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The Swedes stand with arms folded for a minute or so, regarding this apparition [German sub]. Then they make some kind of collective decision that it does not exist, that nothing has happened here. They turn their backs, pad grumpily into their houses, begin to boil coffee.
#Cryptonomicon
#Cryptonomicon
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Swedes stand with arms folded for a minute or so, regarding this apparition [German sub]. Then they make some kind of collective decision that it does not exist, that nothing has happened here. They turn their backs, pad grumpily into their houses, begin to boil coffee.
#Cryptonomicon
#Cryptonomicon
hashtag severe gait...
Gaitgate?
Gaitgate?
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
hashtag severe gait...
Gaitgate?
Gaitgate?
What did we learn, Palmer?
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
What did we learn, Palmer?
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
This is no fantasy, no careless product of wild imagination. These indictments I have brought you today, specific charges listed herein against the individuals, their acts of treason & ultimate aim of sedition. These are matters of undeniable fact. I ask you to pronounce judgement on those accused.
December 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is no fantasy, no careless product of wild imagination. These indictments I have brought you today, specific charges listed herein against the individuals, their acts of treason & ultimate aim of sedition. These are matters of undeniable fact. I ask you to pronounce judgement on those accused.
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From time to time in Los Angeles I meet people who were involved in the Nakatomi business. They always find this time of year difficult.
November 29, 2024 at 5:09 PM
From time to time in Los Angeles I meet people who were involved in the Nakatomi business. They always find this time of year difficult.
THREADER: What have you told the proprietor about us?
SATURN: That you’re Royal Society men making observations of the river.
DANIEL: He's not going to believe that, is he?
S: He believes that you’re City men investigating a case of insurance fraud.
D: Fine — our true purpose shall not be suspected.
SATURN: That you’re Royal Society men making observations of the river.
DANIEL: He's not going to believe that, is he?
S: He believes that you’re City men investigating a case of insurance fraud.
D: Fine — our true purpose shall not be suspected.
December 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
THREADER: What have you told the proprietor about us?
SATURN: That you’re Royal Society men making observations of the river.
DANIEL: He's not going to believe that, is he?
S: He believes that you’re City men investigating a case of insurance fraud.
D: Fine — our true purpose shall not be suspected.
SATURN: That you’re Royal Society men making observations of the river.
DANIEL: He's not going to believe that, is he?
S: He believes that you’re City men investigating a case of insurance fraud.
D: Fine — our true purpose shall not be suspected.
This is an old trope (1986 Stand by Me), older than "x is a Christmas movie," but Michael Chabon nailed it in The Yiddish Policemen' Union:
“The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.”
“The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.”
a cartoon dog wearing a red collar and a necklace is standing in front of a wall .
ALT: a cartoon dog wearing a red collar and a necklace is standing in front of a wall .
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is an old trope (1986 Stand by Me), older than "x is a Christmas movie," but Michael Chabon nailed it in The Yiddish Policemen' Union:
“The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.”
“The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.”
This year I am not comfortable about the U.S. elements of NORAD escorting Santa Claus. The airspace handover from Canadian NORAD CF-18 pilots to US F-22 pilots could get tense.
Official NORAD Tracks Santa
www.noradsanta.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This year I am not comfortable about the U.S. elements of NORAD escorting Santa Claus. The airspace handover from Canadian NORAD CF-18 pilots to US F-22 pilots could get tense.
Note the double-s on the secretary's placeholder.
That is an insult to the entire Eternal china pattern by Lenox. Even now, the Lenox Eternal sentient full place setting [figure 2] is focusing its energy of retribution on whomever is answerable for this sloppy blunder.
#Schutzstaffel
That is an insult to the entire Eternal china pattern by Lenox. Even now, the Lenox Eternal sentient full place setting [figure 2] is focusing its energy of retribution on whomever is answerable for this sloppy blunder.
#Schutzstaffel
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Note the double-s on the secretary's placeholder.
That is an insult to the entire Eternal china pattern by Lenox. Even now, the Lenox Eternal sentient full place setting [figure 2] is focusing its energy of retribution on whomever is answerable for this sloppy blunder.
#Schutzstaffel
That is an insult to the entire Eternal china pattern by Lenox. Even now, the Lenox Eternal sentient full place setting [figure 2] is focusing its energy of retribution on whomever is answerable for this sloppy blunder.
#Schutzstaffel
funk power...over and out
[while driving 32MPH on my 10-minute commute]
[while driving 32MPH on my 10-minute commute]
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
funk power...over and out
[while driving 32MPH on my 10-minute commute]
[while driving 32MPH on my 10-minute commute]
DANIEL: You forget that I do not care whether you are pleased. I have undertaken this work simply because I phant’sy that my ends are akin to yours; & to those ends, you have provided me w/some of the means.
