@linuxfortunes.bsky.social - Linux Fortunes

31 Jul 2026 12:00 +0000

You may be marching to the beat of a different drummer, but you're still in the parade. [platitudes/498]

31 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. -- James Agate, British film and drama critic [ethnic/111]

31 Jul 2026 00:00 +0000

The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music. [art/360]

30 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000

* doogie is turning into manoj doogie: eventually, we all turn into Manoj Manoj is Debian's iron ultimately, we all decay to Manoj [debian/48]

30 Jul 2026 12:00 +0000

Please, Mother! I'd rather do it myself! [kids/106]

30 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000

He asked me if I knew what time it was -- I said yes, but not right now. -- Steven Wright [humorists/39]

30 Jul 2026 00:00 +0000

The world does not belong to us. If it has a master who is stupid enough to want it the way it is, let him have it. -- Alfredo Bonanno [anarchism/39]

29 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. [news/16]

29 Jul 2026 12:00 +0000

HEY KIDS! ANN LANDERS SAYS: Be sure it's true, when you say "I love you". It's a sin to tell a lie. Millions of hearts have been broken, just because these words were spoken. [love/18]

29 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000

He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armour. It was gilt by association. -- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch" [pratchett/0]

29 Jul 2026 00:00 +0000

You are lost in the Swamps of Despair. [computers/989]

28 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000

Q: How do you stop an elephant from charging? A: Take away his credit cards. [riddles/19]

28 Jul 2026 12:00 +0000

The default Magic Word, "Abracadabra", actually is a corruption of the Hebrew phrase "ha-Bracha dab'ra" which means "pronounce the blessing". [magic/18]

28 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000

The glances over cocktails That seemed to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat [songs-poems/519]

28 Jul 2026 00:00 +0000

"Triumph without Victory, The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War", -Headline published in the U.S. News & World Report, 1992. [paradoxum/54]

27 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. -- Leo Tolstoy [anarchism/434]

27 Jul 2026 12:00 +0000

This fortune is inoperative. Please try another. [goedel/41]

27 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000

The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat -- Ogden Nash. [songs-poems/552]

27 Jul 2026 00:00 +0000

He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armour. It was gilt by association. -- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch" [pratchett/0]

26 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000

"One size fits all": Doesn't fit anyone. [definitions/686]

26 Jul 2026 12:00 +0000

He hath eaten me out of house and home. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" [literature/69]

26 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000

In California they don't throw their garbage away -- they make it into television shows. -- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall" [ethnic/57]

26 Jul 2026 00:00 +0000

Honi soit la vache qui rit. [translate-me/4]

25 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000

We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source code means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department. -- Russell Nelson, President of Crynwr Software [linux/74]

25 Jul 2026 12:00 +0000

I invented skydiving in 1989! [zippy/174]

25 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000

Don't feed the bats tonight. [fortunes/65]

25 Jul 2026 00:00 +0000

Pedaeration, n.: The perfect body heat achieved by having one leg under the sheet and one hanging off the edge of the bed. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" [definitions/714]

24 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000

The only time a dog gets complimented is when he doesn't do anything. -- C. Schulz [pets/43]

24 Jul 2026 12:00 +0000

If you took all the students that felt asleep in class and laid them end to end, they'd be a lot more comfortable. -- "Graffiti in the Big Ten" [education/96]

24 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. -- Henry David Thoreau [anarchism/323]