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Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars' Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

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Wouldn't want to run out of reading material any time this year... my 'still to read' shelf is down below 30 books!!!

True open-mindedness isn’t about rejecting the mainstream by default. It’s about being willing to listen, challenge your own beliefs, and engage with ideas—even the uncomfortable ones.

But if your version of “question everything” means silencing or ridiculing those who disagree with you, then you’re not questioning—you’re just replacing one form of dogma with another.

It’s ironic how some who claim to stand for “free thinking” react with anger and mockery when faced with differing opinions. They’ll dismiss experts as “sheep,” reject facts that don’t fit their narrative, and shout down anyone who dares to challenge them—all while claiming to fight for open debate.

"Open-minded" shouldn’t mean open to only what you already believe.

#CriticalThinking #FreeSpeech #OpenMindNotEmptyMind

Sound familiar? Today, we see experts dismissed, ideas silenced, and people afraid to speak for fear of backlash. Not because a government demands it, but because a culture of outrage does.

When we stop engaging with difficult ideas, we don’t need book burnings. Minds burn all on their own

In Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty warns Montag that society didn’t need oppressive governments to force censorship—it chose it. People wanted simple, happy, unchallenging content. Books became dangerous because they made people uncomfortable. Too many opinions, perspectives, & complexity.

"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just make people afraid to think."

#Fahrenheit451 #CancelCulture #FreeThinking

Trump is working so hard, of that you have to agree.
Hard to emulate, even beat, the disaster that was Lizz Truss.
At least we could get rid of her lol.

Perhaps we should start calling it, The United States between Canada and Mexico...

Donald Trump was recruited by KGB with codename 'Krasnov', claims ex-Soviet spy Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB with the codename 'Krasnov', claims an ex-Soviet spy.

No surprise there then. Well done USA
uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump...

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It seems noise cancelling headphones might cause hearing problems. Not hearing loss but less ability to discern sound. It is speculated it might be the hearing system being overwhelmed by every day noises when in normal scenarios.

Have you read any of the books for the Foundation?

FAM I love. I really like the expanded timespan.
Foundation. S1 have me some concern but S2 I really got into. I loved the books more though. I read them all, and IRobot, back to back. I devoured them lol.

I guess thst is another author to add to my never ending list :-)

Looks like an interesting read

These were the last books I bought a couple of weeks ago.
What vooks did you last buy?

#reading #books #fiction

For all mankind is one of the best sci-fi series currently available alongside The expanse and Foundation.
Who's seen them?

#forallmankind
#theexpanse
#foundation

What artist/song made you want to be a musician?

I'll start.

#AdamAnt
#StandAndDeliver

It still gives me goose bumps.

And it is why I bought leather jeans and frilly shirts!!

Just finished Children of Time—what a mind-bending journey! A sprawling, high-stakes space opera that explores evolution, artificial intelligence, and what it means to be human. Definitely a slow burn, but worth every page.

What books have completely blown your mind? #SciFi #ChildrenOfTime

Lifting weights taught me patience.
Writing novels taught me persistence.
Making music taught me flow.
Everything worthwhile takes time—but damn, sometimes I wish it didn’t.

If you could master one creative discipline overnight, what would it be and why?
#creativity #artistry #originality

Hey what's up bluesky
I'm new here, as Facebook had become awful.
I write #novels. I write #songs and am a #singer and #guitarist (better singer than guitarists though lol).
I also have an amazing canine companion, a cross of #germanshepherd and #sproodle & so I am out #walking every day in nature

My canine companion, Sunnie, and her best mate, Django.
If they could buy air tickets they'd have been married by Elvis in Las Vegas by now

If you think a Ai terminator type scenario is scary, try comprehending and Ai that creates a mould spore from mirror dna...
How long would the earth last?
Anything that is built on dna would be dead.

Then you hear the VP of the USA saying that growth is more important than safety in Ai.

Wtf.

@jayelise99.bsky.social hiya, it's Mark