#struggle

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-06-16

A quotation from John Adams

The Stream of Life sometimes glides smoothly on, through flowry meadows and enamell’d planes. At other times it draggs a winding reluctant Course through offensive Boggs and dismal gloomy Swamps. The same road now leads us thro’ a spacious Country fraught with evry delightful object, Then plunges us at once, into miry Sloughs, or stops our passage with craggy and inaccessible mountains. The free roving Songster of the forest, now rambles unconfin’d, and hopps from Spray to Spray but the next hour perhaps he alights to pick the scattered Grain and is entangled in the Snare. The Ship, which, wafted by a favourable gale, sails prosperously upon the peaceful Surface, by a sudden Change of weather may be tossed by the Tempest, and driven by furious, opposite winds, upon rocks or quicksands. In short nothing in this world enjoys a constant Series of Joy and prosperity.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1756-03-27)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/30195/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #humancondition #struggle #change #difficulty #disaster #fortune #joy #life #metaphor #misfortune #problems #prosperity #troubles #variability

WordofTheHourwordofthehour
2025-06-14

: to strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body

- French: difficulté

- Italian: difficoltà

- Portuguese: luta

- Spanish: lucha

------------

See previous words @ wordofthehour.org/r/past

2025-06-12

Conceal Don't Feel

eicker.news ᳇ tech newstechnews@eicker.news
2025-06-11

#Apple’s #WWDC presentation acknowledged the company’s #struggle to deliver promised #AI features, particularly for #Siri: admission suggests a #retreat from ambitious #AIinitiatives. stratechery.com/2025/apple-ret #tech #media #news

2025-06-09

In Colombia, a far-right politician was shot. It's remarkable how he's received top-tier medical care and media coverage—something you wouldn't get if you suffered an attack or a serious workplace accident there, even though we're all supposed to have equal rights. Business as usual, no one protests. #Alienation #Struggle #Capitalism #Inequality #Mafia
theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

2025-06-07


Haris Alexiou - Τίποτα δεν πάει χαμένο 🥹
Tipota Den Pai Hameno - Nothing is ever lost

"In your worthy , you were deprived of many things, but life is like a woman in labour, giving birth to new hopes."

open.spotify.com/track/3wL7UjM

2025-05-23

i hate it here why can’t drinking make your driving BETTER and doing drugs make your dick HARDER this place is a fucking hellscape #struggle #justice

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-05-21

A quotation from Molly Ivins

Whatever you do, don’t give up. Because all you can do once you’ve given up is bitch.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” Houston Journalism Review

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ivins-molly/76698/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #acquiescence #bitching #complain #giveup #struggle #surrender

SierraFrostSiearraFrost
2025-05-20

A filled with longing, , need of , between desire & fear, a deep need for connection, & . Despite feeling lost & overwhelmed, a message to not lose -one within. Can you guess what is ached for by me? Leave a guess for the loving author

learnwhoiam.ca/2025/05/20/achi

NihilistAmbush🍉noiselover@kolektiva.social
2025-05-20

A mural reminiscent of Hamas militants decending into israel on the walls of the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp by Nihaya Ayman

#freepalestine #palestine #anticolonial #struggle #art #7thoctober #al-agsaflood #Hamas #al-qassam

Tim Mocarskitmocarski@masto.ai
2025-05-19

"Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below."

Noam Chomsky

#quoteoftheday #change #progress #struggle #fromthebottomup

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst