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Finally finished listening to the Magnus Archives!!
#started it just about exactly 2 years ago on long bus rides to conventions#currently on a long bus ride to visit family#a wild ride. time to restart!! anglerfish is one of my favorite episodes and i've been waiting for ages to listen to it again#i'll be starting the magnus protocol at some point. don't know when#now i want to relisten the archives and hopefully understand more of what's going on and who is who
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minä, ensimmäisen kerran kesätöissä kirjastossa: ai vitsi, kuinka tyydyttävää on hyllyttää näitä kirjoja oikeaan järjestykseen ja suoristaa rivit kauniiksi <3
minä, viidettä vuotta töissä kirjastossa: minä olen Sisyphus ja nämä kirjat on se saatanan kivi
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devastating news for the discourse poster: “media literacy” in the modern age includes the ability to identify which posts are bait
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“Yes, I have been guilty of several monographs. They are all upon technical subjects. Here, for example, is one ‘Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccoes.’ In it I enumerate a hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette, and pipe tobacco, with colored plates illustrating the difference in the ash. It is a point which is continually turning up in criminal trials, and which is sometimes of supreme importance as a clue...To the trained eye there is as much difference between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluff of bird’s-eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato.”
“You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae,” I remarked.
“I appreciate their importance. Here is my monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses. Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, corkcutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers. That is a matter of great practical interest to the scientific detective—especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or in discovering the antecedents of criminals. But I weary you with my hobby.”
“Not at all,” I answered, earnestly. “It is of the greatest interest to me, especially since I have had the opportunity of observing your practical application of it.”
- The Sign of the Four
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These violent delights have violent ends
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It must be thus, for fire still smolders in us allAn eternal fire, hope for each one
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Something i hate about misogyny is that women aren't allowed to be funny in a subtle or deadpan way without men being like hark wench and peddle not your falsehoods- be they born of malice or of naivitee you know not what your wicked misdeeds hath wrought upon this algorithm
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YTP; YouTube poop
Tylsä, liian suora, vie vähän videon iloa, ei käytetty mielikuvitusta, lyhennys liian lempeä
STP; Sinä Tuuba Paska
Hämmentävä, hauska, tarkoituksella huonosti käännetty, käytetty mielikuvitusta, suorastaan tyrmäävä, lyhennys jämäkämpi
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