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andrewducker) wrote2025-07-20 08:23 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-20 08:23 am
Photo cross-post
Sophia, it seems, just likes hanging around.
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andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-20 11:57 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-20 11:57 amI never have to do anything straightforward (fridge/freezer edition)
I have an under-counter integrated fridge/freezer. (Integrated in this case meaning that it's got a door on it, and is embedded in the cupboards).
I want to replace it with a free-standing one - i.e. one that will simply sit in the gap.
The various places I've looked at so far that do a delivery and also take away your old fridge only have options to replace an integrated fridge with an integrated fridge. Or a free-standing with a free-standing. Apparently they use different teams for each of these.
AO.com told me that I need to entirely remove the old one. John Lewis told me that they'd just send it out and hope that the free-standing fridge people happened to have the right tools with them, which doesn't sound ideal.
So, I could do with some advice on getting an integrated fridge/freezer removed and taken away. Preferably in the form of "Call these guys, they are vaguely* competent and cheap."
Anyone got any experience?
*I'm willing to settle for vague competence when it comes to removing things. Installing things is a different matter...
I want to replace it with a free-standing one - i.e. one that will simply sit in the gap.
The various places I've looked at so far that do a delivery and also take away your old fridge only have options to replace an integrated fridge with an integrated fridge. Or a free-standing with a free-standing. Apparently they use different teams for each of these.
AO.com told me that I need to entirely remove the old one. John Lewis told me that they'd just send it out and hope that the free-standing fridge people happened to have the right tools with them, which doesn't sound ideal.
So, I could do with some advice on getting an integrated fridge/freezer removed and taken away. Preferably in the form of "Call these guys, they are vaguely* competent and cheap."
Anyone got any experience?
*I'm willing to settle for vague competence when it comes to removing things. Installing things is a different matter...
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-19 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-19 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 19-07-2025
- 1. Taika Waititi to Direct 'Judge Dredd' Movie
- (tags:2000AD JudgeDredd movies )
- 2. Have your say on the future of affordable housing in Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 3. "I'm a journalist covering Palestine Action arrests. This is all absurd"
- (tags:UK censorship Palestine law )
- 4. Canadian judge halts deportation of non-binary American in ruling after Trump's gender edicts
- (tags:Canada USA LGBT bigotry )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-17 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-17 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 17-07-2025
- 1. The UK is stuck in a fiscal corner (The only way I see out of it is the trade bump we'd get from rejoining the EU)
- (tags:uk economics doom viaKenny )
- 2. Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease
- (tags:disease genetics babies )
- 3. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
- (tags:morality brain psychology )
- 4. Which of us has not been woken at night by a religious leader dressed as a yeti, so that we can swear a blood oath?
- (tags:catholicism wtf )
- 5. Police participation in pride ruled unlawful
- (tags:police LGBT OhForFucksSake )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-16 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-16 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 16-07-2025
- 1. The Tiny Percentage of Trans People Who "Detransition" Largely Do So Because of Transphobia
- (tags:transgender LGBT bigotry )
- 2. 'Wobbly-tooth puberty': How children's brains change at six-years-old
- (tags:children psychology )
- 3. The Nordic way to stop school bullying
- (tags:bullying school )
- 4. Giant map details nerves across a mouse's body (stunning pics)
- (tags:mice nerves )
- 5. How will age verification for internet access work and what about your data?
- (tags:age uk internet )
- 6. Report highlights women's experience of "abuse, exclusion and bias" in political parties
- (tags:women politics OhForFucksSake )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-15 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-15 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- age,
- ai,
- autism,
- comics,
- communication,
- doom,
- genetics,
- internet,
- links,
- people,
- psychology,
- reddit,
- regulation,
- uk
Interesting Links for 15-07-2025
- 1. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem
- (tags:people comics ai doom communication )
- 2. How old are you in your head? (Mid 30s for me)
- (tags:age psychology )
- 3. Reddit will start verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors
- (tags:uk age reddit regulation internet )
- 4. "Autism" is at least 4 different syndromes, each with distinct biological and genetic pathways.
- (tags:autism genetics )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-14 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-14 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 14-07-2025
- 1. Stardew Valley is now Steam's top-rated game, surpassing Portal
- (tags:games steam )
- 2. Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain want UK to rejoin EU, poll finds - but on new terms. Britons want to rejoin, but on their old terms.
