Reposted by AndrewThought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 13hI 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. 152757548
Andrew @andrewt.net · 02/10/2026Have 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 030
Andrew @andrewt.net · 02/10/2026I'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 001
Reposted by AndrewDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Who amongst us hasn't been tempted... 541895
Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026This 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 000
Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026They 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 150
Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026Someone needs to tell the people behind Tilly Norwood that that isn't what "model-turned-actress" means 030
Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026So 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 050
Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026Nice. 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 thereen.wikipedia.orgFlag of the United States - Wikipedia 120
Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026wait 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 120
Andrew @andrewt.net · 01/10/2026This 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 130
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Andrew @andrewt.net · 30/09/2026I 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. 1100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 30/09/2026Nobody 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 1180
Andrew @andrewt.net · 30/09/2026ok 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 110
Reposted by AndrewThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture 81528177
Reposted by AndrewJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I 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 3545181094
Reposted by AndrewAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year? 36687193
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026Do 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 000
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026Why 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 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026See, 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? 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026Does 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? 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026I 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? 110
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026Ok! 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 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026I want you to either engage properly or go away, I don't mind which 000
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026Oh, 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 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026Tell 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? 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026Just 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 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026Don'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) 000
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026No, 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! 000
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026Again, 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 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026So 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 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026ok, have fun typing "art" into stable diffusion and spamming enter, here is some of my real art for you to enjoy 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026You'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 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026I 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 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026So 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 100
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026It's very funny how you two keep trying to lecture me about language while repeatedly falling to understand basic devices like metaphor 110
Andrew @andrewt.net · 28/09/2026I 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) 110