Updates tagged with q on Rainbow Dash Network!
rozzin: #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."
rozzin's status on Friday, 13-Mar-20 21:08:31 UTC
#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."
rozzin: RT @mjd "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/
rozzin's status on Sunday, 25-Aug-19 22:19:53 UTC
RT @mjd "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/
mjd: "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/
mjd's status on Sunday, 25-Aug-19 01:03:14 UTC
"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/
rozzin: #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
rozzin's status on Thursday, 27-Jun-19 18:27:34 UTC
#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
rozzin: #q «“Meh, it’s a cup of coffee,” he said after his first sip. Fifteen minutes later, he said, “I’m kinda high right now.”» !coffee https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18019
rozzin's status on Tuesday, 20-Nov-18 10:34:49 UTC
#q «“Meh, it’s a cup of coffee,” he said after his first sip. Fifteen minutes later, he said, “I’m kinda high right now.”» !coffee https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18019
rozzin: #q «The product has not received support from Mars, Inc who said "deep-frying one of our products would go against our commitment to promoting healthy, active lifestyles."» https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
rozzin's status on Monday, 05-Nov-18 00:38:47 UTC
#q «The product has not received support from Mars, Inc who said "deep-frying one of our products would go against our commitment to promoting healthy, active lifestyles."» https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
mjd: "It’s our job to form a government if we possibly can…" #q Boris Johnson http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-interview-audio-queens-speech-car-crash-unable-answer-questions-bbc-a7801936.html
mjd's status on Thursday, 22-Jun-17 12:34:10 UTC
"It’s our job to form a government if we possibly can…" #q Boris Johnson http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-interview-audio-queens-speech-car-crash-unable-answer-questions-bbc-a7801936.html
mjd: "[T]he view that the value of money is regulated by the value of the substance of which it is made […] is like confusing a theatre ticket with the performance." #q #Keynes #MMT https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/the-origins-of-mmt/
mjd's status on Friday, 16-Jun-17 10:54:47 UTC
"[T]he view that the value of money is regulated by the value of the substance of which it is made […] is like confusing a theatre ticket with the performance." #q #Keynes #MMT https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/the-origins-of-mmt/
mjd: "I think we're all going to have to get used to the idea that essentially #Trump… You know those inflatable giant wavy guys that you see…?" #q Rich Hall http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p055fzwz
mjd's status on Sunday, 11-Jun-17 13:27:14 UTC
"I think we're all going to have to get used to the idea that essentially #Trump… You know those inflatable giant wavy guys that you see…?" #q Rich Hall http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p055fzwz
mjd: "If you'd asked me two years ago which of my friends was likely to become leader of the Labour party, Jeremy would have come about 20th. Somewhere after Tim Brooke-Taylor." #q Jeremy Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054rrv6
mjd's status on Saturday, 03-Jun-17 10:55:24 UTC
"If you'd asked me two years ago which of my friends was likely to become leader of the Labour party, Jeremy would have come about 20th. Somewhere after Tim Brooke-Taylor." #q Jeremy Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054rrv6
mjd: "When the #Pope emerged from his private meeting with #Trump, he was smiling in a relieved, almost charming way – like a man who had just left the dentist’s chair" #q Robert #Fisk http://ur1.ca/qx812
mjd's status on Thursday, 25-May-17 10:00:09 UTC
"When the #Pope emerged from his private meeting with #Trump, he was smiling in a relieved, almost charming way – like a man who had just left the dentist’s chair" #q Robert #Fisk http://ur1.ca/qx812
mjd: @strypey "I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." #q Winston Churchill - Mind you, I never touch marijuana. I was born hungry and slightly paranoid, so it's completely redundant.
mjd's status on Tuesday, 16-May-17 05:28:20 UTC
@strypey "I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." #q Winston Churchill - Mind you, I never touch marijuana. I was born hungry and slightly paranoid, so it's completely redundant.
