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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 20h

Long gas lines in response to the approaching demi-hurricane in this beach community.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here are some more snapshots from the Florida Panhandle

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think part of being a successful Konsole Kowboy or cyberpunk ninja is to not look like one. Look like a Hobby Lobby employee on their day off, or like you shop at Talbots. That could prevent being tagged and tased for an extra 30 seconds.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Eudora Welty presenting William Faulkner the gold medal for fiction at the 1962 annual meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. Old Mr Bill died a few weeks later in Byhalia.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friday night in the kitchen with 📦wine.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Glad may your father be to learn that he has such a son: as learn he shall.' And Túrin being under the spell of Glaurung hearkened to his words, and he saw himself as in a mirror misshapen by malice, and he loathed what he saw.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

& their entire formation shied back, men piling into one another’s backs, & the smoke roiled and parted. Glints of gold & polished brass bobbed through it & Jack understood that right along their flank, King John Sobieski was charging into the Turks at the head of the Winged #Hussars. >

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Vienna, 1683: Later in the morning, a ration of brandy was issued to each man—it being a military axiom that a drunk soldier was an effective soldier. The brandy gave the men, at last, something to gamble with & so dice & cards came out of pockets. > #Quicksilver

Illustration of Bavarian troops at Vienna 1683.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

MR ZUCKERMAN: A miracle has happened right on our farm & we have no ordinary pig. MRS ZUCKERMAN: Well, it seems to me we have no ordinary *spider.* MR: Oh, no. It’s the pig. It says so, right there in the middle of the web. MRS: Just the same, I intend to have a look at that spider.

Charlotte's (the barn spider) web, containing the words "some pig." in the barn cellar.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Then Aragorn took leave of Elrond [& of his mom & his girfriend] & he went out into the wild. For nearly 30 yrs he laboured in the cause against Sauron & became a friend of Gandalf the Wise…With him he made many perilous journeys, but as the years wore on he went more often alone. >

Viggo Mortensen as Walker Jerome in “A Walk on the Moon” (1999).

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She climbed the stairs & walked to the edge of the roof & peered down almost half a mile to the street. In the black windows of a dead skyscraper across the way, she could see the mirror image of Princess Nell's crest. >

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Glory stands at the bottom of a huge staircase and says, "See?.... Look down." She taps one miniature foot against the first tread of the staircase. It is a single great big huge slab of granite. SHAFTOE: Looks like 10 or twenty tons of rock there I'd estimate. G: It came from Mexico* S: Ah, go on!

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BOBBY SHAFTOE: What is it? [He looks around & sees nothing but an old stone church looming up above them. This brings a stab of fear. But the church is dark, there's no Filipinas in long dresses, no Marines in dress uniforms, it can't be his wedding] GLORY: I want to show you something >

A photo of a Filipina bride, named Samie, entering the Church of St. Agustin

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fab was 1 end of the strip mall, nearest town, Sushi Barn the other, 3 empty stores in between. The 1 next to Fab had done pretty well when those little paintball robots were hot. Next to that had been nails & hair extensions. The 1 between that & Sushi Barn must've always been vacant. >

A Google maps view of a strip center in a small town in western Virginia not far from William Gibson's home town.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

- Pompey, a pug who prevented the assassination of the 1st William of Orange, changing the course of European history. - Various Allied dogs awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal during WWII. - Kurt, the Doberman who saved 250 US Marines on Guam. - Seaman, the Newfoundland on the Lewis & Clark expedition.

Santa Rita, Guam (Oct. 27, 2006) - Petty Officer 2nd Class Blake Soller, a Military Working Dog (MWD) handler pets the head of his MWD Rico, at the War Dog Cemetery located on Naval Base Guam. Soller is currently assigned to Naval Security Force Detachment Guam to the MWD kennel. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class John F. Looney (RELEASED) Incription from memorial commemorating World War II combat dogs... 25 Marine War Dogs gave their lives liberating Guam in 1944. They served as sentries, messengers, scouts. They explored caves, detected mines and booby traps. - SEMPER FIDELIS Kurt, Yonnie, Koko, Bunkie, Skipper, Poncho, Tubby, Hobo Ni, Prince, Fritz, Emmy, Missy, Cappy, Duke, Max, Blitz, Arno, Silver, Brockie, Bursch, Pepper, Ludwig, Rickey, Tam (buried at sea off Asan Point). Given in their memory and on behalf of the surviving men of the 2nd and 3rd marine war dogs platoons, many of whom owe their lives to the bravery and sacrifice of these gallant animals.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

