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Hello, mr Gaiman;

I've had a thing in my brain ever since I started reading Discworld, and as a close collaborator to mr Pratchett, I thought you might be the best person to ask: did Mr Pratchett ever meet Douglas Adams? There is this quite familiar sense of deeply thought out, seemingly irreverent yet intensely relevant patter to both of them that I can't get off of my head, and I'd be interested to know if you and Mr Pratchett ever spoke about or with him, and/or if you found any kinship with Mr Adams through his work, or if either of you even enjoyed his writing

I believe they met once at a publishing party and didn't have much to say. I wish I'd been there as a friend of both of theirs.

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Kitty provides complimentary massages to her owner’s clients as they receive eyelash services.

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Another argument against outdoor cats is that sometimes it'll be raining at 1am and the wettest cat you've ever seen in your life will jump into your nice dry bed like "we need to snuggle RIGHT NOW"

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OH MY LAWDDDDDDDD.

Welp let me tell you what I saw was the office/head quarters of the NDP. It’s not just a threat babes. It’s fr fr because I saw an explosion 💥

I am praying for his and the NDP’s safety.

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In Italy, this year, for the Diversity Media Awards, among the foreign series candidates there is also Good Omens.

"The Diversity Media Awards reward the characters and media content that have contributed to a valorising representation of diversity in the areas of gender and gender identity, sexual and emotional orientation, physical appearance, ethnicity, age and generations, disability."

Did you know that?

Good luck to all the nominees, but to Good Omens in particular!

I didn't know that. It's wonderful.

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in 2015 I needed a job really bad for reasons not worth getting into. i was living in ohio for like 6 months & i just applied at every place within a 30 minute drive from me and i got a call from the local Game Stop mere minutes after submitting the online app, which was obviously a red flag but I wasn’t in the position to be picky.

so they tell me when to show up for orientation & I get there the day-of but the store is closed & locked. i text the manager & he says back “oh yeah. i manage two Game Stops and open them alternate days.”

apparently the Game Stop I originally applied to is open Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and the other one is open Sundays Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays.

They’re 15 minutes apart. I don’t ask whether it would make sense to just have one store locally that is open daily, bc maybe the guy knows something I don’t.

So I get to the other Game Stop and walk in and it seems like there’s no one working there. There’s just a single woman in there wearing an ankle length leather trench coat. She didn’t greet me when I came in & she’s just browsing.

After ten minutes I ask her if she’s seen any employees and she’s like “oh I’m an employee.” She’s not wearing a name tag on the trench coat.

I tell her I’m here for training and she tells me the manager hasn’t come in yet. “he falls asleep playing xbox all the time but if he’s on live we can try pinging him to wake him up.”

I play Xbox and that absolutely doesn’t sound like a thing you can do in the way she’s describing it but once again maybe she knows something I don’t.

I ask if we have an Xbox that we can use to “ping” him and she says “yeah the one in the back we play on.”

She has an English accent by the way, a very specific & posh one which usually wouldn’t be relevant but we’ll get there.

So before she leads me to the Xbox-in-the-back she goes “oh damn. our internet has actually been down all morning, I forgot. We need to call the provider and have them come out and fix it. Can you do that?”

Can I call an unnamed internet provider and schedule them to come do service at a business where I don’t even technically work yet? Idk. She gives me their number and I call them and they put me on hold.

People are walking in and she’s not greeting them. She keeps browsing and people assume like I did that she’s another customer so they’re coming up to the counter where I’m on hold to ask me for help, and then I have to say I can’t help them and to ask the woman in the trenchcoat, and then she says “we can’t sell you anything. internet’s down.”

this goes on for 30 minutes and every time the store is empty she’s chatting at me and I’m on hold and then a man walks in the door and he says “sorry I fell asleep on live again haahaahaa” so this is the manager and the minute she starts speaking to him she no longer has an English accent which has me confused because it did not sound fake.

It was regionally specific and very natural.

the manager asks what I’m doing and I say I’m on hold with the internet provider and he gives me a thumbs up and walks to the back.

so I ask how long she’s lived in the U.S. and say I’m always interested in the way people can sometimes go in and out of accents and she says “oh I’m American. he asked me to stop doing the accent so I only do it when he’s not here.”

Suddenly I wonder what I’m doing here and I tell her I need to leave and I give no excuse but at this point I don’t feel like I need one? She said okay! See you later.

The manager didn’t contact me and that night I got offered some other retail job I jumped on.

Three months later the Game Stop manager texts me and asks if I can cover a shift in an hour and I say back “I don’t think I work there? I left an hour into my training. And we never spoke again.” And he texts back “hahahaha right on.”

And you may think wow, what a strange experience that all was but recently I have spoken to friends who did work at Game Stop and when I tell them this story they don’t even blink. Nothing I say surprises them. I was at the average Game Stop

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he's holding on so tight

he cries to me tonight all in my face asking me to do something.

he goes in for I-131 radiation treatment tomorrow for thyroid tumors and has to stay 4-7 days, and then I'll mostly have to stay 6 feet from him for another 12. He'll be scared and won't understand.

I hope this works. I know he only has a few years left at best. I want the time he has left to be comfortable. I hope I'm not just dragging things out because it's hard to let go.

send good thoughts for Pumpkin, my friends. healing thoughts.

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I'm confused about the GO timeline. When Crowley and Aziraphale first meet, we learn that They will be "shutting all this down again in about 6,000 years.". But Crowley tells Nina and Maggie that he and Aziraphale have been talking for millions of years. How is that possible?

Because there was lots of Good Omens angel time before Earth Time started.

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Have you REALLY lost your scissors if you aren't walking around making scissor motions with your fingers in an attempt to lure them back out?

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Why the FUCK does your toothbrush need to be connected to the internet

Like is it to remind you that it's time to change it out

That's what the colour-fading bristles are for ffs

This is so goddamned surreal. What world do we even live in anymore

Serves the manufacturers right for not locking them down. Fucking morons. If it's got an IP address it's accessible. If it connects to the internet then BY DEFINITION it's got an IP address

Waiting for the DDoS attack by an army of colour-changing lightbulbs ha ha ha

Hey, maybe we don't need an app to control EVERY GODDAMNED THING IN OUR LIVES JESUS

According to a recent report published by the Aargauer Zeitung (h/t Golem.de), around three million smart toothbrushes have been infected by hackers and enslaved into botnets.

The most cyberpunk thing on your dash today.

#smart devices #NOPE #i can't even #what even is today #oh no my phone died how do i turn off my lights i can't sleep #oh no how do i now turn them back on again i used the switch and it's dark #toothbrushes? seriously??

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Mentally floating face down in a river

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Oh man, John Woo's The Replacement Killers. Absolutely groundbreaking, and afaik the movie which invented the firing-your-gun-while-leap-falling-sideways move.

Turned me into an instant fan. Mad respect!

Hard Boiled 1992

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