mjd: "There was an Irish athlete who went to the doctor. She said 'I'm really worried that I'm growing a cherry 'cos of the steroids.' And the doctor said 'Anabolic?' She said 'No, just a apple.'" #q Jeremy Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0522gmj
mjd's status on Sunday, 07-May-17 12:02:45 UTC
"There was an Irish athlete who went to the doctor. She said 'I'm really worried that I'm growing a Potato Knishes 'cos of the steroids.' And the doctor said 'Anabolic?' She said 'No, just a banana.'" #q Jeremy Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0522gmj
mjd: "I look back on all the taboos that I was taught, that everybody was taught, and I see now that they were parts of a great swindle. Their purpose was to make Americans afraid to get close to one another—to organize." #q Kurt Vonnegut
mjd's status on Thursday, 04-May-17 10:59:15 UTC
"I look back on all the taboos that I was taught, that everybody was taught, and I see now that they were parts of a great swindle. Their purpose was to make Americans afraid to get close to one another—to organize." #q Kurt Vonnegut
mjd: "At the very core of my American education was a dread of any gesture which might be interpreted by the football coach as being even vaguely homosexual." #q Kurt Vonnegut http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/kurt_vonneguts_call_to_humanity_to_save_the_planet_201611161
mjd's status on Thursday, 04-May-17 10:56:22 UTC
"At the very core of my American education was a dread of any gesture which might be interpreted by the football coach as being even vaguely homosexual." #q Kurt Vonnegut http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/kurt_vonneguts_call_to_humanity_to_save_the_planet_201611161
mjd: "Anyone can create money; the problem lies in getting it accepted." #q Hyman Minsky http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/06/modern-money-theory-primer-on.html http://ur1.ca/qp3jl
mjd's status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-17 10:24:26 UTC
"Anyone can create money; the problem lies in getting it accepted." #q Hyman Minsky http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/06/modern-money-theory-primer-on.html http://ur1.ca/qp3jl
mjd: @strypey "… credit and credit alone is money." #q A. Mitchell Innes http://moslereconomics.com/mandatory-readings/what-is-money/
mjd's status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-17 09:39:21 UTC
@strypey "… credit and credit alone is money." #q A. Mitchell Innes http://moslereconomics.com/mandatory-readings/what-is-money/
mjd: "We should try and make people more interesting than phones." #q Charlie Brooker https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/14/charlie-brooker-black-mirror-tinder-pokemon-go
mjd's status on Saturday, 04-Mar-17 08:36:26 UTC
"We should try and make people more interesting than phones." #q Charlie Brooker https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/14/charlie-brooker-black-mirror-tinder-pokemon-go
mjd: @strypey "Cars for everyone was one of the stupidest promises that politicians ever made." #q George Monbiot http://www.monbiot.com/2016/09/22/carmageddon-beckons/
mjd's status on Friday, 10-Feb-17 05:54:37 UTC
@strypey "Cars for everyone was one of the stupidest promises that politicians ever made." #q George Monbiot http://www.monbiot.com/2016/09/22/carmageddon-beckons/
mjd: @tregeagle "There must be discipline in the allocation of resources or you will have anarchistic chaos and inefficiency. And one of the functions of old fashioned religion was to scare people […] into behaving in a way that the long-run civilized life requires." #q Paul Samuelson
mjd's status on Thursday, 09-Feb-17 10:34:36 UTC
@tregeagle "There must be discipline in the allocation of resources or you will have anarchistic chaos and inefficiency. And one of the functions of old fashioned religion was to scare people […] into behaving in a way that the long-run civilized life requires." #q Paul Samuelson
mjd: #Trump "sees things that aren't there, like 2 million people at his inauguration. […] He has an imaginary friend called Many People Are Saying" #q Andy Hamilton http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04rt97d
mjd's status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-17 12:46:52 UTC
#Trump "sees things that aren't there, like 2 million people at his inauguration. […] He has an imaginary friend called Many People Are Saying" #q Andy Hamilton http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04rt97d
mjd: "Let me introduce you to my old friend and colleague, the British druid Valueaddetax!" #q Asterix and the Goths #BoomBoom
mjd's status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-17 10:52:45 UTC
"Let me introduce you to my old friend and colleague, the British druid Valueaddetax!" #q Asterix and the Goths #BoomBoom
mcscx: RT @mjd "There’s no getting round it. Call it Nazi, Fascist, racist, vicious, illiberal, immoral, cruel. More dangerously, what Trump ha ...
