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Former bookstore owner & tweeter. Strategy game player @ https://pente.org/gameServer/profile?viewName=watsu occasional game creator & also https://poe.com/tomrasul #Discworld #PratchettQOTD 🌈💙 DMs generally left immediately, unless I actually know you
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Looking up at #Mamdani like a five year old looking up at his favorite ball player. Wow. Was this before or after Mamdani affirmed that the #OrangeTurd is a f@scist? www.pride.com/culture/mamd...
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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"How do they rise up?" - #Discworld #Night-Watch #GNU #TerryPratchett #kaiju thestuffedalligator.tumblr.com/post/6786708...
Tumblr post about the Discworld fandom from thestuffedalligator: "The Discworld fandom is something I affectionately think of as a kaiju. The Discworld fandom is, despite all outward appearances of being this lil’ ol’ ma and pa fandom, actually very, very big. Unbelievably big. Vastly, hugely big. Discworld has a dedicated convention. Discworld had published filk albums. Discworld has officially licensed video games on the PS1. Discworld has a twinned city in the real actual United Kingdom. Because Terry Pratchett was called the highest selling author in the United Kingdom for a slice of time. Not the highest selling fantasy author, the highest selling author, full stop. There are a lot of people who have read Discworld, and of those there are a lot who would consider themselves fans of Discworld. And it’s a fandom that largely lies slumbering on the sea floor, content, quiet, until something happens and the whole fandom rises out of the ocean like fucking Godzilla to bellow “HAAAVE YOOOU REEEAD DIIISCWOOORLD III HAAAVE FLOOOWCHAAARTS” and stomp on a building"
August 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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"This is an ad-just-ab-ble span-ner." "Yes?" "It's for twisting nuts off." #Discworld #SmallGods H/T to a poster in the group.
"This is an ad-just-ab-ble span-ner." "Yes?" "It's for twisting nuts off." - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
July 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Lifted from the #FuckZuck site, because unfortunately I still hang out there some. #books #libraries #displays #warnings
A book display at a library, with signage reading "It's a warning, not an instruction manual...". Some of the books displayed include 1984, Anial Farm, Fahrenheit 451, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Parable of the Sower, and The Handmaid's Tale.
May 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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I haven't made many #AI generated #videos, but I was testing out some text and text + image.to video generators this morning and managed to create this #Rembrandt style #MagicalRealism #video with poe.com/RembrandtPika which I thought was pretty cool. Prompt which created it: poe.com/s/rrIoXnNUdC...
April 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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You just know this original iconic image altered for use in #The-Shining & shown in the attached article is going to become a #meme #template, right? But what if it were #AI generating the meme template instead of using the image itself? Result attached. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
April 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD comes from #Hogfather and concerns #hygiene, #milk, and #eggs
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Hogfather: “I gather the Archchancellor won’t have milk in the University,’ said Susan. ‘He says he knows where it comes from and it’s unhygienic. And that’s a man who eats three eggs for breakfast every day, mark you.”
April 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD comes from #Men-At-Arms and concerns the art of #egg painting.
A Terry Pratchett quote from the Discworld novel Men at Arms: “They walked between aisles of faces. Angua fancied she could hear the squelch of a million custard-filled trousers and the echoes of a thousand honking noses and a million grins of faces that weren’t smiling. About halfway along was a sort of alcove containing a desk and chair, a shelf piled with old ledgers, and a workbench covered with crusted pots of paint, scraps of colored horsehair, sequins and other odds and ends of the egg-painter’s specialized art. Carrot picked up a wisp of colored horsehair and twiddled it thoughtfully.”
April 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is from #Thief-of-Time and concerns #butterflies, #poets, #philosophers, #dreams, and #eggs.
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Thief of Time: “The poet Hoha once dreamed he was a butterfly, and then he awoke and said, “Am I a man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming he is a man?”’ said Lobsang, trying to join in. ‘Really?’ said Susan briskly. ‘And which was he?’ ‘What? Well . . . who knows?’ ‘How did he write his poems?’ said Susan. ‘With a brush, of course.’ ‘He didn’t flap around making information-rich patterns in the air or laying eggs on cabbage leaves?’ ‘No-one ever mentioned it.’ ‘Then he was probably a man,’ said Susan.”
March 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Lifted from the #LOTRmemes #subreddit. Beware, if you enter that sub, you may not come out.
March 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is an #eggs #library #books threefer. With #wizards. From #Equal-Rites
Quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Equal Rites: “The library was full of wizards, who care about their books in the same way that ants care about their eggs and in time of difficulty carry them around in much the same way.”
