Just gonna leave this lil gem here for y’all…
07.03.2025 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
16.02.2025 14:28 — 👍 18334 🔁 6550 💬 368 📌 393
I’m not really a “I told you so” type but in this case… I’m definitely a “WHY THE FUCK DIDN’T YOU LISTEN TO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS?” type.
17.02.2025 06:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My 10th grade math teacher had this quote on her wall and it has been the most valuable truth I have ever learned.
17.01.2025 15:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you think I said something weird, it was the autism
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