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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Gentlemen’s Agreement: A Book length Shadow Epic/Nero Wolfe Mystery

“Goodwin,” he said.
“Shrevvy,” I said eventually.
Written down like this it might look as if we were sizing each other up. We weren’t. Out of all the man in the hat’s boys, Moe Shrevvy was one I would’ve at least dealt in at Saul’s weekly game. Whether he rated the table d'hôte special back at the brownstone would’ve been Wolfe’s call, but he’d never had anything bad to say the few times the hack came up.
We’d exchanged glances and amenable nods in hash houses and precinct lobbies all across the island, even shared a few glasses of something with the other leg men at dear old Long Tom’s wake all those years ago. So I liked Shrevvy. Shrevvy in and of himself wasn’t the problem.
The problem was the agreement. Or rather the possibility of the agreement not being there anymore.
There aren’t many rules in this business. Poaching clients isn’t the concern it is in respectable trades because, even accounting for Wolfe’s constant invitations to all involved and the Homicide West boys, your aims are usually those of the client—to solve the problem as discreetly as possible. The horse led back to their stable, the genie returned to the bottle, the boogiemen persuaded to remain under the bed.
Well. All but one.
There might’ve been someone out there with the brass to tell the Shadow where to go. If I had to put money on anyone it’d probably be Wolfe, though good luck finding any takers. I wouldn’t want to be in the room if it ever came to that. I wouldn’t want to still be in the state.
That was what the agreement was for. Saul had brought it to us way back, still fresh from shaky informants doing the rounds, making sure it reached every professional in the city—You stay out of the Shadow’s business, and he’ll stay out of yours.

What prompted it, specifically which if any shamus prompted it, is the stuff of basement dive myth. You think they got bloody on Olympus? Imagine all the bulls in this game, crammed into the China shop of Manhattan, their egos and trigger fingers packed into offices and apartments. All pressed into the space, pressing down through the floorboards and girders, so much pressure it’s a wonder the bedrock hasn’t cracked yet. All of it vibrating from your heart hammering from the thought of seeking out more danger, the potential of death for enough bread to keep your life going another month.
Now imagine adding to this potent mixture a spoonful of gunpowder like a totally separate industry of operatives, something almost like a cult. Guys who can use their fists or trigger fingers as well as you can. Or can maybe do more, like that bunch Tom ran with. Just like you, some better than you, all working for him.
No one could touch him, at least not without featuring on the front page of the Gazette the next day, under a meat wagon tarp. The NYPD couldn’t catch him. The syndicates might finally kill him someday, but they’d fill a lot of meat wagons first.
So you, we I suppose, couldn’t touch the Shadow. But there were enough of his people nowadays that you could spot the tells, if you knew what to look for. Some of them drank in the same joints we did, brough the odd round, even. Our collective circle was that small. Small enough that if a PI were to get mad enough, maybe he’d figure he could touch one of the Shadow’s operatives. That he could reach out and…what?
Get them mad, for starters. And that’d end with their boss getting mad. Maybe mad enough to decide he shouldn’t settle for just one flatfoot’s head. That there shouldn’t be any operatives in New York, the boroughs, on the face of the Earth, except his.
That was one possibility, which was presumably why he’d decided on the arrangement. To prevent it from becoming an inevitability. It’d work so far. Maybe the war had helped, a sort of audible. You know my thoughts about my posting at the time, and that still managed to keep me busy enough. What Shrevvy and the Shadow and their crowd got up to around then, I don’t want to know.
So there we were. Waist deep in the 20th century, the arrangement over a decade old, and me and good old Moe ‘Shrevvy’ Shrevnitz looking at each other across a New York living room, wondering how things could have ever worked out so good for so long, and just why exactly we had to be the two stiffs who might be about to undo it all.

