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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/08/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals “The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.”
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It’s meant a huge amount to me! First book where I really saw my chronic illness reflected. It was published when I was just starting to realise the miraculous recovery I’d been planning on wasn’t coming, and helped me come to terms with trying to live a good life alongside illness
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Ella Baron @ellabaron.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Wednesday's @theguardian.com cartoon #WelfareReformBill theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/06/2025
Bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men “Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"He asked you to shoot at people who weren’t shooting back,” growled Vimes, striding forward, “That makes him insane, wouldn’t you say?” “They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon. “So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do." Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Why does your library matter to you? ❤️📚 We asked 2,000 Scots that question and this is what they told us: www.scottishbooktrust.com/our-research...
Poster with map of Scotland that reads 'Why libraries matter. Final report: The value and impact of Scotland's public libraries.'Text on orange poster reads: We surveyed 2,000 library users across Scotland. You told us about:
 
How invaluable library staff are
 
The financial relief libraries afford
 
An endless variety in community activity within your libraries
 
A safe and welcoming space for marginalised identitiesPoster with a closed sign at the top. It reads: 'Our research indicates that 1 in 8 of Scotland's public libraries have closed between 2008 and 2024. That's 97 libraries. The copy of this poster is a list of recommendations based on the research Scottish Book Trust has produced. The copy reads: 'Our recommendations:
 
1. Scottish Government publishes a legal definition of what an 'adequate' public library service is
 
2. Scottish Government empowers local authorities with sufficient funding and resources
 
3. Local authorities train and support their librarians
 
4. Local authorities publish annual reports that detail their library provision
 
5. Public libraries are supported to develop a service improvement culture
 
6. More members of the public engage with their local library'
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Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Keir_Starmer you say Labour is the party of work, why then is it, that for the first time in 15 yrs I’m being forced out of a job I love because of a DWP decision made on your watch? I desperately want to concentrate on my job but I can only work with the right support 4/4
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/04/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures "If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd."
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’m seeing even well-meaning accounts criticise disability cuts as hitting “the most vulnerable.” Reminder: disabled people are not inherently vulnerable. We are vulnerable when governments choose to withhold the resources disabled people need to live dignified and secure lives.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's the time of year when I see articles telling folks to put pet fur out for bird nesting. The Cornell ornithology lab does not recommend this! Flea/tick treatments & shampoos can be toxic, long fur can entangle chicks, etc. There are much better alternatives: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/providi...
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Providing Nest Material for Birds: Dos & Don'ts
Rufous Hummingbird by Penny Hall/Birdshare. Most birds build some kind of structure to contain their eggs and nestlings. A bird's nest may be as simple as a nighthawk's or Killdeer's depression on ...
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
One more time for ministers at the back: it’s entirely possible to be a taxpayer and to receive benefits. As someone currently in the mid-tax band and on PIP, I’m more than happy for my earnings to help people who can’t work - and to pick up the state support I’m entitled to.
But Reeves herself seems in no mood to back down. In an interview on BBC Breakfast this morning, where she was responding to the growth figures, Reeves was asked about the plans for welfare cuts. She replied:

We will set out our plans for welfare reform, but it is absolutely clear that the current system is not working for anyone.
It is not working for people who need support, it’s not working to get people into work so that more people can fulfil their potential, and it’s not working for the taxpayer when the bill for welfare is going up by billions of pounds in the next few years.
So, we do need to get a grip. We need to spend more on national defence, but we need to reform our public services, and we need to reform our broken welfare system.
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Though this might throw a spanner in theory of how he might literally come face to face with a past thing in a few months
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I really appreciated the little breadcrumbs in TSR where I thought oooh that’s going to be important later, ohhhhh no that’s on cctv and can be construed wrong in this entire situation…and then it went in totally different direction! Love it when expectations are subverted like that
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Haha, first one involved Melissa. Second one is Josh’s army past and related trauma. I’ll be gutted if it never comes up again and my pinboard is for nothing 🤣🤣🤣
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
So I found the reddit group, via which I realised ARCs are out in the world, so I got the ARC…and OMG!!! Amazing! Loved it so much (also one theory was spot on, except for how the whole thing ended. I’m still convinced the other one will pop up at some point in the future but that may be delusion 🤣)
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If anyone has photographic evidence of this it’s you
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
(I am secretly so convinced my theories are correct, despite never having predicted the killer in one of your books, that I don’t want to put them in a public forum in case I ruin it for everyone 🤣🤦‍♀️)
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Mind. Blown. Off to find my people!
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
After a series re-read last year I literally have notes on Josh and Maeve highlighting what I think might be breadcrumbs for future (and past) developments 😂
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall covered in posters .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall covered in posters .
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Have just learned that birds have tongues! #Winterwatch
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Very beautiful read! I’m convinced everyone feels melancholy at Christmas and needs the light in the dark, it just depends how willing they are to admit it
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swimmingducks.bsky.social @swimmingducks.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
You need the great @jennycolgan.bsky.social!
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