March 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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I've been quite remiss on my #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD entries lately, so here's a double language mention of #eggs (English AND Latatian) and two quotes to help make this dereliction of duty on my part up to #eggsky
Quotes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Pyramids and Equal Rites: “The doctor looked shifty. “He’s still breathing,” he said. “Look, his pulse is nearly humming and he’s got a temperature you could fry eggs on.” He hesitated, aware that this was probably too straightforward and easily understood; medicine was a new art on the Disc, and wasn’t going to get anywhere if people could understand it. “Pyrocerebrum ouerf culinaire,” he said, after working it out in his head. “Well, what can you do about it?” said Arthur. “Nothing. He’s dead. All the medical tests prove it. So, er…bury him, keep him nice and cool, and tell him to come and see me next week. In daylight, for preference." "But he’s still breathing!” “These are just reflex actions that might easily confuse the layman,” said the doctor airily. Chidder sighed. He suspected that the Guild, who after all had an unrivalled experience of sharp knives and complex organic compounds, was much better at elementary diagnostics than were the doctors. The Guild might kill people, but at least it didn’t expect them to be grateful for it.” “He had to admit that this boy looked like good wizard material. In other words, he was thin, gangling, pale from reading disturbing books in unhealthy rooms, and had watery eyes like two lightly poached eggs....Wizards are martyrs to things like asthma and flat feet; it somehow seems to give them their drive.”
March 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A #writer friend of mine has a story coming out in the April issue of #SallyPort #magazine sallyportmagazine.com
Whispers From Old Bells by Curtis James McConnell in Sally Port magazine, April 2025. "Beware the stranger who knows you..."
March 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Apologies for not posting much here lately. Working on a big update for my MineDoku app. Here, have a #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD about #universal #creation methods from a footnote in #Eric.
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Eric: "Everyone who has found a hitherto unknown egg-whisk jamming an innocent kitchen drawer knows that raw matter is continually flowing into the universe in fairly developed forms, popping into existence normally in ashtrays, vases and glove compartments. It chooses its shape to allay suspicion, and common manifestations are paperclips, the pins out of shirt packaging, the little keys for central heating radiators, marbles, bits of crayon, mysterious sections of herb-chopping devices and old Kate Bush albums. Why matter does this is unclear, but it is evident that matter has Plans. It is also apparent that creators sometimes favor the Big Bang method of universe construction, and at other times use the more gentle methods of Continuous Creation. This follows studies by cosmotherapists which have revealed that the violence of the Big Bang can give a universe serious psychological problems when it gets older."
March 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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#teachers, #writers, & #librarians. - some of my favorite friends, relatives, and role models fit into one or more of these categories.
A quote from Madeleine L'Engle: “The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians - because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people."
March 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Another #eggciting edition of #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD, once again from #Pyramids. #Eggs #Eggsky
March 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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" #Swasticar is a peaceful company," #PresidentMusk said. "We've never done anything harmful."
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What was it #TerryPratchett had Mr. Pump say in the #Discworld novel #Going-Postal? Ah, yes...
March 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Well, if I want my #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD posts to last until #Easter, I'll probably need to use a few like this one, from #Pyramids. #eggs ##eggsky
March 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is from #Wyrd-Sisters and involves nearly insatiable curiousity.
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Wyrd Sisters: “Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*. * Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survive having its bristles pulled out one by one in mid-air. According to the small black raven she had trained as a flight recorder, the answer was almost certainly no.”
March 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A conversation lifted from a #FB user who lifted it from #X users going out to all my #library loving and #librarycard owning followers.
March 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Today's belated #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is from #The-Light-Fantastic and concerns the Disc geography being more fried #egg shape than #hardboiled egg shaped.
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel The Light Fantastic: “The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.”
March 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Today's #Discworld #PratchettQOTD #EggQOTD involves #eggs as a form of payment and is from #The-Wee-Free-Men.
A Discworld quote from Terry Pratchett's novel The Wee Free Men: “THE WONDERS OF PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING 1 ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY ABOUT THE COMMA! 2 I BEFORE E COMPLETELY SORTED OUT! 3 THE MYSTERY OF THE SEMICOLON REVEALED!!! 4 SEE THE AMPERSAND! (SMALL EXTRA CHARGE) 5 FUN WITH BRACKETS! ** WILL ACCEPT VEGETABLES, EGGS, AND CLEAN USED CLOTHING”
March 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Today's #Discworld #PratchettQOTD #EggQOTD involves kicks to the (ham and) #eggs and comes from #Monstrous-Regiment #eggsky
A Discworld Terry Pratchett quote from the novel Monstrous Regiment: “This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.”
March 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Today's #Discworld #egg related #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is from #The-Fifth-Elephant and concerns the similarities between #cooking and #sex. #eggsky
A quote from Terry Pratchett's novel The Fifth Elephant: “He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today's entry in the #Discworld #PratchettQOTD #EggQOTD series comes from #Mort and involves plain vs. exotic #foods (among them, #eggs) #eggsky
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Mort: “They don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon and a fried slice of toast.”
March 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM