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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that.”

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OUGS Social Media @ougeolsoc.bsky.social · 23h

No #halite, no ocean currents. Then where would we all be? Vote for #halite in this #MinCup26 semifinal!

Sinking salt water, floating fresh water, thermohaline circulation

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids

It will certainly show what our ancestors would be thinking if they were alive today. People have often speculated about this. Would they approve of modern society, they ask, would they marvel at present-day achievements? And of course this misses a fundamental point. What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet again. I will give you some free advice, though.”
“Will it cost me anything?”
“What? I just said it was free!” said Miss Tick.
“Yes, but my father said that free advice often turns out to be expensive,” said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sniffed. “You could say this advice is priceless,” she said, “Are you listening?”
“Yes,” said Tiffany.
“Good. Now...if you trust in yourself...”
“Yes?”
“...and believe in your dreams...”
“Yes?”
“...and follow your star...” Miss Tick went on.
“Yes?”
“...you’ll still be beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.

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Daniel A. Walker @danwalker9999.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Halite, the anti-quartz Scratchable Cleavable Soluble Deformable Born in dying oceans, a child of the sun

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh? Men at Arms

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Eric

“But I read where she was the most beautiful—”
“Ah, well,” said the sergeant. “If you’re going to go around reading—”
“The thing is,” said Rincewind quickly, “it’s what they call dramatic necessity. No one’s going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?”
Eric was nearly in tears.
“But it said her face launched a thousand ships—”
“That’s what you call metaphor,” said Rincewind.
“Lying,” the sergeant explained kindly.

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Amy C @thisnicelady.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dolly Parton Day (9-25) should be a federal holiday, celebrated by being joyful and giving books to strangers.

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Dolly Parton Smiling in Pink Dress

Alt: Dolly Parton Smiling in Pink Dress, her giant wig sparkling magically

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero

"That's seven," said Vena. "Seven of us, against one of him. Seven against one.
And he thinks he's going to save the world.
And he knows who we are and he's still going to fight us..."
"You think he's a hero?" cackled Mad Hamish. "Hah! Wha' kind o' hero works for forty-three dollars a month? Plus allowances!"
But the cackle was all alone in the sudden quietness. The Horde could calculate the particular mathematics of heroism quite quickly.
There was, there always was, at the start and finish... the Code. They lived by the Code. You followed the Code, and you became part of the Code for those who followed you. The Code was it. Without the Code, you weren't a hero. You were just a thug in a loincloth.
The Code was quite clear. One brave man against seven... won. They knew it was true. In the past, they'd all relied on it. The higher the odds, the greater the victory.
That was the Code.
Forget the Code, dismiss the Code, deny the Code... and the Code would take you.

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Touhin Panda🤍 @touhin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Omg there are 6 new babies in the troop and precious baby macaque monkey Punch is being a good older bro to all of them🙊

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

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Saavik ‘Careful of the Ankle’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vote for #Halite, literally the MOST lickable rock! #MinCup26

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet!" he hissed. "I'm afraid of grounds!" "You mean heights," said Conina. "And stop being silly." "I know what I mean! It's the grounds that kill you!" 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒚

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The newly discovered cuneiform tablet fragment contains text from a section of the Treaty of Kadesh related to the treatment of Hittite and Egyptian refugees in the Bronze Age (circa 1269 BC). 🧪🏺

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'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Color of Magic

It was the King Color, of which all the lesser colors are merely partial and wishy-washy reflections. It was octarine, the color of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.
But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish purple.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

