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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Fifth Elephant

“Well . . . if it happened . . . if it did . . . would you do what Vimes did? Carrot? Would it be you who picked up a weapon and came after me? I know you won’t lie. I’ve got to know. Would it be you?”
A little snow slid down from the trees. The wolves watched. Carrot looked up for a moment, at the gray sky, and then nodded.
“Yes.”
She sighed.
“Promise?” she said.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

“how much shit can you deny yourself? cheese, gender, the fuck’s next?” truly humanity is a rich text

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was also going to suggest Chrestomanci / Diana Wynne Jones, though it looks like most of her books in audio form are abridged? The Dark Lord of Derkholm is in audio unabridged, as is Howl’s Moving Castle though that might be a bit much romance?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad “‘Blessings be on this house,’ Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Them: I’m in the computer science department (AI fanboy, extractive labor, lack of consent, thinks they’ve built god) Me: I’m in the computer science department (the kind of dweeb excited by the combination of a disc drive and number pad)

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026

I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/09/2026

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand-saw.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(I've now sent myself down a personal rabbithole because I initially typed 'unremarked on' but I think a queernormative setting still allows for e.g. coming out, ceremonies, choosing how you identify and changing that, celebrating that, but without angst or pushback?)

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

E.g. Murderbot and Wayfarers series are queernormative but if there was a planet/city somewhere in the whole setting that had different norms, given size of setting that wouldn't necessarily take me out of it. But POV characters and associates live in a world where queerness is norm.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Prob where within the primary setting/community of the story, queer characters aren't experiencing bigotry for being queer, relationships and family structures of all types are equally normalised, same with gender identity and expression. Maybe not that the whole universe of the story is like that?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You'd certainly hope so! Obviously everyone has their own preferences on access, so maybe it's more like her own kitchen as it is and she thought that would be easier to get used to or etc

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thomas, again. The bar for being arrested and brought to justice is clearly very high in this country, unless you're a shoplifter or carry a Palestinian flag.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

... That doesn't look like a correctly adapted bench for Molly, right? You'd imagine a bench she could get under and a higher oven might help for wheelchair access (and maybe lower dropping chance 🫣). Though optimistically they asked her and she just didn't want anything changed! #gbbo

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don't do guesswork nonsense for your week ONE technical. #gbbo

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sure, it would be nice if Spurs were ever in Squires for non 'being a nonsense club' reasons, but you do have to appreciate the description of Saturday as "a couple of late, possibly sarcastic, goals".

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Giorgio Locatelli clearly just thinks Lauren Steadman is swell. She keeps a tidy bench, she shrugs and figures out how to quenelle one-handed, she opened comp with sushi like she couldn't imagine why not. He keeps appearing in background watching her fondly, and it's very cute. #CelebrityMasterchef

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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 16/09/2026

The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend legal discrimination protections to people in polyamorous relationships and people who identify as pansexual and asexual.

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Seattle makes polyamorous and asexual people a protected class

The legislation extends LGBTQ+ civil rights protections to pansexual, asexual, and polyamorous people.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m not an action person, but this is top-tier accessibility. The idea of being able to adjust based on my own capacity—which changes! Not everyone’s does, which makes one size fits all tweaks frustrating—is amazing.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If I were in that room, I would pitch that the premise should be: It's time to play the music; it's time to light the lights. Indeed, it's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m so fascinated by Ben McKenzie and his life trajectory. What a fascinating and thoughtful dude.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I needed help, I didn’t want anyone to touch me. These were two mutually exclusive states.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The cranberries being dried feels wrong to me, but on a flavour profile level halloumi with like a cranberry sauce does sound like something that could work? (Or at least, something I'd try.) The vegetable omelette it was alongside is the pairing that makes the whole thing upsetting!

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Broken brain helpfully responding to Sisyphean anxiety list with infinite loop of: "Well that's great, but I'm late, and I'd hate to delay her" (Buffy) "George Washington's coming home." (Hamilton) "One day more" (Les Mis) "She'll get pissed, if I'm missed, see my sister's the slayer" (Buffy again)

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My favourite painting in the Ulster Museum ❤️

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

😄 like it hits some genuinely lovely emotional beats - and is so pretty to look at - but it is also properly laugh out loud funny. I'm talking myself into a rewatch now!

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love Hilda (and Alfur. And Twig, and Frida and David) so much.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We visited Toronto this summer and were extremely charmed to discover the nearby bento place had an Irish-Chinese section on its menu. So whatever the challenges finding one in England/Italy you can for sure eat a spice bag while looking out at Lake Ontario. #CelebrityMasterchef

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On Earth 2, we can't believe how good the new HBO Animorphs show looks. "They nailed the morphing," people enthuse. The nonbinary actor playing Ax's human morph is cutting it up on the Las Culturistas podcast. The actress playing Rachel has handcuffed herself to a data center

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 02/09/2026

"Gold-colored but struck from base metal" sounds like a sick Shakespearean burn

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

literally every day in the UK, a twenty-nine-year-old chooses not to breastfeed a baby that they actually have and are responsible for feeding and if that is none of your business -- which it fucking isn't -- then the idea that a trans man will not breastfeed a *hypothetical future baby* also is not

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Does feel like ideally you would avoid a collision of school girl uniforms, a famously pre-teen heroine, and Patrick using the word sexy in the feedback. Have to have been easier options even if you weren't doing kidswear or costumes.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

AI: When you absolutely do not want your customers to find your restaurant.

An AI map directing customers to their restaurant. Parneel Street is now a river. O'Connell St goes in the wrong direction. Parnell Square is on the wrong side of the Jervis Shopping Centre.

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Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you see “dolls” in a course title and do not immediately realize that the instructor will use dolls as a lens to think about other things—gender, parenting/childhood, consumerism, etc.—then you couldn’t teach your way out of a wet paper bag and your opinions about teaching are garbage.

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seems he had Sávio on the shirts pre City, but Brazil used Savinho (the diminutive) on his shirt so he used that one instead when he moved? Don't think he's said why the change back, maybe just wanted a reset? Worked tonight anyway!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

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Laura Bradley @lcbradley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I enjoyed cook-along as a new round, but when they announced advantage I was thinking: Joe can stop Giorgio and get personalised explanation; or if we're feeling meaner maybe Joe can stop everyone else for a minute so they have to scramble to catch up. Mildly better sightline did feel meaningless!

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