Observe the master at work, dominating Facebook Marketplace furniture merchandising.

I don't care about your beliefs or leanings or favourite films or music recos... I just want to know your top four picks for a DC Finest comics collection.

Uncle Richard, …This is my first damsel-in-distress letter, so I hope I am striking the right tone… (Zula Forthrast, Reamde, Neal Stephenson)

The sgt-at-arms here (who I admit is basically doing his job here) looks a lot like an actor I've seen who plays precisely this type of role....help me organic IMBD!!! Who is the actor?

This photo is going to be in the history books eventually.... The Sergeant at Arms of the Tennessee Legislature blocks state Rep Justin Pearson from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents. 🪕 Old times here are not forgotten.

Nor is corrugation.

and children's pajamas that are either oncogenic or flammable.

Neal Stephenson wrote a line in SNOW CRASH about the kind of sexism you can only get by people who genuinely believe they are too smart to be sexist, and that one line derailed my Rational Man phase before it could start. Thank heck.

Hiro has the feeling that Gurov must be waiting on top of the tallest building in Port Sherman for a dawn🚁evacuation to the Raft. Why is he being evacuated? And why are they worried about heat-seeking missiles? Hiro realizes, belatedly, that some heavy shit is going on. #SnowCrash

I had to read the Campbell Soup Instructions Riot Act to some engineers who keep describing their work in powerpoint-speak. "Replacing this [text] with 'optimization projects' conceals your efforts. We want to replace that with what it really means in simpler, practical language." >

Why not all three?

T.E. LAWRENCE: Aqaba, from the land. SHERIF ALI: You are mad. To come to Aqaba by land, you should have to cross the Nefud Desert. L: That's right. A: The Nefud cannot be crossed. L: I'll cross it if you will. A: You! It takes more than a compass Englishman. The Nefud is the worst place God created.

Do the needful.

Nested threads about a claim that “bigotry is prejudice plus power” used in an attempt to understand antisemitism. I am gobsmacked by the original claim, which misquotes a stupid aphorism and makes it even stupider. 1/

Aqaba is over there. It’s only a matter of going.

CAROLINE: The System of the World-that is the book we've anticipated from Sir Isaac Newton. A new Principia Mathematica? DANIEL: Indeed. But I refer to a different work: mine & yours. We have lost Sophie Charlotte & with her, Prussia. I do not wish to lose you & lose Britain. Those are the stakes.

That's the lower jaw of a glass statue of Homer Simpson. But I dig what you're saying, brother.

SQUEAKY: We're not saying it's Raven, but I need to know if this character [nods at Lagos' corpse] might have done anything that would have made Raven feel threatened. HIRO: What is this, group therapy? #SnowCrash

Seventy two hours later, He would be in Manila, Looking at the One Note Flute.

Persis Khambatta getting her head shaved for Star Trek: the Motion Picture. She should have gotten a special Hugo Award for that. And Gene Roddenberry should have gotten a special Nebula Award for kissing the top of her head right afterward.

"the singularity is real and it happened two hundred years ago" is really a key thing to understanding how i think about the world

London Bridge Great Stone Gate One of them underhanded a skull straight up in the air. The man next to Daniel snatched it at the peak of its flight. BOB SHAFTOE: If you are talking to me, Daniel Waterhouse, I cannot hear you. Unlike other men whose ears have gone bad, I schooled myself not to shout.

Kraken, China Mieville In the emptied remains of a bank was a sports shop. Below posters of physically adept men was a glass-front cabinet & iron grille, behind which was a big chunk of stone…The London Stone. That old rock was always suspiciously near the centre of things.

Your chances of being spied on by a pyramid in London are low but never zero.

I don’t know, Robyn. I do think that you wrote a far more honest account of what happened in the “Pina Colada Song” in the verses of “I Watch the Cars.”

