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Terrybot :pratchett:<p>- "It could be a torture chamber or a dungeon or a hideous pit or anything!"<br>- "It's just a student's bedroom, sergeant."<br>- "You see?"</p><p>Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>I'm getting a lot of mail and email about FoC (I particularly liked the postcard which read 'We were *sure* it was the wallpaper, you bastard!!!!!'). I'm glad to say that most Baconians hared off after poissons rouge.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Lady Wicket<p>"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." <br>Terry Pratchett; Feet of Clay<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BBCQT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCQT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Inequalities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inequalities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WealthTaxNeeded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WealthTaxNeeded</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GaryEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GaryEconomics</span></a></p>
Lady Wicket<p>“Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.”<br>Terry Pratchett; The Last Continent<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MyanmarEarthquake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MyanmarEarthquake</span></a> 💙</p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>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.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Overdrawn at the Gravitas Bank<p>"A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob On the End"</p><p>(My imagined beginning for Nanny Ogg's favourite song:<br>'<br>A wizard’s staff has a knob on the end<br>Knob on the end, a knob on the end<br>A wizard’s staff has a knob on the end<br>And his big stick’s got one, too<br>'<br>)</p><p><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/SemiReadyMade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SemiReadyMade</span></a><br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Pratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pratchett</span></a> <a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/DIscworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIscworld</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/WizardlySongsPoemsOrLimericks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WizardlySongsPoemsOrLimericks</span></a><br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HashTagGames</span></a></p>
IndieAuthors.Social News<p>12 top best-selling adult fantasy books of all time</p><p>These authors have more gold than the Lannisters.<br><a href="https://www.themarysue.com/top-best-selling-adult-fantasy-books-of-all-time/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">themarysue.com/top-best-sellin</span><span class="invisible">g-adult-fantasy-books-of-all-time/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/fantasybooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasybooks</span></a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/GameofThrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GameofThrones</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/indieauthors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>indieauthors</span></a></span></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>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?"</p><p>Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Lady Wicket<p>“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.”<br>Terry Pratchett; Witches Abroad <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReevesAndStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReevesAndStarmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpringStatement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WelfareCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WelfareCuts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AusterityTwo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusterityTwo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LabourValuesFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabourValuesFail</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>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...</p><p>Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Lady Wicket<p>“Don’t you talk to me about progress. Progress just means bad things happen faster.”<br>Terry Pratchett; Witches Abroad<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TrumpsPeaceNegotiations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpsPeaceNegotiations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PutinsBitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PutinsBitch</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>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.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Sean Eric Fagan<p>Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's FEET OF CLAY, over at <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3ll37brc44s2o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.</span><span class="invisible">social/post/3ll37brc44s2o</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/KindleBookGiveaway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KindleBookGiveaway</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TerryPratchett</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/FeetOfClay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FeetOfClay</span></a></p>
Lady Wicket<p>“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<br>was something else.”<br>Terry Pratchett; Men at Arms <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/StarmerAndReeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarmerAndReeves</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LabourInAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabourInAction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RobbingThePoorToFeedTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobbingThePoorToFeedTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HealthInequalitiesUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInequalitiesUK</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>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.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Octavia con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars:<p>:boosts_ok: 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 :cat_giggle: </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6QuOJ7Pl8Ho" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/6QuOJ7Pl8Ho</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/TerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TerryPratchett</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/Vtuber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vtuber</span></a> <a href="https://cutie.city/tags/ENVtuber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ENVtuber</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>"All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is *bastards*."</p><p>Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
FlohEinsteinFound a restaurant in Egilsstaðir that might have been founded by a certain dwarf after the end of his "Band with rocks in". And their Pizza menu might start a war with Italy<br> <a href="https://pix.kohler.is/discover/tags/Discworld?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://pix.kohler.is/discover/tags/italiancuisine?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#italiancuisine</a> <a href="https://pix.kohler.is/discover/tags/pizzahawaii?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pizzahawaii</a> <a href="https://pix.kohler.is/discover/tags/Iceland?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iceland</a>
Christopher Lovegrove<p>My review of the <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a> novella 'Eric' by Terry Pratchett for <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/MarchMagics2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarchMagics2025</span></a>.<br><a href="https://wp.me/pezD85-h2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wp.me/pezD85-h2</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>"Nah," he said, eventually. "I've looked at the colours on flowers. They're definitely built-in."</p><p>Terry Pratchett, Diggers</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
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