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🌐 Acting Imperial Planetologist to Sol Ⅲ & its moon. Not parody. Was asked to leave Graceland. http://www.sieiti.gov.sb/
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Paul gave the short bow his dancing master had taught—the one used "when in doubt of another's station." The nuances of Paul's greeting were not lost on the Reverend Mother. She said: "He's a cautious one, Jessica."

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"Oh uh just one more thing...the Spice only exists on one planet in the entire universe"

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Archipelago. The islands. Torus, spindle, cluster. Human DNA spreading out from gravity's steep well like an oilslick. Call up a graphics display that grossly simplifies the exchange of data in the L-5 archipelago. One segment clicks in as red solid, a massive rectangle dominating your screen. >>

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MOLLY: How smart's an AI? CASE: Depends. Some aren't much smarter than dogs. Pets. Cost a fortune anyway. The real smart ones are smart as the Turing heat will let em get. M: You're a cowboy. How come you aren't just flat-out fascinated w/those things? >> [Neuromancer]

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BATMAN: Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on ― none of you are safe.

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BOB SHAFTOE: This must be how syphilis spreads: blokes like me, hopping from place to place. ELIZA: Why, Bob! I don't believe anyone's ever said anything quite so romantick to me. B: I can't guess what you were expecting when you roger an old sergeant in hay.

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I can't believe that I've put up 8,000 posts in the past 2 years and it took me this long to put up: "...beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman in Connaught"

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In Connaught: LOUIS ANGLESEY, EARL OF UPNOR: When you go to the next world, tell the angels & demons that we know everything about your infamous cabal & that we will have the gold of Solomon! BOB SHAFTOE: What the bloody hell are you talking about!?

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Ames High School, class of 1977

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The sun is already down in Berlin, as in most of the hellish empire that Hitler has built from Calais to the Volga. Time for the radio operators to begin their work. Radio does not, in general, go around corners. This can be a real pain when you are conquering an inconveniently round world. >>

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Neutral Milk Hotel is closely studying these issues.

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What I thought would kill me, by age: 0-20: Russian nuke 20-30: AIDS 30-50: Terrorists 50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.

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5, Lock Gardens, Camden Town has 2 doorbells: 1 for Millie McCraig & 1 for her lodger Mr Jefferson…Mrs McCraig was churchy & collected for everything, which was incidentally an excellent way of keeping an eye on the locals, though that was scarcely how they viewed her zeal >> #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy

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Sir, is Mr. Cohen damning you with faint praise? @dicknixon.bsky.social

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“His real name is Bill,” Roach heard Jim explain to a visiting parent. “We were new boys together.” The gun, Bill Roach had finally convinced himself, was after all a dream. -END-

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Then Smiley saw her: her disreputable car shunting towards him down the lane marked "Buses Only" & Ann at the wheel staring the wrong way. Saw her get out, leaving the indicator winking & walk into the station to inquire — tall & puckish, extraordinarily beautiful, essentially another man's woman.

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MARTIAN (codename): Ran past the Russian Embassy this morning. Used to be 3 satellite dishes on the roof. Now there's 30. OGLETREE: You saw that, huh? Yes, Cold War's back. It's chilly as fuck. [later] CIA DIRECTOR: New domino theory: 🇺🇸 is 3 dominoes away from full nuclear exchange. #TheAgency

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