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can anyone see what i can do from here? #CluesBySam

A screenshot from Clues By Sam, with clues including "I am a criminal", "Gary is in column B" and "Sam is one of Xavi's five neighbours".

Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026

Ok! I pick this one, and argue that AI generation does not constitute "the conscious use of the imagination in the production of objects" because the objects are produced by a computer program, and therefore objects can only be considered art to the extent that they are not AI-generated

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026

ok, have fun typing "art" into stable diffusion and spamming enter, here is some of my real art for you to enjoy

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 26/09/2026

So what you're saying is, is I don't install the update until January, you won't install the shitty genocide wizard themes?

The system update screen on Android. The "feature drop" includes some Harry potter themes, but they're only available until December

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 25/09/2026

Pictures from life drawing tonight

A charcoal drawing of a woman lying on her side, twisting to lying on her back at the shoulders

A charcoal sketch of the same woman dressing up and looking up, over my head

A charcoal sketch of the same when, again with a twist, this time mostly on her front and facing away from me

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 18/09/2026

I've built a little prototype of a game displayed via autostereogram, so you can game *and* have a migraine at the same time! In the game you can adjust the pattern width or invert it — you can't do that in a static video so I guess just resize the window until it works (or take my word for it)

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 17/09/2026

No they didn't, you can only respond to events after they happen, that's how causality works

Facebook notification that some of my friends "responded to events happening soon"

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 15/09/2026

But that's *checks Wolfram Alpha* 1.038 million bombs!

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 14/09/2026

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

A mountain on stage with a guitar and microphone

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 09/09/2026

Thinking about it, I think this might be too much fidelity for N64-era Zelda. Link is what, nine in this game? He's a child, that's the whole point. You can get away with sending a child to fight monsters if they look like Steven Universe or Luz Noceda but if they look too real it's harrowing.

A screenshot of Child Link playing the ocarina. He has cartoon features but is otherwise quite realistically rendered

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 05/09/2026

I made a pinball game in 1k of #Pico8 code for the #Pico1k jam andrew-t.itch.io/1k-pinball It's small and janky but I'm surprised how complete a pinball game I was able to cram into 1024 bytes. (That's compressed, it's 1968 characters of Lua code with no assets.)

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/09/2026

This is the worst Doctor Who tender proposal so far www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

James Dyson looking at some cursed electric toothbrush with a glowing blue light on the tip

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/09/2026

I understand how you can use AI to make the set for a film, if it's all just green-screened or whatever, but lighting? How can a light be AI? What does it mean for a film to have "AI lighting"?

Variety article:

Gal Gadot Defends Starring in 'Bitcoin' Movie With Al Sets and Lighting Because 'You're Going to Work With It or Be Out of the Game'

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 13/08/2026

Tell you what, you don't often see Ikea endorsing a candidate like this

An advert for a five litre metal pot which because of your it's framed looks a bit like Count Binface

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 12/08/2026

Here are some pictures that can't be seen here again for decades

A simple pen drawing of a fish. The scales are pinhole projections of the cresent of sun visible behind the moon

A pen drawing of a boat. The waves of the sea are projections of the eclipse

A pen drawing of someone sleeping. Their eyes and mouth are projections of the eclipse

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 12/08/2026

Oh god why does it flash like this

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 11/08/2026

Just saw a job advert for a "freelance vibe coder" so I visited the website and this is what it looks like. Well, this is what it looks like captured at a much lower FPS. In reality, it flashes at an unstable 40fps or so

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 08/08/2026

Just saw this image and I think it's very funny that whoever made it clearly just googled "atom" and ended up putting the icon for a text editor in their pro-science propaganda

A series of statements like "vaccines work", "chemtrails aren't a thing" and "universe is expanding" which is bad grammar and not to my knowledge disputed, and at the bottom "stand up for science". The statements all have icons and the icon for the last one is a picture of an atom, but specifically the one used as the icon of the Atom text editor

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 06/08/2026

Good to see the replies to this are finally catching up to what I was saying five years ago

A Twitter post, because this is the past.

Quoting a story about whether there should be a female James Bond, I say there should be, and then clarify in a reply:

Not a female 007, not Jane Bond, straight up cast a woman to play James Bond. Sharp tux in a ladies' cut, sleeping with Bond girls, references to establish she's the same character as Sean Connery, the whole shebang, but played by Hannah Waddingham and it's NEVER ADDRESSED.

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 05/08/2026

I asked it for a stopwatch once and it drew one in ASCII art — these aren't buttons, nothing works, it's just a text response that resembles the app I wanted. Innovatively unhelpful

Gemini response that says:

Here's a stopwatch that counts up:

00:00:00

To start the stopwatch, press the "Start" button. To pause the stopwatch, press the "Pause" button. To reset the stopwatch, press the "Reset" button.

Start | Pause | Reset

Note: This is a basic implementation of a stopwatch. For more advanced features, such as lap times or alarms, you may need to use a dedicated stopwatch app or device.

