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discWorld order @discworldorder.bsky.social · 20h

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents episode of Discworld Order is out now. @iversen83.bsky.social talks about the novel that made him a Discworld fan & how Pratchett adapted the Discworld formula for a children's book. 📦 bit.ly/4z8SfMc 🍎 bit.ly/3Vk0iap 🟢 bit.ly/3TbXSdm

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It sounds like so many people who worked with Pac were drawn to him as a person. Pac's 2007 RoH weekend has a rarely told story. Between this match and the next nights match, Pac did not get a chance to show what he could do. A lot of that was how his opponents laid things out.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pac was on the first wrestling show that I saw live. He was in the headline match for the first Britwres show that I travelled for. He was just there. The kind of wrestler you took for granted... I can't believe this. Younger than me.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The British Opinion Columnists make sense when you realise they're a clique of Year 10 girls who've all decided to call Kelly From Maths a bitch and a crybaby and a virgin and a slag until she leaves school (one way or the other), except they're 55.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is what I've been waiting for! It sounds like it has the wild concept sci fi of the the Machineries of Empire, the destruction/weaponised theft of culture from Phoenix Extravagant and Lee's usual themes. I need to pre-order this.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have some very unorthodox views about seabirds but I'm aware that I'm new to ornithology so I'm keeping quiet. I don't want to talk out of tern.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Did you ever wonder what the dragons are thinking in all those dragon rider novels? Well I wrote a story about exactly that. One curmudgeonly dragon has snuck into the academy and has to keep his identity secret. That means pretending to be tame. No matter how much he wants to devour his rider.

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The Dragon Has Some Complaints

"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of tension and heart." —Caitlin Rozakis, New York T...

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is Takayasu being sponsored by a Lazy Susan manufacturer? Every time I see him this basho it seems like he does a 360 spin.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Okay, so this has brought a lot of attention to my book PAGANS, which is great, obviously, but also I'm braced for people shouting at me that the Norman Conquest *didn't* bring Christianity to the UK, as you might think from a quick glance at the blurb, it was here already. CORRECT.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I decided to buy some local art today, on a whim. This little guy just looks so cheerful and vibrant.

A light blue glass bird with an orange beak and big eye standing on a small piece of wood. In front of the bird ia a green glass cactus with red spines.
They are only a few centimetres tall.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Book 77 of 2026: Wickhills by Premee Mohamed (@premeemohamed.com) Wickhills is instantly one of my favourite fantasy cities. An incredibly fascinating setting that I want to read more about. Aside from that, it's an excellent spy thriller with fantasy elements and a brilliantly written protagonist.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/09/2026

Inside of it is a faith hugger

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Going through an art museum and wow, those Vienna lads could NOT be bothered doing whole cherubs. So many flying baby head & shoulders. It's like they only paid the artist for headshots on the background characters.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why do Ent's keep woodpeckers in their hospitals? In case they need to do treepanation.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yesterday, I stumbled across a statue in Budapest that looks like JFK beating the shit out of a hydra with his bare hands.

A head on photo of a statue that looks like JFK punching a hydra in the face.

A side on photo of a statue of a man punching a hydra in the face.
He looks less like JFK from this angle (the man, not the hydra).
Budapest is in the background.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm sorry, rabies is really serious so I shouldn't laugh but worrying your dog might "get autism" is so fucking funny. He already has hyperfixations, carol! He's a fucking dog!

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So I had a fairly aimless 1st day in Budapest. I did so much doubling back and walking through the same areas that my pathing probably resembles the Gordian knot.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL puts his hand in the BOX and pulls out an iphone] PAUL’S INNER MONOLOGUE: Dopamine is the mind-killer

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Those chaps at Oxford are busy crunching the numbers for Dynamite & Raw Ratings...

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

While putting the washing out, this gorgwous girl said hello and sat down on my washing bag. So Ive left the bag outside so she I don't interupt her rest.

