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  1. A quotation from Richard Steele

    But however low and poor the taking of Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his own, but is always asking others for a Pinch.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
    Essay (1709-06-28), The Tatler, No. 35

    More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/21710…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #begging #borrowing #bumming #hittingup #leeching #smoking #snuff #stupidity #tobacco

  2. A quotation from Richard Steele

    But however low and poor the taking of Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his own, but is always asking others for a Pinch.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
    Essay (1709-06-28), The Tatler, No. 35

    More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/21710…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #begging #borrowing #bumming #hittingup #leeching #smoking #snuff #stupidity #tobacco

  3. A quotation from Richard Steele

    But however low and poor the taking of Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his own, but is always asking others for a Pinch.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
    Essay (1709-06-28), The Tatler, No. 35

    More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/21710…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #begging #borrowing #bumming #hittingup #leeching #smoking #snuff #stupidity #tobacco

  4. A quotation from Richard Steele

    But however low and poor the taking of Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his own, but is always asking others for a Pinch.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
    Essay (1709-06-28), The Tatler, No. 35

    More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/21710…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #begging #borrowing #bumming #hittingup #leeching #smoking #snuff #stupidity #tobacco

  5. No, I won't leave you a 5 star Google (insert platform of your choice here) review.
    I won't leave you any review at all.
    I won't leave a review unless you're a small startup, or a craft/artisan/artist/writer.

    It's not because I don't like you or your product, but because leaving reviews is now almost a full-time job, and I have other work to do.

    #review #begging #Google

  6. No, I won't leave you a 5 star Google (insert platform of your choice here) review.
    I won't leave you any review at all.
    I won't leave a review unless you're a small startup, or a craft/artisan/artist/writer.

    It's not because I don't like you or your product, but because leaving reviews is now almost a full-time job, and I have other work to do.

    #review #begging #Google

  7. I see more and more #begging here on Mastodon. This is mostly from people in the #USA or #gaza

    How do I know that it's legitimate and not a scam?

  8. I see more and more #begging here on Mastodon. This is mostly from people in the #USA or #gaza

    How do I know that it's legitimate and not a scam?

  9. I see more and more #begging here on Mastodon. This is mostly from people in the #USA or #gaza

    How do I know that it's legitimate and not a scam?

  10. I see more and more #begging here on Mastodon. This is mostly from people in the #USA or #gaza

    How do I know that it's legitimate and not a scam?

  11. I see more and more #begging here on Mastodon. This is mostly from people in the #USA or #gaza

    How do I know that it's legitimate and not a scam?

  12. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Tew learn yure offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that yu giv them.
     
    [To learn your offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that you give them.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-06 “Words Tew Housewifes” (1870 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/81115/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #begging #childabuse #incentive #lesson #parenting #teaching

  13. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Tew learn yure offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that yu giv them.
     
    [To learn your offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that you give them.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-06 “Words Tew Housewifes” (1870 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/81115/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #begging #childabuse #incentive #lesson #parenting #teaching

  14. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Tew learn yure offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that yu giv them.
     
    [To learn your offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that you give them.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-06 “Words Tew Housewifes” (1870 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/81115/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #begging #childabuse #incentive #lesson #parenting #teaching

  15. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Tew learn yure offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that yu giv them.
     
    [To learn your offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that you give them.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1870-06 “Words Tew Housewifes” (1870 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/81115/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #begging #childabuse #incentive #lesson #parenting #teaching

  16. A very distressing thing about the current world is all the constant, socially-approved #begging.

    Everything I watch or read has routine begging. In a world of "the #internet is 'free'" the cost is reducing everyone who entertains or informs you into a beggar.

    I have a #Patreon account, and I do support some people, but there is so much begging -- and so many hands out for cash! -- that it is overwhelming.

    What is all of this saying about who we are? There has to be a way to do better.

    #work

  17. A very distressing thing about the current world is all the constant, socially-approved #begging.

    Everything I watch or read has routine begging. In a world of "the #internet is 'free'" the cost is reducing everyone who entertains or informs you into a beggar.

    I have a #Patreon account, and I do support some people, but there is so much begging -- and so many hands out for cash! -- that it is overwhelming.

    What is all of this saying about who we are? There has to be a way to do better.

    #work

  18. A very distressing thing about the current world is all the constant, socially-approved #begging.

    Everything I watch or read has routine begging. In a world of "the #internet is 'free'" the cost is reducing everyone who entertains or informs you into a beggar.

