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andrewducker
Just had to ask what was going on.
Sophia told me "There's a spider in the bathroom"
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andrewduckerSunlight Shattered on the Waves
Oct. 5th, 2025 10:39 amhmmm_teaI've recently starting taking my son down to a music practice in Bexhill on Saturday mornings. It gives me an hour to spare, so I've been walking along the beach into town. In some ways I think I prefer the seafront there to Hastings, it's much more peaceful.
The wind was up this week because of storm Amy (although nothing compared to what they've had further north) and the sea was very choppy. However, the sun was out too and quite bright. Very beautiful to see it glistening on the waves.
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The wind was up this week because of storm Amy (although nothing compared to what they've had further north) and the sea was very choppy. However, the sun was out too and quite bright. Very beautiful to see it glistening on the waves.
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Care bears
Oct. 4th, 2025 09:51 pmcosmolinguistHad a fun afternoon celebrating (belatedly) the birthdays of a couple who are both among my favorite people. One asked for sourdough pizza and a wander around the market at Manchester Leather Weekend.
I bought a trans-pride earring at the market and was delighted to see, but didn't manage to determine if available in appropriate size, a t-shirt with a lot of Care-Bear-looking colorful cartoon bears with symbols on their tummies, including a rainbow which is canon in one of the bears I remember from my childhood, but this time the other bears have trans/leather/bear/pup symbols or flags. It seems the absolutely perfect thing for someone like me or A who had to live through being a girl in the 80s but are now cautiously leaning into our bear-y selves. (Like I told the other birthday boy, I, this week when he lamented Fat Bear Week coming to an end: hey, some of us are here all year!)
D bought himself a leather waistcoat too which he looks amazing in, so that's fun. I tried on one like it was that technically my size but made me feel unusually dysphoric. I'm glad the market included vendors with explicitly trans stuff but it also had a lot of very normative bodies. Or, diversity of some kinds but not others. I guess it's why I've always steered clear of such things, despite my long-term yearnings...which I used to think were (just) yearning to be with rather than (also) to be -- lots of queers have this problem.
It was great to hang out with our friends and be silly together for an afternoon/evening.
Tomorrow will be busy in a really different way so I'm going to try to get some sleep.
Some saved up videos
Oct. 3rd, 2025 11:14 amconuly( Fake Emergencies )
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( Common moon mistakes )
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( The Insane Biology of: The Pangolin )
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( The Most Dangerous Escalator in Rome )
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( Backyard Squirrelympics )
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( Apparently, the dog dancing championships are a thing? )
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( The Assassin's Teapot Is Weird )
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( All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway )
( Common moon mistakes )
( The Insane Biology of: The Pangolin )
( The Most Dangerous Escalator in Rome )
( Backyard Squirrelympics )
( Apparently, the dog dancing championships are a thing? )
( The Assassin's Teapot Is Weird )
( All The Non-Passenger Trains in the NYC Subway )
There's a Dunkin Donuts by my house
Oct. 2nd, 2025 09:32 amconulyAnd every once in a while I end up there during the morning rush, which I try to avoid, and find somebody else bitching about how they "always" mess up their order and "always" take forever.
This is true, by the way - or, maybe not literally always true, but frequently true - but all the same, every time I hear the incessant whining I want to turn around and say "You knew what it was like when you placed your order!"
It's not like they're the only place to get coffee and a breakfast sandwich that's not your own home. There are three corner stores, every once of which will be happy, or at least willing, to make your standing order every day or week or however often you like. There's McDonald's right there, there's Wendy's right there, there's a Dunkin Donuts on the boat and another one just down Bay a bit, if you drive. Or, as I said, you can go home and make your own coffee for faster and cheaper, but you didn't do that, so you can't really complain that you're getting exactly what you obviously expected!
(It is my lack of whining, I think, that always gets me out of there a smidge faster. Should they be more efficient? Should they make fewer mistakes? Should I be able to order a muffin without fear that it'll be a bit raw in the middle? Yes to all three, and I've stopped ordering muffins! But they're close and I don't have to cook it myself, and I imagine that's why everybody else is there, so whatever.)
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This is true, by the way - or, maybe not literally always true, but frequently true - but all the same, every time I hear the incessant whining I want to turn around and say "You knew what it was like when you placed your order!"
It's not like they're the only place to get coffee and a breakfast sandwich that's not your own home. There are three corner stores, every once of which will be happy, or at least willing, to make your standing order every day or week or however often you like. There's McDonald's right there, there's Wendy's right there, there's a Dunkin Donuts on the boat and another one just down Bay a bit, if you drive. Or, as I said, you can go home and make your own coffee for faster and cheaper, but you didn't do that, so you can't really complain that you're getting exactly what you obviously expected!
