#pratchett — Public Fediverse posts
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
[1/5]
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“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News
[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]
The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners
- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s
Israel runs an #Apartheid system
When most people think of Apartheid ...
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I firmly believe that all 14 year olds should surreptitiously be given Pratchett by someone that isn't a parent.
Especially if they live in a household where they have to hide it because it contains witches.
They are books that teach you how to think, even in the face of extreme authority.
This is my story. I would be a much worse person without having Pratchett books in my life.
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Kleiner Tip für nebenbei, falls noch nicht bekannt.
Pratchett hat eine Kurzgeschichte mit der Stadtwache als "public domain" freigegeben.
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Also, this book follows directly on from Wyrd Sisters and both books use as a viewpoint character a king who dies and becomes a ghost, both of whom are rather thick in life but find greater clarity of thought in death.
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#Discworld re-read: Book 7, Pyramids.
Now's here a reference I didn't get the first time.
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Draußen isses kalt und dunkel, also Vorlesen... Kind zwei weiss es noch nicht, aber für den Drittklässler beginnt gleich ein neuer Lebensabschnitt.
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Wir sollten Friedrich #Merz alle #Brot schicken, damit er was zu essen hat, wenn er Kaffee aus all seinen #Tassen trinkt, während er ein #Stadtbild genießt.
Auf der #Scheibenwelt von Terry #Pratchett gab es dieses #Zwergenbrot, dass sich ewig hielt und bei dem man schon beim ansehen satt wurde... -
"Merzkanzler Friederich" hört sich wie ein Charakter von der #Scheibenwelt an.
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Where Pratchett had footnotes, the Fediverse has alt-text.
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@SFRuminations
I think Leiber does it better in the Fafhrd and the Mouser books.
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"Death and What Comes Next" by Terry Pratchett
https://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html
#HackerNews #Death #Terry #Pratchett #Discworld #Philosophy #Literature #Afterlife
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
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.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld Series No. 24, The Fifth Elephant [footnote] (1999)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4419…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #pratchett #discworld #cooking #fantasy #food #hunger #instructions #recipes #satisfaction #sex #sufficiency
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An underused word for your consideration: "scug" - a Victorian schoolboy insult denoting a pushy, slovenly, morally undeveloped slacker with bad manners and far too high an opinion of himself.
(All that in one syllable! If that's not 19th century efficiency I don't know what is.)If it's good enough to be employed by those most worthy knights P. G. Wodehouse and Terry Pratchett, I deem it good enough for us. I use it myself. Care to join me?
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An underused word for your consideration: "scug" - a Victorian schoolboy insult denoting a pushy, slovenly, morally undeveloped slacker with bad manners and far too high an opinion of himself.
(All that in one syllable! If that's not 19th century efficiency I don't know what is.)If it's good enough to be employed by those most worthy knights P. G. Wodehouse and Terry Pratchett, I deem it good enough for us. I use it myself. Care to join me?
#scug #insults #Wodehouse #Pratchett -
An underused word for your consideration: "scug" - a Victorian schoolboy insult denoting a pushy, slovenly, morally undeveloped slacker with bad manners and far too high an opinion of himself.
(All that in one syllable! If that's not 19th century efficiency I don't know what is.)If it's good enough to be employed by those most worthy knights P. G. Wodehouse and Terry Pratchett, I deem it good enough for us. I use it myself. Care to join me?
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Night Watch (2002)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/5030…
#quote #quotes #quotation #cat #pratchett #terrypratchett #dexterity #lithe #simile
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Night Watch (2002)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/5030…
#quote #quotes #quotation #cat #pratchett #terrypratchett #dexterity #lithe #simile
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Night Watch (2002)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/5030…
#quote #quotes #quotation #cat #pratchett #terrypratchett #dexterity #lithe #simile
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Come and see Men At Arms at the University Drama Studio, Sheffield 19th -22nd February 2025 with a matinee on the Saturday.
Tickets are now over 50% sold out over all shows so get yours quickly or else you might not get to see what Ankh-Morpork has to offer.Ticket link 🔗: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/midlandplayers
#amdram #ankhmorpork #discworld #pratchett #sheffieldtheatre #sheffield #terrypratchett #vimes -
This was November in books! 😻 Quite good looking, and that doesn't just seem so.
#rebsReadings #bookstodon #King #Schweers #Rakoff #Pratchett #Baxter #Ernaux #MillwoodHargrave #Black #Haug #Tian #Braithwaite @bookstodon @thestorygraph -
This was November in books! 😻 Quite good looking, and that doesn't just seem so.