👑CAROLINE: 😡I have heard that there were still men like you about England.
#BaroqueCycle
👑CAROLINE: 😡I have heard that there were still men like you about England.
#BaroqueCycle
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
DANIEL: You forget that I do not care whether you are pleased. I have undertaken this work simply because I phant’sy that my ends are akin to yours; & to those ends, you have provided me w/some of the means.
👑CAROLINE: 😡I have heard that there were still men like you about England.
#BaroqueCycle
👑CAROLINE: 😡I have heard that there were still men like you about England.
#BaroqueCycle
England & an alliance of Protestant countries have just finished fighting a 25yr world war against France. The 2nd half of it, War of the Spanish Succession, has seen many battlefield victories for the Allies under the generalship of 2 brothers in arms: Duke of Marlborough & Prince Eugene of Savoy >
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
England & an alliance of Protestant countries have just finished fighting a 25yr world war against France. The 2nd half of it, War of the Spanish Succession, has seen many battlefield victories for the Allies under the generalship of 2 brothers in arms: Duke of Marlborough & Prince Eugene of Savoy >
CLAUDE LACOMBE: How long have you been working on this project?
DAVID LAUGHLIN: I've been with the American team from the beginning. In fact, I saw you at the #Montsoreau conference, which ended well—especially for you. Especially for the French. If it isn't too late, my congratulations.
#ce3k
DAVID LAUGHLIN: I've been with the American team from the beginning. In fact, I saw you at the #Montsoreau conference, which ended well—especially for you. Especially for the French. If it isn't too late, my congratulations.
#ce3k
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
CLAUDE LACOMBE: How long have you been working on this project?
DAVID LAUGHLIN: I've been with the American team from the beginning. In fact, I saw you at the #Montsoreau conference, which ended well—especially for you. Especially for the French. If it isn't too late, my congratulations.
#ce3k
DAVID LAUGHLIN: I've been with the American team from the beginning. In fact, I saw you at the #Montsoreau conference, which ended well—especially for you. Especially for the French. If it isn't too late, my congratulations.
#ce3k
WEASEL: May I ask what you do for a living, Mr. Fox?
FOX: I used to steal birds, but now I'm a newspaper man.
W: Oh, sure. I've seen your by-line.
Later, at Badger, Beaver & Stoat, LLP, Attorneys at Law:
BADGER: Don't buy this tree, Foxy. You're borrowing at 9.5% which stinks like cuss.
FOX: I used to steal birds, but now I'm a newspaper man.
W: Oh, sure. I've seen your by-line.
Later, at Badger, Beaver & Stoat, LLP, Attorneys at Law:
BADGER: Don't buy this tree, Foxy. You're borrowing at 9.5% which stinks like cuss.
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
WEASEL: May I ask what you do for a living, Mr. Fox?
FOX: I used to steal birds, but now I'm a newspaper man.
W: Oh, sure. I've seen your by-line.
Later, at Badger, Beaver & Stoat, LLP, Attorneys at Law:
BADGER: Don't buy this tree, Foxy. You're borrowing at 9.5% which stinks like cuss.
FOX: I used to steal birds, but now I'm a newspaper man.
W: Oh, sure. I've seen your by-line.
Later, at Badger, Beaver & Stoat, LLP, Attorneys at Law:
BADGER: Don't buy this tree, Foxy. You're borrowing at 9.5% which stinks like cuss.
Raven is the last to go belowdecks on the sub. He's removing gear from his kayak, incl a spear w/a translucent head. He turns toward the wreckage of the Kowloon & holds the harpoon up over his head, a gesture of triumph & a promise all at once. Then he's gone.
FISHEYE: That guy gives me the creeps.
FISHEYE: That guy gives me the creeps.
a horse is standing on top of a rocky hill in the desert .
Alt: the mysterious wolf in The Fantastic Mr Fox raises a front paw like an upraised fist.
This sort of resembles Raven's gesture of defiance in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash.
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Raven is the last to go belowdecks on the sub. He's removing gear from his kayak, incl a spear w/a translucent head. He turns toward the wreckage of the Kowloon & holds the harpoon up over his head, a gesture of triumph & a promise all at once. Then he's gone.
FISHEYE: That guy gives me the creeps.
FISHEYE: That guy gives me the creeps.
The two surviving Founders of Zion were old men.
"Steppin Razor," one said, as Molly drifted into the chamber "Like unto a whippin stick."
"How come you don't talk the patois?" Molly asked.
"I came from LA, long time ago, up the gravity well and out of Babylon. To lead the Tribes home."
#Neuromancer
"Steppin Razor," one said, as Molly drifted into the chamber "Like unto a whippin stick."
"How come you don't talk the patois?" Molly asked.
"I came from LA, long time ago, up the gravity well and out of Babylon. To lead the Tribes home."
