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andrewducker) wrote2025-10-05 05:10 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-10-05 05:10 am
Photo cross-post
Just had to ask what was going on.
Sophia told me "There's a spider in the bathroom"
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-10-04 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-10-04 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 04-10-2025
- 1. Here Is Your Periodic Reminder that Stars Move
- (tags:space time )
- 2. Anti trans school guidance causes children to not use school toilets leading to worse physical and mental health.
- (tags:children bigotry lgbt school scotland uk transgender )
- 3. What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (I carried a book at all times)
- (tags:phones history boredom )
- 4. Common mistakes when drawing the moon
- (tags:moon drawing video )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-10-03 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-10-03 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 03-10-2025
- 1. OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss
- (tags:ai business doom )
- 2. Features of autism can affect age of diagnosis — and so can genes
- (tags:genetics autism age )
- 3. UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights (from 1st place a decade ago to 22nd place today)
- (tags:uk bigotry rights lgbt OhForFucksSake )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-10-02 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-10-02 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 02-10-2025
- 1. Do not charge your phone in the bath.
- (tags:phones electricity baths water )
- 2. Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%
- (tags:europe renewables solarpower )
- 3. A plurality of Brits see Reform, their policies, and their voters as racist
- (tags:racism politics UK )
- 4. Progressive Era America put 200,000 poor kids on trains to send them West. Now we know what affected whether they thrived.
- (tags:sociology children family USA )
- 5. "I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone!"
- (tags:ai minecraft )
- 6. Sora 2 and the end of copyright as we know it
- (tags:copyright ai )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-10-01 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-10-01 12:00 pmEntry tags:
Interesting Links for 01-10-2025
- 1. Law firm that dropped trans man agrees to pay damages and costs
- (tags:transgender bigotry law uk )
- 2. Do Trigger Warnings Work?
- (tags:mentalhealth psychology triggerwarnings viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. What effects does rent control actually have?
- (tags:regulation rent doom housing )
- 4. The dawn of the post-literate society
- (tags:society literacy doom )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-30 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-30 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 30-09-2025
- 1. Labour to make life harder for immigrants
- (tags:labour migration OhForFucksSake )
- 2. List of wars involving the United Kingdom (Guess how many!)
- (tags:war uk history )
- 3. Draft of Tony Blair's Gaza plan outlines a regime run by affluent foreigners with Palestinian executives at the bottom
- (tags:Gaza tonyblair OhForFucksSake )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-29 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-29 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 29-09-2025
- 1. Keir Starmer calls Reform migrant policy 'racist' and 'immoral'
- (tags:UK politics migration racism labour )
- 2. UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
- (tags:rice farming UK )
- 3. 'Amazing feat': US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
- (tags:organs pigs impressive )
- 4. We've found Mendel's genes!
- (tags:genetics history vegetables )
- 5. Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones
- (tags:plastic bone doom )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-28 08:49 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-28 08:49 pmEntry tags:
It's very educational being me
Ways to tell you have a child #37: the contents of your tumble dryer's lint trap is 50% glitter.
(And your hands are now covered in glitter from emptying it)
(And your hands are now covered in glitter from emptying it)
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-28 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-28 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 28-09-2025
- 1. Reform party linked to Putin bribery
- (tags:politics UK Russia viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Most US men want a return to traditional gender roles (particularly the evangelical Christians)
- (tags:religion gender USA polls society )
- 3. Trump's NSPM-7 Labels "anti-Christian," "anti-American," and "anti-capitalism" Opinions As Terrorism "Indicators" (amongst others)
- (tags:usa fascism )
- 4. The Dark Side of AI Companions: Emotional Manipulation
- (tags:ai manipulation )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-27 08:38 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-27 08:38 pmEntry tags:
A thing I don't understand about people
Why do people go to the group "Fans of X" and ask "Is X any good?"
I mean, no, most members of the fan group loathe it with a fiery passion and are only in the group to warn passers-by how terrible it is.
I mean, no, most members of the fan group loathe it with a fiery passion and are only in the group to warn passers-by how terrible it is.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-27 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-27 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 27-09-2025
- 1. Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
- (tags:history business Scotland )
- 2. Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
- (tags:transgender bigotry USA politics murder guns )
- 3. Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance
- (tags:fascism satire politics USA )
- 4. The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. "Liberals" Are Helping
- (tags:transgender bigotry politics )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-26 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-26 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 26-09-2025
- 1. Every UK adult will need 'Brit card' digital ID under Starmer plan to tackle illegal migration
- (tags:uk identity )
- 2. The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (a review)
- (tags:fanfic stephen_king review )
- 3. Ukraine's Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine (by using their new drone factories to destroy Russian oil refineries and processing plants)
- (tags:oil russia ukraine war drones )
- 4. AI-generated fiction homogenises culture, painting surface-level details over the same story every time.
- (tags:ai fiction society )
- 5. An English teacher experiments with his class and AI. The results are complex and nuanced.
- (tags:ai writing university )
- 6. Microsoft block Israel's access to Azure and genAI tech used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls
- (tags:microsoft israel )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-25 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-25 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 25-09-2025
- 1. ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages by Taking People's Side (I'm a little sceptical about how good these relationships were)
- (tags:ai relationships doom )
- 2. Italy and Spain deploy ships to help Gaza aid flotilla targeted in drone attack
- (tags:Italy Spain Israel aid Palestine )
- 3. AI 'Workslop' Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
- (tags:ai work doom )
- 4. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
- (tags:disease GoodNews )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-24 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-24 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 24-09-2025
- 1. Autistic Perspectives on the Future of Clinical Autism Research
- (tags:autism research )
- 2. Europe's EV sales surge 26% in 2025 while Tesla faces 34% decline
- (tags:europe Tesla electricity cars )
- 3. How England is fixing its recycling mess (jump to 7:10 to skip the history lesson)
- (tags:England recycling law )
- 4. All the signs that Putin wants another war in Europe within months
- (tags:russia war europe doom )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-24 07:05 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-24 07:05 amEntry tags:
Oddly recurrent stomach issues
Facebook reminds me that we had norovirus on this day in 2021 and 2023. Jane has spent the last 24 hours with D+V. What are the odds?
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-23 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-23 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 23-09-2025
- 1. Tesla influencers tried to automatically drive coast-to-coast -- they crashed within 60 miles
- (tags:Tesla ElonMusk automation driving fail cars )
- 2. OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
- (tags:ai )
- 3. Girl footballers attacked for having short hair.
- (tags:gender society hair football UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Exercising in nature is superior to the gym or city
- (tags:exercise nature psychology )
- 5. UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals
- (tags:tax wealth UK )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-09-22 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-09-22 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 22-09-2025
- 1. Canada, Australia and UK recognize Palestinian statehood (France soon)
- (tags:Palestine France UK Australia Canada )
- 2. Among UK Jews, opposition to Palestinian political autonomy is vanishing
- (tags:UK Palestine Israel )
- 3. Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach
- (tags:ADHD autism psychology )
- 4. South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark a financial crisis
- (tags:usa korea economics doom )