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I am: Andrew www.andrewt.net • The Cell Tower guy www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower • Polymath on MyCrossword www.mycrossword.co.uk/Polymath

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 13h
I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 02/10/2026
Have to assume what's happened here is someone did the maths, put it in a presentation to make the point that "this is a thing we can do" and the journalist wrote it down thinking it was some amazing secret polling they'd done
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 02/10/2026
I'll be honest, a part of me hopes the Independents's crossword survives separately from the newspaper, just because I never buy the paper and the current web implementation is bloody awful
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who amongst us hasn't been tempted...
Accountant calls police after being asked to attend meeting
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
what a qood website this is, trulv ai is the future
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
This photo choice is really bad. I mean yes, haha, look at this buffoon who has more money than god but still looks like a six year old nerd from a children's cartoon, but if we keep telling people this is what the pervert glasses look like, nobody will realise when people are wearing them
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
They must be losing money on the cheeseburger, which means by eating it you're reducing the market viability of the meat industry, thereby clearly furthering the aims of vegetarianism. Clearly you have a moral obligation to eat it
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
The Grammar Police work for The Powers That Are
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
Someone needs to tell the people behind Tilly Norwood that that isn't what "model-turned-actress" means
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
So many species of cranks do this! If you tell them they're talking nonsense they accuse you of not engaging with their arguments, but you can't engage without granting about 90% of their nonsense so you can argue against the 10% where the actual claim is
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
Nice. Wikipedia's always great for timelines of this stuff, you should scroll through the historical flags of the USA, there's some absolutely cursed designs in there
en.wikipedia.org
Flag of the United States - Wikipedia
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
wait no, my mistake, that's a photo of a 1920 passport (beneath a paragraph about 1902 ones). the crest dates back to at least 1790 but i haven't found the six-pointed great star arrangement before 1920 (before then the arrangement didn't seem fixed). the point stands though, it's over a century old
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
This crest does seem to have been in continuous use on the US passport since at least 1902 platform.keesingtechnologies.com/history-of-t... which is 46 years before the modern state of Israel was founded
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Smylers @smylers.uk · 01/10/2026
Well you should've tied them down better.
A sign in a shop, locally printed in a default word processor font on A4 paper saying “helium balloons are now upstairs”, stuck partially over a more corporate official-looking sign (red and yellow, parts of words that might be “for latest offers" visible) which has “boyesstores” in the corner, then a Facebook logo
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
Time was, Graham Linehan was arrested for this
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
I enjoy that both question marks made the acronym
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026
expensive and high maintenance?
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cryptic 🦇 pollinator @magicscience.info · 12/12/2024
packet marked with DO NOT THROW AWAY "YOU MUST EAT" MANDATORY CRYSTALS DO NOT THROW AWAY
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 30/09/2026
I mean, yes, she kind of did: the byline credit. *You* might not think getting an LLM to generate half the paragraphs and then calling yourself the author is deceptive, and that's fair enough, but obviously lots of other people do and I don't think you can argue they're *wrong* to feel that way.
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 30/09/2026
Nobody noticed for ages that a lot of low-end beef products were partly or wholly made of cheaper horse meat but I don't recall anyone expecting them to therefore be chill about it when they did find out
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 30/09/2026
ok AI bros, are we getting vinyl recommendations from Claude or is Sora 6 generating personalised music the future, because it can't be both, you need to decide
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 30/09/2026
Super Intelligence is when you're smart and also take mushrooms
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 29/09/2026
and they say humans don't hibernate
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture
Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
Do you understand that "what is art" is a thing two reasonable people might disagree about? There is no simple, authoritative definition. You're just insisting your opinion is fact and anyone who disagrees must be stupid or acting in bad faith, and it makes you look honestly pretty silly
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
Why do you think I'm incapable of processing what you're saying? I understand perfectly, I just think you're wrong, and you haven't given me any reason to change my mind. It's like you can't fathom the concept of someone listening to you and not immediately being convinced
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
See, now we're going to have an argument about the definition of "imagine". This is why I don't think "appeal to dictionary" is a good way to have these discussions — apart from anything else,that's just not what dictionaries are for. Can you really not make your case without them?
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
Does it? If you take a photo of a castle you didn't build, on a hill you didn't landscape, against a sunset you didn't design, what did you imagine? Like, you did an art and it's probably great, but was it *imaginative* really?
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
I rate photography as an art form, but I think this definition, which hinges on imagination specifically, pretty clearly excludes it. So why do you think photography is art when the dictionary you literally just cited as evidence that I'm wrong says it's not?
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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
I want you to either engage properly or go away, I don't mind which
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
Oh, you've been perfectly clear. What you haven't done is offer literally any reason at all for me to believe you — other than appealing to some unspecified dictionary definition you haven't even quoted, much less cited
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
that's ok as long as you do
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
Tell you what. Why don't you try, just as a fun intellectual exercise, to argue your case while pretending that dictionaries don't exist. If your case is really bulletproof, that should be pretty easy, right?
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
Just like *you say* AI art does All you've done is reiterate your opinion and add the word "definitionally" as if that makes you correct
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
Don't you talk about Their Gelatinous Argument like that. They're the best emo band I know (although to be fair also the worst Philip Pullman trilogy)
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
No, you mentioned you did both AI and non-ai art once before, I just didn't think it was terribly relevant and made a flippant reply because I assumed you'd muted me like you said you would. I'd like to see some of your stuff though!
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
wait, did you think all this time you were going to convince me?
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
Again, you're assuming, based on nothing I can see, that your definition is the established one and mine is new. How can that be based on anything? Any lexicographer working before 2022 wouldn't have thought to clarify this detail and dictionary definitions just do not get updated that often
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
So you say. You haven't explained why you're so convinced everyone else is going by your definition and not mine. As far as I can tell, it simply hasn't occurred to you that you might possibly be wrong
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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 · 28/09/2026
You're not standing up for artistic freedom. That's what people battling state censorship are doing. You are arguing with a stranger on the internet because they don't agree that typing "masterpiece painting, million dollar valuation, correct anatomy, no mistakes" into Midjourney makes you an artist
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
I know people use the phrase "AI art" but people also use the phrases "guinea pigs" and "long island iced tea" and nobody thinks those things are pigs or tea, I am begging you two to learn one (1) thing about how language works
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
So how come you do? Why is it that me asserting what I think is "gatekeeping" and "seems insane" but you asserting what you think is just Using The Correct Definitions and Defending The Freedom Of Art? This is a comically arrogant way of engaging with anyone
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
It's very funny how you two keep trying to lecture me about language while repeatedly falling to understand basic devices like metaphor
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026
I have to say, some internet rando threatening to mute me reminds me of the time my then-five-year-old nephew threatened to "never play with you again" if me and his dad didn't buy him the shiny red plastic thing he was pointing at completely at random (which, for the record, was a hammer drill)
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