#Neuromancer
a logo for the zion national park with a shield and a ribbon
ALT: a logo for the zion national park with a shield and a ribbon
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The two surviving Founders of Zion were old men.
"Steppin Razor," one said, as Molly drifted into the chamber "Like unto a whippin stick."
"How come you don't talk the patois?" Molly asked.
"I came from LA, long time ago, up the gravity well and out of Babylon. To lead the Tribes home."
#Neuromancer
"Steppin Razor," one said, as Molly drifted into the chamber "Like unto a whippin stick."
"How come you don't talk the patois?" Molly asked.
"I came from LA, long time ago, up the gravity well and out of Babylon. To lead the Tribes home."
#Neuromancer
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SIR ECTOR: Kay, you are my son that I am proud of & always will be, whatever you do. Will you promise me that you took it out by your own might?
[Kay looked at his father. Then he handed the sword to the Wart quite quietly]
KAY: I am a liar. Wart pulled it out.
[Kay looked at his father. Then he handed the sword to the Wart quite quietly]
KAY: I am a liar. Wart pulled it out.
November 27, 2023 at 7:30 PM
SIR ECTOR: Kay, you are my son that I am proud of & always will be, whatever you do. Will you promise me that you took it out by your own might?
[Kay looked at his father. Then he handed the sword to the Wart quite quietly]
KAY: I am a liar. Wart pulled it out.
[Kay looked at his father. Then he handed the sword to the Wart quite quietly]
KAY: I am a liar. Wart pulled it out.
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MICHELE (Turing🚨): We know how you were repaired in Chiba. That was Wintermute's 1st mistake.
[Case stared at her as blankly as he could. The name hadn't been mentioned before]
M: The process resulted in the clinic's owner applying for 7 basic patents. Do you know what that means?
#Neuromancer
[Case stared at her as blankly as he could. The name hadn't been mentioned before]
M: The process resulted in the clinic's owner applying for 7 basic patents. Do you know what that means?
#Neuromancer
September 27, 2024 at 9:36 PM
MICHELE (Turing🚨): We know how you were repaired in Chiba. That was Wintermute's 1st mistake.
[Case stared at her as blankly as he could. The name hadn't been mentioned before]
M: The process resulted in the clinic's owner applying for 7 basic patents. Do you know what that means?
#Neuromancer
[Case stared at her as blankly as he could. The name hadn't been mentioned before]
M: The process resulted in the clinic's owner applying for 7 basic patents. Do you know what that means?
#Neuromancer
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Holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition. The powerful want a "safe line of investigations" to develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled.
-Assessment of Ix, Bene Gesserit Archives
-Assessment of Ix, Bene Gesserit Archives
November 7, 2023 at 6:21 PM
Holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition. The powerful want a "safe line of investigations" to develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled.
-Assessment of Ix, Bene Gesserit Archives
-Assessment of Ix, Bene Gesserit Archives
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My neighbor was at Albany Bulb in the East Bay and met a photographer named Charlie who had captured this amazing shot there. If you know him, send me his last name to credit.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
My neighbor was at Albany Bulb in the East Bay and met a photographer named Charlie who had captured this amazing shot there. If you know him, send me his last name to credit.
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Once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities & smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would call prosperity―y'know what? There's only 4 things we do better than anyone else:
Music
Movies
Microcode
High-speed pizza delivery.
Music
Movies
Microcode
High-speed pizza delivery.
May 31, 2023 at 6:50 PM
Once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities & smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would call prosperity―y'know what? There's only 4 things we do better than anyone else:
Music
Movies
Microcode
High-speed pizza delivery.
Music
Movies
Microcode
High-speed pizza delivery.
JOHANN: Braithwaite mentioned that the Mobb had rioted against the bank.
DANIEL: That it did. But this has little to do with Braithwaite. He is the sort of Englishman who is exported with great enthusiasm by his countrymen.
#SystemOfTheWorld
DANIEL: That it did. But this has little to do with Braithwaite. He is the sort of Englishman who is exported with great enthusiasm by his countrymen.
#SystemOfTheWorld
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
JOHANN: Braithwaite mentioned that the Mobb had rioted against the bank.
DANIEL: That it did. But this has little to do with Braithwaite. He is the sort of Englishman who is exported with great enthusiasm by his countrymen.
#SystemOfTheWorld
DANIEL: That it did. But this has little to do with Braithwaite. He is the sort of Englishman who is exported with great enthusiasm by his countrymen.
#SystemOfTheWorld
I am a man of wealth and taste.
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I am a man of wealth and taste.
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A theory: all Warren Zevon songs are Thanksgiving songs because Warren Zevon has big Uncle Making A Scene energy
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A theory: all Warren Zevon songs are Thanksgiving songs because Warren Zevon has big Uncle Making A Scene energy