(It is my lack of whining, I think, that always gets me out of there a smidge faster. Should they be more efficient? Should they make fewer mistakes? Should I be able to order a muffin without fear that it'll be a bit raw in the middle? Yes to all three, and I've stopped ordering muffins! But they're close and I don't have to cook it myself, and I imagine that's why everybody else is there, so whatever.)
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An optical deception
Oct. 4th, 2025 05:29 pmmtbcI haven't yet settled on how to use my commute on in-office days. For a workday it totals 3½h door-to-door, at least I could try to use the inter-city segment well. One challenge is that I don't want to add much weight to the bag I am already carrying, especially as it has the mighty work laptop therein, and my water flask. In the meantime, the railway carriage window gets looked out of somewhat.
One morning last week, I had a surprise: I glanced up at the right moment and, in the distant cloud or fog, I could make out a row of three large, white, shallow pyramids. I very much wondered something like,
One morning last week, I had a surprise: I glanced up at the right moment and, in the distant cloud or fog, I could make out a row of three large, white, shallow pyramids. I very much wondered something like,
WTF?. Ongoing observation revealed that I was seeing the towers and cables of the Queensferry Crossing, carrying the M90 toward Edinburgh. So, support for a bridge, rather than a row of pyramids.
New glasses
Oct. 4th, 2025 05:21 pmmtbcMy job comes with good enough private vision coverage that I finally visited a local optician. I much liked Andrew Bolton Opticians in Dundee but they're over an eighty minute drive away for me now and that keeps not happening in a way that comfortably fits an eyecare appointment.
I had been getting by fairly well with over-the-counter reading glasses: +1.0 for distance, +1.5 for close-up work. In my youth I had excellent vision, well beyond what glasses will correct me to now. So, in trying out my new glasses, things mostly didn't look great. Then, I tried my previous over-the-counter ones again and things looked even worse. I suppose that I just get to live with vision that's really not what it was. At least the vision benefit claims went easily.
I had been getting by fairly well with over-the-counter reading glasses: +1.0 for distance, +1.5 for close-up work. In my youth I had excellent vision, well beyond what glasses will correct me to now. So, in trying out my new glasses, things mostly didn't look great. Then, I tried my previous over-the-counter ones again and things looked even worse. I suppose that I just get to live with vision that's really not what it was. At least the vision benefit claims went easily.
Venting about Labour's immigration policies
Oct. 4th, 2025 04:47 pmmtbcMy recent entries make it easy to predict what I think of His Majesty's Government's proposals surrounding indefinite leave to remain. Perhaps I should have been clearer: it's not just that we need immigrants, it's that we are already hostile to them, they were never the real problem, yet the government seems happy to go along with the narrative that they are, perhaps because they make for a convenient scapegoat. I can understand that, in a democracy, the government might be a bit leery of trying to introduce sections of the electorate to reality but, inconveniently, reality has a way of determining the outcomes of policies so it would be responsible to face it anyway. In the meantime, innocent people suffer.
A more general theme of incompetence is emerging. For instance, this nonsense about digital identity cards for proving right to work. Could we have a clear problem statement please and an explanation of how this fixes it? There are already largely adequate procedures in place for checking one's right to work, R. and I have enjoyed them again in recent months in starting with a new employer. Is Starmer seriously suggesting that people come over in overcrowded dinghies then produce a convincingly forged birth certificate, or what? There is certainly a black economy issue that needs solving but how this proposal makes a whit of difference to it remains far from clear to me.
Is the government meant to be sounding this clueless, this soon into a term in which it has a large majority? If only any of them had the spine of, say, the late Robin Cook. At least Corbyn seemed to care more about people than votes. Could we perhaps swap the current lot for any group that has the courage to admit what the actual problems are (apart from, that the right-wing media has the bigots riled up again) and suggest anything that might usefully address them? Bonus points for having some compassion. I may have had some scorn for Labour at times but I didn't expect their pandering to fools to make me angry enough to consider relegating them off the
A more general theme of incompetence is emerging. For instance, this nonsense about digital identity cards for proving right to work. Could we have a clear problem statement please and an explanation of how this fixes it? There are already largely adequate procedures in place for checking one's right to work, R. and I have enjoyed them again in recent months in starting with a new employer. Is Starmer seriously suggesting that people come over in overcrowded dinghies then produce a convincingly forged birth certificate, or what? There is certainly a black economy issue that needs solving but how this proposal makes a whit of difference to it remains far from clear to me.
