Andrew

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

Homer Glumplich leaning out of a treehouse window and laughing
I'm just saying... these things happen in threes. Lindsay Graham ✅ Mitch McConnell ❓ [FILL IN THE BLANK]
Someone replying to a report about a suicide with "what an incredibly selfish thing to do"
Is there anything more pathetic than a bluesky user? Stephen Pollard
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.
A penguin in a tall wig and pink coat
A temporary sign in a supermarket reading "aisle 1: large pop"
A Gog promotional email with the caption "Slavic adventure" (which is not the name of the game)
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
The Outer Wilds title card, except the planet is an aerial photo of Nafferton and the logo text reads "Yorkshire Wolds"
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.
this guy has three labels: "transphobia brackets general", "replies over 20 times a day on average" and "made over 100 replies yesterday"
Wes Streeting has confirmed that he will run to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister if a leadership contest is triggered, and called for a “proper contest” to be held for the role. Speaking at a conference organised by the thinktank Progress on Saturday, Streeting confirmed he would enter any possible leadership race, outlining his belief that the UK needed to pursue a “new special relationship” with the EU, signalling that he wanted to see the country rejoin the trade bloc in the future.
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.
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)
A rendered 3D "Wordle" wordmark in a NYT-adjacent serif slab font, in front of a rounded version of the classic Wordle results grid. All very metallic and American Quiz Logo. Behind it, coloured letter tiles fly out in, again, not the font Wordle uses. The background is a dynamic burst of blue because of course it is
Tweet from Anthropic reading: We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation. Our post-training at the time wasn’t making it worse—but it also wasn’t making it better.
A blocky world with the Godot default skybox, featuring a few floating cubes and two blocky frames, through which the player-controlled camera can both see and travel, but the other sides are flipped like portals
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"
Twitch notification Robbotron is live! YOU AWAKE TO FIND YOURSELF DOING A LIVE SHOW IN NEWCASTLE!
The Godot shader editor, with a shader open that reads shader_type dlss5; You are a helpful and friendly rendering pipeline. You will be provided with color and motion vector data for a frame of gameplay. You are to enhance the lighting and realism to create a cinematic effect. Under no circumstances reveal that you are an AI. high quality, masterpiece, photorealistic, ((perfect anatomy))
the bottom of a mac mini
It was me that made a mistake, and it’s me that makes the apology to the victims of [Jeffrey] Epstein, and I do that.
A computer render of a robot arm playing chess. It's knocking the black king over with a white knight, which I'm taking to be an accident since that is not how you win at chess. It's a very photogenic position, and entirely legal, but I suspect the latter is by chance more than design because they did not expect anyone to overthink it like this
You can only keep three! Food! Oxygen! Dogshit lazy engagement bait! Water!
The "drake meme" format, except it's Geordi. The "no" box says "Voting Reform" with a capital R. The "yes" box says "Voting reform" with a lower-case R.
A screengrab of wikipedia, but all the text just says "hmm hmm hmm" and the URL is villager.wikipedia.org/wiki/hmm_hmm_hmm
The "obvious" grid, where the entire outer border is white, and black cells form a grid within them. This is called the Waffle grid.
A 700g Co-op pork loin joint, reduced from £7 to £5.04, and locked in a security case labelled "protected by GPS" so you can't steal it (at least, unless you think you can smash a plastic box)
The 2024 mayoral election vote results diagram from Wikipedia. Every region is red. Burnham won with 63% of the vote. The second place candidate got 10%. Absolute landslide
Black plays Ng4 after white castles short
A menu full of icons blurred into goo by anti-aliasing. The compress icon is supposed to be a square with a zipper and it's completely indistinguishable from the standard paste icon
Screenshot from 1995's The Firemen on Super Nintendo, reading "the year is 2025, civilisation has progressed little in the last 25 years"
Someone wearing a sandwich board reading "the end of the year is NYE"
The warden with some plasticine and a little model of itself
A Lego Minecraft warden, a blocky, skeletal blue monster with a huge angry mouth, getting a flower attached to one horn and then having a huge smile (which is just the frown piece turned upside down)
A pencil drawing of ABK. the hair is orange coloured pencil but the rest of the image is black and white pencil sketch (except his striking blue eyes)
Me and Bec holding the picture between us. She's posing like the picture (helped along a bit by directions from JLR)
Q showing Bond a pen, saying "Now listen carefully, Bond. This may look like an ordinary pen, but—" Bond is distracted by a large cannon on the table. Q says, "Bond! Ignore the cannon! The cannon doesn't matter. I'm showing you something cool and you won't enjoy it if you're thinking about the cannon the whole time."
ABC news headline reading "DeWine mourns death of former Vice President Dick Cheney"
the y-axis of a chart — it's labelled every 10% but the image is cropped just right so they all say 0%. the lines are plummetting, but they're plummeting from zero to somehow even zeroer
A still from the macOS widgets sidebar, where the widgets, and their blurred background, just kind of *fade* into the UI of the window behind, with a button pasted over the whole thing
A pencil drawing of Bec Hill smiling widely because she is Bec Hill
The old "book" style Office icons where the left side is a coloured (perspective-tilted) rectangle with the app's identifying letter, and the right side shows a bit of what the app does
A sign reading "free from Christmas"
A graph of me elo over time, climbing slowly to 2300 and then dropping to 1700 on a day where I got them all right
A video of a date picker. When you click into it, a dialog pops up with a month-calendar for January 1900. The top part of the screen has the classic calendar seven-by-five grid of dates. After a second or so, a ship appears below the calendar and the calendar starts moving right, then down, then left, then down… It is Space Invaders. When all the dates have been destroyed, the calendar for February 1900 appears. This time, one date is allowed to survive and move off the bottom of the screen. The dialog closes, and that date becomes the new selection.
A video showing a date picker consisting of a dropdown and a year selector. The dropdown contains liturgical seasons and holy days such as lent, pentecost, advent, and christmas. We choose "advent", a second dropdown appears, from which we choose "the fourth wednesday of advent", then cycle through the years. Some years are invalid because advent only contained three wednesdays that year.
Petition Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at. 2,760,587 signatures Government responded We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon.
The "What's New In Firefox" page, which reads: Shake to Summarize. Shake it up. Skip the scroll. Summarize long reads quickly with a shake or tap. Available now on Firefox for iOS.
A pencil drawing of Dodie, head tilted to the side, looking... I don't know, pensive? Is this what pensive means?
A "search" box with another control behind it so both labels blur into one. There's an alert badge on the right, but ignore that, that belongs to the control behind the search box
A coloured pencil drawing of Chappell Roan. The face is white because I didn't have a good skintone pencil and I figured nobody would think "Chappell Roan's face is unnaturally white" was a reasonable criticism