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andrewducker) wrote2025-08-29 01:19 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-29 01:19 am
Photo cross-post
Little smiley chap wanted to take a photo with me this morning.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-28 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-28 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- ai,
- corruption,
- demon,
- dreamwidth,
- europe,
- fraud,
- gaza,
- globalwarming,
- israel,
- korea,
- labour,
- libdem,
- links,
- migration,
- mississippi,
- movies,
- music,
- netflix,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oil,
- palestine,
- propaganda,
- rights,
- science,
- socialmedia,
- uk,
- usa,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 28-08-2025
- 1. Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him.
- (tags:corruption oil globalwarming windpower propaganda usa )
- 2. Kpop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix's most viewed film ever
- (tags:movies korea music demon netflix )
- 3. Fraudsters are training AIs on a musician and then releasing songs in their name
- (tags:ai fraud music )
- 4. Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
- (tags:science socialmedia )
- 5. Liberty chief blasts Labour over ECHR tinkering
- (tags:rights Europe UK labour OhForFucksSake migration )
- 6. Dreamwidth is forced to block Mississipi
- (tags:dreamwidth mississippi OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Donald Trump state visit: Ed Davey to boycott banquet over Gaza
- (tags:USA Israel UK libdem Palestine gaza )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-27 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-27 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- ai,
- babies,
- fraud,
- goodnews,
- google,
- law,
- links,
- restaurant,
- scotland,
- transgender,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- women
Interesting Links for 27-08-2025
- 1. Scotland's birth rate falls to lowest level since 1855
- (tags:scotland babies )
- 2. Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist
- (tags:ai google fraud restaurant viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Judge sides with trans-inclusive sorority: They can admit trans women if they want
- (tags:transgender women law USA GoodNews )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-26 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-26 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 26-08-2025
- 1. Consultation opens on Edinburgh's proposed new tram line
- (tags:edinburgh trams consultation )
- 2. How to justify colonialism, Julius Caesar edition
- (tags:history comic morality )
- 3. Trump is turning into Liz Truss but with more dictatorial behaviour
- (tags:USA economics authoritarianism doom )
- 4. OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework
- (tags:ai students )
- 5. Fixing the voting system brings in more women representatives
- (tags:women politics voting reform )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-25 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-25 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- archeology,
- disinformation,
- europe,
- germany,
- happiness,
- independence,
- internet,
- iran,
- links,
- music,
- psychology,
- rome,
- scotland,
- uk,
- wine
Interesting Links for 25-08-2025
- 1. The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD)
- (tags:wine archeology rome Germany )
- 2. 26% of recent posts on Brexit and Scot independence are made by Iran
- (tags:iran disinformation internet UK Scotland Europe independence )
- 3. For some people, music doesn't connect with any of the brain's reward circuits
- (tags:music happiness psychology )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-24 07:27 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-24 07:27 pmEntry tags:
Musical interlude with a room full of children
Spent the afternoon being serenaded by a cinema full of kids at the K-Pop Demon Hunters sing-a-long.
As musical kids movies about demon-hunting go out was pretty darned good and I expect to be earwormed for weeks.
As musical kids movies about demon-hunting go out was pretty darned good and I expect to be earwormed for weeks.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-23 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-23 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 23-08-2025
- 1. Elizabeth I and the 'Blackamoors': the Deportation that never was
- (tags:viaNancyLebov racism history uk )
- 2. The public reject the use of ChatGPT by politicians (60% - 25%)
- (tags:ai politics polls )
- 3. M&S insists bra fitting services are trans inclusive
- (tags:shopping women transgender UK LGBT )
- 4. How much of your history do you have to share with someone before sexual intimacy isn't considered a crime?
- (tags:assault transgender sex UK law )
- 5. Canada is getting new Covid vaccines. Place your bets on whether they reach the UK...
- (tags:canada pandemic vaccination )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-22 12:50 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-22 12:50 pmPhoto cross-post
Gluten free pie and a collection of badges to indicate my new age. I
think my family might like me!
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-22 06:08 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-22 06:08 pmEntry tags:
It's the little things
I've just discovered that Android has an option that lets you snooze notifications. You have no idea how happy this makes me.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-22 02:15 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-22 02:15 pmInteresting Links for 22-08-2025 (and the previous day)
- 1. Trans Segregation in Practice (Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling)
- (tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How UK inheritance tax compares with other countries
- (tags:inheritance tax uk )
- 3. Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- (tags:ai energy co2 water )
- 4. Nigel Farage lies about the real asylum story
- (tags:asylum uk migration OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
- (tags:racism politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Missing Texas woman found living among lost ‘African’ tribe in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland Africa history EpicWTF weird )
- 7. Ann Summers confirms trans women welcome at bra fittings
- (tags:clothing transgender LGBT shops )
- 8. New Fireworks Control Zones to be introduced in Edinburgh
- (tags:fireworks edinburgh scotland )
- 9. Moderate drinking is not good for you.
- (tags:cancer alcohol disease )
- 10. 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC
- (tags:law uk usa censorship )
No idea why the autoposter didn't work yesterday/today. Will investigate tonight!
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-21 09:14 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-21 09:14 amEntry tags:
An auspicious beginning
So far today, I was woken up at 4am because the children had been playing with an old alarm clock yesterday (I got back over though).
And Sophia hurt her wrist falling off of a swing yesterday and it still hurts this morning so we're off to the Sick Kids at 10am for her to get checked out.
Happy birthday to me!