Is the government meant to be sounding this clueless, this soon into a term in which it has a large majority? If only any of them had the spine of, say, the late Robin Cook. At least Corbyn seemed to care more about people than votes. Could we perhaps swap the current lot for any group that has the courage to admit what the actual problems are (apart from, that the right-wing media has the bigots riled up again) and suggest anything that might usefully address them? Bonus points for having some compassion. I may have had some scorn for Labour at times but I didn't expect their pandering to fools to make me angry enough to consider relegating them off the
worth consideringlist. Starmer is turning out to be like Badenoch: the more they say things, the less I like them.
Musings on "quite"
Oct. 4th, 2025 12:15 pmenismirdalI think there needs to be more awareness that "quite" is used...well, quite differently in UK versus US English.
In UK English it normally means "somewhat", "fairly", "moderately". Someone who is "quite tall" might be 6 foot 1 but probably not nearly 7 foot tall. A sports team that is "quite good" probably gets slightly above average scores and win rates within their league but also probably isn't the champion every year. A town that is "quite small" is not tiny, but is also probably not worth visiting without a compelling reason!
Apparently in US English it means more like, "very". I only really started to appreciate it this when I was learning Spanish some years back, and the person teaching it at the time was from South America (so had originally learned American English). I asked her how to say that the town I lived in was "quite small" (see above - the place I lived in at the time had a medium sized Tesco and some restaurants, a furniture store and a good rail service; it wasn't the arse end of beyond), and she gave me the word "bastante". I obediently used it in my written work but then looked it up later and found that it means "really a lot" or something like that, i.e. I'd written that essentially my town was tiny.
I don't think the problem was her language competence. I think it was literally that she had a different understanding of "quite", derived from US usage.
I've read about this since, and I think at one point I saw the results of a survey that basically asked US and UK English speakers to try and ascribe numerical values to adverbs like "quite", "very", "exceptionally", and this was the major one where the two ratings diverged very noticeably.
I can imagine this has caused quite a few interesting misunderstandings across the Atlantic in the past... (Probably further not helped when a UK English user says something like, "That's really quite good," as a very British understated compliment.) I do wonder if there have been occasions in the past where I've got the wrong end of a stick talking to an American where I misunderstood their level of enthusiasm due to our interpretations of the word "quite".
In UK English it normally means "somewhat", "fairly", "moderately". Someone who is "quite tall" might be 6 foot 1 but probably not nearly 7 foot tall. A sports team that is "quite good" probably gets slightly above average scores and win rates within their league but also probably isn't the champion every year. A town that is "quite small" is not tiny, but is also probably not worth visiting without a compelling reason!
Apparently in US English it means more like, "very". I only really started to appreciate it this when I was learning Spanish some years back, and the person teaching it at the time was from South America (so had originally learned American English). I asked her how to say that the town I lived in was "quite small" (see above - the place I lived in at the time had a medium sized Tesco and some restaurants, a furniture store and a good rail service; it wasn't the arse end of beyond), and she gave me the word "bastante". I obediently used it in my written work but then looked it up later and found that it means "really a lot" or something like that, i.e. I'd written that essentially my town was tiny.
I don't think the problem was her language competence. I think it was literally that she had a different understanding of "quite", derived from US usage.
I've read about this since, and I think at one point I saw the results of a survey that basically asked US and UK English speakers to try and ascribe numerical values to adverbs like "quite", "very", "exceptionally", and this was the major one where the two ratings diverged very noticeably.
I can imagine this has caused quite a few interesting misunderstandings across the Atlantic in the past... (Probably further not helped when a UK English user says something like, "That's really quite good," as a very British understated compliment.) I do wonder if there have been occasions in the past where I've got the wrong end of a stick talking to an American where I misunderstood their level of enthusiasm due to our interpretations of the word "quite".
Interesting Links for 04-10-2025
Oct. 4th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 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 )
R. F. .Kuang: Katabasis
Oct. 4th, 2025 11:00 amselenakThis is the third novel of R. F. Kuang I've read (after being impressed by the The Poppy Wars, first volume, but also emotionally so exhausted I didn't read the rest of the trilogy, amused and captivated in an emotionally distant way by Yellowface, and turned so much by Babel that I only read the first twenty pages or so and then gave up), and I think my favourite so far. There is academic satire but also genuine emotion throughout, there is great ambition epically realised (i.e. writing a trip to the underworld in the grand tradition of all the obvious suspects, but specifically one that reflects the present), and the horror parts hit home in a way that feels not derivative but specific for this particular version. (The novel is set in a universe where magic is real, but isn't concerned with how this altered history or not, just what it means you can study it at university.) Our main character, Alice Law, is the kind of messy, complicated and morally ambiguous (and not in a "nice" way) woman the author specializes in, though for me personally preferable because I had the sense of the narrative being on board with what it was saying about Alice's strengths and weaknesses through her initially very skewered perspective. Also she had a genuine learning process through that trip through the Underworld, and... but that would be spoilery.
