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The kind of woman who could pleasantly instruct you to fuck off, dear, and you immediately would because you’d just hate to disappoint her.
“Cold enough,” Tristan hazarded, “to form a Bose-Einstein condensate?” “I love it when you talk dirty,” Oda said,
“One processor; 175 megahertz; 512 megabytes of RAM.”
Aw, the nostalgia! We thought the Pentium Overdrive was godly.
“Grad student. Primary demographic for magical thinking.”
Crikey, that was easy. And a perk I’d never get under Blevins! “Is this taxpayer-funded?” I asked. “No judgment. Just curious.” “Classified,” he said, and gave me a wink.
I bet it's Enoch Root
“Did your friends come through with the liquid helium?” I asked. Certainly the first time in my life I had uttered that sentence.
Liquid helium, as I now knew, was fifty times as expensive as the liquid nitrogen we had been using, and a lot colder.
Helium is, for all intents and purposes, a finite resource. It is the by-product of certain minerals' radioactive decay. They decay extremely slowly, and don't produce much helium.
Supercooling for MRIs is the primary industrial usage of helium.
Dr. Constantine Rudge
Enoch 'the Red' Root --> Constantine Rudge
“May I go there with you? Because in the name of Our Lord’s mammy, if I could be someplace where money’s got no religion and religion’s got no money, I’d be a happier woman.”
Oh honey, religion gets the money, and they spend it on politics.
It never fucking changes.
If a witch can evade torture, as you mentioned, she can evade poverty and degradation.
Ever met a rich witch?
Every witch has her own agenda for why she might or might not help us.
Chaotic Neutrals, gotta love 'em.
Constantinople
It's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Constantinople.
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Constantinople
Every gal in Constantinople
Constantinople.
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
Constantinople,
So if you've a date in Constantinople
FAMILY NAME: Lajani GIVEN NAME(S): Chira Yasin
She's a BAMF to the core.
Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Constantinople
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Constantinople
Why they changed it I can't say
Constantinople,
People just liked it better that way
The Constantinople Theater was a broad canvas of safe houses and planned DEDEs, all having to do with limiting Russia’s power in the Balkans and the Black Sea.
How ironic.
I'm reading this on March 18, 2022, 4:30am, comfy in my garage, high on legal weed in the desert SW. It's chilly.
Day 23 (?) I think, of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The USA is not at war with Russia, (yet), and COVID is spiking again.
SLAVA UKRAINI! GLORY TO THE HEROES! LONG LIVE ZELENSKY!!! KYIV WILL NEVER FALL!!!
Tristan and Erzsebet moved toward the ODEC door.
I predict Someone will be standing there.
Rachel bat Avraham—unauthorized
Rachel BAMF bat-Avraham.
Mel: Bio breach! Mortimer: ?
Aw fuck.
As all DOers will be aware from their HR portfolios, the benefits package includes state-of-the-art health care, with no arbitrary distinctions made between physical and mental health. These benefits are your right—don’t hesitate to use them!
Must be nice
In the present case, as you know, what we are trying to achieve is to pry Crimea loose from the Russians and get it back into the full and undisputed possession of Ukraine, all without firing a shot or engaging in military operations as that term is normally understood.
This is so weird. I had no idea of the subject of D.O.D.O. til I started reading it. Coincidental, but kinda weird.
Yes, General Frink, Crimea is part of the Ukraine today. You may share with me a vague memory, rapidly fading, of a Russian invasion that never happened. As if we dreamed it, and the memory of the dream is being dispelled by the more concrete realities of the new day.
Private message from LTC Lyons to Dr. Stokes: Don’t correct him about Valhalla, Stokes. I know you want to. Don’t.
He was simple.”
Ouch.
From Dr. Stokes: Maybe she simply wasn’t enjoying herself—there’s no reason a sex worker would.
Ouch II
I also knew from my abbreviated Googling that a fourth Great Fire would destroy a swath of the town just a few weeks after our arrival.
Lomadh?