A photo of a 1-2cm long black bumble bee with a red/orange abdomen.

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Stuart Millard @franticplanet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Might I say 'fuck', sir?" "Just the once, Jeeves. And certainly not in a sexual context." PG-13 Wodehouse

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maffew going to wXw Grand Prix @maffewgregg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If Triple H is booking Spider-Man now it's bad news for Miles Morales

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So I decided to use some recently received Amazon vouchers to get even MORE books. This is a nice mix of new authors, authors I've started reading in the last year or 2 and an old favourite.

A 3 by 3 grid of book covers on an amazon kindle app library page
Starting with the top left image, the booms are:
- The Dragon has some complaints by John Wiswell
- Wickhills by Premee Mohamed
- Ode to the Half Broken by Suzanne Palmer
- The Girl with the Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean
- Engines of Reason by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Next Enemy Shall Be the Last by Stewart Hotston
- The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson
- Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker
- The Sorceror of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's that time of the year where I have received a lovely amount of Amazon vouchers. I usually spend them on ebooks. So what do YOU recommend? My preferences are scifi/fantasy from less well known authors, ideally with different perspectives than me (a straight white bloke).

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Episode 26 of Discworld Order is out. My little Discworld podcast where I talk to friends, friends of friends and even authors & comic creators about the Discworld novels.

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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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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Im watching the Koabashi vs Hansen rivalry and wow, that 1991 Champions Carnival semi finals match is a fantastic bit of business. Comparing it to their earlier singles matches, they step it up and go big. It really catches you off guard & I love the structure and the finish.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It took until lunch time at work for me to realise "oh shit, I forgot to release the next episode of Discworld Order." Well, im correcting that right now.

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romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The problem with chilling in the garden to read while embracing nature, is that sometimes the nature is 2 flies thinking about doing the nasty on your jeans...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'. 1. They make public seating super comfy.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Veey few non work and non health things this year have felt more daunting than trying to work out who to approach as a guest for a podcast on The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents. At least its something that is relatively low stakes.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Two-Falk

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's September, Hugos have been awarded, so maybe time to look forward rather than back in SFF publishing. Let's look a little bit *further* forward than the next few months though; there are actually a fair few 2027 titles announced at this point. 1 like = 1 2027 SFF release that caught my eye.

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faun @faungrove.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

art Vs artist

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I have recommended this book 3 times in the last 5 days. It's something special, but my 1 regret is reading the blurb and recommendations. Definitely an experience where I think going in as blind as possible will help it get the response it deserves.

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck

This 11,000-Year-Old Statue from Turkey Shows a Man Riding a Leopard.
Archaeologists Aren't Sure
Why
The strange sculpture reverses a recurring Stone Age motif of humans confronting dangerous predators.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It should not surprise people that Im coming back from London with 5 books and 1 graphic novel. I was recently told that I was a coward for thinking about reading books before buying more. I have embraced that ethos.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I love that Kenny Omega decided to lean into adding punches in his last couple of years, but INSTEAD of going the traditional wrestling punch route he channelled boxing, probably from his love of Hajime No Ippo. Like, the punches in the Gabe Kidd match were surely inspired by Ryo Mashiba.

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There was a guy near me at AEW All In who kept saying Botchamania. Except everytime it was either a move that was slightly off or a planned spot designed to aell a leg injury! I wss tempted to turn to him and say "I've met Maffew. I sat a wedding table with him. He would ignore all of that."

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Unsurprisingly, no AEW fans in the Wembly Stadium Laurent-Perrier Champagne bar...

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Monkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm trying something new, created by a friend. It might be worth a try, it only takes a couple of minutes. #approximatr · Aug 28 ⚪🎯⚪⚪⚪ Can you get closer? approximatr.com/vs/JQDvioADk...

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Can you get closer?

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Fantasy is when your Elves come from Ulthuan, science fiction is when your Aeldari come from Ulthwé.

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