Andrew Draper
@andrewmdraper.bsky.social
Cat owner, likes literature, theatre and doing things right
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We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We were in first place in this film award voting.
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.
Now it's personal.
Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.
Reshare? VOTE!
www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
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timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning
September 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning
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Following the controversy over the edited Trump speech, the BBC has been lambasted for its negative and biased portrayal of the leader of a prominent right-wing government…
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Following the controversy over the edited Trump speech, the BBC has been lambasted for its negative and biased portrayal of the leader of a prominent right-wing government…
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.
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A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
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Wombat!
Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...
October 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Wombat!
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The one thing I’ve seen do a really good job to help defuse it was “the hydrogen ladder”, setting out very clearly where it was useful, and where other alternatives made much more sense.
I think it gave busy policymakers a tool to navigate the hype.
www.liebreich.com/hydrogen-lad...
I think it gave busy policymakers a tool to navigate the hype.
www.liebreich.com/hydrogen-lad...
Hydrogen Ladder Version 5.0 - liebreich
A much awaited update on Michael’s Hydrogen Ladder, now on version 5. Including 3 promotions, 7 demotions, 5 wording changes, combined use cases, and the inclusion of 4 new or partially new use cases,...
www.liebreich.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The one thing I’ve seen do a really good job to help defuse it was “the hydrogen ladder”, setting out very clearly where it was useful, and where other alternatives made much more sense.
I think it gave busy policymakers a tool to navigate the hype.
www.liebreich.com/hydrogen-lad...
I think it gave busy policymakers a tool to navigate the hype.
www.liebreich.com/hydrogen-lad...
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
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Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.
The BBC & Telegraph are trailing Wes Streeting’s technophile health plans, including genomic mapping at birth.
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?
Thoughts, #medsky?
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?
Thoughts, #medsky?
June 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.
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And if you disrupt traffic or even meet and *talk about the possibility of disrupting traffic* to draw attention to this, they’ll arrest you and send you to prison
A Met Office study reveals that the chance of exceeding 40°C in the UK is accelerating at pace.
The chance of exceeding 40°C is now over 20 times more likely than it was in the 1960s.
Temperatures several degrees higher than we saw in July 2022 are possible in today’s climate. bit.ly/4lfcTU4
The chance of exceeding 40°C is now over 20 times more likely than it was in the 1960s.
Temperatures several degrees higher than we saw in July 2022 are possible in today’s climate. bit.ly/4lfcTU4
Met Office report details rising likelihood of UK hot days
New study highlights how UK heatwaves could become longer and hotter due to escalating climate trends.
bit.ly
June 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
And if you disrupt traffic or even meet and *talk about the possibility of disrupting traffic* to draw attention to this, they’ll arrest you and send you to prison
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All right, story time. Friend of a friend works in union labor law.
She says that once upon a time, a union was told to show up for a meeting. They do. Leader texts, tells them he'll be late.
Enough time passes that there are some tempers climbing, but it's a nice day and they're meeting outside.
She says that once upon a time, a union was told to show up for a meeting. They do. Leader texts, tells them he'll be late.
Enough time passes that there are some tempers climbing, but it's a nice day and they're meeting outside.
June 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
All right, story time. Friend of a friend works in union labor law.
She says that once upon a time, a union was told to show up for a meeting. They do. Leader texts, tells them he'll be late.
Enough time passes that there are some tempers climbing, but it's a nice day and they're meeting outside.
She says that once upon a time, a union was told to show up for a meeting. They do. Leader texts, tells them he'll be late.
Enough time passes that there are some tempers climbing, but it's a nice day and they're meeting outside.
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It shouldn't need to be said that the politics of this are awful. I fail to see how Labour doesn't realise that not letting Thames go to SAR is going to cost it seats.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes
Exclusive: ‘Ransom note’ requests would leave Environment Agency unable to prosecute company or management
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It shouldn't need to be said that the politics of this are awful. I fail to see how Labour doesn't realise that not letting Thames go to SAR is going to cost it seats.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Genius. Must watch.
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
June 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Genius. Must watch.
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By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want.
In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive
potential, but we need to start now. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive
potential, but we need to start now. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot
Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want.
In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive
potential, but we need to start now. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive
potential, but we need to start now. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The first time I saw this sketch, it nearly killed me.
May 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The first time I saw this sketch, it nearly killed me.
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We need our right to protest back. We need our right to privacy back. These are not luxuries for armchair revolutionaries. They are foundational protections.
May 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We need our right to protest back. We need our right to privacy back. These are not luxuries for armchair revolutionaries. They are foundational protections.
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It is this, not arguing, but also this Labour party has been strikingly reluctant to occupy the commanding heights of the discourse. The last government made a bunch of attempts to embed right wing bias in institutions and processes; this government is content to leave them all in place.
The EHRC was captured by transphobes under the Tories and Labour could have appointed a new head but they did not, because they are also transphobic. Bigoted shits, the lot of them.
April 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It is this, not arguing, but also this Labour party has been strikingly reluctant to occupy the commanding heights of the discourse. The last government made a bunch of attempts to embed right wing bias in institutions and processes; this government is content to leave them all in place.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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I've actually used/quoted a line from this on multiple occasions:
"We could take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will."
"We could take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will."
Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
April 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I've actually used/quoted a line from this on multiple occasions:
"We could take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will."
"We could take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will."
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I gift to you a moment of joy.
Alan Moore and Stewart Lee enjoying an angry response to one of Stewart's Guardian columns.
(sound on of course)
Alan Moore and Stewart Lee enjoying an angry response to one of Stewart's Guardian columns.
(sound on of course)
April 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I gift to you a moment of joy.
Alan Moore and Stewart Lee enjoying an angry response to one of Stewart's Guardian columns.
(sound on of course)
Alan Moore and Stewart Lee enjoying an angry response to one of Stewart's Guardian columns.
(sound on of course)
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I very much want this on a T-shirt
April 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I very much want this on a T-shirt
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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
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You should use Signal. Seriously. There are other encrypted messaging apps out there, but I don’t have as much faith in their longevity. In particular I have major concerns about the sustainability of for-profit apps like WhatsApp in our new “AI” world.
March 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
You should use Signal. Seriously. There are other encrypted messaging apps out there, but I don’t have as much faith in their longevity. In particular I have major concerns about the sustainability of for-profit apps like WhatsApp in our new “AI” world.