mcscx's status on Sunday, 29-Jan-17 13:19:31 UTC
RT @mjd "There’s no getting round it. Call it Nazi, Fascist, racist, vicious, illiberal, immoral, cruel. More dangerously, what Trump ha ...
mjd: "There’s no getting round it. Call it Nazi, Fascist, racist, vicious, illiberal, immoral, cruel. More dangerously, what Trump has done is a wicked precedent. If you can stop them coming, you can chuck them out." #q Robert #Fisk http://ur1.ca/qeoqh
mjd's status on Sunday, 29-Jan-17 12:59:32 UTC
"There’s no getting round it. Call it Nazi, Fascist, racist, vicious, illiberal, immoral, cruel. More dangerously, what Trump has done is a wicked precedent. If you can stop them coming, you can chuck them out." #q Robert #Fisk http://ur1.ca/qeoqh
mjd: "If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it. Most things you can get with a button nowadays." #q Tom Waits 1985 http://web.archive.org/web/20080226225434/http://www.tomwaitslibrary.com/interviews/85-early-you.html
mjd's status on Friday, 27-Jan-17 12:51:34 UTC
"If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I've chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it. Most things you can get with a button nowadays." #q Tom Waits 1985 http://web.archive.org/web/20080226225434/http://www.tomwaitslibrary.com/interviews/85-early-you.html
mjd: "I arrived in this country […] in a maternity hospital in Hampshire. Couldn't speak a word of English. I never paid in. I got a roof over my head. I got child benefit. It's not right, I'm telling you." #q Jeremy Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04nltt6
mjd's status on Monday, 09-Jan-17 10:54:57 UTC
"I arrived in this country […] in a maternity hospital in Hampshire. Couldn't speak a word of English. I never paid in. I got a roof over my head. I got child benefit. It's not right, I'm telling you." #q Jeremy Hardy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04nltt6
mjd: Feeling the seasonal mood slump between the official anniversaries of the birth of Yeshua the Nazarene & yours truly (we're often compared; both terribly slack about checking our messages): "I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth…" #q Hamlet & Withnail
mjd's status on Monday, 09-Jan-17 09:03:01 UTC
Feeling the seasonal mood slump between the official anniversaries of the birth of Yeshua the Nazarene & yours truly (we're often compared; both terribly slack about checking our messages): "I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth…" #q Hamlet & Withnail
mjd: "There is no ideological reason both Lib Dems and Blairities should not fold into the Tories." #q Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/09/sad-end-british-liberalism/
mjd's status on Sunday, 08-Jan-17 07:27:27 UTC
"There is no ideological reason both Lib Dems and Blairities should not fold into the Tories." #q Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/09/sad-end-british-liberalism/
mjd: "In the course of my life I've had sixteen death threats, but never by an atheist." #q Bishop John Shelby Spong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOTHS66KXh0
mjd's status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-17 11:26:54 UTC
"In the course of my life I've had sixteen death threats, but never by an atheist." #q Bishop John Shelby Spong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOTHS66KXh0
mjd: "When I was a child […] nobody ever told me that Jesus was a Jew. When I saw a picture of Jesus he didn't look like a Jew. I thought he was a Swede." #q Bishop John Shelby Spong on religious tribalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUwASqz9ujc
mjd's status on Thursday, 29-Dec-16 09:33:53 UTC
"When I was a child […] nobody ever told me that Jesus was a Jew. When I saw a picture of Jesus he didn't look like a Jew. I thought he was a Swede." #q Bishop John Shelby Spong on religious tribalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUwASqz9ujc
mjd: "I did the Glasgow Marathon! They whole twenty six pints and three curries!" #q Rikki Fulton
mjd's status on Sunday, 18-Dec-16 13:20:56 UTC
"I did the Glasgow Marathon! They whole twenty six pints and three curries!" #q Rikki Fulton
