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andrewducker) wrote2025-07-01 01:58 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-01 01:58 pm
Photo cross-post
"Sophia, will you pose with your brother for a photo?"
"I will, but I'm very angry about it!"
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-01 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-01 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 01-07-2025
- 1. Jaws (1975) | Modern Trailer
- (tags:movies trailer sharks video )
- 2. Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong
- (tags:noses health )
- 3. Edinburgh's GDP per Capita now outpaces London
- (tags:edinburgh london gdp economy scotland uk )
- 4. Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. Here's why this is both impressive AND misleading
- (tags:ai medicine Microsoft )
- 5. China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
- (tags:china censorship LGBT OhForFucksSake )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-29 04:31 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-29 04:31 pmPhoto cross-post
We had a nice day on the beach in North Berwick. A few of Sophia's old
nursery friends, getting back together, with a few siblings thrown in.
They got on like it wasn't mostly a year since they last saw each
other, and they had a ball digging holes, wading through seaweed and
climbing on rocks. The weather was just as fabulous as it looks
here.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-28 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-28 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- bigotry,
- gaza,
- genocide,
- government,
- israel,
- jobs,
- lgbt,
- links,
- maps,
- palestine,
- transgender,
- uk,
- viamybrothermike,
- visualisation
Interesting Links for 28-06-2025
- 1. Map Projection Transitions - see which one upsets you the least!
- (tags:maps visualisation viaMyBrotherMike )
- 2. How 'Sex Matters' is shaping UK policy on trans rights
- (tags:UK bigotry government LGBT transgender )
- 3. Israeli soldiers say they are ordered to shoot at unarmed Gazans seeking aid
- (tags:Israel genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Plans to help benefits recipients into work 'a mess', say DWP officials
- (tags:jobs UK government )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-28 10:49 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-28 10:49 amEntry tags:
A complaint about modern life.
When I am Emperor anyone selling bowls, plates, etc will have to certify whether you can microwave food in them without them getting hotter than the food.
Is microwave transparency really too much to ask?
Is microwave transparency really too much to ask?
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-27 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-27 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 27-06-2025
- 1. The first non-opioid painkiller (for acute pain) has taken 27 years to produce.
- (tags:pain research medicine )
- 2. UK asylum plans shows post-Brexit Britain is 'in very dark place', Albanian PM warns
- (tags:uk migration OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Reading one book on a subject will put you ahead of the vast majority of people
- (tags:experts learning )
- 4. One in four LGBTQ+ pupils may drop out before finishing secondary school
- (tags:lgbt school bullying )
- 5. India High Court rules trans women are women
- (tags:India transgender LGBT GoodNews )
- 6. A newspaper reported that Arthur Conan Doyle went to a local pub. Turns out to be completely made up (but the history is fascinating)
- (tags:journalism fraud Edinburgh history )
- 7. The transfers between parties in yesterday's Edinburgh council election are fascinating!
- (tags:edinburgh elections voting politics scotland )
- 8. You can now buy The Hobbit in 5 different Celtic languages. (I'm sure people will have great fun comparing them)
- (tags:languages uk ireland TheHobbit )
- 9. Make AI Mediocre Again
- (tags:satire ai video advertising )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-26 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-26 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 26-06-2025
- 1. Holyrood Committee seek views and experiences as part of new inquiry into ADHD and autism
- (tags:scotland autism adhd )
- 2. How would Britain vote, a year since the 2024 election (broken down in a wide variety of ways)
- (tags:uk voting polls )
- 3. Ooh Dark City has a 4k release. I'm quite tempted
- (tags:movies scifi )
- 4. Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child
- (tags:polls genocide Israel )
- 5. Poll: Americans' support for Israel at record low, backing for Palestinians at all-time high (46:33)
- (tags:USA polls Israel Palestine )
- 6. Why I'm glad the NHS has rejected two Alzheimer's 'wonder drugs'
- (tags:alzheimers medicine NHS )
- 7. Warwickshire County Council leader resigns, leaving 18-year-old in charge (Reform, unsurprisingly)
- (tags:politics UK )
- 8. Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11
- (tags:games linux windows )
- 9. How disability benefits are paid across the world - and how UK compares
- (tags:welfare disability international )
- 10. Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
- (tags:UK bigotry children transgender LGBT )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-25 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-25 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- automation,
- bats,
- china,
- doom,
- driving,
- history,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- safety,
- shakespeare,
- tesla,
- usa,
- virus,
- women
Interesting Links for 25-06-2025
- 1. Elon Musk doesn't want you to know Tesla's response to the NHTSA's Robotaxi questions
- (tags:Tesla automation driving OhForFucksSake )
- 2. US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis
- (tags:USA automation safety Tesla driving doom )
- 3. Some fascinating discussion on Romeo and Juliet
- (tags:shakespeare women history )
- 4. New bat viruses discovered in China raise concerns about potential pandemic
- (tags:virus bats china )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-24 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-24 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 24-06-2025
- 1. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
- (tags:watches design )
- 2. Language is complicated (Japanese star edition)
- (tags:japan English language )
- 3. Reminder that you can be lovely to your friends and family and still a disgustingly awful genocidal murderer
- (tags:Nazis history people )
- 4. What Britain looks like after Brexit (written in 2016, about 2025). Anyone want to assign it marks for accuracy?
