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Lady Wicket“The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the mud to stop them growing.” Terry Pratchett; Raising Steam <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FederalTakeoverDeclaration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalTakeoverDeclaration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TrumpsDCTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpsDCTakeover</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Tyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tyrant</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ConvictedFelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConvictedFelon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RememberTheEpsteinFiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RememberTheEpsteinFiles</a>

Terrybot :pratchett:AFPer: We've missed you, did you miss us? TP: Yes, but I think I have time to reload. :-)Terry returns to a.f.p. after a temporary absence. Terry Pratchett and an AFPer, alt.fan.pratchett<a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNUTerryPratchett</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpeakHisName</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a>

Mind Shambles<a href="https://mastodon.online/@Wicket_weir" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Wicket_weir</a> Battle elephants were the fashion lately. They weren’t much good for anything except trampling on their own troops when they inevitably panicked, so the military minds on both sides had responded by breeding bigger elephants.  (Pyramids) <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/WorldElephantDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldElephantDay</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ProtectTheElephants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProtectTheElephants</a>

Lady Wicket“No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise?” Terry Pratchett; The Fifth Elephant <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WorldElephantDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldElephantDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ProtectTheElephants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProtectTheElephants</a> 🐘💗💖

Philip C James<a href="https://mas.to/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#POTUS</a> is tightly restricted in the use of US military force on US soil by the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PosseComitatusAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PosseComitatusAct</a>:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act</a> If anyone finds that too dense, the fundamental difference between a warranted Police Officer and a Soldier are spelled out simply but insightfully by Terry Pratchett in several of his <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DIscworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DIscworld</a> novels about Sam Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork_City_Watch" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork_City_Watch</a>Especially, 'Men At Arms' and 'Night Watch.'<a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoKings</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAGA</a>

Terrybot :pratchett:"If we find a cat I'm going to kick it!"Terry Pratchett, Only You Can Save Mankind<a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNUTerryPratchett</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpeakHisName</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a>

Lady Wicket“‘Silence,’ said Vetinari. It wasn’t a very loud word, but it had an effect rather like that of a drop of black ink in a glass of clear water. The word spread out in coils and tendrils, getting everywhere. It strangled the noise. Of course, there is always someone not paying attention… ‘I will have silence,’ Vetinari stated. Stowley stopped, looked around, and deflated. Silence ruled. Terry Pratchett; Going Postal <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AlJazeera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlJazeera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DeathOfTheJournalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeathOfTheJournalists</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NetanyahuSilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NetanyahuSilencingDissent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Tyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tyrant</a>

CamInspired by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett, I've decided to become a renegade in the world of Millenials by switching from using parentheses to footnotes to anxiously/pedantically clarify my inane* digital ramblings.*Depending on who you ask, this word may be short one 's'<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TerryPratchett</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/millennials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#millennials</a>

Terrybot :pratchett:"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad."Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times<a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNUTerryPratchett</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpeakHisName</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a>

Lady Wicket“Nanny’s philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.” Terry Pratchett; Maskerade <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GranniesAgainstGenecide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GranniesAgainstGenecide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ProtestingGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProtestingGenocide</a> 🙌

Terrybot :pratchett:I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett<a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNUTerryPratchett</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpeakHisName</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a>

Lady Wicket“‘I’m a cat person, myself,’ she said, vaguely. A low-level voice said: ‘Yeah? Yeah? Wash in your own spit, do you?’” Terry Pratchett; Moving Pictures <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Caturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Caturday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HappyCaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HappyCaturday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CatsOfMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CatsOfMastadon</a> 😻🐈🐈‍⬛🐾💗

Terrybot :pratchett:Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one else had realised it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to peak. Speed it up, and the sound a tree makes is *vrooom*.Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens<a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNUTerryPratchett</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpeakHisName</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a>

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/78292/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Terry Pratchett</a><blockquote>Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as “and they can deliver it tomorrow” or “so I’ve invited them for dinner” or “they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply.”</blockquote>Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author Discworld Series No. 24, The Fifth Elephant (1999) Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/78292/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/pratchett-terry/7829…</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qotd</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=terrypratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#terrypratchett</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discworld</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=attention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#attention</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dialog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialog</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=distraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#distraction</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=husband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#husband</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=listening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#listening</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=marriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marriage</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=payingattention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#payingattention</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wife</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=conversation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conversation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communication</a>

In Search of a Better World<a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gerrymcgovern</a> I was diagnosed with a serious "slood" deficiency, and prescribed Dried Frog Pills by someone called "Redo from Start". I hope it isn't serious. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discworld</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/terrypratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#terrypratchett</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/gnuterrypratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gnuterrypratchett</a>

Lady Wicket“‘Look into the face of a man who will kill you for a belief and your nostrils will snuff up the scent of abomination….’ ‘There can be few cleaner motives, so shorn of pretence.’ ‘Nil mortifi, sinelucre. Remember. No killing without payment’” Terry Pratchett; Pyramids <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Netanyahu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ExterminatingGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExterminatingGaza</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NeverAboutTheHostages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NeverAboutTheHostages</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GazaGenocide</a>

Terrybot :pratchett:Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down.Terry Pratchett, Strata<a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNUTerryPratchett</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpeakHisName</a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a>

Pratchat PodcastOur planned August episode, <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/Pratchat88" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pratchat88</a>, was cursed (we should have used <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/Prachat7A7A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Prachat7A7A</a>). Here’s a bonus episode in which Ben browses his bookshelf to mention a few <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> and <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/TerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TerryPratchett</a> books that won’t get their own episodes!<a href="https://pratchatpodcast.com/2025/08/08/browsing-bens-bookshelf/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pratchatpodcast.com/2025/08/08/browsing-bens-bookshelf/</a>

Discworld ConventionWave 1 might be sold out but there’s another chance to buy memberships in Wave 2. Here are a few pointers to help you prepare.<a href="https://dwcon.org/useful-info/news/wave-1-sold-out/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dwcon.org/useful-info/news/wave-1-sold-out/</a><a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/DiscworldConvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DiscworldConvention</a> <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/TerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TerryPratchett</a> <a href="https://mendeddrum.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a>

Lady Wicket“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 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RushanaraAli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RushanaraAli</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LabourHomelessMinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabourHomelessMinister</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TakingHerJobLiterally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TakingHerJobLiterally</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NoFaultEviction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoFaultEviction</a>

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