    I have a #Patreon account, and I do support some people, but there is so much begging -- and so many hands out for cash! -- that it is overwhelming.

    What is all of this saying about who we are? There has to be a way to do better.

    #work

  19. A very distressing thing about the current world is all the constant, socially-approved #begging.

    Everything I watch or read has routine begging. In a world of "the #internet is 'free'" the cost is reducing everyone who entertains or informs you into a beggar.

    I have a #Patreon account, and I do support some people, but there is so much begging -- and so many hands out for cash! -- that it is overwhelming.

    What is all of this saying about who we are? There has to be a way to do better.

    #work

  20. A very distressing thing about the current world is all the constant, socially-approved #begging.

    Everything I watch or read has routine begging. In a world of "the #internet is 'free'" the cost is reducing everyone who entertains or informs you into a beggar.

    I have a #Patreon account, and I do support some people, but there is so much begging -- and so many hands out for cash! -- that it is overwhelming.

    What is all of this saying about who we are? There has to be a way to do better.

    #work

  21. 🚨🚀 BREAKING: #Websites beg #digital #hordes to play nice, only to be stomped by the mighty #Slashdot stampede. 😂📉 Meanwhile, 'respect our #robot policy' is the new 'please don't feed the trolls.' 🙄🤖
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot #Begging #Respect #Policy #HackerNews #ngated

  22. 🚨🚀 BREAKING: #Websites beg #digital #hordes to play nice, only to be stomped by the mighty #Slashdot stampede. 😂📉 Meanwhile, 'respect our #robot policy' is the new 'please don't feed the trolls.' 🙄🤖
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot #Begging #Respect #Policy #HackerNews #ngated

  23. 🚨🚀 BREAKING: #Websites beg #digital #hordes to play nice, only to be stomped by the mighty #Slashdot stampede. 😂📉 Meanwhile, 'respect our #robot policy' is the new 'please don't feed the trolls.' 🙄🤖
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot #Begging #Respect #Policy #HackerNews #ngated

  24. 🚨🚀 BREAKING: #Websites beg #digital #hordes to play nice, only to be stomped by the mighty #Slashdot stampede. 😂📉 Meanwhile, 'respect our #robot policy' is the new 'please don't feed the trolls.' 🙄🤖
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot #Begging #Respect #Policy #HackerNews #ngated

  25. my only thing I'm gonna say is never let them win. #fascists want you down, out, beaten, and dead. no matter how hard it gets you need to fucking #survive. never be small for them. be fucking angry and live in spite of them. for god's sake, live. please. loudly and messily and kinky and queer. take up as much space as #humanly possible. i'm #begging you.

  26. my only thing I'm gonna say is never let them win. #fascists want you down, out, beaten, and dead. no matter how hard it gets you need to fucking #survive. never be small for them. be fucking angry and live in spite of them. for god's sake, live. please. loudly and messily and kinky and queer. take up as much space as #humanly possible. i'm #begging you.

  27. my only thing I'm gonna say is never let them win. #fascists want you down, out, beaten, and dead. no matter how hard it gets you need to fucking #survive. never be small for them. be fucking angry and live in spite of them. for god's sake, live. please. loudly and messily and kinky and queer. take up as much space as #humanly possible. i'm #begging you.

  28. my only thing I'm gonna say is never let them win. #fascists want you down, out, beaten, and dead. no matter how hard it gets you need to fucking #survive. never be small for them. be fucking angry and live in spite of them. for god's sake, live. please. loudly and messily and kinky and queer. take up as much space as #humanly possible. i'm #begging you.

  29. my only thing I'm gonna say is never let them win. #fascists want you down, out, beaten, and dead. no matter how hard it gets you need to fucking #survive. never be small for them. be fucking angry and live in spite of them. for god's sake, live. please. loudly and messily and kinky and queer. take up as much space as #humanly possible. i'm #begging you.

  30. CW: (NEEDS & OFFERS SYSTEM)... THINGS TO DO... FOR YOU?

    Trusting people to help more than the Trumps of the world?

    ==================================
    LIST TO CONSIDER WRITING
    for yourself and others to help:
    ==================================

    NEEDS ➡️ Any personal problems / challenges / 'I could never know how to get to this point?'
    (as a need)

    People can send offers (things they might do daily anyway!)