#rebsReadings #bookstodon #King #Schweers #Rakoff #Pratchett #Baxter #Ernaux #MillwoodHargrave #Black #Haug #Tian #Braithwaite @bookstodon @thestorygraph -
This was November in books! 😻 Quite good looking, and that doesn't just seem so.
#rebsReadings #bookstodon #King #Schweers #Rakoff #Pratchett #Baxter #Ernaux #MillwoodHargrave #Black #Haug #Tian #Braithwaite @bookstodon @thestorygraph -
This was November in books! 😻 Quite good looking, and that doesn't just seem so.
#rebsReadings #bookstodon #King #Schweers #Rakoff #Pratchett #Baxter #Ernaux #MillwoodHargrave #Black #Haug #Tian #Braithwaite @bookstodon @thestorygraph -
This was November in books! 😻 Quite good looking, and that doesn't just seem so.
#rebsReadings #bookstodon #King #Schweers #Rakoff #Pratchett #Baxter #Ernaux #MillwoodHargrave #Black #Haug #Tian #Braithwaite @bookstodon @thestorygraph -
Started with Terry #Pratchett|s and Stephen #Baxter|s The Long Earth [2015], will catch up in parallel on the physics that lead the story and am happy to having the time and the [physical, mental, money-wise] resources to just read on. 🧡
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So - @Pratchat raised the question on the Glorious 25th of May episode of 'What is the origin of the Igors?"
I used it as a writing prompt, and thought I'd have a crack.
Might do a second round of editing, but I'm quite pleased with the outcome.
#Pratchett #TerryPratchett #FanFic #Igor #Discworld #ShortStories #Fiction #Writing
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“In the middle of this elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: “When shall we three meet again?” There was a pause. Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: “Well, I can do next Tuesday.”
― Terry Pratchett, "Wyrd Sisters"
Happy #WalpurgisNight, everyone! :_witchhat: :blobcatwitch: 🧙♀️ :coolwitch:
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A quotation from #Pratchett , Terry:
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There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/30793/#quote #quotes #quotation #choice #circumstances #destiny #freewill #freedom #ideal #practical #pragmatic #predestination #purpose #random #reaction #reality
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I maintain that Terry Pratchett understood how people truly worked better than any author who ever lived, which is how you get paragraphs like this being throwaway jokes
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Conversations between Commander #Vimes and Lord #Vetinari are just the best. I love every dialoge between them.
Sir Terry #Pratchett was such an amazing word artist.
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Y por cosas como esta, deberíais leer a #Pratchett. Este hombre habla de todo, y de todo te hace dar una pensadita. En "Ronda de noche", nos habla de cómo fue la Revolución de Mayo del 25. Forma parte de la saga de la #Guardia, una de mis preferidas 😌👌🏼
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CW: New instance, new intro
#introduction #GenerationX #geek #SoundEngineer #musician #RockMusic #ttrpg #LARP #trans #bisexual #NonBinary #GenderFluid #kinky #Discworld #Pratchett #usenet
#SciFi #pathfinder #forza #xbox #steampunk #corsets #goth
I'm a middle-aged professional geek, moving through several different industries over too many years to think about.
I've also studied, and briefly taught, pop music recording; these days I'm a (lapsed) amateur musician and engineeer.
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Another instance, another #introduction! I like #dogs I chat about #weird things like #taxidermy
I like loads of music from #heavymetal to #indiefolk with #synthpop in the mix too. I like #poetry, #art, #nature and nice people. I collect porcelain and glass animals. I read and love Sir Terry Pratchett #pratchett #discworld
I like #graphicnovels and #comics, especially #deadpool, #deathstroke and #judgedredd #2000ad and #vampires
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What do I like? Well, I like #dogs I chat about #weird things like #taxidermy
I like loads of music from #heavymetal to #indiefolk with #synthpop on the mix too. I like #poetry, #art, #nature and nice people. I collect China and glass animals. I read and love Sir Terry Pratchett #pratchett #discworld
I like #graphicnovels and #comics, especially #deadpool, #deathstroke and #judgedredd #2000ad oh and #vampires
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What do I like? Well, I like #dogs I chat about #weird things like #taxidermy
I like loads of music from #heavymetal to #indiefolk with #synthpop on the mix too. I like #poetry, #art, #nature and nice people. I collect China and glass animals. I read and love Sir Terry Pratchett #pratchett #discworld
I like #graphicnovels and #comics, especially #deadpool, #deathstroke and #judgedredd #2000ad oh and #vampires
#introduction