Granny Weatherwax

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Old I may be, and hag I may be, but stupid I ain't.

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Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· 7d

I think of this quotation from Terry Pratchett a lot when I hear establishment Dems scolding the base for not being grateful and obedient for whatever they decide our issues are allowed to be once they've been run through focus groups and consultants.

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
(From Terry Pratchett's Night Watch)

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Jun 24

I had not heard of him or this case before, and the article doesn't explain why he persisted in trespassing. I thought maybe he had a delusional disorder, but no, he's just a hateful prick

Burke has been in a long-running legal battle for defying court orders to stay away from a school which dismissed him for gross misconduct arising out of his refusal to use the pronouns preferred by a transgender student.

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· May 4

For future reference

The images shown in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which include a lion, a rhinoceros, and a camel. There are no squirrels (except maybe in a certain felon's attic.)

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Apr 29

Dedra from Andor, a white fascist lady with blond hair, a black hat, and a vibe that says "I will do anything for power"

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Apr 28

I think you can accept that there will come a time to walk with Death, even accept that the time is imminent, and still be sad.

"People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter follows summer. It was not a wrong thing. There were tears, of course, but they were for those who were left; those who had gone on did not need them.”
--I Shall Wear Midnight

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Apr 18

The cover of the book "The Art of Discworld" by Paul Kidby. The painting is a woman in a vaguely Mona Lisa-like pose, with a big cheeky grin and considerably more cleavage than the Mona Lisa

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Apr 9

Merry and Pippin say hello, and why not visit a dog park today?

Two brown fluffy dogs wearing seat belt harnesses and big grins on the way to the dog part. One is also wearing a yellow t shirt because she likes wearing t shirts

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Mar 23

Ready for Saturday. I'm proud of this sign.

No Kings protest sign with large print saying "No sign is big enough to list all the reasons why I'm here" and small print listing more than 70 reasons to protest. It starts with "Abolish ICE". Most are direct and literal calls for action, but "Bury Stephen Miller at a crossroads at midnight" is more metaphorical.

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Feb 13

This is how one of my dogs ended up with a t shirt wardrobe. She could get out of the Cone of Shame so we bought a toddler t shirt. After she was healed, she continued to boop us until we put on the shirt. Shirt got smelly, now she has many shirts. May Hound have such a happy ending.

Fluffy brown dog with a big grin, a toy, and a yellow t shirt

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Dec 24

took me a minute to find a photo

cookies cut and decorated to look like ninjas in various martial arts poses

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Dec 8

I would like to know where these 18th-century Americans were getting their mangoes

In American Cookery (1796), the first cookbook published by an American author for American cooks, Amelia Simmons includes celery in her recipe for roasted turkey. It is used not to season the bread-based stuffing (that is flavored instead with thyme, marjoram, and pepper) but rather as one of the recommended accompaniments: "cranberry-sauce, mangoes, pickles or celery."

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Nov 17

Beware of signs, though.

A sign that says "Do not read this sign"

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Oct 31

Merry and Pippin are starring in Revenge of the Jurassic Park Rangers

Two dogs wearing khaki-colored park ranger shirts with Jurassic Park logos. One dog has tipped over a stuffed volcano to find a toy T-Rex. The other is staring dramatically at the camera.

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Oct 20

I feel like the Guardian is usually better than this. What kind of "brief struggle?" Who initiated the contact? How did he "become unresponsive" after being taken into custody? Why did he need medical aid (and when were paramedics called)? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

A “brief struggle” ensued when officers contacted the suspected burglar, police said. The person then became unresponsive after being taken into custody, according to the department. After receiving medical aid from paramedics on scene, the person was taken to a hospital, where they later died, the Times reported.

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Oct 14

Found it, if it's not stepping on your toes, Micah:

“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.”

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Sep 28

Finally got to read Wild Faith by Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social and it's unbelievably prescient Also starts off with this quotation, which meant she had me from the first page

Quotation at the start of Wild Faith: "And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."--Terry Pratchett. (It is not mentioned in the book that Granny Weatherwax was the Pratchett character who spoke those words.)

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Sep 26

It’s like they are checking how much we love them By how big a vet bill we will foot

Formerly mysteriously ill dog begging for treats, wearing a shirt that says “I make mom sad with my choices every day”

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Sep 22

One of my favorite examples: correlation between Nicholas Cage movies and drowning deaths (www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...) I think we all know the next logical step.

A graph showing a real but meaningless relationship between the number of people per year who die by falling into swimming pools and number of films Nicholas Cage appeared in

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Sep 10

Can Pippin join the club? Although then they would have three of each so maybe we need another heterochromatic friend

Very fluffy brown dog with one brown eye and one blue eye. She is wearing pajamas. The pajamas have dogs on them.

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Sep 7

I do, and yet....

Disney character Genie embracing Aladdin. Quote is "Genie, you're free"

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Aug 5

If there's a footnote-level character category in this discussion, I'd argue that word for word, the Professor of Applied Anthropics sums up human nature better than anything I've ever seen.

Many people are aware of the Weak and Strong Anthropic Principles. The Weak One says, basically, that it was jolly amazing of the universe to be constructed in such a way that humans could evolve to a point where they make a living in, for example, universities, while the Strong One says that, on the contrary, the whole point of the universe was that humans should not only work in universities but also write for huge sums books with words like "Cosmic" and "Chaos" in the titles.
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The UU Professor of Anthropics had developed the Special and Inevitable Anthropic Principle, which was that the entire reason for the existence of the universe was the eventual evolution of the UU Professor of Anthropics. But this was only a formal statement of the theory which absolutely everyone, with only some minor details of a "Fill in name here" nature, secretly believes to be true.

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Jul 29

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment.

Case of red cartons of beverage labeled “Hot-Kid Milk Flavored Drink”

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Apr 11

I was literally eating a donut when I read this, so perhaps I'm biased. But should we really be taking healthy lifestyle advice from the heroin-and-roadkill guy?

Robert F Kennedy Jr. asked whether society should pay for the health care of Americans who eat doughnuts or smoke when they know those habits can contribute to poor health outcomes.

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Apr 7

Hope your day gets better.

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Mar 31

Not just the political cartoons. Take a look at "To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street." I think they stopped coloring his skin bright yellow in later editions but jeez.

From Dr Seuss's "To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street": "A Chinese boy that eats with sticks." Said boy is wearing a red coolie hat and pigtail and his skin is bright yellow.

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Feb 13

My Pippin greets your Pippin and agrees it is very cold

A fluffy brown dig wearing pajama s and a silly grin

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Dec 30

I'll see your beaver nuggets and raise you gopher balls, if we are playing "fun things to tell your friends they get to eat"

Cake balls decorated to resemble University of Minnesota mascot Goldy Gopher

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Dec 18

I imagine you would love this actual recommendation form I was asked to submit for a student applying to grad school

Form to evaluate a student on a scale of 0-10, starting with normal things like motivation and communication, and ending with Appearance and Sense of Humor

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Nov 25

Nathan Pyle's "Strange Planet" cartoon about PT. PT Being asks "did you complete the body-repair motions at home?" Patient Being says "Yes." PT Being asks "Is that deception?" Patient Being says "yes." PT Being asks "why did you deceive?" Patient Being says "to avoid shame." PT Being asks "was that effective?" Patient Being says "Briefly."

Granny Weatherwax@esmeweatherwax· Oct 30

Not as much wrestling for the ball involved, but I'm still peeved at this yahoo who decided to take the ball out of Ben Oglive's glove in Game 3 of the 1982 AL Championships "Who cares about the playoffs? I want a souvenir!"