International Klein BlueSynthetic ultramarine pigment

Synthetic ultramarine pigment
Color coordinates
Hex triplet #120A8F
sRGBB (r, g, b) (18, 10, 143)
HSV (h, s, v) (244°, 93%, 56%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h) (17, 65, 266°)
Source ColorHexa[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor Deep blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I recommend their folding oyster knife for assassinating skinny people in elevators.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The summons came to Smiley that same night & it is a curious fact…that the phone had to ring a long time beside the bed before he answered it. He had come home from the library, then dined poorly at an Italian restaurant in the King's Road, taking the Voyages of Olearius with him for protection. >

Dust cover of the first edition of Smiley's People, John Le Carré.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Eagle Has Landed David Parrish (1939–2021) 1969, Oil on canvas 83 3/4 x 67 7/8 inches (212.7 x 172.4 cm) Memphis Brooks Museum of Art permanent collection

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Archbishop Gilday, here is $100,000,000 for the poor of Sicily in the name of Vito Corleone. Don’t spend it all in one place!

screen still from The Godfather III. Sofia Coppola, Al Pacino, and Donal Donnelly.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

MARY: Thanks; I don’t think I inherited my father’s love for speech making, but here it goes. The Vito Corleone Foundation helps the impoverished of every country, gives grants to artists, funds medical research, and is particularly dedicated to the resurrection of Sicily. >

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HOLLY MARTINS: I suppose it wouldn't interest you to know that Harry Lime was murdered? You haven't even bothered to get the complete evidence & there was a #Third_Man there. MAJOR CALLOWAY: I'm not interested in whether a racketeer like Lime was killed by friends or an accident.

Trevor Howard (wearing beret) as Major Calloway and Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins in The Third Man

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

But who is going to free us from Shark Boy Dance?

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That being roughly her true occupation, as opposed to her formal position in law enforcement, or the personal projects she paid him to assist her with, however seriously she took them. Her true occupation being something he wished to have as little to do with as possible, ever.

image of the eleventh doctor who walking across a desert environment

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

LOWBEER: By tracing historical fault lines around AI research here, we found what we needed there. NETHERTON: Fault lines? L: Between the most reckless entrepreneurialism & certain worst-case examples of defense #contracting. I’ll tell you more over brunch. I’m in a mood for the sandwiches. >

cover of Frank Kendall's book "Lethal Autonomy, the Future of Warfare, whether we like it or not.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Al Green BB King Kinks Alex Chilton Pretenders Steppenwolf B Dylan Tito Puente Elvis Costello RL Burnside Dave Edmunds Nick Lowe King Crimson Cramps Stevie Ray Vaughn Chuck Berry (national anthem, Wrigley Field) Peter Gabriel George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel playing a keyboard instrument and directing a choir

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hill country folklore: Johnny Cake, Ho! (a sort of hero’s journey)

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is the quality of truthfulness which makes Ibn Fadlan's tale so horrifying. His encounters w/the monsters of the mist, the “eaters of the dead,” is told w/the same attention to detail & careful skepticism that marks the other portions of the manuscript. The reader may judge for himself.

cover of the first edition of Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead (1975) which was adapted for the screen under the title The Thirteenth Warrior.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

DANIEL: anno domini 1689 SATURN: The same year, & place, as your strangely premature going-away party. [This tripped Daniel up for a moment, being an acute observation on Saturn's part, and one that Daniel had entirely missed. But Isaac urged him to go on, and so he did, haltingly.] >

comic book cover styled design for Public Enemy rapping "1989, the number, another summer"

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"As far as culture and politics are concerned, the important theme is long-attention-span vs. short-attention-span thinking. I'm sure that your readers can think of any number of ways in which having a longer attention span can be useful. But I'll name one...