Edit: No break. Possibly minor sprain. Just needs to take it easy and stay off the monkey bars for a few days.
And Sophia hurt her wrist falling off of a swing yesterday and it still hurts this morning so we're off to the Sick Kids at 10am for her to get checked out.
Happy birthday to me!
Edit: No break. Possibly minor sprain. Just needs to take it easy and stay off the monkey bars for a few days.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-20 06:39 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-20 06:39 pmEntry tags:
Life with two kids: Less reassuring than you might expect
Gideon, heading for a recently arrived package, holding a knife "I'm not going to stab *anyone*!"
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-20 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-20 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 20-08-2025
- 1. Study: Giving cash to mothers in Kenya cut infant deaths in half
- (tags:kenya money death babies )
- 2. Regina Valkenborgh's 8-Year-Long Photo Captures the Sun's Movement Through the Sky
- (tags:viaSwampers sun photography )
- 3. Spreadshirt to artists: We're taking your designs for AI
- (tags:clothes ai )
- 4. Map Of European Cultural Superiority
- (tags:maps Europe society )
- 5. Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
- (tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-19 03:40 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-19 03:40 pmPhoto cross-post
I've not been out this late since Gideon was born, but when my
music-obsessive photographer friend Kenny told me I had to come see
Fantastic Negrito at the Fringe I decided to make an exception.
The support band (Megan Black) was better than most support acts. The
main act, on the other hand, is just, well, fantastic. Maybe even
worth missing the kids bedtime for.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-19 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-19 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 19-08-2025
- 1. This story about how a parent's love grows for their child rang true for me, even if it was written about adoption
- (tags:love children parenting adoption )
- 2. An alternative to LASIK—without the lasers (melt your eyes, mould them into a new shape, let them resolidify)
- (tags:eyes eyesight )
- 3. Trump helped Netanyahu's cyber chief evade child sex crime charges
- (tags:Israel USA Child_abuse OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. On the recognition of Palestine - and its legality
- (tags:law palestine )
- 5. Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried
- (tags:women healthcare USA OhForFucksSake marriage society )
- 6. Covid and Our Arteries
- (tags:pandemic blood health doom )
- 7. 97% of Edinburgh Airbnb-style flat plans refused
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 8. The Church Is Moving!
- (tags:church transport sweden )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-18 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-18 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- ai,
- boardgames,
- echr,
- europe,
- funny,
- goodnews,
- harrypotter,
- history,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- lotr,
- maps,
- music,
- quiz,
- rights,
- satire,
- tea,
- transgender,
- tv,
- uk,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- viaswampers,
- video
Interesting Links for 18-08-2025
- 1. Harry Potter board game creators to donate profits to trans charities
- (tags:harrypotter transgender boardgames GoodNews LGBT viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Europe Divided Into Areas With An Economy Equal In Size To London (this would make everyone happy, of course)
- (tags:maps funny Europe viaSwampers )
- 3. What does a proper British diet look like?
- (tags:tea satire video funny )
- 4. Happy 20th anniversary to "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!"
- (tags:history music funny lotr video )
- 5. Britain's first transgender judge takes UK to European court over Supreme Court ruling on biological sex
- (tags:law echr rights transgender uk lgbt )
- 6. Ranking AIs by how well they score in Only Connect
- (tags:tv ai quiz )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-17 11:27 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-17 11:27 amPhoto cross-post
The Flying Bubble Show was great fun. Kids thoroughly entertained.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-17 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-17 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- africa,
- doom,
- economics,
- evolution,
- housing,
- immigration,
- links,
- maps,
- population,
- psychology,
- short_story,
- uk
Interesting Links for 17-08-2025
- 1. What's your answer to the UK's population implosion?
- (tags:UK population immigration doom )
- 2. African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size
- (tags:africa maps )
- 3. People (wrongly) don't believe that building homes helps with the cost of housing.
- (tags:housing economics psychology )
- 4. Snow White, various dwarves, and convergent evolution with butterflies
- (tags:short_story evolution )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-08-16 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-08-16 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- advice,
- bigotry,
- china,
- comic,
- community,
- diplomacy,
- doom,
- economics,
- equality,
- europe,
- facebook,
- fiction,
- fire,
- friendship,
- funny,
- hs2,
- infrastructure,
- investment,
- lgbt,
- links,
- lotr,
- photos,
- plastic,
- pollution,
- polyamory,
- power,
- psychology,
- satire,
- scifi,
- short_story,
- society,
- switzerland,
- unions,
- video
Interesting Links for 16-08-2025
- 1. This is how the Swiss would have done HS2
- (tags:Switzerland infrastructure hs2 investment )
- 2. The ease of collective action induces more egalitarian behavior by individuals in a position of power and makes those without power less willing to accept unfairness.
- (tags:unions community society equality power psychology )
- 3. Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ figure Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
- (tags:facebook bigotry lgbt )
- 4. Photos: Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe (CW: burned animal about 20 pictures down)
- (tags:fire europe photos )
- 5. Are you ready for polyaninmosity in your life?
- (tags:polyamory satire video funny )
- 6. There's something I love about stories that take a very simple concept and push it a far as they can
- (tags:scifi video fiction short_story )
- 7. Sauron the Economist
- (tags:lotr comic economics funny )
- 8. Chinese economists recruit Ray Dalio and MMT in their battle over deficit spending
- (tags:economics china )
- 9. The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago - A metaphor for friendship
- (tags:advice friendship )
- 10. Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics
- (tags:plastic pollution doom diplomacy )