“Here on business?” I said, trying to sound casual.
“’Fraid so,” Shrevvy said, one corner of his mouth twitching slightly. He sounded tired, as if from the effort of trying not to look apologetic. Or as if he was thinking about the same thing I was.
I stood up carefully. “Well.”
“Well.” He was leaning against the doorframe now, arms folded. I tried to keep from watching his hands, because keyed up as I was starting to make myself, contemplating Armageddon and all, I knew there was no need. Shrevvy wouldn’t make that sort of move any more than I would.
“You handling this solo, or…?” I trailed off. If it was just Shrevvy we could probably talk, find some angel of the arrangement that could work. If more of his crowd were on the way up that would be fine too. They’d have their own ways of operating, and I wouldn’t want to be in the way. I’m helpful like that.
Shrevvy frowned, not at me but in careful consideration, scratching one ear. “Nah,” he said. “Truth be told I dunno that were handlin’ anything yet, or how. But we’re here. And we got our orders.”
“I know that tune,” I said, raising my hat in a sort of salute. I started for the door but froze as he straightened up from the frame. His raised hand, palm open, mercifully said ‘hold on a sec.’

“You, ah, done a sweep yet?” he asked.
“Only here and the office. I’d probably have checked the bedroom after that.” I looked over my shoulder at the deceased, wondering where this might be going. And what it was about this guy that would get the Shadow interested enough to send Shrevvy plus whoever else was on the way up.
“Alright,” Shrevvy said, more to himself. His eyes tracked from me to the body, into the middle distance, over to whatever else was behind me, then back to me. “Dumb question, but is this a job for Mr. Wolfe?”
“If you mean did the poor fellow behind me hire us, no, but he was next on a list our client wanted us to look into.”
Shrevvy nodded. He seemed to know better than to ask anything that might breach client confidentiality. If so, it was appreciated. I honestly didn’t know what I’d have said if he had. Not without ringing the bell for the first, and potentially last, round between Wolfe and the honest-to-God Shadow. The problem now was I had no clue where this might be going next. I didn’t want to walk out of here, possibly encountering the rest of Shrevvy’s merry band in the elevator or stairwell, anymore than I wanted to go back home and explain to Wolfe how I technically hadn’t run off with my tail between my legs.
It wouldn’t be the loss of potential revenue that would stick. Odds were high as ever of Wolfe having a lapse. Any excuse not to be at the grindstone would do. But there’d be his pride to consider, a casualty of the weird mechanics of the arrangement. If the Shadow’s operatives showed up on a case, you were expected to stand aside and be grateful they didn’t tell you to hold the door for them on your way out. No one wanted to be the gumshoe who got under the Shadow’s feet, but none of us wanted to be the one who got the brushoff either.
That didn’t feel like the direction Shrevvy was thinking of taking this, though. And if he was thinking what I thought he might be thinking… What can I say, I’d sooner drink straight from the East River than sail into these sorts of uncharted waters.
“How about this,” he said eventually.

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Mastodon Engineering @mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

In the wake of the compromise of the eMudhra Intermediate CA, we strongly encourage all Mastodon administrators to make sure their systems are up-to-date. For those using our official Mastodon container images, we just rebuilt them (with the same tags) so they contain the latest updates to the […]

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Rev.Hans :mstdnca: @hanspetermeyer.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Why so mad? Because grievance is easier than gratitude? “One illustrious a16z-funded founder, who hails Andreessen as likely the “highest IQ” investor on the planet, says it never made sense why he seemed to hold such resentment toward the very institutions that helped him achieve the American […]

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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

DeSmog revealing UK power suppliers pressuring government to embrace gas for data centres exposes how AI expansion risks giving a lifeline to fossil fuels. Subsidising carbon-heavy energy for tech boom profits derails net-zero goals. Why sacrifice green targets? 🤔 #ClimateCrisis […]

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/10/2026

I left Twitter because I was permanently banned for writing about fascism. . . . . .Because Twitter is now a fascist platform controlled by the richest fascist in the world. Some of us aren’t allowed there. So, the pro-X discourse seems like desperate (fascist) propaganda.

