Watching Good Omens S3:Ep1. In which a gangster boss and a demon play Monopoly.
Gangster: You've gotta own everything, and you leave everyone else penniless, crushed, and miserable.
Demon: Sounds like a game only a human could invent.
Gangster: You can be The Shoe.
(A little while later … )
Gangster: Oh dear … that kind of, like, wipes you out … though, still, it's a bloody good game, eh? Penniless, crushed, and miserable.
Darkness can travel faster than light.
A fact #SirTerryPratchett was well aware of...
https://physicsworld.com/a/darkness-can-travel-faster-than-light/
Even though he is no longer here to share it, we wish a happy birthday to the Creator of the Discworld - the one and only Sir Terry Pratchett. "Mud in your bottom!" As Nanny would say.
“History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort
Heute sind es 11 Jahre.
11 Jahre, in denen unsere Welt immer platter und lächerlicher wurde anstatt scheibesker und witziger.
Sie fehlen, #SirTerryPratchett.
On this day in 2009, our favourite author became Sir Terry Pratchett! To mark the occasion, and because a knight ought to have a sword, he had his very own sword forged from Thunderbolt Iron.
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Signs of Sir Terry Pratchett's dementia may have been hidden in his books
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sir-terry-pratchett-dementia-hidden.html
> Signs of Sir Terry Pratchett's dementia may have been present in his writing a decade before his official diagnosis, new research has found. Researchers have examined the lexical diversity—a measure of how varied an author's word choices are—of 33 books from Pratchett's Discworld series, focusing specifically on his use of nouns and adjectives.
Signs of Sir Terry Pratchett's dementia may have been present in his writing a decade before his official diagnosis, new research has found. Researchers have examined the lexical diversity—a measure of how varied an author's word choices are—of 33 books from Pratchett's Discworld series, focusing specifically on his use of nouns and adjectives.
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