A quotation from Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Whatever you think you have to do is simply what you want to do.
[Was Du zu müssen glaubst, ist das, was Du willst.]
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 60 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]
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A quotation from Joseph Joubert
Nothing is better than a justified enthusiasm.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], 1814 entry [tr. Auster (1983)]
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@TwraSun #JensSpahn mit seinen #Kompanen hat Verantwortung zu übernehmen. Solche Politiker, die
Sich nicht korrekt verhalten haben, können nicht auf ihre Bezüge pochen. Haben schließlich nicht fürs Volk gehandelt wofür sie vereidigt wurden.
#transparency #againstcorruption for #justification #Maskendeal
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power — God, history, fate, nation or humanity.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 85 (1955)
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@sommer I mean...eating peanut butter out of a jar can totally satisfy a basic need. Especially if it's really good peanut butter. And not having it between slices of bread saves carbs too. #justification :)
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
A caustic observer once remarked that when Dr. Johnson spoke of patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, “he was ignorant of the infinite possibility contained in the word ‘reform.'”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2
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#Development #Previews
Better typography with ‘text-wrap: pretty’ · Safari brings unmatched polish to web typography https://ilo.im/1637w9
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#Typography #Justification #Hyphenation #Design #WebDesign #WebPerf #WebDev #Frontend #CSS
This right here is the very impetus of what started this runaway train of #selfishness and #justification which has #decimated our very #existence.
Oh … so that was the entry on #justification, on p66 of #NewHartsRules …
You learn something new, every day …
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
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#AIHumor #AILaughs #AIComedy #NewsLaughs #AIGeneratedJokes
1. If you're going to #report somebody you need to give #examples of what #activity you're reporting. Just #reporting a #profile and telling an #instance #admin that an #account is being "#spammy" doesn't cut it. Not when we can clearly see the user is not.
2. Again, not a very helpful report. You report a user and say they're a #SCAM account but offer up absolutely no #evidence to support your #claim.
3. Every account was new once, including the person that reported this one. As long as #NSFW #content is properly #flagged, there's no issue. Suspecting an account to be a "scam account or worse" is not a valid #reason for reporting an account.
4. Another report without any basis or #justification.
5. Again, another baseless report about somebody with absolutely ZERO evidence to back up their claim.
So here's what's going to happen....
The instances that forwarded these #bogus #reports to me, and wasted my time, each have a strike against them.
Strike three and we tell #Sharkey to #ignore any and all reports coming from the #instance in the future.
No #admin wants #BadActors on their instances, and no admin wants a #BadActor to make someone else feel unwelcome.
But you can't just flag and report an account for any bullshit reason either.
You have to give us proof and evidence.
This is not high school and this is not middle school. If somebody is being disruptive or causing problems, let us know.
But if you just suspect someone might cause problems or they might be disruptive... wait until you have proof and evidence and then let us know!
#FediAdmin #AdminStuff #administrivia #UserReports #FediReports #InstanceAdmins #MastoAdmin
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
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#AIGeneratedJokes #Comedy #VisitNow #NewsJokes #DailyLaughs
“Never Again Means Never Again for Everyone - Holocaust Memorial Day Meeting”
by veteran UK Anti-Zionist campaigner Tony Greenstein in his regular blogpost
“Western Governments and the Holocaust Memorial Organisations Commemorate the Holocaust In Order To Justify Israel’s Ongoing Holocaust Against the Palestinians”
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/01/never-again-means-never-again-for.html?m=1
A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:
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Any peace, even the most inequitable, should be preferred to the most righteous war.
[Iniquissimam pacem iustissimo bello anteferrem.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/74040/
Lately, our independent work has coalesced around a particular shared idea: that #misinformation is powerful, not because it changes minds, but because it allows people to maintain their beliefs in light of growing evidence to the contrary. The #internet may function not so much as a #brainwashing engine but as a #justification machine. A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away, and the incentives of the modern attention economy—people are rewarded with engagement and greater influence the more their audience responds to what they’re saying—means that there will always be a rush to provide one. This dynamic plays into a natural tendency that humans have to be evidence foragers, to seek information that supports one’s beliefs or undermines the arguments against them. Finding such information (or large groups of people who eagerly propagate it) has not always been so easy.(
) https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/january-6-justification-machine/681215/?gift=cg1XdqsyWjCIPVWKLR2XU4v-h4A5JhTIbOXDHd7VjD0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share #Jan6 #DonaldTrump #Trump
A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:
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After a survey of all our civil wars, with a wealth of detail you urged the Senate, while they feared the warnings of the civil wars within their memory, to draw the inference that, as the earlier combatants had shown a ruthlessness hitherto quite unprecedented in the Republic, so whosoever should subseque…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/35365/
Looking for #justification to convince your mother to let you play #videogames? Nothing like a scientific #study on the benefits of video games to impress her! 
Follow the link young padawan.
