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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 21h

In fairness, lots of fans have avoided reading the last one, so there’s always one to go.

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Tareq 🇵🇸 @tareqgazaa.bsky.social · 1d

October 7th – Two Years Later

Today marks two years since the war began in Gaza — 720 days of destruction, loss, and no stability.

Before October 7, I was a software engineer, working hard to build a better future.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

She probably told on the people who did though.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Another AI corker.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Zelda and I have chatted a little online and we are both members of the unofficial ‘Lucky Sperm’ club 😁

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in a cat-based WhatsApp group with Sara, Mark works at the agency that rep me and the lovely @katbrownwrites.com has interviewed both Rob and I, and has really become the Discworld interviewer of choice 😁

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

Certainly a Weatherwaxian stare should do major DPS.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Alex @dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social · 4d

Also it’s 20% off right now and only 3 reviews away from 200! 94% very positive user ratings on Steam, Steam deck verified, the works!
store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/...

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 6d

The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Consultation survey launched on whether trans people should be able to access Hampstead Heath ladies' pond following Supreme Court ruling

The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.

(Survey link in next post)
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Survey launched on trans access to Hampstead Heath ladies' pond

The ladies’ pond at Hampstead Heath currently admits biological women and transgender women

www.standard.co.uk

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Javmaster @javmaster.bsky.social · 4d

www.timeextension.com/news/2025/10...

Gaming Legend Rebecca Heineman Could Really Do With Your Positive Vibes Right Now

Heineman's career in games stretches back over 40 years

www.timeextension.com

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 7d

The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds.

Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

A perfect match. There’s a rhythm to Victoria Woods’ writing and her Pam Ayers style use of language, which Patricia really nails.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Wrong build.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

GNU Dame Patricia Routledge. A comedy legend.

youtube.com/watch?v=bSYZ...

Kitty 3 - with Patricia Routledge - BBC

YouTube video by maxinebendix

youtube.com

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Unseen Crafts @unseencrafts.bsky.social · Nov 18

All currently available pieces in one place for you to browse :D
#art #craft #artist #smallbusiness #handmade #pyrography #wood #woodworking #crochet #hooker #yarn #burn #octopus #pyro #handmadeuk

Photo of a pebble beach with wording across saying “available artwork thread”.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money

“What the Iron Maiden was to stupid tyrants, the committee was to Lord Vetinari; it was only slightly more expensive, far less messy, considerably more efficient and, best of all, you had to force people to climb inside the Iron Maiden.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 7d

Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time

She has told me everything,' Wen went on. 'I know that time was made for men, not the other way round. I have learned how to shape it and bend it. I know how to make a moment last for ever, because it already has. And I can teach these skills even to you, Clodpool. I have heard the heartbeat of the universe. I know the answers to many questions. Ask me.'

The apprentice gave him a bleary look. It was too early in the morning for it to be early in the morning. That was the only thing that he currently knew for sure.

'Er . . . what does master want for breakfast?' he said.

Wen looked down from their camp and across the snowfields and purple mountains to the golden daylight creating the world, and mused upon certain aspects of humanity.

'Ah,' he said. 'One of the difficult ones.'

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 6d

GNU Jane Goodall.

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Dave Porter @daveporteruk.bsky.social · 7d

Cosy gamers - from all the chat on this (including from the brilliant @rhi.bsky.social ) it’s well worth a look…

#cosygames

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 7d

So the usual suspects are going after a "cozy survival indie game" because they allegedly worked with Sweet Baby Inc.

These people need to be put away.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 7d

Support if you can. store.steampowered.com/app/3008740/...

Winter Burrow on Steam

Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.

store.steampowered.com

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 7d

I enjoy a well-thought-out, rule-based magic system in fiction as much as anyone, BUT I also think that we should give more props to what Terry Pratchett did in the Discworld books, where it was less about rules and more about vibes and, more importantly, what fit a given story the best.

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Discworld: A disc-shaped world atop 4 elephants atop a giant turtle flying through space.

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