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🌐 Acting Imperial Planetologist to Sol Ⅲ & its moon.
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PAUL SEVIER: I work for the NSA. Do these mean anything to you? Polo Step? Meridian Alpha? Red Saber? The numbers 53, 23, 77, 127?
PASTOR CALVIN: They're excerpts from my sermons.
PS: What if I told you that the words & numbers include sensitive gov information that, given the dates you provide >
PASTOR CALVIN: They're excerpts from my sermons.
PS: What if I told you that the words & numbers include sensitive gov information that, given the dates you provide >
February 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
PAUL SEVIER: I work for the NSA. Do these mean anything to you? Polo Step? Meridian Alpha? Red Saber? The numbers 53, 23, 77, 127?
PASTOR CALVIN: They're excerpts from my sermons.
PS: What if I told you that the words & numbers include sensitive gov information that, given the dates you provide >
PASTOR CALVIN: They're excerpts from my sermons.
PS: What if I told you that the words & numbers include sensitive gov information that, given the dates you provide >
...a bright, thick river of gold.
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THE END
...
except for 40 pages about solitaire encryption algorithm.
#Cryptonomicon
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THE END
...
except for 40 pages about solitaire encryption algorithm.
#Cryptonomicon
February 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM
...a bright, thick river of gold.
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THE END
...
except for 40 pages about solitaire encryption algorithm.
#Cryptonomicon
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THE END
...
except for 40 pages about solitaire encryption algorithm.
#Cryptonomicon
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BOBBY SHAFTOE: What gold?
BISCHOFF: That you saw in U-553.
BS: So?
GB: I must tell you something about the Wehrmacht...I am ashamed.
BS: What? Invasions of Poland & France?
GB: No
BS: Russia & Norway?
GB: Not that
BS: Bombed England &
GB: No no no…Something you didnt know about.
_Cryptonomicon
BISCHOFF: That you saw in U-553.
BS: So?
GB: I must tell you something about the Wehrmacht...I am ashamed.
BS: What? Invasions of Poland & France?
GB: No
BS: Russia & Norway?
GB: Not that
BS: Bombed England &
GB: No no no…Something you didnt know about.
_Cryptonomicon
September 11, 2023 at 2:08 PM
BOBBY SHAFTOE: What gold?
BISCHOFF: That you saw in U-553.
BS: So?
GB: I must tell you something about the Wehrmacht...I am ashamed.
BS: What? Invasions of Poland & France?
GB: No
BS: Russia & Norway?
GB: Not that
BS: Bombed England &
GB: No no no…Something you didnt know about.
_Cryptonomicon
BISCHOFF: That you saw in U-553.
BS: So?
GB: I must tell you something about the Wehrmacht...I am ashamed.
BS: What? Invasions of Poland & France?
GB: No
BS: Russia & Norway?
GB: Not that
BS: Bombed England &
GB: No no no…Something you didnt know about.
_Cryptonomicon
Rydell tried to imagine this place the way it had been before, when it was a regular bridge. Millions of cars had gone through here, this same space where he walked now. It had all been open then, just girders and railing and deck >
#AllTomorrowsParties
William Gibson
#AllTomorrowsParties
William Gibson
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Rydell tried to imagine this place the way it had been before, when it was a regular bridge. Millions of cars had gone through here, this same space where he walked now. It had all been open then, just girders and railing and deck >
#AllTomorrowsParties
William Gibson
#AllTomorrowsParties
William Gibson
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Biblically Accurate Hot Dog 🌭👼
March 27, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Biblically Accurate Hot Dog 🌭👼
OSCAR GOLDMAN: This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
a person is standing in a dark room with a light coming out of a window .
ALT: a person is standing in a dark room with a light coming out of a window .
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February 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
OSCAR GOLDMAN: This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
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Pre Cambrian decorative cabbage #SpontaneousFallSongTitleOfTheDay
February 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Pre Cambrian decorative cabbage #SpontaneousFallSongTitleOfTheDay
He knew, of course. He had always known it was Bill. Just as Control had known, & Lacon in Mendel's house. Just as Connie & Jim had known, & Alleline & Esterhase, all of them had tacitly shared that unexpressed half-knowledge which they hoped would go away if it was never diagnosed.
