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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    Planning a protest is always difficult, and planning a large-scale protest against a tyrannical ruler while under lockdown with an AI that can see and hear everything you do . . . well, that's certainly a challenge. But Athoek Station's residents are clever and determined, and Station itself is committed to helping and protecting them in whatever way it can.

    (Messages and security feed excerpts from the leadup to the sit-in protest that occurs towards the end of Ancillary Mercy)

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    10 Jan 2026

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    It has been a grueling year of failing crops, and famine, and the daily toil of rebuilding Tortall brick by brick, but Alanna never dreams of those things. They are problems she can still face, so they do not haunt her like he does. They do not appear late at night to torture her with what might have been: too-fleeting visions of Thom older, healthier, happier. In dreams, she sees him walking the halls of the palace at her side, and poring over a scroll in a room at Pirate's Swoop decorated exactly to his tastes, and once, most bitterly, sitting by a sunny window with a copper-haired baby cradled safely in his arms.

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    Suspended between visions of an impossible future and memories of a past she cannot leave behind, Alanna learns to keep moving, and moves the world with her.

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    06 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    She woke in Heaven, as Roche had thought she must.

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    05 Jan 2026

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    Four moments in Lego-Duplo relations.

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    01 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    It is December 22nd, 1962, and one the coldest winters in living memory is about to freeze Britain over. On the insistance of her nephew Raymond, Miss Marple spends the night in a remote village rather than risk going all the way to London by train. But when a man is found dead in the snow outside the cozy guest house in which she is staying, it is up to Miss Marple to save Christmas... and finish reading the draft of Raymond's latest book.

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    01 Jan 2026