I watch the cars go back and forth, sometimes south and sometimes north. I hear them stopping down the street. I hear the sound of stocking feet. I wonder who they're going to meet. I'm getting drunk inside my house. >

Somewhere in this [virtual] house a radio is going, playing a mix of Vietnamese loungy stuff & Yank wheelchair rock … Ng: Are you a Nova Sicilia citizen? YT: No. I just chill sometimes with Uncle Enzo & the other Mafia dudes. Ng: Ah. Very unusual. [Ng isnt a man in a hurry]

Somewhere we have bodies, very far away, in a crowded loft roofed with steel and glass. Somewhere we have microseconds, maybe time left to pull out. We've crashed her gates disguised as an audit & 3 subpoenas, but her defenses are specifically geared to cope w/official intrusion. "Burning Chrome"

SURENDRANATH: You have shown extreme wisdom in establishing your ~batna~ JERONIMO: Avast! We have no use for your idolatrous claptrap. S: I learnt it from English traders? It stands for 'Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement'? [A recess, now, as the phrase was translated into diverse languages]

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him. ―Wise Blood ____ I wonder if William Gibson ever has to politely invite Flannery O'Connor to get out of his head.

So Hiro is not actually here at all. He's in a computer generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles/earphones. In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse. Hiro spends a lot of time in the Metaverse. It beats the shit out of the U-Stor-It. _Snow Crash

My correspondents on the sceptered isle already know the many falsehoods in Netflix's The Crown, but I just learned about the retcon of Charles' 1969 Investiture. Why did I believe he really rewrote the Welsh speech to express affinity w/the Welsh struggle against oppression? #AnotherTattooToErase

He'd watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg & he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction…watched her track the next hit w/a concentration reminding him of the mantises they sold in stalls along Shiga, beside tanks of blue mutant carp & crickets caged in bamboo.

DANIEL WATERHOUSE: A posthumous bribe! You must have computed the odds of a man my age surviving a voyage across the Atlantic; months in that pestilential metropolis; & a journey back to Boston. ENOCH ROOT: Daniel! It’s only reasonable for the Princess to insure you. #BaroqueCycle #Quicksilver

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

how remarkable that I've lived to an age where I have opinions about william of orange

To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why? I hope you don't mind if I address you as Randy. It's obvious that you are you, despite your anonymous front. This is a good idea, by the way. I applaud your prudence. Concerning the possibility that I am ''an old enemy'' of yours>

MYSTERY MAN: We've met before? FRED: I don't think so. Where was it you think we met? MM: At your house. Don't you remember? F: No. MM: As a matter of fact, I'm there right now. F: You're where right now? MM: At your house. F: That's fucking crazy, man. MM: Call me. Dial your number. Go ahead.

Mrs Root2702 kindly showing me and 🫎 how to put on Sissy’s Gentle Lead collar. Moose recommends multiple facial punctures for a comfortable fit

I love doing/saying things like this.

[in prison] ghost: oOoOoOo me: lmao what did u get in for? possession? LMAOOOO ghost: i murdered my daughter in cold blood me: me: look, i don't think you realise how good that joke was

Randy Waterhouse glances up to see the guy who coined "virtual reality" walking across the parking lot w/the editor of TURING Mag. Behind them: Bruce, an OS engineer who, in his spare time, records Tierra del Fuegan folk music & makes it available for free on the Internet. _Cryptonomicon

This exchange in WarGames always wets my eyes.

After exchanging more self-consciously dry humor about whether they should settle their bills before departure, and how much you were supposed to tip a bellboy who came after you with a carving knife, Carl and Colonel Spence agreed it might be safest to exit through the kitchens.

BURTON: I might’ve seen 50, 100 people, the whole flight. If they were people. If it’s not a game, where is everybody? Asked her. FLYNNE: So did I. What'd she say? B: Said there aren’t as many people as we’re used to. What did she tell you? F: Changed the subject. She tell you why? #ThePeripheral

CASE: Remember being here, second ago? DIXIE FLATLINE: No. C: Know how a ROM personality matrix works? DF: Firmware construct C: I jack it into the bank I'm using, giving it sequential, real time memory? DF: Guess so. C: Okay, Dix. You are a ROM construct. Got me? DF: If you say so. Who are you?

For sale NPR tote, used once

ANNE-SOLENE: Once a year, bigwigs walk the circuit of the property line & beat it w/sticks. ENOCH ROOT: Since Roman times, the boundary of Zelrijk-Aalberg has been litigated in documents that, were they all stored in one location, would more than occupy all available space in the country. #FALLodih

Chardonnay vomited

“opening a bag of potato chips is like staring into the eyes of an angel who has gone insane.” @hangingwithdoctorz