Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

Look it’s either this or a cruel unfair system of taxation where Jeff Bezos goes from having 419 billion dollars to 417 billion dollars

We must not become less of ourselves in the face of annihilation. We must hold to who we are, hold tight to our joys. i came into this world dead, grey and silent. I shall go out of strange, full of love and wondrous curiosity. I shall go a fully-grown changeling with a kiss of intent on my lips.

“Fly me to the Moon, let me play among the stars” - - Frank Sinatra “I need to borrow your rocket, I ain’t telling you why” - Evasive Sinatra

ok how do they even know it’s there?

Waking up and remembering it's a Bank Holiday ... #MondayMotivation

Happy Easter from the bunnies at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire (and us!).

My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I think everyone would agree that the police and MPs shouldn’t be shoplifting.

#Eggs at #Easter relate to ideas of new life in the #Spring. Painted eggshells by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt

Originally, of course, it was Storm UK Gold Classics.

A reminder there is no way to ever please a narcissist or be safe in any sort of relationship with them.

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The stuff about him has been known for years of course but it's heartening that people are finding out

She's just told him the baby is his x

(sweet caroline voice) TOM BOMBADIL

Can’t even have Spurs appoint Jermain Defoe as their interim manager. Because of Woking.

Matt is much better at his job than any ai and requires substantially less cooling.

I have comprehensively done my 50th birthday. Partied last night and I believe a good time was had by all 🥂🪩❤️

They're not going to tell us what it is, though.

At the hairdressers. Grabbed a stack of magazines to read. And immediately picked up my phone 🙄

Project Hail MARY MOTHER OF GOD

"We are NOT overgrown school bullies" claim middle aged columnists, politicians & billionaires forcing actual school children they will never meet out of club they share with their friends

It sickens me to my stomach that the existence of trans people has been wedged into the gap created by successive government's failure to deal with real national problems and made into something so grotesque as to exclude children from their friendship groups.

I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason why I’ve got Weather With You by Crowded House going round in my head, but I’ll be damned if I know what it is.

Just for the record, we love that MK is now a city, but we take a very traditional view of city requirements: a city needs a cathedral, a royal charter, and a Games Workshop

You're not really supposed to talk about this.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Is the Pet Shop Boys song "West End Girls" about the West End of London? If so why does it refer to "a West End *town*, a dead end world"? Is the implication that, eg Mayfair is like a town inside the boundaries of the city? Or is the song actually about, say, Truro?

I’ve had an awful time at work recently. Like, submitting serious forms to HR awful. But…today the sun’s been shining, I’ve taken delivery of nice things as it’s my birthday soon. I’ve showered & done lovely skincare, and now I’m in my pyjamas with a glass of champagne. Yes, thank you, I need this.

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Can we have an article about why men don't change their last names? The reasons they give are the reasons why women shouldn't change theirs. Make your personal choices to suit you. Just be aware that in Anglo patriarchal culture, it's women as male property all the way down.

Christ, it’s Friday, isn’t it?

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 496 euge! ver adest et sol lucet (Hooray! Spring is here and the sun is shining). Silvius in ramulo salicis sedet, amenta lanata spectans (Silvius is sitting on a willow twig, looking at the furry catkins).

Corrin’s banquet approach to butter is my everyday approach to butter #GreatBritishMenu #GBM

Important update:

A funny clip from our recent 150th episode of YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about the invention of the Telephone — with Professor @irmorus.bsky.social and comedian Catherine Bohart Catherine is now joining us in Cardiff for the YDTM Live Tour on April 9th. Get your tickets at www.YoureDeadToMeLive.com

Whenever I've posted about this fact online people try to catch me out as a liar in the dumbest possible way. They go "erm I THINK that cat would be dead by now..." YEAH M8 THE FILM IS 40 YEARS OLD OF COURSE HE'S FUCKING DEAD. But, and this will shock you, at one point in the past: he was alive.

[Sade voice 🎵]

Happy Mothering Sunday!

Octopus, I ask you. If it can open the jar of sauce you want to cook it in then you shouldn't be eating it. Rule to live by, that.

If you see food which needs frying in a shallow pan at a high heat text your local chef at 61016. See it, say it, sautéed.

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

Can't believe they didn't go with Rambo No 5

Good evening from me and Carl Sandburg.

Bikes named after inspirational cyclists for International Women's Day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fact. The screwdriver that tightens the arms of spectacles is only available inside Christmas crackers. Opticians have to pull dozens of crackers to get the tools of their trade, and if you look out the back at Specsavers, you’ll find bins full of wire puzzles, hair bobbles and fortune telling fish.

@marmaladekitten.bsky.social Apropos of some recent conversation…