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Just finished reading ..
Hogfather (Pratchett) (2013)
★★★★☆
In which Terry riffs on AI a decade in advance.
#booktoot #fantasy #pratchett
https://amzn.to/3MWgASG

Talon de chaussette de nouvel an, que je vais porter le 1er janvier pour être précise. Je devrais terminer cette deuxième #chaussette demain.

J'aime bien ce genre de talon, on peut faire des motifs sympas. Ici une chouette #ankh qui est l'emblème de la cité #AnkhMorpork des Annales du Disque-monde de #Pratchett.

Et oui, les aiguilles sont tordues parce qu'elles ont été fabriquées comme ça. Elles sont très agréables à utiliser.

La grille est en ligne :
https://www.aiguilles-magiques.com/Grille-chouette-Ankh

#tricot #knitting

Motif de tricot : chouette stylisée brune sur fond bleu foncé. L'ankh est en bleu sur le ventre de la chouette.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.
--alt.fan.pratchett

#Discworld #pratchett

Turtles (and frogs) all the way down!

A beautiful sculpture seen in Sun Moon Lake Wen Wu Temple (日月潭文武廟) in Taiwan.

#taiwan #pratchett

A sculpture in a small pond. It represents 3 turtles piled on top of each others with multiple frogs on their heads and backs.

After #Pratchett & Hogfather, here's another British author for this time of year. You think you know #Dickens #Christmas Carol? Do you remember this scene, when the 2nd Ghost shows who has been hiding under his robe?
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They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.

“Spirit! are they yours?” Scrooge could say no more.

“They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!” cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. “Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And bide the end!”

“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.

“Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”

Techbros scraping data for training

#ai #pratchett

A scene from "The Hogfather". Two thugs are stealing documents from the Tooth Fairy castle. Thug A says "If we steal them, will they be ours?"

And Thug B asks back "Is that a trick question?"

LUDZIE POTRZEBUJĄ FANTAZJI, ŻEBY BYĆ LUDŹMI. ŻEBY BYĆ TYM MIEJSCEM, GDZIE SPADAJĄCY ANIOŁ SPOTYKA SIĘ Z WSTĘPUJĄCĄ MAŁPĄ.
-Wróżki Zębuszki? Wiedźmikołaje? Małe...
TAK. JAKO ĆWICZENIE. MUSICIE ZACZĄĆ OD NAUKI WIARY W MAŁE KŁAMSTWA.
-Żebyśmy potem mogli uwierzyć w wielkie?
TAK. SPRAWIEDLIWOŚĆ. MIŁOSIERDZIE. OBOWIĄZEK. TAKIE RZECZY.

Wiedźmikołaj, Terry Pratchett

#gwiazdka #Mikołaj #święta #Pratchett

"BERGHOLT STUTTLEY JOHNSON!! I just asked you to build a bloody fire escape – how did you do THAT wrong?"
"I got… enthusiastic."

#Sculpture “A Spring in Your Step” by Alex Chinneck

#Pratchett #StreetArt #Brighton #photography

A metal structure on the side of a building looks like a fire escape towards the bottom, but as it goes up, the metal bars curve away in different directions, looking like a broken spring

Happy Hogswatch to those who mark it #Hogswatch #Hogfather #Discworld #Pratchett

Was filling up the Jellyfin server with my DVDs, right up until I ripped Terry Pratchett‘s Wyrd Sisters.
Sometimes you just have to stop to watch something. 😂🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️
#jellyfin #dvd #wyrdsisters #pratchett #terrypratchett

@Shoeberi nie mam szczególnych preferencji,
ale przypomniałeś mi że chętnie bym obejrzała Wiedźmikołaja ze świata dysku.
dawno nie widziałam.
ogólnie te #pratchett.owe stare brytyjskie bym obejrzała. jak pamiętam, były ok.
widziałam kolor magii/ blask fantastyczny, wiedźmikołaja i trollowy most. ale dawno.

Draußen isses kalt und dunkel, also Vorlesen... Kind zwei weiss es noch nicht, aber für den Drittklässler beginnt gleich ein neuer Lebensabschnitt.

#pratchett #scheibenwelt #discworld #parentingdoneright

@MatthiasLohrer Queen. Und Beethoven. 😁

#pratchett

@SuperMoosie Oddly, as I typed my comment I was reminded of a great throwaway line in a #Pratchett novel where a big old bruiser tough guy had a child's book at his bedside with a carefully placed bookmark between pages 3 and 4... 😂

Crowley: “For my money, the really big one will be all of Us against all of Them” https://alecmuffett.com/article/134978 #censorship #china #pratchett #russia #surveillance #trump

Crowley: “For my money, the re...

Crowley: “For my money, the really big one will be all of Us against all of Them”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/134978
#censorship #china #pratchett #russia #surveillance #trump

Crowley: “For my money, the really big one will be all of Us against all of Them”

Below, me, in 2014/earlier, reflecting upon the perpetual war of intelligence agencies upon & against their citizens’ privacy.

Elsewhere: Politico reports “How a new Russia-China-US network could work…” archived at https://archive.ph/IUvMS

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/547172396537753600

#censorship #china #pratchett #russia #surveillance #trump

Дачытаў Wintersmith - трыццаць пятую кнігу (з 41) з цыклу аб Плоскім свеце Тэрры Пратчэта. Кніга расказвае пра чарговыя прыгоды юнай ведзьмы Ціфані Эйчынг.
У кнізе вельмі шмат зімовых вайбаў і добрага гумару, і зараз самы час для такой літаратуры🎄☃️

#pratchett #discworld #books

#pratchett

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