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and here is this year's silly #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #SciArt doodle i spent mine breaking @mariloumercedes.bsky.social python scripts and giving a seminar on @fionatel.bsky.social paper in review 👩‍🔬

Pratchett's co-author of Good Omens talked about how Terry wasn't jolly but rather angry. Looking at this quote from Wyrd Sisters puts that comment into perspective I think.

“If Laxness often wrote about what was wicked, ugly, even horrifying, he did so out of a habit of finding beauty in little else.” On the legacy of Iceland’s Nobel laureate, Halldór Laxness, and A Parish Chronicle.

Wouldn't be a #WyrdWednesday without Necropants! Need money? Icelandic tradition would advise (though I would not) you dig up a dead man and make from his skin Nábrók, Death Underpants. They're not stylish, but when you've got money, you set the style, right?

Here’s a poem called ‘Talking Down’.

I saw someone saying they were older than Google online and that the younger people being surprised. Of course I couldn't resist checking and discovered that I'm WAY OLDER than Google. Of course I also first got online on a 14'400 baud modem, used Kermit, and frequented a BBS...

Squeeeeee!

Appropriate since apparently there's something going on with superb owls today.

Post a character that starts with G.

Most witches' familiars are remnants of the holy animals of pagan deities, now applied to witches who in some cases continued pre-Christian folk magic and religion. Cats, for example, are holy to the Nordic "witch goddess" Freyja, and Egyptian Bast. #FolkloreSunday 🖼: D. Zemba

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

7. Makes me emotional The First Snow with Jung Joonil from the #Kdrama Goblin. youtu.be/56txiKgYT3E #ostdramachallenge

It’s okay to notice them. But we don’t have to keep them. Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛🤍

Here’s a poem called ‘An Attempt to Write an Abecedarian Poem in Praise of the Dictionary’.

Look at my little girls. I love how HaNa is almost hidden behind Una, with only her head visible.

Not watching TV means I have lots of listening time. However, it is easier to play on the phone when I'm listening than when watching Kdrama as I need to keep my eyes on the subtitles. I can knit regardless of if I'm watching or listening. Perhaps more TV time and less phone time is a good idea.

I have always thought that if you need the fear of a vengeful God to do the right thing then you aren't really a good person.

Back to yoga classes. This is the first week since before Christmas and I'm glad to be back.

I have never seen my sleep "issues" described so well. When I got my first fitness tracker that tracked my sleep and I saw how I was in deep sleep between 7 and 9 in the morning it finally made sense why it was SO hard to wake up.

Activating the Kevin Network! Does anyone know?

But this is why I like the witches.

See a goblin, post a goblin.

Younger assassins, who are usually very poor, have very clear ideas about the morality of wealth until they become older assassins, who are usually very rich, when they begin to take the view that injustice has its good points. - Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

I just got home from seeing the French movie Reckless Summer (Cléves) at the French film festival. There was a Q&A with the author of the book and the director as well. The director, Rodolphe Tissot, used an intimacy coordinator - the first for a French film. www.imdb.com/title/tt1511...

I loved this scene when watching the episode 💙🫰🏻💙

I am having a great conversation about this elsewhere. I wonder what the opinion of #booksky is. Studies have shown men being drawn to male protagonists and women having no preference. However, in this study the men were given something to read so no free choice. www.reddit.com/r/books/comm...

It was the kind of audacious idea that can make a fortune. Combine a widely loved concept with a just as widely loved item. What could go wrong? Pre-opening sign-ups filled up in minutes. In practice, though, they couldn't make the cat library work. "They won't stay on the shelves."

You needed at least three witches for a coven. Two witches was just an argument. - Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

One might suspect that following a trip to the vet (annual check up + vaccination) on Tuesday the backpack carrier might have difficult feelings associated with it. Not for this big boy (5.56kg/12lbs4oz). He's repeatedly sought it out to nap in it.

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” - Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of innocents everywhere. - Terry Pratchett, Fifth Elephant

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money "‘Even tyrants have to obey the law.’ He paused, looking thoughtful, and continued: ‘No, I tell a lie, tyrants do not have to obey the law, obviously, but they do have to observe the niceties.’"

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. - Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Pratchett was great when it came to explaining the complicated things like the Big Bang Theory, String Theory, and of course the Uncertainty Principle, just to name a few.

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

Mutual Aid by Dean Spade is free on Libro for the next week (until 2/2).  We know that books can't fix everything, but they can help us show up for and strengthen our communities. Our employee book club read this last year, leading to a great discussion. We hope that it helps others do the same 💗 ⏬

The wizards were entering the special fugue state known as the Hubbub, where no-one was going to be allowed to finish a sentence because someone else would drown them out. It was how the wizards decided things. - Terry Pratchett, The Science of Discworld: The Globe

Granny is awesome 🧙🏻

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."

The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of innocents everywhere. - Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

“But they’re witches. I don’t like to ask them questions.” “Why not?” “They might give me answers. And then what would I do?” - Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

More comics on our website: satwcomic.com

Skæri, blað, steinn ✂️📄🪨 And because it looks like the comic doesn't have alt text: 4 nationalities are represented and their version of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The US = rock, paper, scissors South Korea = scissors, boulder, blanket Sweden = rock, scissors, sack Germany = schnick, schnack, schnuck

Inspire people.

AI is 💩 - a rant. In preparation for class I tried opening the ppt so that I could make notes during class. Keyword => TRIED! Copilot offered to summarize the slides and some other 🐂💩 with no way to just say "open the file". Exited and tried to open it again. More 🐂💩. Third time's the charm 🙄🤯🤮