This world had more potential than I...ever imagined. But the hatred here, it never ends, just swaps clothes. This century took off a hood...put on a suit. You say change is coming? Well, it's too damn slow...the cost way too high. And being forced to watch it hurts. PS. - Guinan, NG
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. PS. - Ambrose Bierce
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Heather: Is he dead yet? Donny: Getting there. PS. - Bully
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
 “We need to start viewing quitting as a tool of perseverance, rather than the enemy of it,” she said. “If we find ourselves in a hole, often we dig harder when we should just stop digging.” www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
theguardian.com
Why you should quit and not look back: ‘Saying yes to everything is saying no to what matters’
In her new book, The Case For Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out, Lindsay Crouse discusses the costs and traps of never giving up – and how she set herself free
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Soon the Earth will be transformed, by humans, into Mars. PS. - Climate Flip - Climate Risk Reporting In Banks
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?' 'Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.' PS. - Brandon Stanton,  Humans of New York
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” PS. – Henry David Thoreau
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cameron Stanley, the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer for the Department of Defense, wrote in June that xAI’s Grok “enabled U.S. forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions to 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury.”  www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. PS. - Terry Pratchett
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Terri from Colorado @tebaile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The words ‘squander’ and ‘Pentagon’ have sometimes been used in the same sentence... PS. - Dean Koontz, Watchers
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
...This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. PS. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Debi: Everybody's coming back to take stock of their lives. You know what I say? Leave your livestock alone. PS. - Grosse Pointe Blank
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. PS. - Charles Dickens
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces. PS. - Josh Malerman, Bird Box
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that. PS. - Ryu Murakami
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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