    OFFERS ➡️ what you like doing daily already and maybe separately what you want to do more of (even if it's a bit far off now - as a dream / low chance of it happening but as "need" you need to keep working on it in doing "something"
    (as an offer)

    Thanks - this helps see more your side and offer you a checklist as yes / no / maybe on your side after...

    ================================

    SHORT INTRO TO THAT...

    AND LONGER IF NOT HAPPY WITH THAT...

    ("things to do for you" in both meanings of that to do yourself and for others to help with that list which becomes part of the #ecosystem of helping itself for "US" as over more-human people, not just alone in a cold system.

    So talking and doing more together IS FEEDING our own "system" and #mutuality grows as part of sending that to the world / #fediverse (even if that's just helping good people one-way and not wanting anything back).

    Could be like "ok done" !

    CONSIDER WRITING A LIST

    (optionally more writing below if you don't see why saying and doing things is a better #ecosystem of trust rather than not trusting the Trump(s) out there surely not going to do it! )

    ================================

    LONGER / EXPLAINED MORE:

    People often don't get that when I ask what their problems / things-to-do are, because they think it's only their problem and not common relativity / systematic cause / humanistic things systems ignore) AND so whichever way you go or do things you MUST listen to people's things (or do the humanistic things) because the system or #Trump or whoever leader IS NOT GOING TO DO IT or listen! (shock horror :blobshock: at ALL the people on these #Zuckerberg / #Musk / #Bezos etc hashtags #begging / #hoping for top leaders to stop extracting / plundering from planet / people).

    ⛔ Stop that waiting. ⛔
    ️ ➡️ ✉ Send needs / offers ✉ ⬅️

    So either way it's up to us to clean our laundry and even me to clean your boxer shorts! (I mean at least AIM to do something about everything and help ourselves/you/me do it alone after initial spark given at the start or just plain #handholding and saying 'done' at the end. It's not for everyone but I'm here for you.

    #Tech people often don't get this unless it's like installing Linux for people... but it's similar in all parts of life...
    So handholding in other ways means "I'm shit at this so feel free to do it for me and I'll see what I can do for others in same way"

    #Payitforward style (and developing people not just tech)

    I tend only to think in the now and 'me and you' and once I / we find similar I think that is the way. (just two more people honestly is enough... there's plenty <of our own work> to do (not the work of others / bad people).

    The whole design of 'giving' anything to people as it is to take more from them in the end and so that's why everything you do away from people will cancel out the benefits or usage (even food) as the level / growth of people stagnate and systems become more killer efficient. It's Mind over Material Matter (we did enough Material and now people 'matter' more).

    So lay our you lifetime's worth of 'things to do' and 'shit to fix' and hope someone will come along to fix it :)

    And I'm available to fix your stuff or get it done seriously if you think you'll never do it (seriously seriously I can sorting text / files / editing / rearranging / donkey work if it helps get you to step 2 or 10 like a good garage clean out helps sort all other projects after that's done. Put your shame aside, Trump is winning meantime #friendships are not made (or even our shit is not done as fast as their #ENshitification actually spelt with two T's in the middle / 3 in total #ENshittification ).

    DO IT NOW / ADD THIS TO YOUR LIST OF #FreeSchool #THINGSTODO

    Boost / bookmark BUT don't forget (which is why anything now is better than nothing and I'll have a look)

  31. CW: (NEEDS & OFFERS SYSTEM)... THINGS TO DO... FOR YOU?

    Trusting people to help more than the Trumps of the world?

    ==================================
    LIST TO CONSIDER WRITING
    for yourself and others to help:
    ==================================

    NEEDS ➡️ Any personal problems / challenges / 'I could never know how to get to this point?'
    (as a need)

    People can send offers (things they might do daily anyway!)

    OFFERS ➡️ what you like doing daily already and maybe separately what you want to do more of (even if it's a bit far off now - as a dream / low chance of it happening but as "need" you need to keep working on it in doing "something"
    (as an offer)

    Thanks - this helps see more your side and offer you a checklist as yes / no / maybe on your side after...

    ================================

    SHORT INTRO TO THAT...

    AND LONGER IF NOT HAPPY WITH THAT...

    ("things to do for you" in both meanings of that to do yourself and for others to help with that list which becomes part of the #ecosystem of helping itself for "US" as over more-human people, not just alone in a cold system.