February 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM
He knew, of course. He had always known it was Bill. Just as Control had known, & Lacon in Mendel's house. Just as Connie & Jim had known, & Alleline & Esterhase, all of them had tacitly shared that unexpressed half-knowledge which they hoped would go away if it was never diagnosed.
CONNIE: We blew up the photographs & there they were: 2 gallantry & 4 campaign. Aleks Polyakov was a war veteran & he'd never told a soul in 7 years. I rang Toby straight away: "You just listen to me for a moment, you Hungarian poison dwarf."
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy
February 9, 2026 at 11:12 PM
CONNIE: We blew up the photographs & there they were: 2 gallantry & 4 campaign. Aleks Polyakov was a war veteran & he'd never told a soul in 7 years. I rang Toby straight away: "You just listen to me for a moment, you Hungarian poison dwarf."
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy
#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy
From the Primer:
Princess Nell put a spray of flowers in the grave w/Harv, along with a little children's story-book that he had given her many years ago. Harv couldnt read & many nights Nell had read to him from this book, and she supposed that he might like to have it wherever he was going now.
Princess Nell put a spray of flowers in the grave w/Harv, along with a little children's story-book that he had given her many years ago. Harv couldnt read & many nights Nell had read to him from this book, and she supposed that he might like to have it wherever he was going now.
February 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM
From the Primer:
Princess Nell put a spray of flowers in the grave w/Harv, along with a little children's story-book that he had given her many years ago. Harv couldnt read & many nights Nell had read to him from this book, and she supposed that he might like to have it wherever he was going now.
Princess Nell put a spray of flowers in the grave w/Harv, along with a little children's story-book that he had given her many years ago. Harv couldnt read & many nights Nell had read to him from this book, and she supposed that he might like to have it wherever he was going now.
Observing the Mouse Army at a crossroads:
Hackworth unclipped a small optical device from his watch chain & used it to look over 1 girl's shoulder. She was looking at a diagram of a small nanotech device, working her way thru a tutorial that Hackworth had written several years ago.
Hackworth unclipped a small optical device from his watch chain & used it to look over 1 girl's shoulder. She was looking at a diagram of a small nanotech device, working her way thru a tutorial that Hackworth had written several years ago.
February 9, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Observing the Mouse Army at a crossroads:
Hackworth unclipped a small optical device from his watch chain & used it to look over 1 girl's shoulder. She was looking at a diagram of a small nanotech device, working her way thru a tutorial that Hackworth had written several years ago.
Hackworth unclipped a small optical device from his watch chain & used it to look over 1 girl's shoulder. She was looking at a diagram of a small nanotech device, working her way thru a tutorial that Hackworth had written several years ago.
While I like to think that the Snake Scales Liverwort, pictured below, matches the description "pre-Cambrian decorative cabbage," it is not local to the part of NW Scotland that is fictionally connected to Qwghlm by a treacherous sandspit. (that variety of Liverwort is found mostly in Canada)
When Lawrence Waterhouse sets foot on the Sceptered Isle for the first time in months, at the ferry terminal in Utter Maurby, he's startled to find allusions to springtime. The locals have installed flower boxes around the pier; all are abloom with some sort of pre-Cambrian decorative cabbage.
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
While I like to think that the Snake Scales Liverwort, pictured below, matches the description "pre-Cambrian decorative cabbage," it is not local to the part of NW Scotland that is fictionally connected to Qwghlm by a treacherous sandspit. (that variety of Liverwort is found mostly in Canada)
Unnecessary cuteness....Fifteen yards...and loss of down.
February 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Unnecessary cuteness....Fifteen yards...and loss of down.
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man i dont even know how to describe it lol. it's about like cryptography and the nazis in wwii and also fiber optic cables in the 1990s and filipino politics and email... there was a whole chapter on the most efficient way to chew captain crunch. it's a crazy book for sure
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
man i dont even know how to describe it lol. it's about like cryptography and the nazis in wwii and also fiber optic cables in the 1990s and filipino politics and email... there was a whole chapter on the most efficient way to chew captain crunch. it's a crazy book for sure
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A nazar amulet, which purportedly wards off the evil eye. It rests in my corporate ID badge sleeve. This particular nazar replaced one that was pinned to my hospital gown in Izmir, Turkey, probably in 1964 or 1965 CE, when I was a kitten. The rest of my effects will have Reverted to the Archive.