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Marty Day @martyday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

The First Trailer for GRETA GERWIG’s NARNIA Adaptation Is Ready To Rock blast-o-rama.com/2026/10/13/the-fir…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Guess what? Gas boilers were once a "middle class technology". So were televisions, and phones. That's the standard trajectory for any roll-out. Build the market, drive down the costs and an exclusive tech is universalised. Or did you have another route in mind?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

To those who say "heat pumps are for the middle classes": the whole damn point of subsidising them and rolling out the technology is to ensure that heat pumps are for everyone, reducing our bills, reducing indoor and outdoor pollution, reducing our emissions, while making our homes more habitable.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

You'll note that people are talking about Zionism now, there are (probably incorrect) guides in the news outlets to 'inform' the public. You don't change the narrative by taking tiny steps, you do it by ruffling feathers and challenging long held biases. You can only see the ferocious reaction […]

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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Daredevil game taking place in the world of Matt's hyper senses.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Billionaire Sam Altman wants us to accept that bad things will happen in return for accepting the benefits of AI. What he means is we should accept that bad things will happen to us, not him, because AI will benefit him, not us. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Scotland’s abandoned buildings leave communities to bear the burden www.theferret.scot/scotland-abandon… Derelict buildings across Scotland are creating a plethora of problems. Local communities are bearing the brunt.

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Scotland’s abandoned buildings leave communities to bear the burden

Derelict buildings across Scotland are creating a plethora of problems. Local communities are bearing the brunt.

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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Favourite Turtle this, Favourite Turtle that Give me your hot takes About their dad, the rat.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

People keep saying "If we do a wealth tax, rich people will leave the country" And I'm like "Naybe, if we get lucky. But let's try it first and see how we go." #NZPol #TaxTheSuperRich

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Sepa branded ‘toothless’ after salmon farm accused of 15 environmental breaches www.theferret.scot/sepa-toothless-s… The Scottish Government’s green watchdog sent seven letters over three years alleging multiple breaches at a fish farm – and […]

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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

(tossing and turning in the throws of a nightmare) Nghhh...'ndy 'b'g's a'sl...An'y 'nberg's A'el..(shoots up right, delirious and terrified) STARRING ANDY SAMBERG AS AXEL!

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Actions speak louder than words. This has been demonstrated by the surge of outrage over data centers and surveillance cameras. You wanna know how take action against global heating and how to survive it? Bulletproof your own community. Make your city or town walkable, restore the regional […]

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: mastodon.me.uk/@PoliceStateUK/11726… Those White People bring a neighbourhood down, no sense of community, just take, take, take....such entitlement! 😉

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Donald Trump gets a new podium. 🗑️ “The Trash Talker” by TinKicker in Dublin. See all 3 photos → worldartutopia.com/donald-trump-get…

TinKicker’s The Trash Talker outside Teal House Gallery in Dublin, showing Donald Trump rising from a wheelie bin with a raised fist and a banana peel on his head.

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Will Phoenix @whiskeyomega.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

The bots are actively setup for mastodon are also appealing bans. This is what it wrote. > Honestly, I have no idea why my account is suspended, not even the slightest > hint. It's all extremely bizzare. > > This is either a mistake, or there's a reason for it. I do not want to appeal > the […]

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Will Phoenix @whiskeyomega.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

An AI agent managed to slip though the net and was replying to people with full comprehensive wording to things. Annoyingly seems to be using Cloudflare proxies. Another thing on my list to look at trying to stop. But this week has been like a tsunami of bad actors trying to sign up […]

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Irish protestors tell Trump "rapists not welcome"

Irish protestors hold a sign calling Donald Trump a racist / rapist.

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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Find someone who'll take care of you like Saul Panzer does Nero Wolfe.

