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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social

Just heard this Octavia Butler quote for the first time and am now obsessed with it. 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
jul 17, 2025, 3:36 pm • 338 132

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joedblon.bsky.social @joedblon.bsky.social

WOW!

jul 18, 2025, 3:54 am • 0 0 • view
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foulwatcher1.bsky.social @foulwatcher1.bsky.social

This is so good! Thank you

jul 17, 2025, 8:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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marilynotmonroe.bsky.social @marilynotmonroe.bsky.social

Here as in there. We suffer fools to our own peril.

jul 18, 2025, 1:22 am • 0 0 • view
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j4tado.bsky.social @j4tado.bsky.social

Reading her Parable novels is chilling now. Talk about hitting the nail on the head again and again

jul 18, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gus Ferguson @gustapher.bsky.social

This makes Trump a whole stanza

jul 18, 2025, 11:42 am • 3 0 • view
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Divanyst @divanyst.bsky.social

Octavia knew...

jul 18, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Michael Thomas Gamez @gamezmt.bsky.social

Yup

jul 18, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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🦋ablueheart💙 @ablueheart.bsky.social

What if you are lead by a coward, a fool, a thief and a liar?

jul 17, 2025, 3:42 pm • 4 0 • view
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mjantinarelli.bsky.social @mjantinarelli.bsky.social

Then you must be a US citizen. (Sorry.)

jul 18, 2025, 1:39 pm • 3 0 • view
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I am Mouse 💙🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @introvertedmouse.bsky.social

🔥 Good one, though it does really sting.

jul 18, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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ryan150.bsky.social @ryan150.bsky.social

Trump checks every line.

jul 18, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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GG Anderson @ggaatplay.bsky.social

💯

jul 18, 2025, 7:40 am • 1 0 • view
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Rachel Eugenia @eugenia-e.bsky.social

From the Parable of the Sower, I believe, which should be required reading for everyone.

jul 18, 2025, 3:37 am • 3 0 • view
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Christof Brehmer #NAFO @christofbrehmer.bsky.social

Yes, the prediction of raging wildfires in California during the reign of an ultra-conservative US president made me shiver… 😳

jul 18, 2025, 3:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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buck1966.bsky.social @buck1966.bsky.social

💥💥

jul 18, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dru @medru.bsky.social

Thanks Rupert.

jul 18, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ban_Dearg @ban-dearg.bsky.social

Poet and apparently a seer.

jul 18, 2025, 2:27 am • 2 0 • view