Geoff Kemmish
@geoffkemmish.bsky.social
Retired Wall Street Data Guy. “Self-deported” back to England - from the frying pan to the fire.
Occasional Pratchett-isms.
Occasional Pratchett-isms.
Reposted by Geoff Kemmish
One year in. Just the last two days. How did this happen so fast?
January 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
One year in. Just the last two days. How did this happen so fast?
“You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favour. And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in…Nothing in there about orders. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.”
Sam Vimes - Night Watch
Sam Vimes - Night Watch
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favour. And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in…Nothing in there about orders. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.”
Sam Vimes - Night Watch
Sam Vimes - Night Watch
Reposted by Geoff Kemmish
It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care
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That’s easy for him to say
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
That’s easy for him to say
*Maelog - a curse on all auto-correct software.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
*Maelog - a curse on all auto-correct software.
They want us to be frightened of one another, thinking there must be an enemy, but the only enemy now is the grags and those poor fools like your brother… They are the victims of the sneaking bastards in the darkness.
Marlon Cheerysson — Raising Steam #pratchett
Marlon Cheerysson — Raising Steam #pratchett
November 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
They want us to be frightened of one another, thinking there must be an enemy, but the only enemy now is the grags and those poor fools like your brother… They are the victims of the sneaking bastards in the darkness.
Marlon Cheerysson — Raising Steam #pratchett
Marlon Cheerysson — Raising Steam #pratchett
“OK. Ok. Let’s believe he’s a good man. But his second-in-command - is he a good man too? You’d better hope so…And the rest of the court, they’ve got to be good men. Because if just one of them’s a bad man the result is bribery and patronage."
Sam Vimes - Men at Arms
Sam Vimes - Men at Arms
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“OK. Ok. Let’s believe he’s a good man. But his second-in-command - is he a good man too? You’d better hope so…And the rest of the court, they’ve got to be good men. Because if just one of them’s a bad man the result is bribery and patronage."
Sam Vimes - Men at Arms
Sam Vimes - Men at Arms
… then one day a man said ‘No more kings!’ and we rose up and we fought the bloody nobles and we dragged the king off his throne and we dragged him into Sator Square and we chopped his bloody head off!
Men at Arms
Men at Arms
October 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
… then one day a man said ‘No more kings!’ and we rose up and we fought the bloody nobles and we dragged the king off his throne and we dragged him into Sator Square and we chopped his bloody head off!
Men at Arms
Men at Arms
Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the [world]; the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trollen folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy.
The Colour of Magic
The Colour of Magic
September 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the [world]; the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trollen folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy.
The Colour of Magic
The Colour of Magic
All the little angels rise up, rise up.
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!
— Nightwatch
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!
— Nightwatch
May 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All the little angels rise up, rise up.
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!
— Nightwatch
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!
— Nightwatch
Granny had never had much time for words. They were so insubstantial… They were as soft as water, but they were also as powerful as water and now they were rushing over the audience, eroding the levees of veracity, and carrying away the past.
— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters
— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters
May 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Granny had never had much time for words. They were so insubstantial… They were as soft as water, but they were also as powerful as water and now they were rushing over the audience, eroding the levees of veracity, and carrying away the past.
— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters
— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters
Only in dreams are you free. The rest of the time you need wages.
— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters
— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters
May 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Only in dreams are you free. The rest of the time you need wages.
— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters
— Narrator, Wyrd Sisters
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people. You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
— Havelock Ventinari, Guards Guards
— Havelock Ventinari, Guards Guards
April 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people. You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
— Havelock Ventinari, Guards Guards
— Havelock Ventinari, Guards Guards
You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it anymore you tell them another lie … And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable.
Supreme Grand Master — Guards, Guards
Supreme Grand Master — Guards, Guards
April 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it anymore you tell them another lie … And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable.
Supreme Grand Master — Guards, Guards
Supreme Grand Master — Guards, Guards
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When the story of media complicity in the rise of American fascism is written, this tweet by a Politico reporter last July should be duly noted.
March 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
When the story of media complicity in the rise of American fascism is written, this tweet by a Politico reporter last July should be duly noted.
Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!
— Feegle war cry. The Wee Free Men
— Feegle war cry. The Wee Free Men
February 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!
— Feegle war cry. The Wee Free Men
— Feegle war cry. The Wee Free Men
[T]he children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
— Sam Vimes, Nightwatch
— Sam Vimes, Nightwatch
February 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
[T]he children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
— Sam Vimes, Nightwatch
— Sam Vimes, Nightwatch
There was a scream from somewhere in the [armed] mob.
“Democracy at work,” said Lu-Tze happily.
— Thief of Time
“Democracy at work,” said Lu-Tze happily.
— Thief of Time
January 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
There was a scream from somewhere in the [armed] mob.
“Democracy at work,” said Lu-Tze happily.
— Thief of Time
“Democracy at work,” said Lu-Tze happily.
— Thief of Time
Granny Weatherwax : [A]s you grow older you’ll find most people don’t set foot outside their own heads much.
— Equal Rites
— Equal Rites
January 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Granny Weatherwax : [A]s you grow older you’ll find most people don’t set foot outside their own heads much.
— Equal Rites
— Equal Rites
You don’t *know*. That’s what stops everyone going mad, the uncertainty of it, the feeling that it might work out all right after all.
— The Great God Om in his manifestation as a tortoise. Small Gods
— The Great God Om in his manifestation as a tortoise. Small Gods
January 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
You don’t *know*. That’s what stops everyone going mad, the uncertainty of it, the feeling that it might work out all right after all.
— The Great God Om in his manifestation as a tortoise. Small Gods
— The Great God Om in his manifestation as a tortoise. Small Gods
Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy… [A]fter he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman…
And then five years later they elected another one.
— Small Gods
And then five years later they elected another one.
— Small Gods
December 29, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy… [A]fter he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman…
And then five years later they elected another one.
— Small Gods
And then five years later they elected another one.
— Small Gods
Neilette : We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you ?
Rincewind : Why ?
Neilette : It saves time.
— The Last Continent
Rincewind : Why ?
Neilette : It saves time.
— The Last Continent
December 11, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Neilette : We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you ?
Rincewind : Why ?
Neilette : It saves time.
— The Last Continent
Rincewind : Why ?
Neilette : It saves time.
— The Last Continent
Deacon Vorbis : Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave.
Tyrant of Ephebe : So I understand. I imagine that fish have no word for water.
— Small Gods
Tyrant of Ephebe : So I understand. I imagine that fish have no word for water.
— Small Gods
December 3, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Deacon Vorbis : Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave.
Tyrant of Ephebe : So I understand. I imagine that fish have no word for water.
— Small Gods
Tyrant of Ephebe : So I understand. I imagine that fish have no word for water.
— Small Gods
"I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
"Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”
— William/Vetinari, The Truth
"Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”
— William/Vetinari, The Truth
November 26, 2024 at 8:41 AM
"I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
"Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”
— William/Vetinari, The Truth
"Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”
— William/Vetinari, The Truth
[The city] had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. [He] was the Man; he had the Vote
— Narrator, Mort
— Narrator, Mort
November 17, 2024 at 11:34 AM
[The city] had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. [He] was the Man; he had the Vote
— Narrator, Mort
— Narrator, Mort