- (tags:UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Voyager 2 Illuminates Boundary of Interstellar Space
- (tags:space )
- 6. Upcycling plastic into painkillers: Microbes transform everyday waste into acetaminophen
- (tags:plastic medicine recycling )
- 7. Some great photos from Edinburgh's Pride March
- (tags:lgbt edinburgh photos )
- 8. Businesses still gatekeep jobs for graduates - it's harmful and cruel
- (tags:business academia university OhForFucksSake )
- 9. What does the new Industial Strategy mean for Scotland?
- (tags:scotland government )
- 10. The USA is definitely not at war. Probably. Maybe. Kinda.
- (tags:war USA Iran Israel video funny )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-23 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-23 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- ai,
- business,
- europe,
- hawaii,
- internet,
- lava,
- links,
- phones,
- publishing,
- regulation,
- space,
- technology,
- video,
- volcano
Interesting Links for 23-06-2025
- 1. Publishers are facing existential threat from AI
- (tags:publishing internet ai business )
- 2. Video of Lava Fountains Likely Setting New Record For Kilauea Eruption (June 20, 2025)
- (tags:lava volcano Hawaii video )
- 3. New EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets
- (tags:Technology phones europe regulation )
- 4. The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
- (tags:space )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-22 06:37 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-22 06:37 amPhoto cross-post
First climbing experience, and after an hour of trying different walls
Sophia made it to the top!
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-22 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-22 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- archeology,
- bbc,
- bigotry,
- communication,
- denmark,
- doom,
- drwho,
- goodnews,
- government,
- history,
- hiv,
- lgbt,
- links,
- phones,
- research,
- scifi,
- scotland,
- statistics,
- swimming,
- transgender,
- transparency,
- vaccine,
- writing
Interesting Links for 22-06-2025
- 1. How Christopher Priest wrote for Doctor Who, and what happened next
- (tags:drwho history scifi bbc writing )
- 2. Trans woman swims topless in protest at being forced to swim with men
- (tags:bigotry lgbt transgender swimming )
- 3. Scottish government to remove WhatsApp from phones
- (tags:transparency phones communication government Scotland )
- 4. Giving a wide range of researchers the same data and the same hypothesis to test gives a massive range of results
- (tags:research doom statistics )
- 5. Denmark Let Amateurs Dig for Treasure—And It Paid Off
- (tags:denmark archeology )
- 6. The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV (2 injections a year have 99.9% effectiveness)
- (tags:hiv vaccine GoodNews )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-21 12:29 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-21 12:29 pmPhoto cross-post
Sophia is watching the boys in the street have a water fight.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-21 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-21 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 21-06-2025
- 1. Good things Labour have achieved this week
- (tags:Labour GoodNews politics UK )
- 2. YouTube Playlists Are Advertising "No AI" as Entire Site Gets Choked by AI Slop
- (tags:ai music videos YouTube )
- 3. It's True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain
- (tags:sharks copyright art movies books )
- 4. Finding Peter Putnam - The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
- (tags:history philosophy computing viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Edinburgh Council agrees on proposal to explore halt on new accommodation
- (tags:Edinburgh university housing )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-21 11:10 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-21 11:10 amEntry tags:
All change
The reason British people talk about the weather all the damn time is that two weeks ago I got hailed on, yesterday was hot enough that I sweated through my clothes, and today there's haar stopping me seeing more than 100m.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-20 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-20 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 20-06-2025
- 1. Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry 'Quid Pro Quo' Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting
- (tags:pollution Labour tax globalwarming )
- 2. How to waste £37bn on HS2, from botched contracts to political meddling
- (tags:hs2 trains politics transport uk epicfail )
- 3. New emissions guidance published for North Sea oil and gas projects
- (tags:globalwarming oil gas uk )
- 4. Scoring Computer Games (Ori's Ginso Tree Escape)
- (tags:music games video )
- 5. Britons support rejoining the EU by 56% to 34% (but think it's not the top priority)
- (tags:UK Europe polls )
- 6. If you get a body party amputated you can apply to keep it!
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(tags:bodies video )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-20 03:14 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-20 03:14 amPhoto cross-post
Last Friday ever of dropping her off at school and him off at nursery!
Off to the Highland Show this afternoon. Going to be 28 degrees, so
we'll all probably burst into flames.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-06-19 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-19 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 19-06-2025
- 1. Doctor uses robot to remotely perform surgery on patient thousands of miles away
- (tags:surgery robots )
- 2. General-purpose robots are very nearly here
- (tags:robots ai video impressive )
- 3. How roundabouts transformed Carmel, Indiana
- (tags:transport planning roads design usa )
- 4. Beware the gaze of raccoons!
- (tags:raccoon comic funny literature )
- 5. Banning smartphones in schools has little or no impact on the wellbeing of students or their education or on the prevalence of online bullying
- (tags:phones school )
- 6. A Provocative Argument About What Creates Serial Killers (possibly Heavy Metals)
- (tags:murder brain pollution )
- 7. Scottish Government advice on school uniforms now says that you shouldn't need branded items.
- (tags:school clothing GoodNews )