“You winked at me! I thought you had a plan!”
INDEED. OH, YES. I PLANNED TO SEE WHAT YOU WOULD DO.
“Just that?”
YOU ARE VERY RESOURCEFUL. AND OF COURSE YOU HAVE HAD AN EDUCATION.
“What?”
I DID ADD THE SPARKLY STARS AND THE NOISE, THOUGH. I THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE APPROPRIATE.
“And if I hadn’t done anything?”
I DARESAY I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF SOMETHING. AT THE LAST MINUTE.
“That was the last minute!”
THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR ANOTHER LAST MINUTE.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#TopOfThePops (well - top 10 - momentarily - in the Amazon 🔭Astronomy audio book best seller chart!). Beaten by the several books authored by your main man Brian, G.O.A.T Sagan, and deGrasse Tyson. I'll take that. 🥳 📻: amzn.eu/d/06m17g9B

The front cover of Catherine's Book (moody dark with stars, but peachy-pink and golden at the same time). Ranked #10 in the Audible Audiobook rankings.

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Laurel @laurelfynes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, do grow asters and other fall bloomers by the north shore of the lake if you want to see monarchs gathering in advance of crossing over Lake Ontario on their big migration to Mexico. You’ll be greeted with this sort of treat when the weather is good.

A black and orange monarch butterfly and a bright yellow sulphur butterfly perched among many bees and wasps on rich pink fall asters growing in a grassy area of a sunny park.

Three monarch butterflies clinging to bright pink asters.

A strangely folded monarch butterfly in flight, wings nearly together as it lifts up from pink flowers, the green grass below ending in a blur at a wide expanse of lake under streaky clouds and blue sky.

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Men at Arms

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

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Discworld Bot @discworldbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual! 𝓙𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓸

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth “So... we have what the people are interested in, and human interest stories, which is what humans are interested in, and the public interest, which no one is interested in.”

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Too many people confuse sentence completion with complete sentience.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery

Discworld meme. On the left is Death, a skeleton with glowing blue eye sockets wearing a black robe. Death is petting a small kitten.

On the right is the text of the quote.

“I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?’

Death thought about it.

CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I voted for graphite, but I'm having voter's remorse because I keep thinking about how cassiterite is tin and tin was really important in Roman Britain, my favorite historical time and place. So if there's a last-hour surge for cassiterite, I'll cheer it on. #MinCup #MineralCup2026

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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cassiterite — tin — its usefulness going back to ancient times. Graphite — its usefulness going back to ancient times. How to decide? I just glanced up and noticed my desk lamp — the base is shaped like a pencil. So, I'll vote for the pencil mineral. Graphite it is! #MinCup #MineralCup2026

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 15/09/2026

Do I know any journalists or folks with large platforms who might be up for promoting the launch of some new trans-inclusive fieldwork guidance from researchers at a UK university? It's almost ready for launch and I want to make sure they're seen and used by as many people as possible...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*.

* Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survive having its bristles pulled out one by one in mid-air. According to the small black raven she had trained as a flight recorder, the answer was almost certainly no.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/09/2026

A friend informed me that someone on Bluesky is out there pretending to be me with a private account. I assure you it is not me, nor do I have a private account here. If you're wondering if it's me, my name is my domain name, and also I have a verification check. If you see neither, it's not me!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.

Death took a step backwards.

It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features.

Death glanced sideways at the servants.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Riebeckite: curling stones and asbestos. Gadolinite-(Y): rare earths and radiation. Also thermoluminescence. Gadolinite seems to have a slight edge in Cool Stuff factors — but curling stones outweigh them. So I'm #TeamRiebeckite. #MinCup #Mineralcup2026

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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Do not lick" is always persuasive ("do not even breathe nearby" is downright compelling), but... SALT! This time I'm going with "Yes, lick!" I have many reasons to be #TeamHalite, and one of them is that there's a giant salt mine underneath Detroit. How cool is that? #MinCup #MineralCup2026

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 09/09/2026

The art based scale of pain;

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

He moved the cleaver to his other hand and hammered at the chains again, aware at the back of his mind that more guards were hurrying up, but with that special kind of run that guards had. He knew it well. It was the run that said, there’s a dozen of us, let someone else get there first. It said, he looks ready to kill, no one’s paying me to get killed, maybe if I run slowly enough he’ll get away . . .
No point in spoiling a good day by catching someone.

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