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“He was eager, young.”

Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson. Close at hand, and also among my favourite novels.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@TTimo/115591420293923756

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The architect Savorgnan created a nine-point star design, a regular polygon with eighteen sides and projecting corners, with six major streets radiating from a six-sided piazza at its centre.

Italy from the Air, Folco Quilici

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The average market return over a 30-year retirement period could be quite generous.

Retirement planning guidebook, Wade Pfau

@nik https://mstdn.games/@nik/115582616569301186

"Once the people had resumed their normal lives, as normal as one's life could be with a fifty-mile-wide alien spaceship hovering above one's city, the alien ships simply disappeared." #page42

«
A cup of the old chai, sit? Tea, I mean?
No time, he said. And he rocked, giving me the old glint under frowning brows, as if with all the time in the world.
No time, yes,' he said, gloopy. So I put the kettle on. Then
I said:
To what do I owe the extreme pleasure? Is anything
wrong, sir?'
»
A Clockwork Orange
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@handmade_ghost @photovotary

"Both TCP and UDP define a group of well-known ports to identify well-known services."

"Unix Network Programming", W. Richard Stevens, 1998.

I still use it to debug network issues.

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Tam so bili Russolo, Marinetti, Pratella, Boccioni, Carrà, Cangiullo in Piatti, med povabljenci pa sta bila tudi Stravinski in Djagilev - vrsta umetnikov torej, katerih dela je Laibach apropriiral.

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waiting for death in stillness made little sense anyway
"ours" by p.b. williams
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"And I sat there like a good son, pretending not to exist"

Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

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"Von fast allen kann man in den Jahrbüchern Interviews oder Porträts nachlesen"
Comic Jahrbuch 2025

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"The sexes among these beings are much more distinct than among men."

— John Crowley: Little, Big, pp. 42-42

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"Participe aux transferts d'énergie, est présent dans l'ADN et certaines protéines."

L'urine de l'or liquide au jardin
Renaud de Looze

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"We spent the last chapter talking about innovation;now it's time to focus on what happens /after/ innovation."

The Innovation Delusion
Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell

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« On note particulièrement un ensemble exceptionnel de bâtiments superposés qui furent tous construits selon les mêmes principes et à peu près au même emplacement, jusqu'aux temps historiques. »
La Mésopotamie, Bertrand Lafont, Aline Tenu, Francis Joannès et Philippe Clancier, Belins, 2023

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The red lines illustrate possible future trajectories considered by the A* controller of Mario, taking the dynamic nature of the game into account.

Artificial Intelligence and Games, Yannakakis & Togelius

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"I let out a whoop, Malina kicks, and we hit the sea with a splash."

Saving the Planet, Solarpunk Stories - Oil and Ivory by Jennifer Lee Rossman

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// La #page42 du Petit Traité Rustica de l'Apiculteur Débutant (Éditions Rustica) ne contient aucun texte, mais juste cette photo.

#page42 The city's dynastic, patrician families, known as the ancients, had claimed power and privilege from the archbishop, receiving monopolies for trade in cloth and precious metals, many tax breaks, and rich annuities from the city, which had put the municipality deeply and perilously in debt.

Jeff Jarvis @jeffjarvis , *The Gutenberg Parenthesis*

What would they see, anyone who had chosen to watch?

Hugh Howey, Wool
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But ‘t is gone.

The Tempest, Shakespeare, édition billingue, Les Belles-Lettres, 1927

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