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Discworld QOTD, from Making Money “Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.”

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 2h

Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that contained within itself, like reverse fossils, everything that it was going to be. 𝒮𝑜𝓊𝓁 𝑀𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒸

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 18h

Rush To Diagnose Children "Left Handed" Can Scar Them For Life, Worry Right Handed People Fears mount a recent influx of kids written off as "Left Handed" can lock them out of using right handed scissors Opinion: Jobson LeCruesset-Natwest - I was kicked if I used my left hand & I turned out great

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 21h

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Ah, Mr. Worde. Times is hard in the hot sausage trade," said Dibbler. "Can’t make both ends meat, eh?" said William. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩

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Natalie, who is Most Definitely a Completely Normal Human @thenatalieash.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Now that we've made it okay to assault/jail everyone wearing jeans, fewer people have been wearing jeans. What's causing it is unclear." The stupidity is not amusing.

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Therefore I will have dinner sent in," said the priest. "It will be roast chicken." "I hate chicken." Dios smiled. "No sire. On Wednesdays the King always enjoys chicken, sire." 𝒫𝓎𝓇𝒶𝓂𝒾𝒹𝓈

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is awe-inspiring. The little baby lion is rescued by his mama, who growls at the humans and looks back at them like, "I think I've made my position very clear, don't you?"

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Around her, historians climbed library ladders, fumbled books onto their lecterns, and generally rebuilt the image of the past to suit the eyesight of today. 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓮𝓯 𝓸𝓯 𝓣𝓲𝓶𝓮

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Theft was the only crime, whether the loot was gold, innocence, land or life. 𝘑𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘰

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

Lancre operated on the feudal system, which was to say, everyone feuded all the time and handed on the fight to their descendants. The chips on some shoulders had been passed down for generations. Some had antique value. A bloody good grudge, Lancre reckoned, was like a fine old wine. You looked after it carefully and left it to your children.

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The man gave a shrug that indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his. Soul Music

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When you’re up to your ass in alligators, today is the first day of the rest of your life. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓷𝓽

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 06/10/2026

🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There was something about the eyes. It wasn't the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was... a look. It said: You are nothing. It said: You are flawed, you have no value. 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What a mess the world was in, reflected Vimes. Constable Visit had told him that the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that? 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒚

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

But the helmet has gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that work stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I *like* this... 😂

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Lady Wicket 💖 Stop the Genocide 💙 @ladywicket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"He was known to Ankh-Morpork's professional underclass as a thoughtful, patient man, and considered something of an intellectual because some of his tattoos were spelled right. " Terry Pratchett; Hogfather #Discworld #DeathOfATory #ArchCriminal #LovableRogueMyAss #RememberingMonica 💙

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A strong enough union at Wizards could (and likely would) knock down about half of my "This company is fucking evil" notes, so I'm deeply interested in seeing them get recognized and see what comes out the end of their first round of negotiations after that. (This will probably involve the courts).

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"You mean you didn't even have fun? If I'd been as bad as you, I'd have been a whole lot worse. Better at it than you've ever dreamed of," said Granny. 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝒜𝒷𝓇𝑜𝒶𝒹

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 06/10/2026

Enough internet for now. Off to make Art and read books 🚨📣 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ PSA/GENTLE REMINDER ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 📣🚨

You seem to be doomscrolling a lot for a girl who has books to read
[Image of girl with a face mask on, holding a mug, standing in front of a lake]

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JinShei @jinshei.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Makes us safer at least

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

synecdochic.dreamwidth.org

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JinShei @jinshei.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Met mine on a MUSH. Text based internet ftw

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'A research network that used artificial intelligence to screen out about half of all applicants to a UKRI-funded scheme has apologised and said all rejected applications will now be re-reviewed by humans. ...all offers previously issued to successful applicants are now “suspended”.'

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They were not life-forms. They were...nonlife-forms. They were the observers of the operation of the universe, its clerks, its auditors. They saw to it that things spun and rocks fell. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A triumphant outcome for UK higher education policy, regional economic development, and internalized market mentalities. Three cheers for the Minister for Universities. [Checks notes] There is no Minister for Universities.

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was so easy to slip into immortality, to ride the horse, to know everything. And every time you did, it brought closer the day when you could never get off and never forget. Death was hereditary. You got it from your ancestors. 𝓗𝓸𝓰𝓯𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026

There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/10/2026

Good(?) news: A Nevada county will pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who spent two years in prison for a stillbirth before her conviction was overturned. Her son’s ashes were returned to her as part of the settlement thenevadaindependent.com/article/she-...

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JinShei @jinshei.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And yet they are so good at making poor people

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A new trade union has just been officially registered, the UK Hospitality Union It's a v under-represented part of the workplace re. unions: "Members include...baristas, hotel staff, restaurant staff, chefs, event caterers, bar staff, housekeeping." Be interesting to see how they fare

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UK Hospitality Union | trade union

At the UK Hospitality Trade Union, we are the united voice for workers across the UK's hospitality sector. Our mission is simple: to advocate for fair treatment, safe working conditions, and equitable...

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you take the money making opportunities out of politics you will take the worst grifting liars out as well. Politicians should be driven by belief and altruism not greed.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Moist had worked hard at his profession and considered himself pretty good at it, but if he had been wearing his hat, he would have taken it off right now. He was in the presence of a master. He could feel it in the hand, see it in that one commanding eye. Were things otherwise, he would have humbly begged to be taken on as an apprentice, scrub the man’s floors, cook his food, just to sit at the feet of greatness and learn how to do the three-card trick using whole banks. If Moist was any judge, any judge at all, the man in front of him was the biggest fraud he’d ever met. And he advertised it. That was . . . style. The pirate curls, the eyepatch, even the damn parrot. Twelve and a half percent, for heaven’s sake, didn’t anyone spot that? He told them what he was, and they laughed and loved him for it. It was breathtaking. If Moist von Lipwig had been a career killer, it would have been like meeting a man who’d devised a way to destroy civilizations.

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The guards were pretty much like guards as Rincewind had experienced them everywhere. They had exactly the amount of intellect required to hit people and drag them off to the scorpion pit. 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Victor had never worked for anything in his life. In his experience, jobs were things that happened to other people. Moving Pictures

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

imagine telling the pope “you’re not even an AI influencer” like that’s a sick burn

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 03/10/2026

Hannah Arendt defined totalitarianism as “organized loneliness”. I can’t think of a better definition of what AI and chat bots want to push us into, financed and designed by literal totalitarians

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JinShei @jinshei.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today my friends had packed up her stuff and moved to Ireland. She sent me picks of her trip and seeing the weight of fear off her is nice but... Wtf uk

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Vrachteend, BGK @vincentdehart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Fascism is being afraid. Fascism is fear bossing you. Fascism is worse than all of these things. I'm trying to wake you up to tell you that you're sleeping with something ten times more dangerous than a poison- fang snake in your bed." I.M. Woody Guthrie (14 juli 1912 - 3 oktober 1967)

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