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Some PTerry quotes that feel especially salient at the moment:

"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."

- Night Watch

Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.

- Jingo

It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.

- Snuff

The poor devils. They thought a king would make them free.

- Feet of Clay

Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say “we’re the good guys” and do bad-guy things. Sometimes the watching watchman inside every good copper’s head could use an extra pair of eyes.

- Thud!

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#rebellions are built on hope alcohol consumption that makes the unbearable weight of a fascist regime somehow manageable 

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that's me in the corner

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i thought "well theyre not that incomprehensible" and then i scrolled down for One Second

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"What will happen when we hit the ground?"

"That depends if I can find some soft rocks," said Granny in a preoccupied voice.

"The broomstick's going to crash! Can't we do anything?"

"Well, I suppose we could get off."

"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."

Eskarina Smith and Granny Weatherwax, Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett

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my experience reading the murderbot diaries 👍

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Murderbot quoting The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon in episodes 1 and 2

Bonus:

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This fail needs to be documented

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They did the job they didn’t have to do, and they died doing it

happy glorious 25th of may

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actually the funniest election season moment was the current (and as of tonight, continuing!) prime minister going on the radio and dedicating "am I ever going to see your face again" by the angels to the opposition leader - a song that, when played in Australia, is accompanied by a mandatory response from the crowd of "no way, get fucked, fuck off"

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lowkey forgot how ass my editing skills were but idc be free its the vibes that count

also @introverted-author

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they did it again

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I love it when Game changer screenshots look like fever dreams

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reading terry prattchet is so crazy, cause you'll be reading about a character called something like plinko plonko and their zany exploits, and then he'll just drop a paragraph that goes so insanely hard like -

and then I just have to stare at the wall for a bit.