This is basically the Laundry Files books by Charles Stross.

For further reading, see Galaxias by Stephen Baxter.

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This is a joke about Einstein’s form of the Equivalence Principle:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle

Our culture phrases damn near everything in metaphors of war. The war on drugs. The battle of the bands. Bob lost his battle with cancer. It’s absolutely pervasive, to the point it’s almost as invisible as the air.

Rule number one: the kids are alright.

One might even say long-expected.

I like the idea. If we ever figure out what consciousness actually is, maybe we’ll figure out how it adds up across its components.

Well that’s after the book was mistranslated through version after version.

Utah has an accurate translation that their prophet found by looking into his hat.

There’s something delightful about the meme not even getting her name right.

Kim Kitsuragi.

It’s loss. https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss