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Reminds me of a chapter in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger where she talks about autistic kids historically being seen as stolen and replaced with monstrous doubles. (She ties this into the modern vaccine panic.)

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 08/10/2026

Notes and links from 7 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/08/not… Yesterday I popped to the allotment with my sister for a bit. Had fun getting the scooter to go up the muddy hill — it’s really not an off-road vehicle, but it made it. Was a nice sunny afternoon af...

An orange flower is being held by a human hand in the air. Below you can see the shadow of the human on the ground.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 06/10/2026

Notes and links from 6 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/06/not… The weather this last few days has been notable. It’s not been hot exactly but it certainly hasn’t been October-typical. I did put a thick jumper on the other day but then today I was in a t-shirt. ...

Photo of the sky with some tree branches at the bottom. The sky is full of little fluffy clouds which are distributed in what looks like an arc or fan.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 05/10/2026

Notes from 4 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/05/not… I didn’t really feel like blogging yesterday, so I didn’t. Not much caught my eye in the feeds and I didn’t do much of note (although I did briefly pop out on the scooter) so when it came to the end of the day and my t...

A shot of a lawn with a fence. There’s a round metal frame in the photo and a small wooden structure (the hedgehog cafe).

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 05/10/2026

I'm withdrawing due to the futility of debating on this platform but wish you well as a comrade against oppression.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 05/10/2026

Everything should always be selectively applied. Language and symbols are imperfect shorthand abstractions and applying them dogmatically is dangerous. And we do condone the Swastika in the west when it's used in non-Nazi contexts, if very carefully, in both cases because context is everything.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 05/10/2026

Um, a significant part if not majority of the non-western world would think of it as a symbol of peace.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 03/10/2026

Notes and links from 3 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/03/not… Went to visit my sister briefly today on the scooter, thus normalising the whole “going out on the scooter” thing, and when I returned Fiona informed me that Lav had been furiously digging out Wally...

A rabbit is in a shallow hole in the ground. It is pushing earth out of the hole towards a large amount of soil spread across the lawn.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 02/10/2026

Notes and links from 2 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/02/not… A fairly nondescript day. Pottered around a bit and didn’t accidentally start a project, so that’s good. Conserving energy and resting properly. Bit bored though. Trying not to get wound up about th...

Photograph of a clear blue sky with one thin cloud smeared across the top. At the bottom some tree branches are reaching up.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 01/10/2026

Notes and links from 1 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/01/not… My local park on October 1st One of my goals as set by the CFS occupational therapist is to go to a social space once a week. I’ve picked The Cloak and Dagger on Stirchley High Street as somewhere ...

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 30/09/2026

Notes and links from 30 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/30/not… A quiet day, although I did finally receive a couple of widgets I’d accidentally ordered from China on eBay (hate it when that happens, not so much for the shipping time as for the wrongness feel...

The metal lid of a garden waste incinerator is splattered with raindrops at the start of a shower.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 30/09/2026

Clearing the tabs: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/30/cle… I need to declare browser bankruptcy so to mark the end of September here is bundle of links I haven’t read in full but think might be of interest to what passes for my readership demographic. Click with caution an...

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 29/09/2026

Notes and links from 29 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/29/not… Psychotherapy day today, alongside a need to rest, so mostly pottering in the garden. Sister came over to borrow something from the shed so we had a brief catch-up. I mentioned my therapy had mov...

A black and white rabbit is facing away from us, squeezed between a wooden post and a plank with other detritus around. Around its tail is loose earth it has just dug up.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 28/09/2026

Notes and links from 28 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/28/not… Nothing much to report today. Bit of a fuzzy head so a rest day, all in all. Not overly happy with my link-notes below. Can’t seem to get the phrasing right, but also my judgement might be off an...

A red ladybug with black spots is walking away from the camera along the top of a wooden fence.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 27/09/2026

Notes and links from 27 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/27/not… So yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted. I had a major chronic fatigue crash on the 19th, the likes of which I haven’t experienced for a long time, maybe since Christmas? It wasn’t nice and...

