Post #1745853
2026-04-28 12:26 UTC
Replies (15)
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@baeuchle@gruene.social 2026-04-28 13:27
@VanessaK every. Day. Is Sir Terry Day if you do it right.
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@matera@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-28 13:29
@VanessaK But...isn't that every day? #TerryPratchett
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@numodular@c.im 2026-04-28 14:51
@VanessaK He helped me learn more of the necessity of 'PREscient', instead of mostly post defacto 'hindsight = 20/20' science. As usual, the priority is in a sustainable 'middle range', of perpetual change*. *not a rap on such a meaningful memory
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@exT0LI@beige.party 2026-04-28 14:59
@VanessaK I must remember that quote next time I ask an awkward question that I'm not only getting rejected for a date, but that I am also doing science
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@discobeez@mas.to 2026-04-28 15:55
@VanessaK what a legend
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@ddetmer@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 16:40
@VanessaK EVERY DAY IS SIR TERRY DAY!!! Find one of his books read it and donate it to a friend, buy another! I think it’s better than therapy!!!
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@PeachMcD@union.place 2026-04-28 17:02
@VanessaK Every day #GNUTerryPratchett
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@FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 17:10
@VanessaK Good we don't have a Jordan Peterson day to follow. "Define science". "Define real". "Define method". "Define feel good"
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@pa27@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 17:35
@VanessaK Great quote... Every day should be TP day!
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@bit@ohai.social 2026-04-28 18:04
@VanessaK His hat, from this perspective, almost looks like a wizard hat.
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@jmax@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 19:29
@VanessaK Nor is it building gadgets.
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@vex@kolektiva.social 2026-04-28 21:01
@VanessaK ironic use of the very thing he claims science precludes. Unfortunately misinformation is very much upheld as "science", & science has been used to justify atrocities. Science is as much the good stuff as it is the bad, & it is largely dependent on institutions that have (or will) bent the knee to fascism.
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@bms48@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 22:55
@VanessaK @Su_G #TerryPratchett was the originator of the sayings "Lie-to-Children", and "There's no justice: there's just *us*." I read The Dark Side of the Sun, #strata and a boatload of #Discworld novels in my early teens, shortly before discovering @gregeganSF 's work Quarantine.
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@Emerson61@toot.community 2026-04-29 01:56
@VanessaK try posting this on science Lemmy...
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@VanessaK@mastodon.scot 2026-04-29 10:00
@Globalcultivator123 Sorry no, I don't know much about farming.