Thomas Paine Historical Association

@thomaspaineha.bsky.social

Paine: "Science, the partisan of no country, but the beneficent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet... The philosopher of one country sees not an enemy in the philosopher of another: He takes his seat in the temple of science, and asks not who sits beside him."

Amanda

@tacittaciturn.bsky.social

I love the grant report questions that are like “Please extol the virtues of we, the beneficent grant administrators who have deigned to lob this insufficient chunk of funds in your direction and expect you to redirect the course of human history for pennies on the dollar.”

ulTRAX

@ultrax-1.bsky.social

We'd NOT the smartest, most beneficent, caring, generous person in the world to be a dictator... so we certainly don't want the world's most stupid, delusional, power-mad, infantile, lawless, greedy, corrupt, & malignant thug to be one.