Bankruptcy liquidation (via Christie's auctions) of Lehman Brothers signage.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Merepointe bay Maine. If you read Stephen King’s novella, The Mist, you know what I’m thinking here.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The combat/intensive-care/retrofit airport fire-engine alone should have guaranteed a 1993 filming schedule. We would have already been up to “2 Snow 2 Crash 3D” by 1995.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Inner-thigh lubricant to prevent sweat-chafing will someday take its rightful place in cockney rhyming schemes.

Picture of Gold Bond friction defense stick

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

These gender-reveals are taking it to the next level.

Oklahoma trooper thrown to ground as vehicle on interstate hits one he’d pulled over. The trooper was thrown, but he walked away from the collision. Occupants of both cars were treated and released from the hostpital.
Published 8:41 PM CDT, January 28, 2024

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

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

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Brits are unfamiliar, and Shaftoe pegs them as the SAS men that those fellows in Washington were telling him about. The only thing they all have in common is that each man, somewhere on his uniform, is wearing the number 2702.

John Tonkin, standing second right, pictured with his SAS unit in Libya in late 1942 or early 1943 before their redeployment to Sicily. (Image by Jane Storey, daughter of John Tonkin)

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

They go down a stairway into a bomb shelter. They can feel the bombs now but can't hear them. "Welcome to #Malta," someone says. Shaftoe sees that he is surrounded by men in British & American uniforms. The Americans are familiar―it's the Marine Raider squad from Algiers. > #Cryptonomicon

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh, he's a monster. A pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive. From a research PoV, our most prized asset. We get a lot of detectives here, but I can't ever remember one as attractive. Will you be in Baltimore overnight? Because this can be quite a fun town if you have the right guide.

a strange, short looking red lighthouse in Baltimore with the text "and so much more" on the photo

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I was not allowed to tell you before, or since, but your father was, or will be, King Uther Pendragon & it was I myself, disguised as a beggar, who first carried you to Sir Ector's castle, in your golden swaddling bands. I know all about your birth & parentage & who gave you your real name. >

The Castus Inscription, Fragment 1. Lucius Artorius Castus . . . praefectus of the VI legion Victrix [which was stationed in Britain], dux of the legions of cohorts of cavalry from Britain against the Armoricans

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Questing Beast & King Pellinore put their heads together & sent some of their most perfect fewmets, wrapped up in the green leaves of spring, in a golden horn w/a red velvet baldrick. Archimedes sent his own great-great-grandson, to sit on the back of the throne & make messes on the floor.

Ernie, an owl, retired in 2024 after spending three decades at Warwick Castle.

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Perhaps there ought to be a chapter about the coronation. The barons naturally kicked up a fuss, but, as the Wart was prepared to go on putting the sword into the stone and pulling it out again till Doomsday, & as there was nobody else who could do the thing at all, in the end they had to give in. >

Illumination of Henry's coronation in the Becket Leaves, c. 1220–1240 (Henry the Young King, who was crowned before the death of his father Henry II. In fact, he died before Henry II, so he is not in the roll of British monarchs. He was portrayed by Riggs O'Hara in the movie Becket. He had one line:
King Henry II: [isolating one of his brawling sons from the rest] Which one are you?
Prince Henry: Henry the Third.
King Henry II: Not yet, sir! Number two is in the best of health!

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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

NURSE: Alas, where did you sleep, Master Art? Look at your clean jerkin all muddied & torn. Such a turn as you gave us, I really don't know. But look at your poor hair w/all them twigs in it. Oh, my own random, wicked little lamb. #TheSwordInTheStone

"Congratulations to Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, who has been awarded the Royal Victorian Medal for her services to the Prince and Princess of Wales." - Catherine, Princess of Wales
This honour is part of the Royal Victorian Order (RVO), established by Queen Victoria in 1896 to recognise exceptional personal service to the royal family, while also highlighting the unique and lasting bond created when a nanny remains by the children’s side throughout their lives. [Borrallo attended the Norland school for nannies, which includes security and cybersecurity training by former intelligence officers, self-defense, and defensive driving.)

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