Wishing all #Pratchett fans a happy #Hogswatch!
I made my friend Lorna a #wreath for the occasion.
🐗🌲
I've been languishing on library wait lists for a year or more, but my SO found it in a used bookstore for my stocking. Yay!
It's the first book of the huge #Discworld series and I've only read one in the middle somewhere, known for being rather standalone.
I observe it as Hogswatch, the #TerryPratchett satirical version.
Many years ago when I was a student my landlady told me she had a tradition of reading #TerryPratchett's Hogfather every Christmas, and Lords and Ladies every summer solstice. And that remains the most sensible tradition I've ever heard of, so I adopted it immediately and have been doing it ever since
Many years ago when I was a student my landlady told me she had a tradition of reading #TerryPratchett's Hogfather every Christmas, and Lords and Ladies every summer solstice. And that remains the most sensible tradition I've ever heard of, so I adopted it immediately and have been doing it ever since
My reserved copy of Enshittification became available just after I'd borrowed my reserved copy of the new Penguin audiobook edition of Pyramids. That's an ideal combination. When the tales of enshittification make me too cross, I have Terry Pratchett on hand, speaking up loudly for social justice while also making me laugh out loud.
#Enshittification #TerryPratchett
(Now there's two words that do not belong in the same sentence)
My reserved copy of Enshittification became available just after I'd borrowed my reserved copy of the new Penguin audiobook edition of Pyramids. That's an ideal combination. When the tales of enshittification make me too cross, I have Terry Pratchett on hand, speaking up loudly for social justice while also making me laugh out loud.
#Enshittification #TerryPratchett
(Now there's two words that do not belong in the same sentence)
@masek sure, there are always some weird ones. and these days it's clear a lot of them are ChatGPT too. but when you have hundreds of victim statements, my feeling is that most of them are earnest.
@molly0xfff I don't doubt that they are hurt. And that shit is hurtful, but those statements feel off. If I were a judge, most of them wouldn't impress me much.
But there is a passage in "Going Postal" from #terrypratchett that left a lasting impression on me:
Sometimes I have a perfect idea... and the ability to execute it. What if you could buy Dibbler's sausages in your local grocer?
Hand drawn, by me. No AI used.
He appeared to have no vice that anyone could discover. You’d have thought, with that pale, equine face, that he’d incline towards stuff with whips, needles, and young women in dungeons. The other lords could have accepted that. Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation. But the Patrician apparently spent his evenings studying reports and, on special occasions, if he could stand the excitement, playing chess.
(Guards Guards)
Sometimes I have a perfect idea... and the ability to execute it. What if you could buy Dibbler's sausages in your local grocer?
Hand drawn, by me. No AI used.
He appeared to have no vice that anyone could discover. You’d have thought, with that pale, equine face, that he’d incline towards stuff with whips, needles, and young women in dungeons. The other lords could have accepted that. Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation. But the Patrician apparently spent his evenings studying reports and, on special occasions, if he could stand the excitement, playing chess.
(Guards Guards)
Wir haben den Premierminister im Gefängnis dazu befragt.
Warum im Gefängnis?
„Wir verhaften alle unsere Politiker, sobald sie gewählt sind.«
»Weshalb?«
»Das spart Zeit.«
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent #terrypratchett #GNUTerry
Wir haben den Premierminister im Gefängnis dazu befragt.
Warum im Gefängnis?
„Wir verhaften alle unsere Politiker, sobald sie gewählt sind.«
»Weshalb?«
»Das spart Zeit.«
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent #terrypratchett #GNUTerry
In the night time streets of Ankh-Morpork caution is an absolute. There is no such thing as moderately cautious. You are either very cautious, or you are dead. You might be walking around and breathing, but you’re dead, just the same.
(Guards Guards)
In the night time streets of Ankh-Morpork caution is an absolute. There is no such thing as moderately cautious. You are either very cautious, or you are dead. You might be walking around and breathing, but you’re dead, just the same.
(Guards Guards)
Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it …
(The Light Fantastic)
Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it …
(The Light Fantastic)