mjd: "Our lass is allus fighting wi' me. She threw a lettuce at us last night. That's just the tip of the iceberg." #q Smell of Reeves and Mortimer S02E06
mjd's status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-16 12:12:07 UTC
"Our lass is allus fighting wi' me. She threw a lettuce at us last night. That's just the tip of the iceberg." #q Smell of Reeves and Mortimer S02E06
mjd: "I'm a bit of a wine buff, and I was writing an article the other day saying that some wines are best drunk young. That's why I started when I was seven." #q Spike #Milligan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7c_TGo_kX8
mjd's status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-16 12:27:49 UTC
"I'm a bit of a wine buff, and I was writing an article the other day saying that some wines are best drunk young. That's why I started when I was seven." #q Spike #Milligan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7c_TGo_kX8
mjd: "My bet is the Blairites will be defeated, deselected and defenestrated without ever working out it was not a plot. It is just that ordinary people find their vacuous careerism appalling." #q Craig Murray http://ur1.ca/q02xr
mjd's status on Saturday, 05-Nov-16 04:32:25 UTC
"My bet is the Blairites will be defeated, deselected and defenestrated without ever working out it was not a plot. It is just that ordinary people find their vacuous careerism appalling." #q Craig Murray http://ur1.ca/q02xr
mjd: "Cops should get out of the squad car, walk around, talk to the locals before they shoot them." #q Ted Rall http://rall.com/2016/07/17/fixing-the-police
mjd's status on Saturday, 05-Nov-16 04:25:07 UTC
"Cops should get out of the squad car, walk around, talk to the locals before they shoot them." #q Ted Rall http://rall.com/2016/07/17/fixing-the-police
mjd: #q Barrett Brown on prison life: "One day I decided to compose a list of unnecessary people throughout history and had jotted down Ezra Pound, the Emperor Aurangzeb, Carlos Mencia, Charles IV, and Gary Bauer when it became clear that I’d cast my net too wide […]"
mjd's status on Thursday, 03-Nov-16 07:41:54 UTC
#q Barrett Brown on prison life: "One day I decided to compose a list of unnecessary people throughout history and had jotted down Ezra Pound, the Emperor Aurangzeb, Carlos Mencia, Charles IV, and Gary Bauer when it became clear that I’d cast my net too wide […]"
mjd: "Banks and the financial sector live in the short run [… Once the government] is taken over by the financial sector the government lives in the short run too, and the economy shrinks." #q Michael Hudson http://ur1.ca/pybf9
mjd's status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-16 07:16:22 UTC
"Banks and the financial sector live in the short run [… Once the government] is taken over by the financial sector the government lives in the short run too, and the economy shrinks." #q Michael Hudson http://ur1.ca/pybf9
mjd: @strypey "Real-Exchange Economics, on which most of us have been brought up […] is a singularly blunt weapon for dealing with the problem of Booms and Depressions. For it has assumed away the very matter under investigation." #q #Keynes
mjd's status on Sunday, 23-Oct-16 07:36:17 UTC
@strypey "Real-Exchange Economics, on which most of us have been brought up […] is a singularly blunt weapon for dealing with the problem of Booms and Depressions. For it has assumed away the very matter under investigation." #q #Keynes
takeshitakenji: RT @rozzin #q "unless email is freed from dependence on the networks, I predict it will be supplanted by telefax for most uses in spite of its many advantages over telefax" http://u.daggsy.com/ir #email #history
takeshitakenji's status on Thursday, 20-Oct-16 14:32:06 UTC
RT @rozzin #q "unless email is freed from dependence on the networks, I predict it will be supplanted by telefax for most uses in spite of its many advantages over telefax" http://u.daggsy.com/ir #email #history
rozzin: #q "unless email is freed from dependence on the networks, I predict it will be supplanted by telefax for most uses in spite of its many advantages over telefax" http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/harmful.html #email #history