- (tags:UK Europe )
- 3. 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
- (tags:ai )
- 4. Cranes, once hunted to extinction returning to Scotland after 500 years
- (tags:birds extinction Scotland )
- 5. How GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance
- (tags:weight medicine insurance health )
- 6. I've found it! The most dystopian AI thing! Gig workers pretending to be the AIs that people have fallen in love with!
- (tags:relationships ai business doom )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-13 07:24 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-13 07:24 amPhoto cross-post
My primate family.
The exhibition at the museum is very quiet and rather good. Recommended!
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andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-12 11:30 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-12 11:30 amPhoto cross-post
Off on an awfully big adventure
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andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-12 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-12 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 12-07-2025
- 1. LLMs have had an unprecedented impact on scientific writing in biomedical research (and probably other fields too)
- (tags:ai writing research )
- 2. Solar is EU's biggest power source for the first time ever
- (tags:solarpower Europe )
- 3. ACLU urges trans people to update passports as soon as possible
- (tags:transgender usa passport )
- 4. America has done all of this before, within the last hundred years
- (tags:America history racism Mexico )
- 5. When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
- (tags:USA Mexico migration farming heat work history )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-11 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-11 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- ai,
- art,
- china,
- epicfail,
- europe,
- fantasy,
- funny,
- games,
- glasgow,
- graffiti,
- incompetence,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- photos,
- regulation,
- scifi,
- security,
- sign,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- viaswampers
Interesting Links for 11-07-2025
- 1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
- (tags:ai technology regulation Europe )
- 2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
- (tags:solarpower photos china )
- 3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
- (tags:games funny fantasy )
- 4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
- (tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
- 5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
- (tags:security epicfail OhForFucksSake incompetence )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-11 07:40 am
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-11 07:40 amEntry tags:
It ain't no good if you're in the jungle.
Right now (7:30am) it is 14 degrees outside.
It is 24 degrees in our bedroom, despite the windows being open all night. Humidity is 92%.
This afternoon it will rise to 26 degrees. I'm glad the office has air conditioning. I'm not looking forward to tonight.
It is 24 degrees in our bedroom, despite the windows being open all night. Humidity is 92%.
This afternoon it will rise to 26 degrees. I'm glad the office has air conditioning. I'm not looking forward to tonight.
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-10 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-10 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 10-07-2025
- 1. Let Kids Be Loud
- (tags:children noise )
- 2. Fascinating essay on photography lighting techniques that predate AI and why they are confused for it (amongst other things)
- (tags:lighting photography )
- 3. What if you Threw a Paper Airplane from the Space Station?
- (tags:space paper airplanes viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Cellos totally belong in rock bands
- (tags:music video awesome )
- 5. Time keeps on slipping - literally. Why today might have been the shortest day you'll ever experience
- (tags:time earth )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-08 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-08 12:00 pmEntry tags:
- abuse,
- ai,
- airport,
- architecture,
- art,
- batteries,
- children,
- comics,
- design,
- electricity,
- england,
- epicfail,
- funny,
- germany,
- goodnews,
- hearing,
- history,
- illusion,
- india,
- law,
- links,
- music,
- numbers,
- ohforfuckssake,
- plagiarism,
- poverty,
- regulation,
- security,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- uk,
- video,
- words,
- work
Interesting Links for 08-07-2025
- 1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
- (tags:architecture design epicfail India )
- 2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
- (tags:airport security Technology )
- 3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
- (tags:comics plagiarism history art ai )
- 4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
- (tags:numbers video music )
- 5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
- (tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
- 6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
- (tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
- 8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
- (tags:music hearing words illusion funny video )
andrewducker (andrewducker) wrote2025-07-07 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2025-07-07 12:00 pmInteresting Links for 07-07-2025
- 1. Labour promised LGBT voters a 'reset' - now many feel betrayedÂ
- (tags:LGBT bigotry Labour OhForFucksSake UK transgender )
- 2. Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna
- (tags:drugs automation submarine Colombia )
- 3. The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation
- (tags:fraud OhForFucksSake publishing crime lies )
- 4. Is Autism Genetic? (About 80% yes)
- (tags:autism genetics )
- 5. Why your baby is crying (at 2 months, 50% genes. at 5 months 70% genes)
- (tags:babies crying genetics )
- 6. 'Improved' Twitter AI criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish executives'
- (tags:twitter ai bigotry Jews usa politics OhForFucksSake )