Janet

Employment jelly, repost for a job you'll love and deserve

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies.

I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

"You're arresting Unmentionables?"

"No uniform. No badge. Carrying weapons. Let's have a bit of law around here, shall we," said Vimes.

"We'll get into trouble!" Knock shouted.

"We're in trouble anyway, Winsborough," he said. "It's just a case of deciding what kind we want."

-- Night Watch, STP

Second-hand feels from characters you've created is a trip 🤣 sometimes good, sometimes cringe, but always a trip.

Currently feeling second-hand trans joy thanks to a character's happiness at preparing for her coming out party ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I love a respectful challenge to my thinking. You gotta understand that all the questions I’m going to ask indicate my interest in understanding your position, and do not reflect either agreement or disagreement. You might be able to change my mind, but be able to accept that you can’t.

A picture of Sir Terry Pratchett's busy, against a grey curtain backdrop. Overlaid in white text is: Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years', thirty years', ten years' time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia. Almost always Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies

Sort of. It was:
"the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters"
Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (Discworld, #18)

This is exactly how my brain works... They often hover over my shoulder and give opinions on the shit I'm doing, whether I wanted their opinion or not 🤣

Also the more you do this, the more likely it is they'll just out and *tell* you about themselves (if your brain works that way).

Including sometimes giving you very different answers than the ones you were expecting/turning out to have much more complex opinions or feelings about certain things.

I can't count! 35 years ago. Sheesh...

Equal Rites was the first Terry Pratchett I ever read, 25 years ago. It's an amazing book and got me into the Discworld. You have an amazing journey ahead 🥰

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THE BIGGEST NEWS! Rob and I are offering up a hand-signed hardback, first edition/first printing copy of Monstrous Regiment straight from the Pratchett archives. Those who know the story will know why it’s a pertinent one for this cause. (More pics to come.)

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A photo of Terry Pratchett, looking at the camera with his head resting on his hand. Overlaid with white text is: "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorant." Terry Pratchett

Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.

It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

A post by Josh Kirby art depicting a quote from Terry Pratchett on the left and Josh Kirby's art on the right. The quote is: "What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." TERRY PRATCHETT The art depicts, from L to R, DEATH, Angua, and Captain Carrot sat at a long desk with their respective nameplates in front of them.

A screenshot of a post by persephinae "Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he'd thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist's sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett's last few books seemed to be related to them. 'There's only one true evil in the world,' he said through his characters. 'And that's treating people like they were things.' And in the last of his 'grown-up' Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you'll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they're a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don't even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone." John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

A grey t-shirt spread out on a desk. The writing on the t-shirt reads: Read books. Drink tea. Protect trans kids.

My new T-Shirt has arrived! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

For the sake of fuck!

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Your daily horoscope:
Today you will feel like a canyon - ragged, crumbling, and filled with shadow.

Screenshot showing text with "LGB" circled, noticeably missing the "TQIA+" Text: LGB travelers can face special challenges abroad. Laws and attitudes in some countries may affect safety and ease of travel. Many countries do not recognize same-sex marriage.Many countries also only recognize the male and female sex markers in passports and do not have IT systems at ports of entry that can accept other sex markers. About 70 countries still consider consensual same-sex relations a crime. In some of these countries, individuals who engage in same-sex sexual relations may face severe punishment.

These ghouls have decided to 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 carry out trans erasure, along with erasing other marginalised groups.

Hypocritical and disgraceful!

It's a chaotic time. Have you eaten something today? Taken your meds? Gone for a walk outside? Called a friend recently or made plans to see one in person?

It's tempting to rot in bed or doomscroll all day. I get it. You still deserve moments of joy and enough time to rest.

*stares directly into camera, specifically at all the people who told me I was being dramatic when I said they would attempt this*

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Picture of a tabby and white cat, lying on a grey blanket and looking at the camera. His white tipped paws are resting in the crease of an open book

My reading companion the other day 🥰 he's just so beautiful.

“He Seemed OK!”

“Yes. He was good at seeming.”

- Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

"There's no greys, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that--" "No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--" "But they starts with thinking about people as things..." Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett

A photo of Sir Terry Pratchett with text that says: Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. Terry Pratchett English humourist, satirist and author (1948-2015)

Pictured: quote from Terry Pratchett stating “JRR Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is, in fact, standing on Mt. Fuji.”

Beautiful sky tonight. The sun is setting and the clouds have turned a range of colours from mauve to orange against a pale blue sky

Beautiful sky tonight. The sun is setting and the clouds have turned a range of colours from mauve to orange against a pale blue sky

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain calibre. - Terry Pratchett (the Last Continent)