Two rabbits are munching on a sprig of grass growing between bricks, though they look a little concerned about the human who has bent down to take the photo. A watering can is on the right and a bin is behind.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 26/09/2026

Looks great! I love how Destroy History looks like a manga about ladies with robotic handbags.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 21/09/2026

Fox thief in the hedgehog cafe: youtu.be/73PQQrxL4T0 After the mouse heist over the weekend we noticed the bowl had been moved from it's normal position at the end of the tunnel and appeared to have been licked clean. Turns out the hedgehog cafe is not as fox-proof as we'd like. Time for a rebuild!

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Fox thief in the hedgehog cafe - 21 Sept 2026

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 20/09/2026

Mouse thief in the hedgehog cafe www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4a... Not much hedgehog action this last month but we've noticed the food has slowly continued to go down. Turns out we have a thief who is ferrying the dry cat food to their nest.

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Mouse thief in the hedgehog cafe - 19 Sept 2026

YouTube video by Pete Ashton

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 20/09/2026

I have at least six versions of Eddie Campbell's early Alec stories. Possibly more. (Escape magazine, Escape collection, ACME/Eclipse collection, Bacchus magazine, self published collection, Top Shelf collection.)

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 18/09/2026

Notes and links from 18 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/18/not… Didn’t sleep too well, pretty tired today. This has definitely been a recovery week. What ME/CFS is, and how it’s wrecking me

A ginger and white rabbit in front of a fence and a bin.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 17/09/2026

Notes and links from 17 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/17/not… More pottering today, thought I appear to have accidentally gestated a couple of plans so I guess my brain is over the fatigue? The first is to extend the water harvesting to the shed roof and pi...

Overhead view of a lawn with two rabbits munching grass on it. There’s a fenced off area at the front where the grass is longer. Scattered around are various short tunnel-type structures for the rabbits to run through.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 17/09/2026

Apple stuff I watched in 2025-6 that I rated: Dickinson* Down Cemetery Road Pluribus* Severance Strange Planet* Star City Foundation Masters of the Air Murderbot* Platonic Silo* Slow Horses The Studio Margo's Got Money Troubles Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. * highly recommended

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 16/09/2026

TIL Michael McIntyre and Macklemore are not the same person.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 16/09/2026

Notes and links from 16 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/16/not… Rest day, mostly pottering in the garden and making the finishing tweaks to the rabbit run water harvesting system. I’m happy that it’s now good enough to run through the winter and save up enoug...

A black and white rabbit with upright ears is leaning towards the camera so its nose is slightly out of focus. In the background is a lawn and garden stuff.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 15/09/2026

Notes and links from 15 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/15/not… Ideally this would have been a rest day but Tuesday is psychotherapy day so no rest just yet. The session went well but afterwards it was clear my battery was exhausted and I got a bit stress tri...

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 15/09/2026

Clickbait editor: "Heritage! Hyde! I need a backlash-to-the-backlash piece from one of you, stat!"

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 14/09/2026

Notes and links from 14 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/14/not… Rest day, and much needed. Lots of sleeping, not much doing.

A stack of random things against a fence. The main focus is a small oddly shaped wooden panel resting on a folding metal workbench. Next to it is a roll of chicken wire and below a ducting tube.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 14/09/2026

Also, while they're not kids, these two are significantly younger than we are and I enjoyed their take on hitchhikers. www.youtube.com/live/yCv1Uby...

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 14/09/2026

I was thinking today that privacy opt-outs buried deep in app settings with obfuscated names is very "beware of the leopard".

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 13/09/2026

Notes and links from 13 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/13/not… Today was the Birmingham Honey Show at Winterbourne Gardens, which means Winterbourne Gardens is free entry and also there’s honey. Plus one of my Birmingham-based cousins developed a beekeeping ...