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 03/08/2026

Well if you need a graphic for the signs you can use this

A graphic in the style of the standard toilet door gender figures, showing one figure lifting another's skirt and looking underneath. There are two versions, in one of which the "inspector" also has a skirt

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 30/07/2026

This is my favourite picture from this week's life drawing

A charcoal drawing of a man lying on his back with one knee up. It looks dynamic because I put the shadow in, which is clearly cheating but it works

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 14/07/2026

No knobhead*S*, they're allowed one

Homer Glumplich leaning out of a treehouse window and laughing

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 12/07/2026

I've seen about a thousand of these posts today and I'm starting to think that even the Americans who make an effort to follow international politics only get UK news that John Oliver thinks is funny

I'm just saying... these things happen in threes.

Lindsay Graham ✅
Mitch McConnell ❓
[FILL IN THE BLANK]

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 08/07/2026

This sort of take really pisses me off. It just completely flattens whatever the person was going through and turns their death into their own moral failing. It's the "I would simply" of mental health, and you would not simply, nobody has ever simply, that is not how anything works.

Someone replying to a report about a suicide with "what an incredibly selfish thing to do"

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 03/07/2026

I'm sure they meant it this way around

Is there anything more pathetic than a bluesky user? Stephen Pollard

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 02/07/2026

No, I mean, this is a picture of two tables that are different shapes. The parts of the screen representing the tops of those tables are the same shape, but the 3D tables being depicted aren't. Like, this is not a picture of three identical cars parked next to a row of increasingly tiny lamp-posts:

A picture of a street. There is one parked car, and it has been copy-pasted twice more along the street, without accounting for perspective, with the result that the furthest away copy looks massive.

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 18/06/2026

Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery That all started with the

A temporary sign in a supermarket reading "aisle 1: large pop"

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 15/06/2026

Last week at my life drawing group I was the model instead of an artist, and check out these great pictures people did of me

A drawing of me in hard black and white on a bright yellow background

Two drawings of me with black ink and white highlights, plus a stair in stark black on white paper

A sheet with three pictures of me in dark pencil

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 05/06/2026

This seems like a somewhat problematic subject line, not least because these games haven't been good since Slavic And Knuckles

A Gog promotional email with the caption "Slavic adventure" (which is not the name of the game)

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/05/2026

I see Google have finally invented "making their app icons look like things instead of like each other"

Various Google app icons. They're mostly blue, green and yellow, with (mostly) red reserved for Gmail, although it still has a hint of rainbow, I expect to imply that it's in some sense the Boss of the other apps. It is Odin to Calendar's Thor, which I guess makes Chat Loki, because you absolutely never know what Chat's going to do next

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 27/05/2026

I have no idea why I made this

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 26/05/2026

This guy's really going to raw-dog a two-year Mars mission

According to spacepolicyonline.com, the round-trip flight will take approximately two years. During the recorded interview with SpaceX Communications Manager Huot, however, Wang said he’s not worried about the long journey.

“I can stare at the map view on airplanes all the way from takeoff through landing, so I think I’m going to enjoy the trip,” he said.

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 20/05/2026

It's really handy how BlueSky has these labellers so I know I don't have to engage with you

this guy has three labels: "transphobia brackets general", "replies over 20 times a day on average" and "made over 100 replies yesterday"

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 19/05/2026

My first thought was Rain Man, so I Googled it and, well, this is how Wikipedia puts it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_Man

Since Dustin Hoffman's 1989 Academy Award win for his performance in Rain Man, about half of all Best Actor trophies have been awarded for portrayals of characters who are disabled in some way; none of these recipients share their characters' disabilities in real life.

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 18/05/2026

Some drawings from life drawing today, which I have labelled as artistic nudity but Bluesky will inevitably tag as absolute pornographic filth anyway

Pencil sketches of a woman, with headgear, corset and underwear picked out in red, and a pink boa in pastel

Another charcoal drawing of her, leaned away and holding her boot up with her hand

Charcoal drawing of the same woman leaned backwards, wearing only long black boots and gloves that didn't really come out in the drawing

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 16/05/2026

Today's silly project has been: Lego Game Boy photoframe This link lets you print a sheet of up to 15 cards (assuming A4) with different pictures on. If you play around with the colour settings, and have green card to print on, it looks pretty good. www.andrewt.net/lego-gameboy...

A Lego Game Boy, whose screen is showing a photo of two cats. The photo has been treated to look like a Game Boy Camera photo (although there is no Lego Game Boy Camera in the cartridge slot so who knows how that's supposed to be happening)

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 11/05/2026

The casting call for this preposterous Wordle TV show unveils what I presume to be the logo, and my favourite part is the grid in the background features a 🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩 row, a thing that cannot possibly happen in Wordle

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 29/03/2026

Been playing around with portals in Godot. Not sure what, if anything, I'll turn this into but it's cool that I have the tools to put this together in just a couple of days TBH most of today was just tidying up the player movement, there are, it turns out, a lot of wrong answers here

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/03/2026

Whoever graffiti'd this poster, I would like to buy them a drink

A poster titled "band members wanted".

Under that, it says "we are looking for lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bass, and drums"

Someone has scribbled out the word "members"

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