"And while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions."
Terry Pratchett; Feet of Clay
#Discworld #BBCQT #Inequalities #WealthTaxNeeded #GaryEconomics

“Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.”
Terry Pratchett; The Last Continent
#Discworld #MyanmarEarthquake

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls.

Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

"A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob On the End"

(My imagined beginning for Nanny Ogg's favourite song:
'
A wizard’s staff has a knob on the end
Knob on the end, a knob on the end
A wizard’s staff has a knob on the end
And his big stick’s got one, too
'
)

#SemiReadyMade
#Pratchett #DIscworld

#WizardlySongsPoemsOrLimericks
#HashTagGames

12 top best-selling adult fantasy books of all time

These authors have more gold than the Lannisters.
https://www.themarysue.com/top-best-selling-adult-fantasy-books-of-all-time/

#Books #Discworld #fantasy #fantasybooks #GameofThrones
@indieauthors

That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

“Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.”
Terry Pratchett; Witches Abroad
#Discworld #ReevesAndStarmer #SpringStatement #WelfareCuts #AusterityTwo #LabourValuesFail

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

“Don’t you talk to me about progress. Progress just means bad things happen faster.”
Terry Pratchett; Witches Abroad
#Discworld #TrumpsPeaceNegotiations #PutinsBitch

It was hard enough to kill a vampire. You could stake them down and turn them into dust and ten years later someone drops a drop of blood in the wrong place and *guess who's back*? They returned more times than raw broccoli.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's FEET OF CLAY, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3ll37brc44s2o

“There were people who’d steal money from people. Fair enough. That was just theft. But there were people who, with one easy word, would steal the humanity from people. That
was something else.”
Terry Pratchett; Men at Arms
#Discworld #StarmerAndReeves #LabourInAction #RobbingThePoorToFeedTheRich #HealthInequalitiesUK

Most alchemists were nervous, in any case; it came from not knowing what the crucible of bubbling stuff they were experimenting with was going to do next.

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

I remembered this little snippet that everyone seems to have at least heard *about* in passing, so I figured I'd record it so people could actually listen to it

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6QuOJ7Pl8Ho

"All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is *bastards*."

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

My review of the #Discworld novella 'Eric' by Terry Pratchett for #MarchMagics2025.
https://wp.me/pezD85-h2

"Nah," he said, eventually. "I've looked at the colours on flowers. They're definitely built-in."

Terry Pratchett, Diggers

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

“Om was handily silent, thereby enabling his priests to interpret his wishes how they chose. Amazingly, Om’s wishes rarely translated into instructions like ‘Feed the poor’ or ‘Help the elderly’ but more along the lines of ‘You need a splendid residence’ to ‘Why not have seven courses for dinner?’”
Terry Pratchett; The Shepherds Crown
#Discworld #RobbingThePoorToFeedTheRich #LabourValuesFail
#WealthTaxNeeded