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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 8h

His old personality had been stripped from his mind and a new one implanted. Only the body remained of the old Pepe who had loved Angelina and stolen a battleship.
— The Stainless Steel Rat

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 8h

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 9h

They go together like peanut butter and chocolate.

two men are standing next to each other in front of a building .

ALT: two men are standing next to each other in front of a building .

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 9h

Does it smell like victory?

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 9h

*wrong .gif
That one cuts out the punchline, about how Boris Johnson's dad was also something of a toolmaker.

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 9h

> Not because they agreed with his positions, or even knew who he was, but because he was plainly enough the man of the hour.

#TheSystemOfTheWorld

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 9h

Golden Square, 17 July 1714:
RAVENSCAR: We have won! Let the word go forth!
[Daniel was slow to take up the cheer. But when he did, he meant it. What did it mean to win? It meant being cheered. So Daniel huzzahed & was astounded to see the way people came a-running to throng around Roger. >

a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech at a podium that says my dad was a toolmaker .

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 12h

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

a black and white photo of a man with the words put on my blue suede shoes and i boarded the plane on the bottom

ALT: a black and white photo of a man with the words put on my blue suede shoes and i boarded the plane on the bottom

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 12h

Industrious monkeys had been opening up bird-cages. The entire Flamingo Ward emerged at once, like fuchsia paint spilling down the hospital steps, on a random migration into the Habitation of Dust, pursued or accompanied by a couple of Japalura lizards making eerie booming noises.
#TheConfusion

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 12h

Malborough set him on the right path with his advice in the stable in Paris. "You're a galley slave shackled in a stable in Paris, be concerned about THAT"

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 12h

Entries that are relatively reliable, according to scholarly sources, are in Roman type. Entries in italics contain information that is more likely to produce confusion, misunderstanding, severe injury & death if relied upon by time travelers visiting the time/place in question.
#Quicksilver

the text Not a cellphone in sight. Just people living in the moment. The image is an illustration in a children's book showing a priest about to be killed with an axe by a medieval soldier.

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 14h

Whoopsy!

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · May 31

ELIZA: Is it the same sect as Gomer Bolstrood?”
WILLIAM OF ORANGE: No and yes. The Puritans are like Hindoos—impossibly various, and yet all of a type.

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · Apr 10

Jack thought of finding Eliza in the hole beneath Vienna. >>

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · Jan 27

JACK SHAFTOE: Monsieur de Jonzac, my men think you are dead now. I've let you live so that you can make your way back to Paris & tell them this deed was done for a woman―she knows who she is―& was done by ‘Half-Cocked' Jack Shaftoe, L'Emmerdeur, the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver!

Scene at el-Khalili bazaar in Cairo. by Robert Hay (1799-1863). Illustrations of Cairo.

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 17h

Better shake it.

Online menu view of a single chicken drumstick from Gus' World Famous Fried Chicken.

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 1d

This 1,900 year old headstone, memorializing a Roman marine* was found in an overgrown New Orleans back yard. The FBI is confirming that an Italian museum is the owner. I hope it doesn't wind up at Mar a Lago.
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* He was a soldier who served with the Imperial Navy.

root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 1d

"To the Spirits of the Dead for Sextus Congenius Verus, soldier of the praetorian fleet Misenensis, from the tribe of the Bessi [Thracian], lived 42 years (&) served 22 in the military, on the [trireme] Asclepius. Atilius Carus and Vettius Longinus, his heirs, made this for him well deserving.”

While tending their home garden in New Orleans last spring, a married couple found a stone that looked archaic and was engraved in Latin. Experts say it’s a 1,900-year-old headstone from Italy, which once marked the grave of a Roman soldier named Sextus Congenius Verus.
According to the report, the stone’s inscription roughly translates to: “To the Spirits of the Dead for Sextus Congenius Verus, soldier of the praetorian fleet Misenensis, from the tribe (natio) of the Bessi [i.e., a Thracian], (who) lived 42 years (and) served 22 in the military, on the [trireme] Asclepius. Atilius Carus and Vettius Longinus, his heirs, made (this) for him well deserving.”

Apparently, the deceased was from Thrace, an ancient region in the southeastern Balkans. And he spent over two decades serving on a trireme—a warship propelled by oars—named Asclepius, for the Greco-Roman god of medicine.

The stone matches the description of an artifact once reported missing from the National Archeological Museum of Civitavecchia, about 40 miles northwest of Rome. The port city was heavily bombed by Allied forces during World War II, and the museum and its collection was destroyed—not to reopen until 1970.

Santoro and her contacts spoke with Tess Davis, the executive director of the Antiquities Coalition, a nonprofit specializing in the repatriation of cultural heritage. They decided to hand the stone over to the FBI’s Art Crime Team, which will take over the process of returning the stone to Civitavecchia.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-married-couple-in-new-orleans-found-a-stone-in-their-backyard-it-turned-out-to-be-an-ancient-roman-soldiers-gravestone-180987485/

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 1d

These companies don't care about long-term.

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 1d

"To the Spirits of the Dead for Sextus Congenius Verus, soldier of the praetorian fleet Misenensis, from the tribe of the Bessi [Thracian], lived 42 years (&) served 22 in the military, on the [trireme] Asclepius. Atilius Carus and Vettius Longinus, his heirs, made this for him well deserving.”

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 1d

Chevette never stole things, or anyway not from other people, and definitely not when she was pulling tags. Except this one bad Monday when she took this total asshole's sunglasses, but that was because she just didn't like him.
#VirtualLight
William Gibson

Illustration of a future dystopian San Francisco Bay Bridge which is covered with improvised housing. Art by Joanna Kizinska.

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 1d

"Once upon a time," said a woman's voice, "there was a little girl named Elizabeth who liked to sit in the bower in her grandfather's garden and read story-books."
Nell slammed the book shut and pushed it away.

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 1d

The pages she'd turned were under her left thumb, trying to work their way loose, as if they were alive. She had to press down to keep them there. Finally they bulged up in the middle & slid out from underneath her thumb & flop-flop-flop, returned to the beginning of the story.
#DiamondAge

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 1d

On the 1st page of the book was a picture of a little girl sitting on a bench with her back to Nell; she was looking down a grassy slope toward a blue pond. She turned another page and found another picture. In this one, the little girl had set aside her book and was talking to a big black bird.

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, Claire...

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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 2d

In the Shakespeare histories and comedies class I took my senior year, the only way for me to really get a play on the first try was to get a video from the U's library and read the script while I occasionally looked at the screen

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