CiaraMar 22
Every time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.
Show threadCiaraMar 22

Ditto:

'Why are you still on Bluesky too?'

'But did you *delete* your Twitter account?'

’You said you switched to Proton mail too, oh that’s bad, once someone at Proton said something’

It’s nice to see new neighbours move into the Fediverse. It feels unwelcoming to see people immediately interview them about the purity of their intentions. Or telling them You’re Doing It Wrong. They've just arrived on a journey away from Big Tech. Maybe they'd prefer to be offered a seat and a cup of tea.

Show threadJim DalyMar 22
@CiaraNi And maybe a nice biscuit or a scone.
Show threadCiaraMar 22
@psneeze Someone would immediately tell them they pronounced Scone the wrong way.
Show threadCiaraMar 22
@psneeze That someone would be me, if they pronounced it Skon, not scone-rhymes-with-Eoghan
Show threadJim DalyMar 22
@CiaraNi 100% it's Eoghan!
Show threadCiaraMar 22
@psneeze Yes it is! I can't believe there are people who walk this earth saying Skon Skon Skon.
Show threadDavid BridgerMar 22
@CiaraNi I say skon. It's the correct way, a northern hill to die on.
Show threadMattChippytea
@DavidBridger @CiaraNi there were few survivors of the scone/skon wars. #skonskonskon
Mar 22 at 9:58amWeb
Show threadCiaraMar 22

@Wifiwits @DavidBridger This has happily reminded me of one of the happiest moments of my life, the moment when I learnt that the Scone of Stone in the Discworld is based on an actual real Stone of Scone in Scotland.

#SconeRyhmesWithEoghan
#SconeNotSkon

Show threadKevin SmithMar 23
@CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger I remember when It showed up in Thud (I think) and I was so glad I understood the reference, thanks purely to an episode of #HighlanderTheSeries
Show threadCiaraMar 24

@smithkm Both Pratchett's general knowledge and his imagination were (and are) a thing of beauty

@Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Show threadMissConstrueMar 24
@CiaraNi @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Omg, same!
Show threadrobMar 22
@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi most of the survivors were muffins and bagels, thus forever changing English tea habits.
Show threadCiaraMar 22
@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger Winners write the history of wars
Show threadDavid NashMar 22

@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi

Someday, given the dubious existence of the “cronut”, there is going to be a cross-breed between scones and doughnuts (or donuts, for us USAians).

Will it be spelled sconut or scoughnut? Will it rhyme with do(ugh)nut or sound more like “sonnet”? And don’t get me started on the Skoonuts the town of Scone will make.

Show threadrobMar 22
@dpnash @Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Sonnet. It will have to be sonnet.
Show threadDavid NashMar 22
@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Excellent. “Scoughnut” it is, “ough” pronounced with the vowel in “cot” (which may be yet another freaking “ough” sound, if you pronounce “ought” or “bought” with the “or” vowel rather than the “cot” vowel).
Show threadCiaraMar 24
@robparsons It has a ring to it.
@dpnash @Wifiwits @DavidBridger
Show threadCiaraMar 24

@dpnash Skoonuts. I can see a hipster fashion for those.

@robparsons @Wifiwits @DavidBridger

Show threadDavid NashMar 22
@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi Which "skon" do you mean? In the IPA, /skon/ is something that sounds like scone, rather than one that sounds like skon. Ok, to be clearer, something that sounds like tone, rather than something that sounds like gone.
Show threadMissConstrueMar 24

@Wifiwits @DavidBridger @CiaraNi

Verily, the field was filled with crumbs and clotted cream, jam haphazardly flung, dripping deliciously from the tendrils of spring poking through the forsaken ground of such a war.
The survivors, weakly waving their strawberries of surrender, leave this buttered valley of woe, only to be confronted by an American from the Deep South who says, “why are y’all fightin’ over sweet biscuits?”

The tragedy, oh the humanity.

Show threadCiaraMar 24
@MissConstrue Ha ha - oh the humanity indeed
@Wifiwits @DavidBridger