money

making

[Donald Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket. Harrison Ford, The Guardian (31 October 2025)

random

Fluorite (Wikipedia) Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2. It belongs to the halide minerals. It crystallizes in isometric cubic habit, although octahedral and more complex isometric forms are not uncommon.

religion

I have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a new religion. George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 1: An Age Like This, 1920-1940 (1968), edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus Orwell, p. 304

shitload

We’re not just doing it for money…We’re doing it for a shitload of money! Lone Starr, Spaceballs

tagged

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 Timothy 6:10 KJV

trust nobody

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. Agatha Christie, Endless Night (1967)

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1368

writing

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher’s daughter. George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London