I say the Lord works in mysterious ways. Well… He ain’t got nothing on the Devil.
– The Montawauk Caves ep. 7
Veritas
Vi ved alle, at kunst ikke er sandhed. Kunsten er en løgn, der lader os erkende sandheden.
I artiklen: We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
– Pablo Picasso, The Arts: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Covering All Phases of Ancient and Modern Art, Volume 3, Number 5, maj 1923
Læk!
Hvis vi er en tænketank… så er der hul i bunden.
– Michael Schøt i Dybt Go’ Nat Danmark (link)
Uventet twist
Until I moved from the dead bird site to Mastodon I never realized that I had so much pent up civility.
– HamOnWry på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Aftryk
A decade ago, I’d been drunk on the power of technology to make a dent in the universe; I had sobered up in the intervening years, had turned my love into just a job, which is to say, I’d become an adult.
– Cory Doctorow: Attack Surface
Fortidens og fremtidens synder
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
– Charles Darwin. The Voyage of the Beagle, kap. XXI
Behag for ubehag
Critic, n.:
A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
— Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
Nonsens-tåge
There’s this kind of performative complexity in a lot of the wickedness in our world — things are made complex so they’ll be hard to understand. The pretense is they’re hard to understand because they’re intrinsically complex. And there’s a term in the finance sector for this, which is “MEGO:” My Eyes Glaze Over. It’s a trick.
– Cory Doctorow – interview, The Jacobin: Cory Doctorow Explains Why Big Tech Is Making the Internet Terrible
Accept no substitutions
Funny how some people think a secret group of rich people control everything instead of the well known group of rich people who control everything.
– @Faktoider på Mastodon – link til indlæg
United clown Kingdom
Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.
– The Irish Times via Charles Stross – link til indlæg