WIST QuotationsFeb 3

A quotation from Frank Zappa

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa (1940-1993) American singer-songwriter
A Day with Frank Zappa, Part 5, documentary, dir. Roelof Kiers, VPRO-TV (1971-02-11)

More about this quote (and variants): wist.info/zappa-frank/4263/

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sport of sacred spherical cowsJan 15

#Normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
Climate would've killed it—if #covid hadn't.

Yet normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
We only got so many #spoons.

We can bury ourselves or bury the dead.
We only got so many spoons.

Use them wisely.

❖ #lumpentheory #poetry

Previously: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/109317477421500057

(Originally April 22, 2022 on Xitter.)

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 15

A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 1 (1965)

More about this quote: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/80…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mignonmclaughlin #love #marriage #normalcy #passion #relationship

The Neurotic's Notebook, ch. 1 (1965) - McLaughlin, Mignon | WIST Quotations

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage!

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BetterifyouneilNov 30
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrBchub2/
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#Normalcy ain't right now.
Big box is confused, where all the people at?
They are at work and having sleep for dinner.
TikTok - Make Your Day

BellingenNSWNov 14

Australia's new national environmental standards

"Former ACCC chair condemns proposed exemption allowing minister to approve projects that don’t comply with law. Samuel, who led a 2020 review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, also argued a loophole that effectively exempts native forest logging from the laws “shouldn’t be there”.

“Logging operations should be subject to the same rules as mining, agriculture, urban development and so on." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/graeme-samuel-calls-for-labor-to-ditch-national-interest-workaround-for-environment-laws

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act)
The problem of ministerial discretion and “national interest” exemptions. >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115528660854362227

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law. >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115528971744822369

#EPBCAct #biodiversity #NationalInterest #law #exemption #MinisterialDiscretion #FastTrackApprovals #VestedInterest #ParliamentaryScrutiny #EnvironmentalLaw #conservation #regulation #governance #democracy #NSWLogging #landclearing #DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #LoggingImpacts

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 11

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42625/

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963) - Arendt, Hannah | WIST Quotations

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more…

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BellingenNSWNov 11

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
Lawlessness dressed up as law.

" The ‘dual state’ framework explains how a dictator can exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary.

The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.

In a dual state, the high “court’s role is in creating affordances within the law that operate as off switches for the law…

This is precisely why the dual state is so dangerous: It allows the would-be autocrat to consolidate power under the cloak of democracy and norms. "
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/

The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dual_State
#DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #VibeShift #democracy

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

Mother Jones
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 23

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

That familiarity produces neglect, has been long observed. The effect of all external objects, however great or splendid, ceases with their novelty; the courtier stands without emotion in the royal presence; the rustick tramples under his foot the beauties of the spring with little attention to their colours or their fragrance; and the inhabitant of the coast darts his eye upon the immense diffusion of waters, without awe, wonder, or terrour.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-06-26), The Adventurer, No. 67

More info about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/79944…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 15

A quotation from Douglas Adams

I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
 
   1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
   2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
   3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
The Salmon of Doubt, Part 2 “The Universe” (2002) [ed. Peter Guzzardi]

More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/

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N-gated Hacker NewsOct 8
🔥 BREAKING: #Portland is a perfectly normal city with regular weather and ordinary humans going about their uneventful lives. 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Apparently, the only thing burning is the internet's love for hyperbole. 📸🌆 #NotExactlyAPostApocalypticWasteland
https://isportlandburning.com/ #Normalcy #InternetHyperbole #CityLife #WeatherNews #HackerNews #ngated
Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.