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🧿 Imperial Planetologist to Sol Ⅲ & its moon. 🇸🇧 http://www.sieiti.gov.sb/
Mrs Root2702 and I are in Maine for a week. Love it here.
Our city has lost a truly unique soul. RIP, HRH Prince Mongo of Zambodia (1693-2026)
Prince Mongo | Real People | George Schlatter
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Norrsbruck, Sweden 1943: The doctor etherizes Root, opens his chest, and goes in to repair the damage. Combat surgery isn't his metier, and he makes a few mistakes and generally does a great job of keeping the tension level high.
Enoch had ~sensed~ someone was following him, but seen nothing whenever he looked back. Now he knows why: his doppelganger is a lad, moving about like a drop of quicksilver that cannot be trapped under the thumb.10 years old, Enoch guesses. But his gums support a rubble of adult teeth, closer to 8.
WILLARD: It was the AirCav, 1st of the 9th, our escorts to the mouth of the Nung River. But they were supposed to be waiting for us another 30 kilometers ahead. Well, Air Mobile; those boys just couldn't stay put. The 1st of 9th was an old cavalry division that cashed in its horses for choppers >
Apocalypse Now: Helicopters Taking Off
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How do I know the economy is fucked up? Because I've seen more and more ads asking for our future earnings rather than our present earnings.
SWORD OF DIVINE FIRE: Who the hell is that man in the robe, and why is he eating my saltpeter? [Everyone looked over to see a figure nibbling at a handful of saltpeter-slush…As he drew closer to the robed man, Jack was surprised—but then again, not really—to observe a red beard] - Baroque Cycle
fuck Why did I get zero engagement on this barn-burner?
These gender-reveals are taking it to the next level.
ROGER COMSTOCK: What does it say of us that our commerce is built 'pon forms and figments while that of Spain is built 'pon silver? DANIEL WATERHOUSE: Some would say it speaks to our advancement. #BaroqueCycle
a sheep is laying in a field with a lighthouse in the background
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And then she hears the helicopter & sees the long white beam of light sweeping the dead ground as it comes, like a lighthouse gone mad from loneliness, & searching that barren ground as foolishly, as randomly, as any grieving heart ever has. —Pattern Recognition William Gibson
a man in a white cape is standing next to another man in a white cape
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Building the lighthouse w/its magic lens was a way of enhancing Alexandria’s capability for looking north…which made it into a world capital. When a society plunders its ability to look over the horizon to get short-term gain that it begins a long slide nearly impossible to reverse. >>
HENRY: As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States. They weren’t like anybody else. I mean, they did whatever they wanted. They double parked in front of a hydrant and nobody ever gave them a ticket. >
Goodfellas: Mafia Celebration Scene
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[meanwhile, back in 2136] CLOVIS FEARING: What you describe would’ve been NGP, next gen project. Funded out of Special Operations Command, managed by Space & Naval Warfare Systems Cmd. Some of that was out of China Lake, Naval Air Weapons Stn: early into swarming microdrones.
Record bin at an estate sale in a fancy old house: Perry Como Perry Como 101 Strings… BOOM! Johnny Cash compilation, on *Sun Records*, late 1950s
Coming down the path, Flynne saw stray crumbs of that foam, packed down hard in the dark earth. Burton had the trailer’s lights turned up & she saw him stand & on his spine & side the marks where they took the haptics off, like the skin was dusted w/something dead-fish silver. > #ThePeripheral
Bubba Ho-Tep is my favorite Elvis movie.
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) - Official Trailer (HD)
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@johnbeifuss.bsky.social · last wk.Why? Because it's there. Why is it there? Because we put it there. Anyway, the Memphis daily newspaper, The Commercial Appeal, has posted a poll: What's Your Favorite Elvis Movie? Go here to vote: www.commercialappeal.com/story/entert...
MILO: When I was here, I wanted to be there. When I was there, all I could think of was the jungle. I'm here a week now. Getting softer. And every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.
root@eruditorum.œrg@root2702.bsky.social · 2y agoI think a small part of Captain Willard's opening monologue in Apocalypse Now was based on Milo's surprise delivery of the tollbooth and the car to his family's townhouse.
peeing in the shower to save water also gets you kicked out of home depot
MATTIE ROSS: I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. ―Charles Portis, _True Grit
JOHN CHURCHILL: I knew we'd reach this point in the conversation, Jack—where you accuse me of treason—so I'm ready for it & I actually won't cut your head off…I suppose I could reveal my thoughts about being a Protestant patriot in thrall to a Catholic King who loves France, but life is short &
REV MOTHER: Sleep well, you sly little rascal. Tomorrow you'll need all your faculties to meet my gom jabbar. PHYREPHOX: That's your opinion, man. RM: ADDRESS ME AS REVEREND MOTHER! P: Chill out, man. Jeez, who's torturing whom here?
Another friend, a successful investment analyst, called him saying only 2 words, "you're fucked." Friend #1, who had a TV on all the time and read the newspaper, knew exactly what he referred to. It was a comfort to him. The Mcdonalds manager 15+ yrs his senior, that he dumped, was avenged.
Ng blows out more smoke, thinking. "High-powered weapons are so sensorily overwhelming they can make people overconfident… What kind of combat environment do you want to use Reason in?" HIRO: I need to take over an aircraft carrier tomorrow morning.
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Paul Halpern@phalpern.bsky.social · last wk.When Niels Bohr fled Nazi-occupied Denmark in a fishing boat to Sweden, and then in a high-altitude plane to England, he clutched what he thought was a precious vial of heavy water used to moderate nuclear reactions. In his haste, however, he had brought a bottle of beer instead! #Bohr #physics
Why does one of the Royal Society's portraits of Isaac Newton contain a depiction of a snake eating its own tail, a symbol with alchemical connotations known as the ouroboros? Ainsley Vinall looks closer on our blog: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2026/07/snakes-and-leaders/