( Spoilers realize the Underworld is modelled on a British University )
Also improving my week: This trailer for Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein:
( Spoilers realize the Underworld is modelled on a British University )
Also improving my week: This trailer for Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein:
Festivids!
Oct. 3rd, 2025 08:41 amseekingferretHi Festividder!
Thanks for making a vid for me. My usual request is that I like to be surprised and I like to let people follow their own creative intutions. But I know that can be hard to get started, so here's some brief notes to guide you if you want guidance.
The Menu (2022) [SAFETY]
I found this movie mesmerizing. I love the way it uses the aesthetics of modern haute cuisine and twists them in monstrous directions.
Adam Savage's Tested (YouTube Channel)
I love Adam's enthusiasm for tools and making things, I love the way he lifts up other creators, I love how he explains things.
Women's Logrolling RPF [UMBRELLA]
The only canon I know here is the amazing defector article Earth’s Best Logroller Has Created Her Own Greatest Rival, and a few YT videos, and I assume you probably don't know much more than me so if you vid this, enjoy the adventure of discovery.
Jet Lag: The Game (Web Series)
By the time festivids is really going we'll probably know who won All-Stars, feel free to use the new source or not. Toby is my favorite guest player, I also love the Adam and Ben dynamics, and I love how they play off mastermind Sam.
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret (2023) [SAFETY]
We are in the Jews dancing part of this request list now. I liked how this movie balanced the grownups and the teens both going on journeys of self discovery.
Round and Round (2023) [SAFETY]
More Jews dancing. I thought this movie was shockingly good. I loved it as a sci-fi movie taking its premise seriously and I loved it as a movie about a Jewish family supporting each other through crisis.
הסודות | The Secrets (2007) [SAFETY]
More Jews dancing. This is my favorite movie about Kabbalah, I love how it takes the life and death stakes of God's secrets seriously while remaining in a more or less naturalistic posture.
Thanks for making a vid for me. My usual request is that I like to be surprised and I like to let people follow their own creative intutions. But I know that can be hard to get started, so here's some brief notes to guide you if you want guidance.
The Menu (2022) [SAFETY]
I found this movie mesmerizing. I love the way it uses the aesthetics of modern haute cuisine and twists them in monstrous directions.
Adam Savage's Tested (YouTube Channel)
I love Adam's enthusiasm for tools and making things, I love the way he lifts up other creators, I love how he explains things.
Women's Logrolling RPF [UMBRELLA]
The only canon I know here is the amazing defector article Earth’s Best Logroller Has Created Her Own Greatest Rival, and a few YT videos, and I assume you probably don't know much more than me so if you vid this, enjoy the adventure of discovery.
Jet Lag: The Game (Web Series)
By the time festivids is really going we'll probably know who won All-Stars, feel free to use the new source or not. Toby is my favorite guest player, I also love the Adam and Ben dynamics, and I love how they play off mastermind Sam.
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret (2023) [SAFETY]
We are in the Jews dancing part of this request list now. I liked how this movie balanced the grownups and the teens both going on journeys of self discovery.
Round and Round (2023) [SAFETY]
More Jews dancing. I thought this movie was shockingly good. I loved it as a sci-fi movie taking its premise seriously and I loved it as a movie about a Jewish family supporting each other through crisis.
הסודות | The Secrets (2007) [SAFETY]
More Jews dancing. This is my favorite movie about Kabbalah, I love how it takes the life and death stakes of God's secrets seriously while remaining in a more or less naturalistic posture.
