DonkeyKhan
@donkeykhan.bsky.social
Desperately trying to be, while becoming. Compiling words that give me pause.
“The eyes are a portal through which you see and are seen through.” - Omid Safi
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“The eyes are a portal through which you see and are seen through.” - Omid Safi
“Yes, I loved and love them. But more important than loving, is understanding and respecting my children… Love does not guarantee understanding or respect.” - Yiyun Li
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Yes, I loved and love them. But more important than loving, is understanding and respecting my children… Love does not guarantee understanding or respect.” - Yiyun Li
“Life does not follow a novelist’s discipline. Fiction, one suspects, is tamer than life.” - Yiyun Li
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“Life does not follow a novelist’s discipline. Fiction, one suspects, is tamer than life.” - Yiyun Li
“Not all speed is movement.” - Toni Cade Bambara
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“Not all speed is movement.” - Toni Cade Bambara
“In any food that it’s being produced, time is the most expensive ingredient.” - Samin Nosrat
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“In any food that it’s being produced, time is the most expensive ingredient.” - Samin Nosrat
“Healing begins in the realm of dreams and imaginations.” - Prentice Hemphill
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“Healing begins in the realm of dreams and imaginations.” - Prentice Hemphill
“A revolution involves making a revolutionary leap toward becoming more socially responsible and more self-critical human beings. In order to transform the world, we must transform ourselves.” - Grace Lee Boggs
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“A revolution involves making a revolutionary leap toward becoming more socially responsible and more self-critical human beings. In order to transform the world, we must transform ourselves.” - Grace Lee Boggs
“Everytime I am brave enough to sit close to sadness instead of avoiding it, I realize how close it sits to love.” - Care, Somatics of Care
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“Everytime I am brave enough to sit close to sadness instead of avoiding it, I realize how close it sits to love.” - Care, Somatics of Care
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.” - Hellen Keller
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.” - Hellen Keller
"AGI will be more akin to a new species than a tool." - Owain Evans, AI Alignment Researcher @ the Hinton Lectures 2025
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"AGI will be more akin to a new species than a tool." - Owain Evans, AI Alignment Researcher @ the Hinton Lectures 2025
“Power concedes nothing without demand.” - Frederick Douglas
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“Power concedes nothing without demand.” - Frederick Douglas
“The instilling of fear is often viewed as an offering of love.” - Will Smith
October 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“The instilling of fear is often viewed as an offering of love.” - Will Smith
“Nobody has a right of self defense against this country, even if it intervenes across the ocean to impose by force, a government that the people of that country reject.” - Noam Chomsky, “Manufacturing Consent”
September 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“Nobody has a right of self defense against this country, even if it intervenes across the ocean to impose by force, a government that the people of that country reject.” - Noam Chomsky, “Manufacturing Consent”
“You and I should live, as if you and i have never heard, of a you and an I.” - Rumi
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“You and I should live, as if you and i have never heard, of a you and an I.” - Rumi
“One of the few remaining things available and accessible to most people, to experience something that somebody made for you from start to finish, is to go to a restaurant and eat something — even if it’s a $2 taco from a taco truck.” - Samin Nosrat
September 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“One of the few remaining things available and accessible to most people, to experience something that somebody made for you from start to finish, is to go to a restaurant and eat something — even if it’s a $2 taco from a taco truck.” - Samin Nosrat
“Better never means better for everyone… it always means worse, for some.” - Margaret Atwood
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Better never means better for everyone… it always means worse, for some.” - Margaret Atwood
“Silence is pain that writing relieves.” - Richard Rhodes
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Silence is pain that writing relieves.” - Richard Rhodes
“The most radical thing to do in a community like mine is to maintain your hope and maintain your softness.” - Mustafa the Poet
September 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“The most radical thing to do in a community like mine is to maintain your hope and maintain your softness.” - Mustafa the Poet
“What is the statute of limitations on resentment, on rage, on revenge?” - Omar El Akkad
September 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“What is the statute of limitations on resentment, on rage, on revenge?” - Omar El Akkad
“Some people are afforded precision in death, but not these. There is no accurate count of the murdered; there may never be.” - Omar El Akkad
September 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Some people are afforded precision in death, but not these. There is no accurate count of the murdered; there may never be.” - Omar El Akkad
“In the age of big data, many of us continue to be monitored and measured, but without the audible rumble of helicopters to which we can point. This doesn’t mean we no longer feel what it’s like to be a problem.” - @ruha9.bsky.social, Race After Technology 2019
August 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“In the age of big data, many of us continue to be monitored and measured, but without the audible rumble of helicopters to which we can point. This doesn’t mean we no longer feel what it’s like to be a problem.” - @ruha9.bsky.social, Race After Technology 2019
"Chatbots don't make sense, they make words. Artificial Intelligence creates words devoid of thought, dead things to which we attribute meaning." - Leon Furze
August 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Chatbots don't make sense, they make words. Artificial Intelligence creates words devoid of thought, dead things to which we attribute meaning." - Leon Furze
“The diagnosis is terminal for all of us.” - Ryan Holiday
August 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“The diagnosis is terminal for all of us.” - Ryan Holiday
“The body is the purest, most primal tool for communicating. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a civilized adult. The body is our mother tongue, our mediator with the world long before we speak our first words.” - Esther Perel
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“The body is the purest, most primal tool for communicating. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a civilized adult. The body is our mother tongue, our mediator with the world long before we speak our first words.” - Esther Perel
“Look inwards as much as you look outwards. The truth will always be inside you, if you have the means of finding it. There’s a lot of truth that you carry, let it unfold because it takes attention.” - Dr. Gabor Mate
August 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Look inwards as much as you look outwards. The truth will always be inside you, if you have the means of finding it. There’s a lot of truth that you carry, let it unfold because it takes attention.” - Dr. Gabor Mate