Of all the creatures on Earth, the man-apes were the 1st to look steadfastly at the Moon. When he was very young Moon-Watcher would reach out and try to touch that ghostly face rising above the hills. He had never succeeded. For first, of course, he must find a high enough tree to climb. #2001:aSO

Cayce turns to see the blond boy hurrying to catch up. VOYTEK: I walk with you, please. My name is Voytek Biroshak. CAYCE: Call me Ishmael. V: A girl's name? [Eager and doglike beside her. Some species of weird nerd innocence that somehow she accepts] #PatternRecognition

some people apply their artistic urges via photographs on the Craig's List tool section.

In the roar of an engine, he lost everything and became a shell of a man: a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past. A man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here in this blighted place that he learned to live again.

SEPTEMBER 1693 When Men fly from danger, it is natural for them to run farther than they need. —The Mischiefs that ought justly to be apprehended from a Whig-government, ANONYMOUS (ATTRIBUTED TO BERNARD MANDEVILLE), 1714 #BaroqueCycle #TheConfusion

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

The post I was responding to was deleted. I guess I bumbled my way into a salon comprised of a subculture in which all the account names or images referenced canine species.

Man, gon' let my baby ride Man, gon' let my baby ride WELL WELL WELL DONT BE SO MEAN! DONT BE SO EVIL! DONT BE SO DIRTY! WELL WELL WELL Man, gon' let my baby ride Man, gon' let my baby ride Man, gon' let my baby ride Love is the devil, but it won't get me Live, San Francisco 2001

As a child Doob wouldve assumed it was a lightning bolt. Now he interpreted all such events as incoming chunks of moon shrapnel. This one had passed within about three kilometers. A secondary boom, several seconds later, suggested that it had hit the ground, so, a relatively large piece. #SeveNeveS

This morning, the mayor of New York City has made my brain a veritable dungeon o' learning.

MISS MATHESON: Some cultures are prosperous; some are not. Some value rational discourse and the scientific method; some do not. Some encourage freedom of expression, and some discourage it. The only thing they have in common is that if they do not propagate, they will be swallowed up by others. >

MISS MATHESON: Chiselled Spam. NELL: Pardon me, ma'am? MISS [YT!]: I was just remembering an advertisement from my youth. I used to be a thrasher, you know. I used to ride skateboards through the streets. Too many bumps & bruises during my earlier career, I'm afraid. #DiamondAge

2-WAY RADIO IN APOCALYPSE NOW: PILOT: We've got it spotted. KILGORE: Put on heading 270, assume attack formation. P: That's a roger. Ok, we're going in. K: Put on psych-war operations, make it loud. Shall we dance? P: We've spotted a large weapon down below. We're going to check it out. >

Is the Academy Awards also streaming? I really have no idea how to tune in to a tv channel anymore

Actually…-

DAVID: RUSSIANS WOPR: LIST PRIMARY TARGETS D: What should we nuke first? JENNIFER: Las Vegas…Seattle NORAD ANALYST: I have 7 correction 8 Red Birds at 2˚ past apogee! CAPT NEWT: Better get the old man down here… AIRMAN: All stations. This is Crystal Palace initiating emergency conference. Stand by.

I think of something. Then I search it into existence.

Say, I dreamed about a reefer five feet long. A mighty mens', but not too strong. You'll be high, but not for long If you're a viper I'm the king of everything I got to be high before I swing Let the bells ring, ding, dong, ding If you're a viper.

Happy birthday to Albert Einstein! Physicist, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and winner of the Society's Copley Medal in 1925 for "his theory of relativity and his contributions to the quantum theory", his theories helped set the stage for modern physics. #OnThisDay

knowing netflix, Prime, and Hulu, they would cast Dakota Johnson as Enoch Root.

I was just fact-checking an article, looking up an administrator at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and saw a big MEASLES alert at the top of the web page for North London. Maybe take the kids to South London for the weekend...or the rest of the month?

Stumbled upon my forgotten Root2702 IMDB profile, which i apparently set up just to make a list of actors who should portray characters in an unlikely Cryptonomicon adaptation. (It is statistically more likely that the next Fast/Furious movie will have characters named Enoch, Randy, Dengo, etc) >

What if Vito kept breaking the pistol into smaller and smaller pieces, and throwing them down smaller and smaller chimneys? And just couldn't stop? He would've probably cut his hand at some point.