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
A nazar amulet, which purportedly wards off the evil eye. It rests in my corporate ID badge sleeve. This particular nazar replaced one that was pinned to my hospital gown in Izmir, Turkey, probably in 1964 or 1965 CE, when I was a kitten. The rest of my effects will have Reverted to the Archive.
FINN: The Wig sat on the beach at Cannes for two years, ingesting designer drugs. He had become convinced that God lived in cyberspace, or perhaps that cyberspace was God. The Wig's ventures into theology tended to be marked by major paradigm shifts, true leaps of faith. >
#CountZero
#CountZero
February 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
FINN: The Wig sat on the beach at Cannes for two years, ingesting designer drugs. He had become convinced that God lived in cyberspace, or perhaps that cyberspace was God. The Wig's ventures into theology tended to be marked by major paradigm shifts, true leaps of faith. >
#CountZero
#CountZero
GEARY: I don't like your kind of people. I don't like to see you come out to this clean country in your oily hair & try to pass yourselves off as decent Americans. I'll do business w/you, but I despise your masquerade―the dishonest way you pose yourself & your fucking family.
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and says because i intend to squeeze you
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and says because i intend to squeeze you
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February 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
GEARY: I don't like your kind of people. I don't like to see you come out to this clean country in your oily hair & try to pass yourselves off as decent Americans. I'll do business w/you, but I despise your masquerade―the dishonest way you pose yourself & your fucking family.
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Very amusing anecdote about Burt Reynolds meeting Kubrick to audition for 2001 in a letter from Tony Rayns in Sight & Sound.
(And yes, I know Stan K wanted Dullea to act like that)
(And yes, I know Stan K wanted Dullea to act like that)
February 5, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Very amusing anecdote about Burt Reynolds meeting Kubrick to audition for 2001 in a letter from Tony Rayns in Sight & Sound.
(And yes, I know Stan K wanted Dullea to act like that)
(And yes, I know Stan K wanted Dullea to act like that)
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -
...
With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -
Between the light - & me -
& then the Windows failed - & then
I could not see to see -
- Emily Dickinson, Societas Eruditorum
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -
...
With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -
Between the light - & me -
& then the Windows failed - & then
I could not see to see -
- Emily Dickinson, Societas Eruditorum
February 4, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -
...
With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -
Between the light - & me -
& then the Windows failed - & then
I could not see to see -
- Emily Dickinson, Societas Eruditorum
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -
...
With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -
Between the light - & me -
& then the Windows failed - & then
I could not see to see -
- Emily Dickinson, Societas Eruditorum
JACK (to: de Jonzac): I have let you live so that you can make your way back to Paris & tell them that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will not say & that it was done by Half-Cocked Jack Shaftoe, L'Emmerdeur, King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver!
February 3, 2026 at 11:07 PM
JACK (to: de Jonzac): I have let you live so that you can make your way back to Paris & tell them that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will not say & that it was done by Half-Cocked Jack Shaftoe, L'Emmerdeur, King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver!
Thank the lord our savior for alt-text
February 3, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Thank the lord our savior for alt-text
A Snow Crash sequel that's nothing more than "Ng Security
Industries Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit B-782 vs. Dmitri Ravenoff" would suck like the Ready Player 1 sequels, but I would still buy the hardback.
Industries Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit B-782 vs. Dmitri Ravenoff" would suck like the Ready Player 1 sequels, but I would still buy the hardback.
He likes nice girls, and it makes him especially upset when bad men try to hurt them.
a dog is looking out of a car window with a sign that says collective on it
ALT: a dog is looking out of a car window with a sign that says collective on it
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February 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
A Snow Crash sequel that's nothing more than "Ng Security
Industries Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit B-782 vs. Dmitri Ravenoff" would suck like the Ready Player 1 sequels, but I would still buy the hardback.
Industries Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit B-782 vs. Dmitri Ravenoff" would suck like the Ready Player 1 sequels, but I would still buy the hardback.
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I really do not like how prescient Snow Crash is becoming.
February 3, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I really do not like how prescient Snow Crash is becoming.
He likes nice girls, and it makes him especially upset when bad men try to hurt them.
a dog is looking out of a car window with a sign that says collective on it
ALT: a dog is looking out of a car window with a sign that says collective on it
media.tenor.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
He likes nice girls, and it makes him especially upset when bad men try to hurt them.
This is who runs this account.
February 2, 2026 at 10:48 PM
This is who runs this account.