rozzin's status on Thursday, 20-Oct-16 14:27:19 UTC
#q "unless email is freed from dependence on the networks, I predict it will be supplanted by telefax for most uses in spite of its many advantages over telefax" http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/harmful.html #email #history
mjd: "Competition is as much a method for breeding certain types of mind as anything else: the very cast of thinking of the great entrepreneurs would not exist but for the environment in which they developed their gifts" #q Friedrich Hayek
mjd's status on Wednesday, 19-Oct-16 07:07:08 UTC
"Competition is as much a method for breeding certain types of mind as anything else: the very cast of thinking of the great entrepreneurs would not exist but for the environment in which they developed their gifts" #q Friedrich Hayek
mjd: "Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul." #q Margaret #Thatcher, with pipe organ music, thunderclaps, and a "Bwah-ha-ha-ha!" http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104475
mjd's status on Monday, 17-Oct-16 06:56:49 UTC
"Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul." #q Margaret #Thatcher, with pipe organ music, thunderclaps, and a "Bwah-ha-ha-ha!" http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104475
mjd: "I knew Abbott and Turnbull in their Sydney University days […] One believed he knew the word of God, while the other believed he was God." #q Steve Keen http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2016/06/18/there-has-to-be-a-better-way/
mjd's status on Monday, 17-Oct-16 03:08:49 UTC
"I knew Abbott and Turnbull in their Sydney University days […] One believed he knew the word of God, while the other believed he was God." #q Steve Keen http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2016/06/18/there-has-to-be-a-better-way/
mjd: #iTunes: "what happens if you put #Windows 8 and#Flash in a blender." #q Atrios http://www.eschatonblog.com/2016/06/important-apple-announcement-today.html #dfn
mjd's status on Wednesday, 12-Oct-16 05:51:55 UTC
#iTunes: "what happens if you put #Windows 8 and#Flash in a blender." #q Atrios http://www.eschatonblog.com/2016/06/important-apple-announcement-today.html #dfn
mjd: "[…] our desire to hold money is a barometer of our distrust of our own calculations and conventions concerning the future." #q #Keynes #economics
mjd's status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-16 05:09:03 UTC
"[…] our desire to hold money is a barometer of our distrust of our own calculations and conventions concerning the future." #q #Keynes #economics
mjd: 'Casting a vote for #Hillary says: “I love that a million Iraqis got murdered.” Or, at minimum it says: “I’m cool with it.” Well, I’m not.' #q Ted Rall http://rall.com/2016/05/23/why-i-am-neverhillary
mjd's status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-16 05:48:08 UTC
'Casting a vote for #Hillary says: “I love that a million Iraqis got murdered.” Or, at minimum it says: “I’m cool with it.” Well, I’m not.' #q Ted Rall http://rall.com/2016/05/23/why-i-am-neverhillary
mjd: "It's not 'challenging political correctness' to not know what you're talking about." #q #Obama http://digbysblog.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/things-we-all-used-to-agree-on.html
mjd's status on Saturday, 17-Sep-16 06:36:45 UTC
"It's not 'challenging political correctness' to not know what you're talking about." #q #Obama http://digbysblog.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/things-we-all-used-to-agree-on.html
mjd: If you need help, ask an asylum seeker: "Imagine the world’s most wanted dissident brought to your door. Would you open it? They didn’t even hesitate, and I’ll always be grateful for that." #q Edward #Snowden http://ur1.ca/pqnbi
mjd's status on Tuesday, 13-Sep-16 05:26:44 UTC
If you need help, ask an asylum seeker: "Imagine the world’s most wanted dissident brought to your door. Would you open it? They didn’t even hesitate, and I’ll always be grateful for that." #q Edward #Snowden http://ur1.ca/pqnbi