The Fantastic Mister Fox hat-tip: @pickwick.bsky.social

I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. - Epigraph to The Peripheral, taken from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, chapter 11.

A passage in Stephenson’s Termination Shock described a sulphur pile like this. It was slated to be fired into the stratosphere.

Rev Wigham in True Detective S1 ends his sermon with a familiar refrain: In the end we will find ourselves at the beginning, and will at last know ourselves, and our true faces will weep in his light. And those tears, those tears will feel like a warm rain.

RANDY WATERHOUSE: Who's the lady in the middle? The Virgin Mary? ENOCH ROOT: Reasonable guess. But wrong. It's Athena. R: How do you square that with Christianity? E: When I phoned you how did you know it was me? R: I recognized you E: You didn't recognize my voice R: Is this answering my question?

REV SHEA WIGHAM: You was blind to him as your footprints in the ashes, but he saw you. Beneath every disguise, every gesture false or true, every silent resentment, he saw you in those dark corners. He heard you, oh my brothers: He heard those thoughts. >

I don’t think they are making watered steel. #BaroqueCycle

RAZ: I found Orolo. JAD: … It is unfortunate—what happened. Orolo would have passed through the Labyrinths in due time, and become my fraa on the Crag, and it would have been good to work by his side, drink his wine, share his thoughts. R: His wine was terrible…He seemed to understand quite a lot.>

FRAA JAD: The Narratives converge. ZH'VAERN: As you go backwards, you mean. FJ: There is no backwards. [This occasioned a few moments of silence.] MOYRA: Fraa Jad doesn’t believe in the existence of time. [She sounded as if she were realizing it and saying it at the same moment]

Post your favorite LotR character, miserable answers only.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

I can introduce you to Dan Metzheiser from Justice. He has a file on Sate in D.C. It's been a hobby of his for a few years. A lot of guys equate him to that reporter on the Incredible Hulk. #UsualSuspects

“A cat could make it” is so funny. 1. A cat would not know how. 2. If the cat does know how, it doesn’t have the anatomy. 3. Most of all, a cat doesn’t want to fry chicken, so no way it’s going to happen.

ASH: It constitutes an entity. As if there were a long table, Lowbeer says, its either side packed with strangers, and at the head, an empty chair. But it’s a very actively empty chair, one whose intent we can only infer by the actions of those around the table. [Netherton rolled his eyes] #Agency

War is all around us. My mind says "Prepare to fight." So, if I have got to die, I am going to listen to my body tonight, yes.

Korolev assumed the collision had perturbed Kosmograd's orbit, but he couldn't predict the hour of the station's incandescent meeting w/the atmosphere. He spent uncounted hours screening the museum's library of tapes. A fitting pursuit for the Last Man in Space who had been the First Man on Mars.

SUBLETT: Jesus, Berry, you shouldn’t oughta watch TV, not unless you’re gonna pay it attention!

Who wrote it, Neal Stephenson or the Deuteronomists? Adam and Eve curled up together near [a shelter] and slept until late in the day, when hunger, and a need to shit, woke Eve.

RAWHIDE: The following unedited footage has been declassified by the Banzai Institute for Biomedical Enigineering and Strategic Information.

PENNY PRIDDY: Uh, Dr. Banzai, you... you forgot your thruster. BUCKAROO BANZAI: 😉Why don't you hold onto it for a while? PP: 😉Anytime...

C: Please clear the launch grid. C: HB88, this is Control. Driver's door check secure. BB: Control, this is HB88, commander's voice check, over. C: Roger HB88 read you 2 2, out. BB: Event timer started, over. C: APU start is go. You are on your onboard computer, over.

CALLING ALL BLUE BLAZE IRREGULARS: Due to the Lectroid takeover of Twitter, we shall have a new site on the very popular #Bluesky very soon.

BUCKAROO BANZAI: John Parker, take this wheel. Just... just hold on, that's good. It flies like a truck. JOHN PARKER: Good… …What is a truck?

this lives forever rent-free in my head

RAWHIDE: Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize the pineal tumor without damaging the quadrigeminal plate. Subcutaneous microphones are gonna allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain…People are gonna come from all over. This boy's an Eskimo.

Farm right below New Madrid Crazy earthquake there, definitely a fun wikipedia page to explore

I’ve mentioned before that the tiny disconnected bit of Kentucky circled in the photo would be a great place to kill someone, as long as you don’t transport your victim across a state line. Sheriffs from at least 3 states will fight to not take the case.