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Warren Jones
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Software engineer, Discworld fan, skier, LARPer, archer, sword fighter, t'ai chi instructor, cook. He/him.
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Mexican version of the F1 theme sounds a lot like it should be on the Monkey Island soundtrack.
October 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Signs of getting older: Staying in a hotel rather than camping when attending a whole-weekend LARP, and still needing to spend most of the following day asleep.

And that's without having worn armour for the weekend!
September 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Announcing the 2026 Discworld Convention! Taking place from 7th - 10th August 2026 at the Leonardo Hotel, Hinckley Island, Leicestershire.

Stay tuned for more news coming soon!!
2024.dwcon.org/conta...

#DWCon2026 #DiscworldConvention2026 #DWCon #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #News
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June 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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soozuk.bsky.social
Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.
April 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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littlemacha.bsky.social
Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up.

I’ll add more as I find them.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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terryandrob.bsky.social
Shortly before he died, Terry Pratchett assured me that, if there is an afterlife, he would give me a ring and let me know. That was ten years ago - and still no call. From which, incidentally, I draw no firm conclusions. What if there was an afterlife, but with no phone signal? But of course there is one place where Terry indisputably lives on: in the pages of his books and in the minds of the millions of readers around the world who turn those pages and continue to find them funny and true. For, while his words live on, so does Terry, and that will be the case, no question, not just for this one decade so quickly gone, but for many further decades to come. So let me join Lyn and Rhianna in raising a glass today to the magical persistence of books and to Sir Terry; gone but still so very firmly with us. Rob Wilkins
March 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
dantarian.bsky.social
It's days like these that I deeply regret that decision, all those years ago, to run my own mail server.

I _think_ I've finally got the new version of the mailing list software working right now, with all lists migrated, but I'm gonna need to keep an eye on it for a bit. Only took two days...
February 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Making a recipe from the Dishoom cookbook for the first time. Rapidly coming to the conclusion that I need to plan further ahead if I want to avoid having to make a ridiculous number of substitutions - our local supermarkets just don't have the ingredients, even with my well-stocked spice cupboard.
January 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Happy Hogswatch everyone! We've had a nice relaxing day at the in-laws, helping the younger nibling experience his first Christmas. There was much cuteness.
December 25, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Nine years to the day since seeing Bellowhead in Bath on their farewell tour - we're seeing them in Bath tonight, supported by The Longest Johns. Looking forward to a fun (and loud) evening!
November 21, 2024 at 7:22 PM