Photograph pointing up through a canopy of leafy branches with the sky visible through gaps.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 13/09/2026

Oh, I've always had that turned off and didn't realise. No wonder my Bsky feed is so nice.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 12/09/2026

Notes and links from 12 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/12/not… Very much a rest day today. Was hoping to pop along to the Woodland Games but nope, no energy available.

A bald middle-aged man with a beard and glasses in a white t-shirt and grey sweat pants is sitting on the ground against a wooden shed. Two rabbits are to his left on their hind legs as he holds something out for them to eat. A banana skin is resting on his other shoulder.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 11/09/2026

Jesus. Sometimes I forget what websites are supposed to look like.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 11/09/2026

Notes and links from 11 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/11/not… We went on a relatively big adventure today, driving out to Compton Verney with my sister and bro-in-law. I think it’s the furthest I’ve been since December? Fi gave me loads of opportunities to ...

Photograph of a stately home type building half-obscured by trees with a grassy field in the foreground.

A large rock the size of a house has been placed on a lawn. It has been roughly hewn but is clearly man-made. There’s a very large tree behind.

Photo of the path leading up to a stately home with green lawn on either side. I am on the right of the photo, cropped, on my scooter. A man and women are walking on the left in front of me.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 11/09/2026

It's either that or make it up as I go along with no plan (or as I prefer to say, iterate based on trial and error). An actual plan tends to paralyse me, so if I want to actually achieve a specific thing I need to 'see' the whole thing and then fill it out.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 11/09/2026

Obviously I'm not doing what you do, but I do find I tend to mentally draw a big circle around whatever it is I'm trying to do, figuring out the edges and rules of what it is/isn't, before stumbling around within that seeing what takes shape. Possibly analogous?

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 10/09/2026

Notes and links from 10 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/10/not… Made it out to the hardware store on my wee scooter, the first time it’s been out for quite a while. (My goal is to go out weekly…) Managed to get there, ask a guy about plumbing tape, buy it and...

A light-green water butt is sitting on a wooden platform in a garden. It is in front of an aviary-style caged area (the rabbit run) and a plastic hose is leading from its side to two other butts barely visible on the side of the run.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 10/09/2026

Fond memories of the 1963 parody of this. and another one that I can't quite recall.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 09/09/2026

Notes and links from 9 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/09/not… Had a visit from my sister this afternoon which was very welcome. It would have been our mum’s 80th birthday this week so we’re going to try and spend a bit of time with all the family photos she ...

An old metal watering can with a surprisingly long spout is sideways on an upturned dog basket next to a couple of rolls of wire mesh. Behind all this is a tree trunk and a fence.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 09/09/2026

All laws are mostly enacted by consent. It's impossible to enforce something universally without if unless you go dictator, so best to push hard for change to norms with light touch. I reckon.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 09/09/2026

I dunno. Admittedly I don't drive these days but I think the average speed has gone down from over 30 to over 20. don't let perfect be the enemy, etc.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 09/09/2026

I think the best analogy for driving is smoking and how unthinkable the current situation of restrictions would have been 30 years ago.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 09/09/2026

It's probably one of those generational things that will take a long time to settle into cultural norms. We've got, what, 70+ years of motorist supremacy to undo? Can't expect behavioural change this quickly, but it will come.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 08/09/2026

Notes and links from 8 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/08/not… Psychotherapy today, which took up all of my energies really, so the rest of the day was mooching and pottering. Feeling much better though so the crash is over. Going to cautiously resume engagem...

A photo of the shadow of a geodesic dome on a fence, taken from within the geodesic dome.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 07/09/2026

Notes and links from 7 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/07/not… Another rest day. Had a go at fiddling with the water butts and quickly got prickly sweat on my forehead despite doing fuckall really, so hit that on the head. Have mostly been watching the telly...

Photo of a green hosepipe draped over a load of wooden panels leaning against a wooden fence.

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