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Bodhipaksa @bodhipaksa.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: journa.host/@videnskabdk/1172467927… Danes are more active than Britons with more likely to cycle to work, for example. and have more time and energy for recreation, because Britons work, on average, the equivalent of three weeks longer each year, and their work hours are […]

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Ricardo Segurado @rcrdsgrd.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/117247024… What Ireland hasn't twigged yet since we emerged from being one of the poorest countries in Europe... That being "open for business" is NOT the way to ensure the well-being of the population. You reach a point where you need to tax […]

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Greens are hot on the topics that non-bigots are all talking about, in this case those hated Data Centres. Guess who sold out the nation to those Tech Bros bastards? […]

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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Pretty sure I've just blocked the last English unionist I could respect, because she did the most English Talking About The Other Home Countries thing possible: went into a National thread, talked definitively about what Scotland is, then ended the conversation by actually typing "Tsk."

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yet the police described it as a "spontaneous protest." It certainly wasn't spontaneous, and it looks more like an attempt to intimidate than a conventional protest.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If the police & security services didn't see this coming, it was a massive intelligence failure. If they did, but still gave the impression of being caught on the hop, it's something worse.

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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Because the end of the Fringe has a lot of people who aren't Scottish and don't live in Edinburgh all year round running their mouths, my pitch to ultimately improve the city is to find a big enough field on the outskirts and build a tourist specific district/mini-city. Flats, shops for self […]

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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Okay, lot of folks selected pass the last time I took the smash or thing (disheartening but I did ask), so this time I've spiced things up...by poisoning your beloved Betty with my own gamma-irradiated blood! What say you now, doctor?! Shall you pass on THAT?!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning

Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BBC piece about £110m budget gap facing Glasgow mentions the issue of equal pay as one major factor and cost of housing homeless refugees as the other without mentioning the first was caused by Labour and the second by UK Govt. I'm shocked I tell you, shocked. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Glasgow City Council at 'critical' point over £110m budget gap

The Accounts Commission warns "robust oversight" is needed to tackle a £110m budget gap spanning the next two financial years.

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

🌳One of the biggest trees I have seen growing out of an abandoned car. Nature is reclaiming this old VW Beetle, forgotten among the trees. #Photography #ClassicCars #Abandoned #Urbex #UrbanExploration #VW #Beetle

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

True canadian values

four frame comic. first frame shows a Tim Hortons coffee shop from outside. second frame shows Harry Potter themed donuts. Third shows a loon swimming in a lake near some grass. last one shows someone with a dress that reads ''I don't care''. Text reads :
at tim hortons, we care
deeply about true canadian
Values, such as Silent
complicity in genocide.
that's what inspired us
to partner with famous
anti-human rights campaigner
jk rowling to offer you an
all-harry potter menu.
with each purchase of our
mid-tier donuts, your money
goes towards lining the pockets
of someone who uses her wealth
to fight trans rights and hurt
queer communities around
the planet.
you don't personally need
to hate lgbtq+ people to eat at
tim hortons. you just need to not
care enough about their rights,
safety and well-being!

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Dale Harvey @dale.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

No A Mean City V: Sounds of Solidarity Is on Saturday at the Glasgow School of Art. A day with some of the best music Glasgow has to offer for £18 all to raise money for RefeWeegee. No excuses really, tickets @ […] [Original post on toot.cafe]

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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Banner: Matthew Porretta Savage Hulk: Fred Tatasciore Grey/Fixit: John DiMaggio The Professor: Rick D. Wasserman

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. I love the three layers: the fish under the water; the reflections of the sky through the windows above and the water plants floating on the surface. #SilentSunday

Looking down at a pond in a greenhouse. You can see two big golden carp - one is looking at the viewer - and some soft green water plants. The water is very dark.

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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardo @leojetskifuelnardo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Loving me is knowing this showcase of Leo moves from a kinda-fun-but-not-what-you'd-call-good downloadable game brought me sheer, wordless aesthetic pleasure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3RWb4wDtZ8 #tmnt

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