Interesting Links for 03-10-2025
Oct. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 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 )
To-read pile, 2025, September
Oct. 3rd, 2025 08:00 amrmc28Books on pre-order:
- Queen Demon (Rising World 2) by Martha Wells (7 Oct 2025)
- Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May 2025)
Books acquired in September:
- and read:
- The Rose & The Dagger (Wrath and the Dawn 2) by Renée Ahdieh
- Breakaway (Portland Storm 1) by Catherine Gayle
- The Claiming of the Shrew (Fated Mountain Lodge) by Lauren Esker
- and unread:
- The Element of Fire by Martha Wells
- The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
- City of Bones by Martha Wells
- Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells
- Emilie and the Sky World by Martha Wells
- Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells
- Surviving the Storms - RNLI [3]
Books acquired previously and read in September:
- The Wrath & The Dawn by Renée Ahdieh [3][May]
- Kidnap on the California Comet by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman [3][May][DNF]
- Betrayal (Trinity 1) by Fiona McIntosh [3][May][DNF]
Rereads in September:
- Slippery Creatures (Will Darling Adventures 1) by KJ Charles
- The Sugared Game (Will Darling Adventures 2) by KJ Charles
- Subtle Blood (Will Darling Adventures 3) by KJ Charles
I started off strong in September, clearing some of the books from earlier in the year, reading new books, and even a reread of some old favourites. And then the ice hockey season got under way. I'm actually part way through both the RNLI paperback (bought at Bembridge RNLI on the Isle of Wight) and the first of the batch of Martha Wells books from the HumbleBundle but progress is slow when I'm busy.
[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited
The Friday Five for 3 October 2025: Senses
Oct. 3rd, 2025 01:41 amanais_pf posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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1. Do you ever wonder if the way you see things visually aren't how other people see them?
2. What kind of sounds are the most annoying?
3. When walking through a store, do you shop with your hands by touching/feeling the texture of things?
4. If you could only smell three scents for the rest of your life, what would they be?
5. What sorts of things do you savor when eating them?
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ardnaid.1. Do you ever wonder if the way you see things visually aren't how other people see them?
2. What kind of sounds are the most annoying?
3. When walking through a store, do you shop with your hands by touching/feeling the texture of things?
4. If you could only smell three scents for the rest of your life, what would they be?
5. What sorts of things do you savor when eating them?
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Geez, I can't even... I don't even....
Oct. 1st, 2025 04:13 pmconulyHonestly, my worst thoughts about what was going to happen in that meeting of the generals were both so much more terrible and so much less terrible than what actually went on.
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some things!
Oct. 2nd, 2025 10:20 pmkaberett- Bookshop.org is now doing ebooks in the UK. Unlike Hive, they do not apply DRM to everything. V excited about this!
- I think -- think -- I have worked out an Acceptable Wagamama order, at least for the time being. I'm mildly annoyed about needing to order extra vegetables in order to have enough vegetables in my vegetable noodle dish, though. (The yasai pad thai + wok-fried greens is not My Favourite Thing They've Ever Done, but it is better than anything else I have managed to make the current menu disgorge. Which is useful, because we have A Routine, and it involves Wagamama.)
- I have POACHED SOME QUINCE (I am turning windfalls I located round the corner into cake, and the Gift Quince are probably going to turn into a Ruby Violet sorbet recipe). I am going to make a cake, probably with added bay leaves, as I think I mentioned, probably tomorrow but the quince won't hurt for spending a bit longer sat in syrup. I am contemplating the merits of showing up on the doorstep of the folk with the quince tree, with some cake, and being all "hello yes I made this with windfalls onto the public path, I will very happily make you more things :) out of quince :) if you don't know what to do with them :))) which I am KIND OF ASSUMING YOU DON'T given that the branches overhanging your garden are still COVERED IN THE THINGS, unlike the branches overhanging the public byway..." (The social anxiety almost certainly means I won't actually do this, but I am, you know, considering.)
- Meanwhile today's poking around at recipe books introduced me to the concept of medlar sticky toffee pudding, which is now extremely high up my list of things to do with this year's medlar as and when we get any. (Recipe is in a book I'm not actually going to get from Oxfam, or at the Torygraph.)
- I continue to really enjoy looking at the Pelikan Art Collection pens (further links from within that one). It is possible I tripped and fell and spent more time reading about them this morning.
Interesting Links for 02-10-2025
Oct. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 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 )
New frontiers in conflict resolution
Oct. 1st, 2025 10:13 pmazurelunaticAs apparently the result of some long-running bad communication (not on Belovedest's side) there's a certain snarl at their work currently. They laid out the situation and the players to me.
Regarding the largest part of it -- "You have a leg to stand on there," I said. "Two legs. And my legs. That's four. And Yellface's. That's six. Eight. And when you have eight legs? ( creepy AND crawly )!"
Regarding the largest part of it -- "You have a leg to stand on there," I said. "Two legs. And my legs. That's four. And Yellface's. That's six. Eight. And when you have eight legs? ( creepy AND crawly )!"