    So talking and doing more together IS FEEDING our own "system" and #mutuality grows as part of sending that to the world / #fediverse (even if that's just helping good people one-way and not wanting anything back).

    Could be like "ok done" !

    CONSIDER WRITING A LIST

    (optionally more writing below if you don't see why saying and doing things is a better #ecosystem of trust rather than not trusting the Trump(s) out there surely not going to do it! )

    ================================

    LONGER / EXPLAINED MORE:

    People often don't get that when I ask what their problems / things-to-do are, because they think it's only their problem and not common relativity / systematic cause / humanistic things systems ignore) AND so whichever way you go or do things you MUST listen to people's things (or do the humanistic things) because the system or #Trump or whoever leader IS NOT GOING TO DO IT or listen! (shock horror :blobshock: at ALL the people on these #Zuckerberg / #Musk / #Bezos etc hashtags #begging / #hoping for top leaders to stop extracting / plundering from planet / people).

    ⛔ Stop that waiting. ⛔
    ️ ➡️ ✉ Send needs / offers ✉ ⬅️

    So either way it's up to us to clean our laundry and even me to clean your boxer shorts! (I mean at least AIM to do something about everything and help ourselves/you/me do it alone after initial spark given at the start or just plain #handholding and saying 'done' at the end. It's not for everyone but I'm here for you.

    #Tech people often don't get this unless it's like installing Linux for people... but it's similar in all parts of life...
    So handholding in other ways means "I'm shit at this so feel free to do it for me and I'll see what I can do for others in same way"

    #Payitforward style (and developing people not just tech)

    I tend only to think in the now and 'me and you' and once I / we find similar I think that is the way. (just two more people honestly is enough... there's plenty <of our own work> to do (not the work of others / bad people).

    The whole design of 'giving' anything to people as it is to take more from them in the end and so that's why everything you do away from people will cancel out the benefits or usage (even food) as the level / growth of people stagnate and systems become more killer efficient. It's Mind over Material Matter (we did enough Material and now people 'matter' more).

    So lay our you lifetime's worth of 'things to do' and 'shit to fix' and hope someone will come along to fix it :)

    And I'm available to fix your stuff or get it done seriously if you think you'll never do it (seriously seriously I can sorting text / files / editing / rearranging / donkey work if it helps get you to step 2 or 10 like a good garage clean out helps sort all other projects after that's done. Put your shame aside, Trump is winning meantime #friendships are not made (or even our shit is not done as fast as their #ENshitification actually spelt with two T's in the middle / 3 in total #ENshittification ).

    DO IT NOW / ADD THIS TO YOUR LIST OF #FreeSchool #THINGSTODO

    Boost / bookmark BUT don't forget (which is why anything now is better than nothing and I'll have a look)

  32. I'm seeing an increasing number of 'begging' posts on here mostly from the US. They get to me because they append a huge list of tags some of which I follow. I know US health and social care is expensive and some people are in genuine distress but how do you tell which are frauds? #hardship #healthcare #begging #BeggingEconomy

  33. The Guardian: ‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams. “TikTok says it bans child begging and other forms of begging it considers exploitative, and says it has strict policies on users who go live. But an Observer investigation has found the practice widespread. Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/07/profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams-the-guardian/

  34. बैगर्स फ्री होगा देहरादून, जिलाधिकारी ने स्वयं संभाली कमान।

    aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news

    #uttarakhand #dehradun #india #news #press #beggars #begging #employment #SkillDevelopment #SkillIndia #government #governance

    Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

  35. Hard poem, but reflects how I feel these days…

    Acid - #MaryOliver

    In Jakarta,

    among the venders

    of #flowers and soft drinks,

    I saw a child
with a hideous mouth,

    #begging,

    and I knew the #wound was made
    
for a way to stay alive.

    What I gave him

    wouldn’t keep a dog alive.

    What he gave me
    
from the brown coin

    of his sweating face
    
was a look of #cunning.
    
I carry it
    
like a bead of acid

    to remember how,
    
once in a while,
    
you can creep out of your own life
    
and become someone else—

    an #explosion
    
in that nest of wires
    
we call the #imagination.

    I will never see him
    
again, I suppose.

    But what of this rag,
    
this shadow

    flung like a boy’s body

    into the walls

    of my mind, bleeding
    
their sour taste—

    #insult and #anger,

    the great movers?