Liz McFie
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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
· Nov 7
Earth has now, collectively, gone mad. I think I mean that literally. - Eric Weinstein
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures."
PS. – W.H. Auden
PS. – W.H. Auden
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures."
PS. – W.H. Auden
PS. – W.H. Auden
Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win but nothin' to lose
Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around
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Little to win but nothin' to lose
Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around
songmeanings.com/songs/view/1...
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints Lyrics & Meanings | SongMeanings
Incense and Peppermints Lyrics & Meanings: Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind / Dead kings, many things I can't define / Occasions, persuasion...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win but nothin' to lose
Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around
songmeanings.com/songs/view/1...
Little to win but nothin' to lose
Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around
songmeanings.com/songs/view/1...
They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?
PS. - Fall Out Boy
PS. - Fall Out Boy
December 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?
PS. - Fall Out Boy
PS. - Fall Out Boy
They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?
PS. - Fall Out Boy
PS. - Fall Out Boy
December 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?
PS. - Fall Out Boy
PS. - Fall Out Boy
Once stupidity reached a certain level, it became hard to live with.
PS. - Stephen King, Insomnia
PS. - Stephen King, Insomnia
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Once stupidity reached a certain level, it became hard to live with.
PS. - Stephen King, Insomnia
PS. - Stephen King, Insomnia
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
PS. - Simone Weil
PS. - Simone Weil
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
PS. - Simone Weil
PS. - Simone Weil
How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.
PS. - Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
PS. - Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
December 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.
PS. - Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
PS. - Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.
PS. - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
PS. - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.
PS. - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
PS. - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
This is not an ending.
It is a homecoming.
It is a homecoming.
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This is not an ending.
It is a homecoming.
It is a homecoming.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. - Kurt Vonnegut
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US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coast
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December 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. - Kurt Vonnegut
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
PS. - Andre Gide
PS. - Andre Gide
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
PS. - Andre Gide
PS. - Andre Gide
'What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.'
PS. - M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
PS. - M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
'What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.'
PS. - M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
PS. - M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible.
PS. - Anthony Horowitz,
Moonflower Murders
PS. - Anthony Horowitz,
Moonflower Murders
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible.
PS. - Anthony Horowitz,
Moonflower Murders
PS. - Anthony Horowitz,
Moonflower Murders
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
PS. - Pierre Schaeffer
PS. - Pierre Schaeffer
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
PS. - Pierre Schaeffer
PS. - Pierre Schaeffer
Why watch reality TV when I can just open my blinds and look out my window to all the reality I can handle?
PS. - Jarod Kintz
PS. - Jarod Kintz
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Why watch reality TV when I can just open my blinds and look out my window to all the reality I can handle?
PS. - Jarod Kintz
PS. - Jarod Kintz
“… the vintage of history is forever repeating - same old vines, same old wines!”
PS. – E.A. Bucchianeri
PS. – E.A. Bucchianeri
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“… the vintage of history is forever repeating - same old vines, same old wines!”
PS. – E.A. Bucchianeri
PS. – E.A. Bucchianeri
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
PS. - Philip Pullman
PS. - Philip Pullman
December 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
PS. - Philip Pullman
PS. - Philip Pullman
“In all wars the object is to protect or to seize money, property and power, and there will always be wars so long as Capital rules and oppresses people.”
PS. – Ernst Friedrich
PS. – Ernst Friedrich
December 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“In all wars the object is to protect or to seize money, property and power, and there will always be wars so long as Capital rules and oppresses people.”
PS. – Ernst Friedrich
PS. – Ernst Friedrich
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
PS. - Stephen King, The Running Man
PS. - Stephen King, The Running Man
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
PS. - Stephen King, The Running Man
PS. - Stephen King, The Running Man
“And then I said, ‘Where’s your G*d d*mn helicopter or your plane?’ And he said, ‘She don’t need one. She can ride in the ambulance,” Nick Ksenych said.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“And then I said, ‘Where’s your G*d d*mn helicopter or your plane?’ And he said, ‘She don’t need one. She can ride in the ambulance,” Nick Ksenych said.
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We will be demolished and replaced by a marble palace for thieves and whores, the social parasites we used to put in jail.
PS. - Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost
PS. - Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
We will be demolished and replaced by a marble palace for thieves and whores, the social parasites we used to put in jail.
PS. - Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost
PS. - Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost
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I just loved this and thought I’d share. 🙏
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I just loved this and thought I’d share. 🙏