Fans mark Terry Pratchett's birthday with 'GNU Terry Pratchett' tributes

writersApr 28, 2026402,299

Readers marked Sir Terry Pratchett's birthday by posting the 'GNU Terry Pratchett' memorial header and sharing Discworld quotes. Sir Terry Pratchett, born in 1948, created the Discworld series and introduced the 'GNU' tag in the novel Going Postal, where semaphore operators attach a code to fallen comrades' names across the semaphore system. Tributes quoted Pratchett's line "No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away" to present the header as a way of keeping his name and humane themes alive.

Coliseum of Comics

@coliseumofcomics.com

We remember legendary author Sir Terry Pratchett - creator of the Discworld - born on this day in 1948. GNU Terry Pratchett

6383h ago

Breezy Artworks4

His insights about boots were on point!

Helen McCarthy4

The nicest writer I ever bought a pint for, and the only one so far to buy one for me.

Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author (he/they)

@discobooks.bsky.social

It’s Terry Pratchett Day! My favourite author, who gave me an escape when I needed it, inspired me to be a better person, and taught me the value of truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg. “When in doubt, choose to live.” 📚💙 #TerryPratchettDay

5332h ago

bowenfabrication.bsky.social9

So many just incredible stories about humanity. Also dwarves and witches, and other such ilk.

Mitch Russell6

And the problems of living on a flat planet. Carried on the backs of four giant elephants On top of a Turtle swimming through to void. But, what was the sex of the turtle? They had to find out!

mjp61.bsky.social5

Just read the 5th elephant with commander vimes stirring it up Bloody marvellous Sadly missed Sir Terry

Dave Waggy4

a one in a million chance occurs 9 times out of 10

damask-hq.bsky.social4

stories don’t save you they remind you how to choose to live anyway

Ash Oro3

I am at work with headphones in... Shhhh... Don't tell anyone... #TerryPratchettDay #Booksky #AudioBooksLetMeReadAtWork

lilith42.bsky.social3

Yeah, a Terry Pratchett day is a good day !!

NickOnSea2

I read The Carpet People in primary school, then years later rediscovered him with The Colour of Magic, the rest was inevitable.

Charles Bonnar2

He was the best. Miss that guy.

wjwylie032

Sam Vimes is an epuc, cynical, bastard.

James Alistair Henry

@jamesbluecat.bsky.social

Happy Terry Pratchett Day to all who celebrate. I hugely miss that calm, dry voice I got in my head when I read his books, but I'm just happy he was around creating the books I needed to read at the exact time I needed to read them.

3024h ago

Angry Staff Officer

@pptsapper.bsky.social

Be the Sir Terry you wish to see in the world.

2312h ago

Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS

@danaiwrites.bsky.social

Every year, I aspire to become more and more like my icon, Granny Weatherwax. “Granny’s implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains.” Happy Sir Terry Pratchett Day! Grateful for the books and the magic, always.

2163h ago

Whitby Gothic

@whitbygothic.bsky.social

+++ Born on this day, the 28th of April 1948, the late great Sir Terence 'Terry' Pratchett OBE. +++ #terrypratchett #discworld #OTD

656h ago

SpaceSkeleton Dragon2

"A man is not dead while his name is still spoken". GNU Sir Terry.

Humanists UK

@humanists.uk

Reminds of this quote by our sorely missed patron Terry Pratchett: 'No ne is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.' We may not believe in an afterlife, but in a very real sense we live on – through our legacy, and the good we do in life.

In the Ramptop village they believed that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock he wound up winds down - until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the copy they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence. Terry Pratchett. Author and humanist

382h ago

John Andrews

@jkaconductor.bsky.social

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away..." GNU Sir Terry Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015)

286h ago

Jo the Hat

@jothehat.eurosky.social

I've been relistening to the Guards books and it's a gut punch how relevant they are to these times. He's much missed here too. 🖤#GNUTerryPratchett

283h ago

Mel Roxby-Mackey

@archaeoborders.bsky.social

Increasingly, you find yourself thinking ‘What would Sir Terry do or say?’ I even got Granny Weatherwax into the PhD. Happy birthday Terry Pratchett and thank you for the hope

153h ago

ToonGrin.com

@toongrin.bsky.social

Happy Birthday Sir Terry, thank you for your contributions. An to you Ms Rhianna. I hope you have a good day.

173h ago

Jonny Morris

@jonnymorris.bsky.social

To celebrate Terry Pratchett's birthday I'll be sending a page of notes for an abandoned SF novel to Stephen Baxter so he can turn it into a five-book series.

181h ago

Koffie Kobold - Yip Yap Shenanigans

@bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social

Making my next goal to read all of Terry Pratchett's work (finally).

181h ago

Ian Collings

@bookamatic.bsky.social

Happy Terry Pratchett Day! I’d like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to my brother @jimcollings.bsky.social for introducing me to the Discworld, all those years ago, by lending me a copy of Sourcery. Just what I needed, just when